Monday, March 14, 2022

Collection of Pablo Picasso paintings (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a list a collection of Wikipedia pages of paintings by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). There are 40 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: 1889-1900, 1901-1910, 1911-1920, 1921-1930, 1931-1940, 1941-1950, 1951-1960, 1961-1970, 1971-1973

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

David Bohnett: Internet History Podcast interview

This post is a collection of quotes from David Bohnett in an interview on the Internet History Podcast in 2015. I recommend listening to the interview. David Bohnett is best known for founding the website GeoCities in 1994. There are 4 quotes listed below chronologically. Sources: GeoCities Founder David Bohnett, Internet History Podcast

1. "I was a passionate advocate of the validity of user-generated content, that the internet was all about giving people the opportunity to contribute and participate and feel like they are apart of the medium, that it was not a top-down programmed model..." (22:11)

2. "...what I'm dismayed about is, if you look at the 20 year span, what GeoCities was about was sharing knowledge about ideas and knowledge about topics and we've gotten away from that to sharing knowledge about ourselves..." (49:45)

3. "[We need] more of a platform for people to connect with others based upon their love of certain subject matter. Wikipedia is kind of that, but it doesn't have that mass appeal." (50:47)

4. "There is so much knowledge, collective knowledge, and I'm not sure that we're... crowdfunding the human intellectual potential that's out there." (51:15)
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Collection of Jean-Michel Basquiat works (Wikipedia pages)

This post is a collection of Wikipedia pages of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). There are 39 Wikipedia pages listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

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Collection of quote websites

This post is a collection of quote websites. There are 30 websites listed below alphabetically.

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee: The World Wide Web - A Mid Course Correction

This post is a collection of quotes from Tim Berners-Lee in a lecture from 2019. Tim Berners-Lee is best known for launching the World Wide Web in 1989 and the purpose of this post is to show some of the early motivations for creating the World Wide Web. There are 2 quotes listed below chronologically. Sources: The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: The World Wide Web - A Mid-Course Correction, BBC One

1. "Interestingly, there was no strict rule at CERN, no hierarchical management which said everyone had to use the same sort of computer. So each team used whatever hardware and software systems they thought were best for them to use to build their part of this huge big puzzle." (8:34)

2. "My idea... was not to build the biggest, best documentation system. No, it was to build a whole new world in which all the existing documentation systems, warts and all, could coexist and be interlinked." (12:05)
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Saturday, March 5, 2022

Information blogging guidelines

Information blogging guidelines (IBG) is a set of templates and goals for displaying information on a blog post. The introduction paragraph of the post should include at least one of the templates. There are 5 templates and 3 goals listed below.

    Templates
  • This post is a list of...
  • This post is a collection of...
  • This post is a timeline of...
  • There are __ _____ listed below alphabetically.
  • There are __ _____ listed below chronologically.

    Goals
  • Minimalism and clarity
  • Standardization across IBG posts
  • Networks of IBG websites and blogs
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee (1955-now) is a British computer scientist best known for launching the World Wide Web at CERN in 1989. The rest of this post is some quotes from Berners-Lee.

"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards." (Information Management: A Proposal, 1989)

"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design." (AZQuotes.com)

"The dream behind the Web is a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information." (AZQuotes.com)

"I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good." (Interview with Scott Lanningham, 2006)
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