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Friday, November 21, 2003
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Structured blogging and the filling-out-of-forms issue
Les Orchard is on a roll about building the Recipe Web, which is one of the promising directions for structured blogging. He underscores one of the critical obstacles to adoption:
I just read a post by Marc Canter
talking about the growing formats for reviews, where he asks why there
aren’t more fields to fill out for a properly constructed post. He
acknowledges that end-users might not want to fill those out, but we
need that data to be potentially available -- but my take on it is that
end-users won’t ever want to fill out any fields that they don’t have to. And, if there are too many fields that they do have to fill out, they’ll never do it.
Well put. Accessible metadatabases such as Musicbrainz or Amazon can help here. Notice how blam!
asks for a single number to identify the item you're writing about,
then automagically fills in a payload of metadata that gets put on blaxm.
In his piece, Les discusses one way to overcome the filling-out-of-forms issue in his particular context.
 9:29:08 AM
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Full feeds or quality excerpts
David Buchan explains how to make your feed better if you are unwilling to include full posts.
Continuing the call for full text feeds,
if you don't wish to do so, please create quality excerpts rather than
something automatically created by your blogging system. This will help
readers understand what you are speaking about quicker.
The principle of heads, decks, and leads is a cornerstone of
journalism. I don't consider myself a journalist, really, and wasn't
trained as such, so I've come around to an appreciation of this
principle more from an information engineering perspective. In
engineering terms, we think about optimal allocation of resources. The
resource of interest here is one of the most precious there is: human
attention. Newspapers and magazines structure themselves using heads,
decks, and leads because they know that human attention is a finite
resource, and must be conserved.
8:54:05 AM
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Thursday, November 20, 2003
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Communication Networks and Services Research conference
This one's close to home. Well, my current home anyways. Via Steve.
2nd Annual Conference on
Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2004)
Fredericton, N.B., Canada,
May 19-21, 2004
Submission deadline is December 15, 2003.
The topics include: Web Information
Retrieval, Web Information management, Adaptive Web Systems, Web
Services, Emerging Web Technologies.
This post also appears on the open channel calls for papers
10:31:54 AM
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David Weinberger on M2M
I'm pleased to report that the good doctor is guestblogging on Many-to-many. He's been making a bunch of interesting observations and conjectures based on his experience in the social software-enabled Dean campaign in the US.
I suspect that social software will benefit from that campaign as much as the campaign benefits from social software. As Ross argues,
"a critical mass of people are being exposed to tools for easy group
formation." Many people are becoming aware that uniting many strangers
towards a particular purpose using the Net is not only theoretically
feasible, but has actually been done successfully. This is sure to
influence future initiatives and feed into expanding adoption of SoSo
tools.
This post also appears on channel social software
9:38:11 AM
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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
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"Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own."
- Alice Koller
(Gurteen Knowledge Quote of the Day - Thursday November 13, 2003)
5:05:34 PM
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Americans Demand Governmental Protection From Selves
The Onion:
"It's not just about Americans eating too many fries or cracking their
skulls open when they fall off their bicycles," said Los Angeles
resident Rebecca Burnie, 26. "It's a financial issue, too. I spend all
my money on trendy clothes and a nightlife that I can't afford. I'm
$23,000 in debt, but the credit-card companies keep letting me spend.
It's obscene that the government allows those companies to allow me to
do this to myself. Why do I pay my taxes?" [...]
"If our own government
doesn't do something to make us get in better shape—or, for that
matter, dress a little nicer—who will?" [...]
"The fact is, personal responsibility doesn't work," Nathansen said.
"Take a good look at the way others around you are living, and I'm sure
you'll agree. It's time for the American people to demand that someone
force them to do something about it."
9:58:55 AM
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Monday, November 17, 2003
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