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Wednesday, February 5, 2003
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I am frankly fuzzy about the various species and subspecies in the Trackback/*back genus, but this seems to capture most of what I've thought I wanted.
How come I didn't know about this? (Don't answer that ;->)
Go here: http://www.popdex.com/search/ Find your own blog (or any blog you're interested in)
Click on citations; Note the XML icon. Feed its link to your newsaggregator.
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Viola! You have a new newsfeed something like this...
Citations for : Jon Schull's Weblog, 2/4/2003; 4:11:41 PM.
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EarthLink Launches High-Speed Wireless Access Service. Earthlink is dipping their toes into the water of wireless, as they start offering a 1x connection for people who absolutely need to connect via their laptops from anywhere that doesn't have access to a WiFi hotsport or dialup access. Of course, since they seem to know they're targeting desperate people, they're pricing it insanely. They make the two big mistakes: high prices and per byte pricing. It's $25/month, and for that you only get 5MB of data transfer. On a laptop, of course, surfing the web (even at slower rates) you can use that up pretty quickly. People surfing the web don't want to think about how many bytes they're downloading each time they click open a website. I'm guessing this is more of a test, and they'll refine the offer over time. [Techdirt Corporate Intelligence: Techdirt Wireless News]
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A useful list of other aggregators, from aggregator AllConsuming.net
Other Aggregators
powered by blogrolling.com
To which we add...
BlogStreet
11:41:14 AM
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Amazingly, this interesting and elegant article in Nature gives no indication that scientists can or do use computer imaging and drawing software the way Galilleo used the pen--to work out and sketch concepts. Q1: They do, don't they? Q2: Why don't they do it more? Q3: Why isn't there more awareness of the actuality and potentiality of computer-augmented thinking and visualization?
I am reminded that this same magazine published a review of Mathematica when that software first came out. The review had a witty and ironic title: "Twilight of the Pencil?"
...Figures used to be part of the thought and discovery process. For Leonardo, Galileo and mathematicians such as Riemann, the image was part of the thought process3, 4. The same instrument penned words and drew lines. This seamless integration is more than a quaint sentimental point. A line is tentative; in a line drawing one hears the voice of the author: "this is what I think happens..." or "this is how I imagine this mechanism works". One can see a mind at work, switching from word to image (Fig. 4). It is hard to argue that replacing Leonardo's drawings in the codices with computer-generated images is really progress.
These days, of course, text and figures are handled in different ways. In many instances, figures are left in the hands of artists and illustrators.
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