Just as I am doing!

A couple of weeks ago, when working on the entry about salaries for bloggers, I did a quick analysis of the entries in a day slice. Many people pointed out that this was a small slice and was not representative of what other blogs where doing. From there, I ended up with two questions basically bugging me: first, how many entries does the average blog produce on a daily basis? Second, what is the size of those entries? To answer the question, I decided to start analyzing the A-list of the blog world.

Secrets of the A-List Bloggers: Lots of short entries

To-Done! is a regularly updated collection of thoughts, writings, tips, tricks and information on personal productivity, work/life balance and getting things done.

To-Done

TagglyWiki is a modification by JodyFoo of JeremyRuston’s OpenSourceLicensed TiddlyWiki. The modification adds non-hierarchical organisation of Tiddlers through tags.

The functionality of TagglyWiki is the same as its software root TiddlyWiki — a self-contained personal wiki in a file. You only need a modern browser and you are set to go!

Main features

* Add tags to tiddlers, TiddlerTags
* Tiddlers can be used as tags
* Tags are tiddlers
* Browse tiddlers by tag (a tab in the sidebar)

TagglyWiki - a taggable, reusable, non-linear personal web notebook

Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding. Ditch those massive listings of bad links that provide no context and add LinkChecker to your arsenal of web development tools today.

LinkChecker - Firefox link validator extension for web developers

Folksonomies are taxonomies created by users who add tags to things. Folksonomies are messy and have a lot of problems, but their great merit is that they’re scalable and they use the users’ terminology by definition, a serious problem with more classic taxonomies that are created by information architects or librarians.

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Emergent i18n effects in folksonomies

The term “folksonomy” was coined by Thomas VanderWal and it’s used to describe the tagging and classification systems used by many social networking applications (Flickr, 43 Things, Del.icio.us, etc.) wherein individual users tag data or content (Web pages, photos, links, lists, etc.) however they choose and the system aggregates those tags and (usually) groups them into a weighted list of some kind.

Update (02/03/05): Folksonomy defined. “A Folksonomy is a collection of metadata created by users.”

Folksonomy

Tags are labels attached to things. This procedure is absolutely orthogonal to whether professionals or amateurs are doing the tagging.

Professionals often think tags are covalent with folksonomies because their minds have been poisoned by the false dream of ontology, but also because tagging looks too easy (in the same way the Web looked too easy to theoreticians of hypertext.) Not only are tags amenable to being used as controlled vocabularies, it’s happening today, where groups are agreeing about how to tag things so as to produce streams of e.g. business research.

More importantly, tags are not the same as flat name spaces. The LiveJournal interests list, the first large-scale folksonomy I became aware of (though before the label existed) is flat. The interest list has one meaning: Person X has Interest Y, included as part of in List L. All L is attached to X, and all Y’s are equivalent in L.

Tags don’t work that way at all. Tags are multi-dimensional, and only look flat, in the way Venn diagrams look flat. When I tag something ‘socialsoftware drupal’, I enable searches of the form “socialsoftware & drupal”, “socialsoftware &! (and not) drupal”, “drupal &! socialsoftware”, and so on.

Many-to-Many: Tags != folksonomies && Tags != Flat name spaces

Monitor the trend of a bookmarked Website by inserting its URL in this tool.

A webmaster tool to see the evolution of a del.icio.us bookmark

Grafolicious: A webmaster tool to see the evolution of a del.icio.us bookmark

Foxylicious is a Mozilla Firefox extension that syncs your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks.

Also, if you are doing Firefox extension development with del.icio.us or with bookmarks, the Foxylicious source contains reusable components for working with these things.

Dietrich Ayala | Foxylicious - Firefox and del.icio.us bookmark integration

This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings. Written by my_haz

Update: added a few new tricks to the apache server section namely adding dates to the search string.

Update: At the end of this Tutorial You will find a great link to web based file sharing websites that work over HTTP. Great for when you have a music you want to share with just a handful of people.

Update: Another Usendit.com like site is added to file transfer links section.

How To Find MP3’s With Google