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 Thursday, July 31, 2003
Feedsterlicious !
If you track our Feedster Stats page at all (and yeah its slow to display and I know I need to make a cached version) then you'll see something interesting: 160,000 + feeds now.  That's right. Last night we added every Live Journal user to Feedster which doubled our database size. My hat's definitely tipped to Francois whose crawler architecture happily crawled 1,500,000 posts in 12 hours.  Nice job man! Jon Thompson nicely pointed out to me that while we might have implemented Sherlock support, we made it hard to find. Thanks man. Done! Now its linked to from the home page until it finds a permanent home.
[The FuzzyStuff: Feedster
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American Rhetoric
This site has an amazing collection of speeches. It has both text and audio of real speeches, plus speeches from the movies. [The J-Walk Blog
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New weblog community built around GPS
The Redtail Canyon Geo-Community combines weblogging with an atlas, photo albums, search engine, and travel guide.

The site, created by developers David and Yuko Knight in Tokyo, encourages the publication of weblog entries tied to a particular geographic location by GPS coordinates, such as this item on Aral Sea destruction. Entries can be viewed by navigating maps like this U.S. East Coast view, which become satellite images as you click empty spots to zoom in.

Here's a nice shot of the Castillo De San Marcos in Saint Augustine. [Workbench
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Plastic Balls
addiction alert! Flash alert. (via random abstract) [MetaFilter
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Chris Lydon interviews Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds
[Scripting News
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Knowledge Management as a monster
Ton has a great post on how the genuinely revolutionary brand of knowledge management (KM) might only make its way into organizational culture somewhat covertly, in a bottom-up fashion. His starting point is an article titled "Exorcising monsters: the cultural domestication of new technologies", by technological philosopher Martijntje Smits. Ton says implementing KM-as-it-should-be might actually turn out to involve unlearning the term KM, as well as displacing cultural boundaries.

A must-read, which reminds me of a passage on culture change I blogged back in October, under the title: Shift happens. One person at a time. [Seb's Open Research
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Why RDF Sucks
RDF sucks because its proponents want people to use it directly.  RDF syntaxes has little in themselves except as possible normalized data storage format.  Please don't throw nuts and bolts into people face when they are expecting knobs and buttons. [Don Park's Daily Habit
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Earth and Moon Viewer
You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe. In addition to the Earth, you can also view the Moon from the Earth, Sun, night side, above named formations on the lunar s...[MORE] [The J-Walk Blog
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There is no cheap metadata
In his series of articles on search, Tim Bray explores the value of metadata but also its cost - noting that "There is no cheap metadata." [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs
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Onfocus - Amazon RSS feeds
"Several people have mentioned that it would be nice to show the newest products in the Amazon RSS feeds rather than the top-selling products. There's a quick hack to make this happen." [Scripting News
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