Apologies for the interruption in service.  This weblog is being redesigned.

I don't think anyone would argue that it didn't need it!

The the real use of categories to my mind is to allow upstreaming to multiple locations.  That way I can have my public weblog (and maybe a salon blog too like Marc Barrot) as well as a number of private klogs.

I would still like to be able to use liveTopics when posting to a private klog, but the topics perhaps should not be shared or, if they are shared, it should be done in an intelligent way.  Specifically each category needs it's own Table of Contents where the URL's to posts are not cross-referenced.

I'll have to figure out how to do this and it probably won't be easy.

Of course a better solution would be for Radio to natively support the idea of mutli-site operations.

The blogging network. Here's a thought: Blogging is different from simple linking, directional or non-directional, for two reasons: firstly, whether one uses blogger and blogthis! or radio with its subscription list and blogrolls, or a personal directory, there is an inherent bias in the initial set, ie, following links is not random, rather its weighted by some initial set of sources. Haveliwala et.al. model topic specific PageRank using a basis set of topics, I wonder how one ought to characterize this bias in the case of the set of favorites, in the sense that links from favorites have a greater weight. Secondly, in blogging we have inclusion of full or part of a page or RSS item, and this can happen recursively in one of the loosely coupled conversations we see. Thus links already in the item reappear and get a larger weight. Such weights can be used to figure out authoritative sources, one would think, from the perspective of each blog.. [TIG's Corner]

» Good item (and thanks to John Robb for leading me to TIG's Corner).  I'm following the Haveliwala reference to a set of papers on PageRanking algorithms.  The math is way beyond me (did I really graduate math?)  but hopefully I can make some sense of it all.

I have a strong interest in topics, and topic mapping as a way of structuring group knowledge.  Haveliwala (a Stanford researcher) has a paper here on PageRanking mechansims that use a bias towards particular topics as a way of vectoring the PageRank toward results more relevant to those topics.  Interesting stuff.

 

Oh, and he called me "Mike the Rebelutionary". Egads! That sounds like some sort of Viking travelling the world and crushing opposition. It's funny how a name that I thought up on a train has 'stuck'.

[rebelutionary]

» And yet, it fits :-)