Adrian has been tugging at my subconscious of late with his initial exploration of whether you write your blog or it writes you in this non-spatial (actual object?) network: “your identity is the sum of those connections that you are a participant in, but, you have little or no say about.” And now he really …
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Beautiful Machines 6
I think this is my favourite so far. Larger version & more.
Oh the irony…
Via Steven I’d get upset about this if it wasn’t so funny. Granted there aren’t any comments, but it is personal web publishing, there is an RSS feed, a permalink, a date and well… content one might not necessarily be surprised to find on some forum of ‘Bathetically Ludicrous Online Gibberish’. Well worth a read …
Beautiful Machines 5
From Lindon (who posts larger versions of all images to Into the Bungelow… theme designers take note!) this is more what I wanna see in my RSS.
Google Ads in RSS
Well, looks like Weblogs Zinc are running with the Google Ads in RSS, just picked this up from The Social Software Weblog. S’pose it’s not particularly surprising, am not going to throw up my arms and be all strident and unsubscribe or anything but it is a bit depressing that my once ad-free(ish) space is …
Now for something, ahem, completely different
OK, so as my ‘debut’ in glossy print comes along with elearning magazine I have some serious things that need sorting out, and you out there in aggregator land are the perfect people to help with such serious matters. Questions… 1.) Should I call my column ‘Inside and Between’ or ‘In and Between’ (this is, …
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Object-centered sociality
Zengestrom (a bloody great blog discovery via Stephen!) has some fascinating thoughts about why social networking services just haven’t kicked off. I wrote a few paragraphs on this in Centered Communication and still feel like there’s some validity in them in that without effective consistent and subvertable presentation (a la blogs) there’s little networking that …
Tag Literacy & Distributed Classification Systems
If I could produce the same quality of work as Ulises seems to do on such a regular basis then I’d be, um, Ulises probably… either his latest offering, Tag Literacy, is well worth a look. A few select quotes: “Decisions regarding how to classify things which used to be undertaken by humans in collectivity …
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WordPress plugins ahoy
The WordPress plugin competition is a GREAT idea not only because there are so many great plugins coming out but also because it makes you realise what great ones are already there. A few which I’ve been sampling and delighting in are: Top 10: Basically allows you to count number of views for each post …
Beautiful Machines 3
Lindon: “There’s also a kind of Zen calm about these ones”