Ugg. That's quite enough of that. So much whinging! Unsubscribing from even the rss feed ...
Tags: tribe.net
20051228
TribeIdeas - tribe.net
TribeIdeas - tribe.net
How many RSS feeds do you track?
The RSS Weblog: "For now, let us know the number of feeds you track in total"
Early results surprising, there are as many 80-90 feed readers as 390+ readers (I clearly fall into the later category).
20051224
Oakland Tribune Op-Ed
"We are fighting a war with no end to create a peace with no defined victory.
We occupy a foreign land that doesn't want us, while at home our civil liberties are discounted.
We are told that it's better not to know what our government is doing in our name, for security purposes. Meanwhile, our government is becoming omnipresent, spying on us whenever it deems it necessary.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Tags: 1984
20051222
Impeachy
'Impeachment' Talk, Pro and Con, Appears in Media at Last
"Suddenly this week, scattered outposts in the media have started mentioning the “I” word, or at least the “IO” phrase: impeach or impeachable offense."
"Suddenly this week, scattered outposts in the media have started mentioning the “I” word, or at least the “IO” phrase: impeach or impeachable offense."
West Virginia’s senior Democratic senator, Robert Byrd: "The President claims a boundless authority through the resolution that authorized the war on those who perpetrated the September 11th attacks. But that resolution does not give the President unchecked power to spy on our own people. That resolution does not give the Administration the power to create covert prisons for secret prisoners. That resolution does not authorize the torture of prisoners to extract information from them. That resolution does not authorize running black-hole secret prisons in foreign countries to get around U.S. law. That resolution does not give the President the powers reserved only for kings and potentates."
Jane Smiley: A Ten-Step Program: "I began considering the possibility that what we see around us might indeed constitute success, as far as the Bushies are concerned, when I read in a post by Karen Kwiatkowski that three witnesses had confirmed that Bush referred to the Constitution as a “just a god damned piece of paper.”
Let’s take a look at the “mistakes” the Bush administration is said to have made, and, instead, ask ourselves if they are actually realized intentions"
Tags: impeach
Tribe's Black Tuesday : Fleshbot
"in a sad turn of events yesterday, Tribe has voluntarily applied 2257 record-keeping requirements across the board for all users and groups in its architecture, thus removing a lot of worthwhile content and making group leaders like me feel more like the headmistress at a very bad boys’ school … and not in the way I’d like."
Effort: A +
Community Spirit: F
Excecution: D
Critical Thinking: F
Someone needs to be kept after school and made to write “I will not use 2257 laws for my own site administration tactics” on the chalkboard at least 100 times. Or else I get out the real paddle."
Tribe's Black Tuesday : Fleshbot
Tags: tribe.net
MySpace Head Fall In
MySpace users angry over News Corp censorship of YouTube: "There was an outcry by some members after MySpace’s acquisition by News Corp. People were afraid they might start monitoring or censoring MySpace. At the time their CEO said that nothing like that would happen. Well, now it has."
Guess embedded YouTube videos were popular. Why not block the service and suggest replacements? Sheesh. Adrants sez: "MySpace came out of nowhere as the single most popular place to go for...well...anything. It can disappear just as quickly and be replaced by another."
Tags: myspace
Bloglines 3.0
Bloglines rocks. Since I started collapsing more feeds and using the Hotkeys I can plow right though my whole feed (clipping on the way). Firefox 1.5 seems to has hosed clipping and I did loose some related extensions, until I downgraded, upgraded, and didn't check for updates to extensions.
And I'm awaiting Bloglines 3.0 "Bloglines switched it's user-agent from 'Bloglines 2.1' to 'Bloglines 3.0-rho' on Tuesday afternoon. ... there could be some big changes coming in near future."
Tags: aggregator, bloglines
Google Homepage
Google Homepage Module Directory has hardly anything on it. Thankfully there's the Google Modules site (with rss feed!), which just kicked down the Bizarre Holiday Module.
And there's the Google Homepage API if you want to try your own hand at it ...
And there's the Google Homepage API if you want to try your own hand at it ...
20051221
Impeach Bush Coalition
Kooky. I post about the Impeach Bush Coalition and then Technorati spits me out as a 'Coalition' member.
Unchecked presidential power
Schneier on Security: The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power: "This is about the Fourth Amendment protections against illegal search. This is about circumventing a teeny tiny check by the judicial branch, placed there by the legislative branch, placed there 27 years ago -- on the last occasion that the executive branch abused its power so broadly.
This is indefinite dictatorial power. And I don't use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictatorship is a system that puts a ruler above the law.
Laws are what give us security against the actions of the majority and the powerful. If we discard our constitutional protections against tyranny in an attempt to protect us from terrorism, we're all less safe as a result."
Tags: impeach
20051220
Tribe's head fall in
Tribe's always been such a permissive environment. What gives?
SFist: Big Changes at Tribe.net:
"The very definition of a 'chilling effect' on free speech is when legislation or enforcement of new laws are so potentially onerous that people and organization self-censor out of fear and potential liability."
"The exodus is already being planned, according to moderator scuttlebutt, and it sounds to be big enough that even Tribe's dense management will feel the breeze; which is sure to make their parent company, Knight-Ridder, wince. If Knight-Ridder thought Tribe was a money drain before, after December 20th, when all those moderators with all those Tribe members hit the delete key and move on, it's going to feel like a broken dam."
Brian a Tribe employee, said:
"Perhaps it is best to say that we are a technology company with a cultural component, and not a culture company with a technological component. "
I read feeds from tribe, but, poke my head in seldom anymores ...
Tags: Tribe.net
Impeachment Pie
What a fine Xmas present! Both the blogs and news were singing my song today. Check the Technorati Mentions by Day
Bush’s Snoopgate
"This will all play out eventually in congressional committees and in the United States Supreme Court. If the Democrats regain control of Congress, there may even be articles of impeachment introduced."
Governor Dean
"It's un-American, and it's unacceptable. Americans need a President who will keep them safe and enforce the law, we don't need a big brother. Americans know we don’t have to sacrifice our basic liberties in order to fight the terrorists. Together, America can do better."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”"
and even a A United Coalition of Blogs for the Impeachment of George W. Bush"
Tags: impeach
Google Press Center: Zeitgeist
Google Zeitgeist 2005: Top Gainers of 2005
1. Myspace
5. orkut
1. Myspace
5. orkut
I can believe orkut from all of the invite requests cluttering up any given inbox ...
20051219
web 2.woe
del.icio.us was offline for a couple of days. I felt quite retro grepping my backup ... now the Bloglines Pirate has made off with the servers. Woe! Gotta nip over and have me some Nearest Neighbor News.
comment spam
Yeash. Just tossed a slew of comment spam. Turned on comment moderation (which seems to have been added since I was mucking with this). Wheeee.
20051129
My Life in Tees - a photoset on Flickr
Jackson West's in Tees - a photoset on Flickr: "A selection of various free t-shirts I've managed to collect over the years -- a strangely accurate form of autobiography."
Funny, I'd do it, but, it would take months ...
Yahoo! Cacophony
Yahoo! Directory (archived): "If you ever pulled another child's hair and made them think someone else did it, you were engaging in anarchy. The Cacophony Society, a group of radical adults, are still tugging the proverbial hair of society."
Eeep! Their out of the closet. Just in time for Santarchy!
20051012
15MB of fame: More progress
15MB of fame: More progress: "We just released a pretty big update to the new site. We also basically opened the site up to everybody."
43 People looks great, is fun to poke at, and brought over plenty of goodness from 43things/places. Cheer this!
20051007
Explore Google Reader
Explore Google Reader: "Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web."
Haven't taken it for much of a spin, but, it includes a BlogThis! button.
20050818
YASN Invites
Many-to-Many: YASNS: ICQ Universe: "This takes the AOL Lobby/LambdaMOO closet pattern and adds it to the YASNS world -- an entry space where you're in the system, but not yet part of the social world. The dynamics of the 'Why I Should Be Invited' box could be amazing, since it will be people lobbying for inclusion by people who aren't, by definition, their friends."
20050803
Laughing Squid Stickers
Stickers! "Some of you have asked us where you can find our Laughing Squid vinyl stickers that you see around on laptops, cars, notebooks and other things. I usually have some with me when I’m out and about, leaving them at events, cafes, etc., but if you send a self-addressed stamped envalope (SASE) to our PO Box, we will just mail some out to you, for free of course."
Wow, I got quite the care package from the Primary Tentacle! A selection of stickers (I'm used to seeing the green, but, the purple is mighty tempting) and some postcards. Now I have to stalk some prime real estate ...
Tags: laughing squid, stickers
20050729
Last of WWII Comanche Code Talkers Dies
Charles Chibitty, the last survivor of the Comanche code talkers who used their native language to transmit messages for the Allies in Europe during World War II, has died. He was 83.
They recently had a Living Museum for the 60th Anniversary Commemorations of the end of the Second World War, in England, but, said that that would probably be the last since there were so few survivors. The The Last Days of WWII on the History Channel has been all about "60 years ago today." Which is kind of odd as that means that they can't play it again next year without editing.
I note that a G.I. Joe Navajo Code Talker was made some years ago.
They recently had a Living Museum for the 60th Anniversary Commemorations of the end of the Second World War, in England, but, said that that would probably be the last since there were so few survivors. The The Last Days of WWII on the History Channel has been all about "60 years ago today." Which is kind of odd as that means that they can't play it again next year without editing.
I note that a G.I. Joe Navajo Code Talker was made some years ago.
20050720
Dead Tree Edition
It's been a week of dead tree media with some BBC news thrown in for good measure. It was interesting trying to get news out of the likes of the Daily Mail or the Guardian Weekly ... I'll be glad to settle back into the high-signal world of The Financial Times and the Economist. The cover pictures alone have been quite surreal.
Orkut
orkut is certainly a poster child. Plenty of interesting people have accounts, yet, there are few posts. Heck, the social software community has 2425 members and almost no traffic. I get more requests for invites to orkut than all other 'limited beta's combined. They're selling some mighty fine sizzle over there ...
20050719
Infoware
'And once you start thinking of web sites as applications, you soon come to realize that they represent an entirely new breed, something you might call an "information application," or perhaps even "infoware." - Tim O'Reilly
"Next-generation infoware ... because both of them let you quit
Syndicated news (and blogs) succeed because they only trade in meta-data and thus are fully shareable; it matters not one iota to anyone if you read that BBC story off a weblog sidebar, inline on a portal page or on the actual BBC.
picking up my signal across a network of enthusiastic relays each aggregating, reformating and rebundling in their bid for your membership attention." - TeledyN
"But I'd love to see competition based on the value that's wrapped around the portable data we choose to mesh with infoware services, rather than on data lock-in." - Jon Udell: Next-generation infoware
Tag: infoware
Tribe.net
Tribe 'open container' profiles allow one add and arrange modules in a two column format (plus one for ads). The modules can contain pictures, lists, rss feeds, a blog of sorts, and tribe content like friends, tribes, events, etc. I'm quite fond of the stalk module that shows your recent posts to public tribes.
The modules allow one to pull in rss feeds, so you could create a public
Digital Lifestyle Aggregator of sorts ... Livejournal posts of what they had for lunch seems to be popular. I have seen a few people put the rss output from a tribe into their public profile, mixing metaphors nicely. Ironically, tribe itself is not producing rss feeds for the in-profile blogs making the place smell of walled garden. In spite of former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus arguing for interoperability and open standards to allow users to interact with members of different networks without having to join those networks. Add the injury of no discussion post edits (every word is sacred) and no html markup we've got a near miss. Heck, even Friendster has Typepad blogs bolted on.
I've shifted most of my community reading to rss since discussion threads load like slow snot and now that people can put all sorts of interesting content on their profile page those often load even slower.
For some occasional under the hood data, check the Briatribe.
Tags: tribe.net, social network
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon
Something that looks like this is going to do something somewheres, Real Soon Now. Pull one of the others, it's got bells on.
20050715
tinytoolsmith YASN
Wanted: a social network to aggregate the toolsmiths: "I want something for folks building TinyTools: extensions, hacks, automator actions, dashboard widgets, cron scripts, Wordpress plug-ins, and the like. Since I’m nodding to Lazyweb anyhow, I may as well ping… anyone interested in building a tinytoolsmith YASN"
Humm, sort of a call to arms/request for widgets? More than a blog or del.icio.us pool, but, not quite the walled garden of a SN? We're already lousy with blogs, wikis, (anti-)social networks, source control repositories, search engines, and clipping and tagging services. No need to build a place for the widgets, just center of linking, tagging, and annotation. Color me interested.
However, we do need a SN just for invites to betas of SNs ...
Weekly Word War
The SFWeekly.com has huge SFWarfield/Fillmore ads this week. The
San Francisco Bay Guardian has full page whinge about it. (and this in a ish with the huge pull out Rasputin Manifesto section)
San Francisco Bay Guardian has full page whinge about it. (and this in a ish with the huge pull out Rasputin Manifesto section)
"'Under the terms of the deal, New Times will pay Clear Channel a sum in the high six figures for naming rights to the Warfield Theatre, which for the next three years will become the SF Weekly Warfield', BGP representatives said. In exchange, Clear Channel will spend so much money on advertising in the Weekly and Express that there will be little or no money left for competing print media." - San Francisco Bay Guardian News
Thankfully, Dog Bites throws the Guardian a bone.
20050714
Rojo - Your news, your way
20050713
Etc
Stacey's Literary License members save 20% on everything in the store, Thursday, July 14th through Saturday, July 16th. Including the paperback edition of A Hat Full of Sky by PTerry.
The Onion weekly in SF has good event listings and a newsletter. Dunno why you can't get to any of it online .... A new occasional paper, The East Bay Daily News which doesn't seem to have any news in it.
Rand McNally closed the Market street store. Looks like they only have a couple open nationwide, anymore. The Disney Store is also going the way of FAO Schwarz.
Typepad: New sidebar feed
Whoa, check out the preview of a sidebar feed at The Long Tail "So if you'd like me to serve as your filter and aggregator of Long Tail comment around the web, just copy the 'syndicate this sidebar' link into your favorite feedreader."
There are also reBlogs, that facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds, such as Eyebeam reBlog, unmediated reblog.
My tool of choice is Bloglines Clipping Blogs, even though
they point back to bloglines and don't expose the source url ... hence, not playing well with others.
Rojo has both shared and recomended links. But they're only good for other people using rojo. No rss feeds outbound that I've located.
20050712
London Online
Nice to see Wikipedia, Flickr, and Technorati, do good work and get props for it. (Technorati got Slammed. Flickr moved to Yahoo in a timely manner. Oh, and Yahoo provided hosting capacity to Wikimedia, too.)
Yahoo! launched a news blog. A first for Yahoo! News. Oddly enough, the blog had no feed listed, but the general feed page had one.
Transport for London feeds have been quite good. (and really show up BART)
People turned to the Londonist for news (which is more known for snark and event notices), so, they started to provide it.
One of my most treasured news sources remains Cagle.
20050708
Joi Ito's Web: HonorTags
Joi Ito's Web: HonorTags: "They are soliciting feedback. Maybe I should suggest HonorTagJoker."
HonorTagJoker is certainly catcher than HonorTagUnTag ...
orkut - communities
Invited some people to orkut and was surprised by how quickly it was running. Poked around a bit more and it turns out that all of the communites have no topics or events. That's one way to have a snappy anti-social network ...
Orkut is certainly the most anti-social of anti-social networks. Profiles are not visible without logging in, there are no rss feeds in or out, and they seldom even bother to post any news (much less server status reports).
20050706
Feednation
Feednation YANaggregator. Interesting in that you can subscribe to other peoples groups of feeds and copy them around (not sure what happens if the owner alters the group). Clumsy in that adding a feed can only go into 'new feeds', actually the entire UI is nonintuitive. Feeds can be turned off, which more sites should certainly adopt, and also copied to email. Mark All Read is nice, I'd really like a Mark Folder Read. Searching for feeds doesn't work well.
Technorati Tags: agregator, feednation
20050703
Google OS in the Works?
Google OS in the Works points to Google's Master Plan. Why is it always Orbital Mind Control Lasers? They need new Illuminati (or better Hats anyways).
Introducing HonorTags
Introducing HonorTags!
Wow! Massively incoherent. Citizen Journalists everywhere weep. Honor Tags is an idea introduced by Grass Roots Media (Dan Gillmor, Michael Goff and Jay Campbell) to put some really ugly self-tags on things that should be obvious by reputation at best or used to fib at worse.
I'd have to go HonorTagUnTag "I hate your tags. I'd rather not say anything and my work doesn't fit your categories." on everything.
Nearest Neighbor News Network
Shifted a stack of reading on human rights and media over to Nearest Neighbor News Network a collaborative filtering RSS aggregator. The Recommended Articles haven't been that interestng yet, Recommended Feeds have been medium, Similar Users has led me to several excellent feeds. Reading everything in time order without marking anything read is appealing for some types of feed.
Technorati Tags: aggregator,
20050702
20050701
US casts doubt on new leader's legitimacy
US casts doubt on Iran's newly elected president: "Speaking on Fox News, Mr Rumsfeld admitted he did not know much about 'this young fellow'.
'But he is no friend of democracy. He's no friend of freedom. He is a person who is very much supportive of the current ayatollahs, who are telling the people of that country how to live their lives."
Oh no, in a civilized country the freedom fighters would never ally with the religious right and tell people how to live their lives. Throwing black kettles in glass houses after the horses have bolted, and all like that. Democracy good! (may not be valid in all countries).
reBlog
reBlog by Eyebeam: "A reBlog facilitates the process of filtering and republishing relevant content from many RSS feeds. reBloggers subscribe to their favorite feeds, preview the content, and select their favorite posts. These posts are automatically published through their favorite blogging software. "
There is a short stack of live reblogs to read from. Clippings.reblog says "I was using an RSS reader called NetNewsWire which has a weblog interface and allowed me to post items of interest directly to this site. However I have recently started using reBlog by eyebeam which provides a web interface for RSS aggregation filtering and publishing via moveabletype. Reblog is a more efficient method that allows for better attribution of sources."
I'm quite fond of Bloglines Clip Blogs that lets you easily create a blog while reading feeds or in the wild with the Firefox Toolkit.
20050630
Bloglines
Bloglines 375/825. Moved a stack of news over to Nearest Neighbor News Network but didn't unsub from them, yet.
20050629
20050628
20050627
Poo-rer
Winnie the Pooh took a hit over the weekend ...
John Fiedler (Piglet)
2/3/1925-6/25/2005 (80)
Paul Winchell (Tigger)
12/21/1922-6/24/2005 (82)
I was going to write this up more, but, Dossy got there first ...
20050626
20050625
E-ink
Sony's e-Book reader, the Librié, has a black and white ink-on-paper look, combined with a resolution of approximately 170 pixels per inch (PPI), gives an appearance similar to newspaper. Because the display uses power only when an image is changed, a user can read more than 10,000 pages before the four AAA Alkaline batteries need to be replaced. Some pix ...
Apparently "the combination of organic electronic backplanes and electrophoretic frontplanes could produce truly rollable, albeit monochrome, displays in the not-too-distant future." "this year you'll see real product prototypes. Then you'll see real products in volume within two years."
Finally!
LiveJournal tags
FAQ Question #229: "You can specify whether or not you want to allow your friends to tag your entries for you. By default, you are the only one who can edit your tags. If you want to let your friends tag your entries for you, you can change these settings"
Of couse, that ment biting the S2 bullet which has lead me in many circles this morning ...
RedTacton
RedTacton is a new Human Area Networking technology that uses the surface of the human body as a safe, high speed network transmission path. It induces fluctuations in the body's electric field. They claim a data rate of 10 megabits per second. As opposed to the Blueskin rates of 3.7 kilobits per second being squeezed out by Matsushita.
I had no idea that personal-area networks would be colored ...
Les Claypool
Les Claypool put on a fine show at the friendly neighborhood Independent. It was very sold out and the place was packed (so packed that it really heated up the old tin can). I was hoping for Buckethead, but, wasn't surprised to see Gabby La La, a percussionist, and a drummer. There was a sitar, a ukulele, lead xylophone, oh, my! There might still be tix for Gabby La La with Les Claypool on Sunday. The show was so good that I am mighty tempted.
20050624
20050623
Friendster
Friendster unclenched a little by letting the outside world see profiles. The TypePad blogs still seem bolted on (and I'm not sure why the controls are behind https). The blogs have both rss and notices mailed for friend blog updates.
20050622
20050621
Introducing the AO/Technorati Open Media 100 :: AO
Introducing the AO/Technorati Open Media 100 :: AO: "AlwaysOn and Technorati are pleased to present the first annual 'Open Media 100,' the power list of bloggers, social networkers, tool smiths, and investors leading the Open Media Revolution."
Tim O'Reilly: O'Reilly Media.
A pleasant surprise. I wonder if it was more for conferences than the stack of books at every geek's desk?
Mark Fletcher: Bloglines (acquired by AskJeeves).
Excellent! One of my favorite drugs, even if one of my goals is to stop reading bloglines every 5 minutes
Jonathan Abrams: Friendster. Tom Anderson, Chris DeWolfe: MySpace. Paul Martino, Mark Pincus: Tribe.net.
YASN! Tribe ate my head for quite some cycles, now it's been relegated to rss mostly.
Joshua Schachter: Del.icio.us. Stewart Butterfield, Caterina Fake: Flickr (acquired by Yahoo!).
The usual suspects
N. Z. Bear: The Truth Laid Bear
Oh! There's a surprise. The new release is quite nice. Guess I'll have to poke around there a bit ...
Bloglines
Bloglines: 212/801.
837 by tomorrow, I'd guess.
Barb Dybwad: "which can then cuddle up all nice and cozy with all 837 of the other feeds you already subscribe to in your RSS reader."
20050620
Technorati Weblog: Welcome to the New Technorati!
Technorati Weblog: Welcome to the New Technorati!
Beta busts out. RSS feeds for tags (feed at the bottom of the search results). A better dashboard.
Now I've got to track down all those beta.technorati.com feeds ...
Multiply
Multiply added pay options for media uploads, themes, CSS, custom right margin.
"[Messages page] works more like a message board than like e-mail. The main difference between Multiply and other message boards is that Multiply includes all the discussions going in throughout your network, as opposed to being focused on one specific topic. At any time, you can "adjust" the messages page to show you less, or more, of what's going on in your network."
Looks like you could read all of your groups and friends via this. Subscribe to a thread via email is a really nice option. Now, if they only had rss for these!
Technorati Party: Wednesday June 22, 2005 in San Francisco
Sifry's Alerts: Technorati Party: Wednesday June 22, 2005 in San Francisco: "We'd like to invite you and your friends to House of Shields in downtown San Francisco next Wednesday, June 22, at 6:30 p.m. And there might also be a few surprises."
RSVP's requested.
Supernova 2005
I must say that we have better shirts downtown due to Supernova. I feel like I'm at a concert cruzing the shirts. Geek quotient waaay up.
Bloglines
Bloglines: 406/790. Bah!
And this morning's reading even made fun of feed numbers ...
Barb Dybwad: "which can then cuddle up all nice and cozy with all 837 of the other feeds you already subscribe to in your RSS reader."
20050619
XFN
XFN - XHTML Friends Network is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
Busted out the blogrolls, cooked a few XFN links, pinged rubhub.com, and docked the XFN Dumper.
A partial solution to keeping track of my friends many personas. I'm resisting cutting a private page per person ...
Now, about that Identity consolidation ... "A user with an XFN Friendly blog, blogroll, or web site, can use that site as a nexus for linking together all these otherwise disparate and isolated social networking sites"
20050618
Upcoming.org
Upcoming.org
The Technorati Party floated by, so I spent some time poking around. Friends! You can add anyone (nonreciprocal) and then see their events on your 'home page'. And a rss feed for My Friends' Events, natch.
A couple of pathfinders:
waxpancake,
SFist, marccanter, merlinmann.
20050617
Upcoming.org
Upcoming.org
They've certainly got the rss slices down. My Friend's Events is nice. Not many events, though. I was wondering why the tag rss feeds were so quiet ...
We've added support for related tags, and our wonderful users created a MovableType plugin and API clients for Python, Java, and Ruby.
Upcoming.org: News
20050616
Tag Tuesday
Tag Tuesday: "With many thousands of users adopting tags, we thought it would be a good idea to gather tag developers every month to exchange ideas, and encourage code that works well together."
Left work late. Caught every red light on the way, which meant that I klunked into limbo on the way. It was a gaggle of Geeks with beer (well, Gordon Biersch, anyways) bellowing above musack. The highlight for me was stickers. I even saw someone peeling the top of their laptop to center a new acquisition. Now I'm on a quest for a Laughing Squid sticker (how have I overlooked them all this time?)
Kevin Marks from Technorati couldn't be heard above the drunks (no, the other drunks). So, the cats were herded outside and we ended up on some steps facing the water. Short informal talks followed. I think that more pictures were taken than words spoken.
Technorati: tags visible, protocol independent.
Flickr: interestingness, tag decay, timeliness vs quality.
I did get a nice list of tags, though! beer and group, whatsinyourbag and group, pothole , chimping, pinhole, transparentscreen, sometaithurts, sleep and sleeping.
Some Uniform chased us off yelling 'Earthquake, Earthquake, GollyZilla' and we scattered. Guess it was really Tsunami Tuesday. Some nice folks herded a few of us to their loft where people were pleasingly antisocial behind their tech. I certainly heard more Gnomedex than Supernova.
Technorati Tags: tagTuesday, tagging, beer, flickr
tribe.net person urls
tribe.net
Personalize your tribe.net profile
Choose your personal URL
http://people.tribe.net/yourname
Finally! Let the landgrab begin!
20050615
Tag Tuesday
Not just for Tuesdays, anymore!
Microcontent Monday
Tag Tuesday
Wiki Wednesday
Thirsty Thursday
Folksonomy Friday
Ah, now I find Mobile Monday
Technorati Tags: tagTuesday
Chimping
Ocala Photographers: "* 'chimping' can be loosely defined as 'the act of reviewing digital images on the LCD screen' or 'referring to the animal-like sound digital photographers' make when spotting a great shot on the back of their cameras' or 'looking at the digital images you just took, when you should still be concentrating on taking them' !"
Oh! Learned new word and have new feed
20050614
20050613
Google Blog: I, Googlebot
Google Blog: I, Googlebot
Picture of the Googlebot at a new Google data center in an undisclosed location.
Supernova 2005
Supernova 2005: "Intelligence is moving to the edges, through networked computers, empowered users, fluid digital content, distributed work teams, and powerful communications devices."
Wharton West Workshop Day, June 20. The two tracks on Connected Platforms and
Decentralized Commerce look excellent.
2-day Main Conference, June 21-2
20050612
20050611
20050610
Evil Alien
(Yet) Another Hole in the Head: "Evil Aliens is a one of the greatest SplatStick horror-comedies ever made
West’s movie ranks right up there with Dead/Alive, Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, Bad Taste and Shaun of the Dead. We’re not kidding, this movie kicks ass – you will not be disappointed. Get your tickets early and look to the skies."
June 10, 10:30 / Roxie
Go!
20050609
orkut
orkut
Funny, I've been getting Orkut invite requests from all over creation. This blog, Tribe, 43things, ... And, as always, it was only just functional and took a couple of days to get the invites out. I don't see why they even leave it up in such a crippled state. Social Euthanasia Network!
And I got friended by a Brazillian Kutcher fan ...
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Man with the Screaming Brain
Man with the Screaming Brain: "written, produced, directed by and stars Bruce Campbel" also Evil Dead: Live is an over-the-top, theatrical presentation
20050602
apophenia: ah, the magical touch
apophenia: ah, the magical touch: "Perhaps, if you feel so inclined, invite the Daemons to visit your server so that you too may rest without email."
From: Mailer Daemon Angel
procmail: Refused to save
550 5.1.1 .... User exhausted
Best autoresponse ever.
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20050531
reezle
reezle:
# Your photo needs to be least 192 pixels wide and 240 pixels tall.
# Your photo cannot be than 1024 pixels wide or 768 pixels tall.
# Your photo needs to be a jpg or a gif file.
# Your photo needs to be least 192 pixels wide and 240 pixels tall.
# Your photo cannot be than 1024 pixels wide or 768 pixels tall.
# Your photo needs to be a jpg or a gif file.
What is it with stupid headshot rules? Reezle rejected my fist and hand-over-face. Yahoo spazed about them when they first released too.
OpenID: an actually distributed identity system
OpenID: an actually distributed identity system: "This is a distributed identity system, but one that's actually distributed and doesn't entirely crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business."
OpenID is maturing quickly and there are already a couple of little applications which can accept OpenID logins. LiveJournal is already providing an identity server so that LiveJournal users can log in to other OpenID sites. The next step is to make LiveJournal be what we've been calling a consumer of OpenID, meaning that external users can log in here.
lj_dev: OpenID on LiveJournal
Perl modules, Net-OpenID-Server-0.03, Net-OpenID-Consumer-0.08
20050530
Bloglines | divedi's Blogs
Flickr: !Habit Forming
!Habit Forming added me as a Flickr contact, so I took a look. Youch, overachiever. In trawling though his profile I found a few interesting things ... Urban Decay, CellPhonies, numbers, Beer, There are Flickr: Forums including FlickrIdeas.
And Tuco is a fine persona!
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B-to-the-E
I saw one walking by the wall of shame at Safeway and thought "Oh, yea, I've
been meaning to try this. It probably tastes like dirty bud, which, frankly, would be an improvement." I got it home, opened it while putting away the groceries
and wandered over to my desk and set it down to login and etc. It was only later
when I saw the enticing beer shaped bottle that I took a drink and thought
been meaning to try this. It probably tastes like dirty bud, which, frankly, would be an improvement." I got it home, opened it while putting away the groceries
and wandered over to my desk and set it down to login and etc. It was only later
when I saw the enticing beer shaped bottle that I took a drink and thought
"Holy Technicolor Spew, Batman! What did I just put in my mouth?"
A Rat-Fink soda? Cough Syrup? Zima? Yuck!
Budweister sez that it's a 'great mixture of beer and new flavors'. I think that Cruft nailed it as 'something akin to beer with a Flintstone's vitamin ground up in it.' It's practically one of those dreaded wine coolers. Heck, it probably mixes well with Kool-Aid
Bloglines | shieon's Blogs
Bloglines | shieon's Blogs
Buh? I was looking at some fallow feeds when I noticed someone else subscribed to a goofy word search. My feeds have been slurped by shieon! Looks like they tossed 5+ peoples ompl files together ...
Well, I just reaped though their blogroll, which was mighty disorienting, and ended up at 376/785 feeds. A couple of good bay area blogs (some SFists, even) and a stack of publishing/pop culture blogs.
Now, whatever was it that I sat down to do?
20050526
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) :: Buddy Poppy
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) :: Buddy Poppy
The vets have been out the last couple of days. I'm glad to see that their little collection cans have been filled to bursting. Now I have quite the collection of Buddy Poppies from the years that I've worked downtown ...
20050525
Very Small Objects
Very Small Objects
My NeliFrag-TablConjoin-BlakRetiHardBiggerlik explodes with delight! Do poke at the Classification Charts.
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Home - tribe.net
Home - tribe.net: read through everything in a half-hour. Unsubscribed from two tribes, even.
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Pandemia: Google personalized homepage nei labs da oggi
Pandemia: Google personalized homepage nei labs da oggi: "Directly from Google Factory Tour live now here, I take some slides about a new beta service: Google’s personalized homepage."
Via Google Does Portals | Bayosphere
Wow! Clean interface. Drag and drop modules. Gmail preview. Yum.
113 people del.icio.us'ed it before I did. Busy bees.
eastbayexpress.com | Alternative News Weekly
eastbayexpress.com had no less that three fleas in it. I saw a nest of inserts in the box when I got the paper and combed one out of the paper to leave a mark of disgust. Then another fell out when I opened it. And then yet a third one was found creeping within. Someone over there needs their account washed out with nasty chemicals.
20050517
Scientists Stamps
The Postal Store: "Four American Scientists-Thermodynamicist Josiah Willard Gibbs, geneticist Barbara McClintock, mathematician John von Neumann and physicist Richard P. Feynman-were honored with postage stamps"
Whoa, a John von Neumann stamp. Now, whatever can I stick it to? Heck, I should just use them like stickers and put them on my tech.
Bloglines | Weather
Bloglines | News: "You can add a weather forecast by city or by zipcode to get a daily forecast update for the entire week."
More personalization, adding to package tracking.
Also in tlhIngan Hol!
Firefox - cookieculler
mozdev.org - cookieculler easily protect those cookies you want to keep and quickly delete those that you don't want. Optionally deletes unprotected cookies on browser startup.
Amazing how much cruft one gains poking around. This is one of my 'must' extensions.
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20050514
Bloglines Plumber
Bloglines Plumber: "the Flux Capacitor is taking longer than anticipated to fix"
Ah, updates. What good citizens they are.
Friendster
Poked at Friendster a bit. The blogs are full featured but quite bolted on (but have an rss feed). The groups are decent but seem quite underused (and do not have rss feeds). Bonus that you can put an rss feed onto your profile page. I just swapped mine over from bloglines (a bunch of noise) to this one ...
Bloglines
Ah! Wittled down to under 100 and then committed the dreaded 'mark all read'. We'll see what the morning brings ...
20050511
Bloglines
Sigh, 355/688. A couple of nights off and I'm buried. Going to have to check the list twice and then push the shiny candy-apple-red button that marks all read. *shudder*
What year is it again?
Upcoming shows include: Foreigner, Tears For Fears, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Styx, The Eagles, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Doobie Brothers, Blue Oyster Cult, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Oasis ...
and these aren't all at Konocti Harbor, either!
I'm sure that you can uncover more horror at The List
Dracula Blogged
Dracula Blogged: Draculablog launches: "This blog will publish Bram Stoker's Dracula for the next six months. Individual pieces of the novel will appear on the calendar dates indicated in the text, starting with Jonathan Harker's May 3rd Bistriz journal entry, and finishing up with November 6 and the final Note."
Fun use of a blog.
I greatly enjoy Dark Vader and
The Incredible Hulk.
20050509
Bloglines
281/677 not much work. Mostly chasing various social networks around in a circle and starting to collate them. Seems like most Social Software sites are quite insular and Do Not Play Well with Others. Ditto for the denizens.
20050507
MindSay: Tags
MindSay: Tags
Everyone's got the weighted tags. This one is for recent tags to posts.
It even pops up suggested tags based on your text.
20050504
Yahoo! 360
Yahoo! 360: "Soon you'll be able to share RSS content from the Web (like photos, feeds, or blog posts) on your Yahoo! 3600 page."
Rotten navigation, but, if you can remove/rearrange the modules and pull rss, then it will be a contenda.
eBay Feedback Generator
eBay Feedback Generator:"Generate nonsense that resembles eBay feedback."
Heee! I use! Too funny.
The Generator is champion! Superior Quality! The output is exceptionally pleasing.
20050503
Password generator bookmarklet
Password generator bookmarklet: "So, I wrote a bookmarklet to make up passwords for me. It gets the hostname from the page's URL and mixes it together with your personal master password using a little cryptographic magic we call MD5."
Oh! Simple and brilliant.
20050421
Google - My Search History
Google - My Search History: "Remember what you saw on Google, no matter where you are."
20050418
Building web services that play nicely with other web services
The Robot Co-op: Building web services that play nicely with other web services
Upcoming has been very actively improving its web services API
over the last week or two, and a few of their most recent changes have
allowed us to integrate upcoming.org into 43things.com
20050415
Another RSS Convert
Another RSS Convert" “RSS Bigot” badge!"
Off with their email! Unsubscribed from two email only sources ...
nettime
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ISN: InfoSec News
"InfoSec News is a privately run, medium traffic list that caters to the distribution of information security news articles."
Disclaimer: We will unsubscribe any e-mails that send vacation messages, "full mailbox" errors, or qualities of a vanity forward. Please don't come crying to us if you can't subscribe to or unsubscribe from the list on your own.
20050414
Social Software
Emerging Technology Conference: Social Software: "The Personal Friends Aggregator, This services interrogates your own FOAF social network description data for each friend, automatically discovers their syndication feeds and formats new entries into an aggregated list of links."
Humm, supposedly there are slides somewheres.
20050412
Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only
Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only: "
The feedreader, I suspect, is becoming the browser 2.0. "
The feedreader, I suspect, is becoming the browser 2.0. "
20050410
brevity.org -- Lickr: Flickr, without the Flash
brevity.org -- Lickr: Flickr, without the Flash: "Lickr combines Flickr, Greasemonkey, and Ajax, and is worth triple points in buzzword bingo."
20050408
anonymous weblog publishing
invisiblog.com (beta) - anonymous weblog publishing: "Each anonymous weblog hosted by invisiblog includes the following features"
Yahoo! News - RSS
Yahoo! News - RSS: "You can now create your own custom RSS feeds using Yahoo! News Search"
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Yahoo! Toolbar
Yahoo! Toolbar: "Discover and add fresh content to My Yahoo!"
Also Yahoo rss autodiscover: "To have RSS/Atom feeds on your web site detected by Yahoo! Toolbar"
20050405
Upcoming.org: News: Searching, Invite by E-mail, and More
Upcoming.org: News: Searching, Invite by E-mail, and More: "Venues and tags have RSS feeds now, so you syndication junkies can keep track of even more stuff."
Nicely done!
20050404
360 Invites: Main Index
360 Invites: Main Index: "Welcome to 360 Invites, a place where you can share Yahoo 360, Gmail, and Orkut invites."
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Yahoo! 360
Yahoo! 360. Did anyone get invites? I put a Yahoo eddress into the beta request form but didn't receive one. I plowed through the rss feed until I found one that had survived a feeding frenzy. Thanks Tony/Buzzhit. Feel free to message me if you want one. Spent the rest of the day mucking with it
Messy menus and lots and lots of options well hidden. I'm still looking for that 'favorite quote' box that I saw once. I sent out a stack of invites and will be able to try more bells and whistles once I have a few more friends to social.
I did find list of Yahoo! Employees, though., which is probably where most of the invites flowed from.
I really wish that I had one of Tribe's new user profiles to try the two out side-by-side ...
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Indeed.com | one search. all jobs.
Indeed.com | one search. all jobs.: "from over 500 job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages."
Nice interface and you can get results via rss or email.
COMMON Network
COMMON Network: "Members register at the site and build their COMMON Ground™ by providing non-searchable data about their familiar people, places and things. When a Seeker and Advocate interact, the COMMON Ground™ they share is discretely revealed to both parties, establishing a foundation for trust."
"We are the only online networking application to incorporate a reputation system. Our multi-directional approach creates a dynamic, self-regulating environment, with Advocates rating Seekers, Seekers rating Advocates and Contacts rating Advocates. Members police their own environment, reducing the tendency for unwelcome activity."
Myspace.com
Myspace.com
Poked at a couple of friend invites, looked for interesting groups, noted a total lack of rss feeds. Very nice customization of blog available.
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XFN - XHTML Friends Network
XFN - XHTML Friends Network: "XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks."
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Yahoo 360
Yahoo! 360� - What is Yahoo! 360�?
Nice overview of the soon-to-be-beta (a real live beta, not a beta forever).
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Tribe User Profile Preview - Tribe Browser Policy Explained
Tribe User Profile Previewt: "When we were designing the architecture for our new open profile we took a look at our server logs and made some choices about which browsers we would explicitly support. Currently our stats show: "
Funny, they're supporting Firefox, but, pages load soooo slow (multiple platforms, most recent stable browser) that it's hardly worth reading the noise. Even tabbed browsing won't help when the whole browser locks up while trying to render. And, yes, I've tweeked the multi-thread options.
Charlene Li's Blog: First look at Yahoo! 360
Charlene Li's Blog: First look at Yahoo! 360: "your home page on the service shows the most recent content published by people within your network.
the ability to look narrow local business reviews by their network"
There goes Tuesday March 29th!
Yahoo adds Creative Commons search for locating reusable content - Wikinews
Yahoo adds Creative Commons search for locating reusable content - Wikinews: "Yahoo launched a beta version of a search tool designed to locate content on the web licensed under a Creative Commons license."
20050324
Newsmashing - The new technique that will change blogging forever.
Newsmashing - The new technique that will change blogging forever.: "Every killer app needs a killer name. Creating a new product by writing all over somebody else's article is kind of like making a mash-up. Let's call it newsmashing—that's just nerdy enough to catch on."
I'm finding trackbacks but no one running with the idea. It seems like a fine Firefox extension ...
20050322
Upcoming.org: News: Jon Udell Inspires New Development
Upcoming.org: News: Jon Udell Inspires New Development: "
Jon Udell posted some insightful comments
about Upcoming.org today. I absolutely agree with everything he's said.
After my son was born, I set major development aside, but no more!
Within the next seven days, I'm committing myself to finishing some long-requested features on the site."
Jon Udell posted some insightful comments
about Upcoming.org today. I absolutely agree with everything he's said.
After my son was born, I set major development aside, but no more!
Within the next seven days, I'm committing myself to finishing some long-requested features on the site."
Finally! and Yay!
20050321
43 Folders Wiki
Main Page - 43FoldersWiki: "The wiki web for 43 Folders, which we've conceived as a place to explore and expand on the ideas discussed on the 43F site"
Finally!
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EndUserDocumentation
EndUserDocumentation: "Chandler is intended to be an open source personal information manager for email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and general information management, as well as a platform for developing information management applications."
Whoa. Not quite ready for use, but, quite the proof of concept.
Identity: toward an internet publicity policy
The Robot Co-op: Identity: toward an internet publicity policy: "
Perhaps we need a “publicity policy” for 2.0 websites. A publicity policy could make clear that information on 43 Things is public: that the site is about sharing your goals with others"
Perhaps we need a “publicity policy” for 2.0 websites. A publicity policy could make clear that information on 43 Things is public: that the site is about sharing your goals with others"
"offline, no one knows you are a talented photographer, that you want
to learn Italian, that you discover great links or know some great people"
- Josh Petersen
MyFlickr.Yahoo
FlickrBlog: "Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the tattlers and pop the champagne corks!"
Thoughts on Flickr and Yahoo (by Jeremy Zawodny): "There are many parts of Yahoo that will be Flickrized in the coming months. And with more resources available, Flickr itself will be able to grow like never before."
"does one thing and does it well"
"makes extensive and intuitive use of RSS"
The story unfolds at Flickr: FlickrCentral
20050319
Anti Social Behaviour Order
The Anti Social Behaviour Order is a tool so draconian that they undermine the very liberties that they are supposed to protect. ASBOs give a set of restrictions tailored to an individual for petty offences (which may not even be against the law) and can impose up to five years in prison for violating the terms. Hearsay evidence is even allowed! one bloke is spending four months in jail for howling like a werewolf.
GameOptics LCD Display
ThinkGeek :: GameOptics LCD Display: "Now you can frag away, while still keeping up to date with your PC's instant messaging software, incoming emails, MP3 and internet radio playback, even check the weather - All without having to interrupt your gaming session."
Have no life and get your game on and pretend that you have a life!
Network analysis of the Flickr population
FlickrLand January 2005 - a photoset on Flickr: "Network analysis of the Flickr population"
Interesting graph photoset
20050318
Google Developing An Internet Operating System?
Google Developing An Internet Operating System?: "I'm calling it an Internet Operating System because it sounds 10x better than what a recent article called
Google's future plans, quoted saying it is a "Web-based thin
client-type hosted environment-slash-operating system
replacement.""
Google's future plans, quoted saying it is a "Web-based thin
client-type hosted environment-slash-operating system
replacement.""
Extending Wikipedia to include everything. The next stage of social networking
How Not To Blog - Extending Wikipedia to include everything: "Why can't social networking sites bother to network with one-another? Are they that anti-social?
Wikipedia is the perfect platform on which to bring everything under the sun together. ... Every person, place, thing, and event would be assigned a unique ID"
Frightening! (in a fun sort of way)
20050317
Life Hacks Live
Life Hacks Live
43Things Sings!
It's
the fairy-tale promise of wrangling all the crap in your life
through prioritization.
- Merlin Mann
If you've got four people going to a concert, before the key is
turned in the ignition, everyone holds the ticket to their
foreheads and verifies that everyone else has a ticket. There's
something satisfying about making it hard to screw up -- it's
like clipping mittens to your sleeves.
- Merlin Mann
Why keyboard shortcuts?
Obvious to geeks. It all comes back to
emacs!
Apple R&D shows
that keyboarding is only perceived as faster, while using the
mouse is actually faster.
Power users are delusional.
- Danny O'Brien
Technically Inexperienced People (TIPpies) are
NEVER in a flow state. If you try to help people who are battling
their computers, they're never concentrating on their task, never
in flow. The trick is to stay in your chosen app and not make the
transition.
- Alice Taylor
A9.com > OpenSearch
A9.com > OpenSearch: "OpenSearch is not a search engine—it is a way for search engines to publish their search results in a standard and accessible format. And because OpenSearch is built on top of standard RSS, existing tools—such as blog readers—can read OpenSearch results natively."
"We want OpenSearch to do for search what RSS has done for content."
Google Code
Google Code: "Welcome to Code.Google.com! I'd like to welcome everyone to the site! Look around, and please join our discussion groups. If you like and are using a feed aggregator, we have two feeds that you can subscribe to. This one (updates) and the featured program, in which we pick a great app that uses some Google tool or api."
Soap on a rope!
the Unwisdom of Crowds
Travels with Rhody: James Surowiecki on the Unwisdom of Crowds
The question for all of us is, how can you have interaction without information cascades, without losing the independence that's such a key factor in group intelligence? First one: the best thing to do is to keep your ties loose. You're better off, and the group is better off, if the ties are looser, because loose ties minimize the influence of those around you. Second, keep yourself exposed to as much information as possible. Injecting some level of randomnesss into the system is a good thing.
All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites
Parasites: "We are proud parasites, we Emerging Techers. We're engaged in perl whirling, pythoneering, lightweight javarey -- we hack our cars and we hack our PCs. We're the rich humus carpeting the jungle floor and the tiny frogs living in the bromeliads.
The long tail -- Chris Anderson's name for the 95% of media that
isn't top sellers, but which, in aggregate, accounts for more
than half the money on the table for media vendors -- is the tail
of bottom-feeders and improbable denizens of the ocean's thermal
vents. We're unexpected guests at the dinner table and we have
the nerve to demand a full helping."
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
WikiHome: "Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needs an update. But rather than do this alone, Professor Lessig is using this wiki to open the editing process to all, to draw upon the creativity and knowledge of the community. This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind."
20050316
Apply CSS to Specific Sites
Apply CSS to Specific Sites: The URId extension for Firefox changes all this. Once installed, you can apply a CSS on a per-URL basis by locating your Chrome folder's "userContent.css".
Ah, greasemonkey does this well with a whole stack of contributed scripts.
how to blog
how to blog: "link like crazy. link anyone who links you, link your favorites, link your friends. dont be a prude. linking is what seperates bloggers from apes.
if you havent written about sex, religion, and politics in a week youre probably playing it too safe, which means you probably fucked up on #5, in which case start a second blog and keep your big mouth shut about it this time.
remember: nobody cares which N*Sync member you are, what State you are, which Party of Five kid you are, or which Weezer song you are. the second you put one of those things on your blog you need to delete your blog and try out for the marching band. similarilly, nobody gives a shit what the weather is like in your town, nobody wants you to change their cursor into a butterfly, nobody wants to vote on whether your blog is hot or not, and nobody gives a rat ass what song youre listening to. write something Real for you, about you, every day."
Funny, guess that means that we should delete LiveJournal, en masse?
Google Sets
Google Sets: " Automatically create sets of items from a few examples. "
Lifehacker: "points to it's use as thesaurus."
I hadn't noticed a Google group per app before ...
Sifry Updates
Sifry Updates: "We're seeing about 45% of weblogs are 'stagnant', meaning that they haven't been updated in 6 months or more, and that's not using statistical sampling methods, that's from watching the entire blogosphere."
What a Slashdotting Looks Like | Threadwatch.org
What a Slashdotting Looks Like | Threadwatch.org: "Here's what it looked like in bandwith terms"
Nice spike!
Yahoo! 360�
Yahoo! 360� - Home: "Share photos. Create a blog"
Yahoo blogs teaser!
Marc's Voice: "Now imagine that Yahoo - in addition to hosuing all this end-user content - ALSO enabled folks ot easily contribute it to shared, public servers? "
Charlene Li's Blog: "Be able to see reviews from people within your social network."
"The beta will start on March 29th."
Amazon's Improbable Phrases
onfocus.com | Amazon's Improbable Phrases: " Amazon is analyzing the text of books to find Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs) contained within. This is a funny, interesting way to get a glimpse inside the book before you buy. "
Google X
Google X: "'Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you.'"
Google search catagories as OS X icons (mouseover).
Yanked: "It looks like Google X, the new search tool in the style of Mac OS X published today,
is gone."
20050315
Costly 'Free Ride' Sustains Authority
Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Costly 'Free Ride' Sustains Authority: "there's a consequence for newpapers that go behind what Doc Searls and others call a 'pay-wall' -- a loss of Web presence in a world where being absent from the Web is, for many younger readers, like not being anywhere at all."
RSS Screensaver
NuParadigm: "The RSS Screensaver is a screensaver that lets you select and validate an RSS feed, and select a directory for background images. The Screensaver loops through the list of RSS items and shows the contents of the feed in the right hand side."
Now that's just odd.
SyndicNation
SyndicNation - Lecteur RSS - Agr�gateur RSS en ligne: "Le format RSS, ou plus pr�cis�ment les standards RDF"
Lovely name! A web-based RSS reader ...
Buzz Game: Home
Buzz Game: Home: "The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends"
20050314
Resource Rate
Resource Rate: "Resource rate technology uses a team of editors and a Firefox plugin to assess just which search engine forum threads are the most 'interesting'"
20050313
Blogs as browser start pages?
Blogs as browser start pages?: "I wonder how many other folks start their browsers on a blog rather than a more “traditional” homepage such as an ISP, portal, or search engine? Or is RSS well on its way to killing off the website-based blog as I know it?"
RSS Kills! News at Eleven!
My browser startup has been about:mozilla for many years ...
20050312
StructuredBlogging.org � What is Structured Blogging?
StructuredBlogging.org � What is Structured Blogging?: "Structured blogging is about making a movie review look different from a calendar entry. On the surface, it’s as simple as that - formatting blog entries around their content.
what we want to do is create structure (in the form of XML) around each of these types of entries, to organize the data inside and to let machine readers - other programs, sites, and aggregators - better understand the content."
Whoa! Just so. Also, All Consuming
Wists
Wists: "Advanced tagging: Wists allows you to create groups of tags, called 'themes', in order to manage large numbers of tags better. For example: to bookmark a Sushi Restaurant in New York you could enter: Restaurant location=ny type=sushi. You can invent as many themes as you like."
Double Silly Tagging!
Slashdot | 'Spamalot' Subscribers to Get Spam ... a Lot
Slashdot | 'Spamalot' Subscribers to Get Spam ... a Lot: "It looks like the list of e-mail addresses subscribed to the lists for the Broadway show 'Spamalot' has been nabbed by spammers."
Heh
morph:
Silver Bullet: "The excitement over Yahoo’s RSS/newsreader investment, the launch of Guardian and CNET branded newsreaders (okay, mostly CNET’s), the acquisition of Ask Jeeves by Bloglines etc has spurred a number of heated posts around various big sites’ (aka superpowers) ambitions in the space formerly known as the bleeding (leading?) edge--the blogosphere."
Sticky Silver-Bullets all around!
Factsheet 5 :: Your guide to zines and alternative publishing
Factsheet 5 :: Your guide to zines and alternative publishing: "Projected on-sale date: May 23, 2005 "
Nice website, looks like they have several clues.
20050311
20050310
Tagsy: universal tag-based content aggregator
Tagsy: universal tag-based content aggregator: "tagsy is a social bookmarks and feed management service, allowing you to save, categorize and browse information based on its popularity and relevance."
powerful Firefox extension coming to a browser near you!
Microsoft Test Web Based Aggregator - Snubs Firefox
Microsoft Test Web Based Aggregator - Snubs Firefox
So, wanna see what might be coming soon, in answer to Ask Jeeves' Bloglines? Of course you do!
So, wanna see what might be coming soon, in answer to Ask Jeeves' Bloglines? Of course you do!
20050309
Sifry's Alerts: Regarding Technorati's Community Manager, Niall Kennedy
Sifry's Alerts: Regarding Technorati's Community Manager, Niall Kennedy: "We're treating this as a learning experience for everybody and putting it behind us, and hope that the rest of you do too."
"To address the censorship charge that was thrown about head-on: we do not censor people's blogs, and we take the censorship allegation extremely seriously. I actively encourage our employees to blog, and to express their opinions. However, ..."
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Whose voice is it anyway?
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Whose voice is it anyway?: "My interpretation of Technorati's current blogging policy is an attempt to make sure employees are aware of the weight their words carry in this new medium and new industry. It is a really difficult thing to communicate and I am still not sure how to communicate this message effectively to new employees."
"I failed to comprehend the effects of my actions on Technorati" - Niall Kennedy
Google News (BETA)
Google News (BETA): "You can build and share your own customized version of Google News. Customized news allows you to create your own sections on the Google News front page to focus on, for instance, your favorite technology, sports team or entertainment. You can also rearrange your sections and choose which ones to show by mixing and matching any of the sections from the 22 regional editions of Google News from around the globe."
Zeitgeist on 43 Things
Zeitgeist on 43 Things: "The world wants to..."
I took a look at the Zeitgeist and, lo,Trueheart wants to practice discardia was there!
Yahoo! Publisher Network
Yahoo! Publisher Network: "To support the publishing community, Yahoo! will be introducing new products and services-including publishing tools, advertising products and access to our Yahoo! audience."
20050307
Bloglines Plumber
Bloglines Plumber: "Hi,
I'm the Bloglines Plumber. Bloglines is down for a little fixer upper. We will be back by 8:30Pm Pacific Time tonight, Monday March 7, 2005. Bloglines will be all better when I'm done with it.
Thanks,
The Bloglines Plumber "
Cute!
I'm the Bloglines Plumber. Bloglines is down for a little fixer upper. We will be back by 8:30Pm Pacific Time tonight, Monday March 7, 2005. Bloglines will be all better when I'm done with it.
Thanks,
The Bloglines Plumber "
Cute!
Appcasting
Speirs.org :: Appcasting: "Appcasting is the practice of using the 'enclosure' feature of RSS 2.0 feeds to deliver updates and release notes for new software applications."
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Bloggers seen as loose lips
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Bloggers seen as loose lips: "Technorati would rather I did not express an opinion on issues such as corporate blogging policies that are affecting the world of weblogs. This post has been overwritten and my artwork posted to Flickr is now marked as private and available only to Flickr contacts marked as friends."
Whoa. Technorati - the new old-school medium.
Update: a disclamer was added and the pix Some blogger blabbed...
20050306
Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Another del.icio.us bookmarklet
Otaku, Cedric's weblog: Another del.icio.us bookmarklet: "Inspired by the success of my ReadLater bookmarklet for del.icio.us, I created the DFR bookmarklet (Delete From ReadLater, but since these bookmarklets go into my toolbar, I want to keep their names short)."
SOAP is boring, wake up Big Vendors or get niched
James Governor's MonkChips: SOAP is boring, wake up Big Vendors or get niched: "ebXML and REST have both been labelled as 'not Web Services'. But these technologies are both being adopted by some of the biggest names in ecommerce - GM, Amazon, and some of the coolest new semantic platforms (Bloglines, del.icio.us, flickr)."
New posting interface to del.icio.us ; painlessly reusing your tags
False Positives: New posting interface to del.icio.us ; painlessly reusing your tags: "You can also use 'http://del.icio.us/url/[your user name]/' to find if a url has been bookmarked and using what set of tags. More Meta info!!"
Humm, I haven't found more than a way to get a search box, but, seeing counts and tags for a url is great.
Frienditto
Websnark.com: Frienditto and E-mail: the fallacy of privacy on the Internet: "Over on Livejournal, I've seen a cascade of sometimes panicked, sometimes pissed posts regarding a website called Frienditto. This site, for the record, takes your LJ username and password, logs in as you, and slurps down stuff you can see into their own database. If you're a registered user, you can do this in a private archive for your own use. If not, it goes into the public archive -- even if the original Livejournal post was locked to Friends. In other words, if you have a Friend on your Friends List who uses this service, the posts you've locked to your friends that he has access to show up on a public website, as well as a public Livejournal Community.
Guys? Welcome to the Internet."
Sheesh, I popped into LJ to post and there were all of these shrill warnings about Frienditto (which looks like it's melting).
Blog Threat levels
Blog threat levels: " We provide the following blog terror alert level indicators as a public service [Ed: and final payment on the court-ordered community service]. We hope we’re in time to save lives.
Copy any of the individual script text into your HTML template to get the alert level it appears beneath. "
Copy any of the individual script text into your HTML template to get the alert level it appears beneath. "
20050305
Functional Blogging
As I May Think...: Will Scoble's book be out of date before it is read?: "What Kedrosky is speaking of is what we at PubSub have been referring to as 'Structured Blogging' and may be what Mark Fletcher of Bloglines/AskJeeves has listed as 'Functional Blogging' in presentations he's recently given. The basic idea is to go beyond 'mere' text in blogs and include structured XML that describes job-openings, events, new prices, press releases, updates to phone numbers and contact info, requests for proposals, etc. i.e. Using the now almost ubiquitous content syndication network to broadcast useful business *data* -- not just prose or text commentaries."
Oh, dear, more terms as obtuse as folksonomy ...
Unlinking from Social Networks: Part 2
Unlinking from Social Networks: Part 2: "I set up a poll at www.votations.com
that has just about a 100 respondents.
I plan to rework the poll, and press on with my retreat from SNAs. Next are ZeroDegrees, Spoke, Orkut, Friendster, Tribe.net, and so on. More to follow."
that has just about a 100 respondents.
I plan to rework the poll, and press on with my retreat from SNAs. Next are ZeroDegrees, Spoke, Orkut, Friendster, Tribe.net, and so on. More to follow."
As facilitating as a train wreck, now with graphs!
Social Networking Services Meta List
Home of the Social Networking Services Meta List - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com: "recently updated Social Networking Services Meta List. It is broken down into nine loosely built categories that will continue to shift. These social networking categories are: business; common interest; dating; face-to-face facilitation; friends; MoSoSo (Mobile Social Software); pets; photos; and ’edge’ cases or social networking ‘plus’ sites."
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