March 2004 - Page 4 of 4 - McGee's Musings

Strange Harmonic Convergence

Although I only took a handful of classes at MIT while I was in graduate school up the Charles river a bit, I did get this one since I frequently walked across the Harvard Bridge and was naturally curious about the markings along the way. Strange harmonic convergence indeed.

Strange Harmonic Convergence. This is a bit of MIT arcana that I expect only some of you will get, but it is something that I did not know that gave me pause today: Unit of measurement elected head of standards board [Via Everything Burns] Oliver Smoot is one of the quintessential pieces of … By furd (mailto:furd@mit.edu). [Furdlog]

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community

Good reference well worth your time.

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community. Sometimes an essay is timeless. That’s an apt description for Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John “Tex” Coate. I met Tex online when Fig-Tex (Cliff Figalo & Tex) ran the WeLL. Tex won the respect of everyone on the WeLL, even the over-the-top rowdies… [Internet Time Blog]

New Gadget Site – Engadget

Not being as disciplined as Ernie, I have both gadget sites in my subscriptions list.

New Gadget Site. Gizmodo’s Peter Rojas has started a gadget weblog of his own called Engadget. I’ve replaced the blogroll link for Gizmodo with a link to Engadget, which will give you some indication of my preference between the two sites…. [Ernie The Attorney]

Virtual Bubble Wrap

For that time during the day when your brain is fried.

This is completely silly and an utter waste of time!.

But I can’t stop playing with Virtual Bubble Wrap (requires Flash). For even more fun, try Manic Mode (make sure your speakers are turned down!

[Marc’s Outlook on Productivity]

Most people can't handle more than a couple hundred feeds

If you’re going to be in the tail of a distribution it helps to be in the tail occupied by interesting folks like Scoble. I certainly don’t entertain plans to surpass his subscription count. I’m hovering around 300 feeds now and that is probably a but beyong my practical capacity.

Most people can’t handle more than a couple hundred feeds. Andrew Grumet has computed the distribution of subscription numbers among Share your OPML participants. Here’s the cumulative graph, which highlights how much of an outlier Robert Scoble is with his (at last count) 1296 subscriptions:

[Seb’s Open Research]

Reinstalling Radio – possible breakage ahead

I’m having some internal software problems with “Radio”. The simplest solution looks to be a reinstall. It’s possible that will lead to some breakage, so I wanted to give both my readers a heads up. I believe that one side-effect of reinstalling is that Radio may choose to republish the entire 2+ years worth of posts here and that might cause some odd trackback pings to long ago posts.