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Curiouser and Curiouser! on connections http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic connections Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb One for PingBack Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:29:02 +0100 I agree with <A href="http://www.ozzie.net/blog/2002/09/25.html#a65">Ray</A>.  I don't want pingback, trackback, or refererback.  I get enough feedback with comments, spam free e-mail, and links to IM.  If I wanted to host a discussion group, that is what I would have instead of a weblog.  [<A href="http://jrobb.userland.com/">John Robb's Radio Weblog</A>] <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> » Quite frankly I do more than scan my referrer lists "once in a while" as Ray puts it.  I am always scanning them, looking for the breadcrumbs of someone or something interesting that has passed by.  Always on the lookout for that connection that could have value for me or my business.   I get as much spam as anyone, but I'll put up with a future of pingbots right now if it means I make the connections that helps my business to succeed.  Just like I put up with spam to use email today.  I can't afford to pull up the draw bridge. PingBack may not be good for John, Ray, and others on the path well trodden.  But I think there are lots of people like myself who see things differently.  I want to know when someone is talking about what I am talking about and especially when they are talking about something I've written. I don't know all the answers to the path I'm on, it's only through shared dialogue and the connections that I am making that I have a hope of moving forward.  I see PingBack as a valuable way of making those extra connections that I need, of closing the loops, and getting the feedback.   If Ray & John don't want to come to that party that's fine, but I hope that, their not turning up, doesn't mean that there isn't a party at all. To put it another way my blog isn't the government emergency broadcast system, it's The Frasier Crane show. So go ahead and ping me. I'm listening.</BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000603.html XFML 1.0 (CORE) Published today Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:33:15 +0100 <A href="http://petervandijck.net/">Peter Van Dijck</A> has published the <A href="http://xfml.org/spec/1.0.html">XFML 1.0 Core specification</A> today. Important points about XFML: <UL> <LI>XFML lets you exchange hierarchical faceted metadata.</LI> <LI>It also lets you indicate topics in different published XFML documents are equal, thus allowing you to reuse indexing efforts.</LI> <LI>Finally, XFML lets you build connections between different XFML maps, by indicating that a topic in one map is equal to a topic in another map: we call this connecting topics, or that a topic is described on a certain resource (a webpage usually), we call this published subject indicators.</LI></UL>   http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000674.html Tracking the link cosmos Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:21:29 +0000 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <A href="http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-000307/">Technorati</A>. <A href="http://www.technorati.com" target=_blank>technorati.com</A> is the best site I've seen sofar for showing who links to who's weblogs. Well, mainly I'm interested in who links to what on MY log, mostly to see which stories worked well, and to discover new friends who are exploring similar topics. The other sites that attempt to show connections between weblogs have sofar not shown me much more than I already knew, but in my <A href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/links.html?rank=&url=ming.tv&sub=Get+Link+Cosmos" target=_blank>technorati listing</A> I right away get to know some new people. And it is great that in this world, plagiarism is flattery. And a way of voting. I copy somebody else's story, and somebody else copies my copy, and that shows that all of us found it important and interesting. [<A href="http://ming.tv/">Ming's Metalogue</A>]</BLOCKQUOTE> I too have become interested in Technorati.  It's like TrackBack in reverse and let's me find where the idea flow that I am participating in has reached in a more concrete fashion than Organica & EcoSystem. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000927.html A different kind of B2C Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:12:43 +0000 That's business 2 community... Something I have never done before but am interested in persuing now is getting involved with voluntary projects.  I would like to help out with one or more charities who need Knowledge Management (KM) or Information Technology (IT) skills. Do you know someone who might need me? Specifically I would like to become involved with one or two projects where there is a shortage of Knowledge Management or Information Technology skills.  Obviously given my bias I would prefer to help out with a KM project (maybe a charity interested in persuing weblogs?) but I will happily volunteer IT strategy skills and IT implementation skills (from advice & recommendations, through implementation and support - including software development).  I haven't thought too hard about how much time I can, or would like, to commit -- I guess I'll worry about that when I need to. I have come across the <A href="http://www.bcconnections.org.uk/">Business Community Connections</A> site, which aims to help businesses get involved with community projects, however they have a lot of charities on their books and I'm not sure how easy it is going to be to match up my skills with any of them.  I'd rather short-circuit the process by personal contact if I can. I'd love to hear from you. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001214.html