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Emotion Markup Language

The W3C just completed the first draft of the Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML 1.0).

Um, why?

Use cases for EmotionML can be grouped into three broad types:

  1. Manual annotation of material involving emotionality, such as annotation of videos, of speech recordings, of faces, of texts, etc;
  2. Automatic recognition of emotions from sensors, including physiological sensors, speech recordings, facial expressions, etc., as well as from multi-modal combinations of sensors;
  3. Generation of emotion-related system responses, which may involve reasoning about the emotional implications of events, emotional prosody in synthetic speech, facial expressions and gestures of embodied agents or robots, the choice of music and colors of lighting in a room, etc.
If you're still not getting the why, they have a list of 39 possible use cases. I'm wondering if it could be used for interactive fiction somehow?

I love crap like this!

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Mapumental

I watched a fascinating presentation on mapping technologies and their use in the BBC yesterday. The highlight for me was an amazing video showing all the Open Street Map edits made in 2008. The Channel 4 / MySociety / Stamen project, Mapumental was also demonstrated (well, just the Mapumental YouTube video actually).

It's a really useful tool. Here I'm showing a few Cardiff examples.

   
Click here to download:
Mapumental_tag_infographics_de.zip (369 KB)

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Local crime mapping

This new local crime mapping service is public service on the web done right. You can easily locate your area, compare it to others, download the data as a CSV file and subscribe to updates via RSS. 

It is under heavy load right now though.

http://maps.police.uk/view/south-wales/

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'Fun' facts about me and Twitter

Twooshes: 147
(Messages with exactly 140 characters)

Twitter ranking: 29,313

Being the 30,000th most popular actually doesn't seem too bad!

TwitterGrade: 99.5 (out of 100)
I don't know what that means either!

@ replies
Apparently I only reply to 41.65% of messages directed at me. I suspect a lot of those @ messages are in fact retweets, but I should probably still try to improve this percentage.

My first sixteen tweets

The usual noob rubbish (in rererse chronology)


Info from: Twitter Counter, TweetStats, Twitter Grader and My Tweet 16.

 

   
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Fun_facts_about_me_and_Twitter.zip (22 KB)

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Wired is doing a very cool online experiment - behind the scenes on one of their articles!

...an experiment in which we are posting everything that goes into the making of a Wired profile of Kaufman, which will run in our November issue

- this explanation of what we're up to
- the pitch
- the assignment letter
- audio of the complete 2.5-hour interview with Kaufman
- some challenges in getting a photo
- the rough draft
- the first edit
- some early layout ideas
- the factcheck
- and the finished story

It's fascinating stuff!

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