meta – sardonick http://motespace.com/blog Disclaimer: The following web space does not contain my own opinions, merely linguistic representations thereof. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:26:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 2011 – Let’s see if we can pick this up a bit. http://motespace.com/blog/2010/12/26/2011-lets-see-if-we-can-pick-this-up-a-bit/ Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:18:54 +0000 http://motespace.com/blog/?p=276 An idle search for my name over the weekend yielded the harsh reality that my friendster profile from 2002 is at the top of the results.

If it had been any other page, I would have been complacent about the state of things. But… Friendster? Really?

Wow. Just wow. I think I’m going to need to pick things up a bit.

New Years’ resolution: blog at least 2x/month. I have no dearth of fun side projects I’ve hacked on over the years, maybe I can github some of them too…

]]> On Microblogging and Feedreaders http://motespace.com/blog/2010/10/31/microblogging-and-feedreaders/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:17:26 +0000 http://motespace.com/blog/?p=277 I’ve been hearing more and more, “I don’t really use my Feedreader any more, I keep up to date with news and interesting links via Twitter, Buzz, and Facebook”.

So, now I’m wondering: can I extract and distill this interesting stuff from microblogs?

  • Brute-force solution: extract all hyperlinks from twitter feeds of friends and friends-of-friend. Expose them in an RSS feed for syndication
  • More work: Keep track of the source of information (from friend, from friend’s network), aggregate it (x people posted this same link, x different friend’s networks posted this same link)
    • (aside: I remember reading somewhere that while the immediate-friend relationship provides lots of utility for news, friend-of-friend is mostly noise)
  • More work: Provide some sort of feedback/voting mechanism, to see which sources are actually useful (it’d be easy to hook these up as features to a machine learning classifier
  • Tangent: Aside from links, retweets could be an interesting thing to explore in the same way; less sanguine about this though.
]]> Cognitive release? http://motespace.com/blog/2008/09/11/cognitive-release/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:47:26 +0000 http://motespace.com/blog/?p=263 Twittering provides just enough cognitive release that I haven’t been feeling the blogging itch. It’s so much lower-maintenance.

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