Links for 2005-09-20

Posted September 20, 2005 1:17 AM.

I can't quite believe I didn't recommend this at the time: Pandora Music Recommendations engine I'm talking to a lot of people at the moment who think that one (folksonomic) way of navigating data is going to win over all the others. But it's ludicrous, we need all the dimensions we can get and user-generated stuff sits perfectly well alongside and/or on top of top-down or expert categorisations
Mobile Music Workshop 2006 at the University of Sussex - looks pretty neat... "How can we push forward the already successful combination of music and mobile technology? What new forms of interaction with music lie ahead, as locative media and music use merge into new forms of everyday experiences?"
Consider this an appeal - can someone with clue please fix the Wikipedia article on "Penis envy"? So, I've studied a fair amount of psychoanalysis, and I know this article on penis envy is bullshit, and it's been on my 'to do' list of things to fix for weeks, and I've got nowhere. So I'm putting out an appeal - can you make this better?
"Flickr and Yahoo: please support open identity standards" Interesting piece this. Open Identity standards are pretty complex things, but it does seem pretty clear that there would be enormous benefits to be reaped from being the first organisation to embrace these standards (ie. all your services would already work with the identity system that everyone wanted to use)
A new Penny Arcade depicts a historic conversation between myself and Matt Biddulph So far, it all appears to be working quite well. Speaking of which, back to ETech stuff...

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Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.

I don't really know enough to rework that entry. My personal experience has been that many women, at least younger and less wise ones, want a penis so they can pee standing up. A few think it would be fun to play with all the time, but mostly it's the whole waiting in line for the bathroom thing. ;)

→ Posted by: jacob harvey at September 20, 2005 8:48 PM

Joking apart, that entry is a travesty - it's a bit like someone explaining the Uncertainty Principle by saying that when things get really, really small you can't see where they are until they move (and when they move you can't see where they are any more! d'oh!). Unfortunately I haven't got the Freudian chops to rewrite it either, but thanks for highlighting it - it reminds me of Larry Sanger's critique of Wikipedia, which I wrote about in one of my first blog posts (all of six months ago).

What's not there is any sense of the history of the concept ... Wikipedia may actually lend itself to problems like these, by starting from the question "What does $FOO mean?"

→ Posted by: Phil at September 21, 2005 10:50 AM

Uncertainty Principle by saying that when things get really, really small you can't see where they are until they move (and when they move you can't see where they are any more! d'oh!). Unfortunately I haven't got the Freudian chops to rewrite it either, but thanks for highlighting it - it reminds me of Larry Sanger's critique of Wikipedia, which I wrote about in one of my first blog posts (all of six months ago).

→ Posted by: Saha at December 25, 2005 1:49 PM

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