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Namespaces, Twitter, Identi.ca, and Federation
A few days ago I wrote about federating with Identi.ca. Yesterday I had a great chat with Craig Burton about that whole idea. He's not buying. I asked him to respond on his blog so we could move the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 14, 2008 1:26 PM
Using bit.ly with MovableType
I've been using the mt-twitter plugin to automatically publish blog articles to Twitter. I find that I get more readers that way than RSS or my newsletter at this point. One problem is that you don't get any good... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 15, 2008 1:21 PM
Browser Mix on Technometria
As long as we're on the subject of Technometria stats, here's the browser breakdown for last month on Technometria: FireFox - 41.80% Internet Explorer - 33.76% Safari - 12.65% Mozilla - 9.06% Opera - 1.79% Roughly two-thirds of the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 2, 2008 9:30 AM
Top Ten Stories on Technometria Last Month
It's funny to me which stories and posts seem to take off and which don't. Sometimes when I'm writing a post I just know that it's going to get traction, but most of the time, it's hit or miss.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 1, 2008 9:18 PM
My Blog is Six Years Old
Last week, my blog passed it's six year anniversary. My inaugural post (besides what amounted to a "hello world" test post) was on asset management. I didn't post again until the 10th of June. Like many bloggers I got... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 2, 2008 11:44 AM
Please Help Serenity
Phil Burns' (@phil801) daughter Serenity was diagnosed with leukemia this past weekend. He's been blogging her progress. Jesse Stay had an excellent idea and built a "ChipIn" widget to collect donations. Please donate, any amount, if you can.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 26, 2008 12:40 PM
Am I Done with Facebook? Twitter FTW!
I got a message from Facebook today saying that someone had friended me. I realized I didn't care. Not that I didn't care about the person who'd friended me--I didn't care about Facebook. It's been weeks since I was... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 22, 2008 4:08 PM
What's the @ in Twitter?
Pretty much everyone at Kynetx has started using Twitter. That led to a new crop of my other friends starting to tweet as well. Today @fulling asked my "what's the @"? He didn't know he was opening up a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 3, 2008 4:05 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for March 2008
Below are the titles and descriptions of the top ten shows on IT Conversations for March 2008. Michael Lenczner - Interviews with Innovators: Community Wireless (No rating yet)Michael Lenczner is one of the founders of Ile Sans Fil, Montreal's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 2, 2008 1:40 PM
Steve Gillmor on Twitter
I love Steve Gillmor's writing and how he puts things together. Witness this on Twitter.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 17, 2008 12:01 PM
IIW 2008 Happening May 12-14
The announcement and registration pages for IIW 2008 are now live. Please take minute and do three things: Register so we know you're coming. Having a good count early makes the whole thing go smoother. Help us spread the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2008 12:01 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for January 2008
Here are the top ten shows (ordered by number of downloads) on IT Conversations for January 2008. Billy Hoffman - Technometria: Ajax Security (No rating yet)More and more Web sites are being rewritten as Ajax applications and traditional desktop... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 4, 2008 3:14 PM
ActionStreams: Follow Me Around the Net
Adding your IT Conversations profile to Action Streams(click to enlarge) The more you use sites on the Web for keeping track of our online lives and sharing things with friends, the more you'd like to have a place on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2008 9:12 PM
Comments in MT4
blogging, movabletype, spam [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2007 7:02 PM
Upgrading to MT4.01
I'm in the processing of upgrading this blog to run on Movabletype 4.0, so there will be some things broken while I get it right. Thanks for your patience.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 28, 2007 1:22 PM
Hard Drives and Apple
One of the great things about blogging is that it gives you and outlet to vent when you get crappy customer service--heck, I think that drives blogging more than anything. Dave Winer got ripped off in an Apple store... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 24, 2007 4:59 PM
Blogs in Plain English
Ever wanted to explain to your mom what a blog is? Here's a nifty little screen cast from Lee and Sachi LeFever at the CommonCraft show that does just that: Last week I posted a screencast on OpenID that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 10, 2007 4:02 PM
Blogging: Talking to Friends
Jeff Jarvis, in a larger piece on corporate blogging and where it goes wrong writes a nice bit of advice for all bloggers: When I was in London, I sat with folks from the BBC in an afternoon devoted... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 10, 2007 7:39 AM
Technorati's Dead Too
Crap ad seen at Technorati.com on Dec 6, 2007(click to enlarge) As long as I'm commenting on things that are dead, allow me to add Technorati to the list. They have descended into the dark depths of crap advertising... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2007 4:31 PM
Scoble on Tech at Fast Company
Scoble is doing a video column at Fast Company called Scoble on Tech. Interesting format: Scoble and Ed Sussman from Fast Company are chatting on video. There's pretty high production value--it's edited down so that you see each person... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 3:34 PM
Defrag: Making Interactions Explicit
Eric Nolin is being very explicit about sponsor talks at Defrag. No harm there--in fact, I like it. The sponsor talk is clearly labeled as such and right before lunch. Today, it's Shane Pearson, from BEA. I interviewed him... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 5, 2007 1:35 PM
AT&T Doesn't Want Critics as Customers
AT&T's terms of service now allow them to immediately terminate the service of anyone who is critical of the company. From Broadband Reports: "AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 1, 2007 1:17 PM
GovGab, a New eGoverement Blog
GovGab is a new group blog from the folks who run USA.gov (formerly FirstGov). They've been at it for a week. The articles have a personal voice and are related to finding government resources online. For example, the first... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 29, 2007 12:00 PM
Stupid Reporter Tricks
I don't water ski. Never been. But let me take a minute to tell you why it's a stupid thing to do and all the reasons why you should waste your time doing it--just based on things I've heard.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 24, 2007 10:14 AM
Wordpress Blows Up Blogs
Newspapergrl tells the story of a blog gone away at the hands of Wordpress. The moral of the story is that if you use another company to host your blog you're at their mercy. Everything you write could be... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 17, 2007 9:41 PM
Cabinet Level Blogging
The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (my former boss), has a blog. He's writing it himself and, so far, doing a good job of keeping it up with interesting posts. Recently he's been blogging his travel... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 30, 2007 8:42 AM
Dancing with Mavericks
Blogger and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is going to be on Dancing with the Stars. Heh. I've never watched it, but I might have to check out Mark gliding across the dance floor.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 29, 2007 1:34 PM
SearchStatus for Alexa and PageRank
Firefox with SearchStatus installed(click to enlarge) If you've installed toolbars to let you see the Google PageRank and Alexa ranking of the sites you visit, you might like this Firefox extension called SearchStatus. SearchStatus shows the current PageRank, Alexa... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 8, 2007 9:02 AM
Fake Steve is Outted
If you haven't heard, a reporter (Brad Stone) from the NY Times outted Fake Steve. It was a fun ride.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 6, 2007 11:45 AM
Doc Searls Has Two New Homes
Doc's taking an apartment in the greater Boston to complement his second year as a Berkman Fellow. He's also moving into a new home online. Wow, one move of that magnitude would bring lesser men to their knees. I'm... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2007 2:07 PM
Vote for IT Conversations at Bloggers Choice Awards
If you enjoy IT Conversations, consider voting for IT Conversations as the best podcast at the Blogger's Choice Awards site. Naturally, we'd love to win. As an aside, you have to go through a registration process to vote. Sorry.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 31, 2007 4:31 PM
Addicted to Blogging
I'm 84% addicted to blogging. I got knocked down from 100% because I don't read enough blogs or post more than 1-2 times per day. Ah well... 84%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 19, 2007 6:19 PM
A Simple Solution to Form Spam
A few weeks ago, Britt Blaser sent me a link to a technique for using CSS to fight form spam. The idea is simple, you add an extra input field to your form and use the CSS visibility property... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 19, 2007 12:05 PM
Mobile Blogging
A blog post from the iPhone. Just to prove I can. Doing a lot of HTML this way would be tough.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 3, 2007 12:30 PM
The Social Side of IT Conversations
Jon Udell's Interviews with Inovators submission for this week is a conversation with Simon St Laurent. St. Laurent isn't someone you'll necessarily meet at the next O'Reilly conference you go to. Jon singles him out as an innovator because... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2007 2:20 PM
Scoble on Kyte.tv at an Apple Store
Scoble's sitting in front of an Apple store and video blogging on Kyte.tv. Lots of fun.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2007 4:36 PM
Bandit's Cross Platform Selector
Novell asked me for a quote for this press release on the Bandit cross-platform card selector. I said: "For the vision of user-centric identity to thrive, ecosystems like information card selectors have to extend beyond a single operating system.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2007 2:25 PM
Boycotting Blogs
Jeff Jarvis obviously doesn't get it. In commenting on the National Union of Journalists' plan for a Europe-wide day of protest against cuts in journalism, Jeff has cast the problem as the Internet, blogs, or readers. As the journalists... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 20, 2007 4:08 PM
Technorati Wins and Losses
Technorati is one of the tools I use everyday. One of the most important parts of blogging is participating in conversations that are going on the 'Net. Technorati helps me find out when people are responding to something I've... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 29, 2007 3:03 PM
Google Goes Fishing
Jeff Barr has a humorous look at the approach junior Google recruiters are using on him. As Scoble said: Anyone who does an hour's worth of research with a search engine, like, say, Google's, knows that Jeff is worth... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2007 9:15 AM
Understanding Splogs
Have you ever wondered exactly how splogging (spam blogs) work? What's the structure of that industry (and it is an industry)? Yi-Min Wang and Ming Ma (of Microsoft Research) and Yuan Niu and Hao Chen (of UC Davis) have... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 2:46 PM
Finding Quality Blogs
This talk entitled "Exploring in the Weblog Space by Detecting Informative and Affective Articles" by researchers from Shanghai Jiao-Tong University (see full paper) describes the use of machine learning techniques to classify blogs and blog articles according to the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2007 2:22 PM
Ken Knaptop's Blog
I've known Ken Knapton for years. I think we met in a job interview. He's currently the CTO for ContentWatch (I'm on the advisory board). Ken is the latest addition to the growing list of Utah Tech bloggers. Ken's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 4, 2007 3:54 PM
HD-DVD Processing Keys Getting Some Late Play
A few months ago, I wrote a post on HD Processing Keys and the futility of DRM. I pointed to an article on Engadget that talked about the AACS processing keys being retrieved. As a quick aside, the processing... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2007 8:51 AM
Welcome Sploggers!
Chuck Knutson accidentally put out the welcome mat for sploggers and got a lot of unwelcome visitors. The first big problem was that we had installed the multi-user version of WordPress. Why did we do that? I teach a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 24, 2007 10:57 AM
PodCorps.org
Doug Kaye, the man behind IT Conversations is launching PodCorps.org. Th goal is to create a network of podcasting stringers and event producers who can record and publish important spoken-word events anywhere in the world. One of the goals... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 16, 2007 1:17 PM
Twittering Leads to Connectedness
I've been playing with Twitter since the last CTO breakfast. Interesting to go back and look at that post and realize it was before Kathy Sierra stopped blogging. Since then I've had a number of people ask me about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 10, 2007 9:26 PM
Java and IP Addresses
A few weeks ago, I cut over my blog and several other Web sites to a new, much fast server. I don't know that it's made much difference in how fast people retrieve my blog since it's mostly static,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 4, 2007 3:32 PM
Kathy Sierra, Chris Locke, and Due Process
The post I made about Kathy Sierra's harassment at the hands of trolls continues to see considerable traffic from Google. Over the week end, Kathy and Chris Locke (who was linked to the harassing posts in Kathy's original post,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 2, 2007 11:34 AM
Kathy Sierra
Update: Read about Kathy Sierra, Chris Locke, and Due Process. Kathy Sierra, who's blog I've come to enjoy very much, canceled her tutorial yesterday and session this morning because of death threats (warning--this link goes to graphic material) she's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 10:26 AM
Utah Stories
Richard Markosian is the creator of a Web site called UtahStories.com. I love the idea and I love the execution. The site hosts a collection of short video documentaries about current events, people, and history in Utah. There's a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2007 3:13 PM
Chuck Knutson's Blog
One of my colleagues at BYU, Chuck Knutson, has started a blog and is posting some good stuff there. Chuck's a thoughtful guy, so I look forward to following what he writes. A mixture of management insight (Chuck has... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 20, 2007 2:42 PM
Server Migration
I was reading Sam Curran's blog and he was talking about intelligent server migration. This, of course, is interesting to me since I just got done doing the same thing. Sam had a more difficult situation in that he... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 15, 2007 12:03 PM
New Server
I'm upgrading the server that serves this blog and quite a few other sites. There may be some service disruption. If you notice anything weird let me know, please.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 10, 2007 5:04 PM
Are You a Product or a Brand?
There's been a lot written over the years on the ideas of the personal brand. I'm always surprised how many otherwise bright people will go get a Hotmail account when what they need is a professional, personal email address.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 21, 2007 12:53 PM
Arkansas and Identity
I'm in Arkansas at the Identity Solutions Symposium and Workshop in Jonesboro. I speak Thursday on the social and economic aspects of digital identity. I'm looking forward to it. I've never been to Arkansas before. I flew into Little... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2007 9:59 PM
Speaking of Blogging...
I spoke about blogging today to the Utah Valley Chapter of the PRSA. I enjoyed it a lot. Lots of good discussion and interest. Kip Meacham also spoke. In a reversal of roles, the techie (me) spoke about why... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 16, 2007 8:39 PM
Designating Blog Collections by Photograph
I'm taken with the design of the mezzoblue blog. The archiving is done by "collection" where each collection is identified by a photograph and the color palette for that collection is based on the photo. Very nice. The blog... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 16, 2007 4:50 PM
AOL Deploys OpenID
On Wednesday, John Panzer of AOL announced that AOL has deployed OpenID on top of their identity system. What this means is that if you have an AOL identifier (including AIM), you've got an OpenID and can use your... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 16, 2007 7:21 AM
Overstock's Community Portal
Overstock.com has launched a community portal where they hope their customers will write "guides" about things that they're passionate about. Seems like an interesting idea. I've wondered about the ability to harness people's passion to create customer service sites... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2007 7:43 PM
Marriott Blogs
The CEO of Marriott International, Bill Marriott, has a blog. The blog is about two weeks old and has a half a dozen entries. They're authentic and interesting. The technology is well done, as you'd expect from someone who... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2007 6:11 PM
Making CardSpace and OpenID Interoperable
Microsoft, JanRain, Sxip, and VeriSign have agreed to work together to make OpenID and CardSpace interoperate. This isn't totally unexpected since the community has been moving forward in this direction. Kim Cameron has been discussing the details of how... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 6, 2007 11:14 AM
Church Networks
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has a online social network (with some funny URLS). The network is similar to other social networks: create a profile page, make your blog, link to friends, etc. The difference, as explained on the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2007 8:53 PM
Social Network Fatigue
Dana Boyd has a good post on social network fatigue and how marketing people everywhere are trying to jump on the MySpace bandwagon. This dovetails with the post I did yesterday on social networking without a safety net. I've... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2007 2:27 PM
Social Networking Without a Safety Net
Jeff Jarvis just got back from Davos where he found plenty of identity-related discussion. Jeff says "One of the thin threads I saw cutting through much of my Davos experience was the notion of identity" and goes on to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 31, 2007 10:48 AM
Senate Radio
The Utah Senate has a podcast called Senate Radio, a podcast featuring Utah Senators talking about their bills and ideas. Obviously, the interviewer is a friendly, but there's still some good value here. I like that it's a real... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 29, 2007 11:37 AM
Blogging for Friends
I found this piece by David Carr about 24-hour news people in the Times from a post on Thomas Barnett's blog about why he wouldn't dream of giving up his blog. The gist of both articles is that blogs... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 18, 2007 8:45 AM
iPhone Is an OSX Computer
I'm reading Jason O'Grady's live blogging of the Jobs keynote. Jobs just introduced the iPhone saying "Today, we're introducing three revolutionary products 1. widescreen iPod with touch controls 2. revoutionary mobile phone 3. breakthrough internet communication device" But it's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2007 10:56 AM
Limit Simultaneous Connections in Apache
Yesterday I wrote about the comment storms that were happening on my blog. Many people made some great suggestions and I plan on implementing many of them in the coming weeks. I found something, however, that was pretty simple... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 15, 2006 8:58 AM
Comment Spam Storms
Update: Be sure to read the comments. There are lots of good suggestions on solving this problem. Here's what I did to stop spam storms About three times per day my server gets hit my a comment storm. Someone... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 14, 2006 9:56 AM
The S Stands for Simple
I'm neck deep trying to get a paper out today, so I won't be blogging much, but in the meantime, if you're interested in Web Services, go read Pete Lacey's The S Stands for Simple. I laughed out loud... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 20, 2006 10:51 AM
CXO Bloggers
I'm quoted in a story on CIO bloggers in Information Age by Michelle Price. The article also has profiles on four active CIO bloggers. The biggest problem CXO bloggers face is that it's impossible for people to separate the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 30, 2006 9:59 AM
What To Do After You Lose Your Job
Imagine this scenario: Yikes! You just lost your job! You've been so busy at *work* that you don't feel your network is as strong as you would like it to be! What are you going to do with (and... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 17, 2006 9:23 AM
Tim Street on Producing Viral Video
Tim Street(click to enlarge) Tim Street is speaking about viral video. Viral video has some important things in common: Easy to share OK to share (no too explicit) Controversial - takes risks Emotionally engaging The last point is the most... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 28, 2006 3:05 PM
Blogging for Dollars
Last week I gave a guest lecture in Paul Allen's Internet Marketing class on blogging. The talk (PDF) was one I've given before. In fact, it was much of the information I gave to Altiris last month. One of... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 21, 2006 6:51 PM
Blogging at Altiris
I gave a training session on blogging to Altiris employees yesterday. The PR department there is very progressive and is embracing blogging as a way of enhancing the conversation with their customers. I was very impressed with their attitude... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 31, 2006 9:00 PM
Publishing with Atom
Elias Torres has created a Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) plug-in for WordPress. The service allows you to use Atom to POST, PUT, and DELETE entries as well as other things. You might recall that I interviewed Elias for IT... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 24, 2006 11:41 AM
Getting Dooced is Overrated
I'm still preparing for a 3 hour course I'm teaching next week on blogging. One of the questions people always have is "how will this affect me career?" Dan Farber has a great post at Between the Lines on... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 23, 2006 11:33 AM
Management By the Identity Method
While he's been on vacation, Joel Spolsky has been airing a set of pre-recorded posts on three management methods which he calls Command and Control management, Econ 101 management, and the Identity Method of management, not to be confused... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 10, 2006 3:02 PM
The Customer Is In Charge
If you've had doubts about how the Web, and especially the blogosphere, has affected the relationship between companies and customers, look no further than David Berlind's recent exchange with a T-Mobile customer service rep that he recorded and put... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 25, 2006 9:51 AM
Naked Conversations
I've been asked to give a training session on blogging to employees of a mid-sized public company, so I'm looking for ideas and materials. One resource that was both informative and entertaining was this IT conversations presentation by Robert... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 11, 2006 1:44 PM
An Update to the Microid Plugin for MovableType
Tim Appnel was kind enough to apply his formidable MovableType expertise to my MicroID plugin and made some significant improvements: There is no longer a need for an explicit context argument to the tag. The code senses the right... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 11, 2006 1:17 PM
KnowNow ESS and Business RSS
My review of KnowNow's ESS has appeared in InfoWorld. ESS is an RSS management system. It filters, aggregates, slices, and dices. I was very impressed with it. I think enlightened corporate PR and marketing people will need tools like... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 11, 2006 10:48 AM
A Reputation Framework
Today on the Diane Rehm show, Diane's guests were Jennifer Golbeck, research associate, Institute for Advanced computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Md, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, professor of physics, University of Notre Dame and author of "Linked: How Everything... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 10, 2006 6:19 PM
Prison Lawnmowers
While writing a piece for Between the Lines on paying for the participation revolution, I pointed to a piece from Jon Udell on fixing a reel lawnmower. Following links from Jon's story and cruising around a little eventually led... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 10, 2006 3:47 PM
Abandoning SCode CAPTCHAs
The CAPTCHA experiment was a failure. I didn't get any blog spam, but I heard from a few people who tried to post comments and failed (other's succeeded). In the end, I didn't feel like debugging it, or worse... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2006 3:47 PM
Using Web Analytics Tools
Paul Allen says that this article on using Web analytics well is one of the best he's seen. I use analytics everyday on my own blog to see what keywords people are using to find things I've written, which... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2006 9:42 AM
CIO Blogging
Last week, Michael Fitzgerald published a column in CIO Magazine giving CIOs advice on blogging. We had talked a long time ago--I'd forgotten--and he mentions my blog and experience getting started when I was Utah's CIO. He makes some... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 14, 2006 9:18 AM
Blogger Conference Report
Phil Burn's sets up the banner(click to enlarge) The Utah Blogger Conference started out a lot like a blog: informal, slow, and a little disorganized, but once it got going, there was a lot of energy. I noticed a lot... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2006 9:06 PM
Utah Blogger Conference
The Utah Blogger Conference is tonight at 6:30pm at the Larry H. Miller Innovation Center in Sandy. The conference is free and there's no need to pre-register. Just show up. I'll be there speaking on a panel. See you... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 13, 2006 10:24 AM
Mashups, Web Data, and APIs
Frank Mantek, Jeff Barr, Dan Theurer, and Kevin Lawver(click to enlarge) I decided to take in Rohit Khare's panel on Next Wave (Business) this morning. This was part of the developer track that has normally been Rohit was kind enough... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 24, 2006 6:19 AM
MoodViews: Analyzing Mood Data from Blogs
Krisztian Balog(click to enlarge) Blogs are one of the places on the web you can reliably find people's writing about their moods. Krisztian Balog presented a paper called "Decomposing Bloggers' Moods: Towards a Time Series Analysis of Moods in the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2006 9:47 AM
Detecting Splogs
I went to a session on blogging this afternoon. One talk was by Tim Finin on detecting splogs. He is part of the ebiquity research group at UMBC. He and his students do some interesting work in recognizing splogs.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 23, 2006 7:56 AM
WWW2006
I'm just getting ready to leave to WWW2006 in Edinburgh Scotland. I'll be blogging interesting talks and events after I get there (sometime tomorrow). You can follow my coverage by looking at my www2006 tag or even subscribing to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 22, 2006 9:21 AM
Rocketboom
Amanda Congdon(click to enlarge) I went to Amanda Congdon's plenary session at the end of Syndicate. She's the host of Rocketboom, a videoblog that deals with serious and not so serious news. I've heard of Rocketboom, but hadn't seen it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2006 3:56 PM
Utah Senate Blog Is Effective eGovernment
The Utah Senate Site blog was featured in a story at Stateline.org. Joining the nation's growing proliferation of political Web logs, or blogs, the Utah site was the first of its kind to strike up a digital dialogue that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 12, 2006 10:33 AM
Social Computing Symposium
Ross Mayfield is blogging the Social Computing Symposium. There a lot of information about games and their application and social impact. Good stuff, given my questions about the space.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2006 1:35 PM
Speeding Up Tags
A while back, I added a tag cloud to my blog. The idea was to replace categories with tags, a much more flexible system. I bend the Movable Type (MT) keywords and search to my purpose. One thing I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2006 11:26 AM
Conversing With Your Customers
I just posted an essay on Conversing With Your Customers. This will be my Connect Column for July.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2006 10:34 AM
IABC/PRSA Spring Conference
I spoke, along with Bruce Fryer and Charley Foster at the spring conference of the Utah chapters of IABC and PRSA. Most of the audience was either public relations or marketing and communications folks. The subject was blogging. Charley... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 9, 2006 2:52 PM