This seems to be the big news of the day, Alexa has essentially popped open the doors on it’s data and is now allowing anyone willing to pay a fairly nominal fee to access the information from it’s crawls. The news is all over; a good starting point is here.
This is pretty exciting news […]

Is anyone out there running a custom attention-recording service, a la the Attention Toolkit?
I’m having some troubles with the new version of the AttentionRecorder extension and custom services. Essentially it’s worked intermittently in Firefox 1.5, but then inexplicably seems to stop recording. It seem to be related to adding a custom service, but […]

Alex Barnett pointed to Nick Bradubury’s vision for attention data in OPML. As might be expected, I’m not sure how much I agree with what Nick proposes. My objections, though, have nothing to do with OPML as a potential format, for attention data or anything else. I think OPML’s grand, and it […]

Assuming that memeorandum provides value (and I think it does as a component of an overall view of the web, not as a sole view of the web), there’s an aspect of memeorandum that I find lacking, and that’s an addressable history. Gabe provides the ability to go and see what tech.memeorandum.com looked like […]

Tom Simpson regarding Jeff’s request:
“If you write a book, the publisher knows how many copies of the book have sold, and they can report that to you. Do they report how many copies were sold to libraries (cache)? Do the libraries report how many times the book has been checked out?”
I don’t see the book […]

Jeff Jarvis:
“That’s theft. If you took a song and cached it and fed it out to lots of people these days without reporting back to the owner, you’d get sued or slapped in jail.”
I couldn’t agree more with Jeff here.
This seems like yet another example of the double standard in online content production. Since […]

RebelGeekz:
“Now, let’s play a game, try to come up with a better alternative and then we keep improving it.”
I’ll happily play along - in fact I have a format brewing in the back of my head.
Right now thought, all I have time for is a couple of quick comments:

First, it’s difficult to tell what’s really […]

I’ve been looking more closely at the SSE announcement since it came out; the next few posts are likely to be about this, and some (like this one) fairly (ok, very) long, so be forewarned….
After reading through the spec and accompanying FAQ, I started rifling through the commentary thread at memeorandum.1  Alex Barnett already has […]

Love this:
The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating appsXML Developer Center: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML
From my 10 minute lookover of this, I’m pretty excited.  I don’t have time to completely grok the usage or to look for holes right now, but I’d […]

Steve Gillmor:
“if people want to take ownership of their metadata, that will be a good thing for anybody who migrates along with users to a new paradigm”
Time is on our side | Steve Gillmor’s InfoRouter
One of my early hesitations about attention in the internets was this very thought, that Steve assigns to Dare; what possible […]