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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
8:03:00 PM EST
Hearing Underworld, Bruce Lee
Hi folks -- for my last entry today, a little local flavor:
* DC-focused group blog DCist has a nice little feature on the dissection of a SmarTrip Card, which is an electronic card that you can use to pay for your trips on the DC Metro system.
With a little acetone and judicious cutting, they unearthed the guts of the card -- it's a Smart Card (that stores information on a chip) with an RFID antenna. If you take it apart (at your own risk), you can then repackage it to a handy keychain form-factor. Quite handy if you really need to lighten your wallet.
* The Washington Post's ombudsman had a column Sunday outlining the differences (and similarities) between the Post's dead tree and online editions.
The Post's online edition is doing a lot of neat stuff that I've been meaning to write about -- they're experimenting with mashups (which is a very Web 2.0 thing, another thing I've been meaning to write about) -- it's basically means building things in an open way, so that other folks can create stuff around it -- similar to what Google Maps has done (you may be familiar with Frappr, which is kind of a roll-your-own mapping service.)
One example is the NewsCloud, which presents Post headlines as a cloud of keywords (where the most popular keywords are bigger). It's an interesting alternate way to navigate the news (although honestly, I prefer the traditional format.)
Anyway, the Post has a blog where they talk about this kind of stuff: Post Remix.
One thing I missed, though, from the ombud's column, which was picked up in this Blog Herald entry, was that some of the Posts dead-tree reporters don't like how the online version of the stories features links to blogs (by using Technorati searches) that are talking about that story.
It was just one item in the column, though, so I wouldn't go around with the pitchforks and torches just yet.
Talk to you later. -- Joe
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Hearing Underworld, Bruce Lee
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* DC-focused group blog DCist has a nice little feature on the dissection of a SmarTrip Card, which is an electronic card that you can use to pay for your trips on the DC Metro system.
With a little acetone and judicious cutting, they unearthed the guts of the card -- it's a Smart Card (that stores information on a chip) with an RFID antenna. If you take it apart (at your own risk), you can then repackage it to a handy keychain form-factor. Quite handy if you really need to lighten your wallet.
* The Washington Post's ombudsman had a column Sunday outlining the differences (and similarities) between the Post's dead tree and online editions.
The Post's online edition is doing a lot of neat stuff that I've been meaning to write about -- they're experimenting with mashups (which is a very Web 2.0 thing, another thing I've been meaning to write about) -- it's basically means building things in an open way, so that other folks can create stuff around it -- similar to what Google Maps has done (you may be familiar with Frappr, which is kind of a roll-your-own mapping service.)
One example is the NewsCloud, which presents Post headlines as a cloud of keywords (where the most popular keywords are bigger). It's an interesting alternate way to navigate the news (although honestly, I prefer the traditional format.)
Anyway, the Post has a blog where they talk about this kind of stuff: Post Remix.
One thing I missed, though, from the ombud's column, which was picked up in this Blog Herald entry, was that some of the Posts dead-tree reporters don't like how the online version of the stories features links to blogs (by using Technorati searches) that are talking about that story.
It was just one item in the column, though, so I wouldn't go around with the pitchforks and torches just yet.
Talk to you later. -- Joe
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Only in New York: ours named "Metrocard" & New Jersey that has "Quickcard". "Metrocard" can only used for 2 trips from a bus to a subway. A "Quickcard"?
This "quickcard" from New Jersey can only use for one single ride trip on a train (a.k.a. Path: Port Authority Trans Hudson) & MTA New York City Transit (Metropolitan Transit Authority) only named the "Metrocard".
In New York City, We are ready for a possible MTA strike in 2 days away & this will affect me from working everyday of the week & I do not know what to do.
Rein (the man with the AOL on my internet use & commuter on a subway) -
LOLL..Didn't anybody tell you that we all got torches and pitchforks with the 9.0 Security Ed.?
Stay warm.
andi
12/15/05 9:34 AM