Archive for June, 2007

Websites as Graphs

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

http://www.aharef.info/2006/05/websites_as_graphs.htm

Source: UC Berkeley iSchool mailing list

What is it: A site that renders a web page’s HTML as a colored graph, i.e. a tree. Interesting to see what structure the HTML of a site has underneath, if it’s structured or wildly assembled. Most CMS’s have visible “signatures” if you know what to look for. Sometimes the Site is down for bandwidth reasons, so if it’s gone check again a few days later…

One Sentence…

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

http://onesentence.org/

Source: Browsing

What is it: I’ll best quote the about page:

One Sentence is an experiment in brevity. Most of the best stories that we tell from our lives have one really, really good part that make the rest of the boring story worth it.

This is about that one line.

This is about telling the most interesting or poignant story possible in the least amount of words.

This is about small bite-sized pieces of extraordinary lives and ordinary lives alike… the happy, the sad, the funny, the depressing.

The few times I remembered checking the site there was always something that I found … well.. deep, in a way. Has an RSS feed btw.

Get a life!

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

http://www.getafirstlife.com/

Source: UC Berkeley iSchool mailing list

What is it: You know Second Life? Why get a second one if a first one is free and you can “fornicate using your actual genitals”? Yes, it’s a parody :)