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Don’t forget Amaya, annotation freaks!

Nick at TechCrunch talks about annotating the web and mentions a bunch of services that do this and the history of the idea.

I’m surprised that neither he, nor any comments mention Amaya’s implementation of annotea.

More information is not censorship

Mike Arrington’s post about a blogger code of conduct reminds me of when there were protests about “adult warning” labels for lyrics on rap(mostly) and rock albums.

That’s not censorship. That’s providing more information about a product. As long as it is clearly defined what any label means, then people are free to heed or ignore it.

That’s a good thing. Asking or telling people to change the way they do things is a bad thing. It’s a free world, or at least we want it to be.

Changing my picture

My wife has long told me to get rid of the picture of me on my blog.

At Ajax World, Greg Narain said she was right.

Well, I think I will, but what does one do about all the profiles on all the sites and services around that use that picture?

Greg Narain has an answer. More later.

Ajax World Day 2

Steve Rubel just gave a nice talk called the me2revolution, about widgets, ajax and syndication. In other words, how to get your content or message out to where the users are, since he gives the page-view about three years before it’s dead as a meaningful metric. Couldn’t agree more.

I tried to get him to say pay-per-action mght be the future, but he still belives in ad-based content, though he seemed warmer to sponsorships.

Also, I knew he couldn’t get through the talk without a mention of Twitter. His point there was about news feeds that people are creating for Twitter, like Dave Winer’s NYTimes feed. If you don’t create it or at least enable it, others will, so there is no place for not being aware of these technologies.

It was a tough call between Steve’s talk and Adam Sah’s Google Gadgets.

Earlier, Bret Taylor of Google spoke about the challenges of Ajax. He concluded that despite all the negative aspects, it is and will be the way developers create web applications going forward. he also highlighted somenice toolkits for creating ajax applications, and of course Google Web Toolkit was on top of the list. It did look interesting though.

Next up, Google is doing a demo, and then Gregory Narain looks to be taking Stowe Boyd’s place to talk about Social Applications.

A few of the other bits of talks I’ve seen have been a bit about marketing Ajax as a whole, but if you’re here, I can’t imagine you need to be convinced of that.

Looking forward to Andi Gutmans on PHP and Ajax.

Tom Morris says buy a book and forget the conference.

RSS+SSE threads

Some things need repeating:

Kosso is calling for OPML as a format for conversation threads.

Yes. A few weeks after Microsoft released SSE I called for that and it’ll only take a moment this weekend to do it.

Look at this RSS+SSE feed and pay special attention to the version numbers.

They represent OPML outline elements. Version =”1″ are top level, version=”2″ are sublevel, and version=”3″ are sub-elements of the second level.

I’ll post the OPML on Saturday.

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Why Labs Should Care About Me Blue Whales

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Corbett’s Crater longtail effect

Damn. I want my own crater now.

I wonder if there is a bunch of kinetic energy left over from the impact that fuels James Corbett’s blogging.

Media Summit is a shameful joke

I almost went to Media Summit.

After reading Jeff Jarvis’ summary of the Barry Diller keynote, I’m glad I didn’t. What a joke!

Let’s put all the people who don’t get it in a room and see if we can convince ourselves that the people who do get it are wrong.

Media Summit is a bunch of has beens grasping for life rafts around their sinking ships.

Media Summit is a joke.

The Press Release is dead, and the death of newspapers killed it

Great quote form Stowe Boyd on the dying press release:

The argument that the press release is the right mechanism to transmit important information to the world because it works so well for newspapers, is something like saying that oats are what we should put into the gas tanks of cars because it works so well for horses.