IU Technology Architecture Lodge
Random and not so random thoughts from Raymond Yee, primarily on the scholarly and educational use of the Web, libraries, educational technology, and information management
Friction and the intellectual world; scriptable iPhoto
iPhoto is scriptable  Dave Winer addresses one of the questions I had at the back of mind from seeing yesterday's presentation on iPhoto: is it scriptable? The answer is apparently yes. (Update: maybe not....Brent was looking into it.) (I was wondering, for example, how hard it would be to get iPhoto to be a front end of an online museum or photo library, gathering pictures and dropping them into an album -- all from within iPhoto. I'm guessing that Dave Winer is also wondering, as I am, about whether XML-RPC or SOAP can be hooked in. I hope so -- because if iPhoto becomes one of the great photo album making apps out there, I'd want for people to be able to use it grab materials from the Open Learning Environment.) Lessig interview on Charlie Rose online Charlie Rose Interviews Author Lawrence Lessig "Author and Stanford University law professor Lawrence Lessig (left) talks with Charlie Rose about his new book "The Future of Ideas: the Fate of the Commons in a Connected World," which expresses concerns about obstacles in the future of technology and the Internet. ("Charlie Rose" airs weeknights on PBS.)" (I had taped the interview -- and now everyone out there can listen to the audio of the interview online.) A nice article on lockware on Lessig's site Chris Sprigman: The Promise And Peril Of Hollywood's Intellectual Property Strategy For The Digital Age My thermostat I thought that programming my thermostat would be no sweat--but I didn't know what Wake/Leave/Return/Sleep mean. (I expected a Wake and a Sleep.) Luckily, Honeywell has the owner's manual online: http://hbctechlit.honeywell.com/request.cfm?form=69-0767 Oh, I get it...I did not know that these terms refer to the humans and not the furnace! So "wake" is for when the people wake up, not when I want the furnace to wake up....
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