5.5/10. One’s sympathy for the central character’s plight has worn very thin long before the closing reel.
Below is a summary of, and a proposal inspired by, the search roundtable which closed out the Toulouse conference. The remarks are first and following them you can find my impressionistic notes of the each of the speakers’ presentations.
Open Search: A Proposal for Regulating Search the Open Way IntroductionIn many parts of the [...]
For those interested, there is a second, related, post about the conference’s roundtable on internet search.
Friday Plenary 1Two empirical papers. Both reasonable but neither fascinating. Second about network effects in the adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) technology using state-varying privacy laws as a form of instrument. Privacy laws do inhibit adoption [...]
Annotation means the adding of comments/notes/etc to an underlying resource. For the present I’ll focus on the situation where the underlying resource is textual (as opposed to being an image, or a piece of film or some data). Various things to consider when implementing an annotation/comment system:
Addressing and atomisation: Are annotations specific to particular [...]
7/10. A very sixties film. The camerawork was interesting, even brilliant, in its mobility (the scene where the two lovers chase butterflies) and the colours obtained (the wine spilled upon the picnic cloth). However the story, particularly its dramatic denouement, gave me serious difficulties.
Why can’t one (or both) of them just get a job? [...]
Many economic models assume that firms or other economic actors behave rationally, in particular, that they utilise all potential profitable opportunities available to them. This assumption is often pithily expressed as ‘there are no dollar bills left unclaimed on the sidewalk’. One of the most troubling episodes in contemporary economic history for this view is [...]
Following my release of the markdown to latex script I’ve had a few enquiries from people asking about integrating mathematics with markdown generally (e.g. for web output as well as for output to latex). I’d already been using mathematics in markdown and then processing to html before I wrote the mkdn2latex script and in [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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