All the same We take our chances Laughed at by Time, Tricked by Circumstances Plus ca change, Plus c’est la meme chose The more that things change, The more they stay the same – Rush, Circumstances Over the past few years I have increased my usage of the technology adoption curve – originating from Everett Rogers and […]
Alan-Levine
Web 2.0 for Tracking Web 2.0
Before I start on this post, I want to note that I am writing it in the Bleezer offline blogging client found via D’Arcy. This little freeware application is just a couple of months old and it already rivals much older for-pay blogging clients. Anyway, Alan Levine is asking for a Web 2.0 tools list […]
I've Been Skyped
Alan Levine, Eric Feinblatt and I were talking over Skype recently about a project that Eric and I are working on (the details of which are soon to be announced) when Alan decided to do an impromptu interview of us regarding how we use our iPods. I’m not sure whether what we had to say […]
Faceted Folksonomies
I’ve been meaning to blog about fac.etio.us but Alan beat me to it. Basically, facetious allows you to create what amounts to a pivot table out of folksonomy-tagged web pages. This is a better solution than creating faceted single tags (e.g., “arthistory:france”) that I made a while back because (a) it’s simpler, and (b) it […]
cogdogblog: Chemistry Students Building Delicious Link Collections
Alan Levine has posted an account of how a chemistry teacher is using del.icio.us tags to have her students gather related resources for her chemistry class. This is directly relevant to a recent conversation here on e-Literate. Good stuff.
More on RSS, the Power Law, and Blogger Sites
Reader Alan Levine (of MLX and cogdogblog fame) writes in with this tip regarding Blogger sites with no visible syndication links: I commented to James, but all of the Blogger.com sites, e.g. http://yanknowwhat.blogspot.com actually have fully functional RSS feeds- the problem is that the default templates do not have the link- you can easily access […]