Our new local paper, BostonNow, is taking blogs very seriously. See this post for the explanation. The paper is also tagalicious and comment-wild. Could be the start of something good for the city… [Tags: bostonnow media citizen_journalism blogs everything_is_miscellaneous hyperlocal ]

Cory Doctorow’s review of Everything is Miscellaneous at BoingBoing is like the review I daydream about occasionally (= obsessively), except he explains my book better. Thank you, Cory. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous cory_doctorow reviews boingboing ]

On Thursday, I’m doing a book talk at the NY Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library, 5:30-7pm (188 Madison Ave. at 34th St.). It’s free and open to the public, of course.

See you there? [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous ]

I’ve decided to de-link the forum I set up (well, actually BradSucks set it up … thanks Brad!) to discuss the book before anyone actually posted to it. I just don’t think people need me to provide a space to talk about my book.

If you disagree, let me know.

Today’s the official pub date of Everything Is Miscellaneous.

In celebration, I took down the notice in the header of this page that the site is beta. It still is beta, or maybe gamma, but it didn’t seem appropriate to say so now that the book is published.

Yay.

I’ve recorded a series of interview on topics related to the book with various luminaries. The podcasts are co-sponsored by the Harvard Berkman Center and Wired. The first one is now up. I talk with Cory Doctorow about why explicit metadata goes wrong, and also about what ought to change in the world of law and licenses to let us take advantage of the big pile o’ leaves we’re accumulating.

Coming up in the series (at the rate of about one a week, I believe): Arianna Huffington of HuffingtonPost, Craig Newmark of CraigsList, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, Kayak’s Paul English, the BBC’s Richard Sambrook, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the DailyKos. [Tags: podcasts cory_doctorow wired metadata metacrap]

Wired has just posted the first in the Everything Is Miscellaneous series of podcast interviews I’ve done on the topics in my book (which, by the way, was officially published today). The series is co-sponsored by the Berkman Center. (A transcript is also posted.)

The first is with Cory Doctorow, who talks about his Metacrap article about the problems with explicit metadata. I think they’ll be posting one a week at the Wired business blog.

Coming up in the: Arianna Huffington of HuffingtonPost, Craig Newmark of CraigsList, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, Kayak’s Paul English, the BBC’s Richard Sambrook, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia, and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of the DailyKos. [Tags: podcasts cory_doctorow everything_is_miscellaneous berkman wired metadata metacrap]

Well, not exactly. Siderean has announced that a pilot deployment for Elsevier has over one billion RDF triples (the press release says “relations,” but I assume that’s what that means) in what Siderean calls a “relational navigation” system, i.e., a faceted system that allows for looser links across and among the resources.

I’m working off a press release, so I’m probably getting some or all of this wrong. But, it’s still a heck of a lot of relationships. [Tags: siderean faceted_classification everything_is_miscellaneous rdf]

The Berkman Center is holding a launch party for Everything Is Miscellaneous on April 30. I’ll give a talk at 6pm in Pound Hall Room 335, and then there will be a reception at 7pm at the Berkman Center at 23 Everett Street. (Pound Hall is a block away.)

You are invited. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous berkman]

Steve Smith has an interview with Matt Colebourne, CEO of CoComment, a service that tracks comments across the Web so that companies can see what people are saying about them. “We are looking at how we can help a community find its own experts,” says Matt. He writes about the next version of the product:

So they can look at a conversation stream of tens of thousands of comments and say, I only want to see those answered by people that I know. But then it is useful if you can start to pick up on the individuals who have natural authority on the topic. So we are building a ranking system or a behavioral system where people rate other people. But after a while, once the experts start appearing, they in turn should be able to bring other people up quickly. So an expert on medieval history can see I actually do have something to say on it and give me a positive ranking. That will give me a much higher rank than someone else who knows nothing about it. So it is like a peer review and commenter ranking system, but against the taxonomy of topics that allows the natural experts to appear.

Interesting.

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