I was recently redesigning my homepage, and I wanted to include my email address. I knew that only n00b looz3rz display their addy in plain site for spambots to harvest, so I applied a little light obfuscation, like they do on php.net and million other sites: “myname at jasonpriem dot com.”
“Take that, spammer scum!” I [...]
Obfuscate no more: why your email address should go au naturale
May 12, 2009 – 5:11 pm
Quick book review: Dreaming in Code
April 13, 2009 – 6:32 pm
I imagine Scott Rosenberg reckoned he’d picked a winner when he started Dreaming in Code, his 2007 book chronicling the development of the Chandler personal information manager. The project seemed to have everything going for it. It had all the fashionable features: GTD! Open Source! Peer-to-peer! Level the silos! It was [...]
FeedVis 2.0: custom visualization for your feeds
December 3, 2008 – 4:27 pm
My FeedVis project–the interactive tagcloud for a group of feeds–has been out for a week now, I’ve been thrilled at the positive response I’ve gotten so far. One rather glaring problem with the program, though, was that you could only look at the top 50 edublogs.
Not anymore. After a few late nights, I’ve got a [...]
FeedVis: a deeper tagcloud for edublogs
November 25, 2008 – 3:53 am
Tagclouds have value, but, as I’ve written before, they’ve a number of shortfalls as well. I’ve just finished my attempt to remedy some of these problems: FeedVis. It’s an animated tagcloud that lets you compare word frequencies accross different time periods and authors, then check out the posts that used the words. The demo is [...]
Zotero Report Customizer 2.0
August 26, 2008 – 6:19 pm
As I’ve discussed in a previous post, I’m an enthusiastic user of the free reference manager Zotero; I’m impressed with how such young, open-source product has managed to quickly outshine established, non-free alternatives like EndNote.
One difficulty I (and others) have had with Zotero, though, is in generating reports for a group of articles. Particularly, [...]