Category: Paleoblogs

  • We would welcome Iranian financing to influence our politics.

    Washington Post “The Bush administration is asking Congress for $75 million…to promote democracy in Iran….The plan…includes fostering independent media inside Iran. “The final $15 million would go toward nongovernmental organizations and civic education on the lines of what the federally chartered National Endowment for Democracy carries out in a wide variety of countries.” DKo: This…

  • shacker's blogging the heck out of sxsw

    I’m doing my best to blog about sxsw this year but Scot Hacker’s doing a great job of it. The only way for me to find out about the things I’m missing (good panels that are at the same time as other good panels, parties at the same time as other parties) is to find…

  • Yes, we were hacked

    I’ve nearly recovered or recreated all the pages and templates that were damaged by the nasty little scriptkiddy who hacked our server. I’d rather not go into detail about how it happened, at least until I’m sure we’ve locked the barn door.

  • Beyond Folksonomies at SXSW

    Here are my raw notes for beyond folksonomies: knitting tag clouds for grandma: from pidgen to creole tags popularized by (delicious, flickr, technorati) hodder on usability problems a lot of web 2.0 sites, hoping people will fill in all the info, but interfaces poorly done … half-done systems because others got critical mass (which makes…

  • Let’s take South Dakota

    Let the Libertarians take over New Hampshire (quickly, though – it’s trending Blue). Let the religious nuts have South Carolina (Nick, we’ll find another home for you). Let’s take over South Dakota (apparently, it’s not that hard to do).

  • Discussing online community on KUOW (in Seattle)

    I just got off the phone with Jeannie Yandel, the producer of a show called The Conversation on an NPR station in Seattle, KUOW 94.9 FM. She asked me about how online communities cross over into the real world, what did I think about the rash of bad-news stories about teens on MySpace lately, and…