The game of cat and mouse continues...
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Boing Boing: BoingBoing banned in UAE, Qatar, elsewhere. Our response to net-censors: Get bent!
2.27.2006
Boing Boing: BoingBoing banned in UAE, Qatar, elsewhere. Our response to net-censors: Get bent!
web2.0 makes my brain hurt
Frazzled, mind boggling interludes of extremely quick, efficient, inefficient, targeted, untargeted, focused, unfocused, relevant, irrelevant searching & information retrieval in the wacky wild web2.0 world...
web2.0 has really done it.
pushed me to the brink of losing control. control over being able to efficiently manage the flow of information into my brain. control over the process of determining what is relevant, what is irrelevant, what to filter, what to focus on, what not to focus on. its really starting to make my head hurt. am i alone here? does anyone else feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information, feeds, mashups, blogs, news, email, etc that streams past our eyeballs on any given day?
it's getting out of control. to the point, where my ability to search, filter, scan, browse, repeat -- which is a pretty damn efficient process -- is becoming unmanageable. even with a master's degree in library and info science, I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle here.
let me explain.
today, web2.0 makes it incredibly easy to search for, locate, identify, and acquire useful, rich, relevant, and enlightening information
information that can EASILY be turned into knowledge.
in virtually any domain, on virtually any topic.
[except in china, where companies like msft, goog, yhoo bow down to the govt and censor the flow of information, but don't get me started on that rant. grrrrr]
the problem is that there are no boundaries.
web2.0 makes it too easy to learn just about anything about anything. quickly.
add to this, the "social" aspects of web2.0 and the new genre of socialsoftware (e.g. del.icio.us, flickr, digg, techcrunch) that harnesses the power of the"collective intelligence"
and you get really cool, interesting pages, that can take hours and hours and hours to fully explore/digest.
real time wasters.
don't believe me.
look at your watch.
then check out the links below
http://del.icio.us/popular/lifehack
http://del.icio.us/popular/cool
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/
http://digg.com/topstories
did you come back?
look at your watch again. how much time did it take you to browse these 4 simple links?
get my point?
clearly, web2.0 is opening some pretty interesting doors.
in fact, reminds me of late 1996/1997 just as the .com boom was starting to take off. this web2.0 crap is also the reason why I don't get much sleep anymore.
this is exciting stuff. its too interesting for me to ignore. the mashup phenomena that we are witnessing right now is one of the most interesting unintended trends on the web right now.
on the flip side, web2.0 is also introducing a bunch of new problems, which began as the primary topic of this post - most notably -- how to deal with information overload, which isn't really a new problem at all.
today, we simply have a much more powerful set of tools available at our fingertips that compound the issue.
information seeking discipline is key. focusing on the task at hand. taking it to completion, without being distracted. this is the biggest challenge we face today. dealing with distraction. I really think it comes back to discipline in the end. guess I need to work on that some more.
to conclude this frazzled, somewhat unintelligeable, inconclusive rant on how web2.0 hurts my head, I'll leave you with some final thoughts that just might help fight the info overload battle in this brave new web2.0 world.
you know what, screw it, my head hurts. best of luck web2.0 surfing. maybe another time, I'll elaborate on my "rules of survival as an information seeking specialist in the web2.0 world."
until then, happy filtering.
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2.25.2006
Dion Hinchcliffe offers some perspectives on web2.0 and what it means to the enterprise
As a product manager in a medium sized enterprise software company, I certainly can appreciate Dion's perspective. As an organization we've already embraced many agile practices, while at the same time still have a centralized org structure that at times defies the agile model completely. My point is that the web2.0 + enterprise software mashup has yet really materialize / go mainstream yet.
There are many aspects of web2.0 that are simply NOT applicable in the enterprise software biz, and that's just fine - after all we're not talking about online word processing, picture sharing, and lifehacking - we're talking about building bullet proof software for the Global 2000. Do you really think Bank of America would include a piece of web2.0 technology that's in "public beta" in its online banking solutions?I highly doubt it.
At the same time, there are a ton of benefits that can probably be realized in bringing strategic web2.0 concepts to the enterprise. For example - the mashup phenomena that is sweeping across the net right now is driving a lot of the innovation behind most web2.0 startups and it appears to be working. New business models still need to emerge, but the pace of innovation is quite astounding right now.
Think about bringing the idea of mashups to the enterpriseweb2.0 [thanks for the tag Dion. Did you coin it?]. Wouldn't it be cool if we could build upon the SOA model that we're trying to get our enterprise customers to move to and allow them to quickly and securely expose public mashable apis that their partners, customers, suppliers, and other constituents can quickly consume and integrate into their new "enterpriseweb2.0 applications"? Certainly an interesting concept worth more exploration.
This is a really interesting topic that's been on my mind for the past few months. It's good to see someone else posting about it in the blogosphere. Thanks for the post Dion.
Dion's Trackback: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/wp-trackback.php?p=15
2.24.2006
Open AJAX » Blog Archive » Google AJAX Web Page Editor
Anyone got an account yet? I wasn't one of the lucky few to get into the early access program...sigh. anyone want to hook a brutha up?
Open AJAX » Blog Archive » Google AJAX Web Page Editor
2.14.2006
Scoble doing some interesting stuff yesterday. I'll jump on board just for kicks.
brrreeeport experiment. blogosphere to scoble. pls acknowledge transmission. over.
If a Word Falls in the Blogosphere does it Make a Sound? | The News is NowPublic.com
brrreeeport
2.03.2006
Ten Ways To Take Advantage of Web 2.0 (web2.wsj2.com)
Ten Ways To Take Advantage of Web 2.0 (web2.wsj2.com)
Some interesting commentary on how to take advantage of web2.0. I'm still trying to figure out how web2.0 concepts can be infused and sucked into the enterprise software space. Who is using web2.0 in the enterprise today? If you are, I'd like to hear about it.
dion's trackback
1.29.2006
its dumping at alpental
in the spirit of being smart -
I will be heading to alpental tomorrow morning and will ski for 4+ hours. I will be heading up the Edelweiss chair to the upper part of the mountain heading for the backcountry. I will be armed with avalanche beacons, survival gear, and a bright yellow REI ski pack. I will not head into the backcountry without a partner, but I wanted to let you know the specifics, as it is going to be a very very deep powder day tomorrow. I'll call on my way home.
cheers,
brian
1.27.2006
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1.07.2006
Moderate | Lifehack.Community Beta
Still getting familiar with the lifehack ui and process. published a similar version of top10 list on dealing with info overload. appears that my article is # 104 in the lifehack queue. wonder whether it will move up, or simply fall off the list and wither and die. This is all an experiment for me, so time will tell.
Moderate | Lifehack.Community Beta
sem | antics: Twelve Signs You're Taking This Too Seriously
humor. got to put all this web2.0 crapola into perspective sometimes yah know?
sem | antics: Twelve Signs You're Taking This Too Seriously
a top 10 list >> how to deal with information overload >> a day in the life of a web2.0 addict
This is an experiment in a living and breathing and constantly evolving journal/post/top10 list. I will do my best to filter out the noise, but there are some important thoughts that I need to get down to help me with some ideas I have. it will be an evolutionary process. please bare with me. web2.0 makes my head hurt, but I think its too important to not focus on the current trends sweeping across the net right now. What do you think?
Here's a delightful collection of the most important tools, gadgets, services, mashups, and "web2.0 methodologies" that I currently use to deal with information overload and best manage the wealth of information I'm exposed to on the intermobilewebnet.
[12:05pm - Jan 6, 2005 - I suppose I should probably put a top10 here somewhere so here are the current top 10 useful things that I employ to help deal with information overload (dave letterman style)
10. social networking, instant messaging, communication, collaboration, and community. linkedIn, myspace, orkut.com, hotornot, GAIM, meebo, skype, trillian
Gotta have communications channels right? IM is something that most of us have been using for 10+ years. Advancements in IM standards make things like meebo.com and the ability to build a social network possible. You gotta start somewhere and whether your looking to meet new people or just do some business networking, these sites can be (a) entertaining, (b) helpful, and (c) a real time sink. I have just recently started to play around with this tech and while interesting, it has yet to have any real impact on my daily life. Use at your own risk.
9. pics, photo mgmt & sharing. Picasa, Shutterfly, flickr, and ifranview, are my essential photo management tools. My current arsenal of photo-taking devices include a Sony cybershot DSC T1 (5mp), Sony Qualia 016 (2.0mp spycam), razr phone cam (.8 mp), samsung phone cam (1.3 mp). some interesting pic collections: http://u2mgmvegas.shutterfly.com/action/, http://u2rosegardenpdx.shutterfly.com/action/
8. google. Google Desktop Search & Sidebar, search, local, google local 4 mobile, news, adsense froogle, public apis, many more.
7. gadgets, mobile & wireless. razr, samsung t-809, bluetooth, Garmin GPS 2720, ipod nano, ipod v3 40GB + alpine auto system integration (sux), soonr, winksite, google local 4 mobile, motomodders, engadget.
6. web2.0. feeds, tags, rss, top10 lists, most popular, blogs, mashups, social bookmarking, collective intelligence, feed aggregators, zeitgist, ajax, web2.0, open source, source forge, del.icio.us, flickr, flock, google, the list could go on and on and on and on.
5. blogging, feeds & rss. technorati, blogger, feedburner, feedblitz, bloglines,
4. tagging & social bookmarking tech. del.icio.us, flickr, tailrank, myweb2.0 (yhoo), digg, many others, w
3. web2.0 services. writely, soonr, backpackit, clipmarks, winksite,
2. OS tweaks, Firefox on roids, and related netOS tech. bare minimum essentials. firefox + massive extensions + tweaking + operating system optimizations, efficient use of ff links bar (my netOS start menu), and arsenal of web2.0 services and resulting mashups, bootable linux on a stick.
1. top 10 & most popular lists - best web2.0 software, del.icio.us/tag/top10, , top digg stories, google search for "top10 lists", many many more.
CALL TO ACTION: taggers
CALL TO ACTION: taggers
We need a controlled vocabulary and some best practices and/or guidlines for taggers asap. If not, this whole social tagging and bookmarking phenomena is going to implode and get muddied with dirty metadata. I am of the opinion that we should strive to apply the library of congress cataloging rules (or similar methodology) and establish a set of rules for tagging and assigning metadata descriptions to internet works.
It's got to happen before tagging goes mainstream or else we're going to be back in the same place we were with the early search engines in the 1998-2000 era of the interweb.
Who wants to join my mission to bring the concept of a controlled vocabulary and set of guidelines for tagging to sites like del.icio.us, digg, and all the other tagging sites? If you're on board, please leave me a comment or track me down on my blog.
If I get enough interest, I'll commit to whipping up a very interesting site based on an idea that I've had to help address the controlled vocab and best practices for assigning metadata descriptions topics. Who's in?
The rate of progress and innovation in the above topic areas is starting to make my brain ache, and I'm finding myself ignoring some of the most basic life functions (eating, sleeping) to "geek out" on it. As a technologist with an educational background in library and info science, it is so easy for me to get sucked in to the above topics.Why is this important/needed?
As these technologies, innovations, and social phenomena continue to power the current wave of innovation (e.g. the "public api mashup and create a new ajax-powered site" phenomena),i'm finding it harder and harder to manage the exponentially increasing wealth of information that streams across my eyeballs and into my aching brain. the problem is that all of this information is interesting and relevant, and there's no way I can possibly sift through it all in a 24 hour day.This is why I really need a way to work more efficiently and effectively and improve my ability to filter out the noise and only focus on those info gems that I deem most relevant. Thankfully, web2.0 gives me the collective intelligence of the ENTIRE world to help guide me in the right direciton. This is simply amazing and is one of my biggest areas of interest in web2.0.
The social aspects of web2.0 are fueling the ability for sites like del.icio.us and digg.com to deliver really interesting, USEFUL, and RELEVANT information [feeds] to any device that I can connect to the net. This has given me a window into some of the most useful lifehacks that I am actively working on to address the very issue that I'm referring to in this post.
As an example of how important I think the social aspects of web2.0 will power my ability to discover more relevant info, sites, services,people, you name it --- I recently changed my browser homepage from my.yahoo.com (which I've been using for 10+ years) to del.icio.us/popular
In my opinion, the social bookmarking and networking phenomena is driving a new wave of amorphous, adaptive, dynamic, and intelligent sites and services that automagically filter out the noise. This is the power of the "collective intelligence" that is sweeping across the net. People, not technology are driving this [r]evolution (?). look at the weird connections between web2.0 and china that I've just started blogging about.
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More to come on this topic in a bit. Got to take a break and put my laundry in the dryer (which I've been putting off for way too long).
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1.03.2006
TechCrunch » AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App”
Funny how people reconnect. I stumbled across this post on via a del.icio.us entry point and ended up here, at a post about a new startup, started by none other than Matt Gertner - who I know from the early days of ebXML and related XML standards, back in 2000. Way to go Matt. Can't wait to get my hands on this stuff. I want my beta account. Matt! Find me. Please ;-]
TechCrunch » AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App”
1.02.2006
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
Some pretty smart peeps asking pretty hard questions...
THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2006
ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
EXTREMELY USEFUL MATRIX.
ProgrammableWeb: Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix
“Let the Good Times Roll” by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Some great ppt tips from the infamous garage.com founder and purveyor of the "bootcamp for startups" seminar. I had the opportunity of attending a 2 day marathon seminar that Guy put on back in 1997. Good to see him blogging and back in the arena. Would love to get his take on the web2.0 + China phenomena that I've just starting blogging about over at http://web20china.blogspot.com
Thanks for the pointers Guy.
“Let the Good Times Roll” by Guy Kawasaki: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
1.01.2006
bdeseattle's completed things on 43 Things
Just started using 43places today. Great way to catalog and share places I've visited. Yet to explore to social angle of this service. seems very cool though. also be sure to check out http://43things.com as well. another site powered by collective intelligence and social networking. very cool.
bdeseattle's completed things on 43 Things
Netvibes >> My current leading web2.0 ajax rss feed aggregator
I think I'm liking netvibes better than all the other web2.0 ajax feed aggregators. very smooth, slick, and easy.
bdeseattle netOS >> a !web2.0 thing.
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