Tagging my blog

I've been trying to figure out how to easily tag my blog, i.e., how to index it by categories, using del.icio.us and Technorati. I've run across an article describing how to do it with a little bookmarklet, so I'm trying it out here. It's a little clunky, but it does do the trick.

Categories: tags

RSS Reaches Out for Enterprise, Social Networks

This article talks about how enterprises are getting interested in RSS, blogging, etc. In describing Rojo, the description of people sharing their news feeds seems reminiscent of the way del.icio.us users share bookmarks.

Welcome to my blog...

I'm fascinated by a whole range of topics generally having to do with how people use computers to communicate and organize their lives. I'm interested in browsers, email, instant messaging, syndicated feed protocols (RSS and Atom), blogging.

I also have a more personal journal I share with family and close friends, but I decided to create a seperate blog to explore my technical thoughts.

Why did I choose Blogger? Because Blogger has the most flexibility in terms of layout, and it's easy to change. I can save articles as drafts and then publish them when they're ready. I can email posts to my blog if I choose. I like how it looks.

Notice my blogroll in the sidebar; this is the list of news and blog sites I read regularly. I use Bloglines for this.

That's all for now...

E-mail is the new database

Here's an interesting article from BBC News entitled: E-mail is the new database. It's certainly true that our email storage space has gone way up, as people hold onto all sorts of emails. Of course, it's unstructured. So this makes me think more about efforts to automatically sort (i.e structure, at least in a rudimentary way) one's email.

Under Construction

I'm in the midst of setting up this blog. Stay tuned.

Update: I've found that I can post-date items, so I'm moving over some interesting articles I've saved over the last few months.

A 'Smart' Email Software Organizes Your Tasks

In A 'Smart' Email Software Organizes Your Tasks, Roland Piquepaille discusses 'smart' software which analyzes your workflow and helps organize your tasks. I'm a little skeptical, but it's an interesting concept.

ongoing · Why We Need Atom Now

Here's an article from Tim Bray - ongoing · Why We Need Atom Now. There are two main protocols for syndication: RSS and Atom. I'm not an expert in either, though I'd sure like to learn more. Tim discusses some advantages to using Atom.

HOWTO: How to build YPOPs! RPM for Fedora Core 3

I'm not using YPOPs! (though I am using FetchYahoo!). Nevertheless, this article has good info about building stuff in a Fedora Linux environment.

Bloglines Takes Aggregation Beyond RSS, Blogs

Bloglines Takes Aggregation Beyond RSS, Blogs
Bloglines has added a package-tracking feature (UPS, FedEx, USPS), but this is only the beginning of what can be done with syndicated news feeds.

Jon Udell: From open source to open services to open information

More about upcoming.org ....
Jon Udell: From open source to open services to open information

Jon Udell: PubSub's structured blogging initiative

Jon Udell: PubSub's structured blogging initiative

Stuctured blogging, and structured blog search ...

Jon Udell: Upcoming events in Keene, NH

This is pretty cool - a 'collaborative event calendar'. Social networking at it's best.

Jon Udell: Upcoming events in Keene, NH

Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories

Here's a really interesting discussion about tagging and how people tag things differently...

Tags Turning Web Chaos into Categories

Update: I'm experimenting with defining the following Technorati tag: tags

Wired News: Folksonomies Tap People Power

Wired News: Folksonomies Tap People Power

On tagging blogs.... I have to look into Technorati when I have a chance.

scale|free: Some notes on enterprise blogging - behind the firewall

First Enterprise IM, now Enterprise blogging. It's a huge issue - how enterprises manage their intranet, how workers communicate with one another and the outside world, how people develop and share information.

scale|free: Some notes on enterprise blogging - behind the firewall

ongoing · What Do Tags Mean?

Tim Bray's ongoing · What Do Tags Mean? - on tagging, RSS, Atom.

From Hieroglyphs to Xerox Glyphs

Now this is really cool. The article talks about research going on at Xerox PARC about 'Xerox Glyphs'. They're basically a series of forward and back slashes, and they've been described as 'barcodes on steroids'. They seem to have great potential, and think about it, they give a visual representation of zeros and ones.... Fascinating.

Jon Udell: Year of the enterprise Wiki

Here's an article about wikis and folksonomy together.

Folksonomy

My interest in social bookmarks has led me to a new technical term: folksonomy. Basically, taxonomy by a bunch of folks. Or, for the techies, "a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags in a flat namespace". Wow, I haven't had this much fun with technical lingo since my college math days, when I translated a German article on "Non-Archimedian Vector Spaces"....

Anyhow, I'm not quite sure where my interest in this social software stuff is going, but it's quite interesting. Here are some more articles about the subject: Slashdot | Folksonomies In Del.icio.us and Flickr.

Slashdot | In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated

Interesting article about user interfaces: Slashdot | In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated