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Archive for January, 2005

January 26th, 2005

Imagine all those tags. Eventually we will talk about tag-spam or else. Social classifications are definetly a worthwile endeavour. Although we are at the beginning of a life-cycle I wonder how we will integrate it into our practices after the innovation is encultured.

Adding Technorati Tags with MarsEdit: “Laura Lemay: ‘As part of this whole tagging experiment I wrote a little applescript for MarsEdit to automatically insert the ‘Technorati Tags’ HTML at the bottom of each post… After installing it, you use it by tagging your post and then just choosing the script from the Script menu.’”

(Via Ranchero.)



January 21st, 2005

So much to do, so little time. If you develop and roll out a web-based software tool there are two things you need least.

  1. users
  2. company firewall


January 18th, 2005

Image Revealing article by Johann Werfring, historian-journalist (no blog) in an Austrian journal about Franz Xaver Messerschmidt a baroque sculpturist (1736-83). As always things are different! Museums are not the home of truth. In fact there is no truth at all. Except the one that there is none.”br”



January 16th, 2005

Almost everything can be available as RSS. Even my bank-account could send RSS-notifications. But then …

RSS of Public Library Check-outs and Requests Available for SF: “

ELF | Your Personal Email Library Reminder Service

Following-up on my earlier LazyWeb request for library account RSS feeds. Just last night, I requested that ELF add San Francisco[base ']s public library to their collection of systems, and, bang,
there it is when I wake up this morning: free RSS feeds of (and emails
about) checked-out and on-request books with configurable reminders,
mobile messaging, and a nice, simple interface.

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