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	<title mode="escaped">tecznotes links</title>
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	<modified>2010-09-08T19:42:09-07:00</modified>
	<author>
		<name>Michal Migurski</name>
		<url>http://mike.teczno.com/snippets.html</url>
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            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">The Iraq War: Wikipedia Historiography</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
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            <id>http://www.flickr.com/photos/stml/4932082820/in/set-72157624693833091/</id>
            <issued>2010-09-04T09:32:10-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-09-04T09:32:10-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-09-04T09:32:10-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["'The Iraq War: A Historiography of Wikipedia Changelogs' is a twelve-volume set of all changes to the Wikipedia article on the Iraq War.

The twelve volumes cover a five year period from December 2004 to November 2009, a total of 12,000 changes and almost 7,000 pages.

The set is part of a project exploring history and historiography facilitated by the internet, and visualising information, opinion, narrative and discussion, by James Bridle."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">There is a Horse in the Apple Store</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/1059696119/there-is-a-horse-in-the-apple-store" />
            <id>http://blog.frankchimero.com/post/1059696119/there-is-a-horse-in-the-apple-store</id>
            <issued>2010-09-03T23:19:48-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-09-03T23:19:48-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-09-03T23:19:48-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["When does the magic of a situation fade? When do we get acclimated to the exceptional? Is this how we get by? Would anything get done if we were constantly gobsmacked? Is this how we survive, how we stay sane? We define a pattern, no matter how exceptional, and acclimate ourselves to it?"]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Top Five Reasons Why West Oakland's image is More Dangerous than the Reality</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://myrtlestreet.blogspot.com/2010/09/top-five-reasons-why-west-oaklands.html" />
            <id>http://myrtlestreet.blogspot.com/2010/09/top-five-reasons-why-west-oaklands.html</id>
            <issued>2010-09-03T16:43:48-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-09-03T16:43:48-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-09-03T16:43:48-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["3. It's vital to the self-identity of the Burner Art Geek Man-Boys that they live in an Extremely Dangerous Urban Mad Max Wasteland, and the Self-Identity Protection Shield they have built from steampunk recycled metal parts prevents them from seeing the working class and middle class families and schools and churches."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Dragon on Broadway - Bruce Lee in Oakland</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.theoakbook.com/MoreDetail.aspx?Aid=4127&amp;CatId=8" />
            <id>http://www.theoakbook.com/MoreDetail.aspx?Aid=4127&amp;CatId=8</id>
            <issued>2010-08-30T13:47:53-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-30T13:47:53-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-30T13:47:53-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["45 years ago, 4175 Broadway was the site of a kung fu showdown that changed martial arts forever. Bruce Lee, a 24 year-old dropout from the University of Washington had recently landed in North Oakland, where he opened a martial arts studio not far from Oakland Technical High School. The school quickly attracted students. It also made enemies. The Bay Area's martial arts establishment vilified Lee for accepting non-Chinese pupils. 

The beef came to blows when Wong Jack Man crossed the bay from San Francisco to fight in a pre-arranged match with Lee's livelihood at stake."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Mule Design: Give The Client Permission To Go Negative</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/08/presenting_design_like_you_get.php" />
            <id>http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/08/presenting_design_like_you_get.php</id>
            <issued>2010-08-30T10:28:25-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-30T10:28:25-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-30T10:28:25-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["Today, we are going to show you some things that may not be right. If you see something that isn't working, you need to point it out. If you don't tell us what you think isn't working, we will show you the same thing again and again until we are out of time and money and you are stuck with it."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Taking the Mystery out of Scaling a Company</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/02/taking-the-mystery-out-of-scaling-a-company/" />
            <id>http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/02/taking-the-mystery-out-of-scaling-a-company/</id>
            <issued>2010-08-28T10:26:53-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-28T10:26:53-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-28T10:26:53-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Business and sports metaphors - sorry.

"At the point when adding people into the company feels like more work than the work that you can offload to the new employees, the defensive lineman has run around you and you probably need to start giving ground grudgingly. The first scale technique to implement is specialization."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">A City in the Cloud: Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1684055/a-city-in-the-cloud-living-planit-redefines-cities-as-software" />
            <id>http://www.fastcompany.com/1684055/a-city-in-the-cloud-living-planit-redefines-cities-as-software</id>
            <issued>2010-08-27T09:18:24-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-27T09:18:24-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-27T09:18:24-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["PlanIT Valley is the first city conceived by technologists, for technologists, in which the architecture and urban planning are all but beside the point. And they're hardly the first to apply the reigning technology paradigm of their day to urban planning. ...
In order to solve the world's City Problem, Living PlanIT is betting, we must dematerialize the city, translate it to code, make perfect copies, and then scale it to whatever size we need. Soft City has become the Software City."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Dan Hon: A short rant about games, play and storytelling</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://wklondon.typepad.com/welcome_to_optimism/2010/08/a-short-rant-about-games-play-and-storytelling.html" />
            <id>http://wklondon.typepad.com/welcome_to_optimism/2010/08/a-short-rant-about-games-play-and-storytelling.html</id>
            <issued>2010-08-26T12:30:58-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-26T12:30:58-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-26T12:30:58-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["We're here to create strong, provocative relationships between great companies and their customers. Games and new ways of storytelling are a fantastic and incredibly exciting way of doing that.

Phew. That was long."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/08/the-new-api-movement-may.php" />
            <id>http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/08/the-new-api-movement-may.php</id>
            <issued>2010-08-25T20:07:47-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-25T20:07:47-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-25T20:07:47-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["1) Assuming Everything Will Always Work
2) Poor Community Management
3) Not Anticipating How API Business Processes Will Scale
4) Putting the API Under Website Domain
5) Lack of Real-World Testing
6) Not Anticipating Bad Behavior
7) No Black Box Tests
8) Not Recognizing the API as a Core Line of Business.
9) Not Having Management on Board with the API
10) Tunneling Errors."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">A letter to my students - &quot;Of course we can afford a government that actually works...&quot;</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/education-policy/a-letter-to-my-students/" />
            <id>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/education-policy/a-letter-to-my-students/</id>
            <issued>2010-08-25T08:00:16-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-25T08:00:16-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-25T08:00:16-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["Now, your infrastructure is falling to pieces under your feet, and as citizens you are responsible for crudities like closing parks, and inhumanities like closing battered women's shelters. It's outrageous, inexcusable, that you can't get into the courses you need, but much worse that Oakland police have stopped taking 911 calls for burglaries and runaway children. If you read what your elected officials say about the state today, you'll see things like 'California can't afford' this or that basic government function, and that 'we need to make hard choices' to shut down one or another public service, or starve it even more (like your university). Can't afford? The budget deficit that's paralyzing Sacramento is about $500 per person; add another $500 to get back to a public sector we don't have to be ashamed of, and our average income is almost forty times that. Of course we can afford a government that actually works: the fact is that your parents have simply chosen not to have it."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Rolling Shutter Blades</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmullins/4919797867/#" />
            <id>http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonmullins/4919797867/#</id>
            <issued>2010-08-24T11:23:07-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-24T11:23:07-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-24T11:23:07-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["Wanted to try this - flying to Guernsey and back today.

It's an iPhone 4, and the scanning typically goes from top left to bottom right so moving objects lean to the left. Essentially any electronic shutter camera (i.e. not an SLR like mechanical shutter) will give these effects."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Why trust Facebook with the future's past?</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/23/why-trust-facebook-with-the-futures-past-2/" />
            <id>http://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/23/why-trust-facebook-with-the-futures-past-2/</id>
            <issued>2010-08-24T08:20:42-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-24T08:20:42-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-24T08:20:42-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scott Rosenberg:

"All of which led me to wonder what Facebook could possibly be thinking in asking us to imagine Places as a future repository for our collective history. After all, Facebook could be such a repository today, if it actually cared about history. It has given no evidence of such concern."

Facebook vice president of product and creepy guy Christopher Cox:

"Too many of our human stories are still collecting dust on the shelves of our collections at home. Those stories are going to be placed. Those stories are going to be pinned to a physical location so that maybe one day in 20 years our children will go to Ocean Beach in San Francisco, and their little magical thing will start to vibrate and say, 'This is where your parents first kissed.'"

So weird.]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Flickr shapefiles by dominant color</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tominsam/4921569602/" />
            <id>http://www.flickr.com/photos/tominsam/4921569602/</id>
            <issued>2010-08-24T08:08:29-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-24T08:08:29-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-24T08:08:29-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Tom Insam:
"The idea is to extend Hammond's favcol thing to shapefiles. I want a map of the world where every shapefile is drawn in the 'dominant' colour for that shape - I'm currently doing this by fetching the 20 most Interesting photos for a given shape and averaging out the colours, though clearly I'm going to need a more exciting algorithm for this to avoid a boring grey map. What I'm _hoping_ for is that cities will be grey and countryside will be green and there might even be bits of blue if there's a lot of sea or something."
]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">Information is a Material to Design With</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://orangecone.com/archives/2010/08/information_is_.html" />
            <id>http://orangecone.com/archives/2010/08/information_is_.html</id>
            <issued>2010-08-23T21:13:53-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-23T21:13:53-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-23T21:13:53-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Mike Kuniavsky:
"When something becomes cheap, it quickly joins the toolkit of things we create our world with. It becomes a design material. Sometimes for better and other times for worse.

In the last five years cheap, small processors have drastically lowered the cost of taking information in, evaluating it, manipulating it, rearranging it, and acting on it. It is no longer unthinkable to have an everyday object use an embedded processor to take a small piece of information ... and autonomously act on it to help the device do its job better. Information processing is now part of the set of options we can practically consider when designing just about any object.

In other words, information is quickly becoming a material to design with."]]> </content>
        </entry>
            <entry>
            <title mode="escaped">WMS vs. tilecaching - Scholars' Lab</title>
            <author>
                <name>Michal Migurski</name>
            </author>
            <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.scholarslab.org/geospatial-and-temporal/wms-vs-tilecaching/" />
            <id>http://www.scholarslab.org/geospatial-and-temporal/wms-vs-tilecaching/</id>
            <issued>2010-08-23T18:08:12-07:00</issued>
            <modified>2010-08-23T18:08:12-07:00</modified>
            <created>2010-08-23T18:08:12-07:00</created>
            <content type="application/xhtml+xml" xml:lang="en" xml:space="preserve" mode="escaped"><![CDATA["Tile caches, by and large, do not allow for [reprojecting their contents]. (Google Maps offers its one projection, and Open Street Map offers two.) This means that in order to lay historical map imagery over a layer from one of these sources, we would have to reproject the foreground (historical imagery) overriding the choices of the mapmaker and introducing additional choices of our own about what facets of the geographies at stake are to be preserved and which abandoned."]]> </content>
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