CogBlogged from ‘December, 2007’

Of course I find the coolest of new stuff in my twitter stream, like from Dean Shareski just know came a link to Tweeterboard- a site that provides analytics on tweeters, their activity, what they are linking to, etc. Tweeterboard is a way of looking at who is influential on Twitter based on their conversations with other Twitter users. There are other services, like Twitterposter, that base influence on how many followers you have. Tweeterboard looks at who talks to you. Tweeterboard also captures links posted to Twitter to generate a list of the most popular links. Reputation points are the way influence is measured in Tweeterboard. They’re calculated using some algorithmic mojo that resembles the link analysis algorithms used by search engines. Your reputation points are based on the conversations you’ve had over the last 28 days, which means your score can jump around a lot. So if you [...]

Second Life Live Video Stream Setup posted 7 Dec ’07, 11.33am MST PST on flickr My home office technology used for the NMC Symposium on Evolution of Communcation held entirely in Second Life. The PC on the left, a high HP game station, is my Second Life camera, operated by my alt avatar, Zoraster Gaffer. Mirrored video output from its nVidea card is sent by S-video and audio out form my speakers to a Canopus ADVC110 digital/analog converter, which in turn passes the signal by firewire to my MacBook Pro. On the MBP, I run Wirecast which sends the video to our QuickTime streaming server. This video can thus be viewed by people outside of Second Life, as a normal live video stream, but the real use was to attach the video to our overflow sims in Second Life. The main NMC Conference center can accommodate up to 70 avatars; [...]

Considering the blog post immediately before this one drew a link farm spam trackback in near real time, I am testing them to see how quickly they pick this one up. The site that spammed ne is purportedly called “Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc.” but is composed entirely of blog post lifted from elsewhere and covered with Google ad links. It is certainly NOT a blog by any extent, it is an abuse of the web and its about time these ***ers were stepped on. So as a test I will say something about them. Social Networking News for Myspace / Facebook / Etc is an ugly fake blog site permeated by stolen fragments from other posts. The people who foster this sort of waste on the internet are destined for a special low level of karmatic destiny, should I have any say in that event. [...]

This dog has put down a paw on the dominant proliferating swine source of email bacn. Getting an email notification of an “X me” message (no idea why that is different from any other message), I wasted my time/bandwidth to find someone sent me a snowman. Thanks, sweet thought, but… I will not put up with notification by email that does not include in the notification some indication of the message, if not the full message itself. So the kibosh has been placed on my facebook account. Notifications are set to “off” down the line. Stay out of my inbox, swine. If I want to find out what lies in my facebook, I will choose when and where to know– I will check it myself. Maybe once a week, once a month, once a … Again, I am not being closeminded to Facebook, but just because I have previously said [...]

Looks like I can be a Silicon Indian– from my inbox: Next stop.. CogDogBangalore? SNF is increasing daily

Long time readers know my deep, obsessive love for flickr. Since I recently trolled by del.icio.us past, lets roll my flickr odometer back to March 29, 2004, when I uploaded my first flickr photo. I started exploring flickr at a time I was prepping a TCC conference session on PhotoBlogging. At the time I was dabbling a bit more in Buzznet though my account there is now deader than dead (well there is photospam, one reason I left it behind). But there was just something, something, about that early flickr interface (at the time it was all Flash) with that Organizr thing. I got hooked early. Currently, I have 4479 photos. That was about 1335 days ago, so I’ve been plopping about, oh, 3.4 photos per day. (“get a life!” say the hecklers). But for the longest time, flickr hung a “beta” sign on its site, even when it was [...]

A quiet moment for me posted 17 Dec ’05, 11.38pm MST PST on flickr In the middle of nowhere, so silent you can only hear the blood flowing through your ears. Good job a car is nearby or I’d be in trouble. Hi, my name is Alan, and I am a compulsive del.icio.us tagger. Just for some idle curiosity, I looked for my first tags- my home there said I was on “page 1 of 133″, so doing some quick math, with 25 links per view (usually I set it at 100, but I recently cleaned cookies), I got at something over 3300 web sites tagged. So I dug back to the first screen by forcing the URL http://del.icio.us/cogdog?page=133, where in fact, it told me I had 3316. My first site was tagged October 6, 2004, roughly 1125 days ago. So my tag rate has been 2.7 sites tpd (tagged [...]