Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The web is better when it's social
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that ...
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications ...
Many sites, one API
A common API means you have less to learn to build for m ...

The Wednesdays
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Reminded of this today by someone. Brilliant.

The well-established Creativity Research Journal publish... scholarly research capturing the full range of approache... creativity--behavioral, clinical, cognitive, cross-cultu... educational, genetic, organizational, psychoanalytic, ps... social. Int

The Welsh Government is taking a global lead on promotin... children’s play and for the first time, legislating to... local authorities to assess the sufficiency of play and ... opportunities for children in their areas.

The world around us is increasingly governed by these al... annoyingly dumb and some freakishly intelligent. Because... generally mimic decisions that used to be made directly ... tendency to humanise the results and can easily be horri...
Douglass Ru

The World Bank and infoDev released a study yesterday ti...
“Around three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants no ...
Here’s an excerpt from the Executive Summary:
“With some 6 billion mobile subscriptions in use world ...
The developing world is

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

The world of civic tech has changed radically in the las... of the old bastions of transparency and civic innovation... crumble, shrinking dramatically in both size and scope. ... the future of civic tech will appear radically different... from under

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of util... written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive w... using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. ... also includes several core CSS resources. All components... Library hav

The YQL execute section actually dispatches the request ... return data.
var results = y.query("select * from csv where url=@url ...
This runs another YQL select statement when the table ge ...

The Zero Clipboard library provides an easy way to copy ... clipboard using an invisible Adobe Flash movie, and a Ja... interface. The "Zero" signifies that the library is invi... interface is left entirely up to you.
This library is fully compatible w

The ZeroN system was created by Jinha Lee, a Media Lab r... Above its open-air anti-gravity space sits an electromag... moved vertically and horizontally via a three-axis motor...
As the user reaches into the space with the ZeroN ball i ...
Along with

The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies worki...
to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-powe ...
monitoring and control products based on an ...

The zLinks client-side service is an entry point to a va... additional rich data and link-related services . . . wai... the background until you need it.
zLinks is made available as either a blog or CMS plug-in ...

Then there are photolog sites like Flickr. While most of... die than be caught surreptitiously browsing through some... there need be no such qualms about the private pics peop...
“Photolurkers spent most of their time online flicking t ...
Email is an

Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the pres ...
-- Theodore Roosevelt

Theoretically, the number of numbering systems is unlimi... complete (used by the divinities and the angels) has an ... symbols, one for each individual number; the simplest ne... is written as 0, one 1, two 10, three 11, four 100, five... seven 111,

There are currently a million ways to embed distinct sni... and functionality on web pages. The most common two are ... and some form of javascript syndication (you put this sc... we'll document.write some stuff on your page). In the XM...
I (User:Kev

There are many surprises in doing a PhD. That, for examp... easier to have a idea than to show that is any good. Tha... your supervisor does not possess 'the answer'. Perhaps h... greatest surprise is that it is so much easier to start ... finish it.

There are many, many more conditions out there that Engl...
Here, selected from the blog So Bad So Good, are some of ...
Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut
Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for ...
... g of a cleve

There are times when user experience practitioners might... System Usability Scale (SUS), but there is an item that ... in their context of measurement. For example, the first ... I would like to use this system frequently.” If the sy... one that wo

There are two missions of this site. The first is to mak... public the highest quality and most reliable historical ... economic aggregates, with particular emphasis on nominal... measures, as well as real (constant-price) measures. The... here on the

There are two within subject variables to be investigate... angle and the other is pair type. A graph like the one b... convenient display of the effects of these variables, wh... analyzed for significance using a 2 X 6 repeated measure...
In additio

There is a vast amount of data available today and data ... collected and stored at a rate never seen before. Much, ... this data however is locked into specific applications o...
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a Web protocol for que ...
OData is co

There is an approach called "working backwards" that is ... Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rath... with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers ...
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts b ...
If the bene

There is an ever-increasing amount of data available on ... waiting to be integrated by product developers. But actu... more than just one API into a product poses a problem to...
A location based product, for example, would aim to pull ...
Uberblic’

There is immense concern about economic inequality, both... scholarly community and in the general public, and many ... equality is an important social goal. However, when peop... the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they ... unequal soc

There was no need for Sherlock. The killer didn't flee t... his ground over the lifeless body of his victim, his han... the bloody weapon, his face betraying no emotion.
At the feet of the mechanised figure of a person - which ...

There was one other, better map of the project that I fo... partially inspired by–a relatively simple yet powerful...
Dakota Access Pipeline Indigenous Protest Map by Jordan ...
Maps like this are great, and there should be more of th ...
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