Cultural Lazyweb - Test

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IRC as the lazyweb

IRC as the lazyweb 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
I have been a long time PGP key owner, but have almost never used it. A year ago, while I was talking with the Chandler folk about working for them, I ran into this great essay by Brad Templeton, Returning privacy to E-mail, and ever since then I have kept my eyes open for a more user-friendly approach to encrypting email. Tonight, I ran into this glowing review of new product, Voltage's identity based encryption, which claimed to go a considerable way to solving the problem that Brad Templeton wrote about a while ago. I looked over Voltage's site, but didn't feel competent to evaluate the new approach myself. The first thing I did was shoot off an email to Bruce Schneier, Counterpane CTO and author of Crypto-Gram, as well as several very good books. I don't expect a personal answer from Schneier, whom I have never met, but I hoped (and hope) that perhaps he will cover the topic in the next edition of Crypto-Gram. Just for fun, I posed the question on a recently much maligned IRC channel that I sometimes lurk on. Within minutes I had a link to the original paper on identity based encryption, a link to PGP Inc. CTO's critique of the approach, which blew a few good sized holes in it, and an intelligent discussion of it on the IRC channel. After half an hour, I felt like I had a slightly informed opinion on the subject (identity based encryption is not quite the panacea that its proponents claim, because it creates new problems while solving old ones). The power of the web to harness many minds in common cause still amazes me, even in trivial examples like this one. Of course, there is always another point of view....

LazyWeb, while you sleep

LazyWeb, while you sleep 04/10/2005 02:16 PM

I often have dreams that feature technology ideas, but I don't always remember them and more often than not they're just goofy ideas. This morning's dream is somewhat in the goofy category but might be useful to some, and since I remember all of it in detail I'll relate it here.

So I'm stopping by Andy's office in Santa Monica to go have lunch (I think I was on a roadtrip in my dream), and while he steps away to grab his jacket I notice there's an IM window scrolling past with loads of text. When he gets back a few seconds later I ask him what that is, and he says he's watching the Simpsons over IM.

I say "you're doing what? how?" and he explains it, and this is way more detail than I normally remember in dreams, but I thought it was such a cool idea I think I kind of "saved" it so I would remember later. So he goes on, explaining how he built a chatbot that is wired to a stream of TV closed captioning, so you add captionbot to your buddy list, then talk to it. You ask it what's on TV right now, and it returns a list of shows, you pick a show and it starts streaming out dialogue from characters, directly via closed caption data. "It's like watching a show in text" I say and then we go off to lunch.

And that's all I remember. Andy built a really cool text adventure bot last year, and TVeyes is basically Technorati for TV (though they predate Technorati by several years), searching caption histories for words or phrases. I doubt you can get real time caption data and I'm not even sure if reading a tv show would be interesting, but I figured I'd share the dream with everyone, in case someone feels like building it.

Clarivoyant Lazyweb

Clarivoyant Lazyweb 06/24/2005 09:20 PM
Wow. I'm so lazyweb, I hadn't even written up the post describing the app i wanted, and someone's already gone and built it. Jon Aquino made YubNub, his entry in the Rails Day contest. It's a server-based system for assigning your own keywords for automating queries and searches. Jon describes...

Pingtesting the LazyWeb

Pingtesting the LazyWeb 05/27/2004 01:49 PM
This post is pingtesting the new LazyWeb infrastructure - you should both ignore it, and be mildly aroused by its promise....

Building Your Own LazyWeb

Building Your Own LazyWeb 07/24/2004 06:17 PM
I should have got this off my to-do list ages ago, but anyway. I've tidied up the complete code and instructions (not exactly long or complicated I grant you) to the LazyWeb. Want a LazyWeb of your very own? Have...

Overhauling the LazyWeb

Overhauling the LazyWeb 05/31/2004 12:36 PM
I've just overhauled infrastructure powering the blogosphere's favourite ideas site, The LazyWeb. Never seen it? Well, following an idea from Matt Jones and prodding from Clay Shirky, I built a site that allows people to harness the immense power of...

The Lazyweb hits 800

The Lazyweb hits 800 03/14/2005 05:54 PM
One of my little widgets, The LazyWeb has just had its 800th entry. Happy Postday, old girl. It's quite a proud little moment that almost passed me by. It seems a lifetime since Matt Jones came up with the...

the most impressive lazyweb leverage
ever

the most impressive lazyweb leverage
ever 06/02/2004 02:40 AM
4 days, three outliner implementations in three different languages

LazyWeb: Email to MT gateway

LazyWeb: Email to MT gateway 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I've got a mailbox called "RSS" that gets all of the announcements, product releases, occasional mailings from sweetcode or ditherati,...

Lazyweb: Seeking a Laptop Backpack

Lazyweb: Seeking a Laptop Backpack 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
My new Dell Inspiron 8600 doesn't come close to fitting in my classic Tumi Organizer Computer Briefpack. Once upon a...

Lazyweb: Tracking comments with
dc:contributor

Lazyweb: Tracking comments with
dc:contributor 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Lazyweb, I invoke thee: Is there a way to have my blog software scan my post for <cite> tags, and generate the proper <dc:contributor> elements in the header (and RSS feeds) of my blog? Perhaps <dc:responder>, I dunno, whatever is appropriate.

Lazyweb: Centralized "wish to
contribute" list

Lazyweb: Centralized "wish to
contribute" list 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Lazyweb: I'd like a place to register my desire to support a given cause monetarily, even if I don't have the money. I can't give $5 to Doc right now (for his stolen powerbook), but darn it! I'd like to at least say "I wish I could" somewhere my vote will be counted at.

Lazyweb, I throw cash at thee

Lazyweb, I throw cash at thee 01/28/2004 12:06 AM

N ow that Typepad supports the new atom api for publishing to photo albums, I want iPhoto to transmit images directly to my typepad account. The docs don't mention new album creation but you can add photos into existing albums. Any applescript ninjas want to take a crack at it? I'll paypal $40 to whoever can whip up a script first.

Lazyweb request - I need a hiss filter
for audio recordings

Lazyweb request - I need a hiss filter
for audio recordings 09/24/2004 09:48 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I'm looking for a cheap (under $50) Mac OS X program that will filter the hiss out of an interview I recorded on a cassette tape. If you have a recommendation, please email me!

LazyWeb: RSS to MovableType converter,
TrackBack pings as posts

LazyWeb: RSS to MovableType converter,
TrackBack pings as posts 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Add support to lazyweb.org for comments and trackback pings; two solutions provided, one solution found.

LazyWeb Request: Change Tracking a la
Word for Any Text

LazyWeb Request: Change Tracking a la
Word for Any Text 12/11/2003 04:57 PM
Probably the single best feature (yes, there is a good feature) in Word is change-tracking, the ability to see what's been added, deleted, and altered since I last saw the document or since the document began. I can choose to hide the changes or have them exposed in all their g[l]ory detail.

I'd love an app (preferably for my Mac) that'll do the same for any arbitrary text file. And, before you say it, don't say "diff." This is at best a blunt instrument, doesn't know who made what change where, and is on a line-by-line basis which isn't quite enough granularity for any real prose editing. Yes, I can use RCS or CVS, but again we're talking line-level granularity, no? If I'm simply overlooking something, please do correct me.

If not, then I appeal too the LazyWeb to point me in the right direction.

Cultural Entomology

Cultural Entomology 08/28/2004 06:47 PM
The Gold-Digging Ant-Lions of India is but one tale about insects and culture. Although, The Cultural Entomology Digest seems to have been out of circulation for a decade, you can still read about Japanese Crests based on Butterflies, Chinese Cricket Culture and hints of a Greek Cricket culture, Beetles as Religious Symbols or the Insects of MC Escher.

I'm a "Cultural Creative"

I'm a "Cultural Creative" 06/17/2005 03:52 PM
Just as Aaron posted, I too will use the "World View Quiz" to post something! You scored as Cultural Creative....

Cultural Phenomenon

Cultural Phenomenon 04/14/2005 06:52 AM
Umpqua Bank is changing the culture of customer service at banks, one ice-cream sandwich at a time.

Web Searches Take Cultural Pulse

Web Searches Take Cultural Pulse 12/18/2002 08:05 AM
Google, Lycos and other search sites have unleashed lists of the year's top search terms, which many say are an accurate barometer of cultural fads, fears and obsessions. By Leander Kahney.

Microsoft's Cultural Revolution

Microsoft's Cultural Revolution 06/13/2004 03:08 PM
Microsoft's largest beachhead outside the United States is in the state most hostile to it: the People's Republic of China. Since arriving in Beijing in 1990, the Gates empire has assembled a network of business operations, from research and development to sales and marketing to customer support, second only to that in its Redmond, Washington, hub. Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, whose minutes are managed as priceless commodities, regularly descend on the mainland for meetings with customers and government officials, trying to find a way to make it in the elusive China market.

Cultural competency available by
computer

Cultural competency available by
computer 06/20/2004 10:24 PM
American Medical News Jun 21 2004 2:18AM GMT

China's Next Cultural Revolution

China's Next Cultural Revolution 03/24/2005 08:12 AM
The People's Republic is on the fast track to become the car capital of the world. And the first alternative-fuel superpower. By Lisa Margonelli from Wired magazine.

Cultural Reasons For Offshoring

Cultural Reasons For Offshoring 12/16/2003 02:07 AM
While I've made it clear that I think both sides on the outsourcing debate have taken their arguments too far, I don't deny that the decision comes down to a money question. The companies that are rapidly pushing towards offshoring are convinced that it will save them a ton of money. What many are finding out, of course, is that it's much more costly, for a variety of reasons (from cultural differences to communication problems halfway around the world). However, now some analysts are saying, beyond the money issue there are other good reasons for offshoring. They even believe that offshoring will help rejuvenate the US software industry by allowing developers here to focus on innovative products, rather than mundane projects that can be outsourced. While I highly doubt that any company is taking that into account in coming up with their outsourcing plans, it is a reasonable response to those who continue to favor protectionist policies that will only make the economic situation worse for the American software industry by making us less competitive.

A Cultural Connection
(washingtonpost.com)

A Cultural Connection
(washingtonpost.com) 07/29/2004 11:48 PM
washingtonpost.com - SEOUL -- For the teenagers who trooped through the leafy courtyard of the centuries-old palace in South Korea one recent July day, the Korean government had high hopes.

How Google became a cultural phenomenon

How Google became a cultural phenomenon 04/29/2004 04:18 PM
Boston Globe Apr 29 2004 7:58PM GMT

New York's Cultural Power Brokers

New York's Cultural Power Brokers 06/01/2004 11:19 PM
With their ties to New York's arts institutions and real estate, Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley are the power couple of the moment.

Cross-cultural training: the melting pot

Cross-cultural training: the melting pot 12/31/2004 06:35 AM
Express Computer India Dec 31 2004 10:55AM GMT

How Google Became a Cultural Phenomenon
(Reuters)

How Google Became a Cultural Phenomenon
(Reuters) 04/29/2004 02:50 PM
Reuters - So you've spent an hour Googling through the Web for your graduate research paper, you've played the Google drinking game, heard the Google theme song and vanity-Googled yourself (again).

The cultural context of money in Japan

The cultural context of money in Japan 01/08/2004 07:57 PM

I'm going to reply to some of the comments on the items, but I thought I'd post this thought I had this morning in the context of the discussion about dichotomies and money/privilege.

It is interesting to note that 90% of people interviewed in the US think that people around them respect entrepreneurs while only 10% of people interviewed felt the same way about entrepreneurs. The culture of the US was build during a primarily industrial revolution oriented social backdrop. Japan, however, built a great deal of its culture during the backdrop of an agrarian society.

The traditional caste system in Japan had the Emperor at the top, and the nobles next, then the warrior/samuri, then the clergy, then the artisans and farmers and below them came the merchants and tradesmen. Money was considered a zero-sum game, the people involved not being considered to be contributing a great deal of value to society. Farmers and artisans were clearly working and producers in the community. During the hundreds of years of peace in Japan, the nobility, the warrior class and the clergy played the role of the intellectual and the cultural class.

My mother, who was raised in a privileged family was not allowed to touch money until she was 18. She has a servant who took care of the payments. In Kyoto, I don't pay cash at many of the places I go, it is discreetly billed to me later. During the Edo period an interesting shift happened. The wars stopped and the warrior class had less to do. Culture blossomed as did trade. The merchant class gained power and helped drive the economy of Japan, but they were not rewarded with the same kind of cultural/social status that their American counterparts were. This stigma about being rich, making money and having financial power survives in Japan today and is in fact one of the big reasons that Japan continues to have structural problems and entrepreneurship is so weak.

The other notable point is that those who traditionally wielded power have lost their power. The nobles lost most of their money either during the Edo period or during the War. (Our family lost its property during the Meiji Restoration, lost its factories during the war, lost its money from giving all of the money to the war in the form of war bonds and gifts, lost its swords and family heirlooms to the US occupation forces, and finally lost just about everything under the current tax system that is basically designed to eliminate family wealth within a few generations. All that was left by the time I got there was our foolish pride.) The current ruling political party of Japan was funded by the Japanese gangster and the CIA in an effort to stomp out the left-wing and the ethics of those in power have become twisted caricatures of the original traditions.

One important Japanese businessman once told me. Power in Japan is not about having money yourself. It is about having the influence to move money.

Disclaimer: I am not supporting or condoning the Japanese here, but making a generalization and an observation about role of money in society which contrasts with what American's might believe.

Arts and Cultural Happenings In
Connecticut

Arts and Cultural Happenings In
Connecticut 06/21/2004 10:19 PM
There's a new database of arts and culture happenings in Connecticut, available at http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/wnpr/events.eventsmain. Events are searchable by keyword as well as date and radius of area code. The front...

apophenia: The Cultural Divide Between
LiveJournal and Six Apart

apophenia: The Cultural Divide Between
LiveJournal and Six Apart 01/05/2005 10:43 PM
kulturellen Unterschiede .. elsewhere

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"Whiskey Bar: Scenes From the Cultural
Revolution"

"Whiskey Bar: Scenes From the Cultural
Revolution" 03/19/2005 02:42 AM

Backing Up Our Cultural Heritage Ain't
Easy

Backing Up Our Cultural Heritage Ain't
Easy 04/30/2004 04:13 PM
Brewster Kahle's Web Archive shouldn't be new to you. The service, which tries to archive as much web content as possible, is only one part of Kahle's desire to archive just about every bit of content we create. Of course, in times of overly broad copyright protection, archiving our culture isn't easy. In order to do so, he says there are three questions that need to be answered: "Can we? May we? Will we?" The answer to the first is obviously yes. The second is where copyright law gets complicated. Kahle is pitching his idea as creating a legal "backup" for all different types of content, but not everyone sees it that way. They still believe that every version of content (even if it's digital and infinitely reproducible) needs to be accounted for and paid for. The final question is still up for debate, but seems somewhat dependent on the second question. Unfortunately, too many copyright owners with too narrow a vision don't quite see that they're doing more harm to themselves by not allowing folks like Kahle the opportunity to back up our cultural heritage.

"Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index"

"Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index" 07/07/2004 02:47 AM

Sharing Music Is A Cultural Thing

Sharing Music Is A Cultural Thing 04/04/2005 06:22 AM
This seems somewhat obvious, of course, but it's still worth mentioning. Just as some are noticing that MGM seems to have accidentally admitted that ripping your own CDs is perfectly legal, Wired Magazine is running a piece from a Sonic Youth member talking about the importance of shared mix tapes in his life, and how it's a cultural thing that has nothing to do with "stealing," but it's more about the music and what it means to people. "Once again, we're being told that home taping (in the form of ripping and burning) is killing music. But it's not: It simply exists as a nod to the true love and ego involved in sharing music with friends and lovers. Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is like trying to control an affair of the heart. Nothing will stop it."

Whiskey Bar: Scenes From the Cultural
Revolution

Whiskey Bar: Scenes From the Cultural
Revolution 03/19/2005 02:17 AM
How Are Conservatives Like Communist China? The Words Speak for Themselves. Scenes From the Cultural Revolution 3/18 .. Billmon to the barricades

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Spain proposes cultural alliance

Spain proposes cultural alliance 09/22/2004 06:06 AM
Spain's prime minister calls for international efforts to resolve divisions between the Western and Muslim world.

Cultural assumptions of photo editing
software

Cultural assumptions of photo editing
software 04/08/2005 12:46 PM
Koranteng Ofosu-Amaah has a fascinating post about how photo upload sites and image editing packages look to someone whose skin is dark and who is shooting in very bright sunlight. This is just an example of a broader theme in the post: "The Subtle Business of Software Localization," as Ethan puts it. Snippets: The first thing I very quickly noticed: somehow all the photos that I uploaded to Yahoo Photos turned out darker than on Flickr (the services both resize uploaded photos). The photo-resizing algorithm used by Yahoo Photos was giving worse results. This was noticeable to me because a...
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