Archives for January, 2008
Source Materials for the Identity API
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Read Joe Lazarus’ musings on the MyBlogLog API. Give some thought to Kim Cameron’s work regarding identity, paying particular attention to “delegation coupons”. Run through the writing that Dave Winer has done in the last couple of days on user generated content (UGC). Consider the evolution of online community, with specific reference to the model [...]
Admin Note: NYC Web Analytics Meetup
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
In NYC, interested in Web analytics, and looking for something to do on this coming Tuesday evening? Lucky you! Following the untimely demise of the former NYC Web analytics meetup group, a friend has started a brand new shiny NYC Web analytics meetup group. He started the group on Friday and scheduled the first meetup [...]
APIs Good. Crappy Web Hosts Bad.
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
So I’ve been thinking a little more about Tumblr. While it’s interesting (to me, anyway) to see what has accumulated in my Tumblog without any effort on my part, I still want to play more actively with it. Now as I noted a few weeks ago, even though most of my Tumblr content is just [...]
Surprise! The Plastic Disc Business Hasn’t Fixed Itself
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Welcome to 2008, and welcome to this incredibly surprising news coming out of the AP: US album sales declined in 2007. Kind of like how they’ve declined in eight of the past twelve years, actually. Who could have predicted this? I mean, it’s not like the RIAA had access to data that seems to show [...]
