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A Not-To-Do List

Today is the day you start your project. Wake up. Make your coffee. Sit down. Get to work.

I should be that simple. Wake up and get to work. But there are many distractions. Mental and otherwise.

This is a not-to-do list. You don’t need to check anything off, because these are things YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO.

• August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web :: With Google Base and the tag everything model, this essay from 2002 might be a bit more prescient than I thought…
• FeedTier - RSS Web Feed Generator for Web Pages without Syndication :: FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing syndication options.

• Introduction - In search of the One True Layout :: Multi-column, css perfection. Well, he’s trying.
• Outfoxed | Personalize your internet. :: Search based on the social network, friend-of-a-friend, etc. This is the future. Learn to love it.
• Ciao, FeedBurner :: Feedburner enables a graceful way to stop using their services. No reason not to use it now!
• My Web 2.0 BETA - Tools - Yahoo! :: Yahoo’s entry into the social bookmarking, tagging, management, and search keeps getting stronger
• apophenia: remix is active consumption not production :: More term changing. Looks like smoke and mirrors to me.
• apophenia: when media becomes culture: rethinking copyright issues :: Danah Boyd on remix as communication– I don’t think changing the terms changes anything (nor do I think this is a distinction with a difference)
• apophenia: articles on tagging :: Whole lotta articles on tagging, folksonomy, etc.
• Inside Higher Ed :: Home :: Like The Chronicle but online– and free
• Doonesbury@Slate - Mier’s Strips :: The strips that would have run had Miers not (thankfully) withdrawn
• Readymech :: Build your own paper robots
• The Ministry of Reshelving :: Join the Ministry near you!
• Charlotte’s Webpage :: Students who frequently use computers perform worse academically than those who use them rarely or not at all…

Joshua spoke at Harvard’s Berkman Center a few days ago on the topic of tagging, folksonomy, del.icio.us, etc. Some blog-notes:

• David Weinberg’s notes on the first session
• David’s synopsis of interesting points
• Beth Kanter’s notes on the second session

Reader^2 is del.icio.us for books. List, tag, create a catalog of your books. Then use the social network to discover new titles, find shared interests, pursue discussions, etc.

I am so ready for this. All I need now is a companion desktop app to make the entry even faster and more fluid and I can start with my thousands of books.

Tagging the physical world is something we are almost technologically prepared for. As I contemplate being in San Francisco next week and look for places to visit and people to see, I realize how nice it would be if events and places and shops were not just linked to and referenced around the web, but tagged and pulled together not just to provide recommendations relevant to me, but with Google Maps and the like, with relevance to where I will be and information on how to get there.

If I could search for stationery and find all the cool places that sell fine paper, for instance, in my vicinity, with user ratings, mapped with directions– I’d be in heaven (and my bank account in serious trouble).

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The New York Times finally gets on the folksonomy bandwagon. Not bad for a popular media article, though perhaps a bit opaque in terms of the real benefits.

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Leggo My Ego - GooglePrint and the other culture war. By Tim Wu

I believe that everyone who considers themselves an author or an author’s advocate should take a deep breath and, at least this time, praise Google Print. In the end, it is just a search, not a replacement product. We readers need help finding what exists, and we authors also need help being found. There is here, as anywhere, such a thing as too much control. It may be time for the offline media to learn something from online mediaââ�¬â�?namely, the virtues of letting go.

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• connectivism_Web_2 :: George Siemens presentation on Connectivism
• ColorCalm :: Television wallpaper
• Personal Mantras - 43FoldersWiki :: Statements people try to live their lives by

How can I get my hands on a Vienna phonebook from circa 1938? That was the question posed in the Ask MetaFilter forum a few days ago. Within 48 hours not only was this information provided but someone from the Holocaust Museum provided a dozen pages of family history… gotta love the power of social connections enabled by the Internet.

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