Archive for June 21st, 2005

The VR software wants to contradance.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

I say “Hey” and it prints 8.
Wait … I think I heard a chuckle …
Learning how to use the voice recognition software, ViaVoice, is quite a challenge. I’m getting better at it, but it’s still slow going. Of course, I had to teach it a whole bunch of geeky words like blog, podcast, [...]

Blogger Survey

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Cameron Marlow, who’s working on a dissertation at MIT, is gathering data about bloggers. His survey is online. Unless you’re one of his 5,000 A-list bloggers, you have to request a key in order to take the survey.
I finished in fourteen minutes after waiting less than a minute to get a key. It’s a quick [...]

Meeting Bloggers at Conferences

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Christina has a great post about meeting bloggers face-to-face at conferences. I ditto what she says.
Christina, by the way, stepped into the blogging course at SLA briefly and was able to answer some questions.
She is also rumored to have the cover article in the July/August Online, which wasn’t available electronically when I looked earlier [...]

The utility of tags in LJ

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Addendum 7/8: more on LiveJournal tags
It’s a lot like the idea behind Frassle’s categories and related items and, of course, it’s just metadata. The idea that a community of users comes up with a series of keywords for certain things, then links their post together with those keywords, is actually quite powerful and facilitates [...]


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