February 28, 2006 – 5:00 pm
God, Maui is beautiful, isn’t it? I took this picture on Keawakapu Beach at midday yesterday when I decided to go to the beach instead of writing a blog post. In one month I am moving with my husband, three kids, and dog to Denver. My priorities now are making a smooth transition for my […]
February 21, 2006 – 4:14 pm
Adam at Darwinian Web is calling for a memetracker community in the form of a group blog authored by memetracker developers. I definitely want to understand better how the memetrackers work and why they often don’t work, as in the case of many domains that interest me. But what I want even more than an […]
February 18, 2006 – 7:50 pm
A couple weeks ago—a lifetime, in blog time—I noted an article by 37 Signals’ Jason Fried claiming that functional specifications were no longer necessary or desirable:
Functional specifications documents lead to an illusion of agreement. A bunch of people agreeing on paragraphs of text is not real agreement. Everyone is reading the same thing, but they’re […]
February 17, 2006 – 1:19 pm
Adam Green questions the prevailing wisdom that a reading list should include less than ten blogs. I can see uses for both, but I’m far more excited about big reading lists right now.
Small reading lists match the current news reading paradigm, exemplified by the three-panel browsers and river-of-news displays. But big lists, lists with 100 […]
February 15, 2006 – 1:01 pm
After publishing my rejection of the personalized meme tracking approach, I thought that the following question might come up: if you want a momblog meme tracker or any other type of vertical, domain-specific meme tracker, why don’t you build it yourself? I’ve thought about building it myself and have put together some of the […]
February 15, 2006 – 12:15 pm
Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web reports that two people who ought to know (Gabe Rivera and Nic Cubrilovic) think that “personal meme trackers” aren’t possible with current technology.
To me, it’s irrelevant whether they’re technologically feasible or not. Call me nutty, but I don’t want a page of news personalized only for me. I can just […]
February 8, 2006 – 10:11 am
Adam Green calls James Corbett’s Web 3.0 wonderings “snark bait.” Here’s some more chum—bring on the snarks. I’ve been thinking about what Web 3.0 will bring for two months now. Two months ago I came back to tech after a five-year stop out and realized that the Web had shifted paradigms while I was changing […]
February 2, 2006 – 1:34 pm
Mary Hodder’s new online video aggregation service Dabble is launching its balpha (that’s not quite beta but beyond alpha) next week. Om Malik, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine, reviewed the service this morning. I’m most interested in the service’s video playlists capability, where users will be able to package different videos together in something […]
February 1, 2006 – 7:57 pm
This is not boring: finding a woman who blogs about tech and a great quote from her husband at the same time. First the quote, from Sun’s Tim Bray via Stephen O’Grady:
What’s Not Boring? · Cellphones aren’t boring (of all the J2*E’s, I like one with ‘M’ the best). Open Source isn’t boring. Dynamic […]
