Monthly Archives: August 2005

Attention Streams or The Fire Hose 2

Eric Hayes has a great post on RSS ranking:But that’s only part of the story. What’s missing from the discussion are the specifics of how focusing on Attention can help individuals alleviate some of the enormous demands on our attention by cutting through information overload.

Yahoo! Publisher Network – Please Let me In! 4

Well this has worked before. If I need to get into a Beta program (like YPN) I just beg publicly on my blog.

New Podcast: The Web 2.0 Show 0

There’s a new podcast in the hood called the Web 2.0 show…. Looks like for the first podcast they’ve interviewed Matt Mullenweg.Subscribed…

More Ping-o-matic Alternatives 2

This is interesting.

Random Sampling Blogger Splogs 0

Google Blogoscoped did a random sampling of Blogger and found that a significant percentage were spam gblogs:Marty Kay made an interesting comment in regard to Splots (spam blogs) on Google’s Blogspot.com:“Funniest thing I saw was a bunch of comments on one spam/link site, that was totally irrelevant but pointed to ANOTHER spam site. The spammers are spamming each other.”

Feedback for Abstract Feeds – No Blogroll for You! 3

There are some smart people out there that I want to pay attention to but won’t because they don’t use full-text. I was thinking about the problem with MSM not linking to Kottke and other blogs.

Tags for Files 2

A small comment started me thinking:That, my friend, is what everyone wants right now. Web 2.0 needs Data 2.0!

Rojo Launches Scriptlets (Javascript Blog Includes) 0

Looks like Rojo has launched their scriptlets support.So you want to add some Rojo features to your blog or web site?… Here you will learn how to add some simple scripts to your blog template or web page page that will make some of your Rojo experience available to readers on your site!The official Rojo blog has more:We are very happy to announce Rojo Scriptlets!

DTV – Internet TV on your Mac (via RSS) 0

There’s a nice screencast of DTV which is basically Internet TV for your Mac:A 10 minute screencast demoing the new Beta 2 release of DTV – Internet TV on your MacA brilliant app that uses RSS feeds with enclosures to assemble Video Channels that you can subscribe to and download to your mac…. At least you can watch this screencast to see what you are missing and what you can look forward to!

CNET and MSM Linking Policies 4

Looks like Kottke is upset about a recent CNET story:News.com ruminates about Google building a collection of tools that serve as a replacement OS…. You’re welcome for the story idea and thanks for the non-link, guys…tech journalism at its finest.