Archive for September, 2007

“Vorratsdatenspeicherung”, only the knowing are frightend of it

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Not only Germany, many other governments go on fighting against terrorism by trimming peoples rights. Another video found on arnes handtwerk gives some pictures about the danger.

Who will do something against the phantom menace visits the demonstration this weekend in Berlin.

Getting interest of people by analysing tags an compare them to encyclopedias

Monday, September 17th, 2007

After some hard weeks with only one hand on the keyboard but the whole mind full of ideas, now some new thinkings about Tags and its order.

Look at the following drawing. Some weeks ago i thought about how to connect the tags with some order. Slowly it gets clearer. One have to use existing classifiations. My first try will use wikipedia to do so. theoretically it is large enough to give satisfying results, let’s see what exercises will bring.

From tags to profil of interests

One additional question ist if it will be to much affected be the encyclopaedia.

What do you think about this try?

 [Update]  Some explanations to the image above. From left to right the bubbles stand for the following concepts. Services are all the origins of data (e.g.  delicious, flickr, 43things, technorati, upcoming, lastfm) where the data comes from. Filter does what the word says it cleans the results if necessary. The tag-databases stores all tags found for a user. Thesaurus cleans up again. Encyclopdedia (e.g. Wikipedia, OpenCyc, Freebase) gives structure to the whole thing. With its categories various keywords get there order by request to it. At the end all is set into one profile of interests.

Further questions? Sure there are many things behind, but this glue can be discussed…