Sunday, February 23, 2003

NoteTaker 2003 v1.1 does OPML! I'm not sure NoteTaker is a serious contendor in the weblog editing space, but it certainly looks pretty. NoteTaker 2003 is a very groovy outliner that does lots of cool things like publish to the web, voice annotation and all kinds of other things that I haven't figured out yet. They shipped version 1.1 yesterday. Guess what. It does OPML! I griped about the fact that it didn't do OPML, before when I tried the previous release. Maybe this will be the "missing link" in my personal information management struggle. I've just bought it, installed the contextual menu and will try it out. Will report later after I've used it about, but just wanted people to know that it was out. [Joi Ito's Web] 4:37:05 PM

Long RSS items Are long RSS items rude? More and more people are reading inside of news readers and not bothering to go to the blogs themselves. (My logs show this.) Should we put full text of the blog entry in the RSS feed, even if it's long? It will surely slow your refresh rate. Has anyone written a style guide for RSS feeds? It's a moving target, but I would be interested to hear about how readers and writers are designing their RSS feeds. Obviously, the people who are reading this in their RSS readers are going to have to get up off their butts and click on my blog to comment... ;-) [Joi Ito's Web] YES! And I also want the ability to notify you when I post this item to my blog in response to your blog from within my desktop news aggregator of choice (NNW)! 3:50:25 PM

Weblog Content Cycle As I've been sorting out the various business opportunities dealing with weblogs, I've come to the following general categorizations. First, people consume weblogs, either by visiting web pages in a browser, or reading weblog entries in a news aggregator. Next, some people create new weblog content, either by commenting on other people's weblogs, or by writing new entries on their own weblog. Third, weblogs are distributed to other consumers thru a number of means, including the relatively new RSS syndication format. Within each category, there are key features and benefits that could be addressed by number of products. I'll be talking more about this graphic as we move forward. 3:09:11 PM

Bayesian filter tests? there might be a way to test the use of bayesian filters on weblogs. there's a product available on Mac OS called SpamSeive which interacts with various email clients to identify and process spam email. it does this integration via AppleEvents. I wonder if I can write an AppeScript that pulls all the items from NetNewsWire to populate the corpus in SpamSeive? Perhaps I'd first start by processing just the items in my weblog, to mark them as "good"... 11:58:18 AM

Open Source Bayesian Filter Projects The concept of bayesian filters is really hot right now, as the latest tool to fight spam. There are several open source bayesian filter libraries becoming available: bogofilter - fast bayesian spam filter bayesian mail filter trigram-based categorization tools libbayes - Java bayesian library bayes++ - C++ class library for bayesian filtering There's also some interest in the more general uses of bayesian filters, such as in the Chandler project. But, I have yet to find anyone talking about using Bayesian filters as a way to analyize weblogs and find related blog entries in other weblogs. How would this work? What would it look like? 11:35:02 AM

BloggerJack.com wierd to see someone use the term bloggerjack in their weblog, I honestly thought I had coined the term when I registered the domain name! BloggerJack.com - Tools for Power Bloggers Coming Soon! 10:42:44 AM

Interview: Ranchero's Brent Simmons [MacSlash] Nice idea, but it would be even better if they added an RSS feed for this particular topic, so that I could follow the "interview" in my aggregator! 10:34:32 AM