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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)...
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. ;)...
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,...
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...
Shady fellows in the environs
bopuc:what is aloft, George currency?sven:Oh, thou art aware how we proceed in this district.sven:How goes?bopuc:oh, merely striking the vixens and pleasing the strumpets...sven:Very well; carry on good fellow!bopuc:may I "notetaker-connected-by-electric-means" this conversation?sven:Indeed, daring would not I be to forbid thee...
Talkr
It's not April Fool's is it? Damn, I didn't think so. Talkr provides a service that allows you to listen to your favorite text-only news sources rather than read them. If you can point us to an RSS feed (a...
CMS themes = money
I found this funny. Looking at my "montreal" tag flickr stream I notice a picture of Guy Kawasaki. Hunh? Oh I see, it's one of these blog/flickr marketing tie-ins. I've done one or two of those myself. Feels slightly dirty...
The troll pile
I'm writing up a proposal for a potential client (weblogs / community site) who realistically will probably get a fair amount of trolls posting, at least initially. This worries them somewhat, but they are willing to hear any thoughts &...
Birthdays in Tokyo
Unless my info is wrong, I have to wish Happy Birthday today to good friend Jim and awesome dude Gen. Considering the time-zone difference, and certain servers holding certain informations being in various places on the planet, I may...
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so...
Gaaaaahhh U.S. Senator Evan Bayh is a heartland Democrat with a proven and broad appeal, and a history of advancing progressive values in a heavily Republican state. First elected Governor at the age of 32 – the youngest in the...
Yahoo! Term extraction for MT
So Jonas has gotten this working for WordPress, but I have some ideas of how to use it, somewhat differently, with Movable Type. I couldn't code Perl (or anything else really) to save my life so here is just the...
Rock paper scissor
(Left as a comment on a yet another thread about "what is a blog?") A sheet of paper, a pencil. What is scribbled on that piece of paper (and arguably the role the person doing the scribbling takes on and...
Let's expand on folksonomies
First of all, purely for background and some interesting ideas, the Wikipedia definition of "taxonomy". Taxonomy (from Greek ταξινομία (taxinomia) from the words taxis = order and nomos = law) may refer to either a hierarchical classification of things, or...
On comments
I wasn't going to say anything but just to make it clear: I have switched the default setting on this weblog for "Allow comments" to "None". When I post something that I'd like feedback on, I'll turn comments on for...
Folk taxonomies
Fun with Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies Very cool, and could be very useful when everyone cools down from "OMG tags!" syndrome. Tags are great, and "folksonomies" are neat but I think, and surely others do too, we will not truly see...
Politically correct in Quebec
(or "baladi-balado") Ok some background. I live in Quebec, a predominantly francophone ("french speaking") province ("state") of Canada. The francophones here are ridiculously anxious about protecting "their culture" (while they love nothing more than buying american products and seeing their...
Tagsurf
Just came across Tagsurf. Haven't wrapped my head around it yet but having registered and logged in (the registration process is made difficult by a barely legible capcha), it looks to be very powerful. I guess one way to describe...
Why "blogging" sucks
The National Debate: Why "Blogging" Sucks So-called "bloggers" are just "writers". I am a writer. You might think I am a bad writer, or even a terrible writer. My wife thinks I am a good writer but she may not...
Using AJAX and a small private key to thwart comment spam
Does this make sense? It assumes your weblog system allows you to define a small, say 5 character, private encryption key, or even generates one for you. You don't need to know it really cause only the system ever uses...
Tetsujin 28 weblog
So this is all in japanese but here's what seems to be going on: there's this movie, "Tetsujin28", coming out that looks like a modern remake of some japanese giant robot series or whatever. And here is the movie's... blog....
Did I say that out loud?
I write an inordinate amount of “weblog entries” in my head. Ninety-nine percent of them never make it to the keyboard, let alone get published. A funny side-effect of this is every so often someone will bring up an entry...
Comments
So my comments system got SNAFU'd by a clever spammer who snuck a whitespace bye me when I added 'im to my Blacklist. In other words, any submitted comment that contained a space was bounced for the last 24hrs or...
MT templates for full entry text in syndication feeds
I was gonna write it up but then remembered that 6A "did the right thing" and updated all their syndication feed templates to publish full entries. The templates can be found here. Note that only the Atom one includes Extended...
Technorati ties the tags togther...
Technorati: Tag: bopuc What's all this then? This page shows all kinds of goodies from the web about bopuc. The posts come from you! Just post a link to your blog about bopuc and include a link to this page...
Today
Overnight, I moved this site to a new, way faster server. This will allow me to start building on it again. In the move I decided to ditch my photo galleries because, well, I didn't like them and they took...
MT-Blacklist SNAFU
I just caught MT-Blacklist doing something really nasty. And I caught it doing it repeatedly: When submitting a checkmarked list of comments from Movable Type's comments list to MT-Blacklist for processing, MT-Blacklist only properly grabs the first comment ID, and...
Input output, part 1
I've been thinking a lot lately about this thing we call the personal weblog, especially the evolution I see, working exclusively on other people's, in how they are used and how their owners want to use them. It comes down...
ecto on special
In the spirit of Christmas, we are offering a special 30% discount on purchases of ecto between December 20th and 26th, 2004! Get it while it lasts! If you blog, ecto is THE app for composing and managing your...
Keep track of your comments with del.icio.us
Mike from Ile Sans Fil says: mtl3p: Oh, and in case some of you haven't though of it yet I'm putting all of comments that I make on delicious. You know, when you comment on someone's blog and then forget...
Tags... no! Semantics! No! Ontologies!
Or something like that... I've been ranting about tags, Ado spoke of APIs, Leonard digs in with facets and triplets, and surely there are looooads of other people talking about all of this, and have been for a long time....
Tags, ontologies, community and feedback
"Com' follow me now!" Thinking hard about tags - the new black as Ado says - and various conversations I've had recently, mostly with Karl, about ontologies, explicit relationships (hah!), etc. Say I have a bunch of files that I...
Into the wild
Adriaan, the erstwhile developer of such sweet apps as ecto and 1001, today has released two of his little Perl scripts for Movable Type: the Technorati Plugin and the last.fm script. Both of these have been running, beautifully, on Joi's...
Awesome MP3 compilation
La Blogothèque: We have a long compilation tradition here. And we wanted to celebrate the site's second month. So here is a mix CD called Point d'écoute (Part. 1 + Part. 2 ) (Listening Post) that we made to sum...
Régine beat me to it
I hadn't visited we make money not art in a while and dropped in only to see that Régine has beaten me to it. I am speaking of course of the "I'm using categories as tags" and displaying them in...
Montreal Metroblog
I want ten Montreal-area webloggers to join me in making up our local Metroblog. English and french posts that somehow have something to do with Montreal, and share whatever bits of this great city. :) Here are some of the...
Bigger than... Jebus!
I wasn't going to say anything about all this, but I just saw something that made my jaw drop... Not the numbers or stats or anything like that... look closely... juuuust beneath the face-off box... First line after it. "Election...
[this is aaron]
Because, while I can respect it, Aaron's quiet, "I'll be over here" demeanor drives me batty sometimes, I am going to take license and point out his freshly published résumé. While I'd love to expound on how he's actually publishing...
Ping me
So I was thinking about how I could be notified of the continuation of weblog comments threads I'd participated in. I thought "hey, I have a URL...
Tail wagging
As Joi links to me from his entry on Chris Johnson's Wired article "The Long tail", I figure I should riff a bit on what I see in all this and why I reminded him of Momus' excellent "Pop Stars, nein danke!" article.
Lost in connections
Just noticed that in his track "God Only Knows" off of Fantasma, Cornelius samples The Jesus & Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey", which is the closing track of Lost In Translation as the credits begin to roll.
What am I listening to?
So following the boss's...... endorsement(?), I've had to figure out a quick way to include last.fm / audioscrobbler data on a webpage...
A9 leveraging Amazon
You don't need to do anything to get this discount except keep using A9.com as your regular search engine.We don't advertise this additional discount that we give in exchange for using A9.com, so if you want your friends to know about it, please tell them.... To see how this works, do some A9 searches from your computer at work and then sign in to A9.com from your computer at home.How can we afford this additional π/2% discount?Sponsored links revenue -from the small text-based ads on A9.com and Amazon.com search results pages -will help offset costs we incur through the Rewards promotion.
May I ask you all for a small favor?
My stats are wonky and imprecise, and aside from a handful of regulars, I get very little feedback. I would love to know who's out there watching me!Please, leave a quick a comment on this post.
Nokia & 6A
Six Apart: Nokia and Six Apart Announce Mobile Web Logging for Content Sharing "Nokia Lifeblog is further evolving into a great tool for life sharing. Thanks to the collaboration with Six Apart, a shaper in the blog community, users will...
Unclear on the concept
If there is one thing weblogs ARE, it seems to be "hard to grasp".A month ago I posted this "moblog" entry (which is just a weblog entry with a picture which was posted from a mobile device) showing two cans of Korean-market Japanese sports drink "Pocari Sweat" (think Gatorade), which I got here, on the other end of the planet in a Korean grocery store.
Pre Announcement
So I am running late on this little "thing I wanna do" so I am going to make a quick pre-announcement here right now.Basically I am starting a small "Weblog Services" business.
Like they heard my prayers
daikini released "Photon" the other day. Not a week ago I was hunting around and trying various tools that would allow me to easily create photo galleries in Movable Type, in my inimitable picky style.
ecto
ecto now has (what he is calling) WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get) weblog entry composing "without having to bother with HTML tags".... A little rough, like the dutchman himself, but nice (as well).
One feed to unite them all
/me kicks himself for above gratuitous use of pop cultural reference. So I finally got fed up and hacked up a PHP script that generates a single RSS 1.0 feed containing the 20 most recent entries to my weblog, photolog and links.
Timestamp timezones in Flickr
(and by extension, in social software enabled content management systems, especially moblogging ones) Currently, Flickr timestamps everything in it's developers' timezone, Pacific Standard Time. To anyone not on the western seaboard of North America, this is pretty much useless. Who...
Of course! mod_rewrite!
One simple way to reduce comment spam Adriaan thought up of one more very powerful way to stop comment spam (assuming your blog is on a server you have access too... and is running Apache... and the .htaccess directive is...
Welcome Steven
Friend Steven Mansour started up a blog over a month ago and I just clued in: stevesgallery.com | Nil magnum nisi bonum. Kinda embarrassing to only realize it now as he's been asking me questions about blogging, and blogging software...
An example
Here is an example of information hunting and establishing connections between bits of data online. This story will remain intentionally vague and short on specific URLs for two reasons: to protect the individual's privacy and to keep my Google rank...
Mobile
I finally went out and got a cameraphone. Well, it's actually way more than that but anyways. So I have begun "moblogging" like a fiend. You may have noticed. I am sending pics to both my own MT-based MobiLog AND...
What has Seb done for you lately?
Seb Paquet (Seb's Open Research) has a special request today. Seb's work is funded by the Government of Canada. This funding covers not only his research, but also the fact that he is able to, and does, share much of...
Spiegel does RSS
RSS-Newsfeed: Immer wissen, was es Neues gibt - Der Tag - SPIEGEL ONLINE German news magazine Der Spiegel (think: germany's Time magazine) does RSS feeds of their online edition. Most impressiv... ja, ja... ;)...
An economy of caring
Friend Jim Moore is doing all he can to garner attention, raise awareness and just get people to care about a situation of genocide and other nastyness happening in Sudan at the moment. Much of his efforts are focused on...
After the (MT3.0) dust has settled
Blah blah blah licenses. "W!" My question is this: is 3.0 any better? And by better I mean faster. Has the code finally really been cleaned up and optimized? Does it run better? Cause, in all honesty, and I love...
Meshing storylines from my life
There are narratives in my life that have quietly threaded along in the background, closely following me. Slowly parts of these stories have meshed into my "real life", and this morning another part intersected for the second time with my...
Interconnectedness and patterns, knowledge and freedom
Mark Federman, over at the McLuhan Program, offers up this great entry. While the framework of his entry is based on how the limitations on media use that the RIAA (and MPAA) are seeking will effectively limit access to information...
MT Template for monitoring comment spam
As the title says, here is an MT Template which gives you a nice RSS 2.0 (don't start with me!!!) feed of your blog's comments, complete with handy dandy links to your MT admin and MT-Blacklist interface for quickly identifying...
Attention spans, worthwhile content and UI
Interesting thread over at blork blog: Brain rot. As Mike mentions in the comments, he and I have been talking about this stuff a great deal. I met him and immediatly told him: "you need to blog!" (ugh... sorry... the...
When thoughts collide
I received today my copy of Christopher Alexander's "The Timeless Way of Building" and floated down through the two first chapters as though carried by a gently nimble stream of clear water. More peaceful pondering on that later. I ordered...
Equal schmequel
Equal footing of social standing on a level playing field is a pipe dream; one that if you smoke too much from will blind you to the malcreants who will take advantage of your torpor to hoist themselves above you....
Your life is where you are
James Duncan Davidson puts it best: What do you always have with you? Phone. Wallet. Keys. The mobile phone is starting to become a life recorder. It's ubiquitous. The home computer is the trusted log device. And the web provides...
What do you call it when
This morning, out of the blue, old buddy Michel IMs me this: i had a friend who had a cool idea for something that'd be kinda like friendster, but for books, music and dvds and stuff. so basically a group...
Round One
It seems to me that the prizefight between mass media and "weblogs" has now begun in ernest. Some have been debating the "weblogs versus journalism" conundrum, and the use of weblogs and "social software" in political campaigning has garnered much...
Classnotes Wiki
Mike's "Harkness Table" classnotes wiki is taking off! Way to go! It'll be fun to watch this develop... and spread......
Collapsing
We have relationships with every person we meet/know. We have relationship networks which connect all these people to us and to each other. We manage relationships by being nodes and establishing identities (identity facets). So if we think of ourseleves...
Collapsing
We have relationships with every person we meet/know. We have relationship networks which connect all these people to us and to each other. We manage relationships by being nodes and establishing identities (identity facets). So if we think of ourseleves...
No Comment
As part of my cable television package, I ordered EuroNews. Nevermind that the news reported is from a european perspective (a welcome change from the CNN et al), but there are two other major characteristics of this All-News network I...
Content & Relationship
During a "Content" conversation, I was brought to realize that things like "bar talk", "chewing the fat", "shootin' da shit", et al... are Relationship conversations. It was further pointed out that these are just as important as "real", or "Content",...
Stick this in your Google and smoke it
In a comment on Joi's site, Stewart Butterfield remarked: I have no idea how to settle an argument about this, but I contend that, for the overwhelming majority of blog readers and writers, blogs have almost nothing to do with...
Lawnmower Man meets the Puppet Master
Part of an e-mail exchange with Aaron: > I WANT what Kevin Warwick is working on! Hrm... Garr... :\ Ah come on, Boris. I know Kevin's all about thinking inside the body but try thinking outside the blog. You want...
Locative
One of the things Mike keeps trying to hammer into my head is location-based community communication tools... yeah something like that... Or, something like this? locative media lab blog Link from Smartmobs...
Electioneering, stats and the network effect.
What a seriously odd series of moments the last 72 hours have been. Not five minutes ago I thought to myself "I'd like to see some visual representations of U.S. campaign stats. Like, where's the candidates money coming from, where...
BlogMemory, categories, redesigns
I created a new set of default MT templates which I will use whenever I set up new blogs for folks (which seems to be taking up much of my time these days...). Last night I decided to bite the...
Collaborative classnote wiki
Newfound friend Mike Lenczner has started up another project. (He already heads "Ile Sans Fil", a Montreal-based community Wi-Fi service, as well as running around tirelessly meeting with people to get all kinds of stuff going.) Mike told me about...
Wallop
Wired News: Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster? Wallop is Microsoft's venture into the red-hot social-networking arena, using the common Microsoft tack of piecing together existing technologies and packaging them for the novice user. Those technologies include Friendster-style social-networking capabilities, super-simplistic blogging...
About the previous post
The importance of web architecture, permalinks, etc. In the entry immediatly preceeding this one (RowBoat: The Destroyer of Worlds) I link to a very heavy and striking Flash based presentation of a "multimedia" piece by Ryuichi Sakamoto (and others). It...
Newstrove
Newstrove.com: News Search Engine A news search engine which offers custom RSS feeds for topic searches (so you can track topics of interest to you)....
Semi-conscious
In Joi's posting today, he quips:I remember thinking in the dream, "oh, I should blog this... " Judging from the comments, some folks find this strange and funny. I don't find it either. I think it's perfectly natural. Whenever you...
Me on BlogSpam
I wrote two things today about Blog Comment Spam. One was sent to Dave Farber's "Interesting People" mailing list (which he published! Yay!): Hello Mr. Farber, /.../, the issue of Weblog Comment Spam is one I have been following, and...
It's not me!
Yesterday afternoon I cought and deleted a strange piece of blogspam. It simply said "Boris rules" and linked to boris[dot]com. First thought was: yay, someone trying to be funny. Ten minutes later, Joi asked me if I had posted "Boris...
"To hell with culture"
To Hell with CultureSir Herbert Read (1893-1968).Leading poet, publisher, educational theorist and social reformer, who was one of the most influential art critics of the twentieth century. Having only read the introduction thus far, I wish to share with you...
"High profile"
I've been thinking a lot about a topic I mentioned here a little while back. One of the (many) issues/concerns facing "high-profile" people who should blog, is negative feedback. It is of course inevitable. Politicos will get flamed, intellectuals bashed,...
Correction
RowBoat: SP-LOG? BL-AM? Gees, sometimes I wonder about myself. In the above linked entry, I quote Gen Kanai, then say "I think that's entirely the wrong route", and then proceed to discuss how I implemented something exactly as he suggested....
Pictures
I've set up a photo gallery. What is interesting about this development for me is how, almost immediatly, my attitude towards taking pictures has changed. It has changed in exactly the saem way my attitude towards writing changed when I...
Blogged bookmarks
Francis asked me last night how I am managing bookmarks, and I told him I'm sort of floating around between my browsers and my RSS aggregator, basically forgetting sites I want to visit etc... I mentioned however I was hacking...
Joi interviewed by Lydon
Joi Ito's Web: Dialog with Christopher Lydon Interesting. They covered alot of ground....
SP-LOG? BL-AM?
Gen Kanai (Gen: sorry for the dual Trackback!) blogged about "ZipCode", the blog comments spammer, whom I have been affected by as well. Gen says: We may need to implement some kind of anti-spam comment posting mechanism in the not-too-distant...
Please weblog
I want everyone to blog. More importantly I want people who could be considered as "the crazy ones" to blog. I have found myself recently trying to explain what blogging is and have come to realise it is a hopelessly...
Turn your tongue one hundred times before speaking.
Smart Mobs - Cell Phone Recording May Breach Privacy Folks are going ape about cellphones with call-recording features. Privacy this and privacy that. On the above linked entry I commented: Very simple: never say anything that you will regret. What's...
Fuzzy navels
Joho the Blog: Self-Referential Blogging David Weinberger says:I think it'd be more accurate to say that blogs are conversational. For a little while I agreed, and for a little while it was true. It still is a little true, but...
Belonging and esteem
Joi posted a really interesting thought today. (The juicy part is after the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" quote.) The point I sense he's trying to make has to do with how social software (to be specific, web- and cellphone-based...
T'o'rip Space
T"o"rip Space Wonderful presentation of this GPS enabled, 3D interfaced, essentially moblog sphere service/application......
IRC to weblog
Over on Joi Ito's IRC channel, I expressed the desire to have an ongoing log of the goings-on. It caused some heated debate and Joi decided we should discuss it and come to a decision via his Wiki. So here...
Float
I've been online since only 1996 or so, but I have never gotten into IRC (Internet Relay Chat)... until this past week. It is total virtual world immersion/time limbo induction. The week gone by seems like a speck of dust...
Email: natural interface for weblogging?
Thinking about setting up my moblog for my trip to Japan, I immediately thought that I'd have to troubleshoot the setup. Seeing as I don't have a cellphone with e-mailing capabilities, let alone built-in camera, i wondered if Joi's moblog...
Precisely my cunundrum
Wired 11.06: Mind Share Your mind becomes a part of the space as well. Your own personal site becomes an extension of your memory, as in Vannevar Bush's vision of the Memex, but your memories also become part of the...
ps -ax
For years I've been playing with the idea that man created the computer in his own image. Memory, I/O, software, hardware, etc. Most of my friends have heard about the "scripts" I've "written" and "run as background processes" in my...
Teenaged cyborgs, moblogging and Emergence.
Link found on Smart Mobs, and quotes below lifted from the Miami Herald article it linked to. ''[Cellphones] extend the spatial and temporal boundaries of a physical encounter,'' she said, explaining that cellphones are providing a way for young people...
While we're on the topic... (RSS)
Joi Ito has gone and done it. He bought and read Ben Hammersley's new O'Reilly book "Content Syndication with RSS", Of course this means I have to run out and get it too (shame on me for not having it...
Emergence: post-anarchy?
Reading the initial chapters of "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" by Steven Johnson, wherein, amongst many other things, he speaks of a young Engels' sojourn in Manchester, England, I am struck by a correlation of...
Some points he's missing
"The Register" writer Andrew Orlowski misses a few points, and makes some fair ones, in his article "Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days". To all intents and purposes, the original meaning has been erased. Obliterated, in just...
Learn to love Trackbacks
movabletype.org : A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack Trackbacks are, IMHO, vital to future wikkidness of weblogging. If you use Movable Type (or any of the supporting systems), turn on TrackBacks NOW. And use them. Often....
<<What are your thoughts on Lily Chou-Chou?>>
<< [[ some thoughts about the movie "All About Lily Chou Chou" ]] >> <<Erm... Not sure... I found it very difficult to follow (who is who, who does what, what are the relationships between the characters... When is what...
Finally the "R" word...
Joi Ito finally said it; the R word: Revolution. In his case he speaks of Japan and it's political/economic systems, but I've been itching to hear it lobbed about here in North America, and more specifically, in the U.S. Helloooo...
Digital Identity
This is a hot topic with many implications and applications. Most of the time when DigiID is mentioned, it is in context of government programs to give everyone universal identification. The fear there is of course centralized governmental control of...
Le Web c'est des humains
"The Web is humans" Indeed, when one considers the Web as a force for expression and communication, especially in the context of Weblogging, we can begin to not only see the truly biological characteristics of the Web, but also gain...
FOAF & trust/authority
Six Log: Fun with FOAF Good. This came up during their panel "The Future of Weblogging". Let's see what we can do with this. Of connexe interest, David Galbraith provides his bio in RSS 1.0 format using the "bio" namespace...
Necessary evil.
Name dropping is a necessary evil when attending a schmooze-fest such as SxSW. In fact I've always felt it to play a rather significant role in initial contact with a new person. It allows the other to quickly get a...
The village elders
Or "(wisdom + character) * concensus = authority" Or "Weblog Trust Indexing" Traditionally, small communities have always had "the village elder(s)": a person or persons who, through experience and intelligence aquired wisdom, who's character brought them into the forefront of...
Rate me.
What's all this now? I've built a proof-of-concept WebBlog rating system for my RowBoat. Visitors (you all!) can rate entries on my weblog by clicking the [+], [=] or [–] symbols below. The idea: - Visitors can rate individual weblog...
Knowledge, language and cultural erosion
Steph forwarded me an email from the archive.org mailing list. It raises concerns regarding the degradation of global culture due to the alarming rate of extinction of many of the world's languages......
They're picking up on it... slowly...
The Observer | Business | The genius of blogging What's happening now is that Google has realised that the conversations being conducted by members of the weblogging community has become an important body of content. Acquiring Blogger moves the search...
Collective writing
Are we all not just writing in the same big book? Are we all not just contributing to one large account of our lives, our thoughts, ideas and dreams? Are we not writing our own history? Who really are the...
More BlogMind tools!
Popdex : the website popularity index This is getting more and more interesting. PopDex is like BlogDex and DayPop, but they will "weigh" the links, like Google's "PageRank" algos. Essentially, the more a particular blog or blog entry is linked...
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