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Friday, June 20, 2003  blogging | Sarah Allen   Sarah gets into it blogs and gutters. Recently I have found myself talking about what we put in the gutter of a blog. I've heard that the term gutter comes from publishing -- that space near the book binding which you want to keep blank, since it is hard to read anything printed there. I've also seen web page design documents that refer to the gutter as the space between collumns. I've heard this terminology over the years and it has never been an issue for me. However, it feels unsettling, even disturbing to call the collumn on the right of my blog, a gutter. Nonetheless, this term seems frequently used in the blogosphere. [Sarah Allen's Weblog] Yes they are called gutters.  On both sides. 12:24:37 PM     - Let me hear from you []  David Sifry | Technorati API | Wiki   Technorati Developer's Wiki Technorati Developers Playground. A Wiki. FrontPage - Technorati Developers Site Technorati Developers Playground... [Raw Blog] Dave Sifry has set up a  Wiki to support developers using the Technorati APIs. 7:06:48 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Mark Carey | New kinds of communities | ThreadsML   Forum view of blog posts Blog -> BBS: WebDawn reverses the pattern. Another fusion of the patterns of weblogs and BBSes, this time in reverse. Mark Carey has created a new view of his Web Dawn weblog, reconfigured in BBS format: Forum View provides an alternative view to the blog, giving a more accurate view of the conversations taking place. With the more recently active conversations listed on top, you can quickly get a sense of which entries have generated discussion - without scrolling to the bottom of each entry to see the number of comments. Here's the forum view itself. [Corante: Social Software] Coolio - another GREAT example of what ThreadsML will do.  :-) 7:04:23 AM     - Let me hear from you []  activity based | Marc Barrot | New kinds of communities | New School Tools | Open Standards | reBoot | The Mesh   :-) Marc Canter's Reboot talk. Here are my notes from Marc "Marcomedia" Canter's talk at Reboot. Things need to be small and modular: programmers working nights, little companies. The VCs pushed us to head for IPO, so entire companies were based on one feature. In my world, companies have multiple products. I'm going to talk about Longhorn and how we can compete with MSFT. Open source: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. With the right standards, we can equal Longhorn by building a people's mesh. Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] Needless to say I went on to talk about the New Paradigm of Tools and the People's Mesh. Here's the presentation. Tim O'Reilly is talking now about the Internet application platform.  I'm exhausted. here's a shot of me holding Mimi - signing - at the Planetwork conference.  I began the speech today again with a bit..... "The Trumpet shall sound!" 7:01:12 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Blog Aggregator | Slashdot   Slashdot has banned my aggregator for 72 hours.... Your Headline Reader Has Been Banned. Your RSS reader is abusing the Slashdot server. You are requesting pages more often than our terms of service allow. Please see the FAQ link for more information, and if you email us, include your IPID MD5: ba929cb2a2e424e682c9974e29b0a583. [Slashdot] Cool - something my Radio aggregator did pissed off Slashdot. 6:54:43 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Jason Fried   Interface session Jason Fried of 37Signals is speaking now.  What's between us and the system - the application or service. Three little things that make a difference - context and perspective - can't hold it or pick it up - size, weight - settings expectations - what's next - what's behind this menu - let me know what's gonna happen - continguency design - anticipate that things will go wrong 5:27:48 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Dan Gillmor   Your readers know more than you do - and that's a good thing Now it's Dan Gillmor's turn.  The Joe Nacchio story, Shuttle debris, Trent Lott - you've all heard it before. Real-time journalism.  Cool new toys/Tools.  Tracking embedded journlists.  The problems of moblogging.  Posting full transcripts of interviews.  Corporate blogs.  OhMyNews.   Gizmodo's biz model.    Back in Iraq 2.0.  Nobody knows how to make money from this. 3 Scenarios for the future:  1 - copyright cartel combines with government.  Need permission to set up weblog. 2 - total anarchy - BigMedia goes away - biz models are drained.... 3 - we all work together BTW Dan is my favorite traditional journalist right now. He's writing a book. 4:01:56 AM     - Let me hear from you []  blogging | Meg Hourihan | micro-content | Moblogging | reBoot | RSS aggregators   Distributed Conversations Live from Reboot. I just got off the stage at Reboot, and Marc has blogged it already, as has John Gotze. Blimey! Update: The Reboot Moblog has pictures. [Ben Hammersley.com] Cory's got pictures too. Meg's up now and she's talking about where blogging is going.  She's into cooking and why can't we connect our cooking interests together so we can exchange recipes.  Her first company created tools to write weblogs.  Her new company is creating tools to READ weblogs. She calls it distributed conversations.    The current world of RSS is just the first way for people to read weblogs.... She's now talking about her new web based RSS reader.   Ehech will evolve into suppporting new kinds of meta weblogs.  Finding people who write about what you're interested. She mentioned that she sees the world moving towards Personal Information Portals - new ways of reading and accessing what's called blogging today, but.... Now she's talking about how English centric we are all in. She's focused on producing on multi-language versions of her product - which they've code-named 'The Lafayette Project'.  But she wants a new name - and has asked the crowd for a Dannish name. I yelled out 'Valhalla!' I can taste the meat sliding off the sword - as we speak. 3:32:03 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Alf Eaton | Drummond Reed | Open Standards   OpenURL OpenURL draft standard. A draft of the OpenURL standard is available for trial use from NISO. [via FOS News]... [HubLog] Oh boy!  Another open standard I know nothing about.  Something to do - while listening to Meg and Dan - while also blogging Mimi and me.  I see Drummond Reed's name is associated with this, so that's good enough for me. 2:58:16 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Rys McCusker   Rys McCusker Rys. Rys has emerged from hiding. [Hack the Planet] One very cool, smart person available for hire.  If we were funded she'd be one of the people we'd hire. She used to work with the OSAF, but..... She's part of a transgender scene which I'm starting to notice more and more.  Jamie Fenton is also part of this scene.  2:43:42 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Cory Doctorow | Hardware | Russell Beattie   Toshi Satellite My New New Laptop: Toshiba Satellite. Spending money sucks, especially when you don't have much. Lots of stress in getting the most for your money, etc. Ugh! I just dropped over $1000 for this new laptop and instead of being an easy one-shot deal where I was happy with my purchase instantly, it was one of those long drawn out comparision shopping trips where you agonize over price/value and doubt your final purchase until the very last second. Bleh. I'm happy it's over!  Comment [Russell Beattie Notebook] Hey - I just brought a Toshi Satellite too!  Mine has the 16" display.  Cory is teasing me about how big it is. 2:24:07 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Cyberspace meets meatspace | Fotolog.net | MeetUp | Scott Heiferman   Scott Heiferman, MeetUp & Fotolog Harry Potter meetups, php hackers in Copenhagen and all sorts of usages of MeetUp. It's all about how cyberspace meets meatspace.  Any MeetUp can happen in any city.  Up to 350,000 registered right now.  "Now we're the leading political activist tool." [36,000 Dean sign-ups - 270 Dean meetups across America.] 2:21:38 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Ben Hammersley | FOAF | PlanetWork | RDF | Semantic Web | triples | XML   I'm learning new things already Ben has just informed me - that even though FOAF isn't stable - that all you have to do is use DAML (which of course is being superceded by OWL) to specify....... Ugh!  Why can't we just have ONE FOAF? Ben is informing us of triples, how you can talk about anything using triples - subject, verb and object.  He's telling us that we can use any language for the semantic web, but that it's important to be able to define what we MEAN by specific words or phrases.  So that brings us to the URI. 1:43:18 AM     - Let me hear from you []  blogging | micro-content | Ross Mayfield   Going beyond blogging.... Capitulation & Upgrade. Bought more storage for my Radio Weblog.  I am planning to move off of Radio to MT soon, but here's my rationale for continuing to invest in this platform. Pros: Sunk costs Rather give my money to Dave than some convicted monopolist Switching costs (really a Con, on many levels) Cons: Radio Userland stopped innovating and now demands others to do so for it The aggregator is the reason I bought the product.  When we took a look at Many-to-Many's RSS stats it showed that the vast majority of RSS subscribers were Radio users.  But if my aggregator had less funk and more jibe it might not fail to subscribe to MT feeds as much.  And stand alone aggregators are improving.  And then I wouldn't have to deal with the Image Spam problem (posts with large images made by people with large screens that stretch your reader beyond the limits of your screen). Did I mention I am planning to upgrade? [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] I hereby apologize to Ross and other Radio users who's aggregator gets images spamed off the edge of their screen - 'cause my images are so large.  I humbly beg your forgiveness.  Now onto what else Ross said: - I myself am having to make a choice as well - for my future blogging tool.  It's just amazing that Userland has more or less abandoned Radio and is putting all their efforts in Manilla (if that - at all.)  I REALLY wish Jake and JRobb would put some ffort into making Radio better. - MT is cool, but TypePad is the new kind on the block.  I REALLY hope they get it out, support new kinds of micro-content, establish a new litmus that others will have to equal (like Blogger.) - Meanwhile - isn't it time we talked about going BEYOND blogging?  Why are we so hung up on blogging?  Isn't there more to life? 1:14:40 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Ben Hammersley | Cory Doctorow | Dan Gillmor | Jason Fried | Meg Hourihan | Nikolaj Nyholm | reBoot | Scott Heiferman   Copenhagen time! Reboot. I'm speaking today at the reboot6 conference in Cophenhagen, which is one of Europe's most attractive cities. The introductions are in Danish, but most of us are speaking in English -- and we'll get away with that cultural laziness (or is it imperialism?) because the rest of the world, including the Nordic countries, understands English . [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] Yes indeedy we are here.  Meg, Cory, Dan, Jason, Ben, Nikolaj and Scott are all ready to rock.  There's a restaurant in the Tivoli gardens (the world's oldest amusement park) called Valhal.  It's a Viking restaurant.  They serve meat on swords..... I can't wait to check this place out.  And some smoersgebords - as well. The weather's fine, the conference has started, Cory is warning us of evil doings.... going on out there.  But you all knew that already - right? 1:03:51 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Jay Feinberg | Macromedia Flash   More Flash nonsense Netomat personal multimedia blog thingy. Just checking out netomat, a Java multimedia personal message / website / blog thingy. I am wrestling between saying how much this doesn't excite me at the moment and how much this suggests to me an interesting future for individually created interactive multimedia, e.g., as social software. From my lack of excitement, I am thinking about Flash sites that aren't interactive with anything outside them, e.g., you can't bookmark a frame in  ... read more ... [the iCite net development blog] Jay brings up a good point which I've complained about before.  Nobody at Macromedia seems to think this is a big deal or a bad thing BUT:         - you can't right click on a Flash thingie and copy it - to paste it into your blog         - you can't bookmark a specific place in a Flash thingie. Now when asked - they'll tell yah: we're trying to protect the content developers and you CAN bookmark specific places - but nobody supports it.  I'd wager to bet that if you did a survey of Flash developers - 95% of them WOULD want their stuff get make it into the blogosphere and that they WOULDN'T even know they could support bookmarking within their thingies. 12:46:32 AM     - Let me hear from you []