Listics

David Weinberger has an interesting post with a discussion thread that is truely informative about the Technorati taxonomy effort.

I won’t be attending Vloggercon either.  Just add that to the list of cool things I’ve started to miss in 2024.  I think it was Niek that declared this "the year of enclosures."  Vlogging seems even more promising than podcasting as a way to suck up bandwidth… I mean as a way to bring multimedia dimensions to our self expression in the personal creative spaces on the web. 

Jay Allen and Shelley have an interesting exchange in Shelley’s comments around the issue of "what does the Six Apart acquisition of Live Journal mean for MT users?"

This reminds me of my good intention to someday get technical enough that I manage my whole blogging application suite.  Right now I’m a TypePad user, generally happy with it, and glad I switched from Radio a year ago.  But when I switched to TypePad, I saw it as a temporary move until I could take control of my own destiny, or something.  I still feel that way, but the raw fact is that I renewed my subscription to TypePad for another year so I have breathing room around that good intention.

Brian Moffatt has a questionnaire posted… best answers win a bottle of brew.  This is all about radio, audio enclosure, webcasting, "Pod"casting (wasn’t there a science fiction movie about that?  or is it some kind of bass fishing technique?)

Gary Turner explains his immediate need for a 500GB home network here. 

Digitally archived collections such as mine
and yours should form part of our family legacies for, in theory,
hundreds of years to come. As such it is vitally important that we
don’t just focus on current ease of creation, because robust and secure
storage is just as important, if not moreso.

Gary’s expressed need is for 500GB…

So, a wireless 500GB network RAID hard disk
is what I need to secrete somewhere under our floorboards at some point
in the future connected to about 20 wirelsss digital photoframes which
also moonlight as MP3 players / speakers too.

My experience is when you have that estimate, it’s best to double it to get the sizing right for the midterm future.  Hence the personal, or family, terabyte.

"…they are nothing like the trunk-rattling thugs most people see at traffic lights. They are louder."

Ben Paynter writes: (from this week’s Kansas City Pitch, written in large part over the Thanksgiving weekend at our kitchen table…)

Mechanics sneak nips from longnecks. Others clench cigarettes
between their lips as they twist wires and pump bass-heavy tracks from
Outkast and Eminem, which grow louder with each component added to the
electrical daisy chain. A green Ford Metropolitan, lifted on 6-foot
wheels and 5-ton axles, rises above the sea of polished metal. The
truck has a detachable, touch-screen CD player, three amps and six
15-inch speakers wired to eight car batteries. A black van from
Moberly, Missouri, blasts test tones that trigger car alarms — its
open rear doors reveal a cargo of amps stacked like shipping boxes.
Some cars have enough raw power to torch amplifiers, shatter glass
windshields, rend metal.

Welcome to the 17th annual Tuner Jam: the largest, loudest
car-stereo competition on the planet. Stereo geeks from around the
country converge here once a year, morphing their cars into the world’s
most powerful portable boomboxes, pitting sound system against sound
system to find out whose is loudest.  Read more…

The CBO dropped a hint about the Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus today.   If Santa is reading this, perhaps he could add a copy of same to my stocking come XMas Eve.   Thinkmap has at least two products:  the Thesaurus which proves the concept, and the Software Developers Kit which empowers us all.

Maybe I should become a Thinkmap developer.  How hard could it be?

Identity management and access management in large enterprises frequently are dictated by the dominant vendor.  Based on idle airport conversation with people returning from training in Florida, the State of Wisconsin is preparing an enterprise-wide roll out of Tivoli Identity Management and Tivoli Access Management.