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  Testing PYCS comments server

  Just testing my swapover to PYCS comments server. Please ignore (unless you're Phil Pearson helping me get it set up!).

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  The Passion of the Information Flow

  I've begun the push to introduce wiki and weblog technologies into the company I work for. As I wrote in my last post, I'm aiming to enhance Information Flow within...

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  Information Flow

  Dina Mehta wrote today about implementing Weblog, Wiki, IM, and other collaboration technologies into an Intranet environment, to replace an "archaic" Knowledge Management system and improve inter-office communication. I'm embarking on similar activities...

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  Subscriber Stats in Bloglines

  The RSS Aggregator Bloglines is starting to build a lot of whuffie on the Web and it's justly deserved. I signed up to Bloglines at the beginning of August 2003...

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  Real Live Book

  One of my goals this year is to get my writing published professionally. I called it "Paper-publishing" when I wrote down the goal at the beginning of 2004, but I include...

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  To ebook or not to ebook, that is the question

  Over the past week I've been devouring a bunch of Etech 2004 session notes, including one I read today from Cory Doctorow on the subject of e-books. Cory wrote the book Down...

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  Much Ado About Comments

  I've noticed that a few of my favourite webloggers are being hit by comment spam. Bill Seitz's WikiLog has been hammered this week and Andrew Chen noticed this morning a new trick. A spammer had...

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  American influence on the blogosphere

  Today I came across a very interesting article in the New Zealand Herald newspaper entitled "US power and influence warrent careful scrutiny" by columnist Barbara Sumner Burstyn. She starts off by explaining...

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  Short Story update

  I'm in the process of writing a short story on the themes of Subjectivity and System in the blogosphere. I originally intended to treat it as a mini-Nanowrimo, but on reflection I've decided...

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  Getting back on the Writing train

  So I've decided to write and serialize a short story on Read/Write Web. I'll treat it as a mini-Nanowrimo, with me as the only participant (unless anyone else is game). I'll...

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  On Big Goals and measuring Success

  I've been following Erik Benson's recentposts about his quest to find a "Big Goal" to work towards. The conversation has been very heavy, which is hardly surprising since we're talking about The Meaning...

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  Game Neverstarting?

  Does anyone know when the beta of Game Neverending will start? I signed up a month ago, but I've only received one email from them and it basically said: wait...

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  Ain’t that the truth

  S¯ren Kierkegaard, 19th century philosopher: "Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really...

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  Random thoughts about Blogging Overload

  Thought a) Some people post too much. Recently I subscribed to 7 Journalist Bloggers - 6 of them post too many items, so I've fallen behind already. One of them...

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  Internal Corporate Blogging

  One of my 12 main categories for this weblog is Corporate Weblogging. I recently wrote my category headings in the form of a manifesto, so here is how I actually...

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  Fun with XSLT – my draft thematic taxonomy

  Over the past few days I've been doing some work on a new XSLT-based topic navigation for my weblog. I started it over xmas, but had parked it since the new year because of...

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  This is off our first record, most people don’t own it

  Well my Fractal Blogosphere concept seemed to generate some interest this week. I think it's the first article I've done that got picked up by the populace without the support of...

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  On the meaning of fractal

  Somepeople disagree with my use of the word "fractal" (see the comments to my last post). I've done some extensive reading on the subject this afternoon and I have to say...

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  The Fractal Blogosphere

  In this article I draft guidelines for a Fractal Blogosphere and suggest that it be used as a measure of scale in the weblogging world. The goal is to help bloggers, particularly new ones, easily fit into...

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  Fractal Web applied to Blogging

  I review Tim Berners-Lee's recent interview with Christopher Lydon and analyse how the Fractal Society impacts on the world of blogging.Today I listened to Christopher Lydon's recent interview with Tim Berners-Lee,...