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Friday, October 17, 2003
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy
 9:02:14 PM
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Ellipses begone
Lee LeFever (by the way, Nice Site!): Change your RSS Feed to Include Whole Entries with MT
Recently a reader sent me an email saying he had a wish for me. That
wish was for me to change my RSS feed so that it included whole entries
instead of just an excerpt. Being a user of a news aggregator myself, I
knew exactly what he meant. It bugs me sometimes to have to visit a
site to finish reading an entry. So, I set off to find out how…
If you're running a Movable Type blog and syndicate excerpts only,
please consider doing aggregator readers a favor by syndicating whole
entries.
It's frustrating - especially when offline - to not ...
8:58:21 PM
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Liz has been blogging the Association of Internet Researchers conference. Don't miss.
8:46:55 PM
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Thursday, October 16, 2003
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"I think it's bad to be really well known, because you end up in people's faces whether they like you or not."
3:09:55 PM
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How To: Score Higher in Google Search Engine
by Eric Wolfram. Nice little article. My take-away quote:
Remember, Google was designed by Stanford Graduate students. So your
energies are better spent simply publishing useful information than
attempting to fake out their band of super Googlebots.
2:57:18 PM
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Peter Rukavina: "I can't help taking some perverse joy in the fact that Prince Edward Island is home to two technology conferences in one week."
2:25:51 PM
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Got a bit of clay digging done today. Here's what I brought back.
- Work on Networks. Clay has put together a "highly opinionated" annotated bibliography on the evolution of social network theory.
- Social Software and the Next Big Phase of the Internet.
A 23-page interview that features info on what he did during the
nineties, straight from the horse's mouth. It also contains an insightful passage that I believe
captures the gist of the promise of social software for knowledge
management -- turning (some) tacit into explicit:
We
know things about social life in a very diffuse kind of way, but when
we actually see it, it creates a different kind of effect. So a lot of
what we're seeing in this wave of social software is that enough social
relations have now been made explicit. We're good enough at mining them
that we're able to use social filters to do the kinds of things that
the knowledge management and data-mining people always promised but
could never deliver.
[...] When I get a piece of
information, the social context of that information is in many ways the
single most important thing. Say I get a piece of e-mail that says,
"The sky is falling." Is it from somebody trustworthy, or is it spam?
If it's from somebody I know and they tell me the sky is falling, I'm
going to follow up on that. If it's HGHproducts@hotmail.com, I'm not.
The social wrapper that information comes in is tremendously important.
In many ways, it's more important than the information itself.
1:43:53 PM
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Weblog research links
Lilia is looking for links on weblog research
of the academically endorsed variety. While most of the good writing on
weblogs is to be found on the web itself rather than in academic
publications, more traditional-looking references can come in handy to
those in an academic environment. Here are a couple pointers of mine.
(Most are taken out of my blogroll on the left.)
Websites
People
Stephen Downes, Mark Bernstein, Jill Walker, Torill Mortensen, Cameron Marlow, Jim McGee, Sebastian Fiedler, Sébastien Paquet, Spike Hall, Alex Halavais, Nurul Asyikin, George Siemens, Marysia Milonas, Martin Terre Blanche, Elizabeth Lane Lawley, many BlogTalk attendees.
Academic documents (theses, articles)
Got anything else? Please leave a comment.
7:57:28 AM
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Tuesday, October 14, 2003
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Feynman on self-congratulation
When I was in high school, one of the first honors I got was to be a
member of the Arista - which is a groups of kids who got good grades.
Everybody wanted to be a member of the Arista. And when I got into the
Arista, I discovered that what they did in their meetings was to sit
around to discuss who else was worthy to join this wonderful group that we
are. OK? So we sat around trying to decide who it was who would get to be
allowed in to this Arista. This kind of thing bothers me psychologically
for one or another reason I don't understand myself. Honors, from that day
to this, have always bothered me. I had trouble when I became a member of
the National Academy of Science and I had ultimately to resign because
there was another organization most of whose time was spent in choosing
who was illustrious enough to be allowed to join us in our organization.
...The whole thing was rotten because its purpose was mostly to decide who
could have this honor. OK? I don't like honors.'
7:21:12 PM
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