“There are already many who support the ideas laid out in this Bill of Rights” (from A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web - Open Social Web)
Much of the sense of this Bill of Rights seems directly related to - is almost a subset of - the Principles of Attention as defined by […]

As Robert Anderson, GestureBank Architect, writes, the 2nd beta of the GestureBank went live on Wednesday afternoon.  This beta differs from the previous one in several respects:

instead of relying on a modified version of the AttentionTrust Recorder, this version works with the frozen Attention Recorder (ATX) that’s supported by AttentionTrust.  Essentially the GestureBank Extension provides anonymity functions while allowing the […]

Finally, Steve’s saying something I can both understand and wholeheartedly agree with:
Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Follow the Money
What we need is a little cash register ka-ching sound layered into every click, to remind us that we could use a little piece of that.
I’m still not very concerned with the monetization of attention/gesture for my own […]

Via Alex Barnett, a pointer to LibraryThing.
I walked through the tour and added a book (my catalog), and while there are some pretty cool features I can’t see myself spending the time required to make good use of the tool. Much as it pains me to say, I suppose I’m not enough of a […]

Travelling to South Dakota for a week or so.
If you’re interested, our rough itinerary can be viewed on Windows Live.

No connectivity, no email, no internet. Just family.

My shared feeds
It’s truly gratifying to see the re-launch of the Share Your OPML site. I joined the original SYO site (http://feeds.scripting.com, which now redirects to http://share.opml.org) late in it’s lifetime, after much of its vibrancy had faded, but it was nevertheless a fascinating excercise. At the time I was new to subscriptions […]

Recording Your Attention: Spying on Yourself — J Wynia
J’s put up an attention service for himself, much as I’ve done. He has, however, taken the time to give a basic run-down of the very simple procedure for getting one running.
I only have 1 thing to add to J’s list of 14 steps to recording […]

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 […]

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 […]