Congratulations to Ross and his new VP of Busines Development Rick Klau.
Socialtext in the Economist. Socialtext recieved some great coverage in The Economist. The article is available for single item purchase, but heck, subscribe to the magazine so you can access why technologies succeed as well. Here is an excerpt: …Ross Mayfield, the founder of… [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
Mark your calendars and pray for clear skies.
Late this month, the planets will put on a show for you. From March 25 to 30, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter will be visible to the naked eye. [Christian Science Monitor | Sci/Tech]
A sentiment well worth adopting.
Building on the Past (.mov) is the winning video from the recent Creative Commons contest. I especially like the ending words:
“creativity always builds on the past
and you’re building the past right now.
Share now.
Shape tomorrow.”
Buzz is now the third or fourth person I trust who’s told me I need to go see what Kunstler has to say. This, of course, is the risk of following people you trust in the blogging world. Your reading list grows well beyond anything you can possibly hope to complete no matter how fast you can read. Instead, you have to exercise your own judgments about how you are going to manage your information world. Of course, thinking about how you are going to do this explicitly is far better than doing it by default, which is what most of us do.
Talking to Jim…. One of the very bright guys that I met at PopTech! was Jim Kunstler. Jim is a critic of things that I care about. I am trying to get him into the blogging world, but in the meantime, go read… [buzzmodo]
More fascinating examples from Tufte about how to squeeze more meaning into data displays. The interesting tradeoff to be managed here is between design time to find compelling and meaningful representations and interpretation/decision time by those who will use the representations. As a gross generalization, design time gets short shrift at the expense of increased problems with interpretation and decision. A bad cost/benefit tradeoff.
Spaklines. Edward Tufte: Sparklines or Wordgraphs–some draft pages from Beautiful Evidence… [Emptybottle : Coasters]
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]
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]
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]
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!
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]
