Tag: imported

<p>Andrew is running for public advocate, I like his explanation of the befit of low cost pubvlic wifi….</p> <p>[l:http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/05/07/andrew_rasiej_candidate_for_public_advocate.php|One of your big ideas is to build a universal wi-fi network serving the whole city. That sounds cool- but what'll it do for New Yorkers?</p> <p>For one, low-cost universal broadband will plug our kids into the…

<p><em>[l:http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/09/menino_camp_tries_to_curb_cybertricks|<br /> Politicians who neglect to understand the impact of Web addresses have regretted it.]</em></p> <p>It is truly amazing that so many politicians (or rather their staff or campaign staff) fail to see the value in spending a few hundred dollars a year protecting their "brand identity". The above article in the boston globe refers…

<p>So as i mentioned in my initial reflections on the conference, calendaring was a hot topic of discussion.</p> <p>These seem to be the three calendaring applications that folks were talking about.</p> <p>[lk:Upcoming.org] (i love it, and think that there are so many applications for using it more, think dynamic blog calendars, tagging events to pull…

<p>Gunner, you sadist, 10 rounds of speed geeking? I was ok through round 6. For those who don;t know what [l:http://wiki.advocacydev.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SpeedGeeking|Speed Geeking] is, the basic idea is that a bunch of conference attendees get 5 minutes to demo their "coolest thing" which might be a product, a tool, or a technology. The rest of the…

<p>I have touched on this before, but let me lay it out here.</p> <p>Problem: Tech conferences are geat opportunities to network, but formal sessions get in the way of hallway conversation.</p> <p>The gut response to this would be to get rid of the sessions and just allow people the venue to have informal discussions. But…

<p>I got hom a little while ago from [lk:newyork.penguinday.org|Penguin Day] (I actually walked home from the post conference watering hole on 33rd and 3rd ([l:http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=E+33rd+St+%26+3rd+Ave,+New+York,+NY+10016&daddr=Grand+Street+and+FDR+DR,+NY,+NY&hl=en|about 2.5miles and 4 minutes according to google maps] now, since i wasn;t walking along the FDR, it was more than 2.5 miles and even if i were driving the drive,…

<p>Well tagging has hit the big time with [l:http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/05/03/social.tagging.ap/index.html|this AP story picked up by CNN].</p> <p>It is a pretty good primer on tagging, and mentiones the potential problem of tag polution and hijaking.</p> <p>this is the best line in the pice <em>Tagging is fundamentally about tapping the collective human wisdom, rather than relying on a…

<p>This has been tagging week on my blog. The technology is really exciting and new. A few days ago i discovered [l:http://kevan.org/extispicious|extisp.icio.us] (interestingly the link is not <i>extisp.icio.us</i> it is actually <a href="http://kevan.org/extispicious" title="http://kevan.org/extispicious">http://kevan.org/extispicious</a>, but it would seem that anyone working on things related to tagging wnts to be like <i>del.icio.us</i> with their clever url.…

<p>My friend [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] pointed me towards [lk:upcoming.org] yesterday morning as I was in the middle of some data wrangling, and i didn't get to look into it much until later in the day at which point I was kind of BLOWN AWAY. What they have done almost seems to be inspired by an article that…