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Saturday, March 18, 2006This is old, but it's been sitting in my feed reader clippings: Lisa Williams on Web Worldviews with OPML. That's like an external information architecture, external, that is, to the entity who created the Web content. Web technology makes it much easier to move. I logged into Verizon Wireless to change my address for my cell phone account and after I made the change, it offered me the chance to switch my service to the new area and get a new phone number. They have a web app that does it. At Oracle, the product managers called that sort of thing a "self-service web application." I call it very useful. I've never heard of sparklines before. Very cool. Edward Tufte is one of my favorite geniuses. Errr, it's not really "my" town on Maui... I mean, I don't own it or anything. And I'm leaving in one week. Yip yah! (Cowgirl speak for "I'm moving to Colorado") Tuesday, March 14, 2006Marshall Kirkpatrick has republished some good blogging tips. I especially like #6, "Be human, and be humane. Reflect on what you’re about to say, how it’s likely to be received, and what you’d like to achieve by saying it." Wow, Gabe Rivera made a celebrity gossip memetracker, WeSmirch. I was bummed when I found out Britney Spears was staying in my town on Maui a few weeks ago and I didn't get to see her. Listening right now: Groove Salad radio from SomaFM. Ambient music doesn't interfere with my thought processes. Learned about it from Jane of See Jane Compute. Saturday, March 04, 2006Stephen O'Grady, Don't Find Feeds for Me - Help Me Cut Them: "I've begun implicitly delegating my feed tracking to a variety of folks I trust. Where it used to be when someone I trusted would mention a good feed, I'd simply add it to my reader without any further thought. These days, I never do that. Instead, I rely on them indirectly to keep me posted on their feeds of interest." I'm thinking of unsubscribing from everything except maybe twenty or thirty favorites then getting the remainder of my news from newstrackers like tech.memeorandum. Unfortunately, my position as a BlogHer contributing editor makes that impossible. I'm supposed to be a human filter, but I haven't found a good way to do that yet. The feeds on the BlogHer Tech & Web blogroll are so diverse that it makes no sense to try to track them as one big list, as I have been doing. I need a new paradigm. Thank you, Dave. I blogged more about the mothers-are-technologically-clueless cliche here. Not only is it offensive, it's overused. Friday, March 03, 2006Alex Barnett writes about Microsoft's support of KPL, Kids Programming Language. My 10-year-old has had some success with MicroWorlds, an educational development environment. He may do a video game design and development camp this summer through iD Tech Camps. He also wants to do a website about Animal Crossing, Wild World. I suggested that he make it a blog; he wants a "regular website." Why? Blogs are the new home pages. Scott Karp: "Media 2.0 is about creating an efficient marketplace for content that enables media consumers to find the highest-yield content from an ever increasing diversity of sources AND enabling content creators to efficiently collaborate." He suggests we're just at Media 1.1 right now, "empowering audience participation and independent content creation." Wednesday, March 01, 2006I'm going to go to OPML Camp in Boston on April 26th and 27th assuming I can figure out childcare arrangements. April 26th is my 38th birthday, so I'll be expecting a cake! Marshall Kirkpatrick's going to interview Lisa Williams for NetSquared. I'll be looking out for that. Monday, February 27, 2006Nice roundup from Library Clips of ways to make reading lists. My post about OPML is up at the BlogHer site. If you see anything incorrect or inaccurate, let me know. Sunday, February 26, 2006I'm going to write a post on OPML this week for my BlogHer tech & web blog. Moms are not all alike. Sandra, an American expatriate in Korea: "Sometimes it seems like the other women I know, the affluent mothers who live around here, are cookie-cutter women, all the same. They seem to dress alike, talk alike. After they have a child, women cut their hair a certain way and learn to talk about their children's lessons. But I know they're not really all alike." We're not all alike here in the U.S. either, but sometimes I think people think that we are or at least slot us into certain convenient categories, like stay-at-home mom. Alex Barnett looks like Tracy Chapman. I tried out the facial recognition celebrity match at myheritage.com. I look like Princess Diana or possibly Wesley Snipes. Great. I've got an essay hanging around in draft form for my Anne 2.0 blog. It's about how I'm going to take an indefinite hiatus from blogging because we're moving to Colorado in a month and I don't have child care lined up for my youngest until summertime. But I just can't quite get the words or the ideas right. Saying it here should be easier. Les says: "When I open the day's outline, I'm not Faced with the Task of Composing a Document, I'm faced with a structure based on luring atomic thoughts out of my head." Here I can get the thought out; there I can't because it's too important to make it one little paragraph. Perhaps during my hiatus I can still blog here.Yeah, it is very GTD. Saturday, February 25, 2006I like Amy's OPML site too. Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0: "The problem, as many people have stated many times, is that the more everyone participates in content creation and content interaction, the harder it is to navigate the sea of information to find what’s useful." Scott links to Matt McAlister on the next generation PageRank: "The hyperlink was a vote in the search-driven Internet. Now I’m dependent on a new currency - human action. The click is much more potent than the existence of a link. Even more potent than clicks are tags, ratings, comments and emailed URLs." But Scott says you can't just use any old human action to measure the value of content, because some people are smarter than others. I agree. One reason why I read The New Yorker and The Economist is because their editors know more than I do about what's interesting and important. How do we achieve intelligent filtering and editing when anyone, even the dumbest, can create content? I think we need a mix of human and computer filtering. Friday, February 24, 2006Malcolm Gladwell has a blog. It's already showing its usefulness by leading me to this Science article describing research into decision-making. It seems complex decisions such as choosing a house are looked upon most favorably afterwards if they didn't involve a lot of attentive deliberation. I hope this means I'll be happy with the house I chose in Denver after only looking at five. I've never decided on a house so quickly before, but then again, I've never been able to afford such a pretty house either. Aha, had to change the number of days shown to greater than one. I also created a dummy OPML for yesterday. Now it shows up. Thanks to George and Dan for the help. Can't figure out why I don't have a date heading on my entries. Do I have to enter it myself? Since this is date-based blogging, I assumed it would do that for me. What do other people do? Dave gives his elevator pitch for the OPML Editor and Les says it offers frictionless blogging. I'm giving it a try. Might be inappropriate to call this OPML Maui as I'm moving to Colorado in a month. Thursday, February 23, 2006Testing |
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