A while back, I posted an idea for checking to see the degree to which two differently named memes overlap in content. Looking back, what I was really talking about was tuning a folksonomy. What we really want is a way to see how much overlap there is between two tags so that we can […]
Archive for January, 2005
Tuning Folksonomies
Published by January 31st, 2005 in Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management, Build This, Please and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsBook Recommendation: A Theory of Fun for Game Design
Published by January 30th, 2005 in Instructional Design and Books I Like. 2 CommentsRaph Koster’s A Theory of Fun for Game Design is one of the best work-related books I’ve read in quite some time. It is also one of the strangest. Written in a simple, plain-spoken style with relatively few words on a page and an illustration on every facing page, printed in a shape that is […]
Well, Shut My Mouth! Bloglines Feed Is Fixed
Published by January 27th, 2005 in Blogging. 0 CommentsUpdate: According to a comment just posted by a Bloglines employee, the feed is not actually fixed yet. They blame it on my ISP’s header support, which I’ll look into, though I don’t understand why Bloglines is the only aggregator that has this problem.
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Naturally, they fix the feed just as I’m flogging them. (Not that […]
Bloglines Still Sucks (Three Months and Counting…)
Published by January 26th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Usability and Human Factors. 12 CommentsYup, the Bloglines feed for e-Literate is still broken after three months. Yup, I’ve sent them multiple emails letting them know that the feed is still broken. Yup, I even let them know (in pretty blunt terms) that I was letting my readers know about the problem. (My experience with other web service providers is […]
Trying Out the Technorati Tags Thing
Published by January 24th, 2005 in About This Site, Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management and Folksonomy. 0 CommentsWith some reluctance, I have added “folksonomy” as a sub-category in my site themes. I’m doing this specifically because Technorati will now pick up these posts as having been “tagged” with “folksonomy.” Frankly, I’m not sure this is a great idea. It encourages the proliferation of categories, which is not necessarily useful to the readers. […]
