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Sunday, November 27, 2005
Torcamp
I went to TorCamp yesterday. Wow. First off, a message to David Crow: thanks!
It was good to hang out with people who are actually doing things. Everyone I met was running their business, advocating change in their organization, or contributing code to open source. Or whatever. The point is, everyone was in gear and moving.
(Tip: if you ever go to a networking/user group where everyone talks about such and such but they don't actually use it in their own projects or at their own workplace, you're among tourists, not users.)
I'd post a run-down of the event, but Kate did a fantastic job. Click on over there. She's awesome.
I gave a presentation on "Web 2.0 beyond ajax." I posted the presentation here. I tried a very different style of presentation, and I give myself mixed reviews. At best.
Sutha Kamal had the best suggestion for improving the presentation: use Peter Norvig's example of statistical translation rather than search to stress the reason that a broad corpus is better than deep ontology for most "intelligent" applications.
(The most interesting flaw is the screen capture of del.icio.us I took on Friday night. For some reason I didn't get the "recommended tags" feature and I pointed this out. People in the audience were all mystified and quite sure that you should get popular tags at the bottom of the page. That's true, but you should get "recommended tags" just below the save button, and I didn't get either. I'm quite mystified as to where they were when I took the screen shot.)
I went to TorCamp yesterday. Wow. First off, a message to David Crow: thanks!
It was good to hang out with people who are actually doing things. Everyone I met was running their business, advocating change in their organization, or contributing code to open source. Or whatever. The point is, everyone was in gear and moving.
(Tip: if you ever go to a networking/user group where everyone talks about such and such but they don't actually use it in their own projects or at their own workplace, you're among tourists, not users.)
I'd post a run-down of the event, but Kate did a fantastic job. Click on over there. She's awesome.
I gave a presentation on "Web 2.0 beyond ajax." I posted the presentation here. I tried a very different style of presentation, and I give myself mixed reviews. At best.
Sutha Kamal had the best suggestion for improving the presentation: use Peter Norvig's example of statistical translation rather than search to stress the reason that a broad corpus is better than deep ontology for most "intelligent" applications.
(The most interesting flaw is the screen capture of del.icio.us I took on Friday night. For some reason I didn't get the "recommended tags" feature and I pointed this out. People in the audience were all mystified and quite sure that you should get popular tags at the bottom of the page. That's true, but you should get "recommended tags" just below the save button, and I didn't get either. I'm quite mystified as to where they were when I took the screen shot.)
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Recommended tags seem to show up when a number of other people have bookmarked the same page and some of their tags overlap with yours. =) Again, statistical translation.
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