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Re: cluetrainplus10 - Links Subvert Hierarchies

Pete Burden — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:21:24 -0000

Yes, interesting Chris.

As you suggest the links model is a good one to apply beyond the web - in real life.

I wonder also why some organisations haven't taken it up - even though it's such a naturally human way to behave?

Re: cluetrainplus10 - Links Subvert Hierarchies

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:41:22 -0000

Insightful stuff. This short article radiates the fact that you've been living and breathing this for years. It seems obvious when you write it like that. Yet I''ve spent two years myself in my startup to realize that all that I've done to become a "normal" business was wrongheaded - and that I should have pursued the online paths a lot more rigouriously - right from the start.

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:38:59 -0000

Definitely :-)

What continues to impress me is the power of trackbacks. Hardly did I write this before a trackback appeared below to my "more in depth" post. I think what made your post here great is that it is so much you :-) So much so, that it inspired me to write a post of my own about it. (couldn't comment hijack my way out of it)

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

LauraHale — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:41:24 -0000

I see it more like a big learning experiment which helps me dress myself and others up for whats coming

That I can relate to. I feel like I've kind of mastered Twitter. I get how the whole game is played. I understand FaceBook. I don't know if I know it well enough in order to help say a business utilize to try to drive customers to a product though there are situations where I feel like I could do something like that well. I play with a lot of things in order to learn them. Some of them I like learning more about. Some of them I don't feel like I know well enough but as they aren't populated by communities I'm interested in? It doesn't seem like that big of a deal. (bebo and orkut come to mind. Xanga is probably the one that I feel the worst not knowing about. I just can't get into it.)

But the commitment to staying with something can be... yeah. :/

Re: I’m growing tired of Twitter

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:31:51 -0000

Great post, which I can totally relate to, and it goes for most online social networks. I would say it is possible to use these tools to create and sustain meaningful relations, although like you it is probably no more than a handfull or at most few handfulls which have come out of my use of Twitter. I haven't calculated it very rationally in terms of how many hours I've put into it, and if I did it probably would not look encouraging. But I don't look at it in those terms. I see it more like a big learning experiment which helps me dress myself and others up for whats coming - and what will be _more_ the real thing. More peer-to-peer driven, more sharing, more caring and much more powerful (as in the Wikipedia meaning of the word). More so than say Twitter, Facebook, even Google, which are all young wild proprietary experiments trapped in the "old" economy.

Re: To fail informatively

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:08:13 -0000

What's not so impressive is the way post #3 ought to appear as the first comment to the article, and the first two comments appear only after that comment. I am currently making an inquiry into whether the post-time of comments can be edited in Disqus, so it is possible to patch things up.

Re: To fail informatively

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:08:13 -0000

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:35:10 -0000

Barney, what do you mean?

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:35:10 -0000

Barney, what do you mean?

Re: To fail informatively

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:44:09 -0000

Or at least it's a bit buggy - see the comments to this thread : http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/events/show/89977656 for the above to make any sense.

Re: To fail informatively

Morten Blaabjerg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:10:27 -0000

It's really impressive what the power of RSS metadata means to a blog post such as this one : (both with the ability to comment via Disqus).

Original post :
http://www.kaplak.com/blog/2008/09/16/to-fail-i...

Post fed via RSS :
http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/events/show/89977656

Re: To fail informatively

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:44:09 -0000

Or at least it's a bit buggy - see the comments to this thread : http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/events/show/89977656 for the above to make any sense.

Re: To fail informatively

Morten Blaabjerg — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:23:03 -0000

Apparently feeding comments back to the blog doesn't work, even though the text above the comment box claims to deliver it.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:30:52 -0000

Now check out DJ kaplak : http://blip.fm/DJkaplak :-)

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:00:02 -0000

Terrific stuff, that DJ site :-) I love it !! Excellent choice of music, too. Good to see you here, Terris !

Several times this summer I've been concerned with putting our data on proprietary services with architectures beyond our own control, such as Twitter. It has been a long winded concern, but was further provoked by Twitter prohibiting me access to my own data (everything beyond 200 tweets in my back catalogue - which is about 80% of my/our Twitter activity). Now, Twitter has opened up again, but it remains a deep concern of mine the way we enthrust web services with "our" data.

Now, as I explore deeper what public feeds entail, I'm less worried. As long as the service offers ways to feed/export data, users remain in control. What we need to work at, then, is improve the feeds and make it easier to extract the information we need from them.

Facebook and other such architectures which offer no feeds/export still present a lot of problems, however.

Re: blip.fm and revenue models : Wouldn't they get a cut of all the songs "sold" from their site? Say 95% of listeners don't pay, but 5% buy a song, from which blip.fm earns a dime?

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:30:52 -0000

Now check out DJ kaplak : http://blip.fm/DJkaplak :-)

I'm impressed ! I only see the embed code for every item just now... !!

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:02 -0000

Terrific stuff, that DJ site :-) I love it !! Excellent choice of music, too. Good to see you here, Terris !

Several times this summer I've been concerned with putting our data on proprietary services with architectures beyond our own control, such as Twitter. It has been a long winded concern, but was further provoked by Twitter prohibiting me access to my own data (everything beyond 200 tweets in my back catalogue - which is about 80% of my/our Twitter activity). Now, Twitter has opened up again, but it remains a deep concern of mine the way we enthrust web services with "our" data.

Now, as I explore deeper what public feeds entail, I'm less worried. As long as the service offers ways to feed/export data, users remain in control. Even Disqus, which I've also had my worries about, can be fed back into the blog or a WP comments archive, if one wishes to.

What we need to work at, then, is improve the feeds and make it easier to extract the information we need from them.

Facebook and other such architectures which offer no feeds/export still present a lot of problems, however.

Re: blip.fm and revenue models : Wouldn't they get a cut of all the songs "sold" from their site? Say 95% of listeners don't pay, but 5% buy a song, from which blip.fm earns a dime?

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:16:42 -0000

Barney, thank you for that note. I'm not so sure there really is a lot revenue there yet to share, as Lijit has yet to find a suitable business model, IMHO. Offering premium services aimed at businesses seems to me a far more promising road to go than putting Google Ads in search results, but only Lijit knows for sure.

Re: Everybody is an Aggregator

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:16:42 -0000

Re: chance meeting with man in Gents toilet - Blog in isolation

MortenBlaabjerg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:13:56 -0000

LOL - had fun reading this.

Re: Dear YouTube friends, can I have my account back?

MortenBlaabjerg — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:27:08 -0000

Loic, IMHO you should direct your pleas and pressure at the television station, which put the pressure on YouTube in the first place, qua their idiotic copyright anti-branding anti-PR legal hazzle for legal hazzle's own sake policy

Re: Contextualized Search

MortenBlaabjerg — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:59:11 -0000

If you didn't know, Twitter has now acquired Summize : http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/finding-perfect...

EDIT : Apparently, this has also broken the link to the search on Summize for my exchanges with Micah. Will try and fix the link.

I somewhat wish the Twitter guys would just concentrate on getting their own service right, instead of buying a perfectly well-functioning service and begin to ruin that too. If the Summize team is now to be working on Twitter, there'll be less time to focus on the search side of Twitter (i.e. Summize), which is too bad, because it was so promising.

Re: Contextualized Search

MortenBlaabjerg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:59:11 -0000

Re: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

MortenBlaabjerg — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:32:48 -0000

"starting with a known, fixed set of categories would help people self-select into or out of a given culture. Fluid tagging allows for increased specialization in forming bonds among people."

Thanks for this inout, Bob :-) I hear what you say, and it's a very interesting point. I believe you are right. What's so incredibly difficult IMO, is to _not_ use fixed categories to describe what we do, because it will lock us into a position we may not want to have. We try very hard to avoid this.

Say we describe what we do as "affiliate marketing", then we lock ourselves into a particular set of ideas, where some people feel comfortable and others definitely not. We may also lock ourselves into a blind spot, where we won't pick up on other ideas which are meaningful, and therefore prevent us from understanding the real problems we aim to understand. Same thing when we say this is for "filmmakers" or if we say we make a new way to "search" or "find information"...

So, our strategy from the beginning has been to throw this blog out here and try to make it sufficiently diverse and interesting in it's themes and capablitiies to attract readers from very different input bases, who share or somehow have an interest in our problem - and further build upon this in our wiki. We're trying to build community from the bottom up, and do that without having a product yet, to build it around. What we have is a problem and a vision, and both will take form as we unfold our online activities. The tough part is connecting and energizing our local networks, at the same time as we create a global network.

We don't know yet precisely where all this will lead, although we do have good ideas about what we want to build. We just can't build this without a broader input base. The old "build, launch and they will come" doesn't work for us.

Re: Why We Don’t Really Like Social Networks

MortenBlaabjerg — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:32:48 -0000