The videos below demonstrate how this point cloud describes the scene and how images are located in this inferred space.

Compare my “Shared Items” webpage to Barack Obama.

Now check out this promo page where you can choose from a list of Google Reader Users “Shared Items” webpages.

This is coming into the newsmastering territory, because we also get merged streams of “Shared Items” pages.

For example on this promo page it offers a link to the “Shared Items” webpages of both Barack Obama and John McCain, but it also shows a merged stream of content from both these pages, and a merged feed.
Also on this promo page are links to the “Shared Items” webpages of several journalists, and it also shows a merged stream of content from all these journalists, and a merged feed.

Both of these merged streams have webpages of their own, here’s Barack Obama and John McCain, and here’s the

This is still the case, but the latest from the Google Reader blog is that you can now choose who of those Gmail contacts are allowed to see your Shared Items in their “Friends’ Shared Items” section. Even if I do prevent a few people from seeing my Shared Items, they could somehow still find my “Shared Items” webpage and subscribe from there…as I mentioned it would just be a regular feed subscription, they would not be able to organise that feed into their “Friends’ Shared Items” section.

How it happens is you can leave your setting on “Share with all my Chat contacts”, or you can now select “Share with Friends”.
This allows you to select particular people from your chat contacts into a more selective friends list.

If you do select a few people to see your “Shared Items”, they will be sent an email, where they can accept, and offer to share their “Shared Items” with you…at any time either of you can disable each other.

The more exciting news is that you can also add email addresses of people you want to add to your friends list, if they don’t

Stefano Mazzocchi explains the inspiration for the tool:

“David’s idea was to organically combine the ability of faceted browsing to drill down on a set of given items, but then to use the faceted values as the new set of items, thus ’sliding’ the faceted browsing window onto the selected set and make that the new point of view. This would create a way to browse “sideways” from a particular set of items, following items of different type that are connected to the currently browsed ones.”

Very clever.

(A bit more

“Who was the guy we talked to about that thing?” Enterprise 1.0 tried to address this by mandating a central repository and hierarchical classification system. It forced employees to tell some computer system what they knew and how they knew it. Only after a lot of manual data entry would the system be able to tell them something in return.

This approach failed because knowledge workers couldn’t be bothered. There was too much up-front work to make the search results useful. Without useful search results, nobody wanted to use the system. It was a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Instead, knowledge workers would just ask someone who knew rather than working with a difficult computer and move on. You simply can’t turn your workforce into programmers, historians or archivists. There’s work to be done.”

The Diving Board blog in on the same plane:

“As we all know, collecting knowledge (if it happens at all) usually involves a person or organization monitoring knowledge as it is created, and then capturing and categorizing it after the fact. This could either be the knowledge worker as they create it or someone else charged with this mission. This process is both inefficient and inherently flawed. Typically, the expert or the users themselves know what the best knowledge is, not some third party who is one step removed from the actual work. However, the experts and users lack the tools, time and incentive to carry out this critical task.”

I’ve also got

I’ve had some extreme and bizarre happenings in my personal life recently, yet still I find a compulsion back to Planet RDF (cheers Dave). Why? Because the human animal has enough mental capacity to take it, not only from the plains of Africa to Europe (watch some Attenborough DVDs) but from my parents to me. Pair of them are fruitcakes. Me, I post cat photos that the whole world can see. Let me say that slowly: I can post my own cat photos that the whole world can see. Now my father can too (’cept it’s dogs).

This is good - text & pictures on a global scale from even the most humble (well, once we get OLPC) scale.

As individuals on this planet of ours, we may simply be born, eat the wrong kind of calamaris, and die.

Too heavy.

Let me try this: I don’t understand your JSON. No Idea what you are trying to say. My programs might, if you tell me what to do. But I’m not Apple, MS or Sony. You need to tell me these things in languages I can (with the help of this machine) understand.

Give us a pointer to the thing you are talking about, the angle you’re taking and the thing you have to say. Me, a .en-uk in .it The Web only knows resources. The Web is my interface to the world.

Starting to look like one of Kingsley’s explanations…time to stop.

I want serendipity, but I also want useless animal experiments to stop, I want people being prepared for tsunami, I want to stop close

Russian: пицца (pizza)

Japanese: 寿司 (sushi)

Korean: 피자 (pizza)

Dutch: bioskoop (cinema)

etc.

• Text and data mining
• Visualization
• Applications
• Theory of social media
• Content aggregation
• Computational Linguistics (especially subjectivity)

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