web Fragmenting Attention Excellent quote from Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us: "Aggregation is often a focus of attention (latest, most active, etc.) As the population gets larger, the bias drifts; del.icio.us/popular becomes less interesting to the original community members. Work out ways to let the system fragment in to different areas of attention." This sums up why… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Read/WriteWeb Filter - The Evolution of Information Grazing (more cow metaphors) - James plays the field ("Grazing, on the other hand, is feed promiscuity. No commitment.") - Ross Levinsohn on Fox's Digital Charge (how the News Corp. media giant is working to build a broad online base) - Dave Winer on professional media ("The pros are lazy, they aren't doing their… Richard MacManus View comments
Humor The Communist Web I've read some absurd things in my time, but this one really takes the cake. It's by a 'big media' guy at CBS News, who has written an astonishing spiel about what he regards as 'Web 2.0'. It's actually the first compelling thing I've read about Web 2.0 all year, but it was compelling because it was so hilarious. In one longish article, the… Richard MacManus View comments
New Media Personalized Clustering: It's too hard, say developers After my post about Personalized Megite, I got taken to task by both Gabe Rivera from Memeorandum and Nik Cubrilovic from OmniDrive - two developers who have had a lot of experience trying to develop such systems. As Gabe wrote in Scoble's comments: "I agree with Nik that there’s a huge technical chasm to cross before… Richard MacManus View comments
Lists Read/WriteWeb Filter - The Trendiest Web2.0 Page on the Net! (it's funny cause it's true... apologies to Fred, who for all I know may've invented the 'big red jagged circle' effect) - 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (beautifully designed presentation from Tom Coates, with brilliant content to match. A 'must read' if you're into Design for Data stuff - and I am big… Richard MacManus View comments