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| Wednesday, February 15, 2006 |
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Running the credit 
Keeper
| | Tristan Louis, who started the gatekeeper thread (even though he was overlooked by tech.memeorandum in the midst), has posted a follow-up. He's learned a lot, as have we all. |
Widening the open spaces
| | Add a link to Memorandum or Technorati or Digg that says something like "Click here for fresh voices on this topic". An algorithm could sort the data using something like a Pareto Principle for blogs, so you can have a "20" View for the most-read bloggers, and an "80 view for the rest. |
| | Come to think of it, building on Mike Warot's idea, there are probably a hundred views that I can think of that I'd like - perhaps aggregators could open up their data and algorithms, so that readers could be allowed to make out own views? Digg does this a bit, but just aggregates based on vote, and doesn't provide the views. The data are already there, arranged by hierarchy for bloggers and tags for topics, so I can't imagine it would be that hard.... |
Me too. Except for the Geneva part.
| | I'm afraid I'll be the Admiral James Stockdale of Internet Governance. But here's why I'll be in Geneva: the Internet is my home. It's the same reason property owners go to town council meetings. I'm a citizen, concerned about what my local government and neighbors might do to the place where I live. |
Drink your own news river
| | Ever struggled in vain to both track your own conversation and hear the other ones around you too? RSS lets you do that without looking like a fop. Even better, it lets you listen to every conversation ... everywhere. |
| | Doc likens it to drinking from a firehose, only you get to make your own firehose. I'd suggest it¹s more like drinking from the municipal supply, only you get to pick your watershed. |
| | By the way, Jememy's post came from a river fed by the stream formed by a subscription to a keyword search for RSS and conversation. Not from going to any "gatekeepers". |
Getting down with what's up
| | We need to come together to figure out how to ensure that these companies and their technologies are indeed a force for greater democratic participation, not pushing against it. These companies should be, and can be, the darlings of the human rights community for what they can do for human rights in places like China. It doesn¹t happen to be the case today, but I have no doubt that we can get to that point through collaboration that is grounded in honesty, openness, transparency, and a commitment to bedrock democratic values. |
'Rise up
If not dollars
| | Stowe Boyd: Filling the Disclosure Gap. By which he shares an HTML table: eight columns, any number of rows, some of which are broken into up to three checkboxes indicating past/present/future, formal/informal, consulting/advisory, consensual/forced, forgotten/remembered, failed/successful, unlikely/probable/certain... forms of relationship, or whatever. Being HTML, it's up to you, right? DIY city. |
| | Check it out, see if it makes sense. |
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