Flickr-based smartmobbing: The Ministry of Reshelving
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Sebastian
Via Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs site comes this very original flickr-based smart mob, ‘invented’ by Jane McGonigal. How to Serve the Ministry of Reshelving %u2013 dedicated to the proper classification of fiction and nonfiction texts 1. Select a local bookstore to carry out your reshelving activities. 2. Download and print “This book has been relocated […]
Gapingshirts on plazes?
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Sebastian
Anders at the random show created a cool movie, laying plazes over Google Earth – Home. (via Mario Sixtus) As some of you know, I am taking pictures when traveling with my Gapingvoid t-shirts. (By the way, Hugh, why is the counter next to the shirts gone? I thought it was kind of cool to […]
No communicators at Mindjet?
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Sebastian
Note: With this post I am forfeiting my chance to beta-test Mindjet, since I cannot talk about beta-testing Mindjet when a beta-tester. Dear Mindjet, I signed up for beta-testing because I cannot wait to get my hands on a Mac version of your programm. I do not know whether it will save the universe but […]
About RSS behaviour
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Sebastian
Very interesting article about “Pheed Read” . – One interesting point to note is that the NetNewsWire aggregator for the Mac is no where in our top 5 aggregators, whereas it was number two in FeedBurner%u2019s statistics. We attribute this to two factors. First, RSS is growing up. Charles Smith pointed out earlier this year […]
RSS detection in Safari Tiger
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Sebastian
In the aftermath of my hard drive’s head crash I am surfing like a wild man to collect the 170 something feeds. I noticed that Tigers RSS auto-detection often just finds the “basic”-rdf. If bloggers have an own feed e.g. from feed-burner, Safari Tiger will still take the basic feed (like blogname.typepad.com/index.rdf). Anybody notice the […]
Cool new blog feature
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Sebastian
Shel Holtz has introduced a new feature on his weblog, comments in the RSS-feed. I think this is a major breakthrough for conversations, because very often a post comes alive in the comments. It seems like his posts are republished with every new comment which makes it even cooler I think. If I remember correctly, […]