WebBlogging Category Archive
Distributed and federated "microblogging"
What you need: - a CMS that allows posting entries -- via quick-post form -- instant message -- text message (how relevant is this in iPhone + unlimited 3G data world?) that outputs -- an ATOM feed of your posts...
The whole world is watching
Sometime in the last 24 hours, Bangladeshi blogger and journalist Tasneem Khalil was arrested by "the Joint Forces". He's the CNN and Human Rights Watch representative in Bangladesh and had recently been covering extra-judicial killings these Joint Forces have been...
I called it
Of totally no interest to anyone, and just of passing to myself, but I so called it. WordPress is inching towards Drupal, and Drupal towards WordPress. They will never meet or overlap of course (or maybe they will one day...
Redez
After months of work, we finally launched the Global Voices Online redesign. This is just the beginning of many many more awesome things to come. Many thanks to all who helped! and congrats to the whole GV community....
Indymedia is a spam host
I've been receiving tons of spam blog comments across the networks I maintain all pointing to spam comments hosted on various Indymedia websites. I have tried to contact them directly but I recently heard that their technical resources are ......
Lookit meeee!
Overall, I prefer Jaiku to Twitter. Where else can YOU track all MY web output? (well what I choose to include anyways) What's the sound of one context collapsing? ;)...
Typical weekend dilemma for me...
I had planned to spend some time this weekend hacking out the "featured article" functionality for the GlobalVoices redesign. It's the last big piece that needs doing and we have a Thursday EST deadline to show off a final version...
"I should blog that"
I think it was sometime in 2002... I hadn't even started this weblog yet, in fact that stuff to me was still just personal websites. (that's all it still is to me, really) On a lark one Sunday afternoon I...
by attribution
Cleaning up my desktop, dunno where else to put this so it's going up here. About three weeks ago, Joi was preparing for a presentation and had a bunch of slides of Lessig's he was... erm... mashing into his KeyNote....
all together now
How to tell this story without getting into the technical details and revealing by what method I prioritized tasks, and still manage to convey some of the insanity that visited itself upon me today? Let's just say that the last...
Buzzfeed
Hello, what's this? "We automatically detect new buzz by crawling 50,000 of the very best web sites, blogs, and news sources. Then our technology crunches the raw data from these sites to identify new buzz that’s just starting to spread....
When the money comes knocking, egotism answers.
Flickr patents "Interestingness". Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as "interestingness." These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the...
IRC logging, revisited
This afternoon I set up a "logger bot" which monitors and logs the GlobalVoices IRC channel. About an hour ago, Karl showed me the log he tweaked for the Semantic Web Interest Group IRC channel and mentioned how he structured...
$86.84
That's how much each YouTube user was worth to Google yesterday. $1,650,000,000 / 19,000,000 users = $86.84 Of course it is far far more complex than that. Youd on't plunk down that kind of coin just on a whim.. or...
Citizendium
Very interesting: The Citizendium, a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take...
Reuters, Ted Turner, the U.N. and GlobalVoices
At 4:00pm EST today, Reuters is hosting Ted Turner in a discussion about the future of the United Nations. Turner is, amongst other things, the largest private funder of the U.N. The discussion is being webcast and GlobalVoices has...
Bingo
Ok Go do their crazy treadmill routine live on the MTV Video Music Awards. The first comment puts it... the way you could only expect i tto be put on the Internet... I believe that the narrowminded and obnoxious message...
Article about Joi in strategy+business
The Ambassador from the Next Economy “Joi interprets in deep ways; he’s a profoundly lateral thinker, and therefore he connects the dots better than most,†says John Seely Brown, author of several eminent books on business innovation and the former...
Un Rendez-Vous, en contexte localisé géographiquement
Claude Lelouche's "c'était un rendez-vous", traced on a google map while the film plays. I love it. (found on Scott Gillies' USC IMD weblog)...
Here they go again
"Ok Go" just raised the bar......
Image editing for Flickr
"Preloadr" is really quite something. It uses the Flickr API to allow you to modify any of your images, via a web interface totally in sync with Flickr's style, as if you were in a "Photoshop-like" application. Awesome job....
I have no mouth and I must scream.
The irony. I have not been able, yet, to "moblog" from my new Nokia N80. I am able to browse websites and use a chat program, via both my mobile provider's GPRS and my WiFi networks at home and at...
Yeah I'm a bit proud...
I stumbled onto Wikipedia's entry for Moblog and damn near fell over. My name's not mentioned of course, but that is my design for Joi's moblog. I did that back in 2003. Custom solution, with a fancy Python-based email-to-xml-rpc script...
Couldn't help but noticing
Jan Chipchase draws a parallel between checking out of a Tokyo hospital and checking out of the U.S. Amazing coincidence, the two photos share many many similarities as well: - shades of green near center of image - large...
Wa-hunh?
The big electronics chain in Canada is British Columbia based "FutureShop", now a division of (american electronics chain) "Best Buy". The FutureShop website has a promo section up, announcing the arrival of the new Nintendo "Wii" system. Clicking on "order...
A Million Ways to surf the viral wave
Wow. Just a bit over a year ago I pointed to this homemade musicvideo by this band, "Ok go!", wherein they perform a quite complex choreographed dance routine in one take in a backyard. It went sort of viral at...
Arrival
This came in via email and SMS just now: From: dav@ Subject: Baby Announcement! Date: July 5, 2006 2:16:07 PM EDT (CA) Dav and Mie are happy to announce the arrival of Tesla Rhea Yaginuma! She was born at 0920a...
Launched another redesign
Just launched Howard Rheingold's SmartMobs redesign. Work on this started months ago and Howard was patient enough to wait through my completing other jobs. I'm quite happy with this redesign. I'd say it's a "Boris-flavored mash-up of Khoi Vinh and...
Creative Commons Japan
So we just turned on the newly designed Creative Commons Japan website. There's prolly a few details to tweak and things will need to be adjusted in the coming months but hey that's what maintenance agreements are for! hint. hint....
Yahoo! porn spam
Warning: links to pages not with photos but hardcore porn terminology... Just got a concerned email from Howard regarding the fact that one of the articles on SmartMobs seems to be a spam magnet according to Yahoo!. The fact was...
Medieval ballisticism
In a follow-up to my "It's not about you" post a few weeks back, Mike Migurski, lead dev on ReBlog, points me to this complaint on "The Taming of The Band-Aid", a small, local weblog about one person's agricultural efforts...
What is a "podcast"?
UPDATED (to be more precise in the answers I seek) In your mind, is it: "A podcast is like radio" ("radio" the medium, not the hardware/technoogy) or "A podcast is like a radio show" (the usage of the medium) ?...
Rachel interview
I am really really pleased to be working with such a great bunch of people as makes up GlobalVoices. Our new Managing Editor, Rachel Rawlins gets interviewed/podcasted on Kamla Bhatt's site and does a great job not only explaining various...
Blocking Technorati
If you're one of the people who prefers to disallow Technorati's bot, which does not respect the robots.txt convention and it's directives (talk about a good net citizen...), you may have resorted to blocking the bot's IP, 209.237.230.104. As of...
Summing it up
My post on "it's not about you" the other day sparked a good thread of debate which culminated in Hugh staking some key points, and Karl responding very clearly and directly, and in my opinion, right on the money, so...
Blogs and Finance
(somebody's gonna kick me for this one) Rebecca just pointed out something very interesting. Google Finance is aggregating weblog posts with companies' stock market ticker symbols... and displaying the results inline with company profile screens. For example, Secure Computing (SCUR)....
Insight in hindsight
Ed Bilodeau mentioned he just missed his 8th anniversary of "personal publishing on the web". An excerpt from his first post, dated March 12th, 1998 (notice the dated space URI): Spend any time at all surfing the Net, and you...
It's not about you
At least not the way you may be led to believe it is. With apologies to Stewart and Caterina, the whole Flickr team and all the folks involved in this "Web 2.0" stuff, who, for the most part, are truly...
Orwell's "Notes on nationalism"
Don't have the time to expound on this seminal text more profoundly at the moment but wanted to point it out. First a salient quote: Indifference to objective truth is encouraged by the sealing-off of one part of the world...
endo
Adriaan quietly announced his new desktop aggregator application for Mac, called "endo". It's a quite novel approach to aggregation, UI wise. Lots of powerful "Smart Filtering" possibilities, and customization. Wicked fast, Universal build (for PPC and Intel Macs) and...
Slow commenting in MovableType resolved
Brandon Fuller discovered a bug in MT and provided the fix for it. If you are a client of mine or someone I am in the habit of helping out with their MT weblog, the patch has been applied. You...
Context, inertia, collisions, and Getting Things Done
"Context" is very much my favorite word these days. People around me must be getting really sick of hearing me yammer on about it. Anyways, Karl shares this great entry from Tao of Mac: Doing less things at a time...
Yahoo! designates Kevin Sites a world region
(I promised myself not to make cynical comments about such things as weblogs and web 2.0 and all that silliness anymore but...) A wonderful glowing example of how "media" perverts "reality". "I don't care what is going on in...
WordPress Loop hack/replacement with logical operands for multicategory listings
I just posted this on the WordPress support forums, see if it gets me anything. If you here have any thoughts please please please get in touch. :) Hi gang, While poking around for this post, I discovered that WP...
Happy 2nd Birthday Flickr!
Mosaic: Happy Birthday Flickr!Originally uploaded by jbum. Wow, I totally missed it this year. Happy birthday gang!! Thanks SO much for this wondrous world of marvels. I moblogged Stewart, Ben and Eric introducing Flickr at ETech 2004, and I was...
Mimi's site
Whew! I just launched Mimi Ito's new website. I actually launched it earlier this evening while running back and forth to the laundromat, and after having dinner with Steven and attending a vernissage quickly, I spent the rest of...
On the success of weblogs et al
The success of all these things such as weblogs, websyndication, etc, is directly attributable, I think, to one basic fact: weblogs are basic, rudimentary Content Management Systems. At risk of over-simplifying, I say that human intellect, human intelligence itself, in...
Help Push? Anyone?
I'm thinking I'm going to set up a resources matchmaking service on a subdomain of helppush.org. I keep getting emails like this one from friend Jon Lebkowsky: My WorldChanging colleague Emily Gertz has just set up a blog for her...
Tim Berners-Lee's weblog
TBL created the web. Now Tim Berners-Lee has a weblog. Good first post too! (I'd quote here but you really need to read the whole thing... to give you a little history lesson. ;)...
K-Blog
terrible.... terribly funny... ;) via Stevey...
LibriVox
Friend Hugh started up a neat "sorta Project Gutenberg for audio books" called LibriVox. The project has gotten some good traction and attention - Hugh was invited to the recent Open Library launch shindig by Brewster Kahle - and he's...
Recent del bookmarks
I'm too lazy to reconfigure this system of mine to archive my del.icio.us stream. I suspect that if/when I do, I'll use that service more. But for now, some recent bookmarks: » BMW Thailand / bmw cutout car toy play...
I was worried but now I am relieved
This will sound like ass-kissing but I assure you it's not. Joi finally posted a really great entry after a long quiet period. (I know I know, research. Daijobu.) More than that, it runs parallel to my suspicions regarding "what's...
"Congress Abandons WikiConstitution"
Don't normally do this but it's too funny. From the Onion: WASHINGTON, DC—Congress scrapped the open-source, open-edit, online version of the Constitution Monday, only two months after it went live. "The idea seemed to dovetail perfectly with our tradition of...
My new blog
Well, here it is. My new blog, complete with Atom & RSS feeds, language [fr] switches [de] and "references"... I think I will call it... "Xanadu"... yes... that sounds right. A centralized master document of all the web, tailored to...
Everyone's got their price...
So MovableType 3.2 has finally been let loose. Bravo to all involved, it is an awesome awesome release. SO, if anyone needs a hand upgrading, or you know someone who may need a hand, talk to me. :D...
Break it down, build it up
(just a quick note.) Existant data-object storage and retrieval systems: - Hard hierarchialization ("taxonomies", "categories with parent/child relationships") - Analytico-synthetic ("Faceted categorization", "Semantic Web") - Unstructured labelization ("Tags", "Labels") - Statistical extrapolation ("Keywords") - Unstructured data ("Full text search") [Disclaimer:...
Immersive
I spent the most part of the last... dunno, lost track... 6 weeks? working on the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division's website, which we launched last thursday morning at 5am EST. (I went on a 4 day celebration...
Tabula rasa
Having had 30 seconds to think about it, I've decided on a course of action for this here "weblog". Tabula rasa it is. This site no longer suits my needs. I've built up a mini Tower of Babel and it's...
News, maps, tags, viz
Michal switched his News Project source from Google "In the News" to the Del.icio.us "Popular" feed and called it "Vox Delicii". Michal is also one of the guys behind Mappr, which mapped Flickr pics based on place-name tags. Aaron's done all...
Letting go, moving on
Slowly but surely this "weblog" will be completely taken apart and rebuilt. I just unhooked the combined feed functionality. No more photolog and links in the main feed. I'm undecided as to whether those will be turned on at all,...
A nice surprise
!!!! "I'd liek to thank teh Academy..." [sic]...
How da??
Somehow, I find myself in the unenviable position where I, a non-programmer, must figure out how to do tag intersections in PHP + SQL. How's that for meta? :D And it's such a beautiful day outside......
CC license jurisdictions
After my "set your Flickr license to Creative Commons!" post the other day, Mikel pointed out jurisdiction issues. I pinged Joi about it and he gave me a quick cryptic response (WiFi in airplanes rots your brains!), but one which...
Flickr & Creative Commons
Help push the more widespread awareness of the use of Creative Commons licenses on Flickr. You can copy and paste the code below into your Flickr Profile's "Describe Yoruself" field: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider changing your Flickr photo license option...
Microsoft says
Teach your kids the basics of safer blogging before they start Dated July 7th, MS published this article in their "Security At Home > Child Safety" webzine. Interestingly, much of it applies to everyone, not just kids: - Ask yourself...
Remote backup script...
I've got an idea for a shell script/program that would be very useful to me, and probably countless others. In fact I bet countless others have already coded something like it up... Requirements: I don't care what programming language it's...
Some Soundsystem
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah... yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah... yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey Everybody keeps on talking about it... nobody's getting it done I'm gettin' tired, tired, tired of listening, listening... knowing...
Global Voices
So, we launched our redesign of Global Voices this evening. We absolutely had to "let 'er rip" today for various reasons, and as such we've allowed a few loose ends which I need to nail down over the coming days....
From my referer logs...
Haven't done this in aaaaaaages... Someone from "Distrito Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina" searched for: photolog+sexy And roughly 11 hours later someone from "Region Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile" searched for: photolog+voyeur Obviously, their curiosity was not satisfied....
Wordpress weekend
OMG! I can write plugins!!! ... ... ... OMG! I HAVE TO write plugins... ;p Yes, I will be releasing two things:a WP plugin that extracts media file URLs from posts, allowing you to link them with a nifty icon...
A brief history of Podcasting
The first Podcaster The first Podcast Celebrity. Coca Cola anybody? Most ironic thing heard on a Podcast Today: "Indie nine one one, the best in unsigned, independant and undependant music... Sponsored by Audi!" - Indie911 Podcast Channel This must...
Holy map!
Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and Keyhole satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones or other devices. Apparently it is super slow, and I imagine it sucks up alot of limited expensive bandwidth......
Been busy much?
I rarely talk about work here - and I will soon have a place to do only that - but I figure I should mention some of what's been keeping me busy lately. Summer started with a bang really. On...
Del.icio.us hash
A month ago, joshua mentioned an easy breezy little addition one can do to one's site to allow users to easily del.icio.us bookmark entries on one's weblog. In some cases though, you might like an easy way to see how...
Bang on
MJ on the "Lifecycle of Bloggers". While I don't for one second believe there is any such thing as "one type of blog/blogger", this sums up very nicely what many many go through. I'm at step 12 myself. Again. Not...