Category: General

Today:

BlogLinks:
Local Google, very cool new idea from the Oligarchs of Search. Would be very cool if this could be integrated into a mobile and automatically selected where you are.

Spoken interface from Apple. As usual nice idea but a little weird to be in an office where everyone is bantering away to their computer. Also would the computer be hurt when you are ranting at it for doing something you didn’t want it to do. Like it wouldn’t re-boot until you say sorry, buy it a new USB port and promise never to say such horrid things again. I’ll stop now…

Guinness Beer

Bob Zangas’ last entry…‘OK….that’s enough for today. Hang on to your dreams!’ Very strange concept the idea that these arbitrary comments still so fresh can carry such power.

BlogPeople:
Mariah Carey
Margaret Thatcher
Isaac Asimov

Would make a great sci-fi. The Iron Lady attacks the Butterfly.

BlogPhrases:
American idol
favourite TV show
HEE HEE HEE
lord Jesus Christ
says it all really

Blogs defined by many as a fairly personal content form on the Internet. A person’s Web log is almost like an open diary.

Blogdex ‘uses the links made by webloggers as a proxy to the things they are talking about. Webloggers typically conceptualise their writing with hypertext links which act as markers for the subjects they are discussing. These markers are like tags placed on wild animals, allowing Blogdex to track a piece of conversation as it moves from weblog to weblog’.

I think this is rather interesting and have integrated some RSS feeds on this site (right hand nav: BlogPeople / BlogPhrases and BlogLinks). These are taken from BlogPulse (from the Intelliseek Applied Research Center) which automatically tracks trends on weblogs. Apparently because ‘The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically.‘

With this in mind I propose an experiment using BlogPeople / BlogPhrases and BlogLinks) as a reference, I will track the trackers, mine the miners, depth charge the depth chargers. And in the true spirit of postmoderism, self-reference the self-referencial. Are there patterns in the way blogging works, or is it just a immeadiate reaction to what’s going on around us, a further extension to mass media? It may turn out that all I am simply doing is further hacking up a snapshot of a much wider picture, or that I see what I want to. But hey, where would we be without ridiculous theories and conjecture. That’s what the web’s best at. And ofcourse it gives me something to blog about

So todays top ten peeps are….

Bob Zangas
Mr . Zapatero
John Howard
Jose Maria Aznar
Tim Blair
John Quiggin
Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Peter Bagge
Minister Leszek Miller
Sgt . Camilo Mejia

Much fun to be had using some of Google’s ‘advanced operators‘. But how would they deal with themselves:
“Currently the most important spidering search engine by far, Google is dominating the search engine market.”

Or how about this

If the Royal family had not decided to change their name to the more English sounding Windsor in 1917 and then the Queen decided to share her last name with Prince Philip then the rather interesting double-barrelled moniker would be:

Elizabeth von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha ~ von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburtg