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http://hughstimson.org/2012/04/16/playlist-data-mining
Data-Mining My Old Radio Playlists. In which I scrape all my old radio playlists off the web, cook them with Python, Google Refine and PostgreSQL, and discover that I played one heck of a long tail of songs. And J.J. Cale. From the Ann Arbor years was in town for a conference, and it put me in mind of my radio days. After every show I used to post up a link to the playlist automatically generated by the WCBN server. Like this. Scraping the Webpages with Python. Python has built in capabilities. I wrote f...
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Door-to-door subscription scams: the dark side of The New York Times
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog?p=1354
It is NOT junk. A blog about genomes, DNA, evolution, open science, baseball and other important things. Door-to-door subscription scams: the dark side of The New York Times. April 9, 2013. Appeared on the front page of the Sunday New York Times purporting to expose a “parallel world of pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that sponsor them”. Here is her logic:. Open access got its start about a decade ago and quickly won widespread acclaim with the advent of well-...
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From JSON to RDF in Six Easy Steps with JRON | Decentralyze
https://decentralyze.com/2010/06/04/from-json-to-rdf-in-six-easy-steps-with-jron
Knock Down Walled-Garden Walls. From JSON to RDF in Six Easy Steps with JRON. June 4, 2010. Sometimes, if you stand in the right place and squint, JSON and RDF line up perfectly. Each time I notice this, I badly want a way to make them line up all the time, no matter where you’re standing. And, actually, I think it’s pretty easy. I’m interested to hear what people think of this. Blog comment, email to sandro@hawke.org (maybe cc semantic-web@w3.org? Or catch me in the halls at SemTech. The point here is t...
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