As you are probably aware I have been working on a big application that I hope to release sometime this year. It is called statzen and it provides a new way for publishers to keep track of what people are reading. I have been making some major breakthroughs on statzen lately. Yesterday I added APML [...]
Tag Archives: attention
Clippings, Shared Items, and Attention
Have you seen ReadBurner.com? It is a service that allows you to post a feed of your “shared items” from Google Reader or your “clippings” from Newsgator/FeedDemon/NetNewsWire. ReadBurner then displays what the most popular items are. It is the latest entry in the “cream floats to the top” category of applications like TechMeme or Digg [...]
Attention Information Could Add Depth to Social Networks
I just read that Ma.gnolia (my social bookmark application of choice) is starting to provide APML information (read the annoucement). This is very cool.
At BarCamp Nashville I was talking about a concept I had termed “3D Social Networking”. The basic idea was to add attention information to social networks to provide relationship depth. Then that [...]
Needed Elsewhere
It is Friday evening. I am writing this while on a flight from Washington, DC to Nashville. I am wondering if this will be my last flight for a long time.
Recently I decided that what I am doing is not worth it. I am needed elsewhere. Actually, I have been “elsewhere”; I am needed at [...]
Personal Attention Tracking
Earlier this week Rex Hammock posted about the “popular topics” feature in FeedDemon and how it is essentially a personal meme tracker. Essentially, a meme tracker displays what other people are giving attention to; it is something that says “hey, these are the stories you need to see”. It is very neat and I [...]


