This idea I give free and gratis to teh internets, in the hopes that somebody more technically adept will implement it: a converter to turn a sequential archive into a delayed-update rss feed.
Ever discover a new webcomic? And have your productivity drop to zero while you rampage through an archive backlog of several hundred episodes [...]
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 sites can choose to [...]
Here’s my latest brilliant idea, offered up for someone with more get-up-and-go to make a fortune from: a delayed-delivery service. More accurately: a load-balanced delivery service.
Yesterday’s mail brought the zine Flytrap (which I haven’t read yet, hence no review). Last week the latest Electric Velocipede arrived (which I’ve read but don’t have time to review, [...]
I promise not to go grammar-Nazi here, although I expect in the coming months I’ll be posting more often on language (it’s the topic of my upcoming PhD study, after all). But I’ve just seen yet another articulate, carefully written and obviously proofread article talk about “loosing” (in this case, “loosing who we are”). And [...]
I’m not sure quite where I’m going with this yet, so bear with me; the tale will I hope grow in the telling.
I’ve been struck over the last couple of days by a scam phenomenon that’s at least new to me, and that seems likely to me to get more and more prevalent. (It’s quite [...]
Here’s an idea for the new media folk: how about a map of the linguistic connections around the world? Not sure quite how the visualisation would work, but it’s inspired by this Shirky article, which reinterprets proximity in terms of linguistic connection.
In the next century, as countries increasingly trade more in information than hard goods, the [...]
A couple of thoughts about trapping comment spam: my first idea was, add a textfield requiring a significant word from the blog entry in question. Simple for a person to produce, and in practise you just need to check if the word occurred in the entry at all, skipping a list of obvious stop words [...]
Just had to quickly comment on my latest lowtech repair effort.
Along the lines of the random CompSci paper generator, it seems to me the world needs a random Space Opera generator. I’m remembering E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith’s Lensman series, and thinking that this shouldn’t be so very difficult.
For extra credit, have it learn the quirks of your favourite author, grammar-induction style.