Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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I wish I could write as clearly and well-argumented as Chris Messina…
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“There is an assumption buried in the collective mind of developers that is hard to remove, and it is that people are best represented by email addresses.[... w]hat is wrong with an email address is that it’s” [both an identifier and a way to contact you]
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YouTube - Mitchell & Webb Sound
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examples of the mismatch between search queries by non-power-users and SERPS:
1. Difficulty of Finding Long Tail Results
2. Keyword Ordering
3. Keyword Relationships
(via ReadWriteWeb)
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Humorous explanation of DNA with the language of a computer scientist:
“This is a description of the build process, make files, and programming language syntax that is life.”
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Tantek Çelik interview by Chris Messina:
“starts off by defining the open web as consisting of two components — access to your data in both directions (reading and writing) and portability”
“argue that proprietary [formats] are like writing in sand”
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’subscribe to everything, read some of it, keep the rest as searchable data, use tags’.
Steve Rubel using the power of Google Reader: “I have found that if you tap into all of its features, it’s the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management.”
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“priority, subject, location”: A faceted approach to Google Reader tags
Read the right content at the right time
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