Gnodal Journal

“Programming Collective Intelligence” (ToC); read online … see write-up at O’Reilly

One slight sample of the ToC:

“The term collaborative filtering was first used by David Goldberg at Xerox PARC in 1992 in a paper called “Using collaborative filtering to weave an information tapestry.” He designed a system called Tapestry that allowed people to annotate documents as either interesting or uninteresting and used this information to filter documents for other people.”

Sounds a lot like what I’ve been calling “group discernment”!

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Also of interest: RoboHelp7 from Adobe

http://dotmocracy.org/

Insteresting: http://www.congoo.com/

Hey, did you notice how FaceBook displays a segment of text when you enter a fully qualified URL into a message?

“The Machine“, by Prof. Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnography

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Ev Williams – invited talk at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Videos for Keynote Presentations; ICWSM Blog

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A note about Google Video and YouTube … 3 blogs? 3 different markups for YouTube. (Mine are LJ, blogger, and WordPress.) It’s a pain in the arse. And now a different markup for google!

If you click the “Blog This” link while at the video site the thing will slip right into your blogger account … using tables, if you can grok that. But for LJ it just posts a JPG linked back to that site. And yes again using tables. *snort*

In his “Breakups are hard to do” (see his What Do I Know“), Todd Dominey gives us a nice peek behind the scenes:

“the road to launch started a year and a half ago. Myself and a handful of other talented people spent months creating presentations and financial projections, developing wireframes, pitching the concept to focus groups, designing mockups, acquiring staff, and of course developing the brand; all with the end goal of acquiring the ‘green light’ from Turner. You see, Super Deluxe wasn’t a directive from above, but rather a concept that had to be sold to the company before it could be started.
We reached that goal early Fall 2006, and immediately followed through with three intense months of development. The site was publicly launched mid-January 2007.
Today, two months later, Super Deluxe is seeing incredible traffic with very little marketing or advertising.”

Nice story … thanks.

Hey, BTW: I took my “The Cool Discipline of Freedom” (a dormant blog) for a walk through blogspot.com’s “Template Update” process and settled on “Scribe“, a design by Todd’s Dominey Design. Nice thing about properly formed XML? It took me about 18.2 seconds to shift the sidebar from left (which I think really sux) to right (which I think is only right and proper. (Now, here’s a quibble: how long do you bet it’ll take me to get the google-geek’s lame-ass Profile “widget” to STOP SHOUTING MY NAME AND ADDRESS. *buncha dummies*)

the blogger code

Don’t know about “geek code”? Then “blogger code” won’t mean a whole lot to you.

Know about “geek code”? heh … I’ll show you mine; you show me yours? *le smurque*

Geek code from ?what? 9 years ago:

G_C v2.1: GTW/P/>CS$ !n !e e e+ e* !n -d+$ H+ !n Y++ a+ po->-+ h>* !n s-:- g+ p3+ !au>— w->+++ v->— C++ P+>++++ E—->— W UB>++++ M- N++ K- t++ R G’>? tv++>– B– u* f- y++++ r r— !n

Blogger code from ?what? 9 minutes ago:

B9 d t+ k++ s u- f+ i+ o+ x+ e l- c–

heh … sometimes it’s nice to leave “discourse ethics” and “participatory deliberation in the context of post-modernist historiography” aside for a moment or 3. *snort*

I blame Hixie for this. You can blame Hixie too, if you want. Or blame someone else. Even me. Whatevuh. heh

Leo Sauermann and his Gnowsis (“the Semantic Desktop environment published by the Knowledge Management Lab of the DFKI. Gnowsis is a reference implementation of parts of the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop framework.”) … and yaa, NEPOMUK.

And Kayuda, a web-based approach to concept-mapping (see the blog and forum) … that’s pretty rich and heady stuff!

What pops up suddenly (from Kayuda’s blog)? Vic Gee’s Mind-Mapping.org, “Vic’s compendium of software that supports knowledge management and information organisation in graphical form. Includes mind mappers, concept mappers, outliners, hierarchical organisers, KM support and knowledge browsers, 2D and 3D.”

No kidding.

First signs of a concept-mapping tsunami?