Are the mainstream newspapers turning to news aggregators?
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Newspapers To Offer Their Own News
Aggregators
Newspapers To Offer Their Own News
Aggregators
04/09/2005 03:08 PMTurning News Aggregators into News
Distributors
Turning News Aggregators into News
Distributors
05/09/2004 07:55 PM
Although I travel in the wide open realm of ideas, I am not into
impractical ideas
no matter how attractive they may be. My excuse for wasting
my time with impractical
ideas is that they tend to be stepstones to practical ones.
Anyhow, here is
one I thought could be of immediate use to the blogosphere.
The idea is to turn all those news aggregator clients out there
into news distributors.
So all the RSS files I download every morning is also made
available to others.
Whether sharing of RSS files and resources is done through a
variation of BitTorrents, blogosphere-specific
P2P network, or existing P2P networks is irrelevant as long as the
sharing is done
by those who can.
I know this is probably not a new idea, but I am peddling it here
because I believe
this must be done if blogosphere is to continue growing. At
some point, distribution
of load across news aggregators must be discussed but that's a post
topic for the
future. For now, enthusiasm for something new is enough to
power this effort.
Jackson's Junction: Video: Newspapers
turning to bl0ggers?
Jackson's Junction: Video: Newspapers
turning to bl0ggers?
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OEM News Aggregators
OEM News Aggregators
01/27/2004 05:18 PM
Continuing the discussion that started with Ads
in Feeds, I think the next step in content-syncation markets is
emergence and
proliferation of OEM news aggregators for premium content service
providers.
In this space, oversea software developers can compete effectively
against open source
and shareware developers.
Companies with necessary internal resources to develop their own
news aggregators
(i.e. Microsoft) or sufficient needs to differentiate itself (i.e.
Apple) will develop
their own, but most companies will opt to buy and brand OEM news
aggregators, initially
as a marketing ploy, but ultimately as a source of revenue.
Inevitable consequence is a feature war that will stretch the
definitions of syndication
and blogging. Marc will be a very happy man. :-)
Another Roundup of RSS News Aggregators
Another Roundup of RSS News Aggregators
03/11/2003 10:45 AM
Extend Your Information Seeking Skills With Newsfeeds
"Many people no longer receive a daily newspaper, or even buy one
on the way to work. There is more news and more information being fed
daily online than a newspaper could hope to print. However, those
skills you used each morning for maybe twenty years, scanning the
front page just before you race out to work, are still needed, and
perhaps need to be refined and updated.
To experience more on the topic of this article you should download
the newset of the bunch of Newsreaders and deliver news from Newsfeeds
minute-by-minute during your day. No, this is not just your local,
national or international newspapers participating; often you can have
fed to you new information from weblogs, news sites, or whatever other
site you like to choose. Effectively mix your own news.
Start here by downloading the new Australian built Awasu Personal Edition 1.0 (yes, it
sounds Japanese, but I can assure you Awasu
is an Australian-built product.) I have downloaded and tested Syndirella, NewzCrawler, AmphetaDesk, FeedReader, Userland
Radio, Headline Viewer, WildGrape, and NewsGator. From this
field, I would choose Awasu any day even though it is the newest of
what they call the RSS Newsreaders out there." [Microdoc Info Seeker
News]
I'm not familiar with Awasu, so it's another one to try. More and
more people are figuring out the benefits of RSS news aggregators. If
you're not reading this in an aggregator, you should try it and see
for yourself.
Current News Aggregators
Current News Aggregators
01/16/2004 12:59 PMThere have been several newly created and a number of updated web
applications current news aggregators on the Internet. I have listed a
number of the most competent resources below to use as one of the
resources to aggregate current awareness news and happenings on the
Internet:
Columbia Newsblaster: Summarizing All the
News on the Webhttp://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/Gixo - Personalized Online News Servicehttp://www.gixo.com/Google™ Newshttp://news.google.com/Google™ News Alerthttp://www.google.com/newsale
rts/memigo - Cut Through the
InfoGluthttp://www.memigo.com/Moreover Technologieshttp://w.moreover.com/NewsInEssence: Web-based News Summarizationhttp://www.newsinessence.c
om/nie.cgiNewsIsFreehttp://www.NewsIsFree.com/NewsKnowledgehttp://NewsKnowledge.com/NewsNow - Automatically Searching 15424 News Sources
Every 5 Minuteshttp://www.newsnow.co.uk/NewzSnap™http://www.lobbynet.com/promo
.htmRocketNews - Breaking News and WebLog
Search Enginehttp://www.rocketne
ws.com/search/index.htmlTopix.net - News
Organized By Topic and Locationhttp://www.topix.net/Yahoo News Front Pagehttp://news.yahoo.com/Let me know if you recommend any other current news aggregators and
I will list them here as well.
Yahoo! News - One Story Line About News
Blogs: They Lag Far Behind Mainstream
Yahoo! News - One Story Line About News
Blogs: They Lag Far Behind Mainstream
01/06/2005 09:35 AMOne Story Line About News Blogs: They Lag Far Behind
Mainstream
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New White Paper: Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators
New White Paper: Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators
08/13/2004 10:31 AMI have just completed my latest research white paper titled
"
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators" and this 20 page
research paper lists many resources both new and existing that will
help anyone who is attempting to do information and knowledge research
about
bots, blogs and news aggregator tools currently
available the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.47MB)
at the below link from the
Virtual Private
Library™:
Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators a White Paper by
Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.http://
virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/botsblogs.pdfBots, Blogs and News Aggregatorshttp://www.BotsBlogs.com/
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
Presentation and White Paper
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
Presentation and White Paper
07/28/2004 11:16 AM
Bots, Blogs & News
Aggregators Presentation and White Paperhttp://www.botsblogs.com/This site is for the white paper, video and sources that I
deliver in my "Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and
News Aggregators" presentation. If you would like me to deliver this
presentation to your company or organization feel free to contact me
for additional information and availability dates.
Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators
Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators
11/18/2003 04:23 PMWorkshop: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and
News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beacheshttp://www.palmbeaches.org/Marcus
P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the
Virtual Private
Library™, author, speaker and creator/founder of BotSpot.com
will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with
emphasis on the growing areas of blogs (weblogs), bots and intelligent
agents and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new
resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you
search and find the information you require for both personal and
academic research. His presentations are designed both for the
“newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned
“Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace,
and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both
easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon
be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the
fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the
entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed
during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot
and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest
links and resources are available by clicking
here.
Time: 5:30pm
- 7:30pm
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2004
Location: Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches, 401 North
Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Speech: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.
Speech: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.
05/20/2004 06:58 AMSpeech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and
News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.Rotary Club of South MiamiPresentation Sources:http://BotsBlogsPrese
ntation.Blogspot.comSearchingTheInternet.info<
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Marcus P.
Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the
Virtual Private
Library™,
author,
speaker,
consultant and
creator/founder of
BotSpot.com
will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with
emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs
(weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new
resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you
search and find the information you require for both personal and
academic research. His presentations are designed both for the
“newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned
“Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace,
and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both
easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon
be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the
fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the
entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed
during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot
and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest
links and resources are available by clicking
here.
Time:
12:15pm
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Location:
Holiday Inn, University of Miami, 1350 South Dixie Highway, Coral
Gables, FL 33146
Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.
Workshop: Current Happenings on the
Internet: Blogs, Bots and News
Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A.
02/12/2004 03:25 PMWorkshop: Current Happenings on the Internet: Blogs, Bots and
News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.SAE Alumni Club of Southwest FloridaPresentation Sourceshttp://BotsBlogsPrese
ntation.Blogspot.comMarcus P. Zillman, M.S.,
A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the
Virtual Private
Library™,
author,
speaker,
consultant and
creator/founder of
BotSpot.com
will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with
emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs
(weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new
resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you
search and find the information you require for both personal and
academic research. His presentations are designed both for the
“newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned
“Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace,
and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both
easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon
be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the
fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the
entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed
during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot
and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest
links and resources are available by clicking
here.
Time:
7:30pm
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Location: Port Royal Country Club, Naples, Florida
V2N33 August 16, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators
V2N33 August 16, 2004 Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators
08/16/2004 04:38 PM
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators White
PaperThis edition of Current Awareness Happenings
on the Internet by
Marcus
P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. August 16, 2004 V2N33 discusses my
latest
white paper titled
Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. Click on the below
audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest
white paper. View the site that discusses and makes available this
free white paper:
Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregatorshttp://www.BotsBlogs.com/November 11, 2003> Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet - Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators Streaming Video
November 11, 2003> Current Awareness
Happenings on the Internet - Bots, Blogs
and News Aggregators Streaming Video
11/11/2003 11:40 AMThis edition of
Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by
Marcus P.
Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (
November 11, 2003 V1N24) is
dedicated to his latest lecture. Click on the below link to view a
brand new 90 minute streaming lecture presented by Marcus P. Zillman
at Florida Gulf Coast University titled
Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators. A complete listing of all the latest URLs
created by Marcus P. Zillman is available at the
Links By
Marcus™ link listed below:
Bots,
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Says Internet news potential remedy for
fall of print newspapers
Says Internet news potential remedy for
fall of print newspapers
11/12/2003 04:27 PMWorldNetDaily Nov 12 2003 3:14PM ET
Yahoo! News - Philips Creates Foldable
Screens for E-Newspapers
Yahoo! News - Philips Creates Foldable
Screens for E-Newspapers
01/27/2004 08:40 PMPhilips Creates Foldable Screens For E-Newspapers .. slim, book-sized
display panel .. LinkLog: Foldable Displays .. announced mass
production ..
says
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/tech_philips_display
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Newspapers Hold 8 Spots on Top 20 News
Site List (Editor and Publisher)
Newspapers Hold 8 Spots on Top 20 News
Site List (Editor and Publisher)
04/20/2004 04:57 PMEditor and Publisher - NEW YORK Eight of the top 20 news Web sites or
groups in the U.S. during March were affiliated with newspapers,
according to audience statistics from Nielsen//NetRatings.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Turning the tables
on Nigeria's e-mail conmen
BBC NEWS | Africa | Turning the tables
on Nigeria's e-mail conmen
07/13/2004 11:53 PMScambaiter gets Nigerian scammer to paint his breast red and send him
$80 .. scamming the
scammers
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BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Turning the
tables on Nigeria's e-mail conmen
BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Turning the
tables on Nigeria's e-mail conmen
07/14/2004 04:58 AMScam-busters get African scammer to send them cash! .. Turning the
tables on Nigeria's e-mail conmen .. Scambaiting the 419 spammers ..
reverse sting .. gets
scammed
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Poll finds more people turning to
alternatives such as Internet for
campaign news
Poll finds more people turning to
alternatives such as Internet for
campaign news
01/12/2004 03:02 AMAP via Florida Times-Union Jan 12 2004 2:01AM ET
Just Say Yes to Pre-populated
Aggregators
Just Say Yes to Pre-populated
Aggregators
04/27/2004 12:31 AMFeed
Pre-population
"I reckon setting up aggregators for learners is way cool, in the
same breath as (if not before) looking at blogging, but I'm not too
sure about pre-population of those aggregators (in the same way IE et
al pre-pops bookmarks) for two reasons really:
1. I should be able to select what I want... take out the choice
(or hint at it) and I'll be a bit unhappy, as Jenny
said it'd be a cracking job by any librarian to get together,
categorise and share feeds... but already in there... no thanks!
2. It feels like that whole 'community
aggregator' thing again... which works against the individuals in
the group (we are our own group aggregator, perhaps?)" [incorporated
subversion]
My reasoning is that aggregators already come pre-populated anyway,
and most people would actually be confused if you gave them a blank
aggregator. So if an aggregator is already going to have some feeds in
it, let's make them relevant to get the point across right away.
In a university setting, a library can pre-populate the aggregator
with topical feeds. Ditto for special libraries. In a public library
setting, the aggregator could be pre-populated with local community
feeds. In a school setting, the feeds could be topical or class-based.
It's enough to get users started and of course in my ideal world, the
aggregator includes the library's feed and a permanent link to the
library's web site, online catalog, and virtual reference service
(maybe even as the elusive embedded toolbar).
Works for me.
Wired about aggregators
Wired about aggregators
10/29/2003 12:09 AMCouldn't resist linking to this article: Wired News: Aggregators
Attack Info Overload [Via JD on MX]...
Java RSS Aggregators
Java RSS Aggregators
04/09/2004 04:01 PMThere's yet another RSS Aggregator out there: JNN (Juicy News Network)
by none other than James Gosling. It's very basic right now but such
is to be expected for, as he calls it, a "weekend hack". In releasing
this aggregator as open source, he brought the wrath of John Munsch
upon him though. John has been working on another Java... (582 words)
Palm Aggregators?
Palm Aggregators?
02/18/2003 02:16 PMWanted: RSS Aggregator for Palm OS.
Aggregators and HTTP redirects
Aggregators and HTTP redirects
11/15/2003 04:36 PMI am in the process of reorganizing parts of this site. One of the
things I would like to do...
Mashing Books and Aggregators
Mashing Books and Aggregators
06/09/2004 11:51 PMIf you like the idea of reading Da Vinci's
Notebooks via RSS, then you might also enjoy James Joyce's Ulysses, as
syndicated by Jason White. The
fun starts on June 16, which Jason notes is the hundredth anniversary of
the date that Ulysses is set. Offer good through June 14, 2006.
;-)
Bootstrapping a directory of aggregators
Bootstrapping a directory of aggregators
06/06/2004 03:50 PMDave Winer has
requested user reviews of RSS aggregators. If you're a long-time
FeedDemon user, especially one who has tried competing products, would
you consider writing a review?
Web-based content aggregators
Web-based content aggregators
01/19/2003 02:11 PMNot satisfied with being the most popular and effective search
service, Google continues to give pleasant surprises to its users by
regularly dishing out new ...
Mozilla based RSS Aggregators
Mozilla based RSS Aggregators
03/13/2003 10:14 AMI've tried a few RSS aggregator's and gave up on most of them quickly
because they embedded the IE control for browsing, which of course
means popups, banner ads, no tabbed browsing, etc.... NewsMonster is a
Mozilla based RSS aggregator. It integrates into the Mozilla sidebar,
which means you get...
The Potential of Pre-populated
Aggregators
The Potential of Pre-populated
Aggregators
04/25/2004 11:19 PMWashington
Post and Baltimore Sun RSS Feeds
"Having the Post is great,
but check out the list from the Sun. Very cool. And the Times has added a feed just
for politics.
(I'm trying to keep track of all of the newspaper feeds I find here.)
So is there any reason why next fall we shouldn't give our kids
their ID numbers, their network passwords, and their login info to
their Bloglines account
prepopulated with world, national, and local news, the latest sports
and weather, and a few choice fun feeds for kids to follow?" [Weblogg-ed
News]
Precisely! An excellent role for librarians in
any type of library....
Meet the Aggregators at Gnomedex
Meet the Aggregators at Gnomedex
06/24/2005 03:36 PMA while back I was talking with Chris Pirillo and Dave Winer about
interesting things to do at Gnomedex this year, and we figured
that since so many aggre
gator developers will be there, we should all get together for
some sort of informal luncheon where people who use our software could
ask us questions and make suggestions.
The idea went over well with several aggregator developers we spoke
with, so it's official - according to the schedule, it's
happening at noon on Saturday. As of right now, developers working on
NetNewsWire, RSS Bandit, Rojo, Bloglines, Pluck and (of course)
FeedDemon will be there, and the invitation is open to other
aggregator developers.
I'll be leaving at the crack of dawn Thursday morning to fly to
Seattle for the conference, and it looks like it's going to be quite
an event - according to numerous sources, there will be some interest
ing announcements made there.
Aggregators and automatic updates
Aggregators and automatic updates
03/13/2003 10:22 AMJust a quick question, mostly because I haven't made up my mind yet:
News aggregators like Feedreader, and probably others...
Readers, aggregators, linkbl0gs and
another approach
Readers, aggregators, linkbl0gs and
another approach
12/11/2003 10:55 AM
Some things are starting to fit into place. From the art
icle above, it's clear now that the difference between readers and
aggregators isn't new, it goes back to the difference between
My.Netscape and My.UserLand. In the former, each
feed was considered its own independent thing; My.UserLand flowed
all feeds into one flow. (My.UserLand migrated<
/a> to become the aggregator in Radio.) To me (and I've said this
before) the My.UserLand approach is more leveraged for the human,
because the former approach still makes you go somewhere to
find the new stuff. True, the "somewhere" is all in one app,
but it's still work you have to do, instead of the computer.
Then another dichotomy is exposed. Quite a few Movable Type
bloggers start things called linkblogs, or remaindered links, whatever
you call them, they're working around the model of longish posts with
lots of visual overhead (a model also implemented by Blogger, Manila
and Radio, so this isn't a dig on MT). What if you just want to link
to something, should that require a whole post with all its
attributes? It's a matter of user interface in the end. If MT made it
easy to post and update a news item that was link-blog-like, people
wouldn't need to invent a way around it. But that would break the
relationship between the feed and posts. Oy what a mess.
Now look at this page carefully. See how posts of all sizes
mix? It seems to work. The only thing missing is titles for posts
(you'll see why I need them, in some cases, later today). But a
right-click menu makes it possible to give a post a title.
Aggregators Counts Require a Close Look
Aggregators Counts Require a Close Look
06/08/2004 05:14 PMAggregators and resellers of hotspot access are likely to rise to more
prominence as roaming becomes de rigeur, but how many locations do
they offer, anyway? Three companies dominate hotspot aggregation and
reselling: iPass, GoRemote (formerly GRIC), and Boingo Wireless. The
former two work almost entirely with large corporations, offering a
combination of dial-up, wired Ethernet (in hotel rooms and elsehwere),
and Wi-Fi hotspots. Boingo resells just hotspot access. None of the
three build infrastructure; Boingo does offer turnkey hotspots for
venues that want to be Boingo-only locations. A question has been
raised many times over the last several months about how hotspot
operators and aggregators count their locations. Even companies that
don't resell, like SBC, have adopted terminology that isn't entirely
clear. SBC talks about 20,000 access points and 6,000 locations over a
few years--but why mention access points or individual pieces of
hardware at all? To produce a comprehensive list and a spot check of
counts across each aggregator, I downloaded the free client software
either directly from the company, in Boingo and iPass's case, or
through a reseller that provides up-to-date listings, in the case of
GoRemote. A few days ago, I updated the listings for all the software.
I was able to extract the directory information for iPass and
GoRemote; it's stored in plain text in a clearly labeled file. Boingo
uses a database structure that's password protected, and so I turned
to their Web site's location finder to get accurate results. First,
let's look at how each company states their current pool of hotspots
venues. The tricky starting point is that many hotel locations that
are aggregated by Wi-Fi-only Boingo are, in fact, mostly or entirely
Ethernet based. Newer or revamped installations typically feature
Wi-Fi in common areas and Ethernet to the room, although more hotels
are switching to or choosing all Wi-Fi. So you can't entirely split
out wired from wireless locations. iPass states that worldwide they
have over 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspot and Ethernet broadband locations.
Boingo Wireless notes that they have 6,000 locations under contract,
and 3,300 live worldwide. GoRemote says it connects to 7,800 Wi-Fi
hotspots in 45 countries and territories and 1,391 Hotel Ethernet
locations in 27 countries. Next, I took all of GoRemote and iPass's
information and loaded into a flat database fielded by their
particular values so that I could examine apples-to-apples
information. I used Boingo's Web site and...
Image theft htaccess and online
aggregators
Image theft htaccess and online
aggregators
06/20/2004 05:18 AMHere's an architectural and social issue for you: if you publish a
full content feed, web-based aggregators won't be able to display any
images it might contain if you've set up apache to prevent
bandwidth-stealing by people posting your images...
Personal Life Recorders and Digital
Lifestyle Aggregators
Personal Life Recorders and Digital
Lifestyle Aggregators
09/13/2004 09:19 AMNick Graydos brings up a good point.
Once we have Personal Life Recorders (PLRs) - we'll need digital lifestyle aggregators (DLAs) to organize all
the crap we collect.
Perhaps the biggest barriers to humans utilizing all the technology
we offer them - is how to get all this stuff digitzed, uploaded, meta
data attached and indexed - before we can utilize it.
PLRs
solve that problem.
But we'll need ways of organizing, keeping track of and backing up
all our stuff - especially as we move from home to work and school and
bop around the world - as well. This all goes along well with the
last post I did on dealing with your digital lifestyle -
currently.
There are other things that require DLAs as well.
Activity based computing for one. Is it a coicidence that Don Norman influenced me on that one as
well?
Clay Shirky calls it Situated
software, but I see a more general era of technology - where the
human no longer has to bend over to adapt to the weird rules and
eccentricities of the software - to use it.
This assumes that the usability issue
is finally understood, that soci
al interfaces are predominant and that DLAs help us pull it all
together.
The PLRs and activity based computing will take us to the next
level.
Here's Nick's post which inspired this outburst.....
USA Today ran an article on MRAM (magentic ram) and its impact PLRs - personal life
recorders.
"Don
Norman speculated about a
Personal
Life Recorder (PLR) type of device back in his 1992 book
"Turn Signals Are The Facial Expression of Automobiles". He
theorized
that these PLR's would start out as a device given to young
children,
called the "Teddy".
The "Teddy" would be given to us as children and record all of our
personal life moments, and as we mature, the data could be
transferred
to new devices that matched out maturity level." [via Smart Mobs]
The holy grail of devices = Storage Capacity + Battery Life +
Device Speed / Responsiveness + Physical Size.
How do you feel about having your life recorded? I'm ready.
Marc Canter has some related ideas that tie into his themes of Digital Lifestyle Aggregation. I really think that
Personal Lifestyle Recorders will
require Digital Lifestyle Aggregators to sift through all of
the data to find the interesting bits.
"What’s a
Digital Lifestyle Aggregator?
Imagine a next
generation MyYahoo
service – which enabled end-users to keep track of their personal
(and
their families) music, photo, video and file collections and provided
them with ‘home publishing’ capabilities to create, store and
distribute their own content. Imagine a social
networking environment which matched and found like-minded people and
enabled them to participate in activities together (both on-line and
in
‘real space’.)...
...Now
imagine all of these capabilities and features in one integrated
environment – focused in on a particular constituency, content brand
or
set of activities. That’s what we call a digital lifestyle
aggregator (DLA.)"
[Nick
Graydos > thynk]
How to make money from Digital Lifestyle
Aggregators - Part I
How to make money from Digital Lifestyle
Aggregators - Part I
06/01/2004 05:07 PMI'm getting to be like Doc now. I have multiple blog sources
where I'm published at.
I've been starting to use Tony Perkin's
AlwaysOn Network as a platform to spiel on about DLAs.
Strictly DLAs.
A man's gotta have a professional avenue only to rant and rave in
and the AlwaysOn Network is the perfect
24/7/365 venue for me - culminating with a meatspace confab in
July.
I helped Tony put together the AO Zaibatsu (as he calls it) and I'm
hoping that he'll continue to the good work in providing yet another
example of social networking put into context - this time in the
virtual Silicon Valley crowd.
The AO Zaibatsu provides every member a blog tool, which is then
used to produce the global AlwaysOn Network voice.
Tony and his editorial staff (including Rafe Needleman and Rich
Seidner) then cherry pick the posts and put them up onto the top
page. Tony and his team have some coolio new applications for
Groups and sponsorships - which they'll be unveiling soon and it all
ties into the AO Innovation Summit at Stanford in July 13-15th.
The whole brand is a great example of putting DLAs into action, and allows me (combined with
1UP.com) to show the world that "there's a there there".
So check out my latest post there entitled "H
ow to make money from digital lfiestyle aggregators?" 'Cause
it's all about making money - right?
I grabbed a couple of screen grabs just to show everyone that this
is coming out of live code, with live, breathing humans attached to a
real life social network - supporting FOAF and RSS - spewing out feeds
and content faster than a NYC editor can edit them.
That means that the AlwaysOn Network is a permanent location in our
people's mesh - a decentralized
collection of on-line tools, services and applications - all utilizing
FOAF to import/export digital ID's
between systems.
We're working on forming an industry consortium dedicated to making
sure that this happens. It's code-named the
FOAFnet.
Request For Comments: Synchronization of
Information Aggregators using Markup
(SIAM)
Request For Comments: Synchronization of
Information Aggregators using Markup
(SIAM)
01/06/2004 12:56 AMDare, Brent, Kevin, myself and others have been discussing a standard
to exchange subscriptions and item-states between aggregators. A
standard like this would not only allow you to for instance sync up
different SharpReader instances on different PCs (say one at work and
the other at home), but would also work across aggregators so you'd
even be able to for... (95 words)
Varied feed polling times versus item
urgency in aggregators
Varied feed polling times versus item
urgency in aggregators
12/02/2003 12:28 AMThe
problem with varying the polling interval is that the need varies.
It's ok not to poll my little opensource website within 24 hours, but
what about the announcements to the civil defence website or local
municipal environment alerts, or the nuclear power plant news feed?
Definitely a good point there. For most of the feeds in my daily
habit, what I use is an AIMD variation on my polling frequency per
feed based on occurrence of new items. For feeds with low-frequency
but high-urgency items, a different algorithm should come into play.
On the other hand... should incoming alerts with that much urgency
really be conveyed via an architecture driven by polling? Here's an
excellent case for tying instant messaging systems and pub/sub into
the works.
Grok Description matches for Are the mainstream newspapers turning to news aggregators?
GrokA matches for Are the mainstream newspapers turning to news aggregators?
Deleted Scenes on DVDs: Why such poor
quality?
Deleted Scenes on DVDs: Why such poor
quality?
08/10/2004 11:31 PMThis has bothered me for a while now. It seems that on most movie
DVDs, the deleted scenes are of very poor video quality. It's as if
someone went back to the cutting room, pieced together the film,
scratched it a lot, and then projected it on a big screen so they
could record it with a cheap-ass handheld video camera for later use
on the DVD. Why is that? Anyone know?...
i-Mate Smartphone 3
i-Mate Smartphone 3
08/31/2004 03:18 PMI just got word from Sound Solutions that they'll be shipping the
i-Mate SP3 from their UK office in mid-September...
"
100 Scariest Movie Scenes Of All
Time
"
"
100 Scariest Movie Scenes Of All
Time
"
10/31/2003 03:55 AM"Mate-a-movie. Combine two or more
movies into one."
"Mate-a-movie. Combine two or more
movies into one."
11/14/2003 04:05 PMretroCRUSH: THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE
SCENES OF ALL TIME!
retroCRUSH: THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE
SCENES OF ALL TIME!
10/30/2003 11:25 AMRetro Crush
retrocrush.com/scary/index.html
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Upcoming Firefly Movie Behind-the-Scenes
Photos
Upcoming Firefly Movie Behind-the-Scenes
Photos
09/12/2004 09:20 AMPentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h
Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld Comment---The
Pentagon deleted from a public
transcript a statement Defense Secretary
Donald H. Rumsfeld made to author Bob
Woodward suggesting that the
administration gave Saudi Arabia a
two-month heads-up that President Bush h
04/22/2004 05:17 AMwashingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28729-2004Apr20.html
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Motorola Announces A780 Linux SmartPhone
and MPx220 Pocket PC SmartPhone
Motorola Announces A780 Linux SmartPhone
and MPx220 Pocket PC SmartPhone
07/27/2004 02:34 PMbargainPDA.com Jul 27 2004 6:18PM GMT
Doh - deleted ~600 comments ...
Doh - deleted ~600 comments ...
02/01/2005 09:33 PMFrom the man-I-didn't-want-to-spend-two-hours-on-that department: I
managed to delete all the comments submitted in the last 2-3 weeks
yesterday. I'll hack up a script to parse them out of the HTML and put
it back into the database, but I didn't run it yet... Anyway, your
comments should be back later today. If you accidentally delete your
comments from your weblog, before you do anything else make a backup
of the generated HTML files. Update: The comments are back, yay.
Here's...
Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience
Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience
03/22/2005 05:03 PMYesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were
whini
ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting
their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize
that going to the movies is a
social experience. It's not just
about the content (though, that is important), but the overall
experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go --
even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap
DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to
entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that
story pointed to an article in China noting that
this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done.
After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made
going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience,
putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved
the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made
some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away
from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in
Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.
Alert When a File is Deleted
Alert When a File is Deleted
09/17/2004 01:12 AMCleanup Deleted Shares
Cleanup Deleted Shares
12/29/2004 06:10 AMDeleted File Analysis Utility v2.5
Deleted File Analysis Utility v2.5
05/11/2004 06:20 AMThis freeware for Windows NT/2000/XP can scan your hard drive
partitions and list all deleted files that may still be recoverable.
[Freeware 1.0 MB]
Windows Tip: Get Back Deleted Files
Windows Tip: Get Back Deleted Files
09/26/2004 08:36 PMG4 Tech TV Sep 26 2004 11:11PM GMT
says millions of people deleted their
mp3s
says millions of people deleted their
mp3s
11/07/2003 06:33 AMStudy: Millions delete all music
files
cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/11/06/music.piracy.reut/index.html<
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Flash Used to Restore Deleted Cookies
Flash Used to Restore Deleted Cookies
04/02/2005 09:57 PMBy tagging your browser with a Flash object containing a unique ID,
marketers can recognize an individual PC and restore deleted cookie
data.
FAQ | Unwanted attachments can be
deleted from folder
FAQ | Unwanted attachments can be
deleted from folder
01/04/2004 03:54 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer Jan 4 2004 3:31AM ET
Hitchhiker's Guide to Deleted Office
Data
Hitchhiker's Guide to Deleted Office
Data
04/09/2004 04:10 PMSun engineer Geoff Arnold points to a Web site reporting the results
when someone crawed all public Microsoft Web sites looking for Office
documents containing deleted data....
Soviet missile deleted from eBay
(Reuters)
Soviet missile deleted from eBay
(Reuters)
02/01/2005 09:24 PMReuters - A Cambridge man trying to sell a deactivated Soviet-era
missile on eBay has been forced to delete it after Web site
staff contacted him for breaching company rules.
Deleted Cameraphone Images Easily
Retrieved?
Deleted Cameraphone Images Easily
Retrieved?
08/17/2004 09:07 AM
So the
technical information is all jacked up in this article at the Khaleej
Times (phones with hard disks? 'symptoms phones'?) but the point
they're trying to make is still valid. With the first and second
generation of widespread cameraphones getting long in the tooth, many
people are trading them in for new models with better features. Be
careful, though, to erase all your data before trading it in - just
pulling out your SIM card will not be enough.
That being said, the story on the Times is about people being able
to retrieve images (and presumably data) even after you have
deleted them. That make be the case, depending on how the flash memory
file systems work, but that's not the sort of thing that you usually
have to worry about. Does anybody know of a phone OS or software that
lets you do this?
Read -
Reselling cell phones with camera has risks as pictures can be
retrieved [KhaleejTimes via Pic
turePhoning]
Doubts on Informant Deleted in Senate
Text
Doubts on Informant Deleted in Senate
Text
07/13/2004 10:24 AMAmong the deletions from the public version of a Senate panel's report
on prewar intelligence was an assessment of the credibility of an
Iraqi defector.
VeriSign Signals Readiness to Auction
Deleted Domains
VeriSign Signals Readiness to Auction
Deleted Domains
02/01/2005 09:15 PMBuried at the tail end of Verisigns recent .NET application: "... to
facilitate the process of developing a solution for an industry-wide
com/net deleted names handling process, which facilitates an open
auction during the pending delete period."
Picture Rescue recovers deleted digital
photos
Picture Rescue recovers deleted digital
photos
07/13/2004 12:17 PMProsoft Engineering today announced Picture Rescue, a Mac OS X utility
for recovering deleted digital photos...
OfficeRestore recovers deleted Excel,
Word docs
OfficeRestore recovers deleted Excel,
Word docs
05/18/2004 08:52 AMSubRosaSoft.com Ltd.'s latest specialized data recovery application is
OfficeRestore, designed to recover Microsoft Excel and Word
documents that have been erased accidentally or intentionally. The
company has previously released utilities that recover MP3 files and
data from flash media disks as well. OfficeRestore costs US$24.95 and
requires Mac OS X v10.2 or higher.
Recover deleted Outlook e-mail by
corrupting the PST file
Recover deleted Outlook e-mail by
corrupting the PST file
07/11/2004 11:49 AM“When a member accidentally deleted an important e-mail, she
turned to our Technical Q&A for help. Luckily, a member responded
with a rather unorthodox solution: Corrupt and then recover the PST
file. Find out how it works.”
How to recover deleted digital photo
files from a flash card
How to recover deleted digital photo
files from a flash card
10/29/2003 01:16 AMRecently, due to a combination of very poor user interface, and
momentary insanity, while meaning to delete one picture on an almost
full flash (SmartMedia) card, I recently deleted all the digital
picture files on the card. Once I discovered my mistake, I compounded
it by continuing to take photos, assuming that the ones I had deleted
were irrecoverable and weren't important anyway. Later that day I was
informed in no uncertain terms that the pictures I had deleted were
important, and that I should make all efforts possible to recover
them. So later that night I sat up with Google and downloaded and
tried a number of file recovery programs. A lot of the programs I
tried were totally useless. File Scavenger V2, File Recover, Digital
Picture Recovery, PC Inspector File Smart Recovery couldn't find any
of the deleted files. PC Inspector File Recovery crashed when I ran
it. Plus, the people who make the PC Inspector programs started
spamming me about their products. I found one that looked promising,
PhotoRescue, that showed me thumbnails of the missing photos, and
promised that if I bought the program it could recover the full files,
or my money back. That seemed reasonable enough and I was prepared to
buy it for $29 if none of the others worked. However, the clear winner
at photo file recovery was a program called Zero Assumption Digital
Image Recovery. I downloaded the program, checked it for viruses, ran
it, and it recovered my files and put them on my hard disk. It has an
exceedingly simple user interface. Somewhat disconcertingly for my
geeky soul, there are no options to configure or choices to make. I
just started the program, told it where to save the images it
recovered, pointed it at the card, and it did its stuff. In my case,
it worked flawlessly and recovered 155 images, including 22 files that
I had deleted and that other programs said didn't exist. It made
someone in my family very happy. Zero Assumption Digital Image
Recovery is the best program that I have found for recovering photos
files deleted from flash cards. As a bonus, it is freeware, released
by a Russian programmer as a way of promoting his corporate data
recovery software. I hope he succeeds. Very Highly Recommended.
Summary: Program: Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery Rating: Very
Highly recommended Cost: Free Version reviewed: 1.0...
HotFix Watch: All programs in a package
are deleted on SMS 2003 child sites
HotFix Watch: All programs in a package
are deleted on SMS 2003 child sites
07/04/2004 12:11 PM"Mike Allen, "Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld
Comment," The Washington Post , April
21, 2004 "
"Mike Allen, "Pentagon Deleted Rumsfeld
Comment," The Washington Post , April
21, 2004 "
04/22/2004 02:36 AMThe last Sex scenes
The last Sex scenes
02/10/2004 02:47 AMThis morning I saw signs advising that HBO's Sex and the
City will be filmed tomorrow around West 4th and West 11th streets
in the West Village. According to this NY Post
article, "The very last scenes for 'Sex' will be shot tomorrow."
So there you have it: the last scenes ever for Sex and the City will
be filmed tomorrow in the West Village. If you're interested in those
kind of things.
Behind the Scenes
Behind the Scenes
12/19/2004 03:04 PMCameron
Moll wants screenshots again. I completely missed the last round,
so I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring with this peek at the
editing process.
Are the mainstream newspapers turning to news aggregators?
