Monthly Archives: January 2005

Décortiquer sa crevette sans douleur

Une méthode infaillible pour décortiquer une crevette sans larmes ni grincements de dents, et surtout, sans en mettre partout sur ses doigts et dans l’assiette du voisin.

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged bonnes_manières, crevette, manger, méthode, nourriture, Practical, pratique, restaurant, table | 19 Comments

Plugin Idea: Weighted Tags by Category

Another plugin added to my wishlist: one which would display a weighted list of “related” tags on each category page.

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Posted in Wordpress | Tagged categories, coding, php, plugins, tags, Wanted, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 6 Comments

Les diamants du Pont Bessières

Une petite inspiration d’écriture, ce printemps.

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Posted in Creative, My corner of the world | Tagged Creative, écriture, lausanne, pont, pontbessières, soleil | Leave a comment

On Tags and Ontologies

Quote from Clay Shirky on the suckiness of ontologies, and how tags-labels are better for classifying ideas.

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Posted in Understanding life and the world | Tagged Citations, clayshirky, Geek / Technical, My Web of Belief, ontologies, Philosophy / Religions, tags, tagsonomies | 7 Comments

Basic Bilingual Plugin

This is a simple plugin which wraps together my bilingual hacks to make day-to-day posting less of a hassle.

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Posted in Language Geekiness, Wordpress | Tagged bilingual, blogging, hack, Languages / Linguistics, multilingual, php, plugin, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 53 Comments

IT Conversations: Dan Gillmor

Some notes on IT Conversations show with Halley Suitt and Dan Gillmor (audio available online).

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged 9-11, accent, Audio, blogging, Cyberspace, dangillmor, digicam, elections, halleysuitt, history, internet, internet web dangillmor halleysuitt itconversations rad, interview, itconversations, journalism, memorylane, Offsite, podcasting, Psychology / Sociology, radio, tsunami, web | 6 Comments

Article dans La Liberté

Un article dans La Liberté, pour lequel j’ai été interviewée, parle de la diversité de la blogosphère.

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Tagged Announcements, article, blogosphère, Blogosphere Interest, blogs, cécilemargain, interview, journal, la liberté, la_liberté, Offsite, stephaniebooth, tsunami, Weblogs | 8 Comments

Simple Technorati Tags Plugin for WordPress

A simple plugin for WordPress which lets you display tags (or keywords) in your posts. Tags are stored in a Custom Field (no database modification required).

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Posted in Wordpress | Tagged code, coding, geek, php, plugins, Real Live Code, tags, technorati, Weblog Technology, Wordpress | 125 Comments

Thinking About Tags

What if taggy applications like Technorati, Flickr and Del.icio.us started allowing us to query multiple tags with “and” and “or” operators?

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Posted in Language Geekiness | Tagged association, blogs, combination, del.icio.us, flickr, geek, idea, inclusion, language, Languages / Linguistics, multilingual, query, Software and Tools, tag, tags, technorati | 11 Comments

Technorati Tagified

Technorati collects links, photos and posts with tags/categories and displays them all on a nice page. Start tagging!

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Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged Blogosphere Interest, blogs, internet, Offsite, Software and Tools, tags, technorati, topicexchange | 11 Comments