DJ Adams: Monday morning thoughts: local http servers and containerisation. One of my all time tech heroes Jon Udell wrote regularly for Byte (more)

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Jon Udell: Highlighting passages doesn’t aid my memory, but speaking them does. The annotation software I help build at Hypothesis is ideal for personal note-taking. Close to half of all Hypothesis annotations are private notes, so clearly lots of people use it that way. (more)

Jon Udell: OData is grease to cut data friction. Back in 2007 I talked with Pablo Castro about Astoria, which I described as a way of making data readable and writeable by means of a RESTful interface. The technology has continued to move forward, and I’m now a heavy user of one of its implementations: the Azure table store. Yesterday at PDC we announced the proposed standardization of this approach as OData, which InfoQ nicely summarizes here. (more)

Jon Udell: Weaving the annotated web. The set of URL-addressable resources has two key properties: it’s infinite, and it’s interconnected (more)

Jon Udell: Notes for an annotation SDK. While helping Hypothesis find its way to ed-tech it was my great privilege to explore ways of adapting annotation to other domains including bioscience, journalism, and scholarly publishing. Working across these domains showed me that annotation isn’t just an app you do or don’t adopt. It’s also a service you’d like to be available in every document workflow that connects people to selections in documents. (more)

Joe Gregorio: Looking back on five years of web components. Over 5 years ago I wrote "No more JS frameworks" (JavaScript) and just recently Jon Udell asked for an update. (more)

Jon Udell: How SQL can unify access to APIs. In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view (more)

Jon Udell: Web components used in the ClinGen app. A few years back I watched Joe Gregorio’s 2015 OSCON talk and was deeply impressed by the core message: “Stop using JS frameworks, start writing reusable, orthogonally-composable units of HTML+CSS+JS.” Earlier this year I asked Joe to reflect on what he’s since learned about applying the newish suite of web standards known collectively as web components. He replied with a blog post that convinced me to try following in his footsteps. (2019-09-17-GregorioLookingBackOnFiveYearsOfWebComponents) (more)

Jon Udell: A virtuous cycle for analytics. Suppose you’re a member of a team that runs a public web service. You need to help both internal and external users make sense of all the data that’s recorded as it runs (more)

Jon Udell: OData for collaborative sense-making. The other day, Pablo Castro wrote an excellent post explaining how developers can implement aspects of the modular OData spec, and outlining some benefits that accrue from each. One of the aspects is query, (more)

Jon Udell: Searching across silos, circa 2018. I just needed an easier way to search for words that might be on our blog, or in our docs, or in our GitHub repos, or in our Google storage. So I made a web page that accepts a search term, runs a bunch of site-specific searches, and opens each into a new tab. (search engine) (more)

Jon Udell: Thoughts on Audrey Watters’ “Thoughts on Annotation”. Hypothesis can unify a set of annotations across a family of representations of the “same” work. (more)

Jon Udell: Query like it’s 2022. Monday will be my first day as community lead for Steampipe, a young open source project that normalizes APIs by way of Postgresql foreign data wrappers. (more)

Jon Udell: Renaming Hypothesis tags. Those of us in the small minority of consistent taggers care a lot about the tag namespaces we’re creating. We tag in order to classify resources, we want to be able to classify them consistently, but we also want to morph our tag namespaces to reflect our own changing intuitions about how to classify and also to adapt to evolving social conventions. (more)

Network-centric warfare, also called network-centric operations[1] or net-centric warfare, is a military doctrine or theory of war that seeks to translate an information advantage, enabled in part by information technology, into a competitive advantage through the robust computer networking of well informed geographically dispersed forces. It is based on ideas of marshal of USSR Nikolai Ogarkov, set out by him in early 1980s.[2] It was pioneered by the United States Department of Defense in the 1990s.... Network centric warfare can trace its immediate origins to 1996 when Admiral William Owens introduced the concept of a 'system of systems' in a paper published by the Institute for National Security Studies.... Network centric warfare is criticized by proponents of Fourth Generation Warfare (4GW (FourGW)) doctrine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-centric_warfare (more)

The Washington Consensus is a set of ten economic policy prescriptions considered to constitute the "standard" reform package promoted for crisis-wracked developing countries by Washington, D.C.-based institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and United States Department of the Treasury.[1] The term was first used in 1989 by English economist John Williamson.[2] The prescriptions encompassed free-market promoting policies[3] in such areas as macroeconomic stabilization, economic opening with respect to both trade and investment, and the expansion of market forces within the domestic economy. Subsequent to Williamson's use of the terminology, and despite his emphatic opposition, the phrase Washington Consensus has come to be used fairly widely in a second, broader sense, to refer to a more general orientation towards a strongly market-based approach (sometimes described as market fundamentalism or neoliberalism). In emphasizing the magnitude of the difference between the two alternative definitions, Williamson has argued (see § Origins of policy agenda and § Broad sense below) that his ten original, narrowly defined prescriptions have largely acquired the status of "motherhood and apple pie" (i.e., are broadly taken for granted), whereas the subsequent broader definition, representing a form of neoliberal manifesto, "never enjoyed a consensus [in Washington] or anywhere much else" and can reasonably be said to be dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus (more)

Fluvoxamine is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) that is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder and is used for other conditions, including depression.

Zvi Mowshowitz Covid-19 6/2/22: Declining to Respond. *Executive Summary (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 5/26/22: I Guess I Should Respond To This Week’s Long Covid Study. Covering Covid means that the subject matter is always, at its core, a combination of people dying and a portrait of civilizational collapse. The whole situation is usually rather dismaying. It is likely to remain rather dismaying permanently. (more)