Reading Joey’s dispatches from the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, I had an idea. Now everyone hush a bit, because this is a rare thing, and even the slightest breath of wind could blow the little f–ker away….
I was thinking about the chronological organisation of blogs, and how, flexible as tools like Moveable Type are, allowing me to organise my posts by category, for example, (Old Empties – Categorically on the sidebar) or by how much interest visitors have had in discussing the things I’ve talked about (Recent Conversations on the sidebar), I hunger for a way to conceptually group things. The use of pre-defined categories still feels too rigid for me.
What would be cool, and what I’d like to put together if I had the 1337 5k1llz, would be a sort of Memepop, a Daypop that tracked the memes (ah crap, I am so sick of that word) ideas enjoying circulation in Blogspace at any given moment.
It would use the Google API perhaps, or perhaps not, but it would allow you to (via a XML-fed plugin to MT or Blogger maybe?) grab a quick list of the top 40 (say) ideas with mindshare amongst bloggers at any given moment (Domain hijacking, googlebombing, semitism and anti-, the ‘Creative Commons’ are some current examples), and flag your new post, if it were a thought that you wanted to drop into the river, as relating to that topic. This act of flagging then feeds back into the Memepool, and pushes the idea higher up into the consciousness of the Blog Hive Mind. A high level conceptual way to thread your way through Blogspace, to organise conversations from the bottom-up and later revisit them…
One big question would be how to cleverly populate that list in the first place…through human suggestions, or through some clever parsing of the Daypop Top 40 or it’s equivalent? I don’t know the answer to that. But I can see that once it reached a certain critical mass, it would be very very cool.
It would be mondo-groovy to be able to flag this post, for example, with consensus-created categories (dynamic ones, which might disappear again from the Top 40 in a week or two) “Emerging Tech Conference” and “Threading in Blogspace”, knowing that other people out there are flagging posts with the same ‘categories’, and be able to hit a site and see the threading, woven through blogspace, laid out for me, sorted chronologically or conceptually or otherwise…
Perhaps I’m just talking crap again. It gets hard to tell sometimes.
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“Autonomy” – one of those neat, zillion-dollar products would probably work pretty well for this. Or “Topic.”
FROM FRANCK ADEL
32 RUE ILOT 48
ABIDJAN COTE D’IVOIRE
08 BP ABOBO 08
COTE D’IVOIRE
PHONE 225 /07/98/75/27
Dearest One,
Good a thing to write you. I have a proposal for
you-this however is not mandatory nor will I in any
manner compel you to honour against your will.
am Franck Adel,22 years old and the only Son of my
late parents Mr.and Mrs.Adel.My father was a highly
reputable busnness magnet-(a cocoa merchant)who
operated in the capital of Ivory coast during his
days.
It is sad to say that he passed away mysteriously in
France during one of his business trips abroad year
12th.Febuary 2000.Though his sudden death was linked
or rather suspected to have been masterminded by an
uncle of his who travelled with him at that time.But
God knows the truth!My mother died when I was just 4
years old,and since then my father took me so special.
Before his death on Febuary 12 2000 he called the
secretary who accompanied him to the hospital and told
him that he has the sum of Three million,seven hundred
thousand United State Dollars.(USD$3.700,000) left in
fixed deposit account in one of the leading banks in
Africa.
He further told him that he deposited the money in
his name,and finally issued a written instruction
to his lawyer whom he said is in possession of all the
necessary but legal documents to this fund and the
bank.
I am just 22 years old and a university undergraduate
and really don’t know what to do.Now I want an account
overseas where I can transfer this funds. This is
because I have suffered a lot of set backs as a result
of incessant political crisis here in Ivory coast.The
death of my father actually brought sorrow to my life.
Sir,I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance
in this regards.Your suggestions and ideas will be
highly regarded.
Now permit me to ask these few questions:- 1. Can you
honestly help me as your Son ? 2. Can I
completely trust you? 3. What percentage of the total
amount in question will be good for you after the
money is in your account? Please,Consider this and get
back to me as soon as possible.
Thank you so much.My sincere regards,
Franck Adel
I have no idea what this site is about, what I do know Is I recieved the letter by e-mail about Mr. Adel and someone asking me to help them out by transfering money of 2.7 million and that I needed to help them do that.
If someone can tell me what this is all about, I do not find it funny receiving this desperate info. from someone called cynthia adel.
i feel they are trying to fuck my money