RageBoy does a post with my name on it. It’s all part of the spelunking he’s been doing for months, finding the passages that connect the echoing caverns of AI, cognitive psych, marketing, New Age-ism and the Boy Scouts. He’s charting one hell of a map.

Why is this entry for me? I sent Chris a 2005 “Who Moved My Cheese” calendar and he apparently made the mistake of reading all 365 entries in one sitting, the pharmaceutical equivalent of downing six tabs of windowpane. [Technorati tag: rageboy]

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In case you were wondering, this is how Philipp’s autolinker autolinks my post about his autolinker:

Philipp Lenssen’s Google Blogoscoped shows the results of a tool that checks Google for the longest occurrences of strings from a text on the web, and then turns it into a link. I. e. , if you run your page through it, it finds any phrases that have a significant number of hits in Google, and links each phrase to its top return. (I think. ) Cool idea. Alas, Philipp writes that the tool is too slow to be made public, although he offers to run it by hand if you send him email, which I hope for his sake vast numbers of people don’t. [Thanks, Hanan, for the link.]

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The discussion I’m holding at the Berkman Center tonight is really a desperate plea for help. I’m working on a presentation I’m giving next week at a TTI Vanguard. The first part is based on my Library of Congress talk, but then I go into tags. And it all falls apart exactly where it needs to get interesting: Beyond making things easier to find, what are the likely/possible social effects of tags?

I’d love to have your help fixing the talk. 6-7:30 pm tonight, at the Baker House (map).

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Bruce Taylor at ITWorld has published a long-ish interview with me. (I haven’t had the guts to read it, so I hereby preemptively renounce anything stupid I said.)

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BradSucks.net, an online band of one who both gives away and sells the very same songs, is #20 on a major Australia radio station. The song is “I Think I Started a Trend”(mp3).

BTW, Brad most definitely does not suck. You can prove it to yourself here.

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On Wednesday I’m going to lead the postponed session in the semi-regular series at the Berkman Center. This time, I’m going to try out a presentation I’m giving in a couple of weeks at a conference. The topic has something to do with taxonomies and tagging. (Yes, it will repeat some material in the dinner talk I gave last week, and a bunch of stuff from the Library of Congress speech. But it will have new stuff on tagging.)

It’s 6-7:30pm at the Baker House (map). It’s open to the public and pizza will be served.

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I missed this until I came across it a Susan Crawford‘s site, but apparently Google is starting up an Internet phone service. The TimesOnline article bases this on an employment ad looking for a “strategic negotiator” to help the company to provide a “global backbone network.”

So, if Microsoft is trying to expand by getting Windows into our living rooms, perhaps Google is trying to get itself inserted wherever there’s a telephone…including wifi phones, if bastards like Verizon let up their headlock on state legislatures. [Technorati tags: google voip]

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This proposal to make Israel and Palestine the 51st and 52nd states seems to be serious. While the site explains that it only takes a majority vote of the US Congress to add a state — there’s a Constitutional flaw for you! — it oddly says nothing about asking the Israelis and Palestinians. [Thanks, Mark D., for the link.]

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Daniel “Free Agent Nation” Pink (who was also a speechwriter for Gore, by the way), has published a terrific piece in the new Wired on why we need to commit to the right halves of our brains. Best of all, it’s from his upcoming book.

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I have been corrected by the estimable SJ Klein for referring to Wikipedia as “the Wikipedia.” I stand corrected and will attempt to avoid mistake next time. I hope I have not caused Wikipedia any the distress.

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