I’ve been away for awhile at a conference about the web with almost no internet access at it. Had a great time but cannot understand why that happened. It made me very angry.
Now I’ve got to get back to posting on the various blogs I’m responsible for. Hope all are well, more later.
It’s true. Second Life, it’s all the rage amongst lots of folks – I had never heard about it before SXSW and I heard SO MUCH about it there. Like the American Cancer Society held a virtual relay for life event in Second Life. People were talking about using it for prison recidivism reduction and other forms of rehab. As a means of socialization for the severely disabled. All kinds of stuff.
To get a taste of where this wild new world is going, check out New World Notes. I got to have dinner with the author, James Au, in Austin and I think what he’s doing is great. Second Life is interesting enough that an exec from the company that runs it will be speaking at the Net Squared conference on Web 2.0 and social change.
Anybody know a good solution to the problem of wanting more than one (like personal and work) social bookmarking accounts? If you’re logged into one, you’ve pretty much got to log out of it and log into the other if you want to switch. This is totally counterintuitive to the river of content that is web 2.0. Workflow or tech solutions anyone? The best I can think of is to just use two different systems. Save work in Spurl.net and personal in del.icio.us, for example. Really no fun, though. And it complicates the use of otherwise fantastic tools like OnlyWire.
Maybe if I link to Identity Woman she’ll come save the day and help us out with some ideas or perspective.
Grazr is one of apparently several mini OPML browsers, but it’s the one I’ve used so far and I like it. If you haven’t seen it in action, check out the “my favorites” box in my sidebar. I think there are lots of different and interesting ways that this kind of tool could be used, so here’s a list of ideas I’ve come up with so far (please feel free to add more).
This list has infinite potential, but I’ve run out of time. You get the idea. Working with OPML outlines is going to get easier and easier and this new way of displaying them is a key step. Heck, this list could be elaborated on, have lots of details added, and work great inside one of these dynamic boxes itself.
Digg clones (see this one, this one, this one and this one), mapping services (like Community Walk and others in that space) and blog traffic stats services. Any thoughts on any of the above would be more than welcome in comments.
I also need to write a how to use OPML post, but I am just slammed with catch up work right now.
Check out the awesome new Explore feature over at the mapping service Community Walk. Not only increasingly functional but professional looking too. Search, tag clouds and so much more. I should write up a comparative review of these different mapping services. I said I was going to awhile ago, but the head of Community Walk told me I should wait a bit for their redesign. Now I can see why!
Numbers are all relative, but I’m proud of myself for being interesting enough for this many people to find this blog worth subscribing to. Thanks everybody! I hope you’ll forgive me for posting this.