• The future of blogs – the sources of our infosphere
  Tom claims I’m dancing around the real issue, teh semantic web, which I am, but the thing is noone really gets that Tom, people get this, it’s convcrete & here. Blogs are the semantic web.
• Ascilite 2005 Conference – Brisbane – December!
  I’m hoping to go to this (naturally I need to write a blinkin paper first, abstract to come soon) why don’t you come along and we can do some sort of Brissie blogwalk? (Paper submissions are due end of June…. eeeasy :o)
• LMB^Box FilePress
  This is very nice… still in the early stages but it adds two thingss that will improve WP, the capacity to upload and simply integrate anything you want while still on the post page.
• cameron reilly: Melbourne Blogger meet-up – update
  Come all ye faithful to the Melbourne blogger meetup!

Well, after Blogtalk, ethics proposals and a bit more I actually have a few days to relax, write abstracts and put stuff together for ASCILITE, Uses of Blogs and the Radio Conference 2005… hmmmm… looking forward to Xmas :o)

Oh, I almost forgot about ODLAA… bjash!

Ok, granted, tags are great when we’re describing audio, images and more but I can tell you what the problem with folksonomies is when it comes to text. We’ve already folksonomied it by writing about it. Is that understood? Good. Now can we move on?

I’ve had a crack at figuring out what the future of blogs might look like over at Blogsavvy… just a small go at it but I feel like this is what is going to happen…

• FeedWordPress
  Or we could try to use this?
• feed on feeds – about
  This is another cool aggregating tool. I need to figure out how I can get it to trawl a particular site looking for feeds though (i.e. automatically adding wpmu feeds to a river-of news for that particular install)
• The Podcast Network :: The Personal Productivity Show
  Definitely a podcats that I could do with listening to. I go in and out of mindmanager joy… when it has an effective export to blog function I reckon that’l;l be the time to move in!
• Starting Common Craft
  Great account of going out on your own – "Yesterday I realized that I went all day without wearing pants. It didn’t even occur to me until Sachiko came home and picked on me for wearing boxers. I guess i have truly entered the world of working from home and I like it" :o)
• NevOn: TypePad blogs to get spam-fighting features
  Funny.. typepad is soooo soooo far behind WordPress. When did it happen that MT got overtaken so badly and why aren’t they doing anything about it?

Starting Common Craft

Great account of going out on your own – "Yesterday I realized that I went all day without wearing pants. It didn’t even occur to me until Sachiko came home and picked on me for wearing boxers. I guess i have truly entered the world of working from home and I like it" :o)

• NevOn: TypePad blogs to get spam-fighting features
  
  Funny.. typepad is soooo soooo far behind WordPress. When did it happen that MT got overtaken so badly and why aren’t they doing anything about it?

• Jots
  This is the tool I’m using for this linking process, I likes it so far rather a lot! Hmmm… I don’t think that WPMU has xmlrpc, must ask. Turns out it does… hurrah… and Jots has let me back into this bookmark to edit before it was posted… coolio eh!
• Introduction to Social Network Methods: Table of Contents
  
  I hate textbooks but this one looks like it should be one I actually read…. perhaps, eventually.

• TheOpenCD.org
  
  Damn good idea, will be one I’m pushing, thanks Harold… now whatwas that ‘operating system on a CD’ thing I read about the other day… these aren’t the same thing are they?

• Less Options Equal More Click II » Work Boxers
  
  Keeping up with the idea that better cashflow usually equals better design, scrivs describes the effect of his minimalist approach… must read

Here’s a quickie looking at Drupal, Planet Planet! and Feed2JS as centralised aggregation tools.

Folowin’ the dog’s good review I’ve gone and got a Jots account and even gone to the dramatic lengths of finally figuring out where the WP xmlrpc thingy is and making it work!

So, from now on until the novelty wears off and I get bored ;o> daily subverted links will be coming your way (bonus eh!)

Must – stop – doing – everything – Lee LeFever – does – 3 – months – after.

Those of you following blogsavvy will already know about him but for those of you who don’t here’s a blogsavvy client, the author Mat Larkin.

Mat’s blogging the progress of his book ‘The Last Monk’ and ‘For the reader’s convenience, the first five years and 80,000 words have been prepared beforehand.’ ;o>

What’s particularly cool is that he’s also just posted two extracts from the book… and they’re very, very good. Think Douglas Adams getting confused…

Here’s the feed if you’d like to stay up to date with the wordcount, and join me in an exploration of how you can use a blog to keep yourself engaged with the rest of the world even though you’re spending your days in an office on your own scratching your head. Hang on, that’s mostly what I do anyway…

Oh, and if you’re an interested publisher, please do get in touch :o)

Ulises has responded to some of our thoughts on DTD at the end of the original post, here’s a snippet:

“Part of what I am suggesting is that there is a need to balance the ability to post my responses at an external location (such as one’s own blog) without the original author becoming aware of what I am doing, and the ability to insert comments right at the point of origination so that everyone reading the original content knows that I have something to say about it. Maybe the current mechanisms we have (the mechanisms that alerted me to the responses by James, Stephen and Ian) are good enough. Most likely, however, we will continue to see new and interesting (and complex) solutions such as the ones I described in this article. I think any attempts to make the web more dialogical are a wonderful thing.”

Yes, yes, yes… this is an excellent considered addition to the comments discussion too.