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Klagenfurt

Csaba — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:35:21 +0000

I am sitting in Klagenfurt Austria at the 11th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB). There are quite a few prominent scientists who work on internet search, ontologies, and natural language interfaces to information stores of all sorts. I talked about Web2.0 and Folksonomies, and to my surprise not a single one of them had ever heard of either! It was a bit of a shock, since I had come to believe that del.icio.us had already taken over the world!

Anyway, Klagenfurt is a fabulous little place, right at the foot of the Austrian Alps.

Right on Writely

Csaba — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:56:43 +0000

A while back I wrote a short blog about how much I liked Writely the web based word processor. Apparently Google liked it too, and they bought the company.

Before then, I was an “active user” sending bug reports concerning Firefox on Linux which is my platform. I got a personal email from the developers thanking me for the bug reports, because this is not so common a platform (unfortunately!!!!)

Anyway, after the buyout I sent them a message saying how glad I was for their success, and telling them how much I appreciated the service they provided before. I hoped the service would continue after the buyout. Amazingly, a few hours later I received another email from the developers, in response to my comment, thanking me for the support!!!

Amazing. Here is a bunch of guys who did not go straight to the bar to celebrate their success …. which they well deserve.

Blogtest

Csaba — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:23:56 +0000

This was written on the web based word processor www.writely.com.

It is very nice, and supports the Open Document Format!

It can put your document straight into your blog AND it can incrementally update the blog as you add to the document. VERY COOL!

Hello world!

Csaba — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:32:43 +0000

Hi,

As a “seasoned” Linux user I am embarrassed to admit that this is the second try at maintaining a blog … the first time, I managed to somehow destroy the MYSQL database and erase the blog! I wonder if anyone else at Yahoo had the problem? They sure do give the users a lot of power over their own administration. Good. But be prepared to learn. Even if you think you know a lot.

Which is sort of what this blog will be about, at least initially. Learning .. through exploring. I am an academic who also likes to think of himself as a scientist. Maybe we all are? Science is about being curious, excited, creative, intuitive, stubborn, meticulous, and above all, being willing to be wrong.

I will try and plot my course through some tricky problems in computer science, cognitive science and knowledge management on the semantic web. Tomorrow I will try and break in from where I am now.

Maybe someone will read this blog and maybe we can learn somehow. If not, there is always the possibility that I will become very famous, and these notes will become publishable and marketable at a great price!!!