Klingon enters online dialogue of cultures

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Online giving enters new phase

Online giving enters new phase 01/06/2005 07:24 AM
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Stelios enters online music fray

Stelios enters online music fray 09/17/2004 01:08 AM
The Easyjet founder teams up with UK download service Wippit to enter the online music market.

Blockbuster enters online DVD rental
business

Blockbuster enters online DVD rental
business 08/11/2004 01:22 PM
New service is aimed directly at undercutting competition from rival Netflix, which dominates the field.

Yahoo enters online music fray

Yahoo enters online music fray 09/21/2004 10:31 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Sep 21 2004 2:23PM GMT

United Online Enters Pop-Up Blocker Fray

United Online Enters Pop-Up Blocker Fray 12/17/2003 07:20 AM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 17 2003 6:37AM ET

Microsoft Enters Online Software Sales
Arena

Microsoft Enters Online Software Sales
Arena 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a first for Microsoft, the software giant has announced it will sell one of its software programs through the Internet. Specifically, the company will distribute an add-on pack for Windows XP called Plus Digital Media Edition (DME).

EBay enters India, to buy online
shopping site

EBay enters India, to buy online
shopping site 06/24/2004 04:41 AM
Sacbee.com - Thu Jun 24, 07:16 am GMT

Web Firm Aplus.Net Enters Online
Marketing Segment

Web Firm Aplus.Net Enters Online
Marketing Segment 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Webhostdir.com - Tue Mar 22, 10:58 am GMT

SEGA Enters China Market for Online Game
Business

SEGA Enters China Market for Online Game
Business 08/03/2004 11:17 PM
Biz.yahoo.com - Tue Aug 3, 04:31 pm GMT

Real enters online music business,
brings second AAC player to the table

Real enters online music business,
brings second AAC player to the table 01/07/2004 06:57 PM
Real Networks has debuted RealPlayer 10, a new "jukebox" audio and video client that has a music store built right into it (sound familiar?).

Tanjong Enters Agreement To Operate
Online Moscow Olympic Lottery

Tanjong Enters Agreement To Operate
Online Moscow Olympic Lottery 12/25/2004 05:34 PM
Bernama.com - Thu Dec 23, 02:12 pm GMT

Two Cultures

Two Cultures 07/12/2004 07:26 AM
Kevin Drum

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Two cultures: A second look

Two cultures: A second look 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 2:13PM GMT

A tale of two cultures

A tale of two cultures 01/01/2004 01:35 PM

It's clear that that the future of the Unix-style pipeline lies with Web services. When the XML messages flowing through that pipeline are also XML documents that users interact with directly, we'll really start to cook with gas. But a GUI doesn't just present documents, it also enables us to interact with them. From Mozilla's XUL (XML User Interface Language) to Macromedia's Flex to Microsoft's XAML, we're trending toward XML dialects that define those interactions. Where this might lead is not so clear, but the recently published WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portals) specification may provide a clue. WSRP, like the Java portal systems it abstracts, delivers markup fragments that are nominally HTML, but could potentially be XUL, Flex, or XAML. It's scary to think about combinations of these, so I'm praying for convergence. But I like the trend. XML messages in the pipeline, XML documents carrying data to users, XML definitions of application behavior. If we're going to blend the two cultures, this is the right set of ingredients. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]

My recent stuff has provoked some diametrically opposed reactions. Responding to this column, Dan Kegel wrote:

Jon, you've been drinking too much XML / web services kool-aid. Only clueless analysts and those who wish they could program, but can't, think there's anything novel about "web services". Anything you can do with XML can be done more simply without it; the standards documents associated with XML and "web services" are absolutely mind-numbing. In the meantime, real programmers are getting real work done, and ignoring the analysts.

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More on the emerging two cultures

More on the emerging two cultures 09/04/2004 05:34 PM
Continuing on from yesterday's bit on the emerging two cultures of the internet, it occurs to me that a major shift has happened. Firewalls, anti-virus, and anti-malware systems aren't for your own protection anymore, but for everyone else's benefit instead....

Two cultures of fauxonomies collide...

Two cultures of fauxonomies collide... 06/05/2005 10:47 PM

There's been an enormous amount of good stuff around about tags and folksonomies recently, which I've not really had enough time to interrogate fully. One particularly interesting experiment has been the Cloudalicious service. Cloudalicious was apparently inspired by the Grafolicious service which tracks changes in the rate of bookmarking for any given URL as well as creating browsable interfaces for getting to grips with tags. Cloudalicious takes this one stage further - showing how the actual tags that people use to describe a given URL change over time. This blurry mess of semantic data is known as a 'Tag Cloud'.

But what do changes in a tag-cloud mean? Probably the most obvious underlying cause for a change in the words used to describe a site would be that the site itself has changed. You could probably use an analysis of the changing tag-cloud to get a handle on what's happening to the site. That's quite interesting.

After that - or alongside that - another underlying cause could be a change in the vocabulary around a subject. At a really grand level, if you can imagine a one hundred year tag-cloud around a gay novel, then it might start with lots of people using the tag invert, with this gradually giving way to homosexual, then gay and potentially after that, queer.

There's a really nice illustration of this on a weblog called P.S. which has a post called Tagclouds and cultural change. In it, there are a lot of illustrations of the take-up of the tag 'Ajax'. You could argue this one in a couple of ways - a new concept emerges and a weblog might change direction to deal with it. In that case it's just about the content changing. But for the most part the examples that the article uses are about specific unchanging individual articles, not whole weblogs. The vocabulary around the posts is changing, not the posts themselves. In the following graph from that article, Ajax is the pale blue line that - over time - becomes the tag of choice for the article in question:

But there's also a third potential cause for changes in a tag-cloud over time - that people might approach the very act of tagging differently - that their understanding of what they're doing might develop. This is a change in the nature of tagging itself. And this is what I want to talk about really briefly.

Matt Webb and I did a fair amount of work around tagging with a project called Phonetags that I never get time to properly write up. As we were working on it, we came to realise that each of us had a radically different understanding of what a tag was. Matt's concept was quite close to the way tagging is used in del.icio.us - with an individual the only person who could tag their stuff and with an understanding that the act of tagging was kind of an act of filing. My understanding was heavily influenced by Flickr's approach - which I think is radically different - you can tag other people's photos for a start, and you're clearly challenged to tag up a photo with any words that make sense to you. It's less of a filing model than an annotative one.

When I came to use del.icio.us I approached tagging in the way that made sense to me from Flickr. So any and all links were covered with loads of keywords with no thought for how they ought to clump together. I just tried to describe what the link was about in some way. Joshua and I had a bit of an argument about the way I was using it, actually. The browsing interface didn't really suit an approach that had an enormous number of orphaned tags. You can get a sense of how out of control it all got with this visualisation of my tags. At the end of the argument I said to Joshua that it was almost like he was treating tags as folders. And he replied, exasperated, that this was exactly what they were. It was just that now an object could exist comfortably in a number of folders so you didn't have to enforce an arbitrary heirarchy on your filing...

So two radically different forms of tagging that really share very little in common with one another - which leads to the question, is there room for two different paradigms here (at least) or will there be some refactoring and adaptation that moves us towards one or other model?

To help answer this question, here's a representation of the tag-clouds surrounding my weblog over time (you can see the original in context on Cloudalicious):

So this basically traces my weblog over the last year. Each coloured line represents a particular tag - its height on the graph indicating its 'weight' - how often it is used in relation to the other tags. Here's where it gets interesting - there's at least one really significant shift of emphasis that happens over the year, between the blue and the red lines. This really does look like an ongoing shift of emphasis in the community of people who have bookmarked my site. And here's the really interesting bit - the two tags are almost exactly the same. The blue one is blogs and the red one is blog. But why such a dramatic shift between the two tags?

Now of course, this is only one weblog and it's difficult to come to any significant conclusions based on one example like this. But we could use it to form a hypothesis for other more technical people to test elsewhere. So here is that hypothesis - that the shift from people using blogs to blog represents the increasing dominance of a Flickr-style paradigm of tagging. Imagine the process of annotating a weblog - if you tag it with 'blogs' it seems clear that you are adding it to a collection of some kind. 'Blogs' is clearly the name of a folder which houses links to weblogs rather than an attempt to describe the weblog itself. But tagging something with the term "blog" suggests quite the opposite - to tag a link 'blog' suggests that I'm attempting to describe the link not as belonging to a bin labelled 'blogs' but simply as a 'blog' in and of itself. It is my conjecture, therefore, that the folder metaphor is losing ground and the keyword one is currently assuming dominance.

To test if this theory is correct - to see if one model of tagging is becoming dominant over another - should be relatively simple. You could use tag-stemming to spot tags with common roots in popular URLs, and then look for significant changes in their proportionate usage over time. I'd be particularly interested in tags that described the format of the object on the page (article vs. articles, quiz vs. quizzes, searchengine vs. searchengines) rather than the subject (trees, nuclear fission, cats). If someone was to do this kind of research then I'd be delighted - because it's those kinds of studies and observances in user behaviour that allow us to design better interfaces to support these innovations.

The emerging two cultures of the
internet

The emerging two cultures of the
internet 09/03/2004 08:29 AM
It's the end of the summer, more or less, and like last year, I've been on an unsubscription frenzy. I have a lot of work to do in the next few months: keeping up to date with the subjects I...

Ben Hammersley- The emerging two
cultures of the internet

Ben Hammersley- The emerging two
cultures of the internet 09/06/2004 03:10 AM

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Cooking, Seduction And National Cultures

Cooking, Seduction And National Cultures 05/16/2004 12:50 AM
The Food Of Love: Oh, forget about music already. What should you cook if you want to woo a lover? According to Lisa Hilton, it all depends on what nationality (s)he is and what country you're living in... P.S. Shame on The Observer for choosing the inflammatory but incidental title I've Never Had Good Sex With A Vegetarian!

Intel researchers study cultures not
circuits

Intel researchers study cultures not
circuits 05/06/2004 05:29 PM
Company anthropologists and psychologists find religion, cultural differences dictate how people use computer technology.

Is Klingon copyrighted?

Is Klingon copyrighted? 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
Ernie the Attorney Ernest Miller analyses the question, "Can the Klingon language be copyrighted?"

However, can you really copyright a language? You can copyright a dictionary, certainly, but can you copyright grammar? I'm not sure you can copyright grammar at all, since it is a set of rules regarding word usage. Grammar is an idea, that can probably only be expressed in a fairly limited number of ways, even if fanciful.

Additionally, each Klingon word would seem to be too short to qualify as copyrightable individually. I don't think that a list of words in a dictionary format would be copyrightable under Feist. So, I'm not sure at all how one could copyright a language. The individual descriptions of the words might be copyrightable, but as long as they aren't exact copies, the idea/expression dichotomy should provide only limited copyright protection to Paramount.

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Klingon is copyrighted

Klingon is copyrighted 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
The Klingon language is apparently copyrighted by Paramount Studios. The nonprofit Klingon Language Institute does not distribute any kind of canonical Klingon-English dictionary, because it fears litigation from Star Trek's parent company.

But the problem is, the Klingon language belongs to Paramount; it's copyrighted. If someone started distributing lists of Klingon words (or descriptions of grammar, etc.), then Paramount might view this as competition for the legitimate sale of their own products, which would be A Bad Thing.

Besides, the very act of compiling your own list, even if it's just from TKD , can be extremely educational

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Cultures of Music Piracy: An
Ethnographic Comparison of the US and
Japan

Cultures of Music Piracy: An
Ethnographic Comparison of the US and
Japan 07/20/2004 06:07 PM

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“In 2003, the US recording industry initiated lawsuits against its own consumers in an effort to change what some view as a ‘culture of piracy.’ What is this culture of piracy and what is at stake in trying to change it? In this essay, I take an ethnographic look at music file sharing, and compare the situation in the US with Japan. My findings are based on fieldwork in Tokyo, and surveys and discussions with…

Lingua-Klingon-Recode-1.02

Lingua-Klingon-Recode-1.02 05/10/2004 05:48 AM

Nekkid Klingon babes

Nekkid Klingon babes 04/28/2004 06:52 PM
Fleshbot says:

Let it be noted that this is the first, last, and only piece of "Star Trek"-inspired porn we will ever feature here on Fleshbot; we're not big science fiction fans, but these sexy morph chicks were just too hot to pass up.

Naked Klingon Women (Geocities site - thanks Jay). See also: NudeTrek.com (AVS protected archive of alt.binaries.startrek.adult)

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Lingua-Klingon-Recode-1.0

Lingua-Klingon-Recode-1.0 05/10/2004 05:48 AM

Lingua-Klingon-Segment-1.01

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Lingua-Klingon-Segment-1.03

Lingua-Klingon-Segment-1.03 05/17/2004 10:41 AM

Lingua-Klingon-Collate-1.03

Lingua-Klingon-Collate-1.03 05/17/2004 10:41 AM

Lingua-Klingon-Collate-1.02

Lingua-Klingon-Collate-1.02 05/10/2004 05:48 AM

Lingua-Klingon-Recode-1.01

Lingua-Klingon-Recode-1.01 05/10/2004 05:48 AM

Germans broadcast news in Klingon

Germans broadcast news in Klingon 09/14/2004 07:24 AM
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'

Klingon language workshop at Cannes

Klingon language workshop at Cannes 05/16/2004 04:54 AM
"Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water," is a documentary on Klingon-speakers debuting in Cannes. In conjunction with the release, the Klingon Language Institute is holding a workshop/confernece at Cannes for interested parties.

KLI members featured in the film include Dr d'Armond Speers, a linguist who spoke only in Klingon to his son until age three and a half, and Rich Yampbell, composer of Klingon national anthem taHaj wo.

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"tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaHbe" - I do not
speak Klingon

"tlhIngan Hol vIjatlhlaHbe" - I do not
speak Klingon 09/16/2004 03:56 AM
Klingon Language Version .. here’s .. Klingon

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German broadcaster goes Klingon
(Reuters)

German broadcaster goes Klingon
(Reuters) 09/15/2004 11:56 AM
Reuters - German broadcaster Deutsche Welle has added Klingon, spoken by the bumpy-headed aliens of the "Star Trek" television series, to the 30 languages used on its Web site, the network says.

Broadcaster Goes Klingon, Says 'Qay'be"
(Reuters)

Broadcaster Goes Klingon, Says 'Qay'be"
(Reuters) 09/15/2004 11:56 AM
Reuters - German broadcaster Deutsche Welle has added Klingon, spoken by the bumpy-headed aliens of the "Star Trek" television series, to the 30 languages used on its Web site, the network said Wednesday.

Duetsche Welle adds Klingon to supported
languages

Duetsche Welle adds Klingon to supported
languages 09/16/2004 01:40 AM
Cory Doctorow: Dave sez, "Deutsche Welle, a government-funded radio and television network that broadcasts mainly for German expatriates and Germany enthusiasts, added Klingon to the 30+ languages on its site, in celebration of the site's 10th anniversary (in Earth years). 'The dialogue of cultures does not end at the edge of our solar system,' Deutsche Welle director Erik Bettermann said in a statement." Link (Thanks, Dave!)

KDE on Windows? A Platonic dialogue

KDE on Windows? A Platonic dialogue 01/05/2005 02:09 PM
Should KDE should port its applications to Windows? A debate has flared up in parts of the KDE community, filling inboxes and blogs with arguments long and short. The question is really whether the KDE community should encourage this, since it is already happening. In the tradition of dialectic, I present the key arguments for and against this venture in style of a Platonic dialogue.

Syria Wants Dialogue with U.S. After
Sanctions Law

Syria Wants Dialogue with U.S. After
Sanctions Law 12/13/2003 01:50 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 13 2003 12:38PM ET
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