Jim Flowers: My Blog experience

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:09:59 GMT

WHat?

Okay, if you don't like to think about porn, avert your eyes. There's going to be a big for-pay business around sex movies delivered via RSS, using enclosures and Adam Curry's brilliant idea for time-shifted downloads. The algorithm is implemented in Radio, and probably no other aggregator, at this time. Instead of grainy little postage-stamp-size Quicktimes that take forever to download, you'll get full-screen digital movies and no click-wait. There's real money to be made here. [Scripting News]

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:31:48 GMT

Meandering

Doc’s essay on saving the net – wow, some really good thinking here.

Scanned through BuzzMachine and read his narrative regarding the exchange with a Harvard editor on a piece he wrote about blogging. The culture clash between old vs new is made crystal clear.

Another study on electronic voting. Is this more chicken little stuff? Hmm.. NYT has a piece and Gillmor is pointing to it all.

Wonder what government would be like if government googled? I mean, if employees were allowed to work without the hierarchy (hmm… the definition of bureaucracy might change) would we see a more efficient government? Imagine if public hearings had the same wireless connections discussed in this piece about connectivity and conferences – wouldn’t those hearings be more productive, informative, entertaining?

Thu, 24 Jul 2003 12:30:11 GMT

Great Essay

by Doc Searls. Gotta read. Think. "Saving the Net" [Daypop Top 40]

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:29:00 GMT

Meandering again...

Spent a couple of hours clipping Georgia news from web sites this am (here). Now I am wandering about the blogosphere (btw, Marietta paper has a column about blogs -- the first I have seen here). The Columbus paper features links to Dan Gillmor but no one here seems to "get it".

Technorati says Joi Ito has linked to My Blog Experience page. I finally locked him into the blogroll -- but this has made me think I really need to get my writing together between whatsablog and experience there is some stuff worth thinking and writing about. Course, sometimes I think my whole site suffers from BADD (Blog Attention Deficit Disorder -- hmm... maybe I should trademark that term -- could it be a process patent - no that would be the cure, but first - must write about the disease! heh heh - too much Sunday am caffeine).

Frank Field is doing wonderful stuff with the notes he took at ILAW, reorganizing the display and even linking to others of us that took notes. I should do the same....

I am still fuming over the comment from the Governor's Task Force on Telecommunications Technologies stating that the state technology authority has no role in economic development (the task force sees it as a purchasing agency)... Arrgg.. they don't get it. Dana Moore points to a report on economic development in Silicon Valley and concludes that regulation is killing innovation (he gets it). The TechNet report on broadband policies shows further that the task force didn't get it. So, where's my response?

JOHO remarks about the wonderful fact that Dean blogged. And, how the "end-to-end" philosophy of the net meshes with the organizational philosophy of the Dean organization. They get it. Now, the netizens criticizing the quality of content from Dean -- they "don't" get it. It's a blog, not a dissertation -- get over it.

Another thinker, Doc Searls, has two links to ponder: 1) Between Two Cultures -- his latest installment talks about the old model corporatism vs the new model individualism and 2) a link to The Underground History of American Education -- and Doc wonders why the State maintains its monopoly on education. Teachers aren't succeeding because the same kind of bureaucrats that manage our buildings (see article here) manage our educators. And, the incompetent teachers survive for the same reason.

But, the office space article also exposes what's wrong with journalism. First, the new COO sees a partially occupied building because the budget writers (the very offices he controls now) have refused to allocate enough funds to speedily rehab the building (asbestos). Second, the building authority charges more for space per foot than existing commercial real estate (something about how the feds want us to account for space). If the journalist had done some research, the article would have focused on why government moves slow -- rather than intimate that the new administration has discovered something "new".

Windley provides a link to a CNN story on aggregators. File that in the whatsablog category. More reading to do.

Canter has great notes from the Always On conference. He sees it coming. He's the one that convinced me that blogging will effect everything internet.

Somewhere this week, I read a quote from Madison concerning the importance of an "informed electorate" to the success of a democratic republic.

Then a story from Larry Moore where he talked about early telephone technology evangelists who would get on a stage and do a telephone demonstration as two individuals talked on a phone from one end of the stage to the other. The audience didn't get it -- seems the audience was thinking those fools could just shout at each other rather than use the phone -- audience couldn't think of how to stretch that wire across the ocean.

Now, where did I find those quotes???? Did I blog them? where or where is my index?

The pool, my Sunday NY Times and a copy of Walter Isaacson's book on Ben Franklin beckon. Isakson contends that Franklin was this country's first Yuppie... Hmmm... hard to see the Revolutionary crowd hanging at Starbucks and driving BMW Z3's...

Sat, 19 Jul 2003 12:57:44 GMT

Get an RSS Feed From Google Search. Oh, boy, is this cool: Google Alert tracking service. Automatically search the web 24/7 Spotted on CyberJournalist.... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:24:22 GMT

http://www.syndic8.com/feedlist.php?OrderBy=sitename&;OrderDir=asc&Start=60&ShowScraped=a&PerPage=15&ShowStatus=all&ShowMatch=education&ShowLanguage=*

Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:03:29 GMT

Permalinks are part of what makes a blog a blog...

Permalinks and Why They Matter. Tom Coates: On Permalinks and Paradigms... There are some things that become so ubiquitous and familiar to us - so... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:37:14 GMT

Seems Businessweek now has something to say about web logs...

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:38:18 GMT

Cool

Blog Engine.

Ever wanted to search — just among blogs — for just a word? Or a phrase? Or ... name your terms?

Now you can. Thank Mr. Sifry:

I'm extremely proud to announce the newest Technorati feature, Keyword Search. You can now search Technorati's database of over 360,000 weblogs and get up-to-date information on your search terms.

If you want to do something more with it, he's also created an API to go with it.

Try it out. Very handy.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Sun, 08 Jun 2003 14:12:19 GMT

Interesting essay on the FCC and Weblogs by Shirky.

Sat, 07 Jun 2003 11:20:06 GMT

More on blogs

Dvorak makes a prediction.

Sat, 07 Jun 2003 10:59:02 GMT

Blog hype overrated.

Gilmor takes bloggers to task who think they were responsible for the turnover at NYT.

NYT Head-Rolling and Weblogs. The blogging community is taking way too much credit for the resignations yesterday of the New York Times' top two... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:36:42 GMT

More fodder for the Whatsaweblog file...

explaining weblogs. I met with Oscar Kneppers today in Amsterdam. Oscar is a very smart guy, and the founder of several magazines, among which some great Mac and online publications. Oscar's been 'out of the running' for almost a year due to a cycling accident. In my feeble attempt to bring him up to speed something interesting came out: Most all weblog software developers build their software around some basic concepts of WhatMakesAWeblogAWeblog. I didn't go into any detail about "rss" and trackback, or permalinks, blog-pings etc, because all these formats and protocols on each individual platform work together to create a global content management system. Each node (weblog) becomes a part of a broadcast (posting) when links are created. These are both in html and more importantly, xml under the hood. Being a publisher, I had to take Oscar one step further. There's no chief editor at the end of the process. He grapsed it quickly though; the only way to create a wide reach of your information is by creating the most relevant information. Posting quality information (content, whatever) on a particular topic will get you top listing on Google, which gets you links, which in turn introduces you into new information networks layered on top of the net by interconnected weblogs. As I said a year ago, Links are the currency of the internet. In many ways this is completely democratic. No amount of money or political influence can grow your network, only quality and frquency matter. Size is so eighties :) [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Thu, 05 Jun 2003 13:18:14 GMT

Found via Daypop -- annotated (slightly so) bibliography of sites studying cyberspace and culture.

"Voice of the Shuttle: Cyberculture" [Daypop Top 40]

Wed, 04 Jun 2003 19:00:15 GMT

I like maps -

a view of the political spectrum of weblogs - courtesy of Touchgraf as pointed out by Volokh

Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:27:12 GMT

So Much to Read, So Little Time!

Canter points to Dave Pollard's site as one that is well-written and thought provoking. I agree. The posts read like articles from The Economist or New Republic. The page style is very crisp and authoritative. I was immediately caught up by his pieces on the cycle of innovation and Social Networks.

Wait a sec - now that I read further -- Canter is actually highlighting a post from Dina Mehta.

Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:14:22 GMT

I'm Back!

After a disastorous disk crash, a couple of weeks wading through bureaucracy (our's and HP's), and following Russ Lipton's easy re-install instructions -- we are finally back on the air. My backup is two weeks old (April 21 versus the May 6 final posting) - but, we will live.

The time off was good in one sense -- it gave me time to evaluate my approach to blogging - perhaps leading to a more consistent style -- definitely more of a "this is for me and your welcome to it" type attitude.

More after I check under the hood to see if all the parts still function.

Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:51:31 GMT

Winer missed the real point of the word, Searl's says he contrived the word from the political term of "logrolling" -- essentially the trading of favors in a political context.

Blogroll: "The section of a weblog that lists the sites that the blogger reads on a regular basis. This is usually located on the side of a blogger's frontpage, or on a separate page linked off of the frontpage." [Scripting News]

Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:42:09 GMT

Wow, a Georgia paper with a war blog.

Check out the Macon Telegraph. blog.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:43:50 GMT

Sebastian writes a succint analysis of why the web isn't what it can be. I need to read carefully the latest Pew study on the Internet and see whether this analysis predicts the drop out rate.

Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:25:36 GMT

Another site to peruse in my quest to understanding net philosphy.

Semantic Studios: Trust by Design. Peter Morville. In recent months, I've become a big fan of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and the Web Credibility Project. Their studies regarding how people evaluate a web site's credibility show the critical importance of information design and structure. [Tomalak's Realm]

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:39:57 GMT

Canter notes Social Software Alliance formed

I have written several posts that really discuss philosphy and the internet. This alliance seems to be applying philosophy to standards. Interesting.

Weinberger's summary is concise.

Peter Kaminski has a good idea: the Social Software Alliance is a place where ideas for standards for "social software" can be proposed, kicked around, whupped into shape and promoted even before they are ready to be submitted somewhere official. Heck, maybe even some people will start adopting worthy ones ad-hockily.
There's a wiki set up here.

Posted by D. Weinberger at April 17, 2003 10:23 AM |

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:34:35 GMT

I find the possibilities discussed here both interesting and scary. Reminds me of some totalitarian sci-fi movies I saw painting a picture of a dark, centrally manged future.

Planning for the Next Net War. The information technology system that helped the U.S. military prevail in the Iraq campaign may just be a harbinger of things to come. The Pentagon has a host of 'network-centric' warfare initiatives in the pipeline. By Elliot Borin. [Wired News]

Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:31:28 GMT

This is an excellent piece describing what weblogs are and aren't, as well as the purpose of the Harvard blog project. Should be required reading for all.

DaveNet: Preacher With a Projection Screen. [Scripting News]

Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:47:41 GMT

I'm fed up with CSS in News Item Templates. [Scripting News]