January – 2010 – Konrad Voelkel's Blog – Mathemagically

It is vital to get at least some news. You need to stay informed. How to cope with this information overload? Software can be used to control the news flood. Feeds offer interesting ways to organise various kinds of information.

When I woke up from a dream, I instantly had this idea: What would a file format for odours look like? On searching "smell file format", the results are really absurd, too.

Annotations and other metadata issues with PDFs, PostScript documents, DjVu files, XMP metadata, various extraction tools and ways to manipulate document metadata. The focus lies on Linux but something works with Windows and Mac OS X, too.

I decided to give a short example of what goes wrong in elections, so you'll know how voting paradoxes influence our lives and why you should know something about it.