My friend François asked me to flex my PageRank muscles to help him in a competition. Good luck!
Tag Archive - web
LibraryThingy
I uploaded the list of books I own to LibraryThing. Feel free to take a look at my shelves.
Quick way to use mimetex with SMF
SMF is a nice web forum package but it doesn’t display mathematics by default. If you want it to render LaTeX, one option is to use mimetex. Here is a quick patch to enable [tex]…[/tex] tags in SMF version 1.1. You can get the latest updates to this patch with:
darcs get http://darcs.superadditive.com/smf-mimetex
New tool for collaborative filtering
A new collaborative filtering tool aimed at rating news from RSS feeds has arrived: AmphetaRate.
AmphetaRate is a centralized ratings/recommendation service that provides personalized news and blog recommendations through a news aggregator interface. Using compatible aggregators, you can rate articles found in your subscribed feeds to discover unread articles that suit your taste, thus filling your news addiction.
They provide an API and I hope Bloglines implements this functionality soon.
Decentralizing news
I’m happy to see that some efforts to decentralize news reporting are already taking shape. Today I read about Internet Newsgathering:
We call (Public) Internet Newsgathering the fundamental process of bringing facts from the news scene to the broadcast media via a chain of “open” elements: the public Internet, ubiquitous broadband access (fixed and mobile), open publishing sites (a.k.a. weblogs) RSS syndication and open and neutral exchanges like Lulop.com.
Together with initiatives like Freeporter, which brings trust metrics into the framework, it will hopefully enable people to collaboratively build independent news sites effectively taking back power from the commercial aggregators (newspapers, TV channels, etc.).