Social Web Pirates of the Blogosphere - the curse of the protocols Andrew Chen wrote a response to my previous post about Syncato. He thinks I want to create something called a "distributed conversation protocol" and then take over the world. Actually creating a protocol would be the difficult part, given what is happening with Atom :-) So no, I'm not advocating a new protocol. All I want is a new tool (a new… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Social Web Syncato and Microcontent Wiki Jon Udell is getting very excited about a new weblog product called Syncato, which is described here: "Syncato is a weblog system designed to extract the maximum potential from the content of your posts. All posts in Syncato are stored as XML within a native XML database and are searchable using XPath queries. This includes the ability to… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging 11 Weblog Pieces Forgive me, it's the end of the day and I don't want to write my usual lengthy blog post. So I thought I'd do the blogging equivalent of "piano pieces", which in this case is a collection of various links and quotes that have caught my eye recently: Prelude No. 15 in D flat Op. 28 "Prior Art" (Ray Ozzie): "In 1993 or thereabouts, we saw the… Richard MacManus View comments
Web 2.0 Ted Nelson's two-way links Matt Webb blogged the Hypertext03 conference and the resulting notes are a good scan. Thank goodness for people like Matt who blog conferences, because those of us who live on the other side of the world don't get to go to these flash harry conferences *sulk*. Matt's notes on Ted Nelson's speech were especially interesting. Ted Nelson is a legend… Richard MacManus View comments
Blogging Rock n roll On a less serious note than my previous post, it also occured to me that bloggers are like rock n roll bands. The best bands explore a different theme each album, just like the best bloggers (imho) write on an ever-changing series of themes. My favourite band The Velvet Underground released 4 studio albums that were each different in style and… Richard MacManus View comments