Draw-Something, by Rob Meyers , is a program that generates original drawings. It does so by generating a simple random polyline scribble then drawing around that using a simple maze-running algorithm. Here's my little collection: Via Future...

David Weinberger is looking for examples of sites/services that aggregate and filter news and posts by using your social network as a filter. I've suggested Tailrank on the basis that my blogroll / OPML file could be defined as a form of a social network...

Joshua Allen puts one myth to rest : "Slashdot is far from dying ...the site still wields an enormous amount of influence. That's because it's been around so long, it's been big, visible, and influential for so long, and their purpose is provide...

CIO Today : "A team of researchers at Central Missouri State University has discovered the largest known prime number, university officials said Tuesday. " ...The team programmed 700 university computers to run the program years ago, Boone said...

Francois Gossieaux points out a new blog I've just subscribed to: "According to Alex Soojung-Kim Pang from the Institute for the Future , it also means the end of cyberspace. As a matter of fact he thinks that the idea has gained enough popularity...

It's not April 1st already is it? Via Michael Arrington .

Russell Beattie : "I’m down to 315 feeds right now, and I’m actually making an effort to cut more. I don’t think there’s any reason to see the same news story over and over and over again in my news reader because I subscribe to 20 links blogs who...

John Musser : "ProgrammableWeb’s ‘mashup-only’ site is live: http://www.mashupfeed.com What is it? As the name implies it’s a site, a very small one-page site for now, that is only about mashups: recent mashups, popular mashups, mashup tag...

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...

AmazonBay , via Ross Mayfield . "If you liked EPIC 2014, the Googlezon film, and have dreams of perfect liquidity, you will love Sean Park's AmazonBay 2015 -- a future film on Financial Services disrupted by the net."

John Montgomery : "After seven years in developer division marketing, I'm making a transition into the product team to work as a program manager to help define what a "Live" version of Visual Studio might look like. ...So I've started imagining...

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. ...

My book tagloud at Library Thing . Tags: Web2.0 , tagcloud , tag

"If you have JavaSpit enabled..."

I've had the good fortune of meeting Matt McAlister of Yahoo, great thinker, really nice guy. For some reason, an old post of his cropped up in my reader today. Not only did the piece point out some good mashup / Web 2.0 material (that's my excuse...

Tag Gardening . James Governor has coined a phrase (or a tag) that I'm sure I'll see crop up again... "Like plants or animals, tags evolve in an emergent fashion, open to hybridisation. Stewardship can help grow and put roots down. Helping the...

Is the Internet changing? That's the question a BBC Radio 4 programme has investigated. Steve Bowbrick (my blogdaddy ), along with Nicholas Carr , Paul Miller , Joe Krauss , Excite founder and now the man behind Jotspot all appeared on the BBC Radio...

Last week I made it to the Seattle Weblogger Meet Up , organized by Anita Rowland . Julie Leung and Tommy was there, as was Jack William Bell. I mentioned to Jack that I was really enjoying his blog recently. In particular, this post 'Using your Google...

Danny Ayers provides his take take on how doable the ' Search results relevant to who I am ' idea is: "In the short term OPML data which is clearly constrained, like that provided by Bloglines, is machine interpretable and potentially integratable...

As I was driving to work today a thought came to mind: I will only get to 'visit' a tiny, tiny fraction of the total web in my entire lifetime. The rest of it will be unvisited by me and unkown to me. I don't know why, but this hard reality made me...

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...

Chicago Sun-Times: "Google Inc., the new-media giant, now has a decidedly old-media partner: the Chicago Sun-Times . In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times, which so far is the...

Free Hogg is running his Blog Discovery Project . "...For those of you just joining us, I’m alphabetically going through the list of feeds that I read, looking at their blogroll, and picking out the feeds from those blogrolls that I like. If I already...

Ed Batista in a comment to his own post: "As users come to realize the value of their attention data, they're going to want more control over that data." I agree with Ed - I don't think this is just an issue that only the ' cognoscenti' will...

1 : 1.67 = iPod . 1 : 1.71 = my Zen Sleek . Via Digg .