Updated: 12/2/05; 3:46:43 PM

 Monday, November 21, 2005
You Got Your Peanut Butter in My Chocolate - Web 2.0 Style!
Jeff's Tips
So if you are under 30 years of age, this title means absolutely nothing to you, however in the 1980's it was a clever marketing campaign for recess peanut butter cups which took two individual components which were great by themselves and combined them together to create something totally new.

But in the remix culture of Web 2.0, if something is cool by itself, let's see how much cooler it might be if we mix two things together and create something all together new. Today's entry is to introduce you to just such an experiment.

If you get any of your tech news from the web, (and who does not these days) - then Slashdot needs no introduction. In addition, although still in beta, Del.icio.us has grown from obscurity to having a loyal following (yours truly included) in a very short amount of time, with the final site being the truly innovative Tech news site Digg.com which quickly became my default home page since it's debut earlier this year.

Now all three of these sites have their relative strengths but one of their commonalities is their reliance on the contributions of others to make their content really come to life. So what could make these sites better? That was the question asked by FrozenBear and the answer he came up with is Digg Dot Us - a literal combination of all three sites. Because of the underlying enabling technologies that these sites were developed with, it becomes possible for a third party like FB to come in and literally mix and match the sites into something truly unique. While the jury is still out on its usefulness, I at least wanted to make you aware of it's existence for your own experimenting.

10:24:18 PM    
When SysAdmin's Ruled the Earth - the Podcast
images.jpg From Cory Doctrow:

I've started my next podcasting series of fiction-in-progress. This time I'm reading "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," a new story about an apocalypse that arrives on the heels of a catastrophic Internet worm. When the trump sounds, the world's systems administrators are all in their sealed data-centers, and so they survive the carnage.

Published as a series of podcasts which can be found here.

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