A Different Way Of Looking At Blogs. On the SIGIA-L mailing list, Peter Van Dijck pointed to something very cool.

"Tanya Pixelcharmer's weblog as viewed through Facetmap: http://facetmap.com/demo/browse.jsp?map=pixelcharmer. Tanya exported her metadata as XFML (http://xfml.org) using a template in Moveabletype, and imported it in facetmap."

I'm still wrapping my mind around this one, but it's an interesting alternative view of a blog. Kind of a cross between liveTopics and Yahoo with more format options.

[The Shifted Librarian]

º Radio users (with liveTopics) get to play too:

http://facetmap.com/demo/browse.jsp?map=curiouserandcuriouser

is a recent copy of my Radio weblog exported to XFML.  At the moment liveTopics aren't hierarchical so they all appear as a big glob, but I'm working on this.

At the moment I define two facets that you can browse in.  The first, liveTopics, is all the topics I have manually added to my posts.  The second, Date of Publication, is automatically generated by the exporter.  I'll be adding other facets as I go (suggestions welcomed).

[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Tanya's facets are Date, Topic, Process, and Format. Date and Format are easy to understand; the other two seem more arbitrary. The coming challenge will be either to find a magical way of making sense of other people's facets, or progressively establishing agreement on standards (presumably through competition).

Topics of discussion: 1)Library Modules, Exp 3, VL, WebCT for TAs.

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http://www.downes.ca/archive/02/04_15_news_OLDaily.htm

http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&key=1034188482&format=full

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Cell Biology Education journal (from Joanne)

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Just how much greenhouse gas do I produce? I think I will challenge my friend in the burbs to compare!

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