P. S.: Post Scriptum » contribution http://blog.pietrosperoni.it Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:25:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © P. S.: Post Scriptum 2011 pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) pietros@gmail.com (P. S.: Post Scriptum) http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg P. S.: Post Scriptum http://blog.pietrosperoni.it 144 144 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio's web log P. S.: Post Scriptum P. S.: Post Scriptum pietros@gmail.com no no Where life is and money isn’t http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:15:47 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/ Some of you might remember that I wrote a post about the long tail of the ruling class. The post was in Italian and got translated in English by blogger Phil Edward. I took the translation copied it in my blog (with a link), but said that I did not fully agree with Phil understanding [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/06/09/where-life-is-and-money-isnt/feed/ 3 The new project: TagBay. Tagging e-Bay http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/#comments Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:18:37 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/ It is now the time to present the next project we have been working to: TagBay. And I say ‘we’, because is this project I am not alone. I did it with a friend of mine, Derek, who accepted, very patiently to code, some of the idea I have been tinkering around in the last [...] Related posts:
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  2. My new homepage Recently I have made some serious changes to my homepage. SOme of those changes I have been planning from a long long time. Others were more sudden. The central page is of course at pietrosperoni.it that leads to home.pietrosperoni.it. But then there was something that I wanted to do for a long time. Integrate my [...]...
]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/03/24/the-new-project-tagbay-tagging-e-bay/feed/ 0 wikitags http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/01/03/wikitags/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/01/03/wikitags/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:56:31 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/01/03/wikitags/ I think it’s the time to present what have I been doing in the last days. A number of improvement have beed added to this web site. In short I have upgraded to wordpress 2.0. I also moved to the next version of wikka. Some of you might remember that I offered some money to [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2006/01/03/wikitags/feed/ 2 Integrating browsers and feed readers http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/10/27/integrating-browsers-and-feed-readers/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/10/27/integrating-browsers-and-feed-readers/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:52:58 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/10/27/integrating-browsers-and-feed-readers/ Speaking about things that should happen, and that have not happen, one thing that I still have not seen is a browser with a feed reader such that when you go to the web page that is linked to a certain feed, it updates the feed and assumes that you have now read that feed. [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/10/27/integrating-browsers-and-feed-readers/feed/ 2 On Tag Clouds, Metric, Tag Sets and Power Laws http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/#comments Wed, 25 May 2005 18:52:59 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/24/atg-clouds-vs-tag-sets/ Note: This entry is connected also to a mindmap. Some people were having problems in opening the page because of that. As such the mindmap has been stored in a separate page, and can be viewed from here.

Introduction

As correctly pointed out by Jeffrey Zeldman tag clouds are becoming more and more popular. Yet [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2005/05/25/tag-clouds-metric/feed/ 31 A house divided http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:41:59 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/ As the price of houses rises, more and more people find that the best solution is to divide a house among friends. Usually each person gets a room. The problem then is: who gets what room and how much should he pay. Usually the total rent is fixed, and usually the rooms are not exactly [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/12/11/a-house-divided/feed/ 0 Partial translations http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/22/partial-translations/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/22/partial-translations/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:52:08 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/22/partial-translations/ Have you ever tried google translate service? I know, if you did you wish you didn’t, unless you were bored, and were looking for some ways to amuse yourself. But you know, translating text is a really daunting task. Generations of PhD’s have been spent in progressing the state of the art just a little [...] Related posts:
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]]> http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/22/partial-translations/feed/ 3 Clustering Delicious Tags http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/19/clustering-delicious-tags/ http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/19/clustering-delicious-tags/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:08:40 +0000 Pietro http://blog.pietrosperoni.it/2004/09/19/clustering-delicious-tags/ I went on programming at my favourite Python program: Delimind.

In short: Made a new release of the Deli Mind program. Here is the source code (just remember to change it from a .txt to a .py). Now similar tags are clustered together.

Here is how it looks like. Here is how the previous version [...] Related posts:
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