Archives for the 'metadata' Category
Aggregation and Accretion
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Aggregation: a group or mass of distinct or varied things, persons, etc.
Accretion: the growing together of separate parts into a single whole.
Bonus definition! Excellence: the state or condition of being excellent.
Step One: Aggregation
I begin with the proposition that aggregation has been one of the key concepts of the past five years or so—a period that [...]
Data, Information, Medium, Message
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Being a Small Post on a Large Topic
What you put in your Web app dashboard is different from what you put in your emails, and different from what you put in your SMS messages or mobile app dashboard, and rightly so; if McLuhan had his act at all together, we can be confident that even [...]
Patent Not Pending: Visual Backchannel
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
At least in the world of tech conferences, the existence of an audience backchannel during presentations isn’t much of a revelation: IRC has both formally and informally filled that role for years, and ca. 2008 it’s getting hard to find a big ticket presentation that isn’t being “liveblogged” by somebody. The phenomenon received an [...]
The Twitter Metric I’d Like to See: Twitter Set
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I’m not likely to build this, but since I’m getting a fair amount of Twitter-related traffic these days, I’ll put it out there and hope that this idea intrigues someone else.
If we accept that Twitter is in large part a social technology, then we’re presented with a universe of questions about Twitter’s social [...]
Amazon: third time, no charm
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Oh, my. After enthusiastically endorsing Amazon’s data-driven email segmentation practices not once but twice, the third time turns out to not be the charm at all. Here’s what I just received:
Let’s call out the operative paragraph:
As someone who has shopped for electronics at Amazon.com, you might be interested in the Archos DVR Station [...]
That “Ambient Intimacy” Thing
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
While the term “ambient intimacy” still feels a hair creepy to me, I guess I’m starting to see the point.
Like all right-thinking people, I’ve followed Techdirt for years, and over the past couple of years Mike Masnick and I have exchanged a number of emails on various topics. I suppose I vaguely [...]
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 suggested by Twitter [...]
Twitter, Tumblr, and Me
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Prologue
About three and a half years ago I wrote a post entitled Feed Splicing, Shell Scripts, and the Internet, giving voice to my enthusiasm for the ease with which I could combine the two shiny new toys I had just started playing with: del.icio.us and FeedBurner. In that post I noted that:
By taking advantage [...]
Social Software, Venture Capitalists, Optical Isomers
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Yesterday at about 6PM Fred Wilson posted that an open social network for the Web “sounds awesome,” and that he’s wanted that for a while now. Yesterday at about 9PM Brad Feld posted about the process of manually integrating his Outlook contacts with Facebook, ending the post with the note that “Plaxo is up [...]
VRM Is Not Anti-Vendor
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
VRM on the brain continues…
Another (slightly modified) reproduction of an email on VRM that I sent a few months ago, this one to Doc Searls and Britt Blaser (hey, guys—I’m still following the VRM effort, and I hope to have the bandwidth to start contributing again before too long). The email was largely a [...]
