My Likes #visualization #folksonomy

I like visualizations as they make it possible to showcase data in a way which is clear. And I remember that although a picture might tell a thousand words an image needs to be framed in a context. The context for the images below is folksonomy, and as you can see from the images I love my tags.

On the left is the Wordle graphic for my del.icio.us tags, on the right the Wordle for this blog.

Pretty clear when my interests lie. How about you? Post your Wordles in the comments below.

Proof of Concept: Blog + Wiki #quora #bliki #curation

I’ve been sick all week, flue. And it hasn’t stopped me for thinking big thoughts.

I was reading “Where Have All The Flowers Gone” and suddenly stopped when I noticed that the author was using a Wiki as a blog, then I thought about it and a picture of the advantages of combining a blog and wiki together. Besides from the obvious wiki markup which can be used in the blog, also the ability for updates to wiki/blog items to be posted into the blog stream for RSS, it’s also possible to use [[wiki markup]] to create a backlog of items you may wish to blog about. I naturally googled it and discovered that the Bliki already exists as an idea:

A bliki […] combines features from both: as with blogs, posts or articles appear in reverse chronological order on the front page, with the most recent one at the top; but editing is done in wiki style, with a version history for each page and special markup tags.

With the power of hindsight I think that the original creator missed a feature, which is also sidelined in this article. My love of folksonomy obviously requires me to question whether the addition of articles related from curation, folksonomy, tagging or social bookmarking sites would be a perfect addition to creating an all inclusive curation environment. Quora has moved fora into the bliki field, although as with a wiki it relies more on created content than on external content.

Image source: Raphaëlle RIDARCH

A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010

Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:

1. Ignore
2. Overreact

Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance

It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks…

@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner

It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie…

Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance

Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they…

Social Revolution – Do You Get It?

I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to …

Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking

Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne…

Company Policy or People #hr

I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac…

Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop

In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up…

Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google

I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so…

@Google, please stop with the language! #google

I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br…

Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin

For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar…

Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile

When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t…

GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard

On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th…

More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk

Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b…

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…

Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy

I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the …

China acquires more than China… #hacks

This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to …

Implementation of Security #risk

The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small…

ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk

Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r…

Musing: Why can I fly solo?

After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p…

Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

This year’s book reviews #2010

As always I read far more in 2010 than I blogged about, and most of the books I did blog about were treasures. I hope I inspired you to read at least one of them. And you have certainly noticed that I have added them all to the bookstore to make it easier for you to find out more about them.

Twipping Point #twitter

I’ve had this title in my head for about a week now, the title is natur…

Just Finished Reading: “Islands in the Net” #wikileaks #books #datahaven

I’m reading Bruce Sterling‘s Islands in the Net – Amazon de…

xkcd: Online Communities

As followers of mine will know I love xkcd, and he has some gems such as this…

Just Finished Reading “Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City” #books

I read Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City by Geert Mak in English rather tha…

Just Finished Reading “Star Wars” #books

I’ve seen the film more than a dozen times, but I had yet to read Star …

Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Outcast of Redwall”

Brian Jacques‘s book Outcast of Redwallfollows Veil the ferret who is r…

Just Finished Reading “The Odessa File” #books

The Odessa File, by Frederick Forsyth, is another of the books I am keeping s…

Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Martin the Warrior” #books

Brian Jacques‘s book Martin the Warrior is another book from the Redwal…

Just Finished Reading “The Moon’s a Balloon” #books

I found The Moon’s a Balloon, by David Niven, in a box of old books. I …

Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Mossflower” #books

Mossflower by Brian Jacques is probably my favourite of the Redwall series, t…

Turn on, tune in, drop out: Personalised Online Education – Introduction #school #education

Timothy Leary once told us to “Turn on, tune in, drop out“, and a…

Just Finished Reading “Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA” #books

For some reason I had the book Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Br…

Just Finished Reading “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” #books

After having seen many films and read many books I expected that Hitler: The …

Thor the #Movie

One of my first real American comics was Thor, I really liked it. Sadly it re…

Just Finished Reading: “Wikinomics” #books #ontogenesis

I like Ontologies, Taxonomies and Folksonomies. I’m currently reading W…

Just Finished Reading “The Godfather” #books

I read Mario Puzo famed book The Godfather after having seen the movie a numb…

Just Finished Reading “Anathem” #books

As I previously said I bought Anathem at the same time I bought Cryptonomicon…

Just Finished Reading “Young Winston” #books

I borrowed a number of books from an aunt of mine, who reviewed these books f…

Just Finished Reading “The Big Yin” #books

I was standing in a secondhand book store with my father, and we wandered rou…

Just Finished Reading “Cryptonomicon” #books

As an early Christmas gift my father gave me vouchers he didn’t want to…

Just Finished Reading “The Snake”

The Snake is the first book I have read by John Godey, it was recommended to …

Just Finished Reading “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” #scrum #xp

In the company I work for they are introducing the Agile FrameWork, in the fo…

Image source: Honou

This year’s articles about programming #2010

In 2010 I was less focussed on programming articles on the blog than previous years, still I have managed to create some interesting articles with code in 2010. This is an overview of the activity:

Sync Web with Phone #html #javascript #scratchpad

Having some fun today with QR codes, JavaScript and the Google Analytics URL …

The Structure of a Daily Scrum #agile #scrum

The only questions that are asked in the Daily Scrum, aka Stand-Up, are: What…

Features I Still Miss in Mail #mail #email

UPDATE: GMail has introduced my number 3. YEAH! (Gmail introduces Priority In…

YouTube Channel Unsubscribe #bookmarklet

I like YouTube, and often subscribe to new channels and unsubscribe after a w…

PCI is nice (or what I do) #pcidss

Since I started working for my company I’ve been exposed to PCI DSS (Pa…

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…

VeriSign PIP Browser Certificate workaround (PIN Request) #identity #openid

VeriSign – Personal Identity Portal is a OpenID provider with multiple …

Image source D’Arcy Norman

Blogging using del.icio.us #microblogging #tagging

del.icio.us, as I still call it, is a social bookmarking, tagging or folksonomy site. Friends of mine and I believe folksonomy is part of the move towards a semantic web, but that’s not what I want to talk about here.

Most readers have noticed that I post my del.icio.us links to my blog, but I have been doing more than that for the people who have been paying attention. I have been adding messages in the notes section as microblog entries for my blog, giving a brief description of the context in which I found it.

del.icio.us microblog example

This is a nice simple way to add more information to my blog, and feel the need to elaborate with pages of text.

Is Folksonomy part of Citizen Marketing? #seo

Simple answer: YES!

Seriously, if a group of people collaboratively generate online content that “[…] categorize content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links” that’s folksonomy. When I blog about or tag a product or company I’m creating a category for it. An “xbox” tag on the Microsoft homepage is a label, but tagging it with “crap” is a judgement call. If enough people tagging blogs with “xbox” and “crap” a search of the tag will allow you to refine the results with “+crap“. That’s Citizen Marketing!

Even more serious, if people don’t tag the Microsoft website with “xbox“, “game” or “console” a search on these terms will turn up everything but the Microsoft website. That’s Citizen Marketing!

Here’s an interesting clip I found on Church of the Customer Blog:

_{(Media is this message)}

Originally posted here.

technorati tags: viral, citizen, marketing, folksonomy, seo, youtube

Just Finished Reading: “Wikinomics” #books #ontogenesis

I like Ontologies, Taxonomies and Folksonomies. I’m currently reading Wikinomics, I bought Blink at the same time. Wikinomics is is quite interesting, and it is filling me with lots of ideas. It’s also gotten me back on the Ontology and Semantic Web path. Related to that I was reading an article I found with Technorati on Identity Blog about privacy and was confronted with Human Ontogenesis. (Read the article, or wait until I reference it again and then read it.)

Ontogenesis –
The process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.

Ontology –
The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being; a systematic account of existence. A rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations.

Originally posted here.

technorati tags: wikinomics, ontogenesis, ontology, folksonomy, taxonomy, collaboration

Del.icio.us 5 Today

del.icio.us, the social bookmarking website turned 5 today. That’s quite a milestone. Congratulations.

technorati tags: folksonomy, bookmarking, social, networking, tagging

The reason I blog from del.icio.us #folksonomy

Every day I get and see tons of things that I don’t manage to post, anything I think is actually important enough to save I tag and put in del.icio.us. This gets posted to my blog. There is also a set which I think are important to tag, but which I absolutely don’t want in my blog. Some are related to work, are of a nature that would not fit in the context of my blog, or a generally private such as my doctors web page or pictures of friends or relatives.

As I can’t use tags to directly influence the items which are posted with tags I have to manipulate them in a different fashion. The work related and context based items are released at a later time, as the blog posting occurs only for the day they are posted I can make them visible the next day or at a later date when I think it’s appropriate.