Radio Bump

Friday, October 11, 2002

On a related note to the post below, I think that, due to the community aspects of blogging, it would be possible to write a piece of software that generated conversations that could occur between various bloggers when they meet and talk. Not that bloggers as a group are limited in topics of discussion, but that, knowing a particular blogger, and their daily surf lists it is possible to figure out both their general interests are and what their inputs have been over the last few days. You could use a pattern algorithm to then match the inputs and interests between the group, and probably accurately predict what the topics of conversation would be. This comes from having the sorts of conversations that I expected to have with Todd and Nathan.
4:42:45 PM

The Flash Turntable that Todd put up today is cool, and he was telling Nathan and I about it at dinner last night. The complexity of it is far deeper than you might imagine, it accurately tracks where the needle should be based on the length of the track.
4:24:36 PM

I will be attending the Fusebox Developers Conference and Macromedia DevCon 2002 October 26-30 in Orlando and blogging, of course, both here and over at cfblog.
12:39:34 PM

Sadly, I cannot count eating soup as one of the things that I do gracefully.
12:24:34 PM

Last night, I went to our monthly Interactive Media Alliance meeting, which featured three members of the Cartoon Network Web Team based out of Atlanta. They talked about their site, team, community, and process. It was interesting to hear them talk about their redesign that launched over the summer, how they are building community through the use of their Orbit system, and especially the animation process they go through to get hand drawn animation into Flash. The one single thing that struck me is how much careful planning seemed go to into their community development. They even enlisted the help of an economics professor to help them design their "points" system. Unfortunately, there was no Samurai Jack swag to be had.
10:59:24 AM

Some people I like a lot, others, not so much.
10:53:30 AM