I Like This!

Playing around – seeing how the ads work. Let me know what you think.

It is something to learn about! For all its commercialisation it
should send ads that are of interest. It could even do that so well
that people might like to come here for the ads. I doubt it. But RSS
could do that. I have been thinking that RSS is really a form of I
like this!
. (Our old idea from the ninties) So I am going the get it going, if only as a way of
creating TOPICS that I am envious of in Typepad etc.

Notice the thread here in the posts. Email is Dead, Topics, Spam… I
think I was wrong to say that the RSS alternative to email is not
likely to happen.

It happens like this:

  1. An XML marked up version is created out of my emails.
  2. This puts my emails in a big pile on my machine.
  3. Depending on certain tags, most of that pile goes online with
    super-secure protection.
  4. Weblogs are created from the pile using certain key words.
  5. Access is set up – for each weblog, anything from public, to
    family, to self-only.
  6. I allow you to add items to your Weblog using only those items with your
    name in the to line.
  7. That Weblog is your inbox and with the tags you can
    create sub-weblogs like folders in an email client.
  8. No spam!

Add a rating tag for I like this! we create taste-pools
with our taste-buddies.

BTW – these are email posts.

The last few posts were all sent by email to the Weblog. I
can add that address as a BCC to a private blog, so none of this
is too far away for me.

Incidentally, it is the
first time I have ever wanted a Decent HTML way of
sending mail. Right now this is coming from Homesite via Agent
to the weblog.

Fractal Freud

Found this image while looking for Compressionism. Which is a whole ism about what Stanislav Groff called Systems of Condensed experience. I see it as something Freud named as transference – carry-over. Fractals, a pattern in one time and place resonates with a pattern in another. OK, a very brief post – a big idea.

Unspoken of Groups

This is from a thoughtful item by David Weinberger:

I have two premises today. The first is that groups are really, really important. I believe they’re what’s driven the public passion for the Net from the beginning. But I suspect I don’t have to talk you into seeing the value of groups.

Second, the Net is really bad at supporting groups. It’s great for letting groups form, but there are no services built-in for helping groups succeed. There’s no agreed-upon structure for representing groups. And if groups are so important, why can’t I even see what groups I’m in? I have no idea what they all are, much less can I manage my participation in them. Each of the groups I’m in is treated as separate from every other.

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Saturday, 24 July 2021

I’ve been following my whims opportunistically today. Found this post from 2003. I like it just because it’s still relevant.

Groups are great. The net is messy.

I like this post most of all because the link still works!

✔ July 2021

Email Dead?

Many-to-Many – a post by Ross Mayfield quoting many other items on the subject, claiming RSS is a better group tool. I doubt it myself as it is just not ubiquitous enough.

The ONLY SPAM solution: MONEY

BRAIN WAVES: neurons, bits & genes:

Only money can eradicate spam. The Internet is a globally distributed ecosystem complete with evolving organism/organizations that continuously adapt to change. The current spam epidemic is proof. Moreover, no legislative or technical solution (i.e. filters) will be able to stop it. Why? Because spam is fundamentally an economic problem.

Nice item with a great idea from Zack Lynch on the Corante website – which filters news – is a weblog? With various subsections including the Many-to-Many which is good on groupware.

Weblog Layout Done!

I am very pleased with the layout at this point. I’ll call it version 3.00 With a lot of help from Josh Campbell (thats him on the right) of Zype I have got the CSS the way I want it and the layout images right. I have done an extraordinary amount of tweaking to get the black borders here to work with blogger… Black borders you ask? In Mozilla this weblog is 800px wide and centered. That is a reasonable width to read any single column of text IMO. IE does not have max-width working so it fills the window. I might still put it in a box on IE, not sure. For now its done.

ON to finalise the rest of the website!

Thanks Josh, and everyone else who watched me agonise over this.