Thanks to Odiogo.com (via @johndcook), this blog now has a podcast powered by speech synthesis. Not having heard any decent speech synthesis for open domain text (maybe I’m behind the times here), I was pretty impressed with it. John had a post with a quote from The Agony and the Ecstasy and Odiogo got it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘blagoblag’
Mendicant Bug Podcast
Posted: 12 July 2009 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, blogging, odiogo, podcasts, speech synthesis
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The Noisy Channel – Better than kittens!
Posted: 31 March 2009 in UncategorizedTags: april fool's day, blagoblag, humor, the noisy channel
If you are in search of a blog that will put an end to all of your earthly troubles, look no further than the Noisy Channel. Aside from being a font of knowledge that will turn you into an AI from a futurist’s dream, there have been reports that regular TNC readers have been cured [...]
Much ado about nothing
Posted: 26 March 2009 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, computational linguistics, disappointment, google, hype, information retrieval, search, semantic search
There has been much ballyhoo in the blogosphere touting Google’s so-called foray into semantic search. The blog post announcing the new feature doesn’t even mention the word semantics, but it does say it looks at associations and concepts related to your query. I see no mention of tuples or anything of the sort and the [...]
It is bad journalism when
Posted: 8 February 2009 in UncategorizedTags: bad journalism, blagoblag, energy consumption, google, houston chronicle, journalism
It is bad journalism when an old news story is debunked and continues to be rehashed! How sloppy! Shame on you, Houston Chronicle! Back around 2000, when Palem began thinking about the future of computer chip technology, power consumption wasn’t a big consideration. Only speed mattered. But today, the energy consumed by information technology – [...]
Jekyll and Code
Posted: 8 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, code, git, github, github pages, jekyll, liquid, wordpress
Tom Preston-Werner, aka mojombo, rocks. When GitHub announced GitHub Pages recently, they pointed to a new blog engine, Jekyll. Jekyll generates the blog as a set of static pages — no database reads, no PHP, just fast HTML. I was instantly drawn to it, and since I’ve been itching to switch blog engines, I damn [...]
Top posts of 2008
Posted: 31 December 2008 in UncategorizedTags: 2008, blagoblag, blogging, top posts, year in review
Looking back over 2008, there have been a lot of changes in my life. Many of those are reflected in my blog, but few are reflected in the posts that have gotten the most traffic. But for the hell of it, here are the top posts anyway. Post Hits in 2008 Old English Translator 10,589 [...]
Forrester’s straw-man study on media trust
Posted: 10 December 2008 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, blogging, corporate blogging, evil corporations, forrester research, information sources, media, personal development, rants, stupid studies, trust, user-generated content
Comparing “personal blog” or some random “corporate blog” to “personal email sent from a friend” is pretty much like comparing “advice from gin-soaked hobo” to “what your mama always said.” The fact that Forrester can get away with presenting something like this and suggesting businesses act on it to shut down their blogs bothers me.
Sometime earlier today, I hit 100,000 hits on this blog!
Blogging Platform
Posted: 7 November 2008 in UncategorizedTags: blagoblag, blogging platform, polls
I’m considering switching to a different blogging platform. The inability to use javascript in the hosted version of WordPress is annoying. What do you think? Update: I have decided to stick with WordPress.com. After further evaluation it seems to be the best choice. Even though I hate not being able to do some javascript stuff, [...]
