2004-05-14  Janne Jalkanen 
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        * v2.1.97.

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        not yet completely work, however.

Coding Frenzy

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The Fee Frenzy

The Fee Frenzy 08/12/2004 09:29 AM
You name it, and your lender has found a way to charge you for it.

Media Frenzy

Media Frenzy 07/28/2004 06:30 PM

Man, there's a lot of media here right now. I've just spoken with folks from The Nation, and I've got a team from PBS looking over my shoulder - "Hey, can I get you blogging right now?" Just had a few of the journalists present yell into the blogger group, asking, "Hey, does anyone know Kerry's Secret Service codename?" Through the looking glass.

Update Frenzy

Update Frenzy 03/06/2004 01:56 AM
After a relatively quiet week or two, save the opening of the SF Apple Store (complete with shiny glass stairs), Apple have sneaked out a few updates today. Airport has been updated to 3.3.1, fixing some wake-from-sleep issues and glitches when switching networks, iDVD has been updated to 4.0.1, adding improved reliability when burning DVD's and GarageBand Jam Pack has been updated to 1.0.1. There is also an update available for people using NVidia cards and Cinema Displays.

Google stirs a new tech frenzy

Google stirs a new tech frenzy 10/31/2003 05:14 PM
IHT Oct 31 2003 2:28PM ET

Political Frenzy on Ice (Los Angeles
Times)

Political Frenzy on Ice (Los Angeles
Times) 01/18/2004 05:58 AM
Los Angeles Times - With polls showing four Democratic candidates in a statistical tie, the presidential campaign ricochets across Iowa.

Experts see pitfalls in Google IPO
frenzy

Experts see pitfalls in Google IPO
frenzy 09/26/2004 07:01 AM
Chron.com - Sun Sep 26, 06:52 am GMT

Retailers Set for Post-Christmas Frenzy

Retailers Set for Post-Christmas Frenzy 12/26/2004 07:07 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 26 2004 9:33PM GMT

DevArtciles: Starting a Downloading
Frenzy

DevArtciles: Starting a Downloading
Frenzy 12/09/2002 09:13 AM

eWeek: Firebird Frenzy Erupts

eWeek: Firebird Frenzy Erupts 02/10/2004 02:42 AM
"After comparing what are commonly thought of as the two most common and most popular open-source databases--MySQL and PostgreSQL--I was floored by the amount of mail I received regarding my ill-advised omission of the hotly popular Firebird open-source database..."

Microsoft Not Immune to iPod Frenzy

Microsoft Not Immune to iPod Frenzy 02/05/2005 09:15 PM
Microsoft employees aren't being true to their school. At least that's what a high-level Redmond executive told Wired on Wednesday. According to the source, people walking around Microsoft's campus can be seen with the trademark white headphones of Apple's iPod - and it's getting under the skin of management.

Google autolink debate frenzy

Google autolink debate frenzy 03/14/2005 05:45 PM
I'm too mired in book work to offer much besides pointers, but here are pointers galore on the important controversy over the Google toolbar Autolink feature -- in which Google offers to overlay its own links to certain types of information that it finds on everyone else's Web pages. In 2001 Microsoft proposed putting something similar right into its Internet Explorer browser, and Walt Mossberg and many others blew the whistle on it. Links should be considered part of the vocabulary of Web content; inserting links is tantamount to tampering with the content.

This time it's been Dave Winer who's been blowing the whistle insistently. Here's Dave's case against Autolink. The opposite point of view -- it's a tool, I should be able to use any tools I want once content lands on my screen! -- is smartly summarized by Cory Doctorow here and here. Paul Boutin in Slate, and Tim Bray, also offer good, careful perspectives.

Me, I think the issue is fundamentally political more than technical; Google is now powerful enough that it needs to learn to tread more lightly in areas like this. My hunch is the Google-ites, encapsulated in their "let's bring all the world's information to light!" mission, simply had no idea what an ethical morass they have plopped themselves into. If the past is any indication, they're nimble enough to step out.

Frenzy LiveCD 0.3 (Default branch)

Frenzy LiveCD 0.3 (Default branch) 03/17/2005 03:36 AM
Frenzy is a portable system administrator toolkit LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system check, security check, and network setup and analysis.

$100,000 Fantasy Football Frenzy and
Binion's Poker

$100,000 Fantasy Football Frenzy and
Binion's Poker 08/10/2004 03:51 AM
408 teams competing at the Fantasy Football Frenzy live drafts at the Las Vegas Hilton. Includes live fantasy football draft and special Texas Hold'em No Limit Poker tournament. [PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Timid Tokyoites Delay IPod Frenzy

Timid Tokyoites Delay IPod Frenzy 07/27/2004 06:16 AM
The first batch of Apple's iPod minis hits Japan over the weekend, and more than 1,500 shoppers line up to buy them. But the consumer chaos is held up by a pair of camera-shy shoppers at the head of the line. Nobuyuki Hayashi reports from Tokyo.

Doom 3 Demo Prompts Filesharing Frenzy

Doom 3 Demo Prompts Filesharing Frenzy 09/19/2004 03:18 PM
Just hours after a demo of Doom 3 for Windows made its debut onto the Web, copies began to spread throughout the game's vast network of enthusiast sites and peer-to-peer torrents. id Software has produced a playable demo of Doom 3's three level Mars City mission that is sure to push players' hardware to its limits.

Limited Gmail accounts spur frenzy

Limited Gmail accounts spur frenzy 05/24/2004 06:40 PM
CNN-36 minutes agoWeb users fight to test Google's new e-mail service, create flurry of online bidding for addresses. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In ...

Town at the centre of eBay frenzy sold

Town at the centre of eBay frenzy sold 05/21/2004 02:17 AM
iafrica.com May 21 2004 6:44AM GMT

Fan frenzy greets debut of latest
PlayStation

Fan frenzy greets debut of latest
PlayStation 03/26/2005 06:57 AM
Post-trib.com - Fri Mar 25, 02:03 pm GMT

David Beckham sparks eBay frenzy

David Beckham sparks eBay frenzy 01/06/2005 02:33 AM
iafrica.com Jan 6 2005 6:33AM GMT

Croc Hunter Irwin Flees Media Frenzy
(AP)

Croc Hunter Irwin Flees Media Frenzy
(AP) 01/04/2004 09:30 PM
AP - The "Crocodile Hunter" has become the hunted. Following a weekend of bad publicity, Steve Irwin and his family retreated from the media spotlight and the public outrage he provoked by hand-feeding a crocodile Friday while holding his infant son, a spokesman for his production company said Monday.

Google buying frenzy could leave
investors out of pocket

Google buying frenzy could leave
investors out of pocket 05/01/2004 10:42 PM
The New Zealand Herald May 2 2004 1:43AM GMT

802 Networks Offers a Different Approach
to the Canadian Hotspot Frenzy

802 Networks Offers a Different Approach
to the Canadian Hotspot Frenzy 05/31/2004 02:06 PM
802 Networks, a Canadian-based network installation and maintenance firm, today announced a different approach to the hotspot business model. By offering low cost, low maintenance wireless solutions, 802 Networks will empower business owners to offer Wi-Fi connectivity for free as an extension of their current product and service offerings. [PRWEB May 27, 2004]

Demand for limited Google email accounts
spurs frenzy

Demand for limited Google email accounts
spurs frenzy 05/25/2004 05:40 PM
The New Zealand Herald May 25 2004 9:02PM GMT

Dutch flower market blooms in Valentine
frenzy (Reuters)

Dutch flower market blooms in Valentine
frenzy (Reuters) 02/10/2004 12:03 PM
Reuters - Prices are soaring on the world's biggest flower market as Dutch traders bid for millions of blossoms ahead of Valentine's Day, the rosiest date in the floral calendar.

Event Update - $100,000 Fantasy Football
Frenzy and Binion's Poker

Event Update - $100,000 Fantasy Football
Frenzy and Binion's Poker 08/15/2004 02:11 AM
We have made the Fantasy Football Frenzy drafts available to people that can't make Las Vegas. 408 teams competing at the Fantasy Football Frenzy live drafts at the Las Vegas Hilton or NOW via the Internet on two special draft dates. August 31st and September 1st. [PRWEB Aug 15, 2004]

PHP Coding Contest

PHP Coding Contest 07/17/2002 11:07 AM
Codewalkers.com has posted their latest PHP Coding Contest.

Coding and Climbing

Coding and Climbing 04/02/2005 03:48 PM
It had never occurred to me that writing software is like climbing Mt. Fuji, but Step han Grell makes it all clear.

PHP Coding Standard

PHP Coding Standard 11/27/2002 09:47 PM
Learn how to develop your own coding specifications.

Bar Coding The World Away

Bar Coding The World Away 07/12/2004 12:55 PM

The Coding Monkeys

The Coding Monkeys 05/18/2004 07:35 AM
you can read all about it & download it from here .. the application formerly known as Hydra .. SubEthaEdit: Introducing version 2.0 .. SubEthaEdit; .. SubEthaEdit .. Rock on !! .. More >

codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit
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Coding standards 101

Coding standards 101 05/31/2002 08:11 AM

YSL Coding Libraries

YSL Coding Libraries 12/11/2003 06:12 PM
Transfer of CVS repository in progress

Why You Need Coding Standards

Why You Need Coding Standards 09/23/2004 03:07 AM
WebmasterBase Sep 23 2004 7:30AM GMT

PHP coding guidelines

PHP coding guidelines 01/05/2004 12:27 PM
The guidelines that I follow when writing my PHP scripts; can be helpful to have something like this if you're working on a joint project.

"CHASE ON FOR SEALED KERRY DIVORCE
DOCUMENTS; PAPER FRENZY AFTER ILLINOIS
SENATE RACE RELEASE "

"CHASE ON FOR SEALED KERRY DIVORCE
DOCUMENTS; PAPER FRENZY AFTER ILLINOIS
SENATE RACE RELEASE " 06/28/2004 08:15 PM

PHP-Editors.com: New PHP Coding Contest

PHP-Editors.com: New PHP Coding Contest 04/13/2004 07:25 AM
New from php-editors.com this morning is their latest PHP Programming Contest.

Wavefront Coding for phonecams

Wavefront Coding for phonecams 09/14/2004 03:48 AM
Xeni Jardin: A new type of lens may make blurry phonecam snapshots a thing of the past:

A specially shaped camera lens and processing method to ensure images are always in focus has been developed. Physicist Dr Andy Harvey said it was a "simple system with a simple lens" which uses an optical encoder so that no information in images is lost. Developed primarily for military night vision cameras, the technology could find its way into camera phones.

Link (thanks, Siege)

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest

Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest 06/06/2004 06:37 AM
Zend's PHP 5 Coding Contest is underway and accepting submissions. This is every developer's chance to flaunt their PHP 5 skills and let their application shine! Applications will be rated both by your peers and by a panel of judges assembled from among the most known and well-respected names in the PHP community. Lots of prizes are available!

How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding
Error?

How Would You Handle a $1,000,000 Coding
Error? 07/19/2004 11:48 PM

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New PHP5 feature: Abstract Data Type
extension

New PHP5 feature: Abstract Data Type
extension 01/21/2003 05:02 PM

GMail Firefox Extension

GMail Firefox Extension 07/09/2004 08:34 AM

GMailC ompose: If you have a GMail account and use Mozilla or Firefox, this extension is right up your alley.

Makes mailto: links load a google mail compose window and adds a GMailCompose link to the context menu.

Apparently Google has created a URL spec for doing just this. Good for them — client integration has always been a weakness of Web-based mail.

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GooglePreview, firefox extension

GooglePreview, firefox extension 07/25/2004 03:42 PM
adds thumbnail images to search result pages

GooglePreview Firefox Extension

GooglePreview Firefox Extension 04/08/2005 06:44 PM

Firefox extension for Allmusic

Firefox extension for Allmusic 08/03/2004 09:38 PM
Last month, people voiced their disappointment with AllMusic's for-the-worse facelift, and a week later someone at holovaty.com wrote a Mozilla Firefox extension that "routs around the damage" and allows for cleaner browsing. Some are pondering the legal consequences.

FireFox Extension Creates Stir

FireFox Extension Creates Stir 03/23/2005 05:18 PM

A new FireFox extension called Greasemonkey allows users to modify webpages as they view them. It gives users the capabilities to manipulate DHTML of a page to prevent ads from appearing, transform links, make a page more printable, change colors, ad your Amazon ID’s in links, change the way links open, and much more. There are literally hundreds of GreaseMonkey userscripts. This all sounds like a great idea, but news.com has some security concerns. 

The trouble with Greasemonkey and user scripts in general is that scripts can be used for both good and ill, and end users scanning through lists of enticing scripts might fail to distinguish between malicious and benign code."A user JavaScript file can in no way harm your computer or stored data, but badly written files can slow down Opera, and malicious files can spy on your browsing," read the browser maker's caveat. "Never install and use a script library from someone you don't know and trust--if in doubt post in the Opera forums, newsgroups or mailing lists and ask if the script you would like to use is well written and exploit-free."

User scripts also could facilitate password-stealing schemes, said security consultant Richard Smith, who runs the Computer Bytes Man Web site."The bad guys could likely create a script for stealing usernames and passwords in login forms using this tool," said Smith. "They would still need to break into someone's computer to install the script, but the tool would make the theft process much easier."

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension

Scribe, Mozilla Firefox Extension 05/18/2004 05:50 AM
scribe, mozilla plugin for text areas .. Scribe

prismicspiral.com/scribe
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"Google Preview Firefox Extension"

"Google Preview Firefox Extension" 07/26/2004 09:11 AM

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Checky Extension for Mozilla and Firefox 04/25/2004 09:53 AM
Checky 2.1 - Extension for Mozilla and Firefox

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups

Firefox readies new extension for
unwanted pop-ups 04/05/2005 01:10 AM
If you've noticed pop-up and pop-under ads sneaking into your surfing despite your browser settings, you're not alone. Firefox users will soon have a new tool to fight the annoying ads.

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots

Mozilla Firefox Extension Update
Screenshots 04/25/2004 03:20 PM

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension

Terri Schiavo status Firefox extension 03/25/2005 01:56 AM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing reader Nik says,

I wrote a Firefox extension that sits in the status bar of Firefox, and tells you at a glance the morbidity status of Terry Schiavo.

Link

Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails

Firefox extension google preview plugin
thumbnails 07/25/2004 08:50 PM
GooglePreview website .. GooglePreview

ackroyd.de/googlepreview
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"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension

"Feed Your Reader" Firefox Feed
Extension 09/20/2004 10:22 AM

When Firefox add ed RSS support, I had mixed reactions. On the one hand, I was excited by the boost RSS would receive by being supported in a popular browser. But on the other hand, for obvious reasons I wasn't wild about how Firefox built RSS into the browser without enabling users to choose an external RSS reader.

So, I was glad when several FeedDemon customers talking about building an extension to enable FeedDemon to take advantage of the new Firefox RSS features.

Michael Koziarski rose to the challenge and created F eed Your Reader, a Firefox extension that enables you to subscribe to feed in FeedDemon - or any other RSS reader that supports the feed: // protocol. Which means that even though the extension was designed with FeedDemon in mind, it's not specific to FeedDemon. Initial tests show that it also works with NetNewsWire on the Mac.

Once this extension is installed, you'll see an additional "FYR" icon in Firefox's status bar right next to the existing RSS icon. Clicking the FYR icon displays a menu of auto-discovered feeds, and clicking one of these feeds will display FeedDemon's "New Channel" wizard to subscribe to it.

Details on Feed Your Reader are h ere, and the project page is here. If you're viewing this in Firefox, the download link to the XPI (extension) is here .

MemoryWorks’ Kolowich on Cinematic
Wedding Video: For Better or Worse,
Hollywood Production Techniques Come to
Wedding Videography

MemoryWorks’ Kolowich on Cinematic
Wedding Video: For Better or Worse,
Hollywood Production Techniques Come to
Wedding Videography 08/05/2004 03:47 AM
New digital video production tools have expanded artistic possibilities available to wedding video producers. But DigiNovations' Michael Kolowich warns that indiscriminate use of these new tools can actually diminish the effectiveness of wedding videos. Links point to examples of cinematic wedding video editing on MemoryWorks website. [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.04

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.04 07/11/2004 06:20 PM

Atom and WSSE example

Atom and WSSE example 06/20/2004 12:16 AM

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.01

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.01 05/16/2004 09:31 AM

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.02

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.02 06/01/2004 05:09 PM

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.03

LWP-Authen-Wsse-0.03 06/01/2004 05:09 PM

Weinberger is bummed out

Weinberger is bummed out 02/19/2004 12:14 AM

I was working on organizing a party for Etech - when Dave Weinberger pointed me to this article by Andrew Orlowski (yes - HIM again!)  David was directly attacked several times and more or less blamed for Dean's losses.

Pretty harsh.

In some ways I actually agree with many of Jerome Armstrong's views (the guy Orlowski quoted in the article) on how the technology 'pundits' associated with the Dean campaign "could be made to look" like blowhards, eggheads and far from representing anybody's beliefs - especially the everyman.

I agree that Technology shouldn't be seen as a panacea, solve all our problems, it's more important than people.  That's how Orlowski made Weinberger seem like. 

But we all - that's NOT what David Weinberger is all about.  In fact I've heard him plea for human passionate, logical, everyman-based 'sechel' (Yiddish for 'common sense) many timesin public and private - so I know Orlowski is just twisting words and pushing the limits of honesty to make a name for himself.

But something tells me that this Guy Armstrong is all about POINTING fingers and laying blame on bloggers, MeetUp and the Dean on-line efforts - for what went wrong with the vote results.  orlowski simply repeated what this Armstrong guy said - and it sure seems to me, that he "had it out' for david.  That's also pretty obvious.

But what's funniest to me - is how typical political, word twisting, slimey, back-room shenanigans has come to our world.  Because of the logical extension and out reach of the Web, politics were SURE to get involved.

And now we're experisincing teh ULTIMATE spin doctoring, stretch the truth to suit our own ends, kind of back stabboing that politis is all about.  And scapegoating is a crucial technique in a battle back - for some lagard candidate.

Now that they've brought in an old school, smoke filled room, inside the beltway kind of guy -you wonder why the nerds are getting scapegoated?

SAME OLD STORY.

Call it chads, a scene from Citizen Kane, Watergate or dead Chicagoans voting for 15 years after their death - politics has ALWAYS been about dirty pool and now the Internet got involved.  The ONLY thing that matters in the world of politics - are the vote results.

the ONLY THING.

It's the same bottom line, make a profit, do your IPO focused vision that drives business.  But politics is not business - so making money ain't the goal.  It's this other sort of 'chit' system - a system called democracy.

And in Amerika - it's winner take all - no seconds or runners up.  The Republicans figured that out in the 60's. That's why they had Nixon.  Now they have Bush.

Here's the letter I wrote David - to try and cheer him up. I'm actually really proud of what David, Zack and the whole Emergent Democracy/MeetUp/Drupal/DeanLink thing have done up til now. If nothing else happens... they can be proud of their accomplishments.

=======

Dear David,

So what is the answer that traditional politicians would give - to counter where you're coming from?

Focus groups in malls with lots of 3 x 5 cards asking 5 versions of the same question? As usual this Orlowski piece spent all it's time criticizing and did not list ONE alternative approach to what the Dean campaign has been doing up until now.

Orlowski's writing reminds me of Ken Aueletta or Roy Cohen. Vicious mean spirited pandering to reptilian hatred, designed to reach into the bigot inside us all. It's almost propaganda.

What is this 'bellhead', inside the beltway guy gonna do differently that Joe Trippi didn't do? How does that effect Dean's policies? What actions will be taken that counter-act what's been up until now?  What's more important ot Dean - getting elected, or........

The Dean campaign seemed to be playing by different rules - and I'm surprised that no one realized that silly things like media coverage and voter turnout would NOT go along with ANY sort of progressive approach to ANYTHING.

Even Democrats get reactionary and vicious when confronted with something that says: "the way you’re doing it now (politics) is wrong - here's the right way..." Who's gonna admit they're wrong?

So it shouldn't surprise us if the media are in cahoots with the fascists and Dean was targeted with being made to look a fool and lose elections. It's all about media image.

Wag the Dog.

If they can make planes fly into buildings on cue - or seem to get all the wrong intelligence info - right when they need it the most (to start a war), they can steal an election campaign. Ever hear of Tricky Dick Nixon?  How 'bout those Kennedy boys back in the 60's? 

Watch them do a similar thing to Kerry.  He's Catholic.

Congrats to Dave Weinberger

Congrats to Dave Weinberger 03/06/2004 01:50 AM

Woohoo!

I found out this morning that I've been offered a fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. I start officially in July.

What a great opportunity! I'm thrilled. Joho the Blog]

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So
Big

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So
Big 06/22/2005 02:19 AM

The Importance of RSS

“Unfortunately, Google’s well of good data is being poisoned by the likes of comment spammers, trackback spammers and adsense mongers. And while Google, the other search engines and the blog software community have been fighting the good fight with ideas like nofollow, Typekey and stop gapping, I think Google knows that when it comes to blogs, they’re losing the semantic ground. And I think they’ve known this for a long time, because for the last year Google has been resting their hopes on a new medium of information—really simple syndication. The technologically capable know it as RSS.

If you think about it, rss feeds are a librarian’s wet dream (and make no mistake that Google is essentially a library, check that mission statement out again). An RSS feed is a blog distilled to its core essence. If you look at the output of an RSS feed in a reader, you’ll see no comments, no trackbacks and (for the most part) no design. It’s the better blog. It’s pure data.

And so RSS feeds provide Google all the goodness of blogs without all the semantic garbage that might come with a system open to users that are not the content provider. RSS feeds provide Google clean data, good data and thanks to wide-spread adoption by companies and the major blog software entities, lots of it….

…If RSS is getting face-time at the expense of search, Google has something to worry about. And it makes sense. From personal experience, I know my daily routine to keep up with the information overload doesn’t really involve searching anymore, but subscribing. Thanks to services like Del.icio.us, Technorati and Digg.com, people are spending a lot less time actively searching and more time passively reading what’s being updated in their readers….

…In the race to find what deserves face-time, services like Del.icio.us, Technorati and Digg.com in combination with the rapid adoption of web apps like bloglines, newsgator, feedster and kinja are making Google’s search seem very, very slow. And it’s all being accomplished with RSS technology….

Let me give a concrete example based on our experiences here at Particletree. When we launched this site, we knew that the tutorials and information we were gathering and creating were good—that they would be somewhat valuable to the web development community. The problem was that we didn’t want this useful, time-sensitive information to sit around for days (or even weeks) waiting to be picked up by search bots and then found by people accidentally or when they were desperate for a solution.

So I proposed that we turned to Del.icio.us to expand our readership. Every time something went up on the site that I felt would be good enough for a wider audience, I added it to my Del.icio.us account with the appropriate tags and descriptions. Our goal was to try and get a feature on del.icio.us/popular by the end of July and to our surprise, we accomplished it in less than a week. After two weeks of diligent posting and tagging, Google gave us a little over 50 referrals while Del.icio.us gave us over 700.

I think the reason Del.icio.us is so successful at bringing the appropriate audience to good material is because they track the changing web by using people to calculate what is essentially ‘page rank.’ They get access to decent fuzzy logic for a fraction of the cost and the democracy of the system allows anyone to get their idea of what deserves face-time into the system almost immediately.” [particletree, via Dave Farber’s Interesting People mailing list]

Kevin Hale makes some really interesting observations in this essay, so you should read the whole thing, especially if you don’t understand the all of the hoopla about these sites. One thing I think he missed noting about the del.icio.us vs. Google traffic example is the disparity in the number of users between the two sites. Far more hits from the site with far fewer users helps illustrate his point even further. And I certainly agree that Feedster and the like make Google seem slower.

And if Hale is right about all of this, it makes you wonder if this isn’t just one more place librarians and our expertise aren’t going to be found, even though we should be. And don’t we already have goldmines of data that could be found in these services if we just started tagging them (in addition to the structured searching we already provide)?

Oh, and someone already left a comment about the whole “Google as library” part, although no one called him on his assertion that there are no comments in RSS. Especially good since Hale ends the essay by referring back to the “why” of all of this for Google – Adsense revenue.

It's like a wedding. I swear to God,
it's a wedding for all of Iraq

It's like a wedding. I swear to God,
it's a wedding for all of Iraq 02/01/2005 09:11 PM
election

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David Weinberger, a small person

David Weinberger, a small person 08/30/2004 11:08 PM

Warning to conservative readers: partisan thoughts below

David Weinberger

I don't think I'm going to have the fortitude to watch the Republican Convention. I know that makes me a small person, but I just can't take it.

I'm getting some blow-by-blow commentary from Mitch via IM right now and I can understand David's feelings.

Mitch on IM

Mitch: sorry, distracted by the glaring whiteness of the RNconvention. no people with any color while Rudy talks
Mitch: pretty wretched talk -- it is ugly in several dimensions, suggesting anyone who disagrees with Bush is an appeaser
Mitch: he literally just said "either you are with us or with the terrorists"
Mitch: and followed by comparing Bush to Churchill
Mitch: Rudy is sure he's Churchillian

Regarding David's post, Mitch says, "too many years as a reporter -- I can watch anything."

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Folksonomies in Japanese

Folksonomies in Japanese 02/01/2005 08:41 PM
OK, I need some help from people who speak Japanese. This post is about folksonomies (tagging), and how it might be really hard in Japanese. This is mostly speculation at this point, please comment or email me if you speak Japanese. On the Sigia-L list, Fiona Bradley writes: "I don't know Cantonese, ...

Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr

Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr 01/04/2005 08:49 AM
Slashdot Jan 4 2005 1:06PM GMT

Folksonomies Tap People Power

Folksonomies Tap People Power 02/01/2005 08:43 PM
A growing number of websites with user-created content are relying on user-generated tags, also known as folksonomies, to let people know what's available. By Daniel Terdiman.

[etech] Day 2 - Folksonomies panel

[etech] Day 2 - Folksonomies panel 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
Clay Shirky moderates a panel on folksonomies. Participants: Jimbo Wales (wikipedia), Joshua Schachter (del.icio.us) and Stewart Butterfield (flickr). Clay: Why did you decide to let users in to categorization? Jimbo: We launched our categorization system last June. For the first few weeks, it was a complete madhouse in the English wikipedia. In the German one, they held off for a couple of weeks. It took a little while for things to be rationalized. We decided to let the masses categorize it because that's just the Wiki way. Stewart: We added it because Joshua told us to. I don't think of...

IA Summit folksonomies panel

IA Summit folksonomies panel 03/24/2005 12:14 AM
Thanks to Peter Morville, here are links to info about the panel on folksonomies at the IA Summit: PDF's of the panelists' slides by Gene Smith Peter Morville, Peter Herholz and Thomas Vander Wal Seb Paquet's notes on the presentations An MP3 of Peter Morville on "sorting out social classification" which we're warned crashes Firefox but works on IE. I'm really sorry I missed attending the Summit. It sounds fascinating: The leading thinkers and what a great time to be talking about these issues. [Technorati tags: taxonomy folksonomy iasummit]...

Coding Frenzy

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