Listics

Flooded with great information on people seeking traffic this morning.  Troy Worman is shepherding the 100 Bloggers project… a nifty idea that went through so many iterations of lazy that I couldn’t tell you who started it or when, just that a book was promised… I suppose I could look it up.  My access to Typepad was again occluded this morning.  On Firefox I was getting a redirect to a site named "Fake Typepad."  On IE I was just getting a DNS (server not found) error.  All this happened after I visited this blog:

http://deadlinepundit.blogspot.com/

I provide the link in case you’d like to see if there’s malware lurking there to screw up your PC.  So far the guy’s a one trick pony.  "What if the Boston Tea Party was really about rum?"

I’m betting that it was, although I’m sure that tea figured into it somehow.  So how and when did the history get re-written?

Both these links come from people who are emailing people looking for traffic.  I do this sometimes.  I have a select list of other people’s friends I bother when I have written something I think is especially great or just goofy enough… and we’d all like more readers, right?  (Readers write?)  But damn… Troy’s stuff is thick with the stuff that makes newspaper editors on holiday eschew their own publications.  And Ian Williams?  Well, like Troy, he’s more a flogger than a blogger, and right now he’s flogging his new book.  And it’s probably a good book, if you’re into the trangle trade of 17th and 18th centruy British colonialism in the Atlantic.

I’d rather look at a few good photo essays.

Like this…

…or this…

… or this, complete with Bikini!  Or someplace in the Marshall Islands.

Liz Ditz reviews Pinyo’s "7 Deadly Sins of Blogging." While I hoped for a list that was more fun than that, Pinyo has indeed placed some good guideposts.

Same Adam Green?  I wonder what he thought of the SSA meeting.  His name is on the list, but contact info is a little sparse…  In early 2024, Dave said,

Now I have to figure out how to entice him to try Instant Outlining.
His mind will explode when that happens, and that will be something to
behold.

Postscript: Bing!

I posted a kind of generic “conference wish-list” in response to a comment from Nancy White. It’s here: http://sandhill.typepad.com/sandhill_trek/2005/11/intellectual_pr.html

I intend to revisit and apply these criteria to the Corante Social Software Architecture conference later this week. I want to give it all some time to sink in because too often my blogging is shooting from the hip.

One matter of concern for me is getting my hands on the conference roster and contact information. There were several people with whom I purposely foreswore the self-conscious exchange of business cards because we expected to have that info in hand…  When we pay to attend a professional meeting, one of the things we are paying for is the hook-ups.

Another value of the conference scene is that it provides analysts like me with an ongoing environmental scan. It’s like walking the streets at the caravansary, seeing who arrived in the night, who folded their tent and slipped away, who has put on weight, and generally sharing the joys and sorrow of our market bound existence.

Thanks Hylton, Stowe, and Berkmanites. You all hosted a good event and I’m afraid I slipped out the door without thanking you properly.

David Weinberger posted on all the sessions.  He is much kinder than I would be about most of it.  Zephyr, Chris, and Andrew were superb… Mary Hodder was brilliant and Kevin Marks was a little dry.  Liz Lawley… I’ll refer you to this post from Bud Gibson…  (I sat in the terminal with Bud and was gratified by the conversation.  His site, The Community Engine, is wonderfully well wrought.  It’s something that any blogger will do well to emulate.

There was a lot of fun stuff at the conference… Ms. Congdon of RocketBoom shook those things… Steve Garfield was on hand… Tina Sharkey, soccer mom and AOList was there… I’ll be kind and say little, but I had wondered early in the day who those old-timers were, hogging access to the coffee urn and discussing the good old days when Prodigy turned some of us on to online communities.

The day was packed, I had mostly come for the Degas so the conference was all value added.  Lunch seated between Zephyr and Tola was a pleasure.  I met a number of people I want to know better.  I gained some insights and had a peek at a few issues and a few new tools.  I’m glad I went, and I’ll reserve a better critique for later.  My things to do list needs expansion anyway.

Kevin’s 3 dichotomies
man vs machine
global vs personal
professional vs amateur

Mary Hodder is so brilliant… Phil Wolff says, "Mary gets things out of it because she is one of the smartest people on the planet…"

Kevin recommends "Non-Zero" by Robert Reich.  Also, see Kevin’s "Tags and cognitive load post at http://epeus.blogspot.com/

Stowe Boyd, Kaliya Hamlin, Seth Goldstein

Eric Bonabeau is quoted:  "managers would rather live a problem they can’t solve than with a solution they don’t fully understand or control."

Seth:  Data is available, and the extent to which businesses are opening up access to their data through APIs is driving the growth of the social software space.  … "del.icio.us is crystallized attention" says Seth, and then spoils it with some kind of skewed reference to crystal meth, so now I think del.icio.us is something that burns the nostrils or something.

Kaliya:  Let’s talk about customers…  companies in e-transactions get all the data on customers.  This thread reminds me of the medical records data ownership controversy.

Kaliya brings up "the Hollywood model" of business formation.  Many of us seem to be working on this kind of a project-production basis.

Mark Palermo from ASCAP is here and asks a question, or rather offers an observation…  my observation is that Mark is from ASCAP… a signifier itself.

Here’s the name I was trying to remember this morning:  Jenny Attiyeh.  I want to steal her business model.