Comments for what / about http://vladt.net Trying to make sense Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 Comment on About by vladtn http://vladt.net/about/#comment-644 vladtn Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:40:30 +0000 http://vladt.net/about/#comment-644 If you want to comment about the film please do it <a href="http://vladt.net/2007/06/11/mk-at-first-sight/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. If you want to comment about the film please do it here.

]]> Comment on About by vladtn http://vladt.net/about/#comment-643 vladtn Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:29:21 +0000 http://vladt.net/about/#comment-643 Thanks for the great comment Jonathan! I didn't try to insist on the fact that most of the participants were OU students staff; the fact is that around 13 persons are moving to MK every day (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2007/01/17/mk_40_facts_feature.shtml" rel="nofollow">source</a>) and I found the comments generic enough to represent them as well. So not about students but about people. There is no ambition of universality whatsoever, just a few points of views. Also the difference between UK nationals and others didn't strike me from the film; MK is also unique in the UK as most point out. If it helps some people to prepare to MK that's great, but it was not the main intention :) Thanks again! Thanks for the great comment Jonathan! I didn’t try to insist on the fact that most of the participants were OU students staff; the fact is that around 13 persons are moving to MK every day (source) and I found the comments generic enough to represent them as well. So not about students but about people. There is no ambition of universality whatsoever, just a few points of views. Also the difference between UK nationals and others didn’t strike me from the film; MK is also unique in the UK as most point out. If it helps some people to prepare to MK that’s great, but it was not the main intention :) Thanks again!

]]> Comment on About by Jonathan San DIego http://vladt.net/about/#comment-642 Jonathan San DIego Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:09:45 +0000 http://vladt.net/about/#comment-642 I can imagine the effort you did to put this together! Well done! The film clearly represents a part of milton keynes from the perspective of OU research students/staffs. It is very interesting to hear the differences in opinion between the British and non-British people in the film. I am not sure whether the film represents the view of wide range of students of different backgrounds (e.g. those who have their family). Having said that, I still like the fact that this film is presenting a side of Milton Keynes that others might not find in printed publicities about MK. I agree that this film may help some students to prepare with what awaits them in MK. Hey Vlad, you might want to put a disclaimer;-) Something to the sort of this film does nto represent the view of... Bravo! I can imagine the effort you did to put this together! Well done! The film clearly represents a part of milton keynes from the perspective of OU research students/staffs. It is very interesting to hear the differences in opinion between the British and non-British people in the film. I am not sure whether the film represents the view of wide range of students of different backgrounds (e.g. those who have their family). Having said that, I still like the fact that this film is presenting a side of Milton Keynes that others might not find in printed publicities about MK. I agree that this film may help some students to prepare with what awaits them in MK. Hey Vlad, you might want to put a disclaimer;-) Something to the sort of this film does nto represent the view of… Bravo!

]]> Comment on About by vladtn http://vladt.net/about/#comment-641 vladtn Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:50:42 +0000 http://vladt.net/about/#comment-641 Thanks Linda, "meeting people from everywhere in the middle of nowhere", I like that! Here is a <a href="http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3704698273045780517&hl=en-GB" rel="nofollow">link to the video</a> until I blog about it. Thanks Linda, “meeting people from everywhere in the middle of nowhere”, I like that! Here is a link to the video until I blog about it.

]]> Comment on About by Linda Castañeda http://vladt.net/about/#comment-640 Linda Castañeda Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:44:41 +0000 http://vladt.net/about/#comment-640 MK - at First Sight: I have watched the video. Nice view. MK is a very "specciall" place (is not completely a city, is not completely a town...) you don't found anything that you could wait for, in a normal city. Is another concept. Nevertheless, the best thing to be there in MK is to meet nice people from everywhere in the middle of anywhere. MK - at First Sight:
I have watched the video. Nice view.
MK is a very “specciall” place (is not completely a city, is not completely a town…) you don’t found anything that you could wait for, in a normal city. Is another concept.
Nevertheless, the best thing to be there in MK is to meet nice people from everywhere in the middle of anywhere.

]]> Comment on Pipes (Are Us): the End of Mashups? by vladtn http://vladt.net/2007/02/09/pipes-are-us-the-end-of-mashups/#comment-4 vladtn Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:22:05 +0000 http://vladt.net/2007/02/09/pipes-are-us-the-end-of-mashups/#comment-4 Hey Tom, thanks for your comment. Yes about scarcity I was thinking to RDF since RSS news feed are, well, more or less only for news, i.e. generic info, since not very structured (though as you know they can be enhanced, by <a href="http://www.georss.org/" rel="nofollow">georss</a> tags for example). I also tried for my PhD to gather all the geo related xml - can't be fussy - available and there wasn't much. But things are changing and surprisingly the largest amount of public and usable spatial info is available in <a href="http://earth.google.com/kml/" rel="nofollow">Google Earth's KML format</a>. Unfortunately there is only that much you can achieve with a mashup, one needs domain semantics to query them and context dependant affordances to navigate through the zillions of made available sources (or pipes), and these are the <a href="http://irs-test.open.ac.uk/sgis-dev/index.php?nav=h" rel="nofollow">concepts we are relying on in eMerges</a>. Hey Tom, thanks for your comment. Yes about scarcity I was thinking to RDF since RSS news feed are, well, more or less only for news, i.e. generic info, since not very structured (though as you know they can be enhanced, by georss tags for example). I also tried for my PhD to gather all the geo related xml - can’t be fussy - available and there wasn’t much. But things are changing and surprisingly the largest amount of public and usable spatial info is available in Google Earth’s KML format. Unfortunately there is only that much you can achieve with a mashup, one needs domain semantics to query them and context dependant affordances to navigate through the zillions of made available sources (or pipes), and these are the concepts we are relying on in eMerges.

]]> Comment on Pipes (Are Us): the End of Mashups? by Tom http://vladt.net/2007/02/09/pipes-are-us-the-end-of-mashups/#comment-3 Tom Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:52:54 +0000 http://vladt.net/2007/02/09/pipes-are-us-the-end-of-mashups/#comment-3 Hey Vlad, Yeah, I kinda agree and I kinda disagree. You say one of the main problems is Scarcity: "not much data is available on the web, in RSS rdf or other formats." but I think this really isn't the case. Everywhere you look on the web these days there are links to RSS feeds, whether they're v0.91, v1.0, or v2.0. I think the issue is not shear amount of data, but the richness it conveys, and this is where we definitely agree. Without a lot more interesting data to play with the novely will wear off. Aggregating all blogs from one company is useful, no doubt about it, but RSS won't help us aggregate all the hotel reviews from people I know who live or work within 10 miles of Paris, or whatever. For that we need RDF. Perhaps once the hype dies down people will get bored and realise that. Hey Vlad,

Yeah, I kinda agree and I kinda disagree. You say one of the main problems is Scarcity: “not much data is available on the web, in RSS rdf or other formats.” but I think this really isn’t the case. Everywhere you look on the web these days there are links to RSS feeds, whether they’re v0.91, v1.0, or v2.0. I think the issue is not shear amount of data, but the richness it conveys, and this is where we definitely agree. Without a lot more interesting data to play with the novely will wear off. Aggregating all blogs from one company is useful, no doubt about it, but RSS won’t help us aggregate all the hotel reviews from people I know who live or work within 10 miles of Paris, or whatever. For that we need RDF. Perhaps once the hype dies down people will get bored and realise that.

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