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POPSClipmarks and the Art of Highlighting Clipper {{JICWyllie}} published this piece in Inside Knowledge magazine. His insight regarding annotation and classification is fascinating. And it's inspiring to read about the potential of Clipmarks as a tool for group intelligence -- World Mind here we come! Thanks Jan!
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POPS5 keys to getting a clip popped In light of some of the recent conversations on the site about the pop-able character limit, I’ve been thinking about some of the factors that influence whether a clip gets popped. It seems to me that these are 5 factors that play a key role in determining a clip’s “pop-worthiness”
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POPSTagging is huge! This is one of (if not the) best paragraphs about the importance of tagging that i've read. Check out the rest of the post by clicking the source link. It's an excellent post on the overall importance of "making sense out of it all."
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POPSWarning: Bloody Photos from your Bloody Hands and Bloody Bombs Why must images of dead Gazians not be seen? Because the blood is on Americans hands? Or only those hands of the 49%+ that voted for Bush? Whose sensibilities are we offending by covering up the truth? Does playing this game of hide and seek increase the odds of more or less dead Palestinian children? Where is the land of freedom and liberty gone? Did it ever exist or was it just another Hollywood myth? What nation flies American youths to the Middle East for weapons training with live ammunition so that someday they may serve in the IDF and not their native American services? Is this unwillingness to serve in the American forces the reason for the doubts about their loyalty to the USA? That and their spying on an 'ally' while murdering US servicemen in 1967! Will ClipMarks collaborate in the genocide of Gazians by tagging these photos 'Mature'?
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POPSInvention: Self-replicating materials Experiments on colloids have proved that self-replication is possible, they say. By tagging colloid particles with a range of DNA coatings that fluoresce at different wavelengths, they were able to see how a mixture gradually turned into a collection of ordered lines of particles after a self-replicating "seed" structure was added." This ir really a potential breakthrough! slowly science fiction looses its fiction part :)
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POPSWho benefits from the 'culture of participation'? i don't think there is a blanket answer to this issue. I think that in some cases, the people/users will benefit and the companies that provide the services will be successful. Skype is a great example of that. On the other hand, if the technology is nothing more than a conduit for participation for participation's sake, then i think people will get board of it and the ocmpany will not be successful. Make sense?
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POPSSun May Be Galactic Hitchhiker... Stars could travel from deep within the interior of a galaxy to its outer edges, and might even get passed around in a "spiral arm relay," Roskar told SPACE.com. Our sun currently has an orbit near the outer edge of the galaxy. New simulation runs confirmed earlier work that showed how star orbits can remain circular despite expanding or shrinking. That counters assumptions that the gravitational tug-of-war would push and pull orbits into wilder elliptical shapes.
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POPSYahoo Bookmarks Enters 21st Century. "Until today, Yahoo Bookmarks (which is a separate product from del.icio.us and My Web) stored only the URL, title and comment for a particular bookmark. The new product caches all text on the page, stores a thumbnail view, and allows both categorization (folders) and tagging of each bookmark."
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POPSTag, Your It! Where is the X-Prize for the ethicists who are able to inform the public what will be the social, moral, biological, and political possiblities of this DNA tagging?
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POPSLight Graffiti Using LED glowsticks, flashlights, even fireworks, combined with time-lapse photography, light graffiti artists create a unique tagging that wraps around objects dimensionally, allowing them to tag in a way they'd never be able to with spraypaint. Very cool!
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POPSThe Web-Head's List of Lists I was just looking for a simple bookmarklet to "Add Domain" to favourites in Firefox and came across this page during my search and thought maybe the web-heads out there could use this? (I'm not one, so I'm clipping blind here.) Hope someone can use it... Still looking for that bookmarklet...
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POPSWe know where you live Actually, we are all already tagged. ID cards, license plates, IP number for each Internet device. Tattoo number on a wrist... O, no, this is for some of us. National database records. Now they already developing pills with chemically storing information inside our bodies. O, yes, ship under skin is for cattle, you are absolutely right, it's disgusting. You are rebel and don't want to go thru the gate? Go in that long line, please.
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POPSDel.icio.us PR I am in the process of convincing my fellow co-workers to try out del.icio.us as a way to track their own research and compile news hits and webpages that discuss our clients. I have found in principle they think it is great idea and they see the value in it, but in practice they stick with saving bookmarks in their browser. Another barrier to entry... the concept and practice of tagging information. I've began to conduct weekly all staff training sessions on social media and del.icio.us is a tool I am determined they will learn and use.
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POPSQuotiki: social quotes I've been hoping to find a replacement for BigCite, a nicely designed social quotation site that vanished some time ago. This might be it. Collect, share, tag, and save quotations. Fully Web 2.0-compliant with widgets and all that.
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