Artificial Post

This isn’t really a blog post. OK, maybe it is, but it shouldn’t be considered a real blog post. Why? Because it is being written without any intentions whatsoever.
Now, I hear you saying that a lot of blog posts start out that way, but this one will try and stay true to this idea. [...]

Artificial Politics

Obama may have, just might have, sealed the deal last night with a decisive win in North Carolina and an extremely narrow loss in Indiana.
Clinton should start working on her new message: Republicans are bad!
Read on DailyKos: Bill Clinton as a Supreme? Don’t want to waste the time googling it, but has there ever [...]

Have you been Facebooked?

Just like ‘Google’ has become a verb it is time for Facebook.
Facebooked – verb

the act of entering any amount of personal/business data and/or contacts into a company’s website without the possibility of getting the information back out.

looking at someone’s profile on Facebook.com (deprecated)

Example: Scoble got totally facebooked.

FlickrFan

Started using Dave Winer’s new FlickrFan last night. Here are my impressions:
- Killer result. Absolutely an incredible way to display interesting and relevant images from around the world, both your own internal world and the rest of the world.
- Horrible delivery vessel. Using the OPML editor as the engine is like taking a 737 across [...]

Bleak Thoughts

Watched Michael Moore’s ‘SiCKO’ yesterday. Really amazing documentary/movie. Makes you realize that we’ve been getting screwed with our pants on.
My favorite idea was the need to switch from ‘Me to We’
Can this even happen? Probably not. Makes me really worry about our future as a nation and a civilization. How much longer can we sustain [...]

The Open Web

Open Web Creed:
I promise to make my site/and or service fully accessible to anyone who wants to use it.
I promise to have a way for you to make money using my site/and or service.
Amen
This is the way that the Open Web will work.

Web 3.0 will only disappoint

Web 3.0 huh? That’s the best that the tech-elite can come up with? Bleh. Anyone who uses the phrase “Web 3.0″ is bound to not understand the ‘next phase’ if it hits them in the forehead. They prove their obsolescence by claiming they know what is coming next based on what has come before.
If we [...]

Back again

Man, it’s a good thing I don’t have any readers. I haven’t posted since the end of March!
A lot has happened, and not happened, in that time. My plan is still pretty much the same, or at least the direction of the plan is. Still working on CoffeeTalk. Hope to be done soon.
I’m also [...]

The Plan

It’s been 2 weeks since I’ve started my sabbatical and I think I’ve come up with ‘The Plan’ for what I’m going to do. This actually required a little bit of business planning, in addition to technical planning, so it took me a little longer than I would have liked. So here’s what I’ve come [...]

Organization

Outlining is the core of CoffeeTalk. The internal structure of data is based on OPML. There are some example OPML files on OPML.org.
The OPML format has become a favorite amongst RSS readers like Google’s Reader, NewsGator. and many others. I see OPML files commonly referred to as ‘reading lists.’
A nice definition of what [...]