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Meta-tags, or, the Dublin Meta Core

Meta-tags, or, the Dublin Meta Core 03/17/2005 03:00 AM
As we sort through tags, it'd often be useful to know who created a particular tag. And when. And in which application. And probably other stuff also. While some apps remember who created which tag (e.g., Flickr), as we begin to aggregate tags, we could use a standard way to express this tagging metadata...a Dublin Core not for objects but for tags attached to objects. If this were to happen, it's very likely to come from the apps that benefit from having standardized tag metadata. The most obvious suspects are the search engines. (Hmm. I may be re-having Mary Hodder's...

How to get to BoingBoing - megnut.com

How to get to BoingBoing - megnut.com 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
Meg found Boingboing .. megnut

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BoingBoing goes three columns

BoingBoing goes three columns 06/20/2004 05:18 AM

A New Boing Boing.

I'm proud to say that Boing Boing has launched a new design, one that incorporates sponsors and a cleaner look. I was down visiting with Danny Hillis today (man, talk about mind blowing) and I was very happy to hear that he reads Boing Boing regularly. My role with Boing Boing is the equivalent of "band manager" - I helped them round up the wonderful sponsors - Wired, Google (Blogger), and O'Reilly - and work out the details of how they can take the site to the next phase of it's ongoing evolution ("brain candy for happy mutants since 1988!"). Take a look!...

[John Battelle]

- Me too.

BoingBoing stats under construction

BoingBoing stats under construction 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: A quick housekeeping note: We're taking our web stats offline for a bit, while we dig into some technical considerations about what data is reported, and how -- to ensure maximum accuracy and clarity. We'll make them public again when that's complete.

this clever send-up of boingboing

this clever send-up of boingboing 04/02/2005 05:11 AM
BoringBoring

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Comment dit-on "BoingBoing" en Francais?

Comment dit-on "BoingBoing" en Francais? 07/21/2004 11:29 PM
BoingBoing reader, Rocket Scientist, and honorary Eas t Texas conspiracy correspondent Charles says, "I was in Paris two weeks ago, and saw this production. Sure, there's an extra E, but it's close." Link< /a> to full-size image.

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing

HOWTO de-Xeni BoingBoing 03/19/2005 03:03 AM
Xeni Jardin: Jason Gill says,

Someone has posted a script for GreaseMonkey (a Firefox extension that lets you add your own Javascript code to any website, to remove ads or add features: Link) that automatically removes any post by Xeni when viewing BoingBoing."

Link< /a>. Of course, if you're not reading my posts you're gonna miss this one. D'oh!

Update: Jesse Andrews, the fellow who wrote this de-Xeni script, would appear to be busted. :-) Chad Hurley, who identifies himself as Mr. Andrews' employer, says:

Hi Xeni,

Just a note about Mr. Andrews and his "de-Xeni" plugin - We’ve caught him looking at far worse things than your "over the top" posts. Why he has picked you to filter, one may never know, but I have an idea for a plugin. Maybe I will add it to the Grease Monkey requests. It’s really simple. When Jesse opens Firefox, it directs Jesse to a folder on my server called, "Things Jesse needs to do today before the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 5"! Just an idea.

Keep on keepin' on,

Chad

"Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net"

"Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net" 11/01/2003 03:09 PM

Happy holidays from BoingBoing.

Happy holidays from BoingBoing. 12/25/2004 04:53 PM
Xeni Jardin:

Props for BoingBoing from PC Magazine

Props for BoingBoing from PC Magazine 01/02/2004 09:48 PM
Gareth Branwyn says:

"BoingBoing was named Top Blog in the December issue of PC Magazine (Top Ten Blogs). Unfortunately, they list [the site URL incorrectly] as boingboing.COM."

Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net

Temporary IP address instead of
boingboing.net 10/31/2003 09:37 PM
As you may have noticed, we're in the middle of an extended outage. We've got a new server up and running (with lots of new posts), but the DNS is going to take a day or two. In the meantime, http://216.126.84.59/ is your friend. Link

Nevermind this, have you checked out the
BoingBoing guestbar lately?

Nevermind this, have you checked out the
BoingBoing guestbar lately? 08/10/2004 07:55 PM
Damn, Rudy Rucker is really tearing it up over there to the right. Go on, have a look.

BoingBoing traffic stats are back

BoingBoing traffic stats are back 01/04/2005 08:56 PM
Xeni Jardin: Here's a note from John Battelle, affectionately known as Boing Boing's "band manager."

Earlier in the month we took Boing Boing's live stats page down ( link). As we noted in our post, we wanted to grok what the program was reporting, and make sure that whatever we posted was clear and understandable.

Well, the stats are back up (link), and you may notice that we've not done much to them. There's a good reason for this - we prefer to post our stats pretty much as reported by AWStats, the log file analysis program we use. We considered filtering those numbers in any number of ways, but always ended up at the same place - statistics are subject to interpretation and judgment, whereas data is data. We prefer to give you the data, and let you do with it what you want.

We did learn a few interesting things about how awstats works, and we did make one minor tweak to the reporting process. First, of the columns you see, only the first one - "Unique Visitors," and the last two "Hits" and "Bandwidth" can be taken at face value. "Unique Visitors" counts unique IP addresses that are hitting the site, so it's a fairly accurate count of actual humans reading Boing Boing. (If anything, its count is a bit low, as it does not account for sites like AOL which may have one IP address for thousands of unique users.) The "Hits" and "Bandwidth" columns count just about anything that moves on the site, so they are fine measurements of how "busy" the site is. But the other two columns - "Pages" and "Number of Visits" - are more difficult to understand. They are AWStats' best guess as to how many total visits a site gets, as well as how many pages are actually viewed by those visitors. These columns have always disregarded image and video files, but because a lot of our traffic comes from RSS readers, they are certainly inflated by some amount.

But how much? It's anyone's guess. We're working with Feedburner (link), among others, to figure that out, but until we know, we prefer not to hazard one of our own. What we do know is that those middle columns had been inflated by php files recently added to the site by advertisements, so we filtered those out.

We hope that posting these stats will be one small step toward the blogosphere working out the moving target of "standards" for measuring traffic to blogs - Mark Fletcher of Bloglines has done some good preliminary work (link) along those lines. As we learn more, we'll keep you posted.

IE + Moz/Firefox use tied among
BoingBoing readers

IE + Moz/Firefox use tied among
BoingBoing readers 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing's sysadmin extraordinare Ken Snider says, "IE has only a 1.6% lead on Moz/Firefox for BB readers now on BoingBoing.net. Check out the stats: Link. Add up Moz and Firefox. And if you include the 1.6% from netscape, which also uses the Gecko rendering engine (so is the same as Moz/FF really), they're exactly tied."

November: IE 38%, FF 30.6%, Moz 5%, Netscape 1.8%
October: IE 38.2%, FF 28.6%, Moz 5.6%, Netscape, 1.9%
Going back 6 months (June): IE: 41%, FF 12.7%, Moz: 7.4%, Netscape: 2.2%

Reader Frank Hecker says,

Two points re your post regarding Mozilla/Firefox use by BoingBoing readers. First, "Netscape" in your statistics may include Netscape Navigator 4.x (or earlier). If so, then it's not strictly speaking correct to count all of the 1.6% Netscape share toward the total percentage share for Gecko-based browser; you should count only the Netscape 6 and 7 share.

Second, note that Camino is also a Gecko-based browser, so its 0.2% share should be added to the figures for Firefox, Mozilla, and Netscape 6/7.

With these corrections, the Gecko-based browser share based on the current statistics (Link) is something between 35.9% and 37.5% depending on the relative breakdown of Netscape Navigator 4.x or earlier vs. Netscape 6 and 7. (31.1% Firefox + 4.6% Mozilla + 0.2% Camino + 0-1.6% Netscape.) Given that MSIE is at 36.9% I think it's fair to call this a virtual tie.

BB Sysadmin Ken sez: "This page shows the full breakdown, by browser version: Link."

BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you
can too!

BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you
can too! 04/13/2004 04:40 AM

Tonight, BoingBoing added in a new feature that allows you to to find "Other blogs commenting on this post" for each post. It is an ingenious use of the Technorati search functionality embedded inside of the Movable Type template that BoingBoing uses. This is a great way for a site to provide a distributed commenting system that incorporates transparency and accountability - to comment on BoingBoing, you just post something that links to BoingBoing, and you'll show up in the "Other blogs commenting on this post" page. It also discourages spammers and tolls, because all comments must be posted on the commenter's blog, and those posts are accountable - even if you want to remain anonymous, the commenting blog can now itself be commented upon, ad infinitum.

Here's how you can add it to your own Movable Type weblog template:

1) Edit your blog
2) Click on "Templates"
3) Click on "Main Index"
4) Somewhere imbetween the <$MTEntries$> and the <$/MTEntries> tags, add this to your template:

<a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&sub=mtcosmos& url=<$MTEntryPermalink$>" title="Technorati Cosmos">Other blogs commenting on this post</a>

5) Click on "Save"
6) Click on "Rebuild Site"

I just added it to this blog. Here's a link to the template for Sifry's Alerts main index page. Give it a go, and let me know how it works for you!

BoingBoing exclusive: new cartoon from
Graham Roumieu

BoingBoing exclusive: new cartoon from
Graham Roumieu 12/29/2003 01:38 PM
Click this cropped sneak peek (or here) for full-size image. Here's a fresh piece from Canadian illustrator and cartoonist Graham Roumieu, who is a very sick a very talented man.

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian
confusion

BoingBoing reader clears up my Persian
confusion 01/01/2004 02:38 PM
Sina Ahmadian points us to the FarsiWeb Project, and corrects my sloppy references to lanugage in Iran on recent posts (1, 2) about blogosphere reaction to the Bam earthquake (now said to have taken 50,000 lives):

I noticed that you have used the word "Farsi" (instead of "Persian") as English equivalent of our language in your web site. I would like to point out that FARSI (which is originally PARSI) is the native name of our language and PERSIAN is its English equivalent; as the native name of German language is 'Deutsch', but we never use 'Deutsch' in place of 'German' in English; or native term of Greek Language is "Ellinika" and always in English we say 'Greek' language, not 'Ellinika' language.

The titles of dictionaries written by several great Persian scholars (eg. Prof. Moein, Prof. Aryanpour, Prof. Baateni, etc.) are "English-Persian Dictionary" not "English-Farsi Dictionary". And the official institution "Farhangestan" (the Academy of Persian language and literature, in Tehran) in an announcement has rejected the use of the word 'Farsi' instead of 'Persian' in English.

According to Dr. Hossein Sameie (visiting linguistics professor of Emory University in Atlanta), "PERSIAN, alongside the name of a language, may be used, as an adjective, for the other aspects of our history and culture. For example, we can speak about 'Persian Literature', 'Persian Gulf', 'Persian Carpet', 'Persian Food'; this way, 'Persian' may be a common concept and function as a link between all aspects of Iranian [Persian] life, including language. 'Farsi' does not have such a characteristic..." And finally, all international brocasting centres (eg. BBC, VOA, DW, etc.) have "Persian Service" not "Farsi Service" -- BBC, VOA, DW, Radio Free Europe, etc.

Thank you, Sina!

Special BoingBoing report: Live from
SpaceShip One

Special BoingBoing report: Live from
SpaceShip One 06/17/2004 09:49 AM
Paul G. Allen and Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One is scheduled to launch America's first Non-Government, privately funded manned space flight next Monday. Alan Radecki, part of the ground crew stationed at Mojave, is penning pre-flight updates and countdown info. Former BoingBoing guestblogger Todd Lappin has arranged for those first-person accounts to be blogged here.

Background: Link to Mojave airport site with launch info. Link to Rutan's press release on the June 21 launch. Link to Rutan's FAQ. And finally, Alan's first update follows:

Starting today, I plan on sending out a daily update on the activities surrounding the SpaceShipOne launch.

The flight is scheduled to commence at 0630 Monday 6/21, however that is dependent on weather. Should there be a weather delay, such as winds, the folks at Scaled plan on waiting and launching as soon as the weather permits, even if it stretches to the next day.

The public will enter the airport from the main Airport Blvd entrance off of Hwy 58. The airport will open at 3am, but it is pretty much assumed around here that there will be so many people showing up that the roads will be clogged. RVs will be permitted in the day before, with reservations (661/824-2433). I know that there's already 89 coming, some of whom are NASA folks who are bringing a band and everything. Regular vehicles will be charged $10 entrance fee (to help mitigate the huge cost of security that the airport has to bear), and I can't remember the RV cost...check mojaveairport.com for details. Don't try to avoid the traffic by coming in the back entrances...these are for VIPs with passes and tenants with ID badges.

There will be a TFR, and only aircraft with PPR numbers will be permitted into the airspace, starting on Saturday, I believe. Again, see mojaveairport.com for details. If you don't make it onto the airport, you'll still see the firing...it'll be visible for miles. (...) I'll be here starting Sunday afternoon, sleeping in the Mercy quarters. -- Alan

(Thanks, Todd Lappin!)

Sifry's Alerts: BoingBoing adds
Technorati support - you can too!

Sifry's Alerts: BoingBoing adds
Technorati support - you can too! 04/14/2004 06:22 AM
Sifry's Alerts: BoingBoing adds Technorati support - you can too! .. comment tracking feature

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"BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH
2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth""

"BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH
2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth"" 08/17/2004 03:14 PM

BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004
speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth"

BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004
speech "When Blobjects Rule the
Earth" 08/17/2004 12:58 PM
BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the Earth"

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Ecto for Windows launches, BoingBoing
now a 100% Ecto bl0g!

Ecto for Windows launches, BoingBoing
now a 100% Ecto bl0g! 04/14/2004 12:49 AM
The popular blogging-aid software Ecto -- once only offered for Mac -- is now available for Windows users. With today's launch of Ecto for Windows, BoingBoing officially becomes an all-ecto blog! My BoingBoing co-editors all use it to make blogging with Movable Type more friendly and efficient. I'm the only PC-afflicted blogger in the bunch. TypePad, MovableType, Nucleus, and Blogger users: rejoice. Ecto co-creator Adriaan Tijsseling says:

Joi and me are very happy to announce the release of a beta of a Windows port of ecto, thanks to a unique collaboration with Alex Hung. It is our hope that with this collaboration the ease of use and features of ecto will now be available to the Windows users. The beta trial will last one month, during which we hope to find bugs and improve on the product with the help of user feedback. Any information about this beta will be on the ecto for Windows webpage as Alex will be the main responsible person for this Windows version.

Link

Meta Gen

Meta Gen 02/05/2005 09:16 PM

Meta Gen: Handy. Looks like you can isolate a particular directory, so not everything on the site has to have the same META.

META Gen is a fast and useful freeware tool for Web developers. Generate META Tags. Unlike the simple programs that you will find in other web sites that just leave you to cut and paste META tags into your HTML documents META Gen will actually do it for you.

meta meta meta

meta meta meta 06/03/2004 12:03 PM
Gizmodo + Cool Tools + Whole Earth Catalog = Meta-efficient -a "guide to the most efficient things in the world."

Meta-Fax

Meta-Fax 11/10/2003 11:16 PM
In case you were thinking for a moment that spam sucks but the rest of communicative life is ok, just about the only faxes I get are unrequested ads. Spafax? Faxam? Fam? Anyway, one came through today that says in big letters: Shall we continue to send our great fax offers to you?YES   NO All you have to do is check off one of the answers and fax it back to 1-900-622-1550. I have to give it some credit: It does noet in small letters that calls to this 900 number cost $3.95/minute....

META Tag Overview

META Tag Overview 07/16/2004 06:50 PM

META Tag Guide and Optimization Tips: Good overview and list of the basic META tags for your site.

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Never meta girl like you before

Never meta girl like you before 08/11/2004 09:47 AM
Two exclusive free downloads from two of the year's most acclaimed records -- and don't take my word for it. Plus: A blissful, b-side Bjork.

Widget-Meta-0.02

Widget-Meta-0.02 09/17/2004 06:35 AM

Widget-Meta-0.01

Widget-Meta-0.01 09/17/2004 12:42 AM

Meta-Luck

Meta-Luck 06/08/2004 09:10 AM
According to my dream last night, there truly are objects that bring good luck to their possessors. Unfortunately, the pool of objects changes rapidly, so that whether any particular object brings one luck is itself a matter of luck. (No, I don't believe in lucky charms or placating the local woodland gods, although tipping heavily does seem to work.)...

Meta-classification

Meta-classification 08/28/2004 11:51 AM
At BiologyBrowser.org you'll find the following branch of their tree: Home > Subject > Systematics > Taxonomy > Classification...

Meta list

Meta list 04/19/2004 01:46 PM
YA SNS Metalist, Comments Please....

Additions? Deletions? Categorization recommendations? Dating sites are back on the list — by popular demand… (-:=

Please leave your input in the comments field below. I am preparing the list to “anchor” it in the right column of the weblog. Then I will be linking from these YASNS to the buzz and reviews from other, respected social software mavens< /A>. Thanks…

business networking sites

Affinity Engines, The Conneck, Contact Network, Corporate Alumni, ecademy, eConozco.com, Eliyon, EntreMate, GoingProfessional, Growth Company, I’m Not From Here, InterAction, ItsNotWhatYouKnow, LinkedIn, Link Silicon Valley, matcheroo, Mediabistro, Monster Networking, NetMiner, Netmodular Community, Networking For Professionals, Online Business Networking Resource, Open Business Club (openBC), Polypol, PowerMingle, RealContacts, ReferNet, Ryze, Salesforce.com, Shortcut, Silicon Valley Pipeline, Spoke Software, Sullivan Executive Networking Community, Tacit - ActiveNet, TENG, Visible Path, WisdomBuilder.

common interest networking sites

Buzznet, Classmates.com, Community Zero, Company of Friends, Delphi Forums, Globe Alive, gradFinder, Meet Me at HOT or NOT?, Netplaya Burning Man Community, Schoolster, Talk City, TheSquare.

dating sites

americansingles.com, Amigos.com, AsiaFriendFinder, BlackPlanet.com, collegeluv.com, Country Singles, Cupid.com, Date.com, eHarmony, Equally Yoked, FriendFinder, GermanFriendFinder, hotsaints, IndianFriendFinder, jdate.com, Lavalife, LDS Singles Network, Love.com, Match.com, MyEMatch, Overweight Date, Passion.com, PlanetOut Partners, Inc., RateOrDate, RedDate.com, Relationship Exchange, SeniorFriendFinder, TrueBeginnings, uDate.com, Vegetarian singles, Yahoo! Personals.

face-to-face meeting facilitation sites

8minuteDating, Evite, First Tuesday, The Lunch Club NYC, MeetUp, MixerMixer, Netparty, new-in-town, Social Circles, WhizSpark.

friend networking sites

Backwash, BuddyBridge, Chia Friend, Christianster, Click2Friends, easeek, eFriendsnet, enCentra, everyonesconnected, FriendFan.com, Friendity, Friendoo, Friend Surfer, friendsbay.de, Friends of Friends, Friends Reunited, Friendster, Friendzy, Gruuve, HeiYou, hi5, hipstir, Huminity, The Impersonals, Korea Data House, LianQu, Living Directory, Metails, mrNeighborhood, Myspace.com, orkut, PalJunction, peeps nation, qpengyou, Ringo, Tickle by Emode, ticqle, Tribe.net, UUFriends, Wallop, WiW, WorldShine, YeeYoo, YOYO, Zerodegrees.

pet networking sites

Backwash for Pets, Dogster, KissyKat, Neopets.

social networking ‘plus’ and/or ‘edge cases’

Blogpod, BuddyZoo, del.icio.us, Dude Check This Out!, Eurekster!, eventSherpa, Flickr, fonetango, Funchain.com, Gush, HelloWorld, Home Exchange, HomeLink, Intervac, KnowMates,LiveJournal, MixedNutz.net, The Opinion Exchange, Palbook, PLINK, RepCheck, SmallPlanet, Small World Project, Social Grid, StumbleUpon, TXTParty, WiredReach, Zdarmanet, Zopto.

>>>>>>> PeopleAggregator.com - certainly is on the edge.

>>>>>> You're also missing Yafro, Plink.org, DeanSpace.org - and let's not forget Wallop.

[The Social Software Weblog]

Class-Meta-0.47

Class-Meta-0.47 04/05/2005 02:04 PM

Class-Meta-0.30

Class-Meta-0.30 04/20/2004 12:34 AM

Class-Meta-0.43

Class-Meta-0.43 09/20/2004 06:59 AM

Class-Meta-0.33

Class-Meta-0.33 06/17/2004 12:27 AM

Class-Meta-0.42

Class-Meta-0.42 09/20/2004 01:11 AM

Meta-mail

Meta-mail 09/02/2004 12:14 PM
In an item entitled personal message deflection, Phil Windley says he'd like to move his process-related communication out of email and into task-oriented software. Here's the glitch:

One problem with moving from a single general purpose tool like email to multiple special purpose tools is split focus. To understand what I mean, think about RSS. RSS has reduced the number of mailing lists I subscribe to and consequently reduced my email traffic. Perfect application, except that now I have to remember to fire up my feed reader in addition to my mail client. I generally treat it as lower priority and so I'm reluctant to get high-priority information delivered by RSS. What happens when there are a dozen special purpose tools managing my workflow instead of just a linear email list? [Phil Windley's Enterprise Computinging Weblog]

Indeed. This is why I've always thought that structured interpersonal messages would turn out to be at least as important as (and maybe more important than) structured interprocess messages. John Reynolds, blogging about Esther Dyson's meta-mail concept (which Phil's post also alludes to), has a great example: ...

Class-Meta-0.31

Class-Meta-0.31 04/20/2004 04:45 PM

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