Saturday, February 07, 2004

It's broke...fix it. Dave Pollard on the fatal flaws of first generation Social Networking sites and tools. They're built with a pre-designed, set content architecture, and centrally-stored content, instead of harvesting content that individual users already have stored, in different ways of their own choosing, on their own machines. They're being populated just-in-case, with all kinds of content that people with lots of time on their hands see fit to contribute, and no content from the very busy or technologically illiterate, rather than just-in-time, with content being accumulated only if and when there's a demand and need for it. They're badly over-engineered, ranging in complexity from challenging to intimidating, so they take a lot of time, energy and intelligence to understand and use properly, and hence drive most potential users away. [The Social Software Weblog] 5:56:26 AM  comment []  Trackback []     Klem is a former colleague of mine at Muhlenberg College. Good man - been working on this issue for years. Killer on the loose. AP: Glass windows an 'indiscriminate' bird killer ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) - Daniel Klem Jr. cradles a small, dead bird with chestnut-mottled wings, another victim of what he says is a largely unrecognized environmental hazard that kills birds in flight. The... [Amish Tech Support] 5:55:26 AM  comment []  Trackback []     So This Is a Cooking Class?. The freshest and most instructive cooking classes are private ones offered by young chefs who have opted out of the restaurant industry to teach in students' home kitchens. By Julia Moskin. [New York Times: Education] 5:54:26 AM  comment []  Trackback []     qotd febuary 6 2004. Christopher Morley: "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 5:30:56 AM  comment []  Trackback []

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