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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 | 3 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 | 5 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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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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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 | 2 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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'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 | 3 Comments
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The Web 2.0 uncertainty principle

What originally caught my attention was # 7 of Scott Karp's 'You know if you're a geek if you...' But then I read Mark Devlin 's comment on Scott's post: "The Web 2.0 uncertainty principle: If you understand it, you don’t know it." It all suddenly fell Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:04 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Response to the Attention Problem

Joshua Porter gave a talk recently 'Web 2.0 - Leveraging the Network' . He has published the slide deck that accompanied the talk and I ran through it this morning...I wish I could have attended, it looks great. I guess I'll have to ask him to go through Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:05 AM by alexbarn | 2 Comments
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Attention engines - screencast

I created a quick screencast to show what I mean by the term ' Attention Engines '. Before I sign out for the night, I wanted to share some quick thoughts on others' recent posts discussing the Attention space. Don Dodge asks : "So, who are the new gatekeepers Read More...
Posted Friday, February 17, 2006 12:43 AM by alexbarn | 9 Comments
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Reading Lists (OPML) podcast: Danny Ayers and Adam Green

Last year Dave Winer started to push the idea of Reading Lists for RSS . More recently, the idea of Dynamic Reading Lists and Feed Grazing (or Grazing Lists / Glists) has been kicking around. Its likely that Reading Lists support will become a common Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:50 PM by alexbarn | 16 Comments
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Attachment(s): http://alexbarnett.audioblog.com/deluge/e88ce6a2-9875-5013-dd4a-c387f9a68f36.mp3

Attention podcast : Attention with Steve Gillmor, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett

When Joshua Porter and I started our non-formal podcasting efforts a while ago, we made list of the people we'd want to have on our 'show' and talk to. High on both our lists was Steve Gillmor . So we were thrilled when he accepted our invitation to join Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:23 PM by alexbarn | 8 Comments
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'Imagining the Internet' and Information Overload

While driving to and from work today (including a detour for the ubiquitous drive-thru caffeine fix malarkey) I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation downloaded from IT Conversations called 'Imagining the Internet'. Loved it. The presentation, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 08, 2006 1:08 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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State of the Attention Problem

Technorati's David Sifry has posted the latest of his regular updates providing a bunch of stats and analysis on the blogosphere's development. The bottom line is that the number of blogs created, according to Technorati, continues to double about every Read More...
Posted Monday, February 06, 2006 7:45 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments
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