geeked.

Inside the Checkpoint Charlie Museum Originally uploaded by La Stregadelnord.
Wanted for Flickr:
* Contact sets and Group sets so I can start making sense of too many of both. I could make sets of new contacts I want to follow, old timers I want to keep track of, RL friends whose lives I want to keep […]

I dug Netvibes when it first came out, and they’ve recently added a couple of super cool features: a Flickr photos block and a Writely module. This kind of plug-in architecture and service aggregation into a dashboard-like interface is incredibly useful — I’m changing the home page in all the browsers I use regularly (4 […]

So I think Tara Hunt’s post sums up Tagcamp best. I met some rad peeps and generally had an out and out geekfest of a good time.
Unrelatedly, I wanted to mention something about the paucity of my posts on this blog as of late. I’ve been busy, it’s true, but there’s something else — […]

Lots of stuff from the portals of late:
* Yahoo launches Yahoo! podcasts and integrates blog search with news search (as well as tying in Flickr and My Web 2.0 results… yummmmmy search goodness)
* Google adds tagging and goes to Washington.
And in related news, Sergey Brin is an Agent.

What started out as an attempt to simplify Tim O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 meme map turned into this collection of thoughts on Web 2.0.
The irony that there are more categories and tags attached to this post than actual content is not lost on me, btw. Viva, Web 2.0!

OK, here’s the thing with every todo list, every attempt at finely honing that magical GTD system down to fluid rapidity — there are just too many items on the todo list. There always are, there always will be, and it’s only going to get worse. It’s not that I’m not getting things done — […]

Costwalls suck. Come on, NYTimes, WSJ, Nature — you can’t sell content online. Give it up, already! Do we want to educate our kids, or make them pay for fishwrap?
Someone should write a script that scrapes the front pages of sites like the NYTimes while the information is still free, and dumps it into a […]

Since I installed Jerome’s freakin’ awesome keywords plugin I’ve been going back into the archives now and then and tagging a bunch of old posts. The result is turning out to be rather beautifully this tag cloud, which paints a damn fine picture of my core interests since starting this blog. The weighted list magically […]

I just posted this over on the social software weblog as another iterative response to the BlogHer play by the rules or change the game discussion that continues out in the blogosphere, on the topic of the A-lists/Technorati 100/blah blah blah and what the hell they’re good for.

Yahoo and Google are having a pissing contest. If only they had more women engineers to clue them in that size doesn’t matter nearly as much as how frequently you can deliver the best results.

Life is round, and blog search is flat. We’re rightly annoyed at this. Folks are analyzing the structures and talking alternatives. Who will deliver? My money’s on Yahoo, or on some small company we haven’t heard of yet. What do you want to see in a blog search tool?

Nokia announced their new mobile search service today, adding to a growing number of offerings in this space. Here’s a roundup of mobile search services — let me know if you know of others, launched or impending.

What are they trying to do, completely destroy any semblance of productivity? As if there aren’t enough interesting things going on already, thank you very much. When the hell am I supposed to get any work done?
It’s totally and completely random that I happened to stumble onto my own 15 minutes of fame as […]

Okay truly, it’s been building since the acquisition of Flickr. But the rollout of the My Web 2.0 social search service turned my head again. I even went whole hog and started playing with the My Yahoo! portal, which is something that’s always turned me off for one reason or another (usually the UI — […]

All of this metadata and my steady diet of RSS and folksonomy makes me really wish I never had to sleep. Truly, it’s awesome. But what I really want now is a tool or suite of tools that has as its main goal to facilitate *conversation tracking.*
Some blog software and a few sites based […]

I’ve been drilling down through the plentiful discussions on folksonomy, tagging, and controlled vocabularies - oh my! Suffice it to say - there’s a lot going on.
I had drafted a bunch of thoughts on this, none of them complete or eminently grokkable, and then when I saw this post by Joshua Porter, my cognitive restlessness […]

And that disease is the inability to close a browser tab. I try, I really do. But every tab is like a vicious hydra that will not die - every time I go back to close one, it just generates 5 more tabs. Each tab represents a piece of information that I know I need […]

We have decent, usable posting and editing tools. What we need now are refactoring tools to better structure and reorganize our information as things invariably change over time. e.g. on my personal blog I just created a new generic category “technology” because a new post brought to light its glaring omission. But because I just […]

So I’ve only recently begun to refactor email into something more useful than the seething mass of inanity that it had become during my continuing email signal vs. noise saga. I’ve accomplished this by hacking up Gmail into a little ‘productivity suite’ more than loosely based on David Allen’s Getting Things Done book/way of life/growing […]

I’m fed up. I’m fed up with cable soup, I’m fed up with battery life, I’m fed up with proprietary pieces of crap that force the end user to choose between devices instead of enabling devices to communicate with each other in happy harmony.
I want:

My devices to warn me before they’re about to run out […]

I am still hooked on Marc Canter’s concept of the Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Think of it as a local node that lets us have the best of both worlds: the awesome informative and communicative power of the distributed internet, and the centralization/aggregation of those bits of information created by, or most relevant to, an individual […]

Holy taggregation, Batman - this is far out!! It threatens to belong in all of my blog categories…

I’m not a TV fan, and haven’t had a cable subscription since 2000. But lately I’ve been thinking about coming back to the fold, largely due to the advent of TiVo. If I could separate the good stuff out (signal) from the vast quantities of cruft (noise), it might make the extra $20 tacked on […]

1) I would love to be able to classify feeds multiply, to tag them into multiple categories instead of forcing them into a single folder. Then I could keep feeds organized by subject but also by priority, which needs to be flexible because it will be ever-changing. This is the whole problem with folder-based, hierarchical […]