Publications

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

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The Harvard Business Review

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OneZero

Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging

Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging

My piece on tagging finally appeared in the Toronto Star today, after a long struggle to make the tagging phenomenon both accessible and meaningful to a general audience. Since the final story had to be edited significantly due to space limitations, I'm posting the...

Customize your WordPress Dashboard

Customize your WordPress Dashboard

Tonight, Rob and I crossed a marital and technological threshold with our collaborative creation of an enhanced version of one of the files in Matt Good and dr Dave's excellent X-Dashboard plugin for WordPress. X-Dashboard allows users to customize the WordPress admin...

Now that you are logged in, here are a few things you can do:

Now that you are logged in, here are a few things you can do:

Write a blog entry. Click on “Write” to post a story to the blog. Enter your text in the “title” and “post” fields. Choose the appropriate category (or categories) from the right-hand site of the screen. Click “publish” to post it to the blog immediately, OR “save as...

OD 2005 Blog

OD 2005 Blog

I’m heading to Stanford this week for the 2005 Online Deliberation conference. I’m currently setting up a conference blog that puts some of my recent investigations into tagging to work as a tool for collaboration and dialogue among conference participants.
OD2005

Tag aggregation

Tag aggregation

I've created a category in this blog called OD2005 and I'm experimenting to see which blog search engine picks it up first.

del.icio.us taxonomies

del.icio.us taxonomies

Step 1: Lie awake at night, wondering whether there isn't something that can organize your favourite web links that will work better than del.icio.us. Step 2: Lie awake at night, wondering whether you should use Furl or Spurl or del.icio.us. Step 2a (optional): Lie...

JSTOR DAILY

Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging

Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging

My piece on tagging finally appeared in the Toronto Star today, after a long struggle to make the tagging phenomenon both accessible and meaningful to a general audience. Since the final story had to be edited significantly due to space limitations, I'm posting the...

Customize your WordPress Dashboard

Customize your WordPress Dashboard

Tonight, Rob and I crossed a marital and technological threshold with our collaborative creation of an enhanced version of one of the files in Matt Good and dr Dave's excellent X-Dashboard plugin for WordPress. X-Dashboard allows users to customize the WordPress admin...

Now that you are logged in, here are a few things you can do:

Now that you are logged in, here are a few things you can do:

Write a blog entry. Click on “Write” to post a story to the blog. Enter your text in the “title” and “post” fields. Choose the appropriate category (or categories) from the right-hand site of the screen. Click “publish” to post it to the blog immediately, OR “save as...

OD 2005 Blog

OD 2005 Blog

I’m heading to Stanford this week for the 2005 Online Deliberation conference. I’m currently setting up a conference blog that puts some of my recent investigations into tagging to work as a tool for collaboration and dialogue among conference participants.
OD2005

Tag aggregation

Tag aggregation

I've created a category in this blog called OD2005 and I'm experimenting to see which blog search engine picks it up first.

del.icio.us taxonomies

del.icio.us taxonomies

Step 1: Lie awake at night, wondering whether there isn't something that can organize your favourite web links that will work better than del.icio.us. Step 2: Lie awake at night, wondering whether you should use Furl or Spurl or del.icio.us. Step 2a (optional): Lie...

THE VERGE

Warning: Common sense on Twitter

Warning: Common sense on Twitter

It was bound to happen sooner or later: someone has actually offered some actually human level, common sense about RTs. You know RTs: "retweets", the Twitter equivalent of blowing a kiss, or maybe it's more like picking the lice out of someone's hair and eating it....

Where are you at?

Where are you at?

I have become so habituated to referring to people in my tweets as @robcottingham, @morganbrayton, @kk etc. that I'm starting to think of "at" as part of my friends' names. You know, the way Spanish names often include "de la" or Hebrew names include a "Ben" this or...

Wanted: LadyJoiners

Wanted: LadyJoiners

My life is basically a series of social network and web app sign-ups, with a few friends, colleagues and tasks stuffed into the interstitial moments. So the arrival this week of Path -- what some people might consider YAFSN (Yet Another F*ing Social Network) -- was my...