Seb's Open Research

Thursday, July 08, 2004

"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Al Rogers What do you think? []  links to this post    12:08:40 PM   Headshifted I am now displaying headers from the amazing Lee Bryant in my home page sidebar. Speaking of Lee, let me take the opportunity to highlight his BlogTalk presentation slides on a weblog deployment in the health sector that he was involved in. Clear, informative, useful. What do you think? []  links to this post    11:59:23 AM   Flickr does moblogging Great move, guys. Notice how photo sharing service Flickr is not in the business of blogging per se but keeps finding clever ways to ride the wave. Integrating pictures is a pain point for the many people who struggle with file uploading, management, and markup. Flickr nicely lowers the barrier to entry here. Of course this synergy could not happen if the blogging solutions didn't provide APIs for posting. Here's what a happy user had to say: What do you think? []  links to this post    11:05:55 AM

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Vacation time Expect few or no updates for a month starting this weekend, as I will be spending that time in a general state of disconnect from the net. While I dread the withdrawal symptoms, I do believe I will return as a stronger Seb. I've got a few ideas for constructive projects to embark upon when I'm back, and flushing down the cognitive overload of the last months will surely help make my internal focus sharper... What do you think? []  links to this post    3:09:12 PM   Best How-Tos Kevin Kelly asks: "What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you've ever seen? I don't care what the topic is, I am primarily interested in the execution." Building a distributed body of how-tos would be another great application of structured blogging. Paging Marc Canter: must add Open How-Tos to your list of digital lifestyle standards. Update: Jeremy picks up the digital lifestyle aggregator idea: "Now imagine that profile as a sort of e-portfolio, containing most of the stuff you careed about, things you were thinking about, connecting you to everyone else who wanted to learn the same things, helping you find the information and resources that would help you learn... " What do you think? []  links to this post    2:15:15 PM   Technorati hits 3M What do you think? []  links to this post    10:11:37 AM   Blog conversations and exploration These days I keep running into mentions of how conversations in blogspace are hard to follow. From my experience, tracking blogversations is similar to exploring a 3D game world. Look here, go there, find some nugget, backtrack, have a peek over there... Presumably a game wouldn't be as fun if it were turned into a more passive, guided walkthrough. Does this reasoning also apply to blogversations? (P.S. Link-free post - no running around this time! Enjoy!) What do you think? []  links to this post    9:16:44 AM

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