Wednesday, January 29, 2003

What is bigger than a blog?. Mike Wilson rants from his pulpit at The Universal Church of Cosmic Uncertainty. The sermon: 24 things he wants from his blog desktop. He wants it to be a fat client so he gets local storage, integration with other desktop apps and voice mail, tickers. A few quotes: 4. To use a blog ... for a personal desktop heads-up-display console from which I work at all times. 5. A contact-management system that would make Harvey MacKay faint from information overload. 19. Built-in mind-mapping and diagramming toolkits for charting ideas and representing them textually once the "virtual whiteboarding" session is done. (Not to mention the automated post-session analysis and discovery phase designed to extrapolate on behalf of the participants.) A great wishlist. Thinking really big. And he's gonna build it. Want to help? [a klog apart] 8:44:53 AM

Auto-content. Why does this cite-link-quote ("hit-and-run") style of weblogging need to be a manual process at all? Why can't I just click an "auto-content" button and have my software automatically generate a list of, say, a dozen interesting links and quotes culled from my aggregator subscriptions, "neighboring" sites, sites discussing the hot topics of the day, and mainstream articles reporting on a small hard-coded list of additional topics? (678 words) [dive into mark] 8:31:22 AM

Weblogs and IM. A good discussion on Dave's blog on the connection between Instant Messaging and Weblogs. See the comments link. I do... [E M E R G I C . o r g] 8:30:30 AM