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The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”

Once upon a time, in the dawn of the internet era, web products came from college dudes. The dudes were almost always wealthy and well-connected, but they weren’t usually market-savvy. These …

Tools – The Markup

Our tools hold institutions accountable for the way they use technology, pulling back the curtain so readers can see for themselves how technology affects them.

Introducing Markdown for Agents

The way content is discovered online is shifting, from traditional search engines to AI agents that need structured data from a Web built for humans. It’s time to consider not just human visitors, but start to treat agents as first-class citizens. Markdown for Agents automatically converts any HTML page requested from our network to markdown.

Alex Russell | Web Components and Model Driven Views | Fronteers 2011

There's a lot of tension between today's markup and the semantics we're trying to express in our apps. HTML5 adds a few new types to help describe common cases, but what about when there's no allegory in markup for what you're building? What we need now is infrastructure, not guilt about being "non-semantic". This talk explores new standards-track work in WebKit that's going to enable say-what-you-mean development in completely new ways.

datasetpapers — a public research experiment

An experimental approach to versioned, forkable, machine-readable analyses. A prototype, not a product or service.

datasetpapers — a public research experiment

An experimental approach to versioned, forkable, machine-readable analyses. A prototype, not a product or service.

The Decline of Usability: Revisited | datagubbe.se

On power, aesthetics, materiality and change in data visualization

Notes from the Information+ Conference at MIT/Northeastern University, Boston.

WDC - RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat Data Sets

More and more websites have started to embed structured data describing products, people, organizations, places, and events into their HTML pages using markup standards such as Microdata, JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microformats. The Web Data Commons project extracts this data from several billion web pages. So far the project provides 12 different data set releases extracted from the Common Crawls 2010 to 2023. The project provides the extracted data for download and publishes statistics about the deployment of the different formats.

Rethinking how technology uses our personal data

This essay explores visually how keeping data and AI on‑device could empower not only users, but also companies.

Digital Art Enters the Museum Age — Social Software

We explore code and systems as a medium for creating new forms of art. We consider "software" in an expanded sense, examining the ways that we are programmed by technology around us and the ways we can write software to make change in the world.

Home - Data & Society

Data & Society believes that technology policy must be grounded in research, account for tech’s real-world impacts, and serve the public.

A first introduction to data science education in secondary schools: Teaching and learning about data exploration with <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">CODAP</span> using survey data

Abstract In this paper, we will describe an introduction to Data Science for secondary school students. We will report on the design and implementation of an introductory unit on “Data and data detectives with CODAP” in which secondary school students used the online tool CODAP to explore real and meaningful survey data on leisure time activities and media use (so‐called JIM‐PB data) in a statistical project setting as a starting point for data science. The JIM‐PB data set served as a valuable data set that offered meaningful and exciting opportunities for data exploration for secondary school students, and CODAP proved to be a valuable tool for the first explorations of this data.

Publish Markdown as a Website — Blogs, Docs & Knowledge Bases | Flowershow - Flowershow — Publish Markdown as a Website

Turn markdown files into beautiful websites in seconds. Publish Obsidian vaults, blogs, docs, and knowledge bases — free, no coding required.

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude. The article is crammed with …

Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML

Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude. The article is crammed with …