by gregoryheller | May 20, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>via <a href="http://hughhewitt.com/#postid1636">HughHewitt.com:</a></p> <p><cite>If you don't like being mocked by a live audience in real time, then don't be a talking head. This innovation sure made for an interesting backdrop to the standard five microphones and a few hundred people in the audience panel.</cite></p> <p>I thought this was a great quote. For the most part the chat during PDF was lively and helpful. You can read the [l:/?q=node/135|scripts] if you have some time on your hands (the clocked in at something like 70 pages).</p> <p>The chat did distract me from live blogging hte event, and now I am about to site down to try and bang out a post about the Doc Searls session and the Marty Kearns session from my limited notes… perhaps i will go back to the...
by gregoryheller | May 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>I bet all of you have been so frustrated by the fact that the email this page feature on my site did not work for the last… well for as long as it was there.</p> <p>Thanks to the good folks over at [l:http://developmentseed.org/|Development Seed] I now have a working [l:/files/emailpage.zip|emailpage.module] and you can click that to download a zip of it yourself.</p> <p>I have been in some hyper experimentation mode here at GregoryHeller.com and have added a link to my feedburner and technorati and myspace pages over there on the right.</p> <p>You can also refer a friend to me site using the "Tell A Friend" in the primary links over there on the left.</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/emailpage.zip">emailpage.zip</a></td><td>2.93 KB</td> </tr> </tbody>...
by gregoryheller | May 19, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>[lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] turned me on to this blog article on tagging. It is a pretty good one.</p> <p>via <a href="http://heynorton.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/the_web_is_full.html">Hey Norton! – Ken Norton's blog – The web is full of tags:</a></p> <p><cite>Even better, the more people you ask, the more accurate it will get because the more you'll be able to identify trends and popular opinions, the more you'll get a power law distribution of the data. If you notice that 60% of the people describe your friend as "abrasive" that will tell you something. (How many people would describe themselves as abrasive?)</cite></p> <p>It's the same with tagging. Several hundred users (or even a thousand, or a million) can be an amazing source of valuable metadata about content on the web. But there are challenges. Here are some of the objections commonly raised: People will lie! People aren't using the same vocabulary – what if you say "bonds" and mean Barry Bonds and I say "bonds" and mean stocks and bonds?! People are terrible spellers! Welcome to the world of...
by gregoryheller | May 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>Growing out of these last two conference experiences, and the NXNEI idea, what if we were to create a wednesday night virtual meeting of civicspace users. Conference call and live chat/irc.</p> <p>An opportunity for people to get questions answered in real time, to show off new sites, hacks, modules, etc…</p> <p>Proposed Agenda:</p> <ul> <li>15 minute whats new in civicspace </li><li>15 – 25 minute speed geeking: demo of new sites or modules (3 to 5 per week) </li><li>Bring your problems: ask the experts (unlti people get sick of it) </li></ul> <p>We could use free conference call and a combo of skype and irc (irc for the main group chat, and skype for some one on one)<br /> all scripts and conversation logs would then be published to the web for all to learn...
by gregoryheller | May 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>While listening to the interviews (in the podcasts below) I came up with an idea. I bounced it off [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] and this is what we came up with:</p> <p><b>North By Northeast Interactive (NXNEI) 2006:</b></p> <ul> <li>PDF </li><li>Civic Space User Summit </li><li>nTen Regional </li><li>Penguin Day </li></ul> <p>to all piggy back on each other and time them to coincide with the [l:http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org|TriBeca Film Festival].</p> <p>A week of geek love and parties and networking and high-order-best-thinkers and in-the-trenches-best-practices, speed geeking daily, and skills shares and more!</p> <p>What do people think? The other alternative timing is to push these conferences towards the fall and have it coincide with [lk:http://www.cmj.com/marathon|CMJ] or do it over the summer and have it coincide with the [l:http://www.howlfestival.com|HOWL!...
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