Less Impact from the "Slashdot Effect"

Less Impact from the "Slashdot Effect": "
Over the past year, the Slashdot effect has begun to fizzle. Nowadays, a mention on Slashdot typically increases Tom's traffic by just 5% to 10%, Rahmat says. The boost also is more temporary, "usually peaking within one to two hours and almost completely over in three,".

Slashdot is looking more and more like a big fish in a huge and growing pond. "

EContentMag.com

EContentMag.com: "Feed me! Feed me!' That's the cry of many of your visitors, particularly those trying to find nutritional content despite junk-info overload. You can probably help by taking advantage of emerging content delivery options, but be sure to take into account some of the aggravations you may encounter when developing your informational menu."

Feed me! Is something that I cry often! More!

Finally, Accessible Gmail

Finally, Accessible Gmail: "The promised additional cross-browser version of Gmail is here, and you can access it directly at gmail.google.com/gmail/h/. "

RojoBlog: CNET News.com on Rojo

RojoBlog: CNET News.com on Rojo: "At the bottom of every story is a 'Comment' button (looks like a talk buble) that will allow you to comment on any story in Rojo. Your Rojo contacts can see those comments, and you can see comments from your contacts. "

Contextual chattering good!

Friendster befriends blogs--and fees

Friendster befriends blogs--and fees | CNET News.com: "Friendster, a so-called social networking site of linked personal profiles, launched a beta, or test version, of Friendster Blogs, a section of the site that lets people post and archive the daily musings known as blogs.

Friendster, which recently defended its ad-based revenue model and disavowed any plans for fees, introduced three paid upgrade packages with Friendster Blogs."

Ewwww!

del.icio.us/new

del.icio.us/new/ashton

Tags as weighted list! It will certainly help to weed out stray or misspelled tags.

Accessible Folksonomies: Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards

Accessible Folksonomies: Accessibility, Usability and Web Standards: "Lately I’ve been thinking about one particular artifact of the folksonomy phenomenon – the folksonomy menu that serves as a sort of buzz index providing users with a quick visualization of the most popular tags (technically I think it’s called a weighted list).

surprised to note that each site shared most the same accessibility problems:"

With a sample page implementing the recommendations.

Open Loops: A Next Action Paradox

Open Loops: A Next Action Paradox: "Who would have thought that an idea, such as eliminating priorities and deadlines, could yield an increase in productivity?"

Open Loops: There's a Hole in the Bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza...

Open Loops: There's a Hole in the Bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza...: "My Palm's Unfiled Catagory - Writing a next action directly in the Palm's Unfiled category. I eventually dropped this one because it blurred the line between collection and processing my next actions.

Jotter Wallet - For recording items on the run."

Ditto on the Palm. An entry had a high collation factor. Especially because I kept some stuff in ToDo, some in BrainTree, and some in Memos. Plus on, password, some navigation ... Whereas I use a pocket flip pad consistently.

biologging | a community website for biomedical researchers

biologging | a community website for biomedical researchers: "biologging is a community website for biomedical researchers, which allows you to create your own annotated store of abstracts, and to browse the logs of other users."

YAFolksonomy, but, what a keen word/url they've got!

BlogShares - Rich Site Summary Feeds

BlogShares - Rich Site Summary Feeds

BlogShares offers a variety of RSS feeds
There are also industry and user portfolio feeds available.

Rojo

I received an invite from Rojo and have been mucking with it. Hard to imagine that it will ever supplant Bloglines, it might augment it. I started with a subset of their 'Rojo Picks by Topic' in Technology - Bloggers, Top Bloggers, and Web 2.0. If you'd like to share stories in this sphere comment or connect via Rojo id ashton.

43Things: New Features Just Launched: Cheers, Cities, Help, and more!

The Robot Co-op: New Features Just Launched: Cheers, Cities, Help, and more!: "Hello Quackers! The latest version of 43 Things is now live.

Lots of new zeitgeist pages including “Popular completed goals,” “Entries by people doing the same things as you,” and “How other people are tagging goals that you have”"

Even more goodness to an already addictive site.

New Entries has been my favorite rss feed for weeks

CodeCon 2005

CodeCon 2005: "CodeCon 2005 - February 11-13 - Club NV, San Francisco

CodeCon is the premier showcase of cutting edge software development. It is a workshop for developers of real-world applications with working code and active development projects. All presentations will be given by one of the active developers, and accompanied by a functional demo."

Stuper Bowl

Super Bowl (our unofficial national holiday) ads are going for 2.4 million dollars for a 30-second spot. Odd that contact-lens maker Novartis would blow a wad when it's hard to connect their brand to football (various offers for free product/exams to officals aside.) Returning to The Bubble Bowl (when over a dozen internet companies blew $40 million on ads, and then most of them went out of business) domain registrar Go Daddy has decided to
double down. Someone over there clearly needs to be branded.

"You wouldn't put a Bud ad in Vouge, but with TV we've lost that [logic]." - Al Ries of brand consultancy Ries & Reis

Taggregator

Taggregator

del.icio.us and flikr tags shown together

I'm fond of the 43Things implementation.

The Quest for Getting Things Done

I gave away a copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen knowing that it would be easy to get another. Five bookstores and several 'it should be right here's later, I had to special order one which ended up being a bit too much fun. I pulled the bookstore membership card and coupon from an alphabetic folder and put it in a Tickler File and made a note on a Waiting action list. When the call came in I had the card and coupon in hand, walked right over and got the book for free. Getting Things Done!

Online Social Networking 2005

Online Social Networking 2005: "OSN2005 will be a summit for all those interested in working with social networking processes, tools, and media. In addition to attending many workshops, panels, and presentations by leading experts and practitioners, attendees will have the opportunity to be part of a community with a significant role in defining the future direction of online social networking. "

Online Conference, February 9-23, 2005 $35

rojo.com

Slashdot | Filtering RSS Through Your Social Web: "Cory Lok assesses the methods, competition and prospects of Rojo, a venture-funded startup RSS aggregator."

Arrrg! Slashdotted. Going to be tough to scam an invite now.

All Consuming

All Consuming: "All Consuming is a website that visits recently updated weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites.

This site was inspired by Book Watch, and uses web services from Weblogs.com, Amazon.com, Technorati.com, and Alexa.com."

Comments by members, TrackBacks, and weblog summaries!

Just inserted my reading list into this blog template.