Tue, 2008-Nov-18 by nmw.

#2 Reason: You Have to Chop Down Trees to Make It

Wha? #2?!? So what’s #1?

#1: It Can’t be Edited as Easily as a Cloud

That’s right — and paper is not really all that good at leaving a “paper trail” either.

As a trained archivist, I know how photocopy machines can cause more confusion. And then came mailing lists, reply to all — you name it.

Wiki has really revolutionized publication — but it is still the darling of web entrepreneurs….

Where do we Go from Here?

Well, maybe we need to get back to the idea of “markup” — the original version. Well, I’m not talking about marking typos per se, but rather incorporating structure to revisions — for example, Authorship:Is it really “correct” to say that the last editor of a collaboratively created document is its “sole” or “primary” author? Probably not. How do we leave trace of authorship? When does a remark lose it’s relationship to the author, because one or more words have been revised, changed, deleted or additional words are included? These are all important questions — difficult to answer, but important nonetheless. Otherwise, we would be fooling ourselves into thinking we are behaving responsibly — quite the contrary would be the case: we would be about as responsible as the pack of children “toying” with power in the Lord of the Flies.

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Tue, 2008-Nov-11 by nmw.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Search…

Google will not release the true numbers: Porn is creeping up on Sex, but neither are as lucrative as Google.

Why?

Do you have any ideas? If so, please go ahead and post your answers, guesses or whatever below!

:) nmw

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Tue, 2008-Nov-11 by nmw.

Web 2.0 — Padmasree Warrior (Cisco) and Shane Robison (HP) talk about Cloud Computing as the Future Web

One thing was missing (IMHO) from this nearly hour-long discussion — Charlene Li’s and Josh Bernoff’s notion of the “Groundswell”: Both Padmasree and Shane very strongly took the perspective of the organization apart from it’s stakeholders. This is a weak point — and one that needs to be addressed with a view to integrating the two.

Where does the Cloud meet the Groundswell?

The place where these 2 different perspectives meet is simple & straightforward: Language (an in particular keyword domain names).

One of my primary focus points in graduate school was the relationship between written and spoken language. Of course both are very closely linked, but these two “spheres” of language use are, perhaps a good construct for thinking about integrating the Groundswell (cf. spoken language) and clouds (cf. written language). Now of course these are crucial points related to knowledge management, the semantic web, cognitive structures and related issues that are important in the context of information storage and retrieval (aka “search”).

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Mon, 2008-Nov-10 by nmw.

Please believe this, because I have SEO’ed / optimized it for “search engines” (aka Google ;)

Do you really believe this crap? Are you that gullible?

If the answer to the above questions is “no”,  then why do you pay attention to Google?

Simple: Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live, etc. — they all function according the wisdom of the language (because it’s more reliable than title tags or other SEO nonsense ( such as, for example: “4.3% of Wall Street Bailout Would End World Hunger [WTF?!]” — OMG: LOL!! ;)

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Sat, 2008-Nov-8 by nmw.

The whois service listed at IANA is not working properly

So I can’t figure out who is responsible for Change.GOV.  :(

Why does Change.GOV link to Youtube.COM?

Should our tax dollars support ads by Google?

This is a worrisome trend

It ought to be checked out immediately.

Update: whois.nic.gov is also not responding — see also www.aboutus.org/Change.gov.

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Fri, 2008-Nov-7 by nmw.

We’re 100% Internet — We don’t have software :)

Mark Benioff (Salesforce.COM): “Look: You have choices — you can look at azure, you can look at force.com, you can look all of these different platforms that are available.”

What is the upper limit?

I think this is based on the vocabulary of terms humans can manage at any point in time — perhaps starting at around the size of the yellow pages (hundreds or several thousand) up to the vocabulary of an entire “natural” language (several hundred thousand). My gut feeling is that it’s somewhere in the middle… (and/but that Microsoft and Google (etc.)  feel that it might be less than a dozen or so ;)

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Fri, 2008-Nov-7 by nmw.

Causes.COM is a Facebook App that Uses the Wisdom of the Language

Mark Zuckerberg presented it at the Web 2.0 Summit (Conference) yesterday with the following. JohnBattelle: “It’s growing very quickly… (?)” Mark Zuckerberg: “Oh, yea! It’s growing at hundreds of thousands of people a day.”

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Thu, 2008-Nov-6 by nmw.

Search Engines (Google?) “New Online Customers”: Organic Traffic Down 33%

Pictured at right is a piece of slide #43:

Note also that whereas last year the percentage of new online customers acquired were about evenly split between “Search Engine Marketing” and “Organic Traffic”, this year acquisition via marketing is twice as high as via search — that is (IMHO) a precipitous fall in search.

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Tue, 2008-Nov-4 by nmw.

Q&A — Question :: Is the USA Headed into a Recession or Depression?

How bad is it? Considering the 2008 Election is coming to a close today, it seems to be quite bad. Advertising spending is down despite campaign advertising for today’s presidential elections.

I will be watching for statistics related to presidential campaign ad spending and posting data as it becomes available at Candidates2008.INFO.

What about Christmas?

Perhaps something amazingly wonderful will happen… — a miracle?

What about the Economy?

My hunch is that 2009 will be one of the worst years in decades.

What about the World?

I think the result of this economic recession / depression will be a significant shift in the “balance of power” among the world’s largest economies.

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Fri, 2008-Oct-31 by nmw.

Just in time for Halloween… ;D

We have arrived at web 3.0!

Links don’t matter — nofollow is now a success!

What matters is posting…. Publishing…. My domain… — period.

Nice trick, eh?

;D nmw

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