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Congrats to BookSlut!Congrats to BookSlut!Congrats to BookSlut! 03/11/2003 10:45 AM Winners of the 2003 Bloggies have been announced, and BookSlut won for "Best Topical Category!" This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Congrats to BookSlut!Grok Headline matches for Congrats to BookSlut!Blog of a BookslutBlog of a Bookslut 01/02/2004 04:49 AM Bookslut guestblogging stint .. Blog of a Book Slut .. Jessa at Bookslut .. Jessica Crispin .. Booksluts .. bookslut .. blog .. du .. * bookslut.com/blog Congrats Jay!Congrats Jay! 07/25/2004 11:08 PM About 10 months ago, I posted a lazyweb request for a blacklist-based comment-spam solution. Only 2 days later, Jay Allen posted a solution that pretty much did exactly what I (and many others) needed. Ever since, he's been adding more and more features to aid in the fight against comment spam and even started maintaining a master blacklist people could... (156 words) Congrats to...Congrats to... 01/22/2004 04:31 AM Congratulations to the Kerry supporters. Edwards', too. See you in New Hampshire :)... Congrats to SixApartCongrats to SixApart 04/09/2004 04:11 PM  NTT's Typepad powered blogging service
Here it is, and it looks great even though I do not understand Japanese. NTT is providing blogs to their millions of clients. Congratulations to Six Apart's team in Japan. Can't wait to see our first Typepad powered ISP & portals partnerships in Europe ! [Loic Le Meur Blog] I need to put something witty here for my friend Loic. How 'bout "Yes, we all want to see coming out of France, besides Wine and Cheese." Congrats to Ross et al - keep going!Congrats to Ross et al - keep going! 04/24/2004 03:25 AM And as if (on cue) Ross was waiting for the official battles to commence, here comes Blogware with.... It has been an extremely busy week on Blogwareland. The project is really firing on all cyclinders and I'm starting to get pretty excited about the upcoming release. Most of my time has been devoted to staff training. We took 30 or so staffers through hands-on with the service in a lab environment and the feedback has been great. I really enjoyed taking everyone through the in's and out's of Blogware and the weblog market and it is great to see the rest of the team over here finally starting to understand why I'm so excited by Blogware and the weblog opportunity. The blogosphere can be a tough thing to grok for one person - getting 150 people on the same page is even harder ;)
The dev team is also totally in the zone. A bunch of new features coming out this week and a few bug fixes as well. I can see v1.0 just over the horizon... Something old, something new, something boring and nothing blue... Something Old... Comment Notifications v2.0! Weblog publishers getting comment notifications is old hat. Now, authenticated readers can also choose to receive comment notifications on a per article, per category or on a site-wide basis. Publishers also get to choose whether or not this feature is even available to their readers. Something New... Import/Export. Publishers can now get the important content out of their old weblogs and into their shiny new Blogware weblog. Also, the Export feature makes your Blogware content just that much more portable - great peace of mind. Import initially supports only MT imports with support for the Blogger, Radio and other formats shortly. Something Boring... Bug fixes. Yawn. ;) Publishers will notice that the webstats are much snappier now - we realized a ton of performance increases with some of these new fixes. Nothing Blue... No, I meant it - there was nothing blue. Well, just this. Literally. So what's the big take away? It has been impossible for me to keep up with my email this week. If you've sent me a message and I haven't gotten back to you, rest assured, I still love you - its just that I'm currently 300 messages behind where I should be - and that's after 4 hours of catch up. Problem is, I'm not going to get through it all today - marketing needs sign-off on virtually everything that they've been working on for Blogware this afternoon and unless I wade into it, they are going to hunt me down and kill me - probably with a bad PowerPoint presentation or something ;) [Random Bytes]Congrats to Rafat!Congrats to Rafat! 12/17/2004 06:28 PM Turns out Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org got married in South Africa and is taking some time off. The guy's a monster! His new wife better appreicate the time she's getting. Congrats to UserlandCongrats to Userland 05/07/2004 05:00 AM
The transition of Userland continues. I go back with Peter Winer almost as far back as Dave. Clearly this is a company like no other. Congrats to Om for being SlashdottedCongrats to Om for being Slashdotted 05/08/2004 11:04 PM The SlashDot Effect. I had only read about the SlashDot Effect, popularly known as Slashdotted. I had never experienced it first hand. While I was away in Los Angeles, this story about the Linksys gateway, which did the rounds in the blogsphere via Engadget, Gizmodo, Boing Boing , Broadband Reports and a couple of other sites, was picked up by SlashDot. (Broke the Blogdex top 50 for the first time as well.)I had no idea that my innocuous little post could stir up such reaction. Oh well … power of the Internet first hand. Next thing I know (rather I did not know) the traffic to the website went crazy, and quickly site was “off the air.” Apparently, the number of hits to the page created log files which tipped me over the available disk space on the server, and the index page became unavailable. Well managed to fix this problem, but it is becoming increasingly evident that it is time to go for a higher end web hosting company. Which is a problem because that is going to cost money, and well given that GigaOM is more of a hobby, I am wondering out aloud about what to do next. Suggestions and ideas are always welcome. ===== Speaking of Clay Shirky - we got Shirkydotted last Septemeber when he mentioned the PeopleAggregator. I had dropped a subtle hint of it's existence and he immediately picked up on it. But that was nothing like the real Slashdottin g we received when Richard McManus' article/interview of me went live, and first Doc and Xeni/BoingBoing picked it up and then within an hour - BAM. Down on our knees begging for forgiveness for days. Congrats to JustinCongrats to Justin 05/11/2004 01:43 PM Web Site Founder Flees Mounting Scandal
Hall's late application to grad school and too-rapid closing of his Oakland estate are leading observers to highlight the chronological impossibility of events Hall details on his personal web site, "Justin's Links." Citing application deadlines, researcher Stan Hodgson writes, "What must have happened is that Mr. Hall applied by January 30, and then began posting on the graduate school topic at a much later date, most likely after he'd been admitted, but AS IF he were still contemplating applying. Certain decisions about the house were likely made and concluded far in advance of the posting, if it is indeed the case that he is moving and selling the house." Hall's web site "Justin's Links" has a reputation for personal disclosure, as Hall has spent ten years sharing what has appeared to be his innermost thoughts, physical sensations and pending experiences. Now it appears that Hall may have been weaving nothing but a web of lies. Weighing recent evidence and using measured language, Hodgson remarks: "Mr. Hall's recent posts on this site suggest a greater than normal divergence between lived experience and the blogged representation." Experts are just now unraveling what some call a premeditated pattern of deceit surrounding Hall's recent announcement of plans to sell his home and attend school. In a possible attempt to hide evidence, Hall emptied his Oakland home of five years, splitting his records between multiple vehicles that were today dispatched from that location, bearing their contents to undisclosed California storage facilities. The crisis threatens to undermine years of good will from websurfers, who had been lead to believe that Hall was telling the truth about his life online. James, a frequent commenter on Links.net, posted this remark in response to the allegations: "I've often wondered whether there was not a great deal of artifice in Justin's apparently casual and offhanded (and apparently uncensored) manner of describing his life." In the days since the scandal broke, a growing number of voices online have joined James in calling for an official investigation of or explanation from the elusive Hall.
Experts are not yet agreed on Hall's motivation for faking a life online. But it appears that this callow youth might have finally have tipped the scales of truth, as investigators could have enough evidence to indict Hall on charges of false honesty. Claiming "travel and deadlines," Hall himself could not be reached for comment. Congrats to Mikel!Congrats to Mikel! 09/13/2004 07:01 AM One of my favorite peeps is Mikel Maron - how moved to the South of England to go be a college student - again. But it looks liek it paid off. Along the way Mikel has been doing plenty of contributing - still. Unfortunately Mikel is there and I'm here - and it doesn't look like I'll get back to SF in time for a Sept. 17th dinner in SF - maybe a week later?
Congrats to Jonas on getting a job!Congrats to Jonas on getting a job! 06/09/2004 05:54 AM Does that mean I have to wear pants, again?. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's with not inconsiderable pleasure, that I announce my re-entry into the world of the bi-monthly paycheck. Starting today I will be getting paid to lend what little of expertise I have to offer and use it to play with and work on some cool Open Source collaboration things. Psyched. [a preponderance of evidence blogs] Collabnet is very lucky to get Jonas to work for them. Congrats RustyCongrats Rusty 03/08/2004 11:27 PM It looks like Rusty has gotten a daytime gig as an Internet big cheese. I notice that the sidebar blurb of Armstrong Zúniga LLC (a web consulting shop for political campaigns) now says: Rusty Foster joined Armstrong Zúniga in February of 2004 as CTO. Rusty created the Scoop software platform in 1999 and founded Kuro5hin.org the same year. Kuro5hin is widely recognized as a pioneering project in collaborative media, and Rusty has written and spoken extensively about the potential of the internet as a medium for collaboration and grassroots organizing. More... Congrats to Ted SheltonCongrats to Ted Shelton 02/01/2005 08:42 PM Ted Shelton is at Orb Networks - coolio. Congrats to RojoCongrats to Rojo 02/07/2005 01:51 AM Even though we know they got their money long ago - I guess Rojo got even more money today (or recently.) So congrats to Chris and Kevin - and let's not forget Mark Graham - either! Go daddies go! Maybe one day even YOU can get bought by a search engine company. Congrats to CoryCongrats to Cory 03/20/2003 04:23 PM How nuts is it that Cory' s book was reviewed by Jeff Bezos and Harriet Klausner, Amazon's #1 reviewer? And speaking of, how on earth does someone review 4605 products (almost all books) in just a few years? I'm seeing 4-5 lengthy book reviews per day in some of her history, how on earth does someone do such a thing? Congrats to Justin!Congrats to Justin! 03/06/2004 01:49 AM Just In Tokyo Released to the Waiting Web. Just In Tokyo Released to the Waiting WebI lived in Japan between October 2001 and January 2003. My publisher was Garrett County Press, in New Orleans. After about a year, we agreed to take the guidebook off the market. I would have published the thing forever, but it was selling slow (slow and steady!) and losing some of its direct relevance as it aged. So I've released it to the web, under a Creative Commons license. Just In Tokyo PDF - download it for your next trip to Tokyo! Visit the Tokyo of the [Justin's Links] congrats on Waxy 2.0!congrats on Waxy 2.0! 01/22/2004 06:19 PM all of this child's toenail clippings will be archived permanently on the web in plain text format Congrats To The Meyers!Congrats To The Meyers! 12/10/2003 05:47 AM Carolyn Maxwell Meyer .. new arrival: Carolyn .. meyerweb .. carolyn meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/200312.html#t20031208 congrats to jason and shannoncongrats to jason and shannon 08/29/2004 10:53 PM hey, it's a New York engagement frenzy! congrats to andrea and jonahcongrats to andrea and jonah 08/29/2004 10:53 PM NYC is clearly in love congrats to karen and jakecongrats to karen and jake 08/29/2004 10:53 PM a few weeks belated, but it fits today's theme Congrats to Bryan Bell on his big
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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]:-) Now danah are I are in sync!
The fact that:
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.....are the leading conenctors - totally fascinates me! How come? Why? Their brilliant understanding and manipulation of the system is signs of things to come!
I'm reminded of some Tom Clancey novel - where the stock market is played and the servers shut down simultaneously - which leads to world war outbreak of course!
What if all our explicit social networks went down? Would we all resort to telephone again? Or even worse - Shopping Malls?
I kind of think of every blog or message post I make - as a sort of homage to the telephone pole torn-up signage posting - or bulletin board thumbpost - in a laundry room.
Except this time - all the pre-precut telephone numbers tilted 90 degrees - for ease of tearing off - are my memes.
:-)
Here's danah's post.........
I logged into Orkut today and was pleasantly surprised to find that the first two connectors were neither Joi nor Marc. Instead, they are two men from outside the States (Brazil, Czech Republic) with a relatively small cohort of friends (73, 19). This is intriguing.
Now, i know that there are games being played, so i checked out their friends. Almost all are from their countries of origin and most have relatively few friends. Now, this would make sense in a normal model, but i'm curious who these central bridges are - how are they playing such a significant role on the network?
I also received an email from Marc Canter encouraging people to make more friends so that he can be more of a connector. This was a kind reminder of how fake the data really is.
Since it's fake anyways, i encourage all of you geeks with times on your hands to play. The trick to being the biggest connector is not a game of collecting people. It's a graph theory game. You need to bridge the most disparate groups as well as connect to the hubs strategically. Remember: it's an algorithm of average path length. Thus, you don't want exceptionally long path lengths factored into the average. But, if you bridge the hubs and the disparate groups, you've reduced the average for everyone.
Anyhow, i've got to get back to work and should not focus on this instead of writing, but it's a really fun math problem that i'd love for someone to solve. What is the algorith to minimize your average path length? Given the data, what strategic connections need to be made for a newcomer?
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Where facts are few and experts are many.
New Features: Friends & Addressbook
Blogware users got a small preview of version 1.0 this week with the release of our new Address Book and Friends functionality.
The Ad dress Book is a pretty cool mechanism that provides Blogware Publishers with some pretty nifty tools for managing the relationships between users and content.
The other new function, Friend s, is a simple tool that allows users to connect with one another and will act as the basis for a bunch of cool new services as we move forward.
Play around with them and let me know what you think (keeping in mind that this is "pre-release preview beta not-finished yet" stuff....) [Random Bytes]
I got to be friend #1. Ah the joys of being an 'outside friend'. One more win for the FOAFnet.
We moved!. 
About two years ago we learned that we were
supposed to leave the apartment we were living in. Back then we
decided to find some land and build our home.
They started
building it last year, in
March.
After endless struggling with real estate agents,
banks, builders, plumbers, electricians, painters, carpenters and a
whole list of other people, last week-end we finally moved to our new
home, during the two most rainy, windy and muddy days in San Martino
del Carso history.
Waking up yesterday morning with a bright
sun (sigh) shining on our bedroom window has been
beautiful.
For the first time in years we are taking stuff out
of cardboard boxes instead of putting it in. This also means that now
I will have again time and mind to fully concentrate on daily work and
writing on my weblog.
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's
Weblog]
I can't wait to go and try out the guest room. Only problem is (I mean challenge) is that I have an entourage of 4 now....
LinkUsing a two-way video, audio and text chat interface, expo attendees were invited to control Doc Johnson-branded iVibe pleasure devices being put to use by models at an undisclosed location, in various states of undress.
"The device control works both ways -- the person on each end controls the speed and rhythm of the device the other is using," explained High Joy President Amir Vatan, as one attendee cranked his remote partner's iVibe to warp-speed intensity. The Internet-enabled products will become publicly available before the end of 2004, and will later be integrated into an assortment of Web porn destinations.
"It's the ultimate in site stickiness," said Vatan. "For online adult providers, more interactivity means more traffic, and more traffic means more revenue."
The following phrases have been identified by the grok system as matching this entry: scriptable "bluetooth file exchange" "internet explorer" m4p "mime type"
I finally got the nerve up to steal a
page out of 
There is no greater joy 
You may have already read 
The service isn't going anywhere and
we're not turning into some "Blogware only" proprietary mess. The
Tucows ZenKeepers would take away my spots if I tried to do that (or
let that happen). We're looking to go in exactly the opposite
direction. My goal is tomake Blogrolling.com even more
useful to webloggers, weblog tool developers and weblog resellers. We
will do this by opening it up more than it already is and ensure
basic win-wins for everyone.