Archive for May, 2005

Long Tail post mortem

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

I turned off the updater services for the Long Tail of the Blogosphere site. I said at the start that it was an experiment, and now I think I can consider it done. The goal of the site was simple enough: To try to find interesting blog posts among the thousands (or tens of thousands) […]

Tiger uptime: 4 days

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

I was trying to see how long my Mac could stay up after installing Tiger. It only made it to 4 days. Burning a CD in iTunes, it just stopped. iTunes stopped responding, Finder stopped responding, and I couldn’t kill either of them, and couldn’t shut the system down. Ended up having to power cycle. […]

Tagging

Monday, May 2nd, 2005

CNN has a post on Tagging and how it’s the new rage. This has seemed obvious to me for a long time – that associating tags with items is much more useful than attempting to place them in a hierarchy. The main reason I started making my own music library manager a few years ago […]