BurningbirdYesterday was a gray day with mixed rain and snow and slushy grounds and the threat of ice on the road. However, I’ve made a pact with myself to get out and walk everyday, regardless of the weather–around the neighborhood if I absolutely must, though I hate walking through city streets, and on cement. Walking […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This new item has hit Slashdot: Deriving Semantic Meaning from Google Results. Seems a couple of scientists have devised a method where they take page results for pairing of words and from these determine which pairing is more semantically meaningful. They call this the Normalized Google Distance or NGD for short. Their […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It’s a rare event when several seemingly disparate items of interest all come together to form a compelling, coalescent whole. This event happened for me the past few weeks; an experience formed of discussions about digital identity and laws of same, LID, Technorati Tags, new and old syndication formats, Google’s […]
I’ve been wanting to write something on Technorati Tags, the conference on journalism, blogging, and credibility, as well as a follow-up on LID, and even a little on Wordform (Eh? What’s that?), but all of this deserves a thoughtful discussion, carefully written. Frankly, I’m not in the mood for either thoughtful or careful, so I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Loren, who has been sharing tales of courage and horror from his fearsome youth, recounted one incident with a slippery log and a fall into a swift stream. Ever since, he’s hiked out of his way to avoid having to use logs to cross streams. (He and I also shared a five […]