Just a sidenote: I wonder whether the quantity of and the naming conventions used in blogrolls reflect some conceptual disposition of the blogger. There is masturbatoric selflinking to ones own projects only, mutual crosslinking within blogclouds, or promiscuous outlinking; using the authors and not the titles of blogs (John Gruber vs. Daring Fireball, Merlin Mann vs. 43 Folders,…) might indicate an unbroken believe in an authentic and autonomous voice; using the titles might indicate a dedication to brands, and so on.

Nah, bullshit. But it’s fun to look at blogrolls trying to figure out the underlying motivation for exactly that structure – and not all possible others. (It was this blogroll that got me thinking. He uses a highly unlikely sorting technique.)

current snapshot of my next action balls basket

current mood: lazy, goofy.

minor technical adjustment:

During the past 2 weeks I was experimenting with Mark Wieczorek’s Cascading Next Actions (this article is an overall excellent introduction into the whys and hows of Next Actions), a method I like a lot since it basically eliminates the need for separate project lists at all. The negative side effect for my setup (each Next Action is written on a Next Action Note and made a Next Action Ball when done) was a decreased output of Next Action Balls, since I’m reusing the notes, scribbling the follow-up Next Action on the same note.

May I introduce: mashup, an aleatoric metablog. The input is hijacked from blogs I like, the output (somehow syntactically correct ramblings) is generated by a tool I originally developed to transform spam into something useful.

Face transformations created with the Face Transformer.

current snapshots of my next action balls basket

minor technical adjustment:

Supplementary to using a color based scheme for assigning contexts to Next Action Notes I started to annotate them with tags as well – a trick I picked up from Edward Vielmetti. This actually works pretty well since it provides a higher level of granularity for sorting or rearranging the notes if I want to without distracting if I don’t.

Ongoing fun with del.icio.us hacks. extisp.icio.us creates psycho-geographic maps for any del.icio.us user account given.

This is the map for the entries of this blog:

Just a technical note: I added a linklog category (via Links > RecSense or here). I’m still struggling with the format, and I need to figure out a way to fully automate the posting process, but if you like triplets and/or an eclectic mix…

gapingvoid has a nice comment on the interesting elaborations on the economics of the Long Tail:

This opens quite some room for interpretation.

related:
Wired 12.10: The Long Tail
The Long Tail (Chris Anderson’s Blog)
The Long Tail (Wikipedia)
The Long Tail of Software

(mimicking this gorgeous Flickr group)

Heh. del.icio.us user SpikeH1464 tagged the URL for the del.icio.us tag blogs with these tags:

actionResearch   aggregation   apprenticeship   artefacts   backchannelling   ?   blog   blog101   blogBusiness   blogComments   blogCommunities   blogConversations   blogEcosystem   blogEffects   blogLearning   blogNetworking   blogOrganiser   blogReading   blogResearch   blogTools   blogWriting   communities   conceptMapping   conferences   creativity   del.icio.us   email   emergence   ethnography   folksonomy   groundedTheory   groupthink   hypertext   innovation   inspiration   instructionalDesign   internetResearch   journal   knowledgeMapping   knowledgeSharing   knowledgeWork   KWmodel   learning   learningInformal   mathodology   media   Selection   meta-learning   metadata   metaphors   methodology   nature   networking   ontologies   people   personal   personality   perspectives   PhD   PIM   pKM   productivity   Radio   reflection   research   researcherBlog   researchTools   RSS   RU   search   security   socialSoftware   storytelling   technology   Adoption   Technorati   theory   thinking   timeManagement   tipping   Point   tools

(he didn’t autoreferentially tag it with blogs)

Instant analysis: if the zero value of tagging is tagging a tag or an entity with itself (e.g.: 189 people (!) are tagging ‘http://del.icio.us/’ with the tags del.icio.us or delicious – see) and the informative value of tagging is – well – tagging entities with one’s associations (which implicitly creates a broader and richer tagspace via aggregating the tags of all other users), then tagging tags can be seen as an autopoetic turn in this scenario, with tags no longer pointing to anything outside but themselves.