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del.icio.us feeds my vanity

May 17, 2005 |

We spend a lot of time using the Internet as a mirror. A lot of the time we use it as a big mirror that helps us see the people who think like us or talk like us or dress like us. Many web tools succeed by helping us focus that big mirror down towards a reflection...

Today in the Toronto Star: Tagging

May 16, 2005 |

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

May 15, 2005 |

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:

May 15, 2005 |

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

May 15, 2005 |

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

May 15, 2005 |

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

May 14, 2005 |

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...

WordPress Plugins: Wish list

May 14, 2005 |

I stumbled across a brave Wordpress coder who has actually posted an open request for suggested plugins. Here's my contribution: Here’s a thought. It seems CRAZY that the world is full of people downloading WP plugins from one server only to re-upload them to another...