Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Social Capital of Blogspace - Ross Mayfield. Ross provides an improved picture of the Ecosystem of Networks and ties in the idea of Social Capital. By Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com. [Joi Ito's Web] 7:34:56 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Source: ShowUsYour-Blog!; 4/9/2003; 9:15:48 AM Design guide for documents. Stumbled across a nice guide for designing, layout and stylizing documents: http://www.cmq.com.au/features/article.asp?article_id=583 I'm always interested in reading this sort of stuff as, from an end user perspective, it's probably the most important part. I'd love to see an equally easy to read, bullet-point guide for creating useable WindowsForms interfaces; is there one? [ShowUsYour-Blog!] 7:27:44 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Source: The Scobleizer Weblog; 4/9/2003; 8:42:17 AM My friend Christopher says "ahh, nice points. But I think that's still elitest and too internal." Well, true, but I find that my life is more interesting when I hang around folks who are trying to do things with their lives. Oh, and I didn't make the point that you need to be someone famous to be "lit" either. I know some engineers at Microsoft and Apple. You'll never hear their names. But they are seriously "lit" people. They are interesting to be around, interesting to talk to, and they create things that change the world for the better. I've had big audiences, and yes, they are nice for some things, but for my hobby (remember, this weblog is not my career) I would rather have a micro audience. A small audience that's focused on a few things. I look at the past week. I had a guy from SAP ramble by here. I had John Dvorak ramble by here. I had Chris Pirillo ramble by here. Gnome Girl. Geeky Chick. Marc Canter. Dave Winer. And tons of other very interesting people (just check out my comments). I don't have an audience of millions of people like CNN does. But that doesn't mean that weblogging isn't successful. Many webloggers think they are gonna put CNN out of business. I just don't see it. But, I do bet that CNN's journalists and managers will soon start reading weblogs, if they haven't already. Anil Dash says "we're all celebrities now." Um, no we aren't. I sure am not. Yeah, I'm known in a certain subset of the technology subculture, but I sure am not, say, Sean Connery. Personally, not everyone WANTS to be seen by the general public. You might, for instance, start a weblog for ONLY your family. Let's see, in my family I only have about 50 members. Is my weblog successful if those 50 people are the only ones who read my weblog? Sure it is! Personally, this whole world worries too much about quantity, and not enough about quality. Give me a small audience, please! Even if it ends up being just my mom. [The Scobleizer Weblog] 10:14:57 AM    trackback []     Articulate []

Source: The Scobleizer Weblog; 4/9/2003; 8:42:18 AM I spent a lot of time talking with Scott over at Feedster.com tonight. If Google or MSN or Yahoo were smart, they'd buy him right now before he gets too expensive. He groks human relationships and I bet that his search engine will -- within a year -- be as important to me as Google is now. For those of you who don't understand what's special about Feedster, it's a search engine that looks only at RSS/XML feeds, not HTML. Why is that important? Well, most weblogs are published via RSS. RSS is where much of the innovation in publishing technology is going on right now. Did anyone miss that there were two or three new RSS news aggregators released in the past 80 hours? [The Scobleizer Weblog] 9:57:37 AM    trackback []     Articulate []