Saturday, February 22, 2003

I Just Don't Get the Appeal of Outlines... Like, what is this shit anyway? Outlines are HIERARCHICAL . They are Old Media and Old News. Hypertext and hypermedia subvert hierarchies. So why would we want to reinscribe hierarchy after having just broken free of them with this hyperlinked version of old Vannevar Bush's Memex machine? Old Vannevar had no truck with hierarchies. Well, in his Memex machine, at least. He found they inhibited the exchange of scientific information that should be associationally linked instead. Then you can take a look at Alvin Toffler in PowerShift. Not exactly a guy I think that highly of, but that book popularized a lot of anti-hierarchical ideas, such as the idea of a Flexfirm that undermines the hierarchy of the org chart and bypasses what he calls "smokestack era" gatekeepers and turf guardians. Nah, I just don't figure where all this love affair with outlines is going, but that the folks at Radio/Manila made a toy for outlining, and all the good little bandwagon folks piled on without thinking about the relationship of outlines to hierarchical structures, structures that are oppressive and most definitely do not fit the interactive associational linking structures of New Media. Miasma living with outlines. Like Russ, I too live in a world of outlines.   The built-in outliner in Radio UserLand has a lot to offer, including timestamps and weblog integration.   Weblogs are rendered outlines from how I look at 'em. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 2:42:29 AM    Comment [] Hmm, ideaForest. Manila site on Apple Servers ideaForest only costs $6 a month for a hosted Manila site.  Note: this is also an ISP that uses OSX on their servers, so if you want end to end Apple, and blazingly fast servers, this is the place to go. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 2:28:42 AM    Comment [] Slashdot: Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act Slashdot | Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act. Skyshadow writes "Vermont Bookseller Bear Pond Books has announced that they will purge their sales records at the request of customers . This would effectively sidestep typically insideous a provision of the PATRIOT Act which allows government agencies to secretly seize sales records. The store's co-owner, Michael Katzenberg, put it this way: 'When the CIA comes and asks what you've read because they're suspicious of you, we can't tell them because we don't have it... That's just a basic right, to be able to read what you want without fear that somebody is looking over your shoulder to see what you're reading.' Now if only certain other booksellers would show that same conscience, we might have something here." [Privacy Digest] 1:27:06 AM    Comment [] ROFLMAO! I'm loving this I'm LOVING this! Homeland Security Alerts now with extra subtext.  Wacky Neighbor interprets Homeland Security Alerts. via Boing Boing via Michael. [a klog apart propagandart]   [a klog apart] 12:51:09 AM    Comment [] a klog apart speculates on the need for searching in klogs behind firewalls One key misstep in this argument, altho I haven't tested it yet. Moveable Type now comes with a search feature. Does it work behind firewalls? Hmmm. I don't know enough about how the MT search utility works. Miasma Google Pyramaniacs Pry Open Enterprise Sales.. Why did Google buy Pyra Labs? "Klogging". Watch for their Google Search Appliance to come bundled with a version of the Blogger Pro server. Search, or the lack of it, holds back intranet blogging. When everyone uses Google to search the universe, you expect blogs inside the firewall to show up too. But they don't. Unless your Google Appliance crawls them. This is the Lotus Notes killer. A harsh stab at the next Microsoft Office's collaboration tools. When everyone is writing in to their blog, and content is immediately available, why do you need this other stuff? What's left to complete the picture? Two things: RSS push to the Google search crawler. A converged microcontent client. Who's going to buy? The military and security complexes. Big business, especially those who with a human capital self image. Civil government: cities, states, public service agencies, larger not-for-profits. Why buy Pyra? Klogging creates searchable, linked content, and that sells appliances. Further reading: Anil Dash's microcontent client: searching, aggregation, and authoring. Blogging things besides text: From .blog to converged client: support many types of microcontent. Multi-payload klogging: a world of content.  What is Mediablog literacy?  Gonzo Marketing in my own words, after a few drinks. Where the intranet bleeds to the extranet. Management concerns: Are klogs and klognets adhocracy enablers?  Project Management as Journalism: intranet blogging for project collaboration.  Does blogging get you laid? Judging social effects. Where klogging meets moblogging - Part 1, Part 2. [a klog apart] 12:28:54 AM    Comment [] Cheney Hates Parody of Wife; White House Lawyers Threaten Website Cheney Hates Parody of Wife; White House Lawyers Threaten Website. Dick Cheney, apparently not busy enough planning a war and handing energy policy over to his pals in Big Oil,... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Dick Cheney, apparently not busy enough planning a war and handing energy policy over to his pals in Big Oil, is upset at a Web parody about his wife (a public figure of some renown). So government lawyers, on the taxpayers' dime, have sent the site a letter asking for "adjustments in the content" of the site. Maybe what needs adjusting is Cheney's knowledge of civics, assuming he's ever read the First Amendment to the Constitution. 12:16:31 AM    Comment [] So, is Accenture (who did they used to be--Is this Andersen Consulting?) EVIL? "PC Magazine" - A Watchful Assistant Raises Privacy Concerns. It is always on, passively listening. The Personal Awareness Assistant prototype from consulting firm Accenture has a speech recognition engine, two small microphones, a small camera and a scrolling audio buffer. But it's more than a recording system. For example, if a user meets someone new and says "it's nice to meet you," the Assistant takes a low-resolution picture of the person being greeted and then, when that person responds, records the name, storing the dated and time-stamped information in an address book. [Privacy Digest] 12:11:31 AM    Comment []

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