Curiouser and Curiouser!

TrackBack for Radio

David Watson has Radio talking to Movable Type's TrackBack feature. [Scripting News]

» Cool.  I'll be looking to play with this ASAP.

 

TouchGraph GoogleBrowser

3. TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.00 (12.1 points). touchgraph googlebrowser ... TouchGraph ... The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser [( blogdex : recent )]

» Interesting to look at but I'm not sure of the practical applications for this yet.

What does a visualization of these backlinks tell you?

Why is it useful to be able to visualize these particular networks?

Are there useful metrics that can be applied to give conrete information?

 

Trust Microsoft?

Shawn Dodd: "Microsoft wants to know what they can do to regain our trust. The answer: give up DRM altogether. Microsoft can't push DRM and regain our trust at the same time; we can't and shouldn't trust someone who is planning to hurt us." [Scripting News]

liveTopics progress

Only a week after I had hoped to release version 1.0 of liveTopics and I'm nearly there.

I've had a lot of good feedback from uber-testers Marc Barrot and Jack Mancilla.  This thing should be pretty well shaken out when it arrives.

The basic functionality is now all in place.  You can successfully add topics to posts, have them displayed with the post and traverse the weblog using the Topic Table of Contents (TTOC).

The TTOC, for example Curiouser and curiouser! shows every topic defined in the weblog.  For each topic it lists the weblog posts associated with that topic, in chronological order.  Each of these postings in turn lists the other topics associated with that particular posting.  The end result is a very easy way to traverse the weblog following threads of thought.

Things that are in the pipeline just past v1.0:

• Exporting topic information in your RSS stream.
• Clever aggregators will be able to use this topic information to rank & prioritize postings in your news view.
• Topic Mining
• Quickly and easily add topic information to archive postings
• Sharing topics
  • Your topics will be published as XTM topic maps.
  • Subscript to other users topic rolls and be able to use their topics as well

Please let me know of any other ideas you would like to see implemented.

 

Boycott These Sites.

"COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 5 — Challenging the World Wide Web’s fundamental premise of linking, a Danish court ordered an Internet news service to stop linking to Web sites of Danish newspapers. Copenhagen’s lower bailiff’s court ruled Friday that Newsbooster.com was in direct competition with the newspapers and that the links it provided to specific news articles damaged the value of the newspapers’ advertisements.". Danish court bars Web site’s links.

From [DotBlog]

» At the moment it seems to be the choice of these sites if they do not want to allow deep-linking.  Equally as DotBlog points out it is our choice to opt out of these sites and hope that they whither on the vine.  Interesting idea to centrally manage a boycott but too prone to misuse I think.

Maybe this should be like a Usenet Death Penalty.  It wouldn't be too hard to have some kind of RSS feed where people can propose sites which prevent deep-linking so that those who want to can simply not use them.  Maybe using enclosures to send some kind of script to make it easier to observe...