(b)logophile

In the middle of an ESSLLI lecture I got an sms from my girlfriend: “We are having a baby! Wheeeee!” At such moments it’s helpful to be a pragmatician.1 My reasoning pattern went something like this, where steps 5 and 6 exemplify the pragmatician’s approach to meaning (approximate processing times given in parentheses): Aaaaaaaaargh! (17s) [...]

So I’m back home and back online, after two full-on weeks in Dublin. There’s not much to show for it really, but below the fold you’ll find a few photos and reflections. The short version: ESSLLI was fantastic fun but not very relevant for my PhD, Dublin is a great but very expensive city, and [...]

Just back from ESSLLI, about which more coming soon… Catching up on two weeks of news I find that LibraryThing has added a bunch of Dutch cataloguing sources. De NRC Handelsblad heeft een stukje daarover, of je kunt direct naar LibraryThing.nl. Wees voorzichtig, het is wel verslavend…

Here’s an idea someone should be working on. There are all these Web2.0 sites out there letting you “tag” stuff. Some have excellent tagging interfaces and some are more primitive. What about a single app that talks to all of them? Or, more reasonably, a combination of two things: A standardised tagging API which these [...]