http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4187

http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/02/a_mashup_of_ide.html

http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2005/05/firefox_foxy_ca.html

http://brattcollective.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20050920/pl_usnw/network_for_good_and_groundspring_to_merge__leading_nonprofit_providers_of_internet_tools_consolidate102_xml

http://wiki.advocacydev.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RecentChanges

http://civicspacelabs.org/home/node/11487

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/entry/2005/03/26.html#2524

It would be going too far to say that it is as good as being there, as the communication is decidedly uni-directional with even the standard infrastructures of dialogue (email, blog comments, etc) being abandoned in their comparative paucity en masse by those attending in the flesh for the rush of face to face. But still, the information percolates, the simplest most concrete ideas spreading, and hatching into a part of the ongoing discourse, the wild dreams perhaps hibernating until a next fertile meeting of minds, or else quietly being incubated by some newly formed conspiracy. It is these ripples which make the impact, their weak effect magnified by their wide area of effect.

There was a great push this year to engage the wider audience, coordinated by the usual suspects via a wiki and persumably this week will start to see a more formal breed of report back from NTC. But its utter opacity for the two days during which it existed is notable, and so I’m noting it.

http://www.eekim.com/blog/2005/02/23#hidingagendas

http://www.inittab.de/blog/2005/02/13#20050213_how-do-os-projects-communicate

http://blog.groundspring.org/gs/2005/02/two_possible_us.html

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/002032.html

For example I use the tag “inspiration” to keep track of ideas I want to steal, or think about more on my various projects. (inspiration+redesign are my first notes towards a Magpie re-design)

Variations on toread, and *toread are in wide use as useful meta-tags, and a handful of people are using variants to track specific research projects, or tasks.

Marnie is experimenting with the tag nptech to build a community of non-profit tech workers, we’re using a different tag for the our anarchist tech work, and there are a handful of bibliographies being organized around a specific indicator tag.

And lastly don’t be afraid to build combos. One of the key ways tags work is the set logic of multiple tags. They’re your links on redesign inspiration, javascript usability, Boston bakeries, or Photoshop books. Much like with wikis, the meaning arises not from the individual components, but when you ram them together to indicate a single new concept. (and I won’t even make you use CamelCase)

Days are mostly spoken for (and weekend I’ll be hanging out with the fam in Santa Cruz), but if anyone wants to grab coffee/dinner next week, drop a line.

In the queue

• Co-Evolution of NGOs and Interactive Technology (via rre)
• The nonsense of knowledge management

Reactive Interfaces

• Flamenco, a smarter searching interface is overwhelming, but interesting. Presenting multiple avenue to browse from each search result.
• BBC facelift hilights BBC’s subtle use of color over time to reward return visitors.

Facetted Classification

• On: Why Yahoo inspired taxonomy build is a bad idea, that generates unusable results.
• Says: Facetted classification is about changing questions. In taxonomy based systems the central question is “where do I put this?” but in facetted (bottom up) approch you ask “how do I describe this?”.
• Facetted classification can also be thought of as a database where ” facets are fields, [and] controlled vocabularies are acceptable values.”

• EmergentArchitecture
• Ontology Development 101
• A Taxonomy Primer