I went to the clinic today after two days of minor chest discomfort – occasional twinges – that then gathered some jaw pain, and then a wicked headache and nausea. But the ekg says my heart is fine. The rest of the symptoms are of a very nasty bug going around. I feel like crap – and believe me, I’m a moaner (because I’m a man)- but I’m not as scared as a few hours ago. I knew my symptoms were not strong infarction symptoms, but I was still more worried about looking like a nervous nellie than about being a dead nellie. Did I mention I’m a man?

So, I’m blogging this while chilled feverish, thankful that we can afford the outlandishly expensive insurance that let’s me pop down to a clinic for a little ekg and blood work.

So, if this post makes no sense – am I writing this in Klingon?
– blame it on the virus, or possibly Dick Cheney…

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Frank Paynter‘s son, Ben, has a story about meteor farmingin the Jan. issue of Wired that’s been turned into a segment of the premiere of PBS’s Wired Science. The show is being streamed here. [Tags: ben_paynter frank_paynter meteors pbs video]

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Micah Sifry has a very helpful post about how to find political blogs near you (where “near” refers to geographical not judgmental proximity). Lots of good links in it.

(By the way, the title of this post is false.) [Tags: politics placeblogs micah_sifry ]

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A friend of mine thinks she may have sprained her back playing with the Nintendo Wii. This would be one of the first documented cases of a Wiinjury™. [Tags: wiinjury wii games]

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danah notes:

Many teens are content (if not happy) to start over with most of their accounts in most places. Forgot your IM password? Sign up again. Forgot your email address? Create a new one. Forgot your login? Time for a change.

This is so fascinating. Us middle-aging bloggers who think blogs are about building selves in the new public are apparently not speaking for anyone other than us middle-aging bloggers. Maybe Web presence for the young’uns has little to do with building selves or maybe the nature of that public self is so different from the corporeal one the middle-agers have imported from the real world, or maybe something else entirely is going on. And maybe—although I think this is less likely—when the young’uns age to the middle, they’ll feel about their Web selves the way us current middle-agers do.

Damn, this is an interesting world. [Tags: danah_boyd self web everything_is_miscellaneous ]

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I’ve added the FastForward blog to my blogroll because it’s got an excellent list of contributors and has been posting some very interesting stuff if you care about folksonomies, KM, “enterprise 2.0” (oy), etc. (Also, I get to use the little auto-blogroll creator I wrote over the weekend to make it easier to update Dan Bricklin’s blogrolling javascript.) But, I owe some disclosure on it: The blog is produced to support the FastForward event, a conference sponsored by Fast Search. I spoke at an executive seminar Fast put on a few months ago, and I may be doing some form of work at the FastForward conference, so I am in a basic conflict, not to mention that bunches of the contributors are friends of mine. So, now that the disclaimer has gone on longer than the recommendation… [Tags: blogs fast_search fastforward everything_is_miscellaneous km]

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Lisa Williams’ PlaceBlogger launched today. It aggregates blogs that are about the places where the bloggers live. Unlike Steve Johnson’s Outside.in, it is hand-assembled and it focuses on bloggers writing about where they live; Outside.in maintains a list of placebloggers but it also aggregates posts about places no matter the location of the people who wrote them. That gives PlaceBlogger a certain intimacy and the potential to seed local communities of bloggers, while Outside.in is better site if you’re trying to find everything said about a location. It also means that, especially at the outset, Outside.in has more stuff, while PlaceBlogger feels a bit sparsely populated…so pitch in and add to PlaceBlogger the placeblogs you rely on.

I love the idea both these sites pursue, knitting the virtual with the real, words with dirt.

Quintura is copyrighted 2006 but Hanan Cohen just pointed it out to me this morning, so I’m counting it as new in my 2007. Type in a search term and it creates a cloud of related topics (using the Yahoo search engine), which you can use to refine your search by adding them or excluding them. Unfortunately, the site was timing out for me this morning, but you can see a screen video demo here. [Tags: placeblogs blogs placeblogger outside.in quintara everything_is_miscellaneous taxonomy lisa_williams steve_johnson]

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