Help me decide what to write about...
I have an almost impossible amount of stuff to do this weekend, and a good block of them involve writing things for this site, and it's already eight o'clock on Saturday evening. I don't know where the time goes. I want to talk about my trip into the heart of government a week and a half ago (Andy Budd wrote a lot about it) and I want to talk about going to Our Social World a week ago and what I thought of that. And I want to put the presentations I did at each of them online in some form. I also want to remind people to get their ETech proposals in by Monday. That one's very very important. There's another post I really want to write about Microformats, and yet more about replacing controlled vocabularies with URL clouds, using pre-existing semantic structures to navigate around tagged content, and conceptual page-rank following on from Mr Biddulph's post from the other day. And I have about a billion links to post - in varying levels of detail. And there's at least one really big thing that I need to talk about that I'm not quite ready for yet. Oh and I really want to talk about the web-like qualities of Guardian redesign as well.
I genuinely have no idea where to start. I feel like I need a month off work to get everything out of my head and somewhere more useful. So in the absence of any discrimination from my side, and with absolutely no commitment from my side to actually write about any of the things above, what would be most interesting to you guys? I don't really agree with the idea of a weblog having an audience, but I do believe in the idea of it being my voice in a community of peers. So what do you want to hear about?
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I want to hear about replacing controlled vocabularies with URL clouds, using pre-existing semantic structures to navigate around tagged content, and conceptual page-rank personally.
→ Posted by: Simon Willison at September 17, 2005 8:43 PM
I'll go for... microformats!
→ Posted by: Andy Hume at September 17, 2005 8:50 PM
Write about the new guardian design, give me an excuse not to, because I'm far too busy ;)
→ Posted by: stuart Frisby at September 17, 2005 9:06 PM
Our Social World would do me, but perhaps I'm a bit biased!
→ Posted by: Hanni at September 17, 2005 9:31 PM
Mind you, I haven't written about it myself yet so that's hardly fair.
→ Posted by: Hanni at September 17, 2005 9:32 PM
Write about the new guardian redesign, and its web qualities. Boy, have the other newspapers got some catching up to do now..
PS.. buy the guardian on thursday and get a really good technology section. It covers all the things you'd usually find online, plus a whole lot more, its really great.
→ Posted by: Ben Spicer at September 17, 2005 9:33 PM
Ooh, I'd like to hear about Our Social World.
→ Posted by: Ava at September 17, 2005 10:34 PM
Hm.. Oh great, almost no commonalities whatsoever so far!
→ Posted by: Tom Coates at September 17, 2005 10:45 PM
I vote for ... "microformats".
→ Posted by: paolo at September 17, 2005 11:01 PM
I'd like to hear about your love life.
→ Posted by: Derek at September 17, 2005 11:16 PM
OSW, the Guardian and URL clouds, in that order. (And I was interested - and puzzled, to be honest - by the way Shelley Powers' comment on OSW got under your skin, but maybe it's not time to write about that.)
→ Posted by: Phil at September 18, 2005 12:11 AM
Blogging and politics, I'm afraid. Web-like qualities of the Guardian - well, I noticed that too and am perfectly content in my own ability to comment on a home page driving the reader further into the publication rather than placing it all above the fold, and that as you shrink page size, you have to more aggressively direct the reader, etc etc etc. Our Social World: not so interested in "another blogging conference" but have no doubt whatsoever you'll have some interesting stuff to say on the experience.
Microformats and controlled vocabularies: would be very very interested to read more, if only to act as guidance. Etcon: don't worry, hadn't forgotten, am in the midst of writing something up.
But blogging and poltiics crosses over with "work" in important ways, and I've read Andy's side of things so would be most interested to see yours. And your PDF of your Keynote slides.
I suspect I am in a minority.
→ Posted by: tom (not Coates) at September 18, 2005 12:46 AM
You should write more about your exploits in Halo 2, except that would involve playing Halo 2 more often. :)
→ Posted by: Patrick at September 18, 2005 4:36 AM
I'd like to hear your thoughts on the Guardian's new look. Cheers.
→ Posted by: pieman at September 18, 2005 6:55 AM
less googling for arse and more about bbc ;-)
→ Posted by: lolorette at September 18, 2005 7:41 AM
Personal to TC - ignore previous; just checked other mailbox. Still puzzled but on higher level, etc.
→ Posted by: Phil at September 18, 2005 10:04 AM
Please bring us your thoughts on page ranking.
→ Posted by: Simon at September 18, 2005 10:40 AM
Write about your trip into the heart of Government, because it sounds interesting and a little bit different, but mostly because I was there and I want the chance to be offended that you do not remember my insightful questions and/or inane badgering.
→ Posted by: Chris at September 18, 2005 2:03 PM
I would like to hear about replacing controlled vocabularies with URL clouds, using pre-existing semantic structures to navigate around tagged content, and conceptual page-rank. These topics seem to be shaking a lot of people up on the web at the moment.
→ Posted by: james at September 19, 2005 2:53 AM
My vote goes to "using pre-existing semantic structures to navigate around tagged content" - because it's a lot on my mind too, lately. Have you read David Weinberger's post?
→ Posted by: Kars at September 19, 2005 8:37 AM
...aaand it's Monday. Oh well.
Haven't blogged in weeks, myself. Anyone interested in a participant's account of the Association for Survey Computing's "Maximising Data Value" conference?
→ Posted by: Phil at September 19, 2005 11:16 AM
Microformats, please... and URL clouds.
→ Posted by: JS at September 19, 2005 3:28 PM
Microformats, then theguardian. What would you like me to write about? (Just trying to get some discussion going. On second thoughts though, you can probably do without having more to do.)
→ Posted by: Paul Morriss at September 19, 2005 4:30 PM
They all sound fascinating so I want to hear them all. If in doubt, just do them in chronological order.
→ Posted by: Andy Budd at September 24, 2005 10:35 AM