Friday, December 20, 2002

Work on Uzilla.org is picking up -- specifically the "A Day in the Life" study. I had hoped that the creative commons would offer an appropriate license for the resulting data set, but Attribution-NoDerivs License. However, how do statistical analyses fit into the notion of derivative works? And what if someone discovers something interesting through, say a markov chain model, wouldn't we want that model to be made available computationally? On the other hand, maybe I don't want a user experience consultancy to claim the data set as a propietary for-resale resource. 9:46:14 AM

	Tuesday, December 10, 2002

My research team needs a large corpus of 5 letter words. WordNet doesn't seem to have a public length based interface, but I can just import to mySQL. 12:36:45 PM

I don't know whether to be dismayed or enthralled at the prospect of an rich media ad-oriented delivery platform on tablets. On one hand, a dedicated presentation layer tends to improve usability -- on the other hand, this kind of power play in client software tends to steal aspects of user control. 1:46:14 AM

	Saturday, November 30, 2002

I'm slowly stamping out my 1998 design in the surf*mind*web collection. Lots of good indexing this morn too, check out the new links page. This is what drives the lower right link list. 12:49:02 PM

Interesting, a php/mysql combo specifically designed for the task of research. D'Lib's latest issue contains a summary, Software for Building a Full-Featured Discipline-Based Web Portal 11:55:24 AM

	Wednesday, November 27, 2002

A cognitive science student's pre-blog: monicsoft. My "pre-blog" was born in 1996 and crafted with frontier -- to auto build the navigation. There's something to be said for a strong topical organization to a research oriented weblog, but the synergies in keeping up with the blogdom are also nifty. Monicsoft seems to be working on a nice abstraction layer on a hypertext authoring system with rich support for levels of granularity on conceptual chunks -- expressed as tooltips. I guess, you could make a case for ditching the episodic rendering and just providing recent changes in RSS. Mathius M. has another interesting approach to his thesis communication, in keeping with the hypertext topic. Mathius is publishing correspondence and maintaining an extensive web of related topics and sites. Probably the best thesis-oriented site I've visited to date (he just needs some RSS!). 7:20:29 PM

	Sunday, November 24, 2002

Just back from a trip to Kansas City for the Soc. for Computers in Psychology/Psychonomics. My paper on Uzilla got the "Castellan" best student paper award. It was a fun trip, but I'm glad to be out of the low level experimental psychology game and into more applied work. Things like the neighborhood effects of subordinate homographs in priming with truple based presentation just doesn't interest me the way it did 10 years ago. 9:03:10 AM

	Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Micah Alpern has published some good tips on introducing blogging into a workgroup. The info is on Radio Community Server, but I'm looking to Pivot, a php dsn-less solution, as a lower cost starting point. 9:47:57 PM

	Thursday, October 31, 2002

Pivot, a php blogging tool, looks to be pretty robust - and lightweight. It does rss and doesn't require a db. Testing it out at my uni webspace. [via fragment.nl] 9:05:32 AM