Thinking about the traces we leave behind in all the software we use, I was wondering: How will the biography of a data-intensive person – you know, blogs, twitter, delicious, tumblr, last.fm…- look like in the future? Will those “domestic privacies” be taken into account? How will the fact that we have a clear, unambiguous [...]
So I bit the bullet and have just opened a tumblr account. I’ve been somehow reluctant to try just another service (despite passionate, reliable recommendations). The way I use delicious (keeping an annotated track of interesting stuff) is pretty similar to what I could get using tumblr, so why should I add another tool? The [...]
Some time ago, I wondered how could I take some notes about the music I was listening to. After having a look at the last.fm player source code* I instantly saw what a stupid thing I had suggested. In no way I’d be able to figure out that bunch of c++ classes (not that it [...]
Still happily living on jEdit for most of my scripting. I haven’t found an actionscript 3 edit mode, so I’ve made one. It is based on the original actionscript.xml and the Flash CS3 AsColorSyntax_3.xml file so it should have everything you can see colored on the IDE. This edit mode doesn’t have any as2 specific [...]
Like, for example: A 20th century problem is that technology has become too “easy”. When it was hard to do anything, whether good or bad, enough time was taken so that the result was usually good. Now we can make things almost trivially, especially in software, but most of the designs are trivial as well. [...]
…you could take some notes about the songs you are listening directly on the last.fm player? Nothing too fancy. Something similar to the delicious notes would be ok. By now I’m using a tag (toresearch) for discovered artists, and sometimes I take notes on my helipad, but adding them right on the player would save [...]
I’m always amazed at the use of tags in last.fm, specially for songs. Some random examples I’ve seen lately: Stereolab – Hallucinex: resistance is futile, electronic renaissance, sounds like sun, sigh and swoon in equal measure. Stereolab – Nothing to do with me: music to edit pictures to. Stereolab – Suggestion diabolique: take the bull [...]