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Nil Steiner Torrent has arrived

We are deeply grateful, more than happy, and proud to welcome Nil Steiner Torrent to this wonderful world. He arrived on Saturday, March 24, 2012, at 18:57 with a weight of 3.5kg and a height of 54cm in the Marienkrankenhaus hospital, Hamburg. Beautiful Nil has the cutest, softest, and most hair you can imagine, and his curious hands grasp everything they can find. Laura is doing fine, and we are all slowly getting used to being five now.

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A Chrome extension that actually implements xkcd #37. Yeah, for real.

Albeit famous exceptions exist in form of Wikis, the Web today is still mostly a read-only experience. This leaves the Web content consumer exposed to all sorts of typographic cruelties, such as representing the ellipsis character '…' with three single full stops "...", incorrect usage of a normal space where a non-breaking space would be preferred and even omission of the Oxford comma... While fighting the cause, namely sloppy Web authors, is like a fight against wind mills and certainly impossible to realize on Web scale, fighting the symptoms is a realistic option. Using client-side work-arounds, the Web can actually be fixed one page at a time. With the xkcd #37 Chrome extension, we show how via part-of-speech tagging and JavaScript DOM event listeners, the Web can be made a better place.

On a related note, this extension has the bad ass-feature of actually implementing xkcd #37. Yeah, for real!



You know you want to read the accompanying scientific paper.



Extrapoints for finding all hidden puns in the blog post.

xkcd #37 comic used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 license.

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Crowdsourcing Event Detection in YouTube Videos

Below are the slides from a paper of Ruben Verborgh and me titled Crowdsourcing Event Detection in YouTube Videos at the Workshop Detection, Representation, and Exploitation of Events in the Semantic Web (DeRiVE2011) at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011).

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International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2011)

These days I'm attending the International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2011), which takes place in Salamanca, Spain. Together with Ruben Verborgh, I have two papers there, the first one is titled Adding Meaning to Facebook Microposts via a Mash-up API and Tracking Its Data Provenance, the second one is titled Efficient Runtime Service Discovery and Consumption with Hyperlinked RESTdesc, where RESTdesc is mainly a brain child of Ruben. The slides for the first paper can be seen below:



The conference's host city Salamanca is a beautiful town in the Castilla y León community. The old town was declared a UNESCO world heritage in 1988. What I specifically like about the city is a tiny detail. Most public and private buildings and even things like the municipal bike rental system SalEnBici all use a beautiful antique font: the freely available Universitas Studii Salamantini font, which historically was used for graffitis that were written with bull blood. So goes the legend at least.

Image source: photo courtesy of El Rey del Mambo, used under a Creative Commons license.

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Generating the ellipsis character on Mac, Windows, Linux

Maybe this comes in handy for someone else besides me: to generate the ellipsis character ("…")^* on a Mac keyboard, press [Option] + [;] on a QWERTY keyboard, and (more logic) [Option] + [.] on a QWERTZ keyboard. [Option] is also known as [Alt] for all Mac newbies. Typography geeks might love this, but I'm also looking at you, anonymous Twitter user, where every character counts... (<= three dots, pun intended).

Addendum 1: Danny Ayers points out that on Linux you can use [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [u] (for Unicode) and then [2], [0], [2], [6], [Enter]. Or &#x2026; in HTML.

Addendum 2: Georg Portenkirchner points out that on Windows you can press and hold [Alt], and then press [0], [1], [3], [3] on the numpad, and finally release [Alt]. He writes five keystrokes for three dots -- that's just stupid (and probably why nobody uses the correct ellipsis). Nothing to be added to that…

^*) The ellipsis character is also known as "three dots", "triple dots", "dot, dot, dot", or "\ldots" in LaTeX, or as HTML entity "&hellip;").

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