Monkinetic Weblog

Josh points us to this way cool dashboard information searchy thing. It purportedly shows you contextual information from your personal information space related to whatever activity you happen to be performing at the time. Ambitious.

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I'm watching a webcast from SXSW, not even sure which one, but it looks like Cory Doctorow talking and sounds vaguely EFF-ish.

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As someone interested in information architecture, I find the typical weblog calendar to be ill-suited to its task. Ostensibly the idea is to show the user what days have posts and let them navigate back and forth in time to view weblog posts.

It's all about the pentiums, baby.

I've got opus (my dual 200 linux box) chewing through 96mb of apache logs, doing reverse DNS lookups, and combining the separate files into a single file I can feed to AWStats (I'm using the logresolvemerge.pl script included with awstats). The combined file is up to 218mb right now!

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Jodi returns from a long absence with not one, but 4 (count 'em!! 4!) new posts on her newly re-designed site!

Courtesy of the Internet Archive, I've obtained a 95%-complete copy of my first published website, circa 1996. Cool, eh?

In their typical in-your-face way, Doc Searls and David Weinberger take some time to explain the internet to the business crowd.

I'm trying to use the Cheetah template engine - a python-based engine along the lines of Velocity - and debugging the template is getting very very annoying.

Thomas P.M. Barnett writes for the Navy War College on the new understanding of the world from the Pentagon's viewpoint. It explains a lot of where our government sees the world going, and what our place in it will be.

Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been trying to come up with an operating theory of the world and a military strategy to accompany it.  Now there's a leading contender.  It involves identifying the problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking them. Agree or disagree, this is one to read.

Dave is talking about preparing to move across country. In October of 2001, I was doing the same thing. There's something exciting, scary, and altogether bigger than oneself about moving to a new life. All the best, Dave!

Jon Udell: The Future Of Online Community.

BTW - I worked on the corporate weblog piece for quite a while, tweaking it, taking out sections wholesale and gutting others to make it read better. Jim Roepcke and Robert Scoble were my guides, and I'm super grateful for their thoughts and time.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the role of weblogs in product development, promotion, and support, especially as an addition to the traditional role of mailing lists in developing user communities.

Damien is stuck in PHX airport (we were supposed to get together but events prevented it) and he's blogging it over Bluetooth and his cellphone. Hehe. Cooool.

[via Jim] Napsterize Your Knowledge: Give To Receive: MarketingProfs.com article on the new dynamics of coporate marketing and information. Tangentially related to the points I make in Corporate Product Support: The Weblog Generation.