I stumbled on them by accident, but once I discovered Subversion supports action hooks that can fire before or after a transaction, I knew exactly what to do with them.

Posted November 5, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: plugability, remixability, subversion, svn. Be the first one.

The Phonepedia concept is simple: take Wikipedia’s rich content and add voice recognition. It’s as easy as calling a number and asking your question, the answer will be returned via SMS and email. Go ahead and try it for yourself.
The voice recognition is powered by Jott, and thanks are due to Heidi for writing so [...]

Posted January 21, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: Jott, mashup, Phonepedia, remixability, wikipedia. One Comment.

I guess the criticism is that it’s one thing for somebody to open up their music for remixing, but an entirely different thing to do the same with a movie. Or is it? Is it (click re-fragmented)?

Posted November 20, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Dispatches. Tags: creative commons, radical trust, remix, remixability, The Tracey Fragments, Tracey Re-Fragmented. Be the first one.

[]Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use. Still, it gave me pause the other day when Cliff (a sysop) began a sentence with “Web 2.0 standards require….”
Web 2.0 is now coherent enough to have standards? We used to joke about rounded [...]

Posted June 20, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: open source, remixability, rules, social software, web 2.0, web applications, well behaved. 2 Comments.

I’ve been talking a lot about remixability lately, but Nat Torkington just pointed out that the web services and APIs from commercial organizations aren’t as infrastructural as we might think.
Offering the example of Amazon suing Alexaholic (for remixing Alexa’s data), he tells us that APIs are not “a commons of goodies to be built on [...]

Posted April 30, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: api, apis, free, free beer, free speech, mashups, public good, remixability, self interest. Be the first one.

It’s been more than a year since I first demonstrated Scriblio (was WPopac) at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. More than a year since NCSU debuted their Endeca-based OPAC. And by now most every major library vendor has announced a product that promises to finally deliver some real improvements to our systems.
My over-simplified list said [...]

Posted April 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: api, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems. l2, mashups, remixability, soa. 10 Comments.

Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium’s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability.
My blog post on remixability probably covers the material best, but my slides are online as both an animated QuickTime and PDF.
BPL, BLC, boston library consortium, [...]

Posted April 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: BLC, boston library consortium, boston public library, BPL, l2, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems, presentation, remixability. 2 Comments.