Round Up: Not that special

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Round one to Vonage; round two to the
states?

Round one to Vonage; round two to the
states? 10/31/2003 07:26 PM

TiVo Spins Round and Round

TiVo Spins Round and Round 08/27/2004 03:59 PM
Plus, Oracle's still in hot pursuit, and put me in, Coach!

Look round

Look round 04/16/2004 04:55 AM
USA Today Apr 16 2004 9:17AM GMT

PDC Round-Up day 4

PDC Round-Up day 4 10/31/2003 12:35 AM

Round Up: Where can you go next?

Round Up: Where can you go next? 05/28/2004 12:39 PM
newmediazero May 28 2004 4:57PM GMT

Round a about

Round a about 09/08/2004 03:32 AM
These images caused a great debate among my antipodean circle in London whether they are real or have been photoshopped. As far as we can gather it does exist. But it is surreal - and only in the UK surely would something like this be real.

Software Round UP

Software Round UP 01/09/2004 09:58 PM

Round Up: Cause and effect

Round Up: Cause and effect 04/13/2004 03:35 PM
newmediazero Apr 13 2004 8:18PM GMT

Round #2 with Arnaud

Round #2 with Arnaud 04/08/2005 03:14 PM

Here's Arnaud's reply to my comments....

Great, Marc Canter found some time to ans wer my questions. SO time to comment on his answers.

He confirms my suspicion that OPML is a good way to store and exchange MicroContent (he wrote it as micro-content by the way). They did use Weboutliner for that. I have to play with outliners to see what can be done. See if I can get the Structured Blogging approach into OPML somehow.

He also explains why he likes Structured Blogging. The main reason is that it is an effort to get things going. I agree with him here. If I look at the number of clients which I can relate to MicroContent, it is staggering. It is time to get this local information published in a structured way. It shouldn't be left on someone's PC. And Structured Blogging helps here. Time to dive into it a bit more.

Marc Canter sees a lot happening in the field of MicroContent. Great! I've become a lot less pessimistic, so it is good to hear he sees some movement going on. We will get at MicroContent nirvana in the end!

By the way, I like the fact that Marc Canter answers me on his weblog and not in my comments. We have a public conversation, but we stay owner of the things we write, as we publish it on our own weblog. This kind of conversation corresponds to the ideas put forward on the Datalibre mailing-list. Any evidence of a conversation should be visible in the trackbacks.

[MicroContent Musings]

:-)

There's another reason I've been using the public reply technique - comments are broken. Not only my TypeKey comments - but comments in general. They're being turned off in droves and they hide the thread from view. I prefer to see things out in the open. Perhaps notifation or some sort of Attention.xml standards can change all that.

But that's not my area or work or exertise right now.

Micro-content is. However we spell it.

Arnaud is one of those true believers too - so I'm going to use this thread with him - to highlight a bunch of different things I've wanted to be known in public - on the record - for sometime now.

I'm not really amazed at how smart Arnaud is - as it takes that to grok all this stuff. As is Thomas Van Der Wahl - who I've been getting to know receenly - but that's another post. I met Thomas at SXSW and he calls DLAs 'Info Clouds' (with a space in the middle) - but that's what's MOST beautiful about these ideas.

I'm sure Michael Sippey and Ben Trott have their own name for all this at 6A - and I bet Barak has HIS own term for it - but we're all (hopefully) working on the same principles.

So here are some fresh replies to Arnaud......

1. Yes OPML rocks, It has since the day it was explained to me by Dave Winer at his house the week he created it. Our outliner - the WebOutliner - uses OPML as it's native form and we did LOTS of work on extending it for various purposes (see below.)

2. So let me tell you about some experiments we did on BOTH Structured Blogging (which is what it's being called right now) and storing MicroContent (properly spelled with the in-cap) in OPML.

2a.

The Birthday party activity

So way back like almost three years ago I run into a writer and XS LT scriptor named Chuck White who had written several books on it - and who wanted to put it to use - with a real interface.

So Chuck and I worked on an example UI - which took some wizard collected info, converted it to OPML and sent it to our weboutliner. That structured data was designed to represent all the info needed to encompass a group based community birthday party.

It worked. It rocked. And one day I'll put it up to show everyone. But for now let me explain how it worked and what it proved.

3. First one selected: what kind of Group, named the Group and decided who was an initial member of a Group. This was all created from a simple web page - but ws designed to work via mobile. To become what I promised Hward Rheingold "Tools for the Mob".

4. The human was then passed into an activity grid - at which point they'd select one category of activities; such as after-school or sports or at-home fun - and then were sent through detailed tab dialogs - which enabled one to fill in all the meta-data regarding this selected activity (how many tables to set up?, what games?, by what rules?)

5. Now with our micro-content (sorry I mean MicroContent) activity data all loaded up - we XSLTed the data into OPML and sent it to our weboutliner - which (presumably)_ would be running an extension to support that particular activity and it's associated meta-data. The underlying notion was that we could transform this data into any form, for any kind of output, format or device.

6. It worked like a charm, was easy enough to be categorized as "situated" by Clay Shirky and allowed me to extend the outliner tool metaphor into what I now call a "stucture editor".

7. Humans certainly understand:

I - Plan party-- define basic party meta-data -- select music and images to play at party -- set up party web site and blog -- establish plans/agenda for party

II - Send out invites-- plug in list of names or retrieve previous names
-- send out invites
-- status of invites (data sent to dashboard)

III - Throw party-- start executing agenda for the day - drive media devices
-- execute milestone during party
-- change party machines to upload stations

IV - Memories-- collect memeoires after party
-- send out thank you notes
-- archival commenting

It's just a matter of how the UIs implement this sort of structure.

7. All this work will appear - soon - in a 'Family Oriented DLA' we're working on.

Still trying to figure out Arnaud's last name...... :-) And where he lives and what he does as a day job. I hope he's really a php hacker looking for work - that would make it PERFECT!

Round Up: Being creative

Round Up: Being creative 06/17/2004 11:39 AM
newmediazero Jun 17 2004 4:04PM GMT

Rip Digital Round 3

Rip Digital Round 3 12/24/2004 12:16 PM

Bob Kohn has responded to yesterday's comments from Rip Digital founder Dick Adams regarding the potential illegality of the CD ripping service. Let me sum it all up: Kohn thinks they might get sued; Adams thinks they won't; I think the RIAA is a misguided organization at best, whose current command of logic and decency is unpredictable. I can't help but have this sinking feeling that we're just throwing out chum for the music industry's lawyers at this point, so I'm glad we've reached this agreement to disagree.

Gizmodo Responds Re: Digital Ripping Service [BobKohn]

CPU news round-up

CPU news round-up 01/08/2004 07:06 PM
There's too much recent CPU news for me to go through it and post a full-blown blurb for each article/announcement, so here's a batch of quickies for you.

Round-Robin SQL

Round-Robin SQL 03/25/2005 05:16 PM
RRS version 0.4 released

Round One... Fight!

Round One... Fight! 03/22/2005 11:38 PM
Pop Quiz Hotshot: You're in the middle of an arena. You're being attacked by 5 year olds who will stop at nothing to kill you. How many can you take on before they overcome you? (from twobytwo forums)

Round Up: Absurd

Round Up: Absurd 07/05/2004 01:00 PM
newmediazero Jul 5 2004 4:59PM GMT

Round Folders 1.0 1.0

Round Folders 1.0 1.0 03/30/2005 11:38 AM
Stylish Round Folder Icons

Round Up: Virtually nowhere to go

Round Up: Virtually nowhere to go 04/23/2004 02:48 PM
newmediazero Apr 23 2004 6:26PM GMT

Round Up: To be expected

Round Up: To be expected 07/09/2004 01:11 PM
newmediazero Jul 9 2004 5:06PM GMT

Math-Round-Var-0.01

Math-Round-Var-0.01 04/21/2004 12:52 AM

Round Up: Deterrent

Round Up: Deterrent 07/20/2004 01:07 PM
newmediazero Jul 20 2004 5:09PM GMT

Round Up: Above board

Round Up: Above board 05/17/2004 02:55 PM
newmediazero May 17 2004 6:49PM GMT

Barlow's round 1

Barlow's round 1 12/25/2004 04:55 PM
JP Barlow recounts his day in court, on trial for threatening to blow up an airliner with a few grams of pot smuggled in an Ibuprofen bottle. danah weighs in with her own account of the drama....

Round Up: Raising the bar

Round Up: Raising the bar 07/29/2004 01:41 PM
newmediazero Jul 29 2004 5:02PM GMT

I AM BUSINESS -- I AM ROUND

I AM BUSINESS -- I AM ROUND 08/04/2004 11:39 AM
GW Bush not AWOL: Actually Secret Agent; Deep Throat; Expressionist Art Collector A shocking followup to the tragic Thatcher news earlier today.

CeBIT round-up

CeBIT round-up 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Computer Weekly Mar 22 2004 2:09AM GMT

Net gains all round

Net gains all round 02/08/2003 03:05 AM
And like Google.com, its users, and they now number 62m across the globe, are evangelical about the service once they get hooked. ...

Socialtext Round A

Socialtext Round A 08/23/2004 02:40 PM
Socialtext, the wiki and social software company, has closed Round A financing with some investors noted for funding companies that make the world better. Cool! And I say this as a fully biased member of their advisory board....

In Next Round, No Certainties

In Next Round, No Certainties 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
As the campaign shifts from an expectations game to a fight for real delegates, Howard Dean needs to win somewhere.

In-ear Headphone Round-up

In-ear Headphone Round-up 06/24/2005 04:02 PM

Dear readers, we have been wrong. The older folk among us—baby-boomers, cracked former students of the Naval Arts, and other geriatrics—have been underrepresented in our coverage, as evidenced as our hate mail today. Well, old-timers, this one's for you:

The Ipod is out and it's as hot as Rita Hayworth. All those kids outside on your stoop are listening to them. Don't they have school? When we were young, we went to school. What better way to listen to your Ipod than with in-ear headphones. You'll have to remove your hearing aid to use them, but these sassy headphones are a sight better than those goofy big pants these kids are wearing now. Why, only yesterday, I saw one boy with his underwear hanging out of his pants. No respect, these kids. No respect. Don't they know we're at war? ExtremeTech—what kind of title of a magazine is that? Is that pornography?—does a full round-up of these society-destroying earphones. I'm going to go play my numbers now. Then my stories are on.

Upgra de your iPod: In-Ear Sound-Isolating Earphones [ExtremeTech]

Poll round-up

Poll round-up 08/12/2004 06:29 PM
A new Washington Post/ABC News poll out today indicates that young voters have become lopsidedly pro-Kerry over the last several months. Taken just after the Democratic National Convention, the poll shows registered voters aged 18 to 29 choosing Kerry over Bush by a 2 to 1 margin. This is especially bad news for the president, who split the youth vote almost evenly with Al Gore in 2000. The Post reports that a pre-convention Newsweek poll gave Kerry a 51 to 32 percent edge in the same age group, and a post-convention CBS/New York Times poll was almost identical with 50 percent for Kerry and 31 percent for Bush.

Round Up: Know who you're dealing with

Round Up: Know who you're dealing with 02/13/2004 01:27 PM
newmediazero Feb 13 2004 5:14PM GMT

Backpack Round-Up

Backpack Round-Up 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
Front-runners in my search for a new laptop backpack are the Dakota Computer Brief Backpack ($120-$150 street) and Ogio Metro...

DDR2 The Second Round

DDR2 The Second Round 03/22/2005 05:04 PM

Spin Me Right Round, Baby

Spin Me Right Round, Baby 08/13/2004 10:46 AM
The new sexual position invented by the Japanese porn actor Micky Yanai requires two things: a partner with a strong back and a troubling amount of torque.

India prepares for second round

India prepares for second round 04/21/2004 05:03 AM
India's main political parties gear up for the crucial second phase of the country's marathon general election.

New round of bidding for 3G licenses

New round of bidding for 3G licenses 02/07/2005 01:59 AM
Malaysiakini Feb 7 2005 6:43AM GMT

Pop-Up Company Wins A Round

Pop-Up Company Wins A Round 12/16/2003 06:42 AM
CBS News Dec 16 2003 6:10AM ET

Round Up: Driving awareness

Round Up: Driving awareness 12/03/2003 01:24 PM
newmediazero Dec 3 2003 12:04PM ET

Round Up: Techno-talk

Round Up: Techno-talk 05/20/2004 01:00 PM
newmediazero May 20 2004 4:51PM GMT
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