One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of information that social bookmarking and other forms of tagging can result in.
Here’s his slides via slideshare:
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At last month’s North Shore Web Geek Meetup, I met Gal Arav, the creator of Newsflashr (and formerly creator of InstantBull):
Newsflashr aggregates feeds from a large number of news sources, and lets you scan the headlines from those feeds as a tag cloud (what are the interesting terms which appear frequently in the headlines in those feeds) as well as in a list sorted by Alexa rank.
It’s the kind of site you can spend a lot of time in, if you’re a news junkie, playing around with different sorting options and looking for trends in the data.
Here’s the tag cloud, for example of the “elections 08″ topic as I am writing this post:
You can also switch into feed view, in which case you’re arranging feeds on a grid, as you might in something like pageflakes or netvibes.
Worth a look if you’re a news junkie or just obsessed with the upcoming election.
Via David Weinberger’s blog comes this video, by Mike Wesch (he of The Machine is Us/ing Us), which explains the same point Weinberger’s making in Everything is Miscellaneous:
It’s licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, so spread it freely. I didn’t care for the fit of the music to the video in this case, but it communicates equally well without sound.
