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View Article  New Flickr features
Flickr, the image-sharing social software app, has rolled out a bunch of new features, including this one, which does very ...   more »
View Article  Lua 5


If you need a small yet fast embeddable scripting language engine, check
out Lua. Lua 5 now has a ...   more »

View Article  “Streaming Document Format” Enters, Stage Right

“I am absolutely obsessed with the potential for XML news feeds causing an “informational awakening” on the Internet. However, unless ...   more »

View Article  Xfire and Persistent Presence (Ross Mayfield)

Mike Pusateri posts about Xfire, an IM app that transcends gaming worlds. IM within games is commonplace and users ...   more »

View Article  "CSS Drop Shadows II: Fuzzy Shadows"
[Daypop Top 40]   more »
View Article  Kevin Lynch's The Image of the City and Software Architecture

Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City

I've put Popper aside for a while to read a book I received in the mail the other day, Kevin ...   more »

View Article  Here comes Moxi!

Spare change for Google shares?. Google taps underwriters; The Pew Internet and American Life Project states the obvious; IBM, ...   more »

View Article  eBay has improved

It’s been almost two years since I sold something on eBay — and more than six years since my first ...   more »

View Article  Convert that E-mail Inbox into an RSS Feed

MailFeed is a PHP script that checks a POP3, IMAP, or NNTP mailbox on demand and returns an RSS feed ...   more »

View Article  Motivation

As I’m heading off to bed, this post by Mark Cuban put a smile on my face.



I’m going to ...   more »

View Article  Primer on Value Billing

Ronald J. Baker is an absolutely amazing visionary. He is the accountancy profession's guru of "value billing" and is the ...   more »

View Article  Getting around the FCC

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Could TiVo and other digital video recorders connected to the Internet be the way to
skirt around the new puritanism ...   more »

View Article  Trackir: Best Flight Sim Accessory Since the Refrigerator Box
I want to smash the Trackir tracking system for being a superfluous, dork-oriented gaming appendage, and it totally is, but ...   more »
View Article  Michael Crawford: Links to Tens of...
Michael Crawford: Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads.
[Seb's Open Research]   more »
View Article  The Arbitrage Opportunity of Outsourcing to India is OVER

Morrow's Blog: Now that the world has embraced outsourcing to India, it has, in effect, killed the golden goose. ...   more »

View Article  Record sales up, shows Soundscan, RIAA playing with stats?

Moses Avalon's email newsletter of music industry news today has a

fascinating insight into the "fact" that record industry sales ...   more »

View Article  Major new developer services!!
We are extremely excited to announce the launch of some major new developer services: + PayPal Web Services - SOAP-based ...   more »
View Article  Musique libre et blogs
Jean-Luc Raymond has a pithy (if hypish in parts) summary of what
musiclogging is about that I felt deserved a ...   more »
View Article  Sony Studio in-a-box
Sony's mobile TV studio-in-a-box.

This is definitely not your mother's tablet or notebook. With great products and ideas ...   more »

View Article  Active résumés


Today's New York Times includes a brief article on music blogging. The story links to Webjay and quotes Lucas Gonze...   more »

View Article  Small Pieces, Loosely Joined (Jr.)

Thanks to Jim McGee for catching this last week — it looks great:



Going to need this.
Small Pieces Loosely ...   more »
View Article  Musiclogging gets play
Musiclogging gets play (no pun intended) in the New York Times. (via Lucas) (Permalink generated via the NYT ...   more »
View Article  Seb's musiclog goes live
I've begun rolling music selections in my sidebar using Alan Levine's handy RSS via Javascript tool. Pretty easy. ...   more »
View Article  Sharing photos with people
Multiply = Weblogs + SNS + Photo Sharing + Messaging.

multiply_screenAccording to a PR Newswire — Multiply Redefines Social ...   more »

View Article  How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces
How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces Click on the diagram to get a full-size, non blurry image and scroll ...   more »
View Article  Webjay: Lucas Gonze goes after user-created music filtering (Clay Shirky)

So last year, I was bitching about how the music industry is stifling the inevitable “Big Flip”, where you ...   more »

View Article  Iran has 100 thousand blogs, mainly in Persian

A great post of Rebecca about her International blogs session at Bloggercon



1. Blogs as a source of alternative info ...   more »

View Article  York University Lecture on Social Software (Clay Shirky)

There’s a long overview of social software history, trends, and possible futures by Darren Wershler-Henry, from a class at York ...   more »

View Article  Creating a self-organizing weblog directory
As everyone has noticed by now, the blogosphere is rather tricky to get around in, especially for newcomers, and the ...   more »
View Article  Tucows to Acquire Boardtown
Tucows: ""Boardtown
has been very successful identifying the unique needs of ISPs.
Provisioning, billing and customer care are ...   more »
View Article  Is RSS a “Really Silly Standard”?

Shashank Tripathi writes: “Larry Seltzer posed a question that had egged me for a while about a year or so ...   more »

View Article  One way to track readers using an...
One way to track readers using an RSS aggregator is to put a clear pixel at the bottom of each ...   more »
View Article  Historical review of the role of population data in human rights abuses (Clay Shirky)

Interesting paper on the use of census and other population data as an input to large-scale human rights abuses.

Yet ...   more »
View Article  ID Getting Hot...

Looks like Ping picked the right market to be in...

The Heat Index - April 2004

TheInfoPro (TIP) interviewed 175 ...   more »

View Article  Sharpreader - Threaded RSS

Several people have asked recently about my aggregator — which one do I use, why, etc. I originally used Radio...   more »

View Article  Guess who's been scarfing FOAF for their YASNS?

Six Degrees in ActionOK - so one of the first complaints I get about FOAF is privacy. And I blindly just keep repeating ...   more »

View Article  XML/CSV data feeds from Magnatune

For a while now, I've been getting requests for official data feeds describing the music at Magnatune. I've now added ...   more »

View Article  Dodgeball goes multi-city (Clay Shirky)

Dodgeball, the social networking tool for mobile phones, is expanding past NYC this weekend, becoming available in SF, LA, ...   more »

View Article  Receptionist

Great article by Mike Langberg on an idea he has called Receptionist.....

Trying to reach me? Meet my Receptionist


View Article  Here comes E3!
Giving BloggerCon A Run For Its Pixels.

Marc Canter has been keeping me in stitches today, sending piles of ...   more »

View Article  My MY My - here we go - who owns what - and the notion of 'built-in' content
MP3.com Music to Emerge from CNET Limbo.

MP3.com, Michael Robertson’s watershed indie warehouse, rose, crested, and fell. Then the ...   more »

View Article  The future of attention management
The future of attention management danah boyd: What I want in an RSS tool. A concentrate of insight. Pure ...   more »
View Article  IFTF: Technology and Space
Ouch, my head hurts...

Peter Banks and Paul Saffo talking technology and a Space Race, a war for the information ...   more »

View Article  WASTE: It's ba-a-a-ck (sort of) (Clay Shirky)

Last summer, we wrote about WASTE, the nullsoft tool for secure communication and collaboration among small numbers of clients ...   more »

View Article  Two cornucopias
I had read Dan Bricklin's illuminating essay "The Cornucopia of the Commons" (key quote: "increasing the value of ...   more »
View Article  Musiclogging Thoughts
Jon Udell on musiclogging. Jon Udell has been watching the recent going-ons around closing the loop in musiclogging, ...   more »
View Article  A Grand Unified Theory of Filesharing

Recently we've seen several studies of the impact of filesharing on CD sales. We have enough data now to draw ...   more »

View Article  The new "Address Book" tab / Giving someone "trusted reader" privileges

The new "Address Book" tab

Last week, we added a new tab to the Navigation Bar in the Blogware Control ...   more »
View Article  PHP mailing list manager

PHPlist is a pretty full-featured open source mailing list manager. One of the best features is that cross-posted messages are ...   more »

View Article  phpPgAds

phpPgAds - is an open-source ad server, with an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. Integrates ...   more »

View Article  Technorati trackbacks


BoingBoing's other blogs commenting on this post feature, added yesterday, has provoked a flurry of responses. Co-incidentally, I had ...   more »

View Article  More on the impact of blogs on journalism

Arianna Huffington, the high-affect, Greek-born, conservative-turned-realist, LA-based, political author and force of nature, has a crush on blogs and ...   more »
View Article  Quantum computing weblogs
Back in the day I spent a little while doing research in the area of quantum computing
under the supervision ...   more »
View Article  Diego Doval on mapping social relationships (Clay Shirky)
Interesting trio of posts by Diego Doval on alternate methods of mapping social relationships in social networking services:This point of ...   more »
View Article  The 1060 REST microkernel and XML app server


1060 NetKernel
Suhail Ahmed alerted me, via email, to a really interesting project called NetKernel, from 1060 Research. ...   more »

View Article  Analysis of RSS+Time as a playlist format

Lucas Gonze writes, “What’s good and bad about the RSS+SMIL playlist format I made up? What’s bad is boringly obvious ...   more »

View Article  LED Exhibit

The charms of the installation art exhibits in Marfa, Texas are often lost on Americans but the place is very ...   more »

View Article  Legal filesharing with Weedshare
Where's the WE in itunes? Weedshare is a filesharing service/company that rewards users for sharing music files. Unfortunately, they're Windows ...   more »
View Article  Java tools have come a long, long way
Just a quick note about tools. Over the last couple of months I've been experimenting with the db4o
Java object ...   more »
View Article  Location based media
This hurts the mind...

This is something Mikel and Marc Eisenstadt will like.

The Art and Science of Location and ...   more »

View Article  What FOAF isn't.....
Re: Things to do with FOAF. Posted by: Tom

What won't we do with it? [Tribe.net: FOAF]
...   more »

View Article  Bit Torrent question
Bit Torrent and the ability to download everything in one click (is this the end of Direct TV, Tivo and ...   more »
View Article  We Media
We Media - How audiences are shaping the future of news and information.

"WeMediaWe are at the beginning ...   more »

View Article  New Jambase

JamBase | Go See Live Music! Tour dates, concert news, reviews and much more! Andy Gadiel was kind enough to let me know of a new version of Jambase. The world is getting ...   more »

View Article  A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools

Eugene Kim ias at it again. About once a year (it seems like it's always in May) Eugene Kim puts ...   more »

View Article  Blogmedia, Blognaked, Blognow

I got a note early this morning that Blogmedia was
live as a Blogware reseller. They've done a really great ...   more »

View Article  Hit The Desk!

RSS-desk is a reusable component for the news aggregation in a Web page. It is based on J2EE standards using ...   more »

View Article  Get Your Fix…

The closest thing to an intravenous jolt for all you news junkies!

The Online News Screensaver delivers RSS updates in ...   more »

View Article  New - Lockergnome.net OPML

Lockergnome.net now has an OPML file (updated daily). Your blog will automatically be added to the list when you become ...   more »

View Article  Context Broker

Context Broker Architecture. CoBrA is an agent based architecture for supporting context-aware systems in smart spaces (e.g., intelligent meeting ...   more »

View Article  Operation Fuck With the LJ Christians (Clay Shirky)

OK, one more from April Fool’s, another social hack:



A LiveJournal user, Moroveus decided to lodge a kind of distributed ...   more »

View Article  Ideal intellectual communities
Janet Tokerud: Academic
Blogging is a Must
. A comment links to a post on Ideal
Intellectual Communities
.

Features:
...   more »
View Article  XML editor - Oxygen

XML Editor [Ted Ritzer: BizBlog]

XML Editor

The simple and elegant look of the XML Editor combined with ...   more »

View Article  Kinja, Rollup, and topix.net
By now you've surely heard about Meg Hourihan and Nick Denton's Kinja,
the "public aggregator for the rest ...   more »
View Article  "Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's...
"Topix.net Weblog: The Secret Source of Google's Power" [Daypop Top 40]   more »
View Article  Corporations and taxes
WSJ. More than 60% of corporations did not pay taxes between 1996-2000 (a period when corporate profitability was soaring). ...   more »
View Article  Skype CE
AHHHH YEEEAHHHH!!!

A stripped down version of Skype for Windows CE handhelds (needs a PDA with a wireless connection) is ...   more »
View Article  Reply to Clay (David Weinberger)

This started out as a brief comment on about my article, but Clay is too insightful, so my response ...   more »

View Article  Tinderbox Cookbooks

New on the wiki are several fresh pages of Tinderbox tips, notably Agent Cookbook and Macros Cookbook. For instance, ...   more »

View Article  Dave posts a version history for...

Dave posts a version history for RSS.

[Andrew Grumet's Weblog]   more »
View Article  Topix

Will Cox points out a terrific new (?) news aggregation service:



ResearchBuzz points to Topix.net for local news. It’s the ...   more »
View Article  The Soylent Web

So, what is the Web?



Allensuggests that it's people and not just documents. By the way, Allen's the guy ...   more »

View Article  I need HiveMind

Just come across a newish Jakarta project which looks very interesting. Called HiveMind it is a java services and configuration ...   more »

View Article  Oh man! That's all I can say. Quindi rocks!
Another tool to roll into the "Digial Life Aggregator".

The Anchordesk column this morning covered meeting minders and organizers. ...   more »

View Article  Categorized search results - Vivisimo

Wow! And here I was thinking that I'd just link to this thing Doc liked and POW - it hits ...   more »

View Article  Blue-sky thinking on musiclogging
THIS IS EXACTLY THE IDEA I HAD FOR DJ/BAND SITES! HOW CAN WE CONTRIBUTE AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN?

Here's a ...   more »
View Article  Laszlo is XML technology, not Flash technology
Laszlo has been getting a lot of attention for its product of late, thanks in part to Macromedia' Monday announcement ...   more »
View Article  Rent a Coder, a job site for developers

Ronnie Williams emailed me a recommendation for my friend to check out "RentACoder." If you're looking for work, ...   more »

View Article  Blogware Secret # 539 Revealed

Eric Longman: "...now I realize that I can do the entire site on Blogware, which is VERY COOL....   more »

View Article  Lockin-free demand-based webstream service wanted

Let's say I want to start listening to an Internet radio station, or any kind of webstream (using any codec) ...   more »

View Article  TCP is So Over
Most of us have been hearing rumors about this skunkworks XCP thing for some time, but now they seem to ...   more »