a crank’s progress

XML-RPC API for Waypath

The bright lads at WayPath have implemented an API to their document similarity engine (colloquially known as “more like this”). As slow as I am to code anything, I dunno when I’ll have something to show, but here’s hoping other more quicker minds have a go at it.

Event 5300350 Map
We had a small earthquake (over in Bremerton, where my niece lives) during the bedtime story hour, just enough to be noticed, but not enough to freak anyone out. I entered a response at the website where they track these things and found that 24 people in my zip code (98115) had also [...]

ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, June 9-10, 2003 - Boston, MA
ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies 2003 Conference & Expo is the first business-oriented forum to address the recent emergence of Weblogs into the business world and their rising importance as a medium of communication. This conference will bring together Webloggers who are pioneers, experts, and technologists. Together, [...]

Waypath Weblog: 1 Million Documents Indexed
As of May 25, 2003:

Days Waypath online: 197
# of weblogs visited: 155,505
# of weblogs in searchable index: 93,747
# of weblog posts spidered: 2,009,512
# of weblog posts in searchable index: 1,067,002
I’m a couple of versions behind: I don’t even have the 1.0 release of the plugin. Go get yours now.

Chad Dickerson Incidentally, when I wrote this week’s column (”Beyond Linux”), I wasn’t even thinking about the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit, but using a non-GPL OS like FreeBSD certainly keeps you legally free and clear. The courts might conceivably be able to kill Linux, but not the whole idea of a free high-performance Unix-like OS. [...]

Idle Words
If you look at all the outgoing links from English language blogs, only about 1.75% point to a non-English weblog. In the reverse direction, however, the figure is much higher. A full 7% of links from non-English-language weblogs point to an English site.
This means that non-English speakers, on average, link in to our community [...]

Another training ride yesterday. I felt tired when I started, and figured I would do 10, maybe 12 miles, just to say I had done something. I got to the 10 mile point, Wilmot Gateway Park in Woodinville, rolled on to the Red Hook Brewery (fortunately located across the river and not too easily accessible). [...]

McGee’s Musings
Jim McGee references Ivan Ilich: McGee is lightyears ahead of where I could hope to be in this space.
The planning of new educational institutions ought not to begin with the administrative goals of a principal or president, or with the teaching goals of a professional educator, or with the learning goals of any hypothetical [...]

Happy Fields and Dancing Schnausers: Units of Angst
[ . . . . ] Dad and I began to discuss angst, and we have devised a system by which to rate it. My sister helped to flesh it out, and gave the units their other names. The system follows:

The basic unit of angst is a mope.
Oh, [...]

How to Save the World
Contrast these two paragraphs, each designed to convey the value propositions of knowledge management to an unaware, perhaps skeptical, audience of executives:

1. Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous change. Essentially, it embodies [...]