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Re-editing the Old Testament (pdf-23pg via Ralph)
Rabbi: "before the Zionists came, [Arabs and Jews] lived together" (viN)
Lucid ArundhatiRoy update (UkG)
Chomsky on recent conflicts (Znet via Heath)
Plot-theory review (incl Polti) (UkG-long)
8 firstaid myths (lHack-1pg)
40pix of worldwide McD's menu items (1pg via lf)
Galileo vvvclose to discovering Neptune (sciBlg)
NudeFreedomDay at the NightOwlCafe (flickr-collage)
vBelated rave for 1987 jMcElroy (laTms)
'Mall Cop' bests 'Public Enemies' (iSteve-longish)
Actors who could play siblings (Cinem-list)
Where are we, what are we doing, / what ruined god moves us at his pleasure (vDaily)
Rabbi: Better jail than hearing singing women (jPost via viN)
Krishnamurti Foundation foundering (arcane)
Childhood movie-theater experiment in anarchy (Cinem)
Effectively haunting EdHarcourt video (Flash-4min)
Why NPR lies for Israel (mWeiss)
Don't-miss DixieChicks-vs-wBu documentary (GgV-90min)
Jacko's genius lasted about 6mos (iSteve)
'Vexel' art (1pg-loong)
What is WSJ's 'Inner Truth'? (pKrug-short)
Charming literary dustups (pHen-ukTel)
Perfectest pumpkin // in the patch, your heft on mine / is what I crave (NPR)
Fundamental crisis in capitalism (iGrd w/link)
63yo NeilYoung makes 67yo Macca look lightweight (yT-8min)
Revived mp3-blog experiment (rw w/rss)
IrisMurdoch on BBC today (8pmGMT)
RollingStone expose on Goldman-Sachs (12pg-imgs)
Dogme2010: the videogame (MTV via Cinem)
1st new Stewart-Gaskin in 18yrs (aaJ-2pg)"Baby, that's beer money. Just push me down the stairs and we'll go out." (oDinny)
Rave w/vids for IncredibleStringBand (bgSpec)
Visualising bailout-costs (diagram via lf)
Human body's energy budget simplified (RoT)
Did gammaray burst cause Ordovician extinctions? (lSci)
CIA still hiding JFK/LHO secrets (TPM)
philG rethinks the university (loong)
Iran complexities simplified (moonAL)
rFisk on Iran complexities (ukInd)
NPR speech-impediments snark (MeFi-2007)
Is Betelgeuse about to go supernova? (sNews-short)
New Mossad-conspiracy testimony (Nation via mjb)
AliceMunro story filmed as "Away From Her" (NYer-loong)
MemeWatch: "... 3. ??? 4. PROFIT!" (Twittersearch)
Why financial teevee is stupid (list via iGrd)
Width of extended hand = 15 degrees (RoT-vshort)
Short ChrissieHynde interview (ukInd via Jz)
NyT could fix BostonGlobe (philG)
dTongue's moderated urban/wiki/dictionary/2.0 (Wordnik)
Lucid angry jScahill on bMoyers (PBS-18min w/trnscrpt)
Cruel teen-photographer snark (Onion-vshort)
Awesome photosurrealist (3000pix)
1965 PattyDuke movie dance number (yT)
Bing close 2nd in ongoing blind test (Blgscpd w/link)
Jawdropping Java demo (Base26 via lYellow)
Inspiring 100th-monkey danceparty (yT-3min via dLaugh)
'supercut' = exhaustive survey montage (links-list)
20 feminist teevee characters (Jz-1pg)
Sun moving away from Earth 15cm/yr (newSci)
Recycled-fridge-magnet bookmarks (1pg via lHack)
MemeWatch: paraprosdokian (twitter-search)
Mars rover stuck in ?dustdune (astroPic)
Pak drones inspire folklore (ukG via moonAL)
Fire Bernanke! (dBaker)
Goto considered helpful (thread-arcane)

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Intro

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Birth of blogging

i may or may not use this post
to aggregate debate
about the origins of blogging

my word 'weblog' was intended to summarise
some simple basic design features
that hadn't yet been recognised as such

- the best web links
- of every kind
- briefly described
- added as discovered
- top-down
- keep the page short/quick
- link direct to the juicy stuff
- everybody shares their tastes

existing models all lacked some of these
(justin hall's was long/slow
winer kept rearranging the day's items)

i avoided 'news' at first
looking far and wide for good content
most others hadn't yet discovered

it was a (small) catastrophe
when blogger.com co-opted the word
for online diaries

few people maintain proper weblogs

and i'm still waiting
for a decent online web-logging site
(delicious is closest)

twitter isn't a good fit
urls are masked
archives are clumsy

the explosion of options
has become frustrating

'onebit blogging' a la
hypemachine and flickr
seem hopeful, in their way

[mefi thread]
[Ammann]
[Rosenberg]
[Winer]

 
 
 
 
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What flickr/Twitter could learn from HypeMachine

others' faves should be 1stclass streams
with a variety of views

who-subscribes-to-who should be public

more-than-onebit blogs
should be supported too
(eg featuring a content-creator a day
giving background on them)

merge subscriptions to new content
and subscriptions to others' faves
into one stream

prominently feature the count of faves
for each content-item
and conceal/reveal the 1st dozen or so faver-names
within the content-stream

clicking on a faver-name
shows their faves stream
and offers their subscriptions-list
and a single click adds/subscribes-to them




a few things hypem should add:

visible indication of which tunes
you've already tried

onsite user blogs

suggestions of users/blogs/bands/tunes
you'd likely like

 
 
 
 
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Appreciating 'Hype Machine'

i imagine that the hype machine
chose their awful name as camouflage
for their true purpose
of free-mp3-blog-aggregator

but as these things go
they seem to be cuttingedge state-of-the-art

the design-theme is giddy redundancy
everything is one-step-or-less away
and infinite reversibility
(try anything, no commitment)




it took me embarrassingly long to figure out
how to play the tunes
and find the hidden mp3s
(click rightpointing triangle to play
(player at bottom even lets you change pages
without stopping the current song)

open 'read full post' link in new tab
to find mp3 link)




finding new music

start with a song you love
that you think defines your special taste
search for it, 'love'-heart it
go thru everyone else who's hearted it
and sample their recent faves
'follow' them if there's any overlap
(watch which blogs they find good tunes on
and 'follow' these too
or sample them as radio stations)
(following individuals with similar taste
is the general solution to
the longtail fail)

search for favorite artists
and 'follow' them
(it seems you can't yet backtrace
who else follows an artist?
or find generalised most-similar recommendations)




needs:

5star ratings scale

best-first priority-queue

 
 
 
 
 
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