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Flattered to be included in this brief timeline of the history of blogging.

Twitterverse is awarded Mashup of the Day by MashupAwards.com. Thanks!

At the October 6th Target First Saturday, we decided to experiment with Twitter and this post will take you through the first wave of our experience. As with all new web ventures, we like to keep things as simple as possible until we get a feel for the requirements. 

In today’s post I confine myself to describe services that are capable of handling attention profiles based on the proposed APML standard. To make it easier for humans to recognize that files containing an attention profile indeed are attention profiles, we label them with the file extension “.apml”.

Infuse your mind with cool. Emily Chang’s PicoCool blog finds “tiny and obscure content from the world of peer media, social networks and subcultures.” Browse the blog or subscribe to the RSS feed for products, photos, and other creations that will shake up your thinking. For example, check out the bathtub-shaped SPA memo pad holder with a little bather relaxing Calgon-style. Just looking at his (her?) bulbous head makes me feel more relaxed and open to good ideas.

"Stream processing systems (and associated analytical components) will become a critical underpinning for much of what is talked about in terms of workstreaming, lifestreaming, attention streams, collective intelligence and so on. Discovering patterns across people, interactions, information, activities and social networks and assessing those relationships is difficult enough. It becomes even more challenging when you also want the results to be communicated in a manner that is contextual, relevant and sensitive to attention (and confidentiality) needs.”

Over at Wired, Adario Strange writes about Twitterverse:  “Snooping around the web I found this interesting early idea sketch from the creators of Twitterverse (see below). Over the weekend I got in touch with web designer and Twitterverse co-creator Emily Chang of Ideacodes for an explanation…”

"What are they talking about? A site called Twitterverse ranks the keywords people use in messages: 1: “Twitter”; 2: “Going”; 3: “Lunch”…

Yay, my photo will be included in this show!

“SFAC and JPG Magazine has teamed up with the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery for a show called “Breakthrough: An Amateur Photography Revolution.” And you’re invited! Every photo submitted to our Breakthrough theme will be displayed in the gallery in some fashion. Some will appear in a grid on the photo wall, some in a slideshow, and a select few will be printed and hung in the gallery. And you’re invited to attend the opening! It’ll take place at the gallery on April 20 at 6pm. We’ll also be participating in a panel discussion on the “art and practice of photography in the brave new digital age” on May 31 at 6pm at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library. We hope you can join us!”

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