Frank Carver’s Punch Barrel

What a cool idea. Using GitHub as a blog.

raganwald’s homoiconic at master — GitHub

Typealyzer claims to be able to determine the Myers-Briggs personality type by looking at the text of a blog.

So I gave it my two main blogs:

• This one: Typealyzer thinks I write like INTJ (”the Scientist”).
• Make Your Own Video: Typealyzer thinks I write like ESFP (”the Performer”).

Given that these two assessments are diametrically opposite, either I am a sparkling literary chameleon or the whole process is a bit hokey.

I’ll leave you to decide.

Via Jason Yip’s blog

I’m currently mulling around a bunch of thoughts and half-formed opinions on the distribution, ownership and attribution of ideas and information in an age of free-flowing digital media.

One of my current concerns is the tension between perceived needs one the one hand for attribution, academic traceability and ownership of ones own words; and on the other hand for privacy. This is seen in sharpest relief in solicitations for academic surveys. Routinely such instruments come with a disclaimer pointing out that all answers will be anonymous. Well-structured surveys and questionnaires, though, often also contain a section for general comments and feedback. In most cases I do not want this to be anonymous - indeed I would rather it formed part of a dialogue between the researcher and subjects, allowing both to benefit, learn and develop.

I am considering taking up a habit of always adding my contact details to academic survey submissions to deliberately challenge the assumption that I wish to be an anonymous donor of information, and to encourage researchers to participate in a community of interest.

Some things I have read recently on associated topics include:

Mathemagenic » Blogging research: attribution and ownership of ideas

Read at Joe’s » Blog Archive » Personal Publishing

I have recently discovered a new blog to follow: “notes from a tool user”. The author, Mark Levison has plenty of opinions on agile software development.

Standout recent articles include:

• Agile/Scrum Smells
• Test Driven Development vs “Plain Old Unit Testing”
• Estimation
• Tools, Tools, Tools
• Mythbusting - Collective Code Ownership