Friday, January 27, 2006

influence 'Super Bowls' lead to super appetites. Attention Party Animals! If you want to have fun this Super Bowl without feeling guilty about all the super-snacking, use smaller serving bowls. We use the size of the bowls on a table as a rule-of-thumb as to how much we should take. [Science Blog -] 3:14:35 PM    comment

standards The Future is XHTML 2.0. [Slashdot] make the case that xhtml 2.0 can actually be universal and accessible with device independence.  At its core it make the browser page the design/implementation platform for browser based applications that allow for personalized application interfaces with more intelligence than just graceful degredation to text.  With XForms and Persistant Local Storage XHTML2 enables device and OS independence of applications which makes the Browser replace the desktop operating system platform and also allows the cellphone browser to be an application interface (in the new version of client-server appliccation deployment).  The downstream consequence is likely that high bandwidth demand will grow substantially and web "services" will carry more or less of the processing load depending on the end user platform with the end user experience finally becoming dependable, maybe even emergency service grade dependable. -- BL 12:36:23 PM    comment

eContent mapping Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? - Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin, D-Lib. A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometime [Online Learning Update] 12:30:15 AM    comment