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Tuesday, July 22, 2003 |
 MindPlex: The Weblog Network. I should have a project/business plan (although for all intents and purposes this will be operated to maximize revenue for the authors) for this by the end of the week. This will let me prioritize the steps necessary to bring this project to fruition. I am working already on some of the nuts/bolts, and asking questions along the way (and getting great answers too by the way -- thanks). BTW, anybody have feedback on the conceptual design I hacked together for the front door to the Network?
4:11:40 PM 
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Sites you might be interested in. Nanodot: Slashdot for futurists, managed by Foresight. Smartmobs: group weblog (needs a redesign). Daily Rotation: filtered newsfeeds from tech sites, including weblogs.
2:15:31 PM
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Thanks to (in no particular order): Rick (I think you found me first, thanks for looking), Haiko, Alwin, Dan, Mark, Daypop (#2! thanks!), Burningbird, Kottke, Martin, Scoble, Blogosphere (#1 trend! thanks!) Ted, Clarence, The Daily Thing, Jim, Daniel, je.it, Steven, Dann, Stefan, Susan, Corante, James, Steve, Jeff, Emmanuel, Matt, PapaScott, Vince, Blogdex (# 3! thanks!), Rogi, Ted, Tim, Ross, Harvey, Freeke, Larry, Bill, Daisy, Akma, Patrick, Simon, Matthew, Gary, Dave, Steven, Brian, Dan, Dody, Jim, John, Jim, Chuck, Rob, Stu, Bryan, Jim, Michael, Mark, Tom, Rory, Steve, Blogresource, Damien, and many more. The list grows. Thanks again!
2:09:17 PM
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Public weblog portability. I was e-mailing with xian about the portability of weblogs and how to maintain presence online. Sure, there is nothing you can do if the people who own the domain you are using shut down your weblog or go out of business, however, there is alot that can be done. Like what? Here are some ideas for a service that would be really useful:
- First, I would start with single repository of weblogs where the owner of the weblog can change the location of their weblog and other descriptive data by signing into an account. This service would need to be tightly controlled and trusted. If you don't own the domain, your hosting company or hosting sponsor would need to support the account creation. If you don't get this support from the domain owner, you are truly SOL (an old pilot term).
- Second, weblog tools would need to support the option of using this repository as a means of keeping blogrolls and RSS subscriptions up to date. A once a day check for new changes is all it would take.
- Third, this repository would be extremely useful if you could update Google and Yahoo automatically so that search returns on their tools find the intended data. For example: replace jrobb.userland.com with jrobb.mindplex.com. In this case, all the the links to posts made in the past would work. If there was some glitch in the folder structure, it couldn't get much worse that 100% 404 errors.
What do we call this? A FOAF identity service with a centralized editing component? How does this synch with P3P?
12:12:47 PM
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Microsoft's MyLifeBits. Anyone have a status report on this project?
11:47:47 AM
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ACM Queue (thanks Bob): Great interview with Jim Gray (of Microsoft) on storage issues, databases, and the future.
"At the FAST [File and Storage Technologies] conference about a year-and-a-half ago, Mark Kryder of Seagate Research was very apologetic. He said the end is near; we only have a factor of 100 left in density—then the Seagate guys are out of ideas. So this 200-gig disk that you're holding will soon be 20 terabytes, and then the disk guys are out of ideas."
"The people at Seagate will tell you they worry about pennies. They don't put anything into the disk drive that isn't required. The whole notion of putting a processor and an operating system and a network interface into a disk drive, unless it's absolutely required, is just considered crazy... When I talk to Dave Anderson [director of strategic planning at Seagate], he always says, "Well, maybe in five years, but not right now." He has been saying that for five years, and so far he has been right. But I think it is truer now than it was five years ago. It is just a matter of time"
11:42:34 AM
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