Month: October 2005

Flock is cool enough to check out

Very interesting browser because it tries so hard to focus on web 2.0 essentials — namely integrating tagging via del.ici.ous into the browser metaphor and tossing blog authoring into the mix. No obvious sign of the Flickr function, but I do note a high degree of correlation between the browser’s tool functions and those in Firefox (no big surprise there given the legacy of the development team).

I don’t think it’s going to fly anytime soon in middle-America, but it does hold big potential for addicted bloggers and taggers, that is for sure.

Flock Test

I just downloaded Flock, the developer’s beta and am testing it’s built in WordPress capabilities.

Media Executive Interview Series: Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget: PaidContent.org

Media Executive Interview Series: Greg Strakosch, CEO, TechTarget: PaidContent.org

Rafat Ali discusses IT publishing with Strakosch. Not much net new here for me, but some interesting insights into the company perceived as the masters of lead gen.  

Jon Udell: Attention economics

Jon Udell: Attention economics

Udell on Clive Thompson’s Sunday Times piece on Meet the Life Hackers — 

SF Cover Explorer – a few thousand science fiction covers

SF Cover Explorer – a few thousand science fiction covers+

A most excellent thing to play with. 

Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Past 40 Years

Magazine 40×40

ASME reveals the top covers of the past four decades. If this doesn’t make you already miss print magazines, nothing will. I don’t foresee a list of the top homepages of all time … ever.

I’ve put my vote in for the "kill this dog" NatLamp cover.

Bweek – Blogspotting Running blog stories late in the magazine

Running blog stories late in the magazine

"But too often we consider ongoing blog dramas as old news–without realizing that they’re still fresh to many who don’t read blogs."

So true and a good example of how an integrated publisher’s online operation can act as an early-warning system for the print operation.

 

Meet the Life Hackers – New York Times

Meet the Life Hackers – New York Times

One of the best things I’ve read in a very long time. This is a story I would have wished I had written back in the day. Strongly recommend it, for it is a good insight into the next wave of man-machine interface design, user interface theory, and desktop productivity. 

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