MiscLinks

Mike O’Dell sends us to a taxonomy of Flame Warriors, i.e., obnoxious Net types. Unfortunately, I recognized myself in over 75% of them.

Chip has found “more Google tales,” a provocative column by Eric Zorn that juxtaposes anecdotes about where the new line of privacy should be drawn given that we can find out ‘most anything about ‘most anybody by doing a search at Google.

Brad Bauer recommends Sidestep.com where you can download a free tool that lets you see various travel sites’ suggestions side by side. (I haven’t tried it, so if it eats your desktop and sends pornographic fonts to everyone in your address book, send your flames direct to Brad.)

Gary Unblinking Stock, Creator of the Googlewhack, points us to The Secret Life of Numbers, a fascinating (in the literal sense) site that does an amazing job of presenting its research into the frequency with which we use particular numbers. I assume that the fact that I can’t make heads nor tails of the shimmering graphics is my fault; I have trouble making sense of timelines.

Gilbert Cattoire has a pair of finds. First at the home of the Post-It Note, he writes, we learn that “refillable holders have a unique,very specific objective: Improve employee relations.”

Second, he points us to Annotis.com where you can get the tools to scribble on top of your email, highlighting passages, drawing little smiley faces, and putting horns on top of every instance of the phrase “my manager.”

Although I’m late blogging this, it’s sure important enough to repeat: Peter Kaminski recommends Lawrence Lessig’s Creative Commons where creators can get IP licenses that make sense. (Both Peter and Larry are Net treasures.)

Dave Rogers recommends a lecture by Brenda Laurel called “Creating Core Content in a Post-Convergence World.” She says:

… we are not experiencing convergence in the sense of media. We are experiencing a diaspora of displays and devices that will address even finer distinctions in situated context. … The opportunity here is to understand how to design what I would call “core content” that contains the potential to be shaped appropriately for myriad devices and contexts.

She proposes that we think “transmedia” to begin with, rather than rooting the content in one medium, and then talks about ways to think about this cross-device content, including a quote from Rob Tow that “narratives are the constitutions of new worlds.”

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