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"So how did yoga class go?" "Fine...until we started poses to work on balance." "Did you fall down?" "No, nothing like that. We were working on this pose called tree..." "Uh, oh." "...yeah, I don't know where they come up with these names. Anyway, the yogi told us to bring our hands over our heads

I know it's possible to scrape a feed for a particular site, but what about scraping a feed consisting of many sites? I ask because I find that when I'm in a hurry, I click on category names in Bloglines and read everything under that category. It made me wonder if I could create category

I've been mulling over the mess that my RSS subscriptions were/are/will ever be and I haven't come to any conclusions about categories and how to consistently apply them to feeds. However, I have been busy renaming the feeds that I subscribe to -- my feeds now begin with the person's name. This reinforces the thought

Sometime ago, Will Richardson of Webblog-ed News was talking about how it may be possible for grade school/high school students to have a complete records of their educational experience -- papers, essays, assignments, etc.-- in one place via the magic of blogs and/or wikis. Students could build on past work and have a collection that

I've pared my Bloglines subscriptions from a high of 154 to 148, and I'm feeling pretty good. There were a few echo-chamber feeds (same info, different person) that needed to go, and I trimmed a few under-producing blogs (sorry, Textism, but you don't write often enough to warrant the space). I also replaced a few

Lou Rosenfeld has his take on folksonomies, referring to them as metadata ecologies. It's a good log on public-driven metadata and the issues surrounding it. *sigh* I was hoping for a nice solution from Lou...but maybe I haven't defined the problem well enough... Anyway, the point I think he makes about Flickr's metadata scheme topping

"How was your holiday?" "Fine. Yours?" "So-so. I had great hair, though." "Really?" "Yeah. Fantastic hair. Too bad it was wasted on New Year's Eve." "Yeah. It's too bad you can't create a holiday when you have great hair." "Like those Tuesday's in February?" "Yeah. I always have great hair on those days." "Me, too."

I came upon a colleague's web site yesterday. He works in a completely different business line and office than I do, so it would seem unlikely that I'd ever see his blog. If it weren't for the fact that I read wide and far on subjects that are completely outside my job description, I wouldn't

Adam Mathes has written an excellent paper, Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata, that describes (in far more elegant and succinct terms) the issues that I've experienced in my quest to categorize my personal information, blogs, links, etc. I am a little wiser and more educated about how to describe my struggles

James Surowiecki posits in The Wisdom of Crowds that "Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant—better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future" and spends 270 pages supporting that theory. I really enjoyed this book. He makes economics interesting -- and how