Monday, March 21, 2005

Diego wants off of my link blog. Diego doesn't want me to republish his blog posts. So far he's the third person to ask me to stop doing that on my linkblog. What do I do? Simply unsubscribe so that I don't see their posts anymore and am not tempted to link to them. I used to do just headlines but, personally, that format is useless. Why do I do my linkblog? For several reasons: 1) New readers need a way to find new blogs. I don't quote every post from someone's blog, just the most interesting ones to me. Out of 3,500 posts I usually put 100 on my link blog. 2) As a store for me to do my own searches later on. If I only had headlines in my RSS feed this would be useless. Instead, now, I have a way for me to find things that I found interesting months later. 3) As a way to get traffic and search engine juice to the people I find interesting. One link from this blog is worth quite a bit of Page Rank. Why? Because a lot of people link to it. Because of my publishing tool (Kunal Das wrote the tool, named OutlookMT). 4) It's pretty clear after reading my linkblog for a while that everything there came from someplace else and every item links back to its original owner. 5) I'm doing this for people who are overloaded with information and want to keep up to date on what the tech blogosphere is doing. It's a lot easier to read 100 items a day than 3,500. How do I do this blog? I read all my feeds and anything I find interesting I drag over to a folder named "Blog This." That item is automatically placed on my link blog. I also greatly appreciate Matt Mullenweg. He's donating the hosting and the back-end technology (it's running on WordPress). I do find it interesting that Diego finds my linkblog interesting to read. It's interesting BECAUSE it has full-text reprints. If you want pure headline link blogs you can check those out on del.icio.us or bloglines. They simply aren't as useful. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger] 5:08:52 AM

	Saturday, March 19, 2005

And the Best Linux Desktop Is… (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Opinion: There is no single answer. It really depends on what you want to do, but here are three of my favorites and the jobs they're most suited for. [Yahoo! News: Technology] 6:43:03 AM

	Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Beta: Radio UserLand 8.1. We're working on a new Radio UserLand 8.1 release, and we'd like your help testing the recent changes. This beta-release includes several bug fixes and improvements. Some new features are a new linkToStyleSheet macro and in the news aggregator: Atom feed support and a new sort order preference. [UserLand Product News: Radio UserLand] 6:27:49 AM

	Thursday, September 09, 2004

Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access: Notice Inviting Applications. The purpose of this program is to support projects that will develop innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect information from foreign sources. Grants will be made to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the U.S. that address our nation's teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages. [U.S. Department of Education] Looks like a job for an international wikipedia supported by a network of school blogs...  Any takers?  I'll help connect those that are interested with those that can help write the grant application...  Who knows? 6:27:18 AM

	Wednesday, January 28, 2004

IT Strategies for DRM. I need a little help. Suppose you'd been asked to address the CTO organization of a major (over 125,000 employees) company on digital rights management. What would you tell them? There's the usual, technical talk stuff: [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 4:49:17 AM

	Saturday, January 24, 2004

Definite To do This is a public note to myself (if I can only remember where I left those other notes!). Connected Computing Research Topics. I gave a talk to the BYU CS Department yesterday on research topics in connected computing. The slides are available as a PDF. If you work at a government agency (Federal, State, or Local) and find any of these topics interesting, I'd love to talk to you about a possible partnership to make a proposal to the National Science Foundation's eGovernment program. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 5:09:15 AM

	Friday, January 23, 2004

Google spawns social networking service. The search company tip-toes into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 4:48:28 AM