Chris Blow

Another important feature of Collaborative Protege is the ability to track changes as they happen, that is to show the change history of an entity in the ontology. We will talk about the change history in the Change tracking section from below. - Chris Blow

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. - Chris Blow

Pneumonia is the biggest killer of children under 5, claiming more then 2 million lives annually or about 20 percent of all child deaths. AIDS, in contrast, accounts for about 2 percent. - Chris Blow

The entities, events and facts currently supported by Calais are presented here. Details on each metadata type, including definitions and examples, are also included. - Chris Blow

My contention is that the real impact of digital comes from it's catalysis of horizontal process, social action that routes around institutional complicity. Could Ushahidi or something like it be used to convene activities of transitional justice - people-powered initiatives that take on the need to confront legacies of mass abuse? I'm not talking about the real-world equivalent of a Twitter lynch mob but holistic additions to criminal prosecutions that promote accountability and create just and peaceful societies. These would need to be more active than digital memorials. Perhaps we should apply the radical transparency of wikileaks to the archive of the war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia and pipe the results through citizen-up initiatives like we20? - Chris Blow

So get pissed off and start a Facebook group. Launch a Twitter hashtag. Translate compassion into action. But realize that the most effective action probably involves aggregating and disseminating information, building knowledge and awareness that’s an asset even if it doesn’t lead directly to political change. - Chris Blow

What we need is a thresholding method that can take account of this problem. My personal favourite is a simple adaptive threshold. For each pixel in the image take the average value of the surrounding area. If the pixel is less than 90% of this value then it is ink, if it is higher then it is paper. The reason for choosing 90% of the value is that this lets us filter out flat areas or areas that aren't changing very much (ie blank bits of paper or solid black sections). - Chris Blow

crazy they have twitter integration - Chris Blow

To the extent possible under law, Flickr has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the “Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset, Version 1.0”. This work is published from the United States. While you are under no obligation to do so, wherever possible it would be extra-super-duper-awesome if you would attribute flickr.com when using the dataset. Thanks! - Chris Blow

With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to license manually, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something. - Chris Blow

At the office we recently had a bit of a discussion about how language choice should be indicated on the web. The specific case we were debating is when a site uses one primary language and contains sections of information in one or several other languages. - Chris Blow

At the office we recently had a bit of a discussion about how language choice should be indicated on the web. The specific case we were debating is when a site uses one primary language and contains sections of information in one or several other languages. - Chris Blow

Lesson learned: Take your average number of active Apache threads, multiply it by the SQL *data size* transferred for a page, and check your wire capacity. - Chris Blow

We are a little fanatical about grid-design with FeedMagnet.com. We spend time making sure every element of our pages lines up to the pixel with the grid. There are a number of tools that can be used for grid design in CSS, but we chose to use a couple tools that are still a little less common among designers - Sass and Compass - because of the flexibility they provide. - Chris Blow