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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

My musical attention (data)

Earlier this month I mentioned that at the Content 2.0 event I asked LastFMs product manager, Matthew Ogle about the ability to export my data out of the system so it could be plugged into another. After all, the music I listen to, for how long and when Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:56 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Coping with Information Overload (video)

About four weeks ago I made my way over to ZDNet's studios in San Francisco to be interviewed by Mike Elgan for DevSource and discuss a number of topics close to my heart. The video (15-ish mins) is now published. Mike asked me about microformats , tagging Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 7:19 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

Share Your OPML (it had to happen)

So, who would have thought that OPML would be a big deal? ;-) The interest in Dave Winer's latest project, Share Your OPML , is the reason for OPML's Attention this weekend. And with good reason too. Dave hinted at this project at last week's Seattle Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:08 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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it's about throwing stuff away

I had the pleasure of meeting with Steve Gillmor in San Francisco earlier this week. We met downtown where he picked me up and drove me to a cafe in a suburb - I don't know where - and we chatted over a late lunch and lattes. We discussed the past and Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:20 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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Attention Clouds

Here's an attention cloud for you. az . "The Intention Cloud is a web application supported by Perl and AJAX technologies that gathers and displays the queries performed on search engines by their users in an intuitive output using weighted lists, also Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:29 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Attention 2.0

(I had to call this post something and given this pic, I couldn't resist...) (er, that's Attention two Dot oh, folks...) The Seattle Mind Camp 2.0 Sunday session on RSS and OPML led by Dave Winer was a fascinating hour, spent discussing, well, RSS and Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:29 PM by alexbarn | 9 Comments
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One Big Conspiracy

According to Charlie Brooker , it's all one big attention conspiracy: "Install this driver. Now update it. Now update it again. Register to login to our website. Then validate your membership. Forgot your password? Click here. Now there. Fill out this Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 9:39 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Social Search

Business Week has an article outlining some of the 'social search' developments underway at Microsoft. What is 'social searching'?: "Microsoft plans to unveil a question-and-answer social-search tool in the coming months, says Justin Osmer, senior product Read More...
Posted Friday, April 14, 2006 9:50 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

GestureBank Recorder

Steve Gillmor provides some details on how the existing Attention Trust recorder (ATX) relates to GestureBank - the codebase is forking. GTX will be the GestureBank Recorder. Sounds like an IE version of the ATX and GTX recorders are on their way too. Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:41 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Information overload in 1848

Information overload in 1848: "In 1848 the New York businessman W.E. Dodge was already feeling the effects of always-on connectivity:“The merchant goes home after a day of hard work and excitement to a late dinner, trying amid the family circle to forget Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:16 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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'myware' but without the 'my'?

I have to agree with Steve Gillmor on this: "All proprietary clouds of data obtained without the users' permission are tainted, and it's my bet (GestureBank) that given a choice between an open pool and any proprietary one, the open pool will implicitly Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 04, 2006 6:41 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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Your browser history as Attention data?

Have you thought of your browser history as attention data? I have some thoughts on this. Not all good. Two companies are thinking this way. Tailrank is one. You can go to this Import page and give the site permission to look at your browser history for Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 01, 2006 9:17 AM by alexbarn | 18 Comments
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Recommendation and the Harry Potter Problem

Greg Linden used to work at Amazon. From time to time he'll recount one of his 'early days at Amazon' stories on his blog giving some insight into the development challenges in building the world's largest online shop. In his latest post , Greg talks Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:25 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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10 Random Thoughts. # 2 Repetition engines

10 Random Thoughts. # 2 Repetition engines New media is rapidly becoming like old media . 'Memetrackers' (newstrackers) are dragging 'new media' into the land of the repetitive, the shallow and the incestuous. They are not what I meant when I described Read More...
Posted Friday, March 17, 2006 8:50 AM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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