Sunday, April 27, 2008

Solution For Dry Tongue

Zotero: "Quick Start" on Wikio Subscribe

Zotero's blog indicates a considerable amount of documentation around the software. In particular, for us, a translation of the "Quick Start Guide" in "Quick Start Guide .
In my opinion, from the moment it exists, the guide "certified" by the publisher of the product useless to his in his corner: it will always be less up to date.
With illustrations screencasts, etc..

Thursday, April 24, 2008

How Long Does It Take To Get Results For A Std



As promised, I added a button on Wikio Subscribe "in the sidebar of this blog, to facilitate the subscription to the RSS feed directly into the platform.
But even if I find that their subscription system greatly facilitates the handling of RSS son, since it can cause existing subscriptions to son (available on blogs and newspaper sites) as in son dynamic (query Wikio) without the word RSS (or XML) appears.
The objective is clearly to retract this term considered too "geek" (although j'aborre this word ...) for a more fluid expression: "subscribe". However I think it
an improvement that is of interest only very temporary: the son feeds are now on the Internet so that users know and recognize increasingly that word. RSS will probably some time in both treated as "HTML" or "PDF". Two signs
/ factors for this:
  1. if the user no longer sees "RSS" on Wikio he sees elsewhere. So get used to it. A point that may come a day when the new owner will say to Wikio a results list: "Where is their RSS feed?"
  2. podcasts are from the same principle as the son RSS: they are to sound files (radio) what are the son RSS for newspapers. Yet the term "podcast" is completely assimilated into the youth culture (from what I perceive, at least: by far). If it's hard to explain to a visitor what an RSS feed, more often it is possible to say: "This is a podcast for web pages", and his face lights up.

Monday, April 14, 2008

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I left hanging for several weeks the Bulletin of the French Society of Numismatics in January 2008 before finding the time to read. That is fact and I was not disappointed all its content focused on medieval numismatics (which I was sorry he could not attend the meeting which gave rise to these exchanges).
FYI, here are two papers
  • SACCOCCI (Andrea), "Vergil and the patrons: a pagan in the coinage Bishop of Mantua (twelfth to fourteenth century)," BSFN , 2008, Vol. 63, No. 1, p. 2-12
  • CHAREYRON (Regis), "A penny unpublished Pastor of Sarrat, archbishop of Embrun in 1338 to 1350, BSFN , 2008, Vol. 63, No. 1, p. 12-14
Both are extremely interesting, but the former contains mainly a reflection on the "right" way (as legitimate) to decrypt numismatic iconography. I beg to transcribe those passages that I endorse:
"It must be said that the currency, the legal profile, is an object that performs its functions (unit of account, medium of exchange, etc.. Even in the private domain (which is not subject to direct control of the state) with "force of law", that is to say that the public use of this object is a guaranteed share, the other made mandatory by a State. Therefore, everything that is printed is intended to indicate and make them identifiable to the powers of money to perform such functions [...]. In other words, in simplest terms, I think the legends and monetary representations must satisfy for the money, the same function as the punches on the sets of scales for public use, as well as stamps, signatures and subscriptions for notarial documents [...]. Monetary authorities, of course, reflect this and therefore insert into the iconography of the currency of the elements that allow [one side] to immediately identify those responsible for each issue, one made more difficult forgery.
"Money, finally, also a function economic justifies its existence, so its type is strongly conditioned by this function, it is never arbitrary. As a result many iconographic choices, once met the requirements listed above, can be simply justified by the need to imitate more or less faithful to the type of any currency experiencing great popularity.
[...] "I think that in medieval times, especially before the fourteenth century, the aspects we have mentioned above seem to justify almost all types of monetary certified. It is in this area, primarily legal and then economic, that we should seek the explanation of choice epigraphic or iconographic not yet clarified, by booking at another time interpretations of the symbolic function. "

So if we are to interpret the iconography of a currency, we must first begin by explaining how it meets the legal constraints (identify the issuer) and economic (money to help fit into the movement of other currencies) before want to explain religious or esoteric. This

joined exactly the comments that I have done for my thesis: student initially religious iconography on coins, I was struck by the ubiquity of the phenomenon of imitation (more or less free) which explained some of the figures of saints, much more than the religiosity of the place transmitter.