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January 2006 - Posts

Even *I* think this is a little extreme...

Even *I* think this is a little extreme... "When I found out my wife was pregnant, I immediately set up a blog for the kid. I already know that he wants to get any of my attention, he’s going to need an RSS feed." Via Groovy Mother - Tags: RSS Attentio Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:30 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Atomic MSDN blogs

Tim, it's great you noticed that the MSDN blogs gen Atom 1.0 as well as RSS 2.0 feeds, but...this has been the case for nearly two years a year, as is probably the glitch you point out ;-) Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:53 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

4 plugs in one post - beat that.

My wife was given a business card by Shel Israel at the Naked Conversations party last week, and she loved the card. 'I want one of these for Unwind ' she said (ok, this is another blatant plug for her business - she provides Chair Massage for companies Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 9:09 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

Well, here goes for the second time around

Bubble 2.0 - the signs are there if you look for them. Remember First Tuesday ? I never attended, but heard all the legendary stories of latecomers to the web party pitching the loons with the cash. Well, here goes for the second time around : "London Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 8:44 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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My data

No time to comment on this post by Seth Goldstein , but wanted to point it out: "Is there a legitimate mechanism for me to house my data such that nobody, neither individual, corporate or governmental can access it without my consent?" - Tags: Attentio Read More...
Posted Monday, January 30, 2006 1:29 PM by alexbarn | 10 Comments
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Attention engines not just for the geekosphere

The attention conversation keeps going. Latest post by Scott Karp : "The idea that we’re living in an “attention economy” is nothing new. But unless the media/technology industry starts listening to Umair and focuses on creating new ways to help people Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 3:54 PM by alexbarn | 14 Comments
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Classic anti-Web 2.0 postage

I wanted to write up an example anti-Web 2.0 post, but Harry Pierson did it for me: "First off, it’s a pure marketing buzzword. It was originally coined as a conference name " blah, blah, blah "Secondly, I think it’s wildly arrogant to claim we’re only Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 9:27 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Professional tag gardeners now a reality (for now)

Earlier this month James Governor predicted that professional tag gardeners would emerge from the tagging eco-system. Today, Michael Arrington and Pete Cashmore (on Wednesday) report that p rofessional tag gardening prediction is now a reality . Michael Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 1:06 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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If he's an edge case, I'm an edge case.

Surfing through Flickr this morning - I took the plunge and paid for a full account so I can have more sets. I've uploaded the second day's pics from MSN Search Champs . One of the pics is of Robert Scoble's Shakespearian soliloquy: 'I'm not an edge case' Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:04 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Jim Alchin and his blogging dinner

Jim Alchin , Microsoft's co-president of Platform Products & Services Division, had the opportunity to meet some of San Francisco's smartest bloggers at a dinner organized by Robert Scoble . Tara Hunt, one of the attendees posted: "Somehow, I got Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 28, 2006 6:35 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Hottest Microsoft bloggers

Microsoft Watch has put together a list of the Microsoft blogs they recommend : "When we first started monitoring the Microsoft blogs almost three years ago, there were so few that we easily could list them all on this site. Now there are well in excess Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 10:45 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
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Others' thoughts on Attention

Craig Barnes of Attensa has posted some thoughts after hearing the Attention podcast I recorded with Nick and Kevin last week . "Ideally we’d like to get online with Alex and explain what we have essentially already implemented that goes far beyond the Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 8:52 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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RSS, OPML + SSE - Tutorial and Samples

The RSS Team blog : "We’ve received lots of requests – both from the community and from within Microsoft- for samples, samples, samples of SSE code in action. We heard you. Here is a tutorial outlining “SSE 101” with accompanying samples." - Tags: RSS Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 3:01 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Alas, MSN Search Champs is over

Alas, the fourth MSN Search Champs is over. Although I'm at Microsoft, I'm not an MSN'er, so I had two reasons for being there. The first was that I was invited by Brady Forrest as he wanted my feedback on aspects of the MSN products in development. The Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 8:26 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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I think I'm going to start dreaming in outlines.

Anne 2.0: "I think I'm going to start dreaming in outlines." - Tags: Attention , OPML , dreaming Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 11:31 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Microsoft announces Live Labs

Dr. Gary Flake, Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the man responsible for bridging Microsoft Research (MSR) and MSN, announced Live Labs this morning at the MSN Search Champs event: "Earlier today at the Search Champs event I announced the formation of Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:16 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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MSN Search Champs podcast - Privacy conversation

I attended the MSN Search Champs today....and what a day. Given the recent news and concerns around the data MSN Search, Yahoo and AOL provided to the government, there was a session set up where the 57 bloggers / online experts at MSN Search Champ were Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:15 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Netflix, the Long Tail and baloney

If you happen think the Long Tail is load of baloney then consider this snippet from yesterday's NY Times article : "At NetFlix, the online DVD rental company, for example, roughly two-thirds of the films rented were recommended to subscribers by the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:28 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

IE7: Native XMLHTTPRequest object (er, that's the Ajax thing)

Sunava Dutta, Program Manager in the Internet Explorer team posts : "I’m excited to mention that IE7 will support a scriptable native version of XMLHTTP. This can be instantiated using the same syntax across different browsers and decouples AJAX functionality Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:17 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Expression ('Sparkle') ready for download

Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer ("Sparkle") is available for download . From the Expression team's new blog . " So, first, what is Expression? Microsoft Expression is a suite consisting of three products each intended for use mainly by the professional Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:38 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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MSDN TV has some 'Atlas' / AJAX goodness

MSDN TV has some AJAX goodness to show off: "Nikhil Kothari provides a brief overview of ASP.NET "Atlas", a framework to build rich Web apps on top of ASP.NET 2.0. The demo shows an app that uses the new server controls from the December CTP to incrementally Read More...
Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 11:31 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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the issue at hand

Chris from Touchstone : "The issue at hand is not how to get a user’s attention information (that’s easy) but rather how to help the user manage what their paying attention to across all the things they care about – both local and in the cloud. To service Read More...
Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 10:22 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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If I came across a 'semantic web', what would it look like?

If I came across a 'semantic web', what would it look like? Would I know it was semantic web just through my using it? What signs would I look for? Read More...
Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 10:05 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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RSS business models: full text or partial feeds?

To provide full text or partial feeds, that is the question. Well, that's the question if your revenue model depends on online advertising: page views, CTRs and CPAs. In his latest podcast show, Steve Gillmor, a writer / blogger for ZDNet asked Dan Farber Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:47 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Star Wars, faithfully reproduced in ASCII

Star Wars, faithfully reproduced in ASCII . Via Brad Feld . Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:01 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Attention podcast: RSS feedreaders and aggregators

I asked two of the RSS industry's leading lights to join me for a call and share their perspective on the question of where Attention is going with respect to RSS feedreaders and aggregators: Nick Bradbury creator FeedDemon , part of Newsgator (Nick also Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 22, 2006 2:49 PM by alexbarn | 8 Comments
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Getting Naked with Scoble last night

I got Naked with a bunch of other people last night. That is to say I went to Naked Conversations ' first book launch party , by Microsoft's Robert Scoble and Shel Israel . In attendance was a venerable who's who of Seattle area bloggers and geeks: Chris Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 9:50 PM by alexbarn | 6 Comments

Evangelizing evangelism?

If I'm blogging this , does that mean I'm evangelizing the evangelizing of evanglism? Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 6:49 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Meet Microsoft Max on Channel 9

Meet Microsoft Max on Channel 9, Via Robert Scoble . Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 8:24 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Attensa: 'attention is the holy grail'

Craig Barnes, founder of Attensa (RSS reader for Outlook and has a toolbar version for Firefox), posted on the subject of Attention yesterday. Not only that, but Craig has made it clear that the whole Attention data space is of strategic importance and Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 7:42 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Feedreader features wishlist

If you: design, develop, test, architect, product manage, product plan or market: products or services that could be even loosely described as: feedreaders, RSS readers or aggregators and 'my' type services, then I recommend you read John Tropea's latest Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:23 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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The RDF vs. OPML Attention data format contest

Danny's posted up a challenge for some xml freaks. He's pointed to a bunch of his Attention data collections (wishlists, foaf, blogroll, etc) and is handing out Bonus points for conversion to these into a single Attention file format in RDF: "Anyhow the Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:03 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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The web isn't easily writeable

Scott Karp has been writing some some good stuff of late. His latest (in a series of 'Setting-the-Cat-Among-the-Pigeons-esque) post, he writes : " I’ve argued that if Media 2.0/New Media is based on Web 2.0 applications, it’s going to overwhelm the average Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:50 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Occasionally connected Wikis

Julien Couvreur has been working on something that sounds very, very good. "...I haven't been idle. I was working on AJAX-based web application with transparent support for disconnected operations. TiwyWiki is a prototype wiki that runs both online and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:27 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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'Feeds I pay the most attention to'

I installed the 2.0 beta version of FeedDemon last night. I've been using FeedDemon since as my RSS feedreader for over 2 years now and just keeps getting better . Great job Nick! One thing that caught my attention in this latest release is the 'Feeds Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:26 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Tailrank and threading

Tailrank is developing nicely. Kevin Burton is doing a great job at speedily developing the service and seems to be increasingly getting the attention it deserves. In TechCrunch's latest review of Tailrank, Michael Arrington points out a feature I think Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:47 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Google: the Internet is not enough, part 2

First print , now radio . "The search advertising company purchased dMarc Broadcasting, a digital solutions provider for the radio industry, for $102 million cash and potentially as much as $1.136 billion over the next three years. Google announced plans Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:45 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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huge waves of information

anne 2.0 : "The problem I'd most like to solve as a technologist and as a blogger is information overload . When I moved beyond mom blogging into tech blogging I discovered an entire new ocean of information. Today I feel like a tow-in surfer at Jaws Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 9:39 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Mobile, mobile

Two new blogs focused on the mobile space joined the Web 2.0 Workgroup today: Open Gardens and MobileCrunch (you can import all the Web 2.0 Workgroup blogs into your RSS reader using this OPML file ) Also today, S. Somasegar , VP of Microsoft Developer Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 5:40 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Virtual India is live

Microsoft Research has released a first public build of their Virtual India research project. Language choices for the UI and map labels include English, Hindi, Kannada, and Tamil. Virtual Earth blog : "Before trying it out, I strongly encourage you to Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 3:26 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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And Man said, Let there be connectivity

I think this has the potential of being the best post of the year. I cried with laughter. "1:3 And Man said, Let there be connectivity: and there was global connectivity" Enjoy . - Tags: darknet , lightnet Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 3:01 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments
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the shadow of the cathedral

Nicholas Carr: "Sometimes I think that if it weren't for the shadow of the cathedral, there'd be no place to set up the bazaar." Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 2:24 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun (2nd edition)

Hendrik Olsen has updated his article on using Visio for rapid prototyping for the web. The new edition includes a new version of the GUUUI Prototyping Tool for Visio 2003. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 11:40 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

You have 50 milliseconds to impress

BBC News: You have 50 milliseconds to impress . Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 9:00 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Reading Lists = the killer app for OPML

It's becoming increasingly obvious that Reading Lists is the killer app that will help take OPML to the masses . It'll soon become a standard feature of most RSS feedreaders. Pito has created a nice screencast showing how the RSS feedreader he's created, Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 8:37 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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smart aggregators

I came across a great post today by Steve Borche - ' Information Overload: Can you see what's coming? '. Talked about 'smart aggregators'. I liked it: "The river of content is turning in to a flood and my instinct is to get to higher ground. But where Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 12:07 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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photos are about 40% pixels and 60% context.

Tara (aka Miss Rogue) of Riya , the photo search / facial recognition company : "photos are about 40% pixels and 60% context." Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:29 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Growth strong, revenue lackluster

Burnham’s Beat Reports Record Q4 Revenues : "Burnham’s Beat today reported record results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2005. Revenues for Q4 2005 were $168.64 up 176% compared to $61.08 in Q4 2004 and up 27.3% sequentially vs. Q3 2005. Earnings Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:49 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Tagnautica

Tagnautica is cute little UI for Flash Flickr tags. Uses Flashr - a Flickr API wrapper for Flash. Via information aesthetics . Tags: tags , Flickr , folksonomy , UI , Flash , API Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:52 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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a tune for the geeks

Friday amusement - a tune for the geeks . Via Zeo . Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:39 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

You cannot ignore yourself

Aynne was reminded : Tags: attention Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:21 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Correction: Geek dinner, Seattle / Redmond, Feb 3

Update, just realised the dinner is February 3 (that's a Friday). Frank pinged me to let me know he's in Redmond for a few days in early Feb. He suggested we get a geek dinner together - great idea! So that's it. Date is February 4 3 (that's a Friday), Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 6:09 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Reactions to MSN adLab

Greg Linden has collated some reactions to the news of Microsoft adCenter Incubation Lab (adLab). Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 10:51 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Detracting from the hype and buzz

From the boys at Supr.c.ilio.us , an open letter to Michael Arrington of TechCrunch : "Subject: This is no way to build a bubble. Mr. Arrington, Concise, sensible and well researched articles about possible acquisitions are no way to build a bubble. Blog Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 10:41 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Hotmail, 10,000 servers, 100 sys admins

ACM Queue has an interview with Phil Smoot, a product unit manager (PUM) in Microsoft’s MSN division. "In the landscape of today’s megaservices, Hotmail just might be Mount Everest. One of the oldest free Web e-mail services, Hotmail relies on more than Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 10:18 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Draw-Something

Draw-Something, by Rob Meyers , is a program that generates original drawings. It does so by generating a simple random polyline scribble then drawing around that using a simple maze-running algorithm. Here's my little collection: Via Future Feeder . Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:56 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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using your social network as a filter

David Weinberger is looking for examples of sites/services that aggregate and filter news and posts by using your social network as a filter. I've suggested Tailrank on the basis that my blogroll / OPML file could be defined as a form of a social network. Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 3:17 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Slashdot is far from dying

Joshua Allen puts one myth to rest : "Slashdot is far from dying ...the site still wields an enormous amount of influence. That's because it's been around so long, it's been big, visible, and influential for so long, and their purpose is provide their Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:39 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Largest prime number found

CIO Today : "A team of researchers at Central Missouri State University has discovered the largest known prime number, university officials said Tuesday. " ...The team programmed 700 university computers to run the program years ago, Boone said. In mid-December, Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:03 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

end of cyberspace

Francois Gossieaux points out a new blog I've just subscribed to: "According to Alex Soojung-Kim Pang from the Institute for the Future , it also means the end of cyberspace. As a matter of fact he thinks that the idea has gained enough popularity to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:13 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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(blog) Plagiarism Today

It's not April 1st already is it? Via Michael Arrington . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:53 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Better still, whack in your OPML

Russell Beattie : "I’m down to 315 feeds right now, and I’m actually making an effort to cut more. I don’t think there’s any reason to see the same news story over and over and over again in my news reader because I subscribe to 20 links blogs who do Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:32 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Mashup Feed

John Musser : "ProgrammableWeb’s ‘mashup-only’ site is live: http://www.mashupfeed.com What is it? As the name implies it’s a site, a very small one-page site for now, that is only about mashups: recent mashups, popular mashups, mashup tag clouds, and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:19 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Term extraction for tagclouds

Duncan MacKenzie : "I was playing around with Yahoo's term extraction service, as a possible path to tagging (this is the same service used behind TagCloud.com , for example), and I created this C# class libary with a sample app written in Windows Forms." Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:38 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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AmazonBay

AmazonBay , via Ross Mayfield . "If you liked EPIC 2014, the Googlezon film, and have dreams of perfect liquidity, you will love Sean Park's AmazonBay 2015 -- a future film on Financial Services disrupted by the net." Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:36 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio 'Live'...

John Montgomery : "After seven years in developer division marketing, I'm making a transition into the product team to work as a program manager to help define what a "Live" version of Visual Studio might look like. ...So I've started imagining what the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:59 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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20 thoughts on Attention

I've been carrying a number of thoughts relating to Attention and rather trying to create a huge essay, I've decided just to offload these as a partially random list. Would be great to get your feedback, discussion, agreement and brutal rebutal. 20 thoughts Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:00 AM by alexbarn | 26 Comments
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My book tagloud

My book tagloud at Library Thing . Tags: Web2.0 , tagcloud , tag Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:06 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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If you have JavaSpit enabled...

"If you have JavaSpit enabled..." Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:57 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Multiples and mashups

I've had the good fortune of meeting Matt McAlister of Yahoo, great thinker, really nice guy. For some reason, an old post of his cropped up in my reader today. Not only did the piece point out some good mashup / Web 2.0 material (that's my excuse for Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:16 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Tag Gardening

Tag Gardening . James Governor has coined a phrase (or a tag) that I'm sure I'll see crop up again... "Like plants or animals, tags evolve in an emergent fashion, open to hybridisation. Stewardship can help grow and put roots down. Helping the darwinian Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 9:52 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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BBC Radio 4 on Web 2.0

Is the Internet changing? That's the question a BBC Radio 4 programme has investigated. Steve Bowbrick (my blogdaddy ), along with Nicholas Carr , Paul Miller , Joe Krauss , Excite founder and now the man behind Jotspot all appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:59 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Your Google Brain

Last week I made it to the Seattle Weblogger Meet Up , organized by Anita Rowland . Julie Leung and Tommy was there, as was Jack William Bell. I mentioned to Jack that I was really enjoying his blog recently. In particular, this post 'Using your Google Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:26 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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More on 'Search results relevant to who I am'

Danny Ayers provides his take take on how doable the ' Search results relevant to who I am ' idea is: "In the short term OPML data which is clearly constrained, like that provided by Bloglines, is machine interpretable and potentially integratable when Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:17 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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A little sad

As I was driving to work today a thought came to mind: I will only get to 'visit' a tiny, tiny fraction of the total web in my entire lifetime. The rest of it will be unvisited by me and unkown to me. I don't know why, but this hard reality made me a Read More...
Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 11:01 PM by alexbarn | 11 Comments
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Search results relevant to who I am

Dave Winer has a simple, but very good idea . "A very simple idea for improving Google search and getting rid of spam problems all in one swoop, and it's not the first time the idea has appeared here. Let me tell you where my weblog is. Then it knows Read More...
Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 11:24 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Google: the internet is not enough

Chicago Sun-Times: "Google Inc., the new-media giant, now has a decidedly old-media partner: the Chicago Sun-Times . In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times, which so far is the only newspaper Read More...
Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 8:20 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Blog Discovery Project

Free Hogg is running his Blog Discovery Project . "...For those of you just joining us, I’m alphabetically going through the list of feeds that I read, looking at their blogroll, and picking out the feeds from those blogrolls that I like. If I already Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:40 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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The value of your attention data

Ed Batista in a comment to his own post: "As users come to realize the value of their attention data, they're going to want more control over that data." I agree with Ed - I don't think this is just an issue that only the ' cognoscenti' will be interested Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 08, 2006 11:48 AM by alexbarn | 12 Comments
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1 : 1.67 = iPod

1 : 1.67 = iPod . 1 : 1.71 = my Zen Sleek . Via Digg . Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 08, 2006 11:31 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Folksonomy ≠Emergent Tags

David Weinberger has revisited the term ' folksonomy ' and realised it did not quite mean what he thought it meant. He thought it meant: "I had been thinking that a folksonomy is one way order emerges from such set of tags: Some are more popular than Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 08, 2006 12:14 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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2.0 2.0

Dion Hinchcliffe has written up a post about how the Web 2.0 meme has triggered other 2.0 memes... Identity 2.0 , Library 2.0 , Media 2.0 , etc. One thought that occured to me is: Business 2.0 ...isn't it arguably the root / precursor of Web 2.0 meme? Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 11:06 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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My RSS stats using FeedBurner

You might be reading this post via my blog or your feed reader. If you're reading via your reader (either web-based or client) you are either subscribed to this blog's default RSS or Atom feed or to the FeedBurner feed I set up in September (see feed Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:43 AM by alexbarn | 11 Comments
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Apps. This is getting quite silly.

This is getting quite silly. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:03 AM by alexbarn | 10 Comments
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spending more time online and watching more TV?

If we've only got 24 hours a day, how can we be spending more time online and be watching more TV? Answer? Continuous Partial Attention . ZDNet's IT Facts: TV viewing at highest levels ever An average person watched television 4 hours and 32 minutes each Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:07 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Windows Live Messenger Beta Invites

Frank has some Windows Live Messenger Beta Invites . Update Jan 07: so have Mark and Philip . Update 23 Jan: I don't have to give away. Have turned off comments on this post. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:58 PM by alexbarn | 19 Comments

Bye bye excerpts.

Sorry, I'm bringing up an old chestnut again. Dave Slusher has reminded me of something I must do if I'm to keep my sanity: "It is done. I no longer follow any more RSS feeds that excerpt their content. The minimum ante to the game of my attention is Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:45 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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RSS: 'beginning of the upcoming dissruption'

James Governor : "we're still just at the very beginning of the upcoming dissruption. 2005 was not the end of RSS adoption, or the beginning of the end of RSS adoption, but rather the end of the beginning. Turn the Long Tail the other way round. The mainstream Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:30 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Top 10 Sources

Top 10 Sources . It's a site that provides the 'top 10 resources' maintained by someone who knows something about a topic. Two examples: Here is the 'Thinkers of the Web' page , listing the current top ten resources (these change daily). Here's the OPML Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 12:32 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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'blog froth about the subject of attention'

Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path : "There's been quite a bit of blog froth about the subject of attention, and the development of Attention Trust, a group dedicated to ensuring that people's attention is appropriately valued. I was hoping I could avoid Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 12:10 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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RSS directory of namespaces

FeedForAll (I use the product, it's great) is maintaining an RSS directory of namespaces . Via Rok Hrastnik . - Tags: RSS Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:59 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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More on Infocard

Joshua Porter suggested I listen to the Identity Gang II show . I'm glad he did, great listening: " One year ago, Kim was challenged to defend Microsoft’s intentions in the space. This time, he was talking about meetings with Mike Shaver and "other parties" Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:27 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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My kind of Longhorn

My kind of Longhorn . Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:21 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove it?

The Times asked leading experts in their fields: “What do you believe to be true even though you cannot prove it?”. (via Ellen ). I liked the answer John Brockman (editor of The Edge) gave: " I believe but I cannot prove that we are moving towards a future Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:24 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Books and social data mining

Tom Owad's Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists is superb read (via Boing Boing ): "Using a pair of 5-year-old computers, two home DSL connections, 42 hours of computer time, and 5 man hours, I now had documents describing the reading Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:49 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Attention and Reading Lists

Leslie Orchard , author of Hacking RSS and Atom: "Combining Attention.xml with my Popular Links algorithm could be a very powerful thing, methinks. Rather than waiting for my friends to tip over the laziness point to blogging about something, I could Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:48 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Broille logo

Google put up a very interesting colored Broille logo today, celebrating the birthday of Louis Broille on January 4th, 1809. I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again ... . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:14 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

A Wealth of Misinformation

A Wealth of Misinformation (or, '4 Things I'm Glad I Didn't Blog') Zachary Rodgers : "I've noticed a spike in the level of misinformation circulating about online media and advertising companies. In the last three days alone, we've had reports that Wikipedia Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:13 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

Occasionally I get a little 'enthusiastic'.

Occasionally I get a little 'enthusiastic' . Next time I'm accused of this heinous crime, I'll just remind myself that there's at least one person on this planet more 'enthusiastic' than I : "Video blogs are the wave that’s breaking off shore. I want Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 6:02 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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A Guide To Declarative Living

James Governor has set up a Squidoo Lens for Declarative Living . I think I'm starting to get it. "What is Declarative Living, anyway? Declarative Living is about publishing preferences to the web cloud, in the form of metadata that can be aggregated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 12:15 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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You think you know the WEB 2.0?

I got 8/10. Read More...
Posted Monday, January 02, 2006 7:28 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

OPML Manager / Editor app

Kosso has put together a web-based (in Flash) OPML Manager / Editor app . It's not just a demo, it actually does stuff. Superb. Try throwing in any OPML file (try mine ) by copying and pasting the url and hit 'Load OPML'. Then play. Tags: opml , rss Read More...
Posted Monday, January 02, 2006 10:57 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

My New Year's resolution

I'm delighted to announce my New Year's resolution: 1400 x 1050. Tags: crappiest joke of 2006 , 2006resolutions Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:44 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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31% (not 4%) use RSS

Slashdot has got itself into some sort of frenzy about the number of RSS users, referring to an October study sponsored by Yahoo ( PDF ). They claim (and Robert Scoble repeats the claim ) that according to the study only 4% of internet users are using Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 01, 2006 5:47 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Happy New Year

As this post automagically goes live 01/01/2006 12:00 AM PST , and 2005 turns into 2006 in Seattle / Redmond, I'll drinking at least one glass of Moët & Chandon with Philip Richardson ( he's got a new job too , congrats!), Ellie and a few more rowdy Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 01, 2006 12:00 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
 
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