Archive for March, 2004
Today:
BlogLinks:
Local Google, very cool new idea from the Oligarchs of Search. Would be very cool if this could be integrated into a mobile and automatically selected where you are.
Spoken interface from Apple. As usual nice idea but a little weird to be in an office where everyone is bantering away to their computer. Also would the computer be hurt when you are ranting at it for doing something you didn’t want it to do. Like it wouldn’t re-boot until you say sorry, buy it a new USB port and promise never to say such horrid things again. I’ll stop now…
Bob Zangas’ last entry…‘OK….that’s enough for today. Hang on to your dreams!’ Very strange concept the idea that these arbitrary comments still so fresh can carry such power.
BlogPeople:
Mariah Carey
Margaret Thatcher
Isaac Asimov
Would make a great sci-fi. The Iron Lady attacks the Butterfly.
BlogPhrases:
American idol
favourite TV show
HEE HEE HEE
lord Jesus Christ
says it all really
Today’s Blog mining experiment (or mining the mining) has thrown up some interesting findings, not least from the content but the juxtapositioning of the data and the editing:
BlogLinks:
Man treated after attempting to nail himself to cross:
“When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911,”
The most influential reporters and bloggers on the web.
“This list is generated by counting unique references (links) to articles and posts authored in the last 60 days and mixes bloggers with reporters from traditional media.”
Bit of a strange one as I got this link from a XML feed tracking web trends. Ooh self-referential…what came first?
When Slebs Swear
Channel 4’s self-promotional ad showing Scrubs stars, Tony Robinson, Richard & Judy et al swearing like Dockers.
BlogPeople
Get this for a list of people (this is in order of display!):
Tony Blair
Adolf Hitler
Margaret Thatcher
Allen Iverson
Ashton Kutcher
Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare
Jackie Chan
Karl Marx
The mind boggles what that lot would talk about…
and finally BlogPhrases:
The White House is understandably upset about SENATOR JOHN KERRY’s assertion that many foreign leaders are eager to see an end to the Bush….
Clintons legacy lives on
Blogs defined by many as a fairly personal content form on the Internet. A person’s Web log is almost like an open diary.
Blogdex ‘uses the links made by webloggers as a proxy to the things they are talking about. Webloggers typically conceptualise their writing with hypertext links which act as markers for the subjects they are discussing. These markers are like tags placed on wild animals, allowing Blogdex to track a piece of conversation as it moves from weblog to weblog’.
I think this is rather interesting and have integrated some RSS feeds on this site (right hand nav: BlogPeople / BlogPhrases and BlogLinks). These are taken from BlogPulse (from the Intelliseek Applied Research Center) which automatically tracks trends on weblogs. Apparently because ‘The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically.’
With this in mind I propose an experiment using BlogPeople / BlogPhrases and BlogLinks) as a reference, I will track the trackers, mine the miners, depth charge the depth chargers. And in the true spirit of postmoderism, self-reference the self-referencial. Are there patterns in the way blogging works, or is it just a immeadiate reaction to what’s going on around us, a further extension to mass media? It may turn out that all I am simply doing is further hacking up a snapshot of a much wider picture, or that I see what I want to. But hey, where would we be without ridiculous theories and conjecture. That’s what the web’s best at. And ofcourse it gives me something to blog about
So todays top ten peeps are….
Bob Zangas
Mr . Zapatero
John Howard
Jose Maria Aznar
Tim Blair
John Quiggin
Jose Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero
Peter Bagge
Minister Leszek Miller
Sgt . Camilo Mejia
Third order of Simulacrum: The representation precedes the real, and in fact, produces it. What it produces is “hyperreality”.
March 15th, 2004Much fun to be had using some of Google’s ‘advanced operators’. But how would they deal with themselves:
“Currently the most important spidering search engine by far, Google is dominating the search engine market.”
Or how about this
March 12th, 2004