 | News by Aaron Johnson 12 Apr 18:51 PottyMouth Quote: "PottyMouth transforms completely unstructured and untrusted text to valid, nice-looking, completely safe XHTML." Python. Ported to Ruby as well. (categories: markup python security content comments ) Where to Find Open Data on the Web - ReadWriteWeb Great list (and comments) [... 11 Apr 18:50 findability.org: Brian Goodman: Interview Quote: "… integrating social data (e.g., ratings, tag frequency) directly into the algorithms for enterprise search. A page that’s been bookmarked, for instance, receives a boost. 7 Apr 18:50 reddit.com: ask reddit: what other visualization tools do you know besides processing, graphviz and nodebox? References to some other cool Java viz tools. 4 Apr 19:50 Datawocky: More data usually beats better algorithms Quote: "… adding more, independent data usually beats out designing ever-better algorithms to analyze an existing data set." (categories: algorithms bigdata data database databases algorithm netflix datamining ) Looks Good Works Well Bill has been [... 31 Mar 17:02 We created a ‘related items’ feature way back in Clearspace 1.0 (I mocked some of it out here just to prove that it worked) which shows related content based on the document, thread or blog post that you’re currently viewing. It was built using the MoreLikeThis class, a contribution made to the Lucene project by [... 27 Mar 20:50 Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments What a difference $5 makes. (categories: community culture comments youtube metafilter ) mail-trends - Google Code Stoo-pid nice analzyer / visualizer for email (as extracted from an IMAP server). This is what Clearspace reporting needs to turn [... 23 Mar 20:49 Paul Kedrosky: Dave Eggers’ TED Talk Cool TED presentation. (categories: education kids ted video pirates ) Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) Twenty new rules for performance. (categories: performance yahoo optimization tips web ) Taffy DB : [... 14 Mar 20:49 The Tools Google Uses Internally Cool stuff including the Google Ideas forum (rating ideas) and expert search. (categories: google intranet collaboration tools productivity ) scottberkun.com » Thoughts on Google’s 20% time Quote: "Google’s culture has a resistance, or even distrust, of hierarchy [... 13 Mar 20:49 Screengrab! :: Firefox Add-ons This is money. Mon-ey. 5 Mar 20:49 TED | Talks | Steve Jurvetson: The joy of rockets (video) Stoopid. Reminds me that I’ve got a couple in my garage I need to fire off. Steve has a cool flickr page of rockets too if you’re interested. (categories: rockets ted aerospace aerotech [... | | | |