Molecularist

comprehensive notes.

for me of course, the mobile stuff is where my head is at. why can’t the operators just get out of the way? they own some of the juiciest location info, apps can really easy integrate automatic location info from the handset, and mix it with some good web apps and the pc and you can have a bazillion services bloom!

i remember talking to nathan eagle, who tracks the cellids in the metro boston area and he saw them moving every so often – on purpose? just by accident? oh, the need for a database like cddb.

hello, operators, wake up! get out of the way and you will prevail! provide location info for free and everyone will swamp your networks with mind-blowing services! the mobile is perfect for this and the only thing holding it back is your 20th century thinking!

sheesh.

Link: confectious: At Where 2.0.

Some very sketchy notes follow in the extended entry.

by way of the ever amazing matt jones.

I’ve been spending the past few days catching up on my manifestos from ChangeThis. They just handed over the management of the whole site to 800-CEO-READ. Nonetheless, I knew Seth Godin was one of the founders, but read about the other folks there and followed the link to Amit Gupta.

Funny guy, go read him.

But, one comment caught my eye:

Link: Amit Gupta’s Blog.

There are more blogs than I can absorb and sort through already, but as Seth points out, at least I can spend 10 seconds on a blog and know if it’s worth my time or not. Not so with a podcast. As the number of available podcasts grows, the problem of figuring out what to listen to becomes greater.

When I was at Les Blogs back at the end of April, Caterina Fake, of Flickr fame, made a comment that stuck with me: ‘you can’t scan a page of videos as you can a page of photos’.

It shook me, becuase I am a video guy and I just love posting videos from the road to my blog. But, she’s right, it’s not easy to know what a video is about or how long by just looking at a screen shot or some numbers.

The same thing will happen with podcasts, as Anil mentions. You really can’t scan them rapidly as you can with text or photos.

Indeed, this harks back to some discussions we used to have at work about audio and video and that, while both are information rich, they aren’t easy to browse and hence have a lower importance in one’s Lifeblog.