I found this sitting in my archive somewhere. It's a sketch I drew up in August 2002 and published to an old blog (since died), called 'memecloud'. This was my 'memecloud' - a collection of memes that were dominating my thought-space at the time. I...

Emily Hambridge has advice for those wanting to date a geek . My favourite: \5. If you love him you will be standing by with a lot of caffeine. Yup. Via Jack William Bell .

Richard MacManus continues the end of year wrap-ups with his Top 10 Web 2.0 Moments . In a nutshell : 10. Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines 9. The Return of Amazon (Mechanical Turk and Alexa Web Services) 8. Microsoft embraces and extends RSS with Really...

You might have heard of the Structured Blogging initiative announced earlier this week by Marc Canter and others...there was certainly plenty of buzz and reaction to the news , but not all the reaction was rosy . So Joshua Porter and I thought we'd...

ACM Queue has published an interview with Microsoft's CTO Ray Ozzie. Worth a read. " WK Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, coined the phrase “the architecture of participation,” meaning a lot of amateur and casual programmers piling on and...

The Microsoft RSS team has an update on the RSS icon to be used in future versions of IE. How they came to the decision may surprise some: "My last post shared some of our conceptual designs of the feed icon and expressed some of the criteria that...

Assaf has provided a thought-provoking post about Structured Blogging . He discusses merits of XML / HTML vs. Microformats and has other critisisms of Structured Blogging (SB). I've quoted this portion of his post (my bold) because it really nails...

I've waiting for an excuse to point to the Fat Cyclist (I'm not being offensive - that's the blog's name). Anyway, the excuse for blogging about Fat Cyclist today is that the blog's author has now realised that he is in fact more important and authoritative...

Jason Boog interviewed J.D. Lasica and Lucas Gonze last week for his Darknets vs. Lightnet piece in Publish , studying the ways that online publishers will interact with the Napster generation. The Lightnet meme is gaining momentum...It has been interesting...

Jeff Clavier covers the Structured Blogging initiative announced yesterday: "Marc Canter is on stage to announce the launch of StructuredBlogging.org , a non-profit initiative supporting the development and deployment of micro-formats in blog posts...

Technorati's Niall Kennedy has posted about their experimental server called Technorati Kitchen : "an area where we can post projects we have been working on that we do not feel are ready for integration on the main site. The first project available...

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend Rok Hrastnik's RSS Industry Night Roundtable (Rok invited me but I couldn't make it - he got way better than me - I put him in touch with Sanaz Ahari of Start.com and Sean Lyndersay of the Microsoft RSS team who are...

MSN Messenger history visualization : "an interactive data visualization displaying the timeline of several textual conversations simultaneously, enabling the discovery of utterance lengths & specific reoccuring keywords. the application reads...

Here is Part 2 ( mp3, 27mins 26mb ) of the two-part Attention and Identity podcast recorded with Joshua Porter , Dick Hardt, CEO of Sxip and Kim Cameron, chief identity architect at Microsoft . Part 1 (background) ( mp3: 29 mins, 28mb ) Part...

Steve Rubel has complained that there are two sites reproducing his blog posts without permission. One of the sites, Advertising news & Information, has posted his complaint on its blog, automagically, I presume. Earlier this week I mentioned that...

Interesting. Came across Charlie Wood's post this morning about a new service called opmlworkstation.com . Jim Moore's RSS Labs is the team is behind the new venture ( the same crew behind opmlsearch.com ): "Why convert PowerPoint into OPML?...

A couple of weeks ago Joshua and I had a conversation about attention data (as podcasts ). In that conversation we kept touching on the topic of online identities and their management, so we thought we'd invite two pioneers of the identity space, Dick...

MindJet unveils an OPML Editor product that supports SSE: "The Mindjet Labs has just released a new Mindjet MindManager Pro 6 OPML Editor . The Editor enables users to open, edit, and save Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) files in MindManager...

I loved the start to Johnnie Moore's latest post , and then it got better: " James Cherkoff and I were in the pub yesterday, celebrating a recent success... to say nothing of marking the birth of his first born, daughter Maggie." Congratulations...

Information aesthetics : "a toaster that parses meteorological information from the web & then browns bread with an image of what weather to expect, readable & consumable on the way to work"

Steve Sloan : "OPML allows us to organize all of our content, and the content of anything else that can be linked to into hierarchies that make it easy to find information by topic. And, we get to choose the topics and those hierarchies can be linked...

Chris Anderson, ex-editor of Editor in Chief of Wired magazine and chief pusher of the Long Tail meme ran into some issues relating to Xbox 360 as a Media Center extender. The bad news is that the usual support channels weren't able to help out. The good...

George Moromisato of the Microsoft RSS team : "the chance of a standard being adopted is inversely proportional to its complexity" Bingo.

Alex Daley has posted news that the MSN Virtual Earth site (now called Windows Live Local) will go 'live' on the web tomorrow (Thursday, December 8th). Press release here , coverage here and here . When it goes live (it hasn't yet!) you'll find...

Thanks Tommy , I now know what I'd like in my Christmas stocking this year - an rsstroom reader. DJ Spyhuner has the 'scoop' : "The 'rsstroom reader' is a bathroom gadget that prints news feeds onto your T-P - that's right, your TOILET PAPER...