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HTP pointed me to this interview with Dave Winer (Userland CEO and blogging bigshot) titled the case for personal publishing. Nothing ground breaking here, but Dave does manage to get in this really great explanation:
There are three different structures you can hang information off. One of them is time, another one is searching, and the third is categorization (or "taxonomy" or "hierarchies"). You see the search engine space is doing great and you've got various attempts to try and do the taxonomy stuff.I think he should keep using this explanation. Very clear.
But the idea of hanging content off of time works extremely well in an environment where the goal is to keep people coming back. You want to refresh your homepage every day? That's what blogging is. It is a site structure that uses time to create a framework of organization that both creates immediacy and is easy to understand.
Oh yeah, here's a page (from /. maybe?) with 300 thumbnails of all manner of absurd gadgetry on display at this years Comdex. My favorites are this linux powered Sharp PDA with cool slide out blackberry style keyboard, and Samsung's virtual keyboards in wired and unwired flavors. I think I could type OK without looking (and without there even being a keyboard not to look at) but I wonder how many people could.
I did a lot of work on the back end over the weekend. Best stretch of work on this project I've managed in quite some time. And now I'm almost ready to start in on the new version of the uploaded image system, which right now is rather simplistic. This was fine to start, but now some people have so many photos on the server that grouping them in one long list is a bit cumbersome. I have a lot of ideas (many thanks to a good conversation I had with Tom Moody,) but the more I think about it, the more complex and far fetched my ideas have become. Plans tend toward kitchensinkism. This is good, because it allows me to grind through all the dark alleys and back corners of possibility, but I've learned not to start serious work until my ideas are on their way back towards something more simple. And this isn't just because I'm not the best builder.