Category: Musicology

I seem to be breaking a cardinal rule of starting a lot of sentences and paragraph with the word I and using the I-word frequently throughout my posts. I lost count of the number of times I used the word I in the previous entry. I seem to remember reading somewhere that overuse of the…

Onward toward the semantic web! Here’s an article proposing methods to make the Web more structured and more personalized. Any article that includes the concept of meta-meta-services is all right by me, even when the author’s first name isn’t Christian. Here’s the tip of the iceberg: Users (other than the author) and groups of users…

Waxy.org demonstrates how to use Google’s Usenet archive to track memes, in this case, the “All Your Base’”meme. This is precisely what I intended to do with memewatch.com. I think the phrase I first wanted to plot this way was “six degrees of Kevin Bacon.” Here’s the tricky thing: not all memes equate to phrases.…

It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it. A memetics experiment — pass it along. Life in the Aggregator. An Experiment: Life in the Aggregator. How far can it travel?  Please play by passing it along, including all source links… [jenett.radio] I’m willing to play [McGee’s Musings] There we go. [via Seb’s Open…

Following a link from Q Daily News (I’m still exploring links that turned up from checking out the UC Berkeley J-School IP Weblog Class syllabus mentioned in an entry yesterday), I found this copy of developer’s notes for Internet Explorer 6 SP 1, including the nonchalant mention that they are effectively abandoning the Gopher protocol:…