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16 Sep 2005 In a blog about Hossein Eslamabolchi on the future of the network, Joho says "So long as I don't have to ever hear the phrase "wisdom mining"?
This was just too good to pass up. First we had data mining, then we had information mining, then there was knowledge mining. The logical next step is wisdom mining. Combining this with The Wisdom of Crowds and a buzzword generator I came up with the perfect mission statement for a web 2.0 company. We're using Reed's Law synergies to leverage the collective wisdom of convergent communities. We call it Wisdom Mining. A small prize for the first sighting of this in the wild. And not the Montana DEQ Wisdom Mining District. BTW. Hossein really doesn't get it. The whole interview was filled with bellhead thinking. It's as though the last 8 years never happened. [ 16-Sep-05 7:33pm ] Here's a thing. People have started creating their own URI types. like
lastfm:// Last.fm skype:// Skype msnim:// MSN Messenger These usually launch an external application from your browser. Now quite apart from this being a somewhat dubious practice, that last one is a classic. If you install MSN V7.5 it makes the necessary registry changes so that IE6 knows what to do about it. But surprise, surprise it doesn't also register for Firefox so links that use it don't work for non-IE browsers. Proprietary extensions to the web. DonchaJusLoveEm? So if you know how to register a new protocol and URI scheme in firefox, do drop me an email at julian_bond at voidstar.com I'm hugely impressed with the level of thinking in SkypeJournal.
If you're remotely interested in VoIP and Skype I recommend you read it. Disclaimer: I didn't get a job at Skype 18 months ago. But then I didn't apply. Doh! In both the main google search and in the new blogsearch
Start with the keyword like the name of your site Add in -link:*.yourdomain.com Set sort order to Date Take the RSS feed of the results and read it in your RSS reader eg http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=voidstar+-site%3A*.voidstar.com&btnG=Search+Blogs&scoring=d Now every time somebody mentions your site, you'll get a new entry in your reader. What Bush actually wrote in the UN session.
I want my mommy Are you my mommy? 15 Sep 2005 14 Sep 2005 Google Blog Search
Good - It exists - It has RSS and Atom feeds (where are these for normal search?) - DC: entries in RSS - Seems to be pretty fast. Let's see how quickly they pick up on this post. Bad - Where's "Popular" and "Recent"? - There's nothing in the RSS/Atom content to say where the post came from - I desperately need a way of saying "not from this domain" Searches for "Voidstar" all come from this blog. What I want is people who point to me not me. - It doesn't seem to search tags - According to the FAQ, they're scanning the Ping services like weblogs.com So where's Google's ping service? 13 Sep 2005 In the space of two weeks we had
- Google Talk - Google Sidebar - Google Desktop search V2 - MSN v7.5 - MS buy Telio (MSN to plain old telephones POTS) - Skype Beta 1.4 - SkypeNet - SkypeWeb - SkypeMac 1.3 - Skype Voice Services - AOL announce links with Jabber - Skype bought by Ebay Now Google + Jabber open standards IM + SIP open standards Voice/Video + Apple + AOL could be a force to be reckoned with. It'll certainly make Skype, MSN and Yahoo! scared and push them into faster innovation. And Google's use of SSL provides some encryption but with the same caveats as with Skype. The problem is that Google talk is a v0.1 Alpha. And so it's not really usable. Can Google ship early and ship often? I'm curious to see how the eBay acquisition affects perception of Skype's encryption. I've written before that without peer review it's somewhat suspect. If the FCC and EU push for a wiretap backdoor, I don't see eBay pushing back very hard. What is tech.memeorandum ?
Is there something here or is it just another feed aggregator? [from: del.icio.us] 12 Sep 2005 Ebay nabs Skype before anybody else : IT SEEMS that Ebay has, after all, acquired Skype in a deal estimated to be worth $2.6 billion. The deal was done after hefty interest from other sectors including News Corporation and Yahoo, claims the Financial Times.
Ooh err. It seems that the rumours were true. Hmm. Paypal+Skype = P2P payments, and Identity with Presence Over the weekend I listened again to Gil Scott-Heron's B-Movie. This was written shortly after the start of Reagan's first presidency but all too much of it is just being repeated in Bush's. "And we would rather had John Wayne".
And then I started thinking about why Bush doesn't seem to be all there. Especially when he's caught off guard by something random happening in the world. And the answer is that unlike his dad and unlike even Reagan, there actually isn't anything there. He really is just a cardboard cutout that has been carefully selected as the front man. He can read from a script. He can follow orders. But when there's no autocue and his advisors haven't finished the script yet, he's completely lost. A lot of the conversation on the web around Katrina criticises him for not making decisions as Chief Executive. Well I think you've all been watching too much 24 and West Wing. You're judging him on the basis that the POTUS is somebody who thinks, controls, manipulates and most especially leads. Sure, there are hoards of advisors, script writers, researchers and even personal friends around them, but when push comes to shove, the POTUS makes things happen by personal force of will. And will even go against all the people round him if he thinks it's necessary. Except that in Bush's case, the lights are on but there's nobody home. We can't and shouldn't view Bush in these terms. And when we criticise Bush we should recognise that it's not Bush, the man that we're criticising. It's Bush the figurehead and front man for the organisation behind him. It's not Bush that failed America in Katrina, it's the Republican party and everyone they've put into positions of power. So when you see Bush playing guitar while people are dieing; or talking to school children while airplanes are flown into the twin towers; or going blank when he's asked an awkward question; it's just that he hasn't been handed the latest script re-work yet. He's just following orders. And sometimes the orders are wrong. And sometimes the orders are late. But, oh yeah, I remember. In this year that we have now declared the year from Shogun to Reagan, I remember what I said about Reagan…meant it. Acted like an actor…Hollyweird. Acted like a liberal. Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California, then he acted like a republican. Then he acted like somebody was going to vote for him for president. And now we act like 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose. 11 Sep 2005 Visions of Aestia » Redland/Windows refresh (1.0.2-2)
Hmm. Redland RDF parser with bindings into PHP. With binaries for WINDOWS [from: del.icio.us] 08 Sep 2005 Scripting News: 9/7/2005 : Boing Boing now has distracting graphic ads in its RSS feed. So far it's just making it hard to scan their blog posts, but if it starts interfering as I scan others, I'll unsub. It'll be the second feed I said goodbye to because of annoying item-level ads. It's Feedburner again. Why they don't give users a way to opt out of these ads is beyond me.
Dave's screenshot shows him using IE6. He really should be using Firefox. I just had a look and the feeds appear to be coming from http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/* It was the work of moments to add this to AdBlock et voila, no more RSS Ads from feedburner feeds. 07 Sep 2005 Oi! You lot at the W3C! Who was it who had the bright idea of using the same character to escape character entities as the delimiter between variables in URLs?
I'd like you to meet the guy at Microsoft who thought it would be clever to turn the forward slash in Unix paths to backward slashes in Windows. TR 35 : They are the TR35--Technology Review's selection of the top technology innovators under age 35 (as of October 1, 2005).
Damn Ageists! Where's the "top technology innovators over age 35" And why are they all American? [ 07-Sep-05 8:37am ] 
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