Random Articles

• Twittergrams: Guarding the Rhino  (photo CNN) In Swahili the tick bird is named ‘askari wa kifaru,’ meaning ‘the rhino’s guard.’ The bird eats ticks it finds on the rhino and noisily warns of danger. Although the birds also eat blood from sores on the rhino’s skin and thus obstruct healing, they are still tolerated. Take a look at what you need
• The Niche is You There must be something in the air, Seth Godin picked up the ‘who’s the audience when everyone publishes?’ argument. Seth is of course right - the cost of the production is quickly reaching zero. Fantastic blog software like WordPress is free - just the cost of implementation. Other hosted services are free. Once a blog is
• Looking for an app that tracks un/friend… Looking for an app that tracks un/friending like buy/sell stock market gestures. I think Eric Rice mentioned this idea a while back. I’ll query his blog in the morning.
• Twitter Ends Friendship In a move that should rock the ’social network space’, Twitter just removed the vague, confusing, juvenile label of ‘friend‘, replacing it with the more descriptive ‘following‘ 1. Aside from the label being more accurate 2 it creates a nice symmetry with ‘followers‘. You and I could say ‘friend‘ is the overlap between the two, but
• Wanted: More Publishers and Better Filters David Newberger and I were talking about information filtering models and much of the thinking behind Feedseeder came though as did a couple much larger issues. The conversation was so good, I thought you’d enjoy it as well. David: I was talking with a few people today and each one mentioned Information Overload in the seperate