I’m waiting in Newark airport for a connecting flight to Montreal, where I’ll spend some time with Maria and be at the IA Summit – maybe the friendliest conference around. I’ll be talking with Liv and Jorge about global IA, and basically filling my IA brain for the next year.
Month: February 2005
David Wienberger on Taxonomies and Tags. One thing many people fail to see, I think, are good ways to combine the strengths of various system. I’m working on an experiment with faceted tagging (better than facetious), so we’ll see how that turns out :)
Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings: a NYT article about videobloggers. It even mentions Mefeedia.com, my fun little crazy side project.
I am subscribed to the feed with all new tags added to Mefeedia. Sometimes I just have to check it out: http://mefeedia.com/tags/rocktapus/
Google Movies. Yet Another Category Killer. from Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent: “The big decision, from a content producer’s point of view, is not whether aggregation is the way forward, but where in the aggregation chain to put yourself. “
Second p0st: Selecting intersecting sets from MySQL: how do do tagging in SQL. Phil really helped me out, and the comments there are adding to the conversation.
I’m looking for advice on finding a place in Barcelona to stay for 2 months. It doesn’t have to be big. It’d be nice if it had internet. And be in an interesting part of town. What parts of town should I be looking at?