Christmas Wish List 2002

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A Mac Enthusiast's Christmas Wish List

A Mac Enthusiast's Christmas Wish List 12/03/2003 04:54 PM
The car radio won't stop playing Christmas songs. Even the advertisements between White Christmas and Let it Snow feature Bing Crosby and David Bowie coercing the poor drummer boy to buying a new Camaro. All the signs point to it being the Christmas season. In the very best of North American tradition, here's a Top 10 list of gifts I wouldn't mind seeing the Fed-Ex put under my tree. It's still a while before Santa loads the sleigh, but I wanted to give everyone enough time for shipping....

A minimal product for ordering any list
by hargikas on 2002/06/03

A minimal product for ordering any list
by hargikas on 2002/06/03 06/03/2002 12:05 PM

A BLOGGER'S
CHRISTMAS WISH LIST

A BLOGGER'S
CHRISTMAS WISH LIST 12/19/2004 02:54 PM

11.	A simple way to simultaneously send new blog articles, as they are posted, to any number of user-maintained, editable e-mail lists (from which people could easily unsubscribe, of course).
10.	An automatically maintained Table of Contents with one-sentence abstracts for each of your blog posts, editable by you and sortable by your readers by title, date, and category/sub-category.
9.	A simple, meaningful measure of total readership, that weighs blog hits, visits, average duration of stay, RSS subscriptions, inbound blogs, e-mail subscriptions, and visits to copies of your posts on aggregators.
8.	An ability to create standing-order 'profiles' for all blogs, as you now can for newsfeeds, so that you can receive a single daily e-mail or web page that aggregates everything posted that day, anywhere in the blogosphere, on a specific topic or containing specific keywords or phrases.
7.	A gigabyte or two of free storage on the hosted blog server, so you can keep a copy of your entire My Documents folder on the server, link to anything in it from your blog without having to FTP a copy, and be able to access your entire 'e-filing cabinet' from any computer anywhere anytime.
6.	An easy migration path from the asynchronous, polished anonymity of the blog to the real-time, one-to-one, face-to-face or voice-to-voice, halting interactive iterative intimacy of other media, media that move you from talk to action.
5.	Inclusion of our posts, if we want them to be, in Google News.
4.	More first-person accounts, first-hand news, live photos and reports, and investigative reporting in the blogosphere.
3.	A blogging tool so simple even our parents can maintain one.
2.	No more fear of your blog or your computer crashing and irretrievably losing everything you've written on your blog.
1.	The end of the terms 'weblog', 'blog' and 'blogger', and to be simply called An Online Journalist.

passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child

passing up an opportunity to go home for
Christmas, so that his colleague could
spend Christmas with his wife and child 12/21/2003 08:35 AM
offers to stay there .. Home News Tribune .. feel good story

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Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
Most-Improved CEOs' List

Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
Most-Improved CEOs' List 12/02/2003 12:37 AM
(MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu)

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1

From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1 04/20/2004 11:26 PM
In an academic setting, a score of 90 percent earns an automatic "A". By that measure, the team shaping Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 merits a similar high passing grade. When the innovative application debuted last October, it reflected the pioneering edge of the digital note-taking category. Today, Microsoft honed that edge by announcing the preview release of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 (OneNote SP1). Ninety percent of the features included in the software update are a direct result of customer input and feedback -- with the remaining 10 percent coming from indirect customer feedback.

RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and
reviews for over 300 cities worldwide
including US stores. record store
directory list stores list reviews
review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
york london tokyo

RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and
reviews for over 300 cities worldwide
including US stores. record store
directory list stores list reviews
review US, UK, Japan, Canada records
guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new
york london tokyo 11/11/2003 03:40 AM
RecordStoreReview.com : Listings and reviews for over 300 cities worldwide including US stores. record store directory list stores list reviews review US, UK, Japan, Canada records guide usa us u.s.a. stores shops new york london tokyo

recordstorereview.com
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Google to list on Nasdaq: Google Inc.
plans to list on the Nasdaq National
Market

Google to list on Nasdaq: Google Inc.
plans to list on the Nasdaq National
Market 07/13/2004 12:19 AM
NDTV Jul 13 2004 4:45AM GMT

Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies.

Attn: Buyers of MAILING LISTs - MORTGAGE
LEADs - BUSINESS LISTs & DIRECT
MARKETING SERVICEs : TOTAL Marketing One
- TMONE launches Direct Mail List and
Sales lead business unit and becomes one
of the most competitive list marketing
agencies. 07/13/2004 03:44 AM
TOTAL Marketing One, an industry leader in the contact center services world announced the creation of a new business unit catering to the needs of all companies in all industries with respect to their marketing list and sales lead needs. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2004]

And It's Not Even Christmas!

And It's Not Even Christmas! 06/02/2004 12:09 PM
Here’s a link to a very good list of Freeware programs that can make your life a little easier-The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilitiesfrom Tech Support Alert

What did you get for Christmas?

What did you get for Christmas? 12/26/2004 07:13 AM
TechSpot Dec 26 2004 10:21AM GMT

what i want for christmas

what i want for christmas 12/24/2002 12:08 AM
the fedex guy pulled up, so exciting, then he walked to the next house with a ll bean package, rats, but then he came over and said "i have a big package for you" oh muh gawd...

"tri" Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Postings will continue next year!

"zeldman.tat"

All I Want For Christmas

All I Want For Christmas 12/24/2003 09:21 PM
CBS News Dec 24 2003 8:08PM ET

What do you want for Christmas

What do you want for Christmas 12/05/2003 02:12 AM
Heck I know what I want for christmas but unless someone is going to buy Geek News Central or I...

Christmas!!!

Christmas!!! 12/25/2003 04:28 AM
Hey, so it's finally Christmas! We hope everyone got lots of new gadgets to play with. Of course, we never get gadgets as gifts anymore....

What I Don't Want For Christmas

What I Don't Want For Christmas 12/16/2003 03:14 AM
There are a couple of items that the pundits and the rumor sites say we might see in 2004, and if it's all the same to y'all in Cupertino, don't bother with these. By Chris Adamson (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

What I want for christmas ...

What I want for christmas ... 12/17/2004 06:38 PM
Check out this cute penguin poster. It’s hip without being explicit. I like it. I want it....

Christmas Presents

Christmas Presents 01/03/2005 01:35 AM

Generation so-not-you

“Christmas morning ...

Lorcan: let's read the instructions first ...

Children: gone ...” [Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog]

We had a great holiday break, and we’ve named the new puppy Teddy Roosevelt so the contest is over. We have an annual tradition on New Year’s Eve called “kids game night” where we invite all of the neighborhood kids over to play games for a couple of hours. This year was no exception, and while they were demolishing the extra-large pizza into a few miniscule crumbs, we asked each of them to name the best present they received this year. To a one, they each said something electronic, the boys and the girls, all 12 of them.

We were floored when a brother (age 12) and sister (age 8) each said they got a TV in their rooms (this will never happen in our house), and there was another little girl (age 8) that got a telephone in her room (also won’t happen in our house, although eventually it will be a moot point because the kids will have cell phones). But the other answers were interesting. A Nintendo DS, a VideoNow player, Eye Toy, a Dance Dance Revolution wireless pad, a specific video game, a digital camera, a new TV for their basement.

Keep in mind that the oldest kid in the bunch was 12–years old. And have you seen the VideoNow line? I don’t like it, but they love it. These kids are getting used to carrying around video the way you’re used to carrying around music on a Walkman.

just in time for Christmas

just in time for Christmas 12/19/2004 03:40 PM
So in the spirit of the times (sussing great gift ideas), I've convinced an old friend, and my former Dean, to spend a couple days in this space talking about his new book, In Perilous Times. Starting Wednesday, Geof Stone will be blogging here about the book. It is a great and amazing history, both optimistic and depressing. It will be Geof's first time blogging, so please make him welcome. And were I to use this space to self-promote, I might point to Businessweek's pick of the top ten books of the year. But I won't waste your time with that.

A white Christmas for sure!

A white Christmas for sure! 01/04/2005 05:49 PM
Ok, finally got some snow pics to post! Cincinnati officially got about 9 inches of snow right before Christmas, but...

A BrisCo Christmas 1.0

A BrisCo Christmas 1.0 11/18/2003 10:21 AM
A nice little Christmas theme.

"What Movie Is Your Christmas Most
Like?"

"What Movie Is Your Christmas Most
Like?" 12/27/2004 11:26 AM

Christmas Greens

Christmas Greens 01/07/2004 02:23 PM
This week's question: What is the environmental impact of the loss of evergreens for Christmas trees?

Christmas Freeware

Christmas Freeware 12/19/2003 03:50 PM
Show the spirit of the season, or just kill some time avoiding relatives with my Yuletide freeware finds.

Decorate a tree, email Santa and more in this week's Freelaoder Friday.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign

The Goats Who Ate Christmas

The Goats Who Ate Christmas 01/16/2004 10:58 AM
"Soon after the first goat, another goat came, then another -- and soon a stampede of goats, shaped like a boats prow, was aiming at and ultimately engulfing the houses. The all-seeing, Sauron-like Goat-Mind soon located all of the houses -- and we truly had swarms." (01-12)

Yay to the Christmas Party!

Yay to the Christmas Party! 12/20/2003 02:38 PM
Ooooh, the Christmas party last night...surprisingly enough was amazing. Right now, Skate Canada is on the verge of pissing me...

Going Postal for Christmas

Going Postal for Christmas 12/22/2004 01:29 AM
The U.S. Postal Service's website promises "holiday shipping convenience" but delivers bad user experience.

Spyware you do not want to get for
Christmas!

Spyware you do not want to get for
Christmas! 12/22/2004 01:44 AM

As I was installing my Creative Labs PCMCIA sound card, I was shocked to see the amount of "GARBAGE" creative labs tried to install or place in my bookmarks on my PC. Luckily my Spyware program caught all of it and I was able to have it removed before it could become a issue.

Why would Creative do this. The items they were loading wasn't spyware but I sure did not ask for the bookmarks to various sites including AOL to be loaded. They should be ashamed of themselves and offer a apology to all Creative Sound Card owners. That card was not cheap and then they try to load my PC up with advertisments. Well I like the card but they need to be put on the who's naughty list.

Ziff Davis has a great article about some real nasty Spyware that you will want to avoid. Don't forget to included Virus Software, Firewall Software and Spyware Software with all of those PC's your giving or getting for Christmas. [ZDN et]

Christmas@home

Christmas@home 12/30/2003 01:26 AM
Sometimes you just need a bit of unspoiled snow to realize how beautiful your neighborhood really is.

(Update: OK, so the picture didn't really turn out to be as good as I thought it would be. Trust me, the atmosphere was nothing short of magical :-)

More Christmas Freeware

More Christmas Freeware 12/19/2004 03:00 PM
We've got a big holiday just around the corner, but to pass the time until the Macworld Expo you might as well get into Christmas. Get the holiday spirit with an odd collection of Christmas-themed freeware in this week's Freeloader Friday.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

"The 12 STIs Of Christmas"

"The 12 STIs Of Christmas" 12/02/2003 09:59 AM

Best Christmas Destinations

Best Christmas Destinations 12/08/2003 05:52 AM
Where Would You Send Someone You Love For Christmas? If you had unlimited funds, what would be your Hannukah or Christmas present for someone you thought really deserved one? For instance, our genial host and the owner of MetaFilter, Matt Haughey. A lot of us are presently eng aged in clubbing in to offer him a short visit to Iceland. y6y6y6 has even set up a website to solicit funds and suggestions, following enormous interest on MetaTalk. Well-known weblogs like boing boing and ani ldash are chipping in too. isn't it time we showed our appreciation? (Matt, please don't read or delete this!)

The Smell of Christmas

The Smell of Christmas 12/06/2003 09:02 PM
Smells a lot like burning flesh, really it does. Take a little bit of Santa home for the holidays, he'll keep you...

Too many Christmas lights?

Too many Christmas lights? 12/10/2003 07:56 PM
Is there such a thing as too many Christmas lights? I love seeing lavish displays of lights at Christmas time. Some folks like a few old-fashioned Christmas lights and some like to deck the halls in a blaze of glory (this one boasts 700,000 lights). And how much does it cost to run a fabulous display?

Christmas came early...and I'm a Jew!

Christmas came early...and I'm a Jew! 12/11/2003 09:39 PM
Go see the gingerbread men Jen made for YRSA!!! Oh before I get into today, I read in The Liberal...

A Christmas Message

A Christmas Message 12/12/2003 11:35 AM

(Directed at all those not completely arsed at me for taking so long to release Textpattern which bytheway continues full-steam and will almost certainly be out at the beginning of January oh and did I mention I love you in those shoes.)

Buy me crap!

Christmas Avalanche 1.0.3

Christmas Avalanche 1.0.3 12/12/2003 04:18 PM
The addictive arcade/puzzle game with a Christmas touch.

USB Christmas Tree

USB Christmas Tree 08/30/2004 08:08 AM

If any of you actually buy these USB-Powered Christmas Trees, you'll have to promise me that everything you put under your tree will also be a USB device. You could even wrap up little flash drives as presents and give them away to your office mates, or maybe put a USB-powered vibrator under there and spend New Year's filling out unemployment insurance forms.

Read - Catalog Page [MrGadgetAU]

Christmas pictures

Christmas pictures 12/31/2003 08:30 PM
Sheila put up Christmas pictures...

Happy New Year to all!
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WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.0

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.0 12/16/2003 06:33 PM

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.2

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.2 09/08/2004 05:49 PM

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.1

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.1 06/02/2004 05:31 AM

Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS
feed

Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS
feed 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I've created a Perl script that generates an RSS feed from your Amazon wishlist contents, including prices and Amazon book links. Fixed the ISBN/ASIN bug, now defaults book links to ISBN.nu instead of Amazon (for cheaper purchasing).

Amazon went and broke their wishlist
links

Amazon went and broke their wishlist
links 12/04/2003 04:59 AM
Change your wishlist link .. the solution .. Paul Bausch

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Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator 09/20/2004 12:47 AM

Watchcow.net

"You want to keep an eye on your Amazon.com wishlist or a particular Amazon.com/de/co.uk item, want to be informed whether and how much the price has been changed, but don't have the time?

Watchcow.net to the rescue! This simple and handy service allows you to passively watch single Amazon products and entire wishlists in your newsreader, such as Bloglines (web), NetNewsWire (Mac), NewsFire (Mac) or FeedDaemon (Windows), just to name a few. It works with every newsreader/-aggregator that supports ATOM feeds. Which, incidently, means pretty much all of them."

Another great service from Carlo Zottmann!

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end

Amazon accidentally revealed the real
names of many anonymous reviewers this
week, through a bug in the amazon.ca
back-end 02/14/2004 03:55 PM
unmasked .. glitch

nytimes.com/2004/02/14/technology/14AMAZ.html
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Add to the RSS Wishlist

Add to the RSS Wishlist 06/29/2004 12:57 AM
Harold Check is doing a reality check of what's missing from the RSSphere and he's cataloging The RSS Wishlist. Some samples:

"It may seem obvious to readers of this particular blog that just about anything on the web that changes, whether frequently or infrequently, should have an associated feed. Readers all over rejoice when a major publication decides to hop onboard the syndication freight train. And beyond your typical publications, there are hundreds of innovative services that are just waiting to be remixed with some RSS flavor. 

At Supernova, Scott Rosenberg pointed out that privacy policies are a perfect candidate for RSS feeds. I second that. I also want KEXP playlists to be updated hourly. And I’d like car recall notices, too. And coupons for businesses in my ZIP code. And MetaCritic. And Aquarius Records new releases. And so on, and so on…

Nick Bradbury: CNN.com, The Onion, and PythOnline....

Michael Sippey: 'Until my entire family gets their act together and starts using Flickr for photo sharing, I want an RSS feed from Ofoto of new pics of my nieces, nephews and cousins.  That feed could be sucked up by a screen saver, or scripted to rotate as my desktop background, or have one every N photos auto-shipped to the photo printer.'

Jason Kottke: The New Yorker

So, what do you want to become available via RSS? Leave your requests in a comment. If you really wow me, you might just get a gmail invitation...." [The RSS Weblog]

My greatest wish - my local newspapers. Hopefully, the directory of my local library and I will be talking to them soon to turn on a few light bulbs. Then I want feeds for grant offerings of relevance to my job. Then, of course, I want feeds from my online catalog!!!!!

Wishlist Art

Wishlist Art 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Besides being super cool, the new TypePad wishlist feature generates these beautiful tiled thumbnail versions of your wishlist images that just seem like art to me. Greedy, consumerist art, but art nonetheless:...

this goes on the wishlist

this goes on the wishlist 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

I hope this is the most clever of clever pranks . . . because it's much, much better that way.

"The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank.

[snip]

Standard drive is an air-cooled, 6hp Tecumseh gasoline (unleaded only) engine, with centrifugal clutch, giving the Donk a top speed of 40 mph. This vehicle is not licensed for use on public roads, and is intended as a recreational vehicle only.

1 person recommended Star Wars A New Hope 12" Figure: Obi-Wan Kenobi Tatooine Encounter instead of JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank"

Be sure to read the user reviews, for maximum enjoyment.

My PowerBook Wishlist

My PowerBook Wishlist 05/02/2004 12:09 AM
I could probably come up with more things, but I did not run that far. By Brian D Foy, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Filelist and Wishlist

Filelist and Wishlist 05/09/2004 07:55 PM

My recent burst of interest in P2P networks stems from the idea of sharing wishlists which I mentioned in my comment about CleverCactus Share.  Diego expressed some enthusiasm about the idea so there is a good chance it will appear in ClearCactus Share.

But my mind is already leaping forward exploring generalizations and mutations of the basic idea of sharing and seemlessly integrating the capability into the operating system.  To power this exploration, I am asking questions like:

• What is a file?
• What does it mean to share?
• How can I share something without having it?
• How can I share nameless, locationless, temporary, and formless objects?
• What if everything is shared by default?
• What if bots are loosened into the shared space?

Many of the answers seem to point to a need to review some basic assumptions pounded into us by file systems and databases like names, locations, queries, etc.

If you drag a file from here to there, people expect the object to move from here to there and also expect the operation to take some time.

If the object is a wish, meaning it will arrive sometime in the future, dragging it from here to there could mean it should be moved there when it arrives.  That's like an instruction.  But people usually don't give instructions to empty air.  Is it better to introduce a bot-like objects or should future actions or 'promises' be turned into an object?

There is also the problem of having too many P2P networks.  They can be abstracted or hidden behind other shapes and forms.  At that point, even services like eBay and Amazon can be thrown into the mesh.  An auction involves someone wanting to sell something they either own or can provide.  Drag and drop this from here to there and eventually a real-world object is 'downloaded' to someone's doorstep.  All this is nice except abstraction and usuability don't often walk hand-in-hand.

I know that I am overstepping the bounds of practicality in many areas, but overreaching is often useful when searching through the solution space.  Anyway, these are kind of things I occupy weekends with these days.

iMovie 5 Wishlist

iMovie 5 Wishlist 08/03/2004 12:09 AM
"So, what would you do to make it better without turning it into Final Cut for Babies, smart guy?" By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

My Linux Wishlist

My Linux Wishlist 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Googling for "Linux Wishlist" brings up a bunch of old mailing list posts where people wish their soundcards could be detected and various Microsoft Windows applications would be ported over. My list is, well, different. Read on, add your own..

My New Wishlist Items

My New Wishlist Items 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

canadia represent!

"Since ALA, we all have known that the Canadian library schools are really putting out some top librarian talent. But who knew they had a fashion sense as well. The students from the SLIS at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia are hawking some mighty fine librarian t-shirts, possibly ones even too racy to wear to work. And, 'action figure' aside, my favorite one has to be the NLA shirt." [librarian.net]

david's Tivo wishlist

david's Tivo wishlist 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
he's got so many good ideas he's basically a product manager-at-large

Realtor destroying wishlist.

Realtor destroying wishlist. 12/30/2004 11:12 AM
My recent experiences with realtors show me that: most of them don't know very much about buildings; waste your time...

Wishlist: Google Newsreader

Wishlist: Google Newsreader 06/19/2002 01:10 PM
David Cancel writes in to say that he'd be willing to pay a monthly/yearly fee to be able to read the Google newsgroups with a regular newsreader. Unfortunately, as stated in the FAQ, this is not currently possible. I agree, there are many nice newsreaders which are more convenient for comprehensive newsgroup reading (as opposed to simply searching, which Google Groups is great at) which I would like to use to read these groups. As it stands, I can't remember to go back to the websites and check them each day.

raging cow's wishlist

raging cow's wishlist 08/11/2004 12:11 PM
the blog stopped updating just under a year ago

New on my wishlist: Breakfast with
Hunter

New on my wishlist: Breakfast with
Hunter 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
While getting up to date on HST’s ESPN Column Archive , there it was, an advert… Breakfast With Hunter …...

iPod Shuffle: More Thoughts, Wishlist

iPod Shuffle: More Thoughts, Wishlist 02/05/2005 09:39 PM

By Barb Dybwad, Unofficial Apple Weblog

Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist

Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
I've seen several comments lately about the trend away from the browser and how RSS may contribute to this, it...

Ask MacSlash: iTunes Features Wishlist

Ask MacSlash: iTunes Features Wishlist 04/28/2004 02:24 PM

Wishlist: Finer Sound Control

Wishlist: Finer Sound Control 08/05/2004 08:41 AM
Sometimes, I simply wish to be able to mute just a particular application on my Mac -- say, Safari, for example, when it is playing some Flash movies -- while continuing to play sounds from other applications such as iTunes and such.

iTunes Music Store wishlist

iTunes Music Store wishlist 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
iTunes wishlist: 1. Ability to create a list of personal favorite songs as playlists/wishlists and publish on a weblog with...

Dear Santa, An SEOs wishlist for Google

Dear Santa, An SEOs wishlist for Google 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Dec 30 2004 10:20PM GMT

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing 07/16/2004 11:53 AM
Wishlist: the million monkeys at a million typewriters plugin A Whole Lotta Nothing .. matt wants a public editing of blog posts .. a.wholelottanothing.org

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Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin 07/15/2004 06:45 PM

Today as I sent an IM to a friend correcting a their/there/they're use in a blog post, it reminded me that I should post a lazyweb request for an MT plugin I've always wanted.

I want a MT plugin that will let a select group of my closest, most trusted friends correct typos in text and URLs on my blog posts and republish their changes without my intervention. If I'm gone for a couple days and improperly used your when I meant you're, I'd love it if a friend fixed that while I was away. I first got the idea when I was trying to think of ways to make Orkut or Friendster useful. If there was some API to those apps that let MT know if someone was a best friend or life partner-level connection, they could be granted temporary edit rights on my blog (maybe Flickr's API could let this work for people I designate as a friend and family member, which seems to be the closest form of relationship there).

Ideally, I'd like an easy way to say that 4 or 5 people I trust could make edits. And I suppose the edits should be checked before and after, with a certain byte count limit, lest you allow your friends to completely rewrite your post. An email telling me what took place would be nice, but I'd like my friends to go ahead and save their changes, with a way for me to rescue the earlier pre-edit entry just in case.

Actually, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to allow anyone to suggest an edit on the post, sending me an email, with a one-click way to approve or disapprove it. Maybe after a random stranger has properly corrected me half a dozen times, I could elevate their status to having republish rights on the edits so I wouldn't have to approve them anymore.

A plugin like this would basically wiki-ize the weblog world, allowing readers to participate and correct small mistakes. I often write in margins of books and email authors all the little typos I found while reading their novel, but this would put that kind of power right into anyone's hands. In the world of programming they say "given a million eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" and maybe in this case, given a million editors, all typos will be fixed.

It can't be impossible to make this happen, right?

Net-Amazon-0.18

Net-Amazon-0.18 12/27/2003 11:29 PM

amazon

amazon 06/03/2004 02:06 AM
Amazon's trying out "blogging" in the form of "plogs" or purchase personalized logs. It appears to be the same content as your old amazon recommendations, but served up in a blog post-style format, signed by the so very intimate sounding Amazon NewReleaseBot. I can't wait until a giant like Coca Cola starts "blogs" (beverage logs) and announces new flavors complete with permalinks and weekly archives right on every can.

Christmas Wish List 2002

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