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More kudos for Feedster

Another great discovery: Feedster lets you create a feed based on a search that is limited to the feeds listed within a given OPML file. An OPML file is better known as a blogroll -- basically list of RSS subscriptions (such as the one created by Bloglines when you...

Cisco product placement?

On 24 tonight, in the face of a fictional denial-of-service attack, the fictional cyberwhiz of the fictional intelligence agency notes that they're in good shape because "the Cisco network is self-defending."

Tag-friendly Feedster

Since Technorati does not yet provide RSS feeds on its tag pages, I've been looking for an alternate way of subscribing to RSS feeds for particular blog categories/tags (the way I subscribe to del.icio.us tag feeds). The happy discovery is that Feedster supports...

Contentious » Furl and Del.icio.us: Almost Perfect Together

This blog post outlines one workflow for using Furl and del.icio.us togther, treating Furl as a personal archive and del.icio.us as a way of sharing resources. It’s an interesting reflection of the strengths and limitations of each tool: Furl is certainly a better option for archiving and retrieval purposes, while del.icio.us is far more powerful as a social and collaborative tool. It’s also a reminder of why Spurl is uniquely valuable for its combination of archiving and sharing functions: by facilitating both personal archiving and social bookmarking via del.icio.us, it allows personal information management to be integrated with collaboration. This seems like a much more realistic way of making collaboration a natural part of workflow, since it makes sharing a byproduct of work effort rather than another item on the to-do list.

South African Blogs

Africa is blogging, too. South Africa is leading the way, with more than 3 million unique users visiting South African blogs every month. High profile South African blogs include Commentary – which focuses on topics like race relations and economics – and Human vs. Nature, an earnest environmental issues weblog. The country […]

The Moderator’s HomePage

An extensive set of resources covering both the technologies and techniques of online faciliation and moderation. Many of these resources are quite dated, however.

A living experiment in online collaboration

The blogiverse is having fun with Just Letters, a little flash game that is a great living experiment in online collaboration. All you need is your browser, so go check it out!

Just Letters is an interesting window on how people can work together when the demands of collaboration are low enough, even if the apparent […]

Justice in a nutshell

My past research on hacktivism took me far enough into the hacker world to appreciate the difference between hackers and script kiddies. In a nutshell, real hackers are computer experts who use their impressive skills for peace, love and kindness, while script kiddies...