When something needs to be analyzed concretely and consciously and at the same time an attempt is being made to synthesize it subconsciously, it is (at least to me) an indication that an aesthetic encounter is about to take place and eventually an insight will emerge from that churning. An insight that will in due course of time becomes a basis that cohesively binds many layers of perception together.
This month IEEE Internet Computing published a paper we wrote entitled “Agropedia – Humanization of Agricultural Knowledge”. Thankfully, IEEE has agreed to make this paper available free in their digital library. So, you can download it when ever you want. In this paper, we proposed the role of folklore in creating and disseminating knowledge and its crucial function in the formation of communities. We demonstrated how the idea of “folklore” can be incorporated in the modern semantic and collaborative applications otherwise known as social networking, semantic Web and Collaborative Computing
This is a short article on the Community Created Content and the problems associated with the ownership and modeling of such content.
In the real world, children survive their parents – but, in computing, everything is conter-intuitive. Parents are supposed to outlive their “children” in computer science (remember all those tree data structures, and forking unix processes, orphaned processes and so on). This is the problem when it comes to the content. How do we deal with “orphaned” content – meaning, if the software (problem-two), or the user (in the problem-one) who created some data+content no longer exists, what happens to that content? I think this is an important content management challenge that we have to solve quickly in the coming years.
Welcome to the New interface of Canopus Archives Blog. I decided that it is time to move the blog to our own domain. In that process, I changed the design of the blog to make it much more easy to use.
The blogspot interface was not suitable for the kind of articles and posts I write. [...]
In this article, We describe some personal experiences in Freelancing and a particular culture influences our human relationships. Knowing this would help us avoid some general pitfalls and unnecessary heartaches.
This article is a concept note on freelancing in India – how to start as a freelancer, how to survive as a freelancer and some practical advise and the common myths. Many young people write to me about freelancing, so I hope this serves as a basic guideline to all of them.
This article is a short guide on how to survive as a freelancer.It is not easy to be a freelancer. Most freelancers want work, not a job which makes it tough for them in the long run. They want freedom, they value competency, they think they bring real expertise to the table and want to continue to enjoy the challenge of work.
A Disturbing question
Recently a very close friend of mine asked me a very simple question. He heard from many radical fundamentalists that there is a sanction in Islam to kill infidels meaning the Koran specifically grants the permission to do so. He wanted to know from people who read Koran whether such a statement does [...]
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