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Monday, December 12, 2005
4:00:00 PM EST
Hearing Cowboy Junkies, Helpless
Hi everybody. I was reading the New York Times Sunday Magazine (online,
of course), which was their annual Year
in Ideas issue.
This is great, because I get to link to a lot of interesting stuff without having to do a lot of work (though I plan on talking about a few of these things in greater depth).
Anyway, I've highlighted some of the bloggier and community-type stuff:
(One note: The online version of the article would be a lot friendlier if they linked to all of the stuff that they talked about. Also, since it's the New York Times, free registration may be required. I guess that was two notes.)
* Fleeting Relationships looks at the value of fleeting relationships (e.g. the people on the bus with you) and anchored relationships (people you see only at specific venues).
* Google Map Mashups examines the neat things you can do with Google Maps' plug-in architecture. Combined with Folksonomy (which is like community content tagging) and Open Source Reporting, it's very Web 2.0 (which is something I will definitely be discussing more).
* On the mostly-blog side, we've got Splogs (or spam blogs), Newspapers Blogging as a primary source of info during Katrina, the rise of Video Podcasting, and the supposition that Conservative Blogs are more effective than liberal blogs at advancing their agendas.
* From the phone world, we see a service geared to Preventing Drunk Dialing, plus, a way from the MIT Media Lab for groups of people to vote on whether you should be allowed to take that cell phone call.
* Then, some that are just interesting include: the difference between British and American smiles, the reason why yawns are contagious, the kind of morbid but thought-provoking idea that you should hug a suicide bomber (that is, because of the dynamics of a suicide bomb explosion, one should sacrifice yourself to save others around you), the cone of babble, and lastly, the idea that the crawl at the bottom of the TV news makes you stupid.
As they say, food for thought. Thanks -- Joe
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Hearing Cowboy Junkies, Helpless
The Year in Ideas
This is great, because I get to link to a lot of interesting stuff without having to do a lot of work (though I plan on talking about a few of these things in greater depth).
Anyway, I've highlighted some of the bloggier and community-type stuff:
(One note: The online version of the article would be a lot friendlier if they linked to all of the stuff that they talked about. Also, since it's the New York Times, free registration may be required. I guess that was two notes.)
* Fleeting Relationships looks at the value of fleeting relationships (e.g. the people on the bus with you) and anchored relationships (people you see only at specific venues).
* Google Map Mashups examines the neat things you can do with Google Maps' plug-in architecture. Combined with Folksonomy (which is like community content tagging) and Open Source Reporting, it's very Web 2.0 (which is something I will definitely be discussing more).
* On the mostly-blog side, we've got Splogs (or spam blogs), Newspapers Blogging as a primary source of info during Katrina, the rise of Video Podcasting, and the supposition that Conservative Blogs are more effective than liberal blogs at advancing their agendas.
* From the phone world, we see a service geared to Preventing Drunk Dialing, plus, a way from the MIT Media Lab for groups of people to vote on whether you should be allowed to take that cell phone call.
* Then, some that are just interesting include: the difference between British and American smiles, the reason why yawns are contagious, the kind of morbid but thought-provoking idea that you should hug a suicide bomber (that is, because of the dynamics of a suicide bomb explosion, one should sacrifice yourself to save others around you), the cone of babble, and lastly, the idea that the crawl at the bottom of the TV news makes you stupid.
As they say, food for thought. Thanks -- Joe
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