Archive for category 'Thoughts'
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Word Content: Bloggers not publishing original content anymore?
Posted on December 24th, 2007 at 20:51 in Internet, Blogging, Thoughts.
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Just recently, I came across this website. It’s called Word Content, and its main purpose is to give you, for a fee, unique articles to publish on your website. When I saw it, I was surprised by the concept: if blogging is all about people expressing their personal opinion and publishing it for the whole world to read, why would you want to buy articles for your blog? So I searched for an explanation in this post.
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Mosaics vs. Pixelizations
Posted on October 19th, 2006 at 16:53 in Thoughts.
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The world’s a mosaic, software’s a pixelization. If you see one small part of a mosaic, it may not look beautiful at all, but if you see the whole, it’s amazing; just like the world. Mosaics make no sense, until they’re completely finished and seen in totality. Software, on the other hand, is a pixelization: it already has a meaning since its start, but as its development progresses, it becomes more detailed, and better.
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Frameworks are passing
Posted on August 26th, 2006 at 13:48 in Programming, Thoughts.
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While there is much buzz about web frameworks, including Ruby on Rails, Django and CakePHP, it seems none of them will be able to last long. Frameworks are transient, after some time they pass. For each project you run, you’ve got to choose the framework of desire independently, because by the time you’ve finished a project and want to start a new one, the framework you chose for your last project is already more or less obsolete.
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Active vs. passive media
Posted on July 7th, 2006 at 21:46 in Blogging, Thoughts.
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You all know blogging is hot. But lately, more and more tumblelogs appear, weblogs on which images, links and quotes are collected and published in chronological order. Projectionist is for example one of those, or Tumble. These however do not publish information actively, but rather passively, as something occurs it gets blogged. That’s an important distinction in the blogging world, active versus passive media.
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About learning curves
Posted on July 6th, 2006 at 16:21 in Programming, Personal, Thoughts.
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Holidays have started for me. There’s a lot I would like to do during these, and probably not so much I’ll be able to realize. There are about three things I’d like to learn: Django, Python and Blender. However, I’ll not be able to do all three, so I’ll have to choose. While I was thinking about what I’d do, I considered their learning time, and envisioned the learning curves. All three projects have very different learning curves, and that’s what I’m going to figure out in this post.
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The importance of open APIs
Posted on May 28th, 2006 at 14:52 in Internet, Web 2.0, The Semantic Web, Technology, Thoughts.
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While the web keeps evolving, APIs are becoming more important. By allowing your users to access your application from the outside, you assure they will use it, not only on your site but also on their and others’ sites. Let me sum up here why you need to open your APIs.
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Web 2.0: A new web on old foundations
Posted on May 21st, 2006 at 18:17 in Internet, Web 2.0, Technology, Thoughts.
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Web 2.0, the new version of the web. But is it in fact as new as some might say? In this post, I’ll take a deeper look at the technologies and ideas behind Web 2.0, and explain why some of them are not that new.
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