Open Document Format updated to fix spreadsheets • The Register:
'via Blog this'
... and a lot more to come with ODF next---1.3, that is.
2011-10-01
Inside the World's Largest Embassy | Mother Jones
Inside the World's Largest Embassy | Mother Jones:
'via Blog this'
it's a witty article, and it highlights the problem those of us wanting more accountability and transparency in the public sector see: tax monies vanishing into the mystery of exigency.
'via Blog this'
it's a witty article, and it highlights the problem those of us wanting more accountability and transparency in the public sector see: tax monies vanishing into the mystery of exigency.
2011-09-19
Gamers succeed where scientists fail: Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved, doors open to new AIDS drug design
Gamers succeed where scientists fail: Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved, doors open to new AIDS drug design
.... as in: crowdsourcing, even where the result is quite sophisticated, works. Of course, one needs experts to determine the value of the results, but the point of crowdsourcing is precisely that it has little to do with the content (with what the information does), only the form, how it works and works with other like elements.
A brilliant novel that explores this, in politics, computer technology, and neurolinguistics, is Dreams of Glass, alas the only novel published by the author. The heroine solves fiendishly difficult problems purely on the basis of form; content is not just beside the point, but hostile to the solution: makes for distractions. Intelligence, artificial or not, is all about form, in this vision. The thing is, that's probably so, but the content of form is infinite for the human mind (or as close to infinite as I can gather), meaning it generates formal categories ad hoc, depending on the intelligence required.
.... as in: crowdsourcing, even where the result is quite sophisticated, works. Of course, one needs experts to determine the value of the results, but the point of crowdsourcing is precisely that it has little to do with the content (with what the information does), only the form, how it works and works with other like elements.
A brilliant novel that explores this, in politics, computer technology, and neurolinguistics, is Dreams of Glass, alas the only novel published by the author. The heroine solves fiendishly difficult problems purely on the basis of form; content is not just beside the point, but hostile to the solution: makes for distractions. Intelligence, artificial or not, is all about form, in this vision. The thing is, that's probably so, but the content of form is infinite for the human mind (or as close to infinite as I can gather), meaning it generates formal categories ad hoc, depending on the intelligence required.
2011-09-12
Open Wonderland supports drag-and-drop docs – Hypergrid Business
Open Wonderland supports drag-and-drop docs – Hypergrid Business
Quite interesting....
As well, I was looking at and playing with the OS X app, Bean, which saves in ODF (ODT).
2011-09-09
Doors of Perception weblog: Open Season on Dutch Cultural Innovation
Doors of Perception weblog: Open Season on Dutch Cultural Innovation:
The point: cuts by the NL gov't Arts Minister dumps into the abyss important efforts to reconceive and then implement inclusive design notions (accessibility) and environments that do not encourage mobility.
The point: cuts by the NL gov't Arts Minister dumps into the abyss important efforts to reconceive and then implement inclusive design notions (accessibility) and environments that do not encourage mobility.
Given that these are really globally important topics and of benefit if realized to the entire world, and that Dutch innovators stand to profit handsomely, it seems not just short sighted to cut the seed funding but downright dumb.
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