news aggregator

I have here a picture of what the tags for the Hope Meter project could look like.  As a quick reminder for someone who wandered onto this blog, the idea is that items would be rated according to whether they make the user feel more or less hopeful.  In this case, I have given positive-rated items a blue color and negative ones a red color.  The spectrum of things tagged would in most cases result in some shade of purple, assuming that most pages tagged would be a mixture of positive and negative things.   I think if you look at the example you'll get a better idea of what I am saying.  Please remember that this is only an example and not neccessarily  representative of my personal opinions.   Here's the link for a larger picture: read more

Thoughts on the legal issues associated with using ManyEyes, a wordcloud generator

"doctrine of computational ubiquity some forty years downstream...and frank description of the memex as outboard memory augmentation...Vannevar Bush as belonging properly to the history of ubicomp."

The Web is a very dynamic place. Web pages respond to you. Change for you. And become your pages. Which is great. Iterasi wants you to save those pages.

semantic tagging for objects.

ninja mashups ona n RDF scale from the folks who brought you thingster

Boyd & Elllison. (2007) - Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Very delicious little delicious tool that shows how delicious could be used by website owners to churn users round relevant content within internal sites

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