Archives for May 2003
On parallels with academic citation networks... (May 28, 2003) As ever when I've written something long and vaguely serious, I can't think of anything to talk about for days afterwards. So to try and break me back into the writing habit, I'm going to talk a bit about the...
Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere... (May 25, 2003) A few days ago a stunningly interesting article was published on Microdoc News called Dynamics of a Blogosphere Story which aimed to look at exactly how a story or discussion moved through weblog space. I've been thinking along similar lines...
Jesus! Won't you people stop for a moment?! (May 23, 2003) Jesus! What's wrong with you people at the moment? I don't have time to talk about all the cool things out there, let alone all the things that just tweak my interest. Damn you for making me linklog. Damn you...
Crème de Webloggia... (May 23, 2003) The last week and a half or so has seen me in fairly odd headspace - I've been pursuing a number of work-related leads, talking to substantial numbers of intriguing people and helping out friends with projects large and small....
Pair.com and MT comments... (May 22, 2003) After a large number of protests from users of this site, I'm going to have to open up my comments-related problems to the floor. But first things first, I want to talk really briefly about pair.com - a hosting organisation...
Highly unoriginal thoughts about mobile devices... (May 21, 2003) Notes from a conversation with Dan Hill pertaining (in particular) to address books on mobile phones. I make no claim to their originality or their novelty. Almost certainly they're on page six of a really well known influential book that...
The End of Days... (May 20, 2003) I've just seen the final episode of Buffy. Here is my initial response: I don't really know what to say, because I've kind of been excited about the whole thing but also kind of dreading it, because it would have...
Is the UK falling behind? (May 18, 2003) Everywhere I look at the moment there are people working in the same areas as me going to conferences and festivals. God I'm jealous. They're going to BlogTalk in Austria or they're going to Digital Genres in Chicago or they're...
The Cat in the Hat... (May 16, 2003) This is essentially a vague attempt to make it look like I'm not the most boring person in the world who only ever writes or thinks about weblogs, social software and work....
How do we find information in the Blogosphere? (May 16, 2003) It has become almost a truism in critical examinations of the Blogosphere to talk about how - with the explosion in weblog numbers - it becomes difficult to find the best insights on any given subject. I first came into...
Remodelling... (May 16, 2003) While I have the opportunity, I'm trying to get a few things done around the site. I've removed the files section of the site (which is where I used to put all my longer pieces) and I've put those posts...
What's happening at UMS... (May 15, 2003) I've just been reading the Media Guardian's piece on uSwitch buying UpMyStreet. Obviously closest to my heart is what they're going to be doing with Conversations, which I think many of us believed was only the beginning of what we...
###Tom For Sale### (May 14, 2003) As many of you know, UpMyStreet.com - the company where I have worked for the last ten months - put itself up for sale a few weeks ago. Many of my co-workers prudently put their CVs online at that time,...
The pure unadulterated Joy of Linkage... (May 13, 2003) For a variety of reasons that I'll go into later in the day, I've not found myself able to post for a good few days now, so I think I'm going to get myself back into the swing of things...
UkBloggers discuss... (May 10, 2003) For anyone out there who is interested in another avenue for the discussion of weblog culture - particularly in the UK - I can particularly recommend the UK Bloggers Discuss list at the moment......
My working definition of social software... (May 8, 2003) A while ago I wrote about a potential definition of social software based around Englebart's theories of augmentation. Shortly before I went to ETCon I was talking about related issues with Will Davies of the iSociety and included (in my...
Steven Pinker and the Perfectibility of Man... (May 8, 2003) There's fragments of a paper in my head. I need to find ways of noting this stuff down that doesn't collide with my writing on this site. It goes back before Clay, to a place of darkness that is somewhere...
The Webb 2000... (May 5, 2003) While we were in San Francisco, my Webb 2000 started to act up a bit. So I did what anyone else would have done, I went to the depot to see if I could get him fixed. Turns out there...
Maxicontent votes... (May 4, 2003) My browsers (both Camino and Safari) are now totally drunk on information. They're so full of tabs and bookmark-bar stored links that they're sluggish and clumsy and unresponsive. So in an attempt to help them back to a semblence of...
On Apple, music & piles... (May 3, 2003) Deep inside Apple's piles The metaphor of piles of documents (that Apple are supposedly integrating into the next version of OSX) seems to me to be one that would work really well in a weblog context as well -...
Shaving's for girls... (May 3, 2003) Shaving your facial hair is, as they say, for girls... And before you start - I do not look like a tramp, and I'm trying to get more sleep......
Andrew Orlowski is a weblogger... (May 3, 2003) So a few days ago William Gibson announced that he was giving up weblogging (at least for the moment) because he had a book to write. Wired talked to him about it: Gibson began his weblog this year in early...
Just look away... (May 2, 2003) This post isn't meant for you people. Just go on - sod off. It's important that I have some kind of record of this stuff for the years ahead when I'm all old and insane and bitter and... Hmm... Sounds...
London from the air... (May 2, 2003) When flying back over London, Webb took this picture with my camera... At the bottom, the Millennium Dome. Towards the top-right, Canary Wharf......
Writing a Hydra Conference Template... (May 2, 2003) During the second-to-last presentation I attended at ETCon, I decided it was about time to try and drag the format of the collective annotations into some kind of order. There's a certain amount of pleasure lost by overly structuring these...
User name epithets... (May 1, 2003) I find the way in which communities self-organise totally fascinating - almost as fascinating as I find those situations where communities fail to self-organise. I always wonder what went wrong?, when really I should be asking what went right in...
The Ugly Wiki? (May 1, 2003) So the rumour is that Wikis are ugly. Lots of people seem to agree and a good few seem to be cheerfully prepared to engage in the debate. And I'm going to put myself on the line here and say...
Apple music catch-up... (May 1, 2003) So a couple of days on since Apple's big music announcement - what's the reaction been like? Here's some of the most interesting hardcore commentary: CNet News Full of interesting insights about how Apple may be pushing Microsoft towards non-proprietary...
