Feeds of Feeds vs. Individual Feeds
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).
Let Organization Stand on Its Own?
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
Great Holidays for Great Hair
"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
“Waiting for someone to tap me on the shoulder…”
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
Nice Summation of My Classification Problem
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
The Wisdom of Crowds
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
