Busy Bee May 13, 2006
Posted by Kenneth Hood in linkage, my social sites.add a comment
I haven't blogged in a while and I blame it on two things. 1) Excessive playing of Civilization 2, and 3) Enjoying the disc-swapping awesomeness that is Barter Bee
(you can sign up using the hyperlinked image below)
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I found out about this site while listening to diggnation. My current goal is to trade all of my old DVDs and PC games for PSP games (just bought the value pack).
More links coming soon…
Is it legal? Maybe. Is it awesome? You bet. April 18, 2006
Posted by Kenneth Hood in linkage, music, my social sites.4 comments
Lots of artists and bands, lots of good commentary, but still plenty of room for more. For those bored with the traditional fly-by-night lyrics sites SongMeanings.Net provides a more holistic experience by combining lyrics and fan comments. Someone wants to get flipped.
Technorati Tag: lyrics
Addicted to Web 2.0? April 13, 2006
Posted by Kenneth Hood in my social sites, search.add a comment
Then you belong at BuzzShout. Get all the latest "buzz" on a tagged plethora of current Web 2.0 websites and services. Registered users can submit sites for review, comment on any number of sites that they are familiar with, and moderate comments up and down. If you prefer leeching, the search feature is open to all.
BuzzShout's only major flaw is that there does not seem to be any way to edit the basic profile of a submitted site. This is especially irritating when you consider the lack of a spell-check. All in all though, probably the most efficient way to read and distribute opinions on Web 2 companies. (compared to the comments section at TechCrunch or the numerous lists on Listible)
Tech versus Technology April 8, 2006
Posted by Kenneth Hood in my social sites, search.add a comment
Whenever a flat folksonomy is used, problems are bound to ensue. A common complaint of taxonomies like del.icio.us (from now on referred to as “D”) is the use of synonyms to describe the same term. Looking at the two popular tags tech and technology, I wondered “is there room for both?”
A Brief Analysis
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Tech
timeliness: 1 minute to 3 hours ago
related tags: technology, blog, news, web, blogs, computer, mac, daily, geek, software, reference
Technology
timeliness: 12 minutes to 1 hour ago
related tags: news, blog, software, tech, web, web2.0, video, internet, computer, blogs, security
One minor deducemnt: Technology has closer links to the Web 2.0 tred with the tags blog, web2.0, and blogs (internet and web are borderline words as they tend to describe much broader concepts). Also, it is notable that in many cases both tags are being used, probably as a result of sloppy tagging or auto-tagging techniques.
I prefer to use neither of these tags as I find them too vague. Almost everything that I bookmark could be tagged as technology related.
Comments Welcome :)
Technorati Tags: delicious, tagging, folksonomy
Myspace Experiment March 16, 2006
Posted by Kenneth Hood in my social sites.3 comments
Myspace bulletins are the new email forwards (Fwds 2.0 if you need a catchphrase). The significant improvement is that the re-posting of a Myspace bulletin to every contact in a profile takes far less time and worry than forwarding a chain letter to your email contact list. This is primarily because while the content within a bulletin is often offensive and/or moronic, the method used to deliver that content never is. By allowing (by default or design) a separate area for chain messages, Myspace can allow anyone to send silly messages to everyone, with minimal annoyance to those who aren't the least bit interested.
My experiment: Can the viral bulletins of Myspace be used to inflate my blog traffic?
I'll be posting my bulletin from my account [http://myspace.com/warofwrath] of 30 (actual) friends.
Title: Been putting something off???Body: write down -one- thing that you absolutely -must- do in the next 48 hours and repost this bulletin so that others can remind you
(I'll start)
1. post a blog entry at www.linkage.wordpress.com – Kenneth
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Posted Mar. 16, 2006 at 10:34 pm CST
