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
I've been looking at my Bloglines subscriptions and Furl links to ferrit out the meaning behind the categories I use. It's led me to question how I really use this content and the effectiveness of these categories I've chosen. So, what have I come up with? A big mess and no easy answers...but you knew
I've always been a bit fascinated by how people organize their bookmarks. #Geek Anyway, I've noticed that some folks have subscribed to the feed for this site (hello! welcome!) and I couldn't help but wonder what folder my feed would live in. Would I be left hanging in an unordered list? Would I be alphabetized
One of the problems I've been wrestling with at work is how to get a good mix of feeds that are particular to our employees' line of work, and then find a way to deliver those subscriptions so I don't have to set up each and every reader in my company. Today I may have
Well, except me. I've spent some time today working at my new hobby -- blogline subscriber surfing. This is the practice of clicking on the subscriber list in bloglines and checking out what people are subscribed to. Say I was interested in who was also subscribed to The Accidental Hedonist's RSS feed and wanted to
John Battelle has published his predictions for 2005, and he's got some great ideas. I have a few things I'd like to add though I wouldn't classify these as predictions so much as wistful longings/scarey inklings. Ahem. My list for 2005: RFID sewn into clothing hits big when it's paired with a handheld fashion device
The following is a presentation I gave three months ago to my department on emerging web technologies. I've made some inquiries, and very few people have looked at these things much less brought them into daily usage. I think it's an interesting hunk of information, but something is obviously lacking. Thoughts? RSS - Real Simple
I had an fascinating discussion today with one of the company librarians. We were discusssing why Factiva was so popular here and the barriers to making RSS feeds a standard way of receiving news. Our talk came to an interesting conclusion: People don't want to spend time thinking about the quality of the news they
It seems everyone has a list of "blogs of the year" on their sites, and every newspaper and (Times) magazine I read is eager to claim this as the year of the blog. People, you are behind the times! I say it was the year of RSS. RSS completely changed the way I approached the
I'm cleaning up my iPod, and find myself ponder several issues regarding personal music classification. The music industry has saddled me with their obscure terms leaving me mystified as to how to group bands by genre. Really, can someone explain to me the difference between "R&B/Soul" and "R&B" and then tell me which group Seal
