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categorically speaking

susan mernit has taken an adequate stab at blogger author classification. of course, blog tools merely facilitate the act of publishing the range of human expression, so it would seem a bit simplistic to stop at 8 categories, but i guess you've got to start somewhere. there's also enough overlap between categories that the power of categorical analysis is diminished.

there must be a more rigorous precedent for this sort of thing in the librarian crowd. i'll bet jenny has some thoughts.

10/7/2003 10:48:14 PM

the lesson that everyone learns the hard way

admittedly, it's a minor thing what with everything else going on in the world. but somehow that doesn't make it any easier that a year ago i took harper to the vet and he didn't come back. if you're a dog person you'll understand.

10/7/2003 10:28:06 PM

yahoo, keywords and rss - together at last.

perfect news for the information junkie in your life. yahoo is rolling out news search via rss.

10/7/2003 07:58:56 PM

voip service provider comparison

watch your head as i lob this Comparison of Features and Rates of Current U.S.-based VoIP providers into the ol' annotated bookmark bin. [ via hack the planet ]

10/6/2003 11:21:50 PM

Free Expired Domain Name List

hey you can start your own "available domain name of the week" service by perusing the "Free Expired Domain Name List" . what luck! aboutcrotch.com, excitingnewsex.com and planetsteak.com are just a few of the newly available domains. [ via decafbad ]

10/5/2003 10:09:04 PM

In-Browser Editing

Mozile: What You See is What You Edit:

"Mozile, which stands for Mozilla Inline Editor, is a new Mozilla plug-in for in-browser editing. This article provides an overview of Mozile and what in-browser editing means today."

10/5/2003 12:47:12 PM

adsense nonsense

don't let lawyers make business decisions.

lawyers clarify the legal implications of business decision made by the business decision makers. how can you tell that the business decision makers are taking the easy way out and letting the lawyers run the show? one good sign is when wierd stuff starts to appear in things like "terms of service" or "acceptable use" contracts. unfortunately, as russel beattie points out, it looks like the lawyers are playing games with the 'terms and conditions' of google's adsense program. most laughable is term 17, which prevents you from criticizing the the terms of agreement. i wonder if technorati is in violation for linking to people who are criticizing the terms and conditions.

clearly, this this stupidity is bad for business. even though i recently qualified for the adsense program, i won't be participating. and while that might not be a bid deal for ex machina, where the ads wouldn't work anyway, the {bio, medical} informatics section gets a fair amount of traffic from people in life sciences labs who make purchasing decisions. so they won't be seeing adsense ads and buying stuff from adsense advertisers until the terms and conditions are changed to be less draconian and there's a more transparency in the payment process.

don't let lawyers make business decisions.

10/4/2003 12:47:10 PM

blogging the works at BloggingWorks

i'm at BloggingWorks which is put on by the fine folks at coudal partners and 37signals. right now, jason from 37signals and jim coudal are tag teaming on their presentation. i have to say, they are running through a load of business-related blogs that i didn't know existed.

anil is here representing typepad [ with brenna from typepad, but i don't have an url for her ].

how'd i sneak in the door? facefive is providing wireless. we worked with jason and jim to provide a tasteful splashpage that wireless users will see when they access the network.

10/3/2003 10:54:20 AM

technorati crosses the million weblogs watched milestone

congratulation are in order for dave sifry. technorati passed the "million weblogs watched milestone" recently. amazingly, dave claims that, "... a new weblog is being created approximately every 12 seconds."

10/1/2003 08:05:06 PM

on mailbucket and crossing communication-mode boundaries

mailbucket is an interesting attempt at "crossing communication-mode boundaries" as jon udell so aptly put it . jon also did a nice job of pointing out the primary flaws in the current incarnation - namely the lack of any way to limit the ability to spam a "topic". i suppose one could quickly put together a system that limits posts to subscribers of a particular topic. and i guess it wouldn't be too long before you found yourself reinventing a mailling list manager.

looking through the mailbucket technorati linkage i discovered that chris is ruminating connecting mailbucket with era , which monitors rss feeds and then emails you any changes. how long before some wiseacre sets era to monitor and email a mailbucket topic on changes to that topic, thusly initiating an endless loop of emailing madness.

not that i would do anything like that.

9/30/2003 07:43:38 PM