’Pong has posted his photo of me taking a photo of used knickers in the street the other day. Please keep your comments nice.
Even in defeat, he haunts us… via our folksonomies
I’ve been working on the tag cloud page, and one of my attempts to clarify things has revealed a disturbing fact.
I decided that the “category cloud” on the left-hand side of the website was already showing that the biggest categories were politics, the Internet, human nature, media and business. I didn’t want the tag cloud to repeat that information. So I decided to remove all the tags which were also the names of categories.
Boy, that certainly changed the emphasis!
Even in the reduced screenshot (right), one name dominates. Yes, out of 944 posts, counting this one, 91 are tagged “john howard”.
My own boyfriend comes in a poor second with just 42.
Is that right?
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Fiddling with tags and such
I’m currently poking around with this website’s layout, especially with how tags work, while also getting the Skank Media website online. I’ve added a “related posts” feature, but tags may behave a bit weirdly while I’m fiddling.
The Four Stages of the Internet of Things
Further to comments in my piece about that Web 2.0 session, I’ve stumbled across Kevin Kelly’s explanation of The Four Stages in the Internet of Things, riffing of an essay by Tim Berners-Lee (i.e. the bloke what invented the web).
I can summarise the four stages like this:
- Connect all the computers together (i.e. the Internet)
- Connect and share pages of data (i.e. the World Wide Web)
- Connect and share individual data elements (Web 2.0 through Web 3.0?)
- Connect and share things themselves, not just the data about things
So where are we now?
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Who owns what on the Internet
Amy Webb (now there’s an aptonym!) has updated her diagram of who owns the new media landscape. It’s also available as a PDF file.
Coming soon, a widget and RSS feed to help you track acquisitions and mergers in media.
I must admit, I’d much rather see this sort of data presented as a directed graph of ownership relationships, rather than simple lists — something like this diagram. The size of the nodes could represent the companies’ market capitalisation, and width of the lines the percentage ownership or something.
Still, it’s a handy-enough reference.
Hat-Tip to Lee Hopkins.
Secret Men’s Business 3: Chat Thai, Sydney
At some point my series of toilet and urinal images needs to move away from pubs and Thai restaurants. But not tonight.
Here’s the toilet at the Chat Thai restaurant in Campbell Street, Sydney. A great modern Thai eatery, all in yellow and black. Including this Dalek trying to disguise itself with a potted plant.