Archive for February, 2005

Catching Up on the Backblog

Work has been keeping me so busy lately that the list of postable items has been piling up on my virtual desk. I’m going to try to do some catching up over the next week.
Let me start by calling your attention to Eric Feinblatt’s new blog. Eric is a new friend, colleague, and co-conspirator […]

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 doesn’t […]

Interesting Interview with Flickr CEO

O’Reilly Netowrk’s Richard Korman has a fascinating interview with Flickr’s CEO Stewart Butterfield. (Love that name, by the way.) There’s lots of good stuff here about what makes Flickr work as social software and how people are using it. Here’s what Butterfield has to say, for example, about folksonomies:
Koman: About the tagging, Flickr and del.icio.us […]

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.

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Upgraded to Expression Engine 1.2.1

I have upgraded the site to Expression Engine 1.2.1, which should fix the feed updating problem with Bloglines (which, by the way, still sucks).
As a bonus, I can now use the a desktop blogging application for authoring posts. I am writing this, for example, using MarsEdit, which I highly recommend. It’s very intuitive.

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