Saturday, May 11, 2002

Blogging and Related Reading: Exploring the Meta-data Possibilities. "I just finished reading the Salon article mentioned a minute ago, and there's a compelling suggestion in there, one I hadn't thought of: what if, while browsing a site, you could see what other blogs said about that site? Just click a button, and see a list of sites that had pointed to the site you were currently visiting. This ought to send Jenny's mind reeling - it's a kind of massive annotation project. It takes the best of Google, Blogdex and Daypop and rolls them into one. It also transforms blogs from chronological archives to topic-specific commentaries linked by unique URLs. I like it. And here's one for Rory, Ernie and Denise: combine this with Rory's comments from yesterday. When reading a court opinion on a particular topic, I could see what other lawyers had said about this decision, read opinions from other jurisdictions who had linked to it, and even see related commentary by topic. This takes the notion of metadata and exposes it in its most useful form - by establishing connections between related data and distributing it to interested individuals. (This is a bootstrapped version of what West does with their keynote system.) As Neo would say, 'Whoa.' " [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] If I understand all of this correctly (and it's entirely possible that I don't), it's called "backlinking" and I first saw it in action over at diveinotmark. It started with disenchanted, got picked up by Jon Udell, and was implemented by Mark as "further reading on today's posts" at the end of each day's collection. If I was any type of a programmer at all, you would already see this in effect on my site because I am so fascinated by this flow. I am floored by the potential for library blogs. I've never even met Rick and already he knows me! [The Shifted Librarian] 5:58:23 PM    comment []

Another blog piece gonzo">   EPN WorldReporter.com: Top Journalist Weblogs. (I can't believe I didn't know Peter Maass had a blog.) There's a nice annotated list of good blogs, and an invitation for more. Clever headline goes here    I wish I had time to understand Chris Langreiter's AMZNvista , but I don't (I need sleep, bad) so it'll have to stay at the that looks cool stage for now. And it does indeed look cool, so go dig it. Advertising‚Gonzo    Reid Stott has trouble believing advertisers will go for anything so gonzo as underwriting and sponsorship:   Are you charging me for this, because I don't seem to be getting much out of it. So far, I'm hearing that you'll take our money, but we get no banner ads, and no dominant sponsor identification? Just a whole lot of warm fuzzy goodwill? How am I supposed to sell that to my boss?   Well, sure. But other parts of a company very well might. It all depends. Done right, underwriting and sponsorship are acts of corporate heart. Advertising tends to involve other organs. [Doc Searls Weblog] 7:28:17 AM    comment []