The Morning News - Battle of the Giants, by Lance Arthur
San Francisco, where you can benefit from all that money you’re spending on housing.
also see http://www.lancearthur.com/ and http://www.glassdog.com
also stories? at http://www.fray.com/
goodness also www.laconcon.com la's consipicuous consumption
interview at digital web magazine good May 2001 :
Glassdog is and was my Web playground, a place where I could experiment and investigate the workings of the Web, what people like, how to do things, what to write about, and how to organize it all.
It's been around a fairly long time in Web years and it's certainly far less active now than it has been... In the past, which for our purposes I'll limit to the last five years that I've been actively online, I've written and designed for many other collaborative, non-commercial web sites such as the fray and SMUG. Most of my writing has been in the form of personal narrative, but I'm hoping to change that.
-You have fonts named after you, and thousands of sites linking into your site. Do you consider yourself a Web celebrity?-
...anything written on the Web I tend to discount because the Web is so temporary and momentary... Derek Powazek, John Styn and Jason Kottke among them and, lately, Matt Haughey and Joshua Davis, have a sort of adoration about them whether they like it or not. John likes it, clearly, and fosters it. Jason is mystified and bemused by it all. Derek never believed it until a trip to Italy convinced him he was a star, or as close to a star as one gets in this existence. Josh told me he had people crying when they met him once.
-What's this obsession with world domination? How do you plan on going about achieving this goal?-
Osmosis. It'll just happen. It's bound to, isn't it? If I just keep on going?
Microsoft started their "Where do you want to go today?" campaign. I thought that was the most hilarious thing. Microsoft, the great Satan, the company that's all about devouring and killing new companies to limit my choices and force me to do what I don't want to is asking me where I want to go today, knowing full well that they don't want me to tell them, they want to tell me.
So I added the "World Domination Now. Is that so wrong?" tag line to the site and Glassdog world domination now comes and goes as a common theme. I fully expect that everyone will come around to my way of thinking and there will be Glassdog home appliances and Glassdog clothing and Glassdog edition Ford Explorers some day. We're the Hello Kitty of the new millennium!
-Where do you think independent content on the Web will be in five years from now?-
In five years new people will come along, old people will be gone and I'll still be here saying this again because I believe in the Web and I like it here.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
the life of birds - bird brains the scene - a traffic light crossing: When the lights change, the birds hop in front of the cars and place walnuts, which they picked from the adjoining trees, on the road. After the lights turn green again, the birds fly away and vehicles drive over the nuts, cracking them open. Finally, when it's time to cross again, the crows join the pedestrians and pick up their meal. /PBS via Biz Stone
Suck
As a magazine whose glory days are behind it [Salon] once wrote, the brilliance of Suck can also be found in the way it presented information. (via). Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website.
UPDATE December 30th, 2005: Waxy.org: Daily Log: Suck.com, Gone for Good?
... Also, Mike at Injoke.com posted a 200MB torrent of the entire Suck.com archive. Update: Boy genius Aaron Swartz is mirroring the Suck.com snapshot from Mike's torrent. = a daily article from archive?
UPDATE December 30th, 2005: Waxy.org: Daily Log: Suck.com, Gone for Good?
... Also, Mike at Injoke.com posted a 200MB torrent of the entire Suck.com archive. Update: Boy genius Aaron Swartz is mirroring the Suck.com snapshot from Mike's torrent. = a daily article from archive?
Sunday, August 28, 2005
100 Blogs, 100 Days. Jennifer Garret is going to read a new blog every day for 100 days.
8/28 Las Fashionistas like what I like: Jason Lee, the Gilmore Girls - new season Tuesday September 13th at 8:00 (7 central-).
8/27 Pamie: Pop Culture Princess -So, I'm not the person who updates my profile on IMDB.com. What's interesting to me is that somebody does. I know it's not my mother, because she has no idea what the words "Television Without Pity " mean in that order.
8/26 another fine new site: The Swashbookler
8/25 Blog 3 is Number 4 of 5
8/24 It's the loneliest number since the number one - day two and today's site: Pencil Revolution. wood and graphite.
8/28 Las Fashionistas like what I like: Jason Lee, the Gilmore Girls - new season Tuesday September 13th at 8:00 (7 central-).
8/27 Pamie: Pop Culture Princess -So, I'm not the person who updates my profile on IMDB.com. What's interesting to me is that somebody does. I know it's not my mother, because she has no idea what the words "Television Without Pity " mean in that order.
8/26 another fine new site: The Swashbookler
8/25 Blog 3 is Number 4 of 5
8/24 It's the loneliest number since the number one - day two and today's site: Pencil Revolution. wood and graphite.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Everybody Dies
Six Feet Under - Wow, when this show says "the end," it's not kidding around.
Now that is a montage.
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Salon.com Arts & Entertainment Buried alive
This is a review of the entire final season of "Six Feet Under," including Sunday night's 75-minute finale (9 pm EDT, on HBO). by Heather Havrilesky.
Alan Ball's comments to Heather Havrilesky in Salon
10 best 'Six Feet' moments (the comments are better) via http://www.tv.com/six-feet-under/show/3223/news.html
"This wasn't planned, you know" by Heather Havrilesky07/27/05: Ha ha! Narm, damn it! Feel like being grouchy to your mom? Feel like snapping at your kids? Feel like fucking your secretary? Feel like beating yourself up for every single neurotic thought in your head? Narm! The end is near. Narm! Better have another slice of pizza. Narm! Better be nice to the people who put up with you. Narm! Better walk the dog. Better have another glass of wine. Better turn off the TV set. Narm! Because you never really know, do you? Narm! It's anyone's guess! Narm narm narm!
in the TVWoPity of the finale "That money is ours," Keith says. "For our new house. I don't know if you've realized, but that house you grew up in is a great fucking house." David wonders if Keith doesn't find it depressing. David's been to our forums.
Keith says it doesn't have to be, which means yes.
Six Feet Under - Wow, when this show says "the end," it's not kidding around.
Now that is a montage.
_______________________________________________________
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment Buried alive
This is a review of the entire final season of "Six Feet Under," including Sunday night's 75-minute finale (9 pm EDT, on HBO). by Heather Havrilesky.
Alan Ball's comments to Heather Havrilesky in Salon
10 best 'Six Feet' moments (the comments are better) via http://www.tv.com/six-feet-under/show/3223/news.html
"This wasn't planned, you know" by Heather Havrilesky07/27/05: Ha ha! Narm, damn it! Feel like being grouchy to your mom? Feel like snapping at your kids? Feel like fucking your secretary? Feel like beating yourself up for every single neurotic thought in your head? Narm! The end is near. Narm! Better have another slice of pizza. Narm! Better be nice to the people who put up with you. Narm! Better walk the dog. Better have another glass of wine. Better turn off the TV set. Narm! Because you never really know, do you? Narm! It's anyone's guess! Narm narm narm!
in the TVWoPity of the finale "That money is ours," Keith says. "For our new house. I don't know if you've realized, but that house you grew up in is a great fucking house." David wonders if Keith doesn't find it depressing. David's been to our forums.
Keith says it doesn't have to be, which means yes.
/whereisjorn/ Dec 2003: Jorn's vocal political opinions, particularly his views on the mid-east conflicts (that have at times moved well into vitriol), have turned many people against him = metafilter discussion:
-He is a nutball, his own opinions are deeply suspect, and he finds really interesting links. lots of bad bad and good
-Jorn did use "weblog" first in this context, but the term existed in the "log of activity by your web server" sense for years before that. right, I like that.
-Nobody is excusing Jorn's anti-semitism. Some people doubt it, others acknowledge it but find it of no bearing on the value of the external material he points to, but no one is excusing it, period.
-It's fine that you, Anil, have decided all things Jorn-related are beyond the pale, but I certainly don't have to draw the line in the same place. You might want to take the self-righteousness down a notch or two.Oh, and the attributions have always struck me as elegant and interesting.
-He is not alone, but rather represents a certain fringe of the liberal left that somehow has let their anger at Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians turn to anti-Semitism.
k re original spelling "WebLog" as seen on Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom WebLog page from December 1997 [and in his] subsequent correspondence like this Usenet post from June 1998: The Robot Wisdom Weblog is a free, eclectic, independent, illustrated news digest, updated several times daily since December 1997. Its sources include but are not limited to the newest issues of: Salon, Village Voice, Guardian (UK), The Nation, Progressive Review, Columbia Journalism Review, NY Review of Books, Feed, Nerve, Scientific American, Boardwatch, Lingua Franca, Slashdot, Fast Company, New Scientist, Covert Action Quarterly, and Risks Digest.
He's A Hustler, Baby - re k - sarah hatter . . .who, on a fantastically irregular basis, publishes essay-style bits of writing at sarahhatter.com and on an almost bi-daily basis she posts to her psuedo-weblog, Things I Am Over!
to throw a wrench into the MetaFilter "post a link and a comment" system I've been wanting some new & interesting reading material. So: if you could only have one weblog to take with you to the desert island, which one would it be? February 14, 2001
A Sociological Look at Metafilter.Com - not updated since these few 2004 entries? links, though, eg to Adorno & Horkheimer...
Kevin Kelly ('senior maverick at Wired') on Ask Metafilter
http://www.kk.org/
-He is a nutball, his own opinions are deeply suspect, and he finds really interesting links. lots of bad bad and good
-Jorn did use "weblog" first in this context, but the term existed in the "log of activity by your web server" sense for years before that. right, I like that.
-Nobody is excusing Jorn's anti-semitism. Some people doubt it, others acknowledge it but find it of no bearing on the value of the external material he points to, but no one is excusing it, period.
-It's fine that you, Anil, have decided all things Jorn-related are beyond the pale, but I certainly don't have to draw the line in the same place. You might want to take the self-righteousness down a notch or two.Oh, and the attributions have always struck me as elegant and interesting.
-He is not alone, but rather represents a certain fringe of the liberal left that somehow has let their anger at Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinians turn to anti-Semitism.
k re original spelling "WebLog" as seen on Jorn Barger's Robot Wisdom WebLog page from December 1997 [and in his] subsequent correspondence like this Usenet post from June 1998: The Robot Wisdom Weblog is a free, eclectic, independent, illustrated news digest, updated several times daily since December 1997. Its sources include but are not limited to the newest issues of: Salon, Village Voice, Guardian (UK), The Nation, Progressive Review, Columbia Journalism Review, NY Review of Books, Feed, Nerve, Scientific American, Boardwatch, Lingua Franca, Slashdot, Fast Company, New Scientist, Covert Action Quarterly, and Risks Digest.
He's A Hustler, Baby - re k - sarah hatter . . .who, on a fantastically irregular basis, publishes essay-style bits of writing at sarahhatter.com and on an almost bi-daily basis she posts to her psuedo-weblog, Things I Am Over!
to throw a wrench into the MetaFilter "post a link and a comment" system I've been wanting some new & interesting reading material. So: if you could only have one weblog to take with you to the desert island, which one would it be? February 14, 2001
A Sociological Look at Metafilter.Com - not updated since these few 2004 entries? links, though, eg to Adorno & Horkheimer...
Kevin Kelly ('senior maverick at Wired') on Ask Metafilter
http://www.kk.org/
Friday, August 26, 2005
What Makes People Gay? - The Boston Globe By Neil Swidey August 14, 2005
The debate has always been that it was either all in the child's upbringing or all in the genes. But what if it's something else?
"That my sons were different the second they were born, there is no question about it," says the twins' mother.
So what happened between their identical genetic starting point and their births? They spent nine months in utero.
well writ - WHAT DOES IT MATTER WHERE HOMOSEXUALITY COMES FROM? Proving people are born gay would give them wider social acceptance and better protection against discrimination, many gay rights advocates argue. In the last decade, as this "biological" argument has gained momentum, polls find Americans - especially young adults - increasingly tolerant of gays and lesbians. That's exactly what has groups opposed to homosexuality so concerned. The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D.C., argues in its book Getting It Straight that finding people are born gay "would advance the idea that sexual orientation is an innate characteristic, like race; that homosexuals, like African-Americans, should be legally protected against 'discrimination;' and that disapproval of homosexuality should be as socially stigmatized as racism. However, it is not true."
Some advocates of gay marriage argue that proving sexual orientation is inborn would make it easier to frame the debate as simply a matter of civil rights. That could be true, but then again, freedom of religion enjoyed federal protection long before inborn traits like race and sex.
Researchers at Northwestern University, outside Chicago, are doing this work as a follow-up to their studies of arousal using genital measurement tools. They found that while straight men were aroused by film clips of two women having sex, and gay men were aroused by clips of two men having sex, most of the men who identified themselves as bisexual showed gay arousal patterns. More surprising was just how different the story with women turned out to be. Most women, whether they identified as straight, lesbian, or bisexual, were significantly aroused by straight, gay, and lesbian sex. "I'm not suggesting that most women are bisexual," says Michael Bailey, the psychology professor whose lab conducted the studies. "I'm suggesting that whatever a woman's sexual arousal pattern is, it has little to do with her sexual orientation." That's fundamentally different from men. "In men, arousal is orientation. It's as simple as that. That's how gay men learn they are gay."
... By now, there is substantial evidence showing correlation - though not causation - between sexual orientation and traits that are set when a baby is in the womb. Take finger length. In general, men have shorter index fingers in relation to their ring fingers; in women, the lengths are generally about the same. Researchers have found that lesbians generally have ratios closer to males. Other studies have shown masculinized results for lesbians in inner-ear functions and eye-blink reactions to sudden loud noises, and feminized patterns for gay men on certain cognitive tasks like spatial perception and remembering the placement of objects.
You can't really blame the advocacy groups. The stakes are high. In the end, homosexuality remains such a divisive issue that only thoroughly tested research will get society to accept what science has to say about its origin. Critics of funding for sexual orientation research say that it isn't curing cancer, and they're right. But we devote a lot more dollars to studying other issues that aren't curing cancer and have less resonance in society.
Neil Swidey is a member of the Globe Magazine staff. He can be reached at swidey@globe.com.
The debate has always been that it was either all in the child's upbringing or all in the genes. But what if it's something else?
"That my sons were different the second they were born, there is no question about it," says the twins' mother.
So what happened between their identical genetic starting point and their births? They spent nine months in utero.
well writ - WHAT DOES IT MATTER WHERE HOMOSEXUALITY COMES FROM? Proving people are born gay would give them wider social acceptance and better protection against discrimination, many gay rights advocates argue. In the last decade, as this "biological" argument has gained momentum, polls find Americans - especially young adults - increasingly tolerant of gays and lesbians. That's exactly what has groups opposed to homosexuality so concerned. The Family Research Council, a conservative Christian think tank in Washington, D.C., argues in its book Getting It Straight that finding people are born gay "would advance the idea that sexual orientation is an innate characteristic, like race; that homosexuals, like African-Americans, should be legally protected against 'discrimination;' and that disapproval of homosexuality should be as socially stigmatized as racism. However, it is not true."
Some advocates of gay marriage argue that proving sexual orientation is inborn would make it easier to frame the debate as simply a matter of civil rights. That could be true, but then again, freedom of religion enjoyed federal protection long before inborn traits like race and sex.
Researchers at Northwestern University, outside Chicago, are doing this work as a follow-up to their studies of arousal using genital measurement tools. They found that while straight men were aroused by film clips of two women having sex, and gay men were aroused by clips of two men having sex, most of the men who identified themselves as bisexual showed gay arousal patterns. More surprising was just how different the story with women turned out to be. Most women, whether they identified as straight, lesbian, or bisexual, were significantly aroused by straight, gay, and lesbian sex. "I'm not suggesting that most women are bisexual," says Michael Bailey, the psychology professor whose lab conducted the studies. "I'm suggesting that whatever a woman's sexual arousal pattern is, it has little to do with her sexual orientation." That's fundamentally different from men. "In men, arousal is orientation. It's as simple as that. That's how gay men learn they are gay."
... By now, there is substantial evidence showing correlation - though not causation - between sexual orientation and traits that are set when a baby is in the womb. Take finger length. In general, men have shorter index fingers in relation to their ring fingers; in women, the lengths are generally about the same. Researchers have found that lesbians generally have ratios closer to males. Other studies have shown masculinized results for lesbians in inner-ear functions and eye-blink reactions to sudden loud noises, and feminized patterns for gay men on certain cognitive tasks like spatial perception and remembering the placement of objects.
You can't really blame the advocacy groups. The stakes are high. In the end, homosexuality remains such a divisive issue that only thoroughly tested research will get society to accept what science has to say about its origin. Critics of funding for sexual orientation research say that it isn't curing cancer, and they're right. But we devote a lot more dollars to studying other issues that aren't curing cancer and have less resonance in society.
Neil Swidey is a member of the Globe Magazine staff. He can be reached at swidey@globe.com.
cervantes still, rw
Headlines:Surprising cultural history of 'Indian' cuisine (UkG-bkrev)
Loooong profile of sociobiologist Robert Trivers (UkG)
New NewYorker cartoons finally appear (usually Tues) hee hypertext
Turkmenistan's president's book's in orbit (PhysOrg)
Widowed 26yo chimp smoking half-pack a day (CBC-no-pix) oh- started by picking up butts.
Saudis brag terror is winning the war on terror (Lb-IHT)
Scary sequel on W's psychosis (CapHill via Sam)
Absurdist Calvin-Trillin on recycling quandaries (blog-NyT via Sam)
Frame-by-frame Quicktime of fleeing ivory-billed woodpecker (Science)
PrankWatch: Handcuffed 18yo requests hacksaw at Walmart (NH-no-pic)
Authorised Tori Amos bootlegs (MySpace via Top40)
Last night I dreamt I was loudly singing "Happy Phantom" backstage to actors
Cute early pix of Madonna (multimulti via VH1) cool-
New 'portable satellite radio' isn't (Days)
Implausible-but-fun history of t-shirt slogans (VVoice w/popup via mshook)
Slow charming RealVideo promos for Utah State Fair by Napoleon Dynamite (via Destiny)
They're in the annoying submenu under 'Napoleon's Sweet Ads'
Alice having a good day (Wonderland blog)
You can now change your Gmail 'From' address (GgH via BlogHerald)
Blind beer-testers can't tell cans from bottles (WSJ w/table)
Two short childhood memoirs (VerseDaily)
Thursday:
Rave for soundtrack CDs from Scorsese's Dylan (UkInd-2col)
Camp Casey tearjerker w/Joan Baez, etc (HuffPo-Evans)
Internal DVD-burner $44 delivered (newegg via DealNews)
find 'rw' -> afterward otherwise
k today on no longer sticking to a single headline, single link, with text format: It's a subtle change, but in a lot of ways it's a return for me to an older style of blogging: link-dense, off-the-cuff, linking for subtext and [as well as] reference (a practice pioneered by Suck). re RSS- I still have the URL pointing to whatever it is I'm primarily linking to rather than the permalink for the entry.
via k The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "It was an old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect your copyright. If someone copied Lillian, then we'd know they'd stolen from us."
from k to look at - but why 'remaindered' unless already archived?
Elsewhere-Some other fine examples of remaindered links weblogs
What Do I Know Enjoying
Joshua delicious --- Sippey delicious --- Veen delicious
Magnetbox delicious --- Oddments (also on delicious) - compare these 5...
Loooong profile of sociobiologist Robert Trivers (UkG)
New NewYorker cartoons finally appear (usually Tues) hee hypertext
Turkmenistan's president's book's in orbit (PhysOrg)
Widowed 26yo chimp smoking half-pack a day (CBC-no-pix) oh- started by picking up butts.
Saudis brag terror is winning the war on terror (Lb-IHT)
Scary sequel on W's psychosis (CapHill via Sam)
Absurdist Calvin-Trillin on recycling quandaries (blog-NyT via Sam)
Frame-by-frame Quicktime of fleeing ivory-billed woodpecker (Science)
PrankWatch: Handcuffed 18yo requests hacksaw at Walmart (NH-no-pic)
Authorised Tori Amos bootlegs (MySpace via Top40)
Last night I dreamt I was loudly singing "Happy Phantom" backstage to actors
Cute early pix of Madonna (multimulti via VH1) cool-
New 'portable satellite radio' isn't (Days)
Implausible-but-fun history of t-shirt slogans (VVoice w/popup via mshook)
Slow charming RealVideo promos for Utah State Fair by Napoleon Dynamite (via Destiny)
They're in the annoying submenu under 'Napoleon's Sweet Ads'
Alice having a good day (Wonderland blog)
You can now change your Gmail 'From' address (GgH via BlogHerald)
Blind beer-testers can't tell cans from bottles (WSJ w/table)
Two short childhood memoirs (VerseDaily)
Thursday:
Rave for soundtrack CDs from Scorsese's Dylan (UkInd-2col)
Camp Casey tearjerker w/Joan Baez, etc (HuffPo-Evans)
Internal DVD-burner $44 delivered (newegg via DealNews)
find 'rw' -> afterward otherwise
k today on no longer sticking to a single headline, single link, with text format: It's a subtle change, but in a lot of ways it's a return for me to an older style of blogging: link-dense, off-the-cuff, linking for subtext and [as well as] reference (a practice pioneered by Suck). re RSS- I still have the URL pointing to whatever it is I'm primarily linking to rather than the permalink for the entry.
via k The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "It was an old tradition in encyclopedias to put in a fake entry to protect your copyright. If someone copied Lillian, then we'd know they'd stolen from us."
from k to look at - but why 'remaindered' unless already archived?
Elsewhere-Some other fine examples of remaindered links weblogs
What Do I Know Enjoying
Joshua delicious --- Sippey delicious --- Veen delicious
Magnetbox delicious --- Oddments (also on delicious) - compare these 5...
Thursday, August 25, 2005
John Battelle's Searchblog
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail: More than half of Amazon's book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles. "The biggest money is in the smallest sales." just as Batelle says about Google searches that there are more unique searches than there are of all the big common ones... Use recommendations to drive demand down the Long Tail. Netflix, where 60 percent of rentals come from recommendations, and Amazon do this with collaborative filtering, which uses the browsing and purchasing patterns of users to guide those who follow them ("Customers who bought this also bought ..."). This is the difference between push and pull, between broadcast and personalized taste. Long Tail business can treat consumers as individuals, offering mass customization as an alternative to mass-market fare. And the cultural benefit of all of this is much more diversity, reversing the blanding effects of a century of distribution scarcity and ending the tyranny of the hit. -Chris Anderson is expanding this article into a book, due out in May 2006. Follow his continuing coverage of the subject on The Long Tail blog.
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail: More than half of Amazon's book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles. "The biggest money is in the smallest sales." just as Batelle says about Google searches that there are more unique searches than there are of all the big common ones... Use recommendations to drive demand down the Long Tail. Netflix, where 60 percent of rentals come from recommendations, and Amazon do this with collaborative filtering, which uses the browsing and purchasing patterns of users to guide those who follow them ("Customers who bought this also bought ..."). This is the difference between push and pull, between broadcast and personalized taste. Long Tail business can treat consumers as individuals, offering mass customization as an alternative to mass-market fare. And the cultural benefit of all of this is much more diversity, reversing the blanding effects of a century of distribution scarcity and ending the tyranny of the hit. -Chris Anderson is expanding this article into a book, due out in May 2006. Follow his continuing coverage of the subject on The Long Tail blog.
Webshots vs. Flickr? - Frank Boosman: As for the broader issue, the Flickr team has taken an ecosystem approach to building their service. To the best of my knowledge, the Webshots team has not. There is definitely room for plenty of different takes on photo sharing. / responding to comments like: Measuring Webshots (v Flickr) by how often they're mentioned in blogs is like measuring Coke against Izze or Red Bull. The latter may get the buzz, but I'll take Coke's market share any day. The key difference is they have a screensaver product that puts them on the desktop of everyone who likes screensavers, not just everyone who likes RSS. Ask yourself this: which one will your Mom bother to download & install? Which one has crossed the chasm (groan)? chasm?
No Soap, Radio! - Blog Archive -More On Webshots/Flickr Chatter by Narendra Rocherolle
No Soap, Radio! - Blog Archive -More On Webshots/Flickr Chatter by Narendra Rocherolle
Extreme Bookmarking - Selection From 50 Del.icio.us Add-Ons: WeTaste - Robin Good's Latest News: the success of del.icio.us can be attributed to its ingenious reciprocity, allowing you to wander from one topic of interest to another.
Personalized Adaptive Knowledge Discovery, Mapping And Archival System: It's Delicious
goes much beyond the ability to provide a public knowledge mapping and discovery tool as it extends itself to provide the means to recycle and refuel each and every personal "viewpoint" into a new public resource that can be further shared, syndicated and re-used. You explore, discover, review, filter and share with others while following your own personal interests and goals. Is there a better way to learn while enriching everyone else? Very strongly recommended.
Delicious is the brainchild of Joshua Schachter. A truly brilliant service from the same guy who brought you MemePool (started 1998) and also GeoURL.
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W: Unlike many weblogs, Memepool has neither a commenting system that would turn it into a discussion forum nor any significant element of self-revelation by its authors that would turn it into a journal. It simply consists of links, categorized and dated, with a searchable archive, presented with a degree of wit.
W: A meme pool is the sum total of all memes present in a given population. The term is analogous to gene pool.
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Rands In Repose: A Del.icio.us Interview: Yes, Google indexes 8 billion pages and, yes, it serves up the results of queries to those indicies to, well, The Planet Earth... A monthly Zeitgeist reports tells me what The Planet Earth cares about, but I could pretty much guess that the most popular retail query on Google was Ebay. I was surprised that the #2 male celebrity query was Matt Drudge, but I don't actually care. I do care that Joel on Software is gathering the Best Software Essays of 2004. I'm also oddly interested in how to fold a shirt... free graph paper you say? Well, sure. These are topics I learn about from my anonymous del.icio.us peers.... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
brevity.org -- Links to essays in Best Software Writing: Joel Spolsky has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls The Best Software Writing I.
Personalized Adaptive Knowledge Discovery, Mapping And Archival System: It's Delicious
goes much beyond the ability to provide a public knowledge mapping and discovery tool as it extends itself to provide the means to recycle and refuel each and every personal "viewpoint" into a new public resource that can be further shared, syndicated and re-used. You explore, discover, review, filter and share with others while following your own personal interests and goals. Is there a better way to learn while enriching everyone else? Very strongly recommended.
Delicious is the brainchild of Joshua Schachter. A truly brilliant service from the same guy who brought you MemePool (started 1998) and also GeoURL.
---
W: Unlike many weblogs, Memepool has neither a commenting system that would turn it into a discussion forum nor any significant element of self-revelation by its authors that would turn it into a journal. It simply consists of links, categorized and dated, with a searchable archive, presented with a degree of wit.
W: A meme pool is the sum total of all memes present in a given population. The term is analogous to gene pool.
---
Rands In Repose: A Del.icio.us Interview: Yes, Google indexes 8 billion pages and, yes, it serves up the results of queries to those indicies to, well, The Planet Earth... A monthly Zeitgeist reports tells me what The Planet Earth cares about, but I could pretty much guess that the most popular retail query on Google was Ebay. I was surprised that the #2 male celebrity query was Matt Drudge, but I don't actually care. I do care that Joel on Software is gathering the Best Software Essays of 2004. I'm also oddly interested in how to fold a shirt... free graph paper you say? Well, sure. These are topics I learn about from my anonymous del.icio.us peers.... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
brevity.org -- Links to essays in Best Software Writing: Joel Spolsky has compiled a book of essays on software, which he calls The Best Software Writing I.
still facing - - - Peter Lunenfeld blames the twenty-first century's inability to imagine the future on ... an interface: the ubiquitous desktop of nested files, icons, trash cans, and cascading windows, he argues, have become impediments to our thinking beyond the present. -AZ- User : InfoTechnoDemo Mieke Gerritzen's bold visuals create a book that is also a designed object. ~ every book is ~ and the words & visuals were not same-authored ~ so, not a visual intellectualism, Lunenfeld ~
http://www.peterlunenfeld.com/ Mediawork Pamphlets -zines for grown-ups- are intended to create a new category of public visual intellectuals, and new categories of audience as well. 1. Shaping Things 2. Writing Machines
frontwheeldrive.com: peter lunenfeld interview: These highly designed little books pair major writers with contemporary graphic designers to produce 'theoretical fetish objects' in the tradition of The Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village -- where Lunenfeld plays Jerome Agel to the Marshall McLuhans and Quentin Fiores of today.
essays in USER published over five years in international magazine artext: artus home
http://www.peterlunenfeld.com/ Mediawork Pamphlets -zines for grown-ups- are intended to create a new category of public visual intellectuals, and new categories of audience as well. 1. Shaping Things 2. Writing Machines
frontwheeldrive.com: peter lunenfeld interview: These highly designed little books pair major writers with contemporary graphic designers to produce 'theoretical fetish objects' in the tradition of The Medium is the Massage and War and Peace in the Global Village -- where Lunenfeld plays Jerome Agel to the Marshall McLuhans and Quentin Fiores of today.
essays in USER published over five years in international magazine artext: artus home
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
This is going to be BIG! - 10 Steps... : Be mindnumbingly simple. Extra clicks are deadly. People just won't do it. Indeed: One search, all jobs. Two boxes: What job and where. You can't get any easier than that and all it takes is for someone to put one search in for people to go, 'Wait...what's this... links to Monster AND Careerbuilder??'
(also thisisbig has pimpmyweb instructions: 1. Subscribe to blog content via RSS. eh~ 2. Download Firefox. Sign up for del.icio.us and start tagging. hmm maybe.)
so - Indeed - started Nov04. > commented on in Engineeer2Entrepreneur and I like this > The interview is like the candidate's first day at work, with the only question that matters being this: "What's your business plan for doing this job?" Two weeks before the interview, call up the candidate and say the following: "We want you to show us how you're going to do this job. I suggest that you read through these pages on our website, review these publications from our marketing and investor-relations departments, and speak with these three people on my team. When you're done, you should have something useful to tell us."
Become an internal entrepreneur -- the person who figures out what the real problem is and builds a team to solve it. make those hz hand motions: what are we meeting about? ok, what are you going to do for us? ok, what's going to happen now?
ok, and the web bigging, k: GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
DDN Articles - What's RSS and Why Should I Care About It?
(also thisisbig has pimpmyweb instructions: 1. Subscribe to blog content via RSS. eh~ 2. Download Firefox. Sign up for del.icio.us and start tagging. hmm maybe.)
so - Indeed - started Nov04. > commented on in Engineeer2Entrepreneur and I like this > The interview is like the candidate's first day at work, with the only question that matters being this: "What's your business plan for doing this job?" Two weeks before the interview, call up the candidate and say the following: "We want you to show us how you're going to do this job. I suggest that you read through these pages on our website, review these publications from our marketing and investor-relations departments, and speak with these three people on my team. When you're done, you should have something useful to tell us."
Become an internal entrepreneur -- the person who figures out what the real problem is and builds a team to solve it. make those hz hand motions: what are we meeting about? ok, what are you going to do for us? ok, what's going to happen now?
ok, and the web bigging, k: GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
DDN Articles - What's RSS and Why Should I Care About It?
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
DVD navigation - You can't fast-forward DVDs like VCRs used to; more often than not, you end up skipping to the end of the %! movie. Also, they don't allow you to skip the FBI warning - what is this, Communist Kamchatka? from 10 things created in the last ten years that Ian could do without
How Can It Be Irony When It Is Exactly What You Expected?
Whimsical is the New Weightiness
name that humor.
"Who's That Girl?" (Eurythmics) I think it's Rosanna Arquette. Or Patricia. Is there another Arquette sister? Because if there is, maybe it's her.
"Who Can It Be Now?" (Men At Work) Probably the UPS guy. They said they'd be here between noon and six. What's it now — around four?
"Where Did it all Go Wrong?" (Oasis) I'd say almost immediately after "What's the Story Morning Glory?" That's an obvious answer, and quite glib, I realize, but it's true. Boy, is it true.
Whimsical is the New Weightiness
name that humor.
"Who's That Girl?" (Eurythmics) I think it's Rosanna Arquette. Or Patricia. Is there another Arquette sister? Because if there is, maybe it's her.
"Who Can It Be Now?" (Men At Work) Probably the UPS guy. They said they'd be here between noon and six. What's it now — around four?
"Where Did it all Go Wrong?" (Oasis) I'd say almost immediately after "What's the Story Morning Glory?" That's an obvious answer, and quite glib, I realize, but it's true. Boy, is it true.
Monday, August 22, 2005
Venganza Open Letter - I like his FAQ and hire me pages. He doesn't want to move to Vegas.
Update: Offered a "real job" in Las Vegas. Trying to avoid moving there, as Vegas is the worst place on earth and makes my head want to explode.
8/11/05 Another casino-industry employer is interested... lookit the email I received, and my response: Is it in Vegas? By the way, I've applied to [xxxx] a number of times, without any response. I hope the irony is not lost on you that it took a letter about a FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER to get your attention.
FAQ 7. Your graph is messed up. -No it's not. Time doesn't have to be on the X-axis. If you look, you'll see that the X-axis is "number of pirates". It is a graph of "global average temperature" (in celsius) vs "number of pirates". It's legit, and there is a statistical significance. I SWEAR the graph is ok, really. I promise. I die a little everytime I get an email about this (well over 100 now). The numbers go 35,000 then 45,000 then 20,000 on purpose. See, there was a decline in the pirate population, but it rebounded slightly, and then declined again. Check your history books. Also, I realize that there are several sports teams named the "pirates", and that there are millions of music/software "pirates". But *real* pirates use swords.
Update: Offered a "real job" in Las Vegas. Trying to avoid moving there, as Vegas is the worst place on earth and makes my head want to explode.
8/11/05 Another casino-industry employer is interested... lookit the email I received, and my response: Is it in Vegas? By the way, I've applied to [xxxx] a number of times, without any response. I hope the irony is not lost on you that it took a letter about a FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER to get your attention.
FAQ 7. Your graph is messed up. -No it's not. Time doesn't have to be on the X-axis. If you look, you'll see that the X-axis is "number of pirates". It is a graph of "global average temperature" (in celsius) vs "number of pirates". It's legit, and there is a statistical significance. I SWEAR the graph is ok, really. I promise. I die a little everytime I get an email about this (well over 100 now). The numbers go 35,000 then 45,000 then 20,000 on purpose. See, there was a decline in the pirate population, but it rebounded slightly, and then declined again. Check your history books. Also, I realize that there are several sports teams named the "pirates", and that there are millions of music/software "pirates". But *real* pirates use swords.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
may be cervantes of hypertext is here. collection, juxtaposition, love.
Mute pianoman just a hoaxster (UkMirror w/popup) +ah - Kdsh - a mystery w/a solution.
PrankWatch: Bullfrogs released in 1968 now rule southern France (UkInd via lf)
Amazon commissioning 49cent etexts (AP-USA2-vshort) [Az]
Pleasant ramble about software, community, etc (EthanZ) +
880 murders last month in Baghdad (Time via HuffPo)
The HuffPo item linking this crashed me again
Eco-conscious consumerism doing well (HuffPo-Makower)
HuffPo seems to have fixed whatever was crashing me
Which two consonants can be spelled without using themselves? (short via danec)
Googling suggests unexpected best-stories-ever (NZ) [Asimov]
poohpoohs 200; poopoos 2500; poo-poos 7000; pooh-poohs 42000
Freakonomist pooh-poohs peak-oil panic (Frknmcs)
What movies people have walked out on (OnionAV-thread) +
Useful Google keyword: "define:" (new to me)
Eloquent rant by Cindy Sheehan (CD)
Penthouse letters, GrandTheftAuto racism, and St Louis poverty (SusieBright)
"Penthouse Letters Are Real, Grand Theft Auto is Not, and St. Louis, I Do Mind Dying"
Mute pianoman just a hoaxster (UkMirror w/popup) +ah - Kdsh - a mystery w/a solution.
PrankWatch: Bullfrogs released in 1968 now rule southern France (UkInd via lf)
Amazon commissioning 49cent etexts (AP-USA2-vshort) [Az]
Pleasant ramble about software, community, etc (EthanZ) +
880 murders last month in Baghdad (Time via HuffPo)
The HuffPo item linking this crashed me again
Eco-conscious consumerism doing well (HuffPo-Makower)
HuffPo seems to have fixed whatever was crashing me
Which two consonants can be spelled without using themselves? (short via danec)
Googling suggests unexpected best-stories-ever (NZ) [Asimov]
poohpoohs 200; poopoos 2500; poo-poos 7000; pooh-poohs 42000
Freakonomist pooh-poohs peak-oil panic (Frknmcs)
What movies people have walked out on (OnionAV-thread) +
Useful Google keyword: "define:" (new to me)
Eloquent rant by Cindy Sheehan (CD)
Penthouse letters, GrandTheftAuto racism, and St Louis poverty (SusieBright)
"Penthouse Letters Are Real, Grand Theft Auto is Not, and St. Louis, I Do Mind Dying"
Which two consonants can be spelled without using themselves?
jongales : Consonant letters can be spelled out. These are valid words according to the dictionary. Vowels don’t have spellings that I can find. I think it’s a little bogus that these spellings include the letter they are spelling, but I didn’t create the rules. bee, cee, dee, ef, gee, aitch, jay, kay, el, em, en, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee. I first learned of this several years back after seeing a kid in the National Spelling Bee go home after getting confronted with spelling the letter H. comments are funny
and GoogleRumors and do you place email replies before or after the text you are replying to? 1 comment from dowingba : Top. Always. If I’m responding to several questions, doesn’t matter. If they don’t remember what they asked, they can scroll down. I’m not gonna waste my time threading everything manually. okhz.
btw (my before): remember the dialect survey. (look at maps & results. such cool display of information. and it is my kind of information: what people say = phenomena. Aristl.)
jongales : Consonant letters can be spelled out. These are valid words according to the dictionary. Vowels don’t have spellings that I can find. I think it’s a little bogus that these spellings include the letter they are spelling, but I didn’t create the rules. bee, cee, dee, ef, gee, aitch, jay, kay, el, em, en, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee. I first learned of this several years back after seeing a kid in the National Spelling Bee go home after getting confronted with spelling the letter H. comments are funny
and GoogleRumors and do you place email replies before or after the text you are replying to? 1 comment from dowingba : Top. Always. If I’m responding to several questions, doesn’t matter. If they don’t remember what they asked, they can scroll down. I’m not gonna waste my time threading everything manually. okhz.
btw (my before): remember the dialect survey. (look at maps & results. such cool display of information. and it is my kind of information: what people say = phenomena. Aristl.)
Firefox tabbed browsing
Software Reality - Mozilla Firefox 0.8: "Ctrl-clicking a link opens the link in a new tab, but - and here's the clever part - doesn't take you there. Instead, the new tab shows an icon indicating whether the page has loaded yet. So you can continue reading the current page whilst the new page loads, then click over to it when you're ready. That's pretty neat, and... It's an interesting interpretation of how punters typically browse the web. If you encounter a web link halfway through a story (essentially "click here for more info"), the natural thing to do is to open the link in a different browser window but keep it for later, in the meantime finishing off the current story (basically finishing off the current thought process before moving onto something new)."
Put Away Childish Things - Darren Barefoot
-Can someone explain what the big deal with tabbed browsing is? I mean, yeah, multiple windows open, click and get another one - but how is that different from having multiple browser windows open on the task bar? I'm sure it's good, I just honestly have not figured out WHY just by trying it.
Enlightenment required/appreciated. -Jeff said. July 3, 2004 07:21 PM
-Yes I'm with Jeff, what is the difference between tabs and different windows open?
-Confession: I don't really like tabbed browsing. Of course, I'm also the person who setup IRC so that it opens each channel as it's own program on the task bar. I like having everything out where I can see it...
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-You can open all of the bookmarks in a folder in tabs. This means that I can launch thirty tabs with the click of a button, and review them very quickly. I usually have at least 5-7 windows open on my taskbar at once, so adding more than a couple of browser windows can mess that up. Adding thirty would make it unusable.
-Tabbed browsing is, indeed, the only way to go. It's much neater, also. You don't have to alt-tab through a cycle of windows to find what you're looking for, when you have all the tabs with their descriptions right above the window you're looking at right now.
[...these search terms have been highlighted: "tabbed browsing" "the difference" "windows open"]
Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. June 04 ...(A partnership between the tech industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of advising people to consider switching browsers.)
-If you're in the habit of opening a barrage of news and blog links every morning and then reading them afterward, or clicking on several Google results from the same search, tabbed browsing is an order of magnitude more efficient and organized than popping up a whole new window for each link.
- - -krnjobforumorsth:
-Why is "tabbed browsing" so much better than individual pages? I mean, if you have 5 tabs open or 5 windows open....what's the difference?
-Uses less system resources.
ah well.
-Yes, check your task manager and you'll see that it keeps only one task running when you tab browse.
Put Away Childish Things - Darren Barefoot
-Can someone explain what the big deal with tabbed browsing is? I mean, yeah, multiple windows open, click and get another one - but how is that different from having multiple browser windows open on the task bar? I'm sure it's good, I just honestly have not figured out WHY just by trying it.
Enlightenment required/appreciated. -Jeff said. July 3, 2004 07:21 PM
-Yes I'm with Jeff, what is the difference between tabs and different windows open?
-Confession: I don't really like tabbed browsing. Of course, I'm also the person who setup IRC so that it opens each channel as it's own program on the task bar. I like having everything out where I can see it...
---
-You can open all of the bookmarks in a folder in tabs. This means that I can launch thirty tabs with the click of a button, and review them very quickly. I usually have at least 5-7 windows open on my taskbar at once, so adding more than a couple of browser windows can mess that up. Adding thirty would make it unusable.
-Tabbed browsing is, indeed, the only way to go. It's much neater, also. You don't have to alt-tab through a cycle of windows to find what you're looking for, when you have all the tabs with their descriptions right above the window you're looking at right now.
[...these search terms have been highlighted: "tabbed browsing" "the difference" "windows open"]
Are the Browser Wars Back? How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. June 04 ...(A partnership between the tech industry and Homeland Security, recently took the unusual step of advising people to consider switching browsers.)
-If you're in the habit of opening a barrage of news and blog links every morning and then reading them afterward, or clicking on several Google results from the same search, tabbed browsing is an order of magnitude more efficient and organized than popping up a whole new window for each link.
- - -krnjobforumorsth:
-Why is "tabbed browsing" so much better than individual pages? I mean, if you have 5 tabs open or 5 windows open....what's the difference?
-Uses less system resources.
ah well.
-Yes, check your task manager and you'll see that it keeps only one task running when you tab browse.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
the filter style weblog -
I really wish there were another term to describe the filter-style weblog, one that would easily distinguish it from the blog. On the principle of truth in advertising, this would make it much easier for the adventuresome reader to find the type of weblog he most enjoys.
During 1999 something happened, and I believe it has to do with the introduction of Blogger. While weblogs had always included a mix of links, commentary, and personal notes, in the post-Blogger explosion increasing numbers of weblogs eschewed this focus on the web-at-large in favor of a sort of short-form journal.
Traditional weblogs perform a valuable filtering service and provide tools for more critical evaluation of the information available on the web. Free-style blogs are nothing less than an outbreak of self-expression. ...free-form notebooks of ideas...
Our strength--that each of us speaks in an individual voice of an individual vision--is, in the high-stakes world of carefully orchestrated messages designed to distract and manipulate, a liability. We are, very simply, outnumbered.
I strongly believe in the power of weblogs to transform both writers and readers from "audience" to "public" and from "consumer" to "creator." Weblogs are no panacea for the crippling effects of a media-saturated culture, but I believe they are one antidote.
-rebecca blood september 2000
Weblogs: A History and Perspective by Rebecca Blood.
I really wish there were another term to describe the filter-style weblog, one that would easily distinguish it from the blog. On the principle of truth in advertising, this would make it much easier for the adventuresome reader to find the type of weblog he most enjoys.
During 1999 something happened, and I believe it has to do with the introduction of Blogger. While weblogs had always included a mix of links, commentary, and personal notes, in the post-Blogger explosion increasing numbers of weblogs eschewed this focus on the web-at-large in favor of a sort of short-form journal.
Traditional weblogs perform a valuable filtering service and provide tools for more critical evaluation of the information available on the web. Free-style blogs are nothing less than an outbreak of self-expression. ...free-form notebooks of ideas...
Our strength--that each of us speaks in an individual voice of an individual vision--is, in the high-stakes world of carefully orchestrated messages designed to distract and manipulate, a liability. We are, very simply, outnumbered.
I strongly believe in the power of weblogs to transform both writers and readers from "audience" to "public" and from "consumer" to "creator." Weblogs are no panacea for the crippling effects of a media-saturated culture, but I believe they are one antidote.
-rebecca blood september 2000
Weblogs: A History and Perspective by Rebecca Blood.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
i am lonely will anyone speak to me
k: How did a site dealing with digital video codecs become the place for lonely people to go on the web? (NYer)
Moviecodec.com is still the second result for the "i am lonely" search on Google;
here's the thread in question. #
k: How did a site dealing with digital video codecs become the place for lonely people to go on the web? (NYer)
Moviecodec.com is still the second result for the "i am lonely" search on Google;
here's the thread in question. #
Sunday, August 14, 2005
august ides re view
almost all about the medium:
answers wikipedia search (google) robotwisdom webcam webrevolutions
*blogs (we've got)* voice/style, personality
Xanadu Boidem *hypertext* association arrange catalog preserve
otherwise content: books (Mobylives! ~Dalkey) --> even still, re publishing = media
misc -k- coke-size ethnography
li'l from before: Calasso, Sithboombah
books bought: Web.Studies-Gauntlett, Writing Space-Bolter, Smart Mobs-Rheingold, Insanely Great (Macintosh)-Steven Levy, Reading Digital Culture (Blackwell anthology), Reading Six Feet Under
not been looking at aidaily.
not yet explored the well much.
have started checking k and rw daily.
need explore rw.
read back in boidem and we've got blog.
answers wikipedia search (google) robotwisdom webcam webrevolutions
*blogs (we've got)* voice/style, personality
Xanadu Boidem *hypertext* association arrange catalog preserve
otherwise content: books (Mobylives! ~Dalkey) --> even still, re publishing = media
misc -k- coke-size ethnography
li'l from before: Calasso, Sithboombah
books bought: Web.Studies-Gauntlett, Writing Space-Bolter, Smart Mobs-Rheingold, Insanely Great (Macintosh)-Steven Levy, Reading Digital Culture (Blackwell anthology), Reading Six Feet Under
not been looking at aidaily.
not yet explored the well much.
have started checking k and rw daily.
need explore rw.
read back in boidem and we've got blog.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Dave Pell is "generally an advocate of psychotherapy, but not opposed to medication when symptoms dictate (with the added caveat that he has yet to find an instance when they didn’t)."
answers
GuruNet's Answers.com versus Wikipedia: as long as Answers.com uses Wikipedia, I don't see how Wikipedia alone can provide better content than Wikipedia + 100 or more other data sources.
Wikipedia's Symbiotic Relationship With Search - MediaPost Publications - 05/19/2005 (fred/sokag-+->bugmenot): All of Wikipedia's content is open and freely available to anyone under its GNU Free Documentation License.
...
John Battelle's Searchblog -thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. (author of forthcoming book on google - excerpt posted today - more anecdotal (creative non-fiction) than I like?)
rosewater: ...Much of the low hanging fruit for a search company like Google, involves doing kinda creepy things (like pay-for-placement, selling data mined from users, etc) . In order to last and avoid the fate of their predecessors, they have to walk a fine line -- "Do no evil" seems like an excellent guide
Wikipedia's Symbiotic Relationship With Search - MediaPost Publications - 05/19/2005 (fred/sokag-+->bugmenot): All of Wikipedia's content is open and freely available to anyone under its GNU Free Documentation License.
...
John Battelle's Searchblog -thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. (author of forthcoming book on google - excerpt posted today - more anecdotal (creative non-fiction) than I like?)
rosewater: ...Much of the low hanging fruit for a search company like Google, involves doing kinda creepy things (like pay-for-placement, selling data mined from users, etc) . In order to last and avoid the fate of their predecessors, they have to walk a fine line -- "Do no evil" seems like an excellent guide
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
rw +
"I see the Internet as a potentially powerful counterbalance to the enormous contemporary pressure not to think."
yay-a selection of the best links from the Robot Wisdom Weblog archives: netlit/issues.html
eg.fun#humor(.literate):
-My favorite piece of writing on the Web is Phil Greenspun's long, wise, funny tale of publishing a computer book. (print)
-An okay piece on Web-based personality tests
&under media#weblogs: -Simply showing the URL is a convenient way of giving a lot of info about the source, date, etc -&other good 'design suggestions'
---- netlit/index.html ---- home.html
-the life story of the site-maintainer showing how these ideas have been evolving (includes favorite authors and newsgroups)
whoa. check the http://www.robotwisdom.com/map.html
and other weblogs he lists: http://robotwisdom.com/weblogs/loglist.html
...
Thursday, 1 January, 2004
BBC NEWS Magazine RIP Jennicam
Jennicam, the site that sparked a craze for "vanity cams" and predicted the reality TV craze, is no more.
Salon: The Next Web Revolution
yay-a selection of the best links from the Robot Wisdom Weblog archives: netlit/issues.html
eg.fun#humor(.literate):
-My favorite piece of writing on the Web is Phil Greenspun's long, wise, funny tale of publishing a computer book. (print)
-An okay piece on Web-based personality tests
&under media#weblogs: -Simply showing the URL is a convenient way of giving a lot of info about the source, date, etc -&other good 'design suggestions'
---- netlit/index.html ---- home.html
-the life story of the site-maintainer showing how these ideas have been evolving (includes favorite authors and newsgroups)
whoa. check the http://www.robotwisdom.com/map.html
and other weblogs he lists: http://robotwisdom.com/weblogs/loglist.html
...
Thursday, 1 January, 2004
BBC NEWS Magazine RIP Jennicam
Jennicam, the site that sparked a craze for "vanity cams" and predicted the reality TV craze, is no more.
Salon: The Next Web Revolution
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
www, what's out there
The source of confusion is the simple fact that users today don’t understand two things. First, they don’t understand why the www. is (or isn’t) there, and second, they don’t understand that the Web is not the whole of the Internet. http://www.yes-www.org/www-is-not-deprecated/
...the current "is it really Web 2.0?" discussion : Tim Bray writes: In terms of qualitative changes of everyone’s experience of the Web, the first happened when Google hit its stride and suddenly search was useful for, and used by, everyone every day. The second—syndication and blogging turning the Web from a library into an event stream—is in the middle of happening.
--wrd! very nicely said
k: http://www.kottke.org/05/08/the-present-future: Perhaps this is impossible or unfair, but can we have a discussion about where technology and user experience on the web are headed without using any of the following words or concepts:
[Ajax, web services, weblogs, Google, del.icio.us, Flickr, folksonomy, tags, hacks, podcasting, wikis, bottom-up, RSS, citizen journalism, mobile, TiVo, the Long Tail, and convergence. ]
whoa.
---- -Google -weblogs -Flickr -wikis ~web services, tags, hacks -podcasting (bottom up, citizen journalism, mobile) - Tivo ~convergence ? Ajax -Long Tail -folksonomy?
----is del.icio.us better than just having your own "blog"sitewhtvr to use as a list of links? [the first attraction for me of this was a links list I could access at any computer]. >>yes value in everybody's links being collected and relatable - can organize by tags, sort others by tags, subscribe to others = receive in an inbox (int: can't see subscribees, good I guess)
_
k: What else is out there? Anything?
__when the line between desktop applications and web applications becomes blurred__
good -» by Philipp Lenssen :
Just brainstorming here:
-natural speech input -web office more popular than MS Office
-ultra-realistic, auto-generated, customizable, web-based 3d porn
-richer forms in terms of interface, allowing true web apps like Photoshop Online to emerge
- true editing capabilities built right into the browser, an HTML page as Word-like document
- the browser itself a web application, with only a minimum framework provided by the OS
-One way of approaching this discussion might be finishing the statement... "It's 2005 and it's hard to believe believe that I can't..." (or "still have to" or "they don't have"). Like - I can't believe I still have to cut and paste URLs all the time.» by jerry jeff
-Its full circle if you ask me...hopefully no green monitors though. Web 0.0 here we come.» by Max
-I think of things like Second Life and Croquet are a great way to get the internet out of the browser. It's like the MMORPG comparison someone made earlier. Croquet is double-nifty because it is entirely a platform for collaboration, and a way to make the web even more of a give and take experience.» by Alex Cline
...the current "is it really Web 2.0?" discussion : Tim Bray writes: In terms of qualitative changes of everyone’s experience of the Web, the first happened when Google hit its stride and suddenly search was useful for, and used by, everyone every day. The second—syndication and blogging turning the Web from a library into an event stream—is in the middle of happening.
--wrd! very nicely said
k: http://www.kottke.org/05/08/the-present-future: Perhaps this is impossible or unfair, but can we have a discussion about where technology and user experience on the web are headed without using any of the following words or concepts:
[Ajax, web services, weblogs, Google, del.icio.us, Flickr, folksonomy, tags, hacks, podcasting, wikis, bottom-up, RSS, citizen journalism, mobile, TiVo, the Long Tail, and convergence. ]
whoa.
---- -Google -weblogs -Flickr -wikis ~web services, tags, hacks -podcasting (bottom up, citizen journalism, mobile) - Tivo ~convergence ? Ajax -Long Tail -folksonomy?
----is del.icio.us better than just having your own "blog"sitewhtvr to use as a list of links? [the first attraction for me of this was a links list I could access at any computer]. >>yes value in everybody's links being collected and relatable - can organize by tags, sort others by tags, subscribe to others = receive in an inbox (int: can't see subscribees, good I guess)
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k: What else is out there? Anything?
__when the line between desktop applications and web applications becomes blurred__
good -» by Philipp Lenssen :
Just brainstorming here:
-natural speech input -web office more popular than MS Office
-ultra-realistic, auto-generated, customizable, web-based 3d porn
-richer forms in terms of interface, allowing true web apps like Photoshop Online to emerge
- true editing capabilities built right into the browser, an HTML page as Word-like document
- the browser itself a web application, with only a minimum framework provided by the OS
-One way of approaching this discussion might be finishing the statement... "It's 2005 and it's hard to believe believe that I can't..." (or "still have to" or "they don't have"). Like - I can't believe I still have to cut and paste URLs all the time.» by jerry jeff
-Its full circle if you ask me...hopefully no green monitors though. Web 0.0 here we come.» by Max
-I think of things like Second Life and Croquet are a great way to get the internet out of the browser. It's like the MMORPG comparison someone made earlier. Croquet is double-nifty because it is entirely a platform for collaboration, and a way to make the web even more of a give and take experience.» by Alex Cline
Sunday, August 7, 2005
smaller Coke size ordered at drive-thru. interesting to read the comments at the original story (from below blog) and at kottke: - "It's been five years - why won't he just tell us and end our misery and confusion?! There has to be some statute of limitations on gasp-inducing heat-inspired ethnographic epiphanies." + the (as of now last) comment on 8/7 from RKB seems evenkeeled and smart.
www.cultureby.com = This Blog Sits at the
intersection of anthropology and economics: The thing you notice when you do the anthropology of the First World is that culture is constantly formed and reformed by commerce. Back to school for the anthropologist: in my case, to economics and complexity theory. I hold a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and I have taught at the Harvard Business School. The places that culture and commerce, anthropology and economics meet most often: marketing in general, branding in particular, popular culture, Hollywood, advertising, television, magazines, and, increasingly, blogging. Grant McCracken
www.cultureby.com = This Blog Sits at the
intersection of anthropology and economics: The thing you notice when you do the anthropology of the First World is that culture is constantly formed and reformed by commerce. Back to school for the anthropologist: in my case, to economics and complexity theory. I hold a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and I have taught at the Harvard Business School. The places that culture and commerce, anthropology and economics meet most often: marketing in general, branding in particular, popular culture, Hollywood, advertising, television, magazines, and, increasingly, blogging. Grant McCracken
WIRED story on Ted Nelson
"The Curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf <~1995 --"that some mental connection or relationship might dissolve was unbearable." BBC interview with Ted Nelson 2001
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huh, google directory to Ted Nelson. see esp:
Lemonade -Lengthy, passionate response from Ted Nelson to the Wired article "The Curse of Xanadu".
rw page on web biography - etext authobio of Ted Nelson (hypertext pioneer)
Tools For Thought: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Ted Nelson, Computer Lib, hypertext, Xanadu. By Howard Rheingold. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
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yay-also online: Rheingold's book VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
esp yay re his community, THE WELL - - -just started noticing (?) @ Salon
plus lynk from rg ...the dark side of virtual community or smsch
Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW (Ted Nelson hypertext, Doug Engelbart?)
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Influences
va rw's Critical history of HTML (morning not-so-quickie):
1994 June: TimBL already seriously out of touch: "I hardly spend any time browsing" [cite]
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huh, google directory to Ted Nelson. see esp:
Lemonade -Lengthy, passionate response from Ted Nelson to the Wired article "The Curse of Xanadu".
rw page on web biography - etext authobio of Ted Nelson (hypertext pioneer)
Tools For Thought: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Ted Nelson, Computer Lib, hypertext, Xanadu. By Howard Rheingold. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
--
yay-also online: Rheingold's book VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
esp yay re his community, THE WELL - - -just started noticing (?) @ Salon
plus lynk from rg ...the dark side of virtual community or smsch
Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW (Ted Nelson hypertext, Doug Engelbart?)
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Influences
va rw's Critical history of HTML (morning not-so-quickie):
1994 June: TimBL already seriously out of touch: "I hardly spend any time browsing" [cite]
cervantes of hypertext
Ted Nelson is voicing what a few people have known for a while, from the technical side -- that the intersection of communication and computer technologies will create a new communication medium with great possibilities. But he notes that the art of showing us those possibilities might belong to a different breed of thinker, people with different kinds of motivations and skills than the people who invented the technology. After Gutenberg came Cervantes. After movable type came novels. As Alan Kay pointed out, literature was the software of the era. The Cervantes of Hypertext might be learning to read right about now.
www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html
Tools For Thought: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
adding this on 5/2/2006 actually, bcs neglected to quote before, so it wasn't here for me to search out.
(happily blogger lets me backdate even the year. now if I cld just get those lil pencils to show up, I cld edit old posts at this computer..)
www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html
Tools For Thought: Xanadu, Network Culture, and Beyond
adding this on 5/2/2006 actually, bcs neglected to quote before, so it wasn't here for me to search out.
(happily blogger lets me backdate even the year. now if I cld just get those lil pencils to show up, I cld edit old posts at this computer..)
cervantes of hypertext
Ted Nelson is voicing what a few people have known for a while, from the technical side -- that the intersection of communication and computer technologies will create a new communication medium with great possibilities. But he notes that the art of showing us those possibilities might belong to a different breed of thinker, people with different kinds of motivations and skills than the people who invented the technology. After Gutenberg came Cervantes. After movable type came novels. As Alan Kay pointed out, literature was the software of the era. The Cervantes of Hypertext might be learning to read right about now.
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
We've Got Blog All Online via plasticbag.org
Deconstructing "You've Got Blog" by Joe Clark. ///read yesterday
Blogged Down in the PR Machine by Jordan Raphael. re Joe Clark.
Blogging as a form of Journalism by J.D. Lasica. unmediated instantaneous interactive
The Internet is not killing off conversation by Douglas Rushkoff. Guardian, 2000.
With a weblog pioneer by John S Rhodes. http://portal.eatonweb.com/
Building an Online Community by Matt Haughey. re Metafilter.
We Didn't Start The Weblogs by Nikolai Nolan. ///+look at his blog elements
What the Hell is a Weblog and Why Won't They Leave Me Alone? by Derek Powazek.
The Kaycee Nicole (Swenson) FAQ. re hoax.
Deconstructing "You've Got Blog" by Joe Clark. ///read yesterday
Blogged Down in the PR Machine by Jordan Raphael. re Joe Clark.
Blogging as a form of Journalism by J.D. Lasica. unmediated instantaneous interactive
The Internet is not killing off conversation by Douglas Rushkoff. Guardian, 2000.
With a weblog pioneer by John S Rhodes. http://portal.eatonweb.com/
Building an Online Community by Matt Haughey. re Metafilter.
We Didn't Start The Weblogs by Nikolai Nolan. ///+look at his blog elements
What the Hell is a Weblog and Why Won't They Leave Me Alone? by Derek Powazek.
The Kaycee Nicole (Swenson) FAQ. re hoax.
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
The Linking Policy for Don't Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a "deep link") rather than to a site's home page. We link to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times). *Why not just register?*-It's a breach of privacy. -Sites don't have a great track record with the whole spam thing. -It's contrary to the fundamental spirit of the net. Just ask Google. -It's pointless due to the significant percentage of users who enter fake demographic details anyway. -It's a waste of time. -It's annoying as hell. -Imagine if every site required registration to access content. *Is it ethically justifiable to do this?* -You'll have to find your own way there my friend. However, there is an interesting discussion happening over here.
2005 blogs voted best
the articles about blogging are disappointing. 1 in sixapart is ok, I agree with the endpoint - stop thinking of it as 'weblogging' - there's lots of different things we're doing (or why aren't we!?) - writing space.
... ... Ah +(8/9)+ http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2005/0126_fictitious_w.php:
[what I was asking in yesterday’s post was, “What is a weblog?” The question itself is so open-ended and suggests no definitive answers that even those who pose it seem to do so a bit wearily, which explains why I didn’t come out and state it that way. It deserves to be asked though, and I think a reasonable if still evasive way of answering it might be, “What is a book?” The most literal answer might be: it’s a technological vehicle for the delivery of ideas. But the form itself suggests few inherent purposes, uses or opportunities beyond the very basic one of communication, so why should a blog?] wrd.
see also latest top 10 list from Cnet - and - Daypop top links, etc, each day.
slashdot discussion of Google Blogs February 2003
-This has the potential to be huge... Not only could you search the Internet, but you could refine your searches just to other people's thoughts, etc. Mark another one up for Google being one of the best tech companies in the business world. -Look, Google is a great search engine, but that doesn't mean that everything it touches turns to gold. -Google's "things touched/things that are 24-karat gold" ratio is exceptional.
via Google-buy-Pyra notes at interconnected.org.
and from my before, fish.cx.
BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times). *Why not just register?*-It's a breach of privacy. -Sites don't have a great track record with the whole spam thing. -It's contrary to the fundamental spirit of the net. Just ask Google. -It's pointless due to the significant percentage of users who enter fake demographic details anyway. -It's a waste of time. -It's annoying as hell. -Imagine if every site required registration to access content. *Is it ethically justifiable to do this?* -You'll have to find your own way there my friend. However, there is an interesting discussion happening over here.
2005 blogs voted best
the articles about blogging are disappointing. 1 in sixapart is ok, I agree with the endpoint - stop thinking of it as 'weblogging' - there's lots of different things we're doing (or why aren't we!?) - writing space.
... ... Ah +(8/9)+ http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2005/0126_fictitious_w.php:
[what I was asking in yesterday’s post was, “What is a weblog?” The question itself is so open-ended and suggests no definitive answers that even those who pose it seem to do so a bit wearily, which explains why I didn’t come out and state it that way. It deserves to be asked though, and I think a reasonable if still evasive way of answering it might be, “What is a book?” The most literal answer might be: it’s a technological vehicle for the delivery of ideas. But the form itself suggests few inherent purposes, uses or opportunities beyond the very basic one of communication, so why should a blog?] wrd.
see also latest top 10 list from Cnet - and - Daypop top links, etc, each day.
slashdot discussion of Google Blogs February 2003
-This has the potential to be huge... Not only could you search the Internet, but you could refine your searches just to other people's thoughts, etc. Mark another one up for Google being one of the best tech companies in the business world. -Look, Google is a great search engine, but that doesn't mean that everything it touches turns to gold. -Google's "things touched/things that are 24-karat gold" ratio is exceptional.
via Google-buy-Pyra notes at interconnected.org.
and from my before, fish.cx.
more on google (actually adding this on 22 August):
Where Does Google Plan to Spend $4 Billion?
The space elevator is one of the dozens of business ideas that have been considered by the company's wide-eyed founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It also is one of the ideas that the company's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, has taken pride in keeping "below the line." It has been Mr. Schmidt's ability to keep the company focused on its stated mission of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful" that has so far made the company a powerful threat to larger rivals like Microsoft.
The 4,100-employee company that the three computer scientists have built has maintained a marked predisposition toward building and not buying its future. Indeed, its acquisitions to date have exclusively been of small technology start-ups led by designers whom Google wanted to hire.
That is a marked contrast to its two main competitors, the Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo, which have recently turned to high-profile acquisitions to enter new markets.
Google's preference has been instead to try to create new markets from scratch or to redefine existing ones when it enters them.
The Hundred-Dollar Laptop
Where Does Google Plan to Spend $4 Billion?
The space elevator is one of the dozens of business ideas that have been considered by the company's wide-eyed founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. It also is one of the ideas that the company's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, has taken pride in keeping "below the line." It has been Mr. Schmidt's ability to keep the company focused on its stated mission of "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful" that has so far made the company a powerful threat to larger rivals like Microsoft.
The 4,100-employee company that the three computer scientists have built has maintained a marked predisposition toward building and not buying its future. Indeed, its acquisitions to date have exclusively been of small technology start-ups led by designers whom Google wanted to hire.
That is a marked contrast to its two main competitors, the Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo, which have recently turned to high-profile acquisitions to enter new markets.
Google's preference has been instead to try to create new markets from scratch or to redefine existing ones when it enters them.
The Hundred-Dollar Laptop
Monday, August 1, 2005
EXTREMELY MELODRAMATICAND INCREDIBLY SAD:
Why Jonathan Safran Foer's ballyhooed new novel is cause for despair
a MobyLives guest column by Steve Almond
The more I thought about it, the more I was reminded of our current political dichotomy. The critics who have chided Safran Foer (myself included) sound a lot like the blue–state pundits. No matter how eloquently we state the argument, we're basically telling people they're unsophisticated (read: stupid) if they dug ELIC. And those people know that they're being talked down to. Indeed, our snobbery only reaffirms their devotion. (A typical assessment: "I usually don't do reviews on Amazon, but I found it necessary for this book, because I've been reading many negative reviews in newspapers and literary magazines and all those sorts of places...")
and wow, MobyLives :
"Dennis Loy Johnson, deserves to be mentioned here for his famously anti–establishment blog postings (this newspaper's books coverage came under regular fire), his focus on the good work that gets lost in the publishing shuffle and his intriguing guest column series." — David Orr, The New York Times Book Review
"There is an intelligent, earnest, unpetty, non–narcissistic, un–gawking way to cover the publishing industry." — Sarah Stodola, MeThree.net
"MobyLives towers above all other literary weblogs."— Michael Orthofer, The Complete Review
---go back to scan the recent news digests
...came to the site via search about magazine Lingua Franca
then, in a scan of archived columns found one about
Dalkey Archive Press [CENTER FOR BOOK CULTURE]
"the site of perhaps the most quietly subversive publisher in the country" - great.
no Vernacular press mention - yet -?
Why Jonathan Safran Foer's ballyhooed new novel is cause for despair
a MobyLives guest column by Steve Almond
The more I thought about it, the more I was reminded of our current political dichotomy. The critics who have chided Safran Foer (myself included) sound a lot like the blue–state pundits. No matter how eloquently we state the argument, we're basically telling people they're unsophisticated (read: stupid) if they dug ELIC. And those people know that they're being talked down to. Indeed, our snobbery only reaffirms their devotion. (A typical assessment: "I usually don't do reviews on Amazon, but I found it necessary for this book, because I've been reading many negative reviews in newspapers and literary magazines and all those sorts of places...")
and wow, MobyLives :
"Dennis Loy Johnson, deserves to be mentioned here for his famously anti–establishment blog postings (this newspaper's books coverage came under regular fire), his focus on the good work that gets lost in the publishing shuffle and his intriguing guest column series." — David Orr, The New York Times Book Review
"There is an intelligent, earnest, unpetty, non–narcissistic, un–gawking way to cover the publishing industry." — Sarah Stodola, MeThree.net
"MobyLives towers above all other literary weblogs."— Michael Orthofer, The Complete Review
---go back to scan the recent news digests
...came to the site via search about magazine Lingua Franca
then, in a scan of archived columns found one about
Dalkey Archive Press [CENTER FOR BOOK CULTURE]
"the site of perhaps the most quietly subversive publisher in the country" - great.
no Vernacular press mention - yet -?
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