BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I feel it it my bones: 2003 will be the Year of Linking Dangerously. It will be the year that we reject page ranks and popularity-based ‘s/he with the most links bubbles to the top of the heap’ skimmers. It’s in the air. It’s viral. It’s contagious. Hold your breath or […]
I’m firing on all (one) cylinder today. Sam Ruby references a citation at Simon Willison, who quotes Tantek: “…we now have Trackback and Pingback to help automate generating comment hyperlinks to blog-on-blog commentary. While I certainly applaud these efforts at automating the plumbing, I must ask – why is there any distinction in the presentation? I ask […]
A discussion broke out at Sam Ruby’s talks about weblog popularity. In particular, Jim Winstead wrote: The navel-gazing among some webloggers is pretty monumental, and systems like technorati, blogdex, and popdex reflect that. I agree with Jim. As I mentioned in my own post, Third Generation of Weblogging, following an analogy of human growth to weblogging generations, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today I tackled the ontology sections of the RDF book, which left me feeling a little bit as if ants are crawling up my spine. Time for a little break, and a little weblogging. I’ve been in an email chit-chat with Clay Shirky about online debates and weblogging. As with others in […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea Salo isn’t blogging much today due to a house cleaning frenzy brought on by a photographer coming from the Chicago Tribute to photograph David because he’s being interviewed on Professor Tolkien’s eleventy-one birthday (David is the Elvish expert in the LOTR movies.) Well, as non-blogging excuses go, this has got […]