Web Theory

Business intelligence

2011-04-25T12:53:00.000-07:00

Programmers spend so much time configuring software to do utilitarian functions when the greatest advances yet to tap into our creativity have yet to be realised, (although photoshop was a good start). Business intelligence goes beyond the size of the audience. Mashups and mobile apps are a beginning not an end unto themselves. Some online games employ complex analytics on a simplistic model

its interconnected process

2010-07-10T07:06:00.000-07:00

the medium is not merely communication, it is process twitter for example is an extended work of art by a large number of people and the more that it casually represents the threads of reality, the less use it may be. To make use of it in a traditionally advertising way seems logical, but is it? the medium is defined by the activity people engage in this appears self evident. Between online

Blogger

2010-06-26T15:01:00.001-07:00

Blogger has upgraded its templating systems.

Google BUZZ

2010-02-20T03:17:00.000-08:00

Google Buzz is the most exciting and interesting social networking idea even if it is pretty much the same as all the rest. What is interesting is that the posts are objective, rather than personal (facebook) and relevant rather then random (twitter), and about the web rather than someone's music (myspace).

Emotions

2009-12-15T11:49:00.000-08:00

No! Not those awful designed "emoticons" that were "popular" but seem to have become less so, at least on the services I choose to use. Services like Twitter, where 140 chars or less is supposed to support a "conversation" seems to support something else - and its name is the clue. It is supposed to be a place where a meme can spread due to its inherent usefulness. It is promoted as "a

Knowledge

2009-12-12T15:47:00.000-08:00

There are alternative models for thought storage and retrieval. Knowledge is language based and can be stored as historic documents with providence, both electronically and physically. What we know about specific objects is enhanced when viewed historically, the artifact and the digital study of the artifact, plus all the collected strands of human experience, thought and academic reasoning

Shaken, not Stirred

2009-11-27T14:43:00.000-08:00

Programming is based on certainty. You can only write code if the layers that connect together do so without any holes in the logic. When you discover a method by which an infrastructure should produce a bunch of objects you do not need to be concerned that the infrastructure gets it wrong, that is why it is infrastructure. When the infrastructure does not respond in the most wholesome way,

A new copyright model

2009-11-25T12:35:00.000-08:00

Should original works be protected by copyright? I think there is merit in rewarding writers and originators of new ideas with financial reward. It encourages me to write more interesting and accessible articles, giving away years of experience and knowledge - there has to be a reason to do this. Passing on knowledge makes it more valuable. Copyright law should never prevent the passing on

Ways to use Twitter

2009-11-23T18:30:00.000-08:00

Here are some working phrases: "More than it appears to be" "Deceptively Simple and Mad Enough to Work" "More return than effort put in" and some more "Less than you expect" "Elegant design fits so easily with other applications" "Returns come when you put the effort in" which set of statements (assumptions) are more true of Twitter? The answer is dependent on how you want to use Twitter.

CMS page structure

2009-11-07T14:11:00.001-08:00

Think of the page structure as three primary objects: either: [LEFT CONTENT RIGHT] or: [HEADER BODY FOOTER] are defined as Primary, the other is contained by the middle element of the other. i.e. [HEADER BODY FOOTER] defined inside CONTENT; or, [LEFT CONTENT RIGHT] defined inside BODY. It is a column arrangement (not all columns need be used) that can be used to slice the site into "

Frameworks

2009-10-07T13:31:00.000-07:00

Everyone loves Frameworks but there are good software stacks that follow design patterns and there are ones that labour away in your browser. The whole idea of RESTful design is that the client has an independent life. But RESTful design coupled with intelligent clients that are now possible to write with Javascript frameworks (so we now have two separate software stacks talking through the

Innovation and Capital

2009-10-07T13:02:00.000-07:00

Over seven years ago I created a website that published academic articles of a leading professional and put in links that allowed you to generate links for your own site to link to the article, or get a link to email to your friend. I also provided lots of expensive looking paper backgrounds with multiple style sheets. It was all innovation and if things had gone better, could have gone

Follow this blog

2009-09-09T03:32:00.001-07:00

From somewhere this blog found a follower. I maintain about 30 blogs. The ones with followers get updated more often. If you want to read more "Web Theory" follow this blog using your google account.Free advertising for a giant. A very big giant.

Social Security and Networking

2009-09-09T01:14:00.000-07:00

A recent case of a woman who's password was hacked and her account cracked, meant she had to shut her Facebook account down as the hackers then harvested pity from her close friends and actually extracted $1000 via Western Union from one of them within 24 hours. She found the "report" link on Facebook and after 12 hours, Facebook closed her hacked account. The first line of defense is your

Web 2.0 interactivity

2009-08-18T23:01:00.000-07:00

When a field selector is used to load values or a web interface wants to interact with a back end process, a useful design pattern to use is Ajax MVC.This works very well with jQuery, PHP and a database.MVCModelThe model is a map of how data is stored. The model may also provide object structures that inform the view how to use data.ViewThe view is a form with active fields that talk to the

The Web is distracting

2009-08-18T17:31:00.000-07:00

The internet is distracting humanity from the humdrum pointless paper pushing inanity that used to rule us. Now we can share without authority, now we can make things and see them without institutions dictating, but it helps academia prepare our minds.Compare TED.com with Sarah Palin. One shares ecology and values, educating humanity. The other exposes the mind of a greedy person.Now, back to

The very first Web page

2009-08-17T19:42:00.001-07:00

Here it is, a piece of Internet HistoryThe WWW Project

myspace

2009-03-02T23:12:00.000-08:00

I put TOP FRIENDS into random order for entirely selfish reasons - for instance - whom I rate or do not rate is something that seems entirely private. Although it is thrilling finding ones' mug on someone else's page is not just an honour but a risk. I hate that kind of thing - so I randomised the friendset on myspace. It results in this being more of a performance space and less of a personal

Defining Web 3.0

2009-02-20T15:13:00.000-08:00

Web 2.0What Web 2.0 delivers is audience. It leverages our own social network as a model for promotional activities and audience gathering. But like most of the user initiated movies on youtube the engagement factor is missing. MySpace/FacebookBoth are inventions of the same thing, but with very different orientations. One is designed to majestically implode upon the interaction of the me-too

Parliament: Don't screw up copyright

2009-02-19T14:44:00.000-08:00

Media will take an angle on anything. But so will ISPs and in their tricky negotiations with various parties about copyrights without making blunders they will be sued for, and passing on unnecessary legal expenses? A good law would pave a path to economic prosperity. This hampers economic progress and cements a stupid set of relationships into fact. There is no reason to incriminate the

NZ Government experiments with ISPs

2009-02-17T18:31:00.000-08:00

The New Zealand Government overlooked an opportunity to dissect a contentious law that seeks to enforce copyright by giving ISPs the responsibility to cut off any user not complying with three warnings.This is the bull headed socialism that the Labour Government enacted defensively and very unwisely in the last year of it's 9 years firmly holding the reigns of government. Most likely, hoping to

Letter to NZ Minister of Arts and Culture

2009-02-17T15:00:00.000-08:00

Dear MinisterThere are grave concerns about a very destructive law which comes into effect at the end of February this year, passed by the previous Government.As an artist and publisher, I support copyright as a means to return value to artists.This law is well intentioned, but destructive to NZ's image. If our Government allows laws that enforce the presumption of guilt and enforces punitive

ROA and PHP

2009-01-29T03:00:00.000-08:00

According to the PHP Manual HTTP PUT is implemented as a sort of file upload emulation as though that was useful.The whole subject of HTTP PUT was very murky until I read the RESTful Architecture O'Reilly book. What you need to know is that in a ROA (a Resource Orientated Architecture) uses HTTP PUT to create a resource.Think social networking paths to individual resources requires a different

NZ ISPs to be pirate police

2009-01-13T18:17:00.000-08:00

NZ Herald discussion pageA new law in New Zealand makes ISPs responsible for cutting off copyright pirates. This is all a bit silly.For a start, define "pirate". A pirate is not the same thing as a thief. A pirate is someone who steals contraband. What is contraband? Goods in transit that have not yet been destination cleared. So, how is a "downloader" a "pirate"?When a downloader also

A model of a business

2009-01-04T13:53:00.001-08:00

RESTful Business models seem to proceed presently as follows:/business/address/street/street_number/business/contact/email/business/staff/executive/managerand so forth. Nouns are nice as they relate to tangibles, that in turn have attributes, actions resulting in changes in their state.This subject-noun centralisation appears to make sense but is that Resource Orientated? Probably not, unless