Phil Wainewright provides a reminder of what all these nines mean : 99.5% — 43.76 hours (an entire working week, and more) 99.7% — 26.30 hours (more than three working days) 99.9% — 8.77 hours (more than one working day) 99.95% — 4.38 hours...

Bob Wyman on Tim Berners-Lee's ('TBL' - father of the Wonderful, Writeable Web) first blog post : "The idea of a read/write web had been motivating the work of many hypertext developers like TBL long before the web was born. But, the last 10 years...

My Flickr network seen through Flickr Graph .

Michael Affronti, Microsoft's Outlook program manager: "RSS Aggregation in Outlook is aimed at providing the user with a consistent look, feel, and experience while interacting with RSS feeds and related information. While RSS can be a complex technology...

I met up with some interesting people last night in London. I did a quick straw poll and asked what percentage of the RSS feeds they subscribed to were generated by professional writers (by professional writers I meant news organizations, journalists...

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...

Google's Yu Chen has posted info about how see you can view your trended Google search data: "To use it, you have to turn on Personalized Search and be signed in to your Google Account while you search. (If you don't have a Google Account, it's...

Don't talk and drive. Well, don't talk about stuff that's hard to talk about, that's the message that Dave Munger's post conveys about how the cognitive demands of conversation can affect our awareness of the world around us. So much for effective...

Joshua Porter is continuing the Structured Blogging (SB) conversation with Joe Reger . In thinking through what it will take for SB will take off or not, he's come up with an acid test, what he calls the Del.icio.us Lesson - "From now on I’m going...

I've become predictable. At least that's what Paul Montgomery says - he's laid out his 2006 predictions , one of which includes me ranting on about one of my favourite topics, attention, and one of my favourite thinkers on the topic, Steve Gillmor . He...

Anjo Anjewierden has analyzed some interelated blogs posts and drawn up the data - the visualization of blog conversations. "Left to right is time (the data was 2004 posts of KM bloggers ). Top to bottom is chronological order of a blogger entering...

James Corbett : "...by sharing an OPML based Reading List Piaras would be providing an "attention lense" which could be applied to many services going forward. Take Kevin Burton's TailRank for instance. It allows me to build my own Memeorandum and...

Ed Batista of the AttentionTrust: " Last.fm is one of my favorite " attention data " use cases. After installing their plugin, your iTunes playlist metadata is shared with Last, which creates a set of charts that depict your listening habits, a...

Why I'm not missing London...tube hell.

Richard MacManus outlines the difference between REST and SOAP Web Services . Bottom line: one is 'Simple' the other is 'Complex'.

Back in June I asked my blog readers to help me decide what to eat one night...I was stuck, not sure whether to go for either Chinese, Indian, Wendy's, KFC or Pizza. One concerned commenter pointed out that none of the above were particularly healthy...

I'm off to catch a plane soon. Long-haul flight, so need something to do. Instead of lugging CDs around (believe it or not this is how I have listened to podcasts while on the road, so sad) I decided to get digital. (!) Went to the Circuit City...

What is a modern marketer? Riya has a modern marketer called Tara Hunt . Her official title is Online Marketing Manager at the start-up that's still in Alpha, but she's done it all on a shoestring - when you don't have a $100 million dotcom marketing...

Here are the scenarios I care about when it comes to blogware interop : Background (these are scenarios , I'm not actually in this situation!): I run a blog. It runs ok, the software misses some features, but I'll make do, because I have so much...

Well, it is time for a change for me. On January 16th I'll be starting my new job (moving outside of MSDN and TechNet team but still within Microsoft and still at Redmond) within the Data Programmability (DP) team (within SQL / WinFS). I'll blog more...

Gerardo Dada points out a new Microsoft event taking place in Las Vegas, MIX 06 : "Microsoft is organizing a new event called MIX 06 in Las Vegas on March 20-22nd, 2006. A lot of things are going on the web including new business models, new technologies...

Joshua has posted the second part of the Structured Blogging podcast with Marc Canter and Joe Reger. Tags: structured blogging , microformats , semantic web , Blogging , Web2.0 , RSS

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is now blogging . Via Justin Thorp .

Bill Gates, and his wife, Melinda, were named Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” along with Irish rocker Bono for being “Good Samaritans”: “For being shrewd about doing good, for rewiring politics and re-engineering justice, for making mercy...

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...