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How to build on bubble-up folksonomies... (plasticbag.org)
A nice practicum on using domain knowledge + user input to create business directed folksonomies. Suggests at the end of the post that knowledge workers are essentially going to become data analysts.
Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists
A nice explanation of how to link together a bunch of terms using publicly available sources. Those guys at the BBC are doing a lot of great work here. The hack uses wikipedia and the yahoo (REST) API.
Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
apophenia: justice, fairness, power and privilege
Actually a fairly thoughtful piece on how the cost of blogging is time, and time is the result of having liesure, often a side-effect of privilege.
Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
I don’t just “use” the Internet, so why am I a user?
It’s because whenever I hear that term I always translate it to “slave generated content.” Here’s why: there’s a lot of companies who are expecting you to help out their business models
Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)
"if I were a television executive right now, I'd take my content, microchunk it, put a couple calls to a video ad server in the middle of it, and let it go whereever it wants to go"
Bud posted this on November 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A VC: Will Live Kill?
But on to Windows Live and Office Live. I don't see despair. I see opportunity. Because Windows Live is lame. I honestly could not find a single thing I'd use it for.
Bud posted this on November 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ten RSS Hacks
Provides a number of practical hints for using RSS. The real value of RSS is in aggregation.
Bud posted this on October 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Jon Udell: Monkey see, monkey do
Yet another greasemonkey script to alter user experience in the bloglines feedreader.
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
NewsGator Daily: RSS Users; Three times as valuable
In the RSS space, there are readers and republishers. These guys are focused on the reader market. It would seem Sixapart's Comet project is oriented to become a cross between the two.
Bud posted this on September 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Niall Kennedy's Weblog: More TypePad 2.0 details
Niall's take on Sixapart's move toward community sites like the learning remix. I think he misperceives the potential impact of the tools. They are not for lazy people but for people who want to pull together disparate community members.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Project Comet
This is a project not unlike our learning remix. We expect to see it in 2006. The limit I see here is the extent to which it enables entrepreneurially remixing. It seems like a mass market project oriented toward family and friends.
Bud posted this on September 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
A New Approach to Sharing Web Research
A web archiving tool. No notion of remixing, merely shares web content with selected others. One wonders how big the market can be for this. The archiving, not the collaboration features are the strong point.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Feed Digest : Mix, convert, and syndicate RSS and Atom feeds
A service that allows you to remix feeds, creating web pages or feeds on feeds. They've broken the 10k mark with about 3 remixes per user. Requires a technical understanding to use. No archive on your own site, just theirs.
Bud posted this on September 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Intelligence in the Internet Age
So, is the BIT320 remix making us smarter or dumber? According to this slashdot post, we may be in trouble for traditional learning purposes. I suspect there is an issue in getting people to adopt this kind of novel style also.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Can't Beat The Local Search Aggregators? Join 'Em!
Author asserts that search engines will stop listing aggregators. But why? Aggregators play an important editorial function.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
NewsFire blocks RSS ads
"Is NewsFire the first of what may be many aggregators to block advertisements in feeds?"
Bud posted this on September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
tech.memeorandum
The Web is humming with reports and opinions on technology. tech.memeorandum is page A1 for these discussions.
Bud posted this on September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
tRuTag
"I've created tRuTag with Ruby because I wanted to explore tagging. What it does is create an html page of your tags on various sites and then allows you to explore them on other sites."
Bud posted this on August 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
unmediated: Niche aggregators: that was fast!
"Thanks to Mayhem and Chaos for pointing out that while I've been proposing the idea of fine-sliced (niche) music aggregators, Audiolunchbox (and, presumably, CD Baby soon) has been building them."
Bud posted this on August 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Online News Consumers Become Own Editors - Yahoo! News
A good mainstream article on feed readers and integrating them with traditional news sites.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How to get filthy stinking rich in the Long Tail
A back of the envelope way to estimate the value of unmet demand in niches.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
When will blogging peak Jeremy asks
The services that aggregate bloggers' content are where the action is going to be now. Flickr. Technorati. Feedster. Pubsub. Bloglines. Blogpulse. Clusty. Blogdigger. IceRocket
Bud posted this on July 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)