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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

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Microsoft, RSS, Web 2.0, MSN API, Bubble 2.0, OPML, Attention, Mix06, microformats

I blogged about a tagging tool for Outlook 2003, Taglocity , when it went to beta earlier this year. Well, the team has released Taglocity 1.0 ! Congratulations to David and his team. Click here to watch the Taglocity screencast ' href="http://www.taglocity.com/" Read More...

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:29 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0

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

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Microsoft, RSS, Web 2.0, OPML, Attention, microformats

47% of all blog posts are tagged

David Sifry provides more Technorati stats , this time with a little more info on the tagging front. Turns out tagging is really kicking off. The number of posts with tags or categories has grown past 100 million mark since Technorati began tracking tags Read More...

Posted Monday, May 01, 2006 1:36 PM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0

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 | 0 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0

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

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Microsoft, Web 2.0

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 | 23 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, RSS, Web 2.0, OPML, Attention

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

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0

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

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0, OPML, Attention

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

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0

my tag cloud

Here's my tag cloud, ripped from my Technorati profile page . API ... Attention ... attention.xml ... AttentionTrust ... Blogging ... identity ... microformats ... opml ... opmlfreak ... opmlwishlist ... RSS ... screencast ... semantic web ... SSE ... Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:01 AM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Web 2.0

Attention podcast part 2, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett

Here's the second of the two part Attention podcast Skype call I recorded with Joshua Porter : Part 2: .(mp3, 46mb, 48min) Part 1 notes ( .mp3, 43mb, 45min) We've already got some feedback to the first half/part of the podcast. In particular I wanted Read More...

Posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 2:36 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, Microsoft, RSS, Web 2.0, OPML, Attention

Tags and liberal interpretations

This poppeed into my RSS reader just now. It was tagged as 'UI' in Flickr . The tagger in question must either be an exceptionally lateral thinker to consider this plate of green beans and a bit of chicken as a user interface, or he/she ate this in the Read More...

Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:30 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

Filed under: Tagging, Web, Tech, RSS, Web 2.0