Stanford.  Principles for step-by-step assembly instructions.  Nice.  Now some other smart people should help this team cut these methods into software. [John Robb's Weblog]

Nice resource

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Blogging About Blogging LXX. Blogmapper takes us one step closer to true mapblogging. By associating blog posts with points on an online map, you can create a physical visualization of your movement and location online -- and offline. The process involves embedding GPS data as hidden [Heath Row's Media Diet]

Another take on the intersection between blogs and maps.

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World-Island as a Blog. Oh cartographic bliss! Mikel Maron has added an alternate world-view to his suite of blog-mapping visualizations with the World as a Blog - dymaxion edition to show the latest pings across our... [TeledyN]

IIRC, I signed up for Mikel's original blogmapping exercise. I like the notion that he's now mapping posts onto a dymaxion format map. Seems appropriate somehow.

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Skype: joined the club.

Just to let you know - I installed Skype. Talked to Dina, Phil and Ton. Loved it.

I have no idea how to write CALL tag properly, so you have to look for me under mathemagenic.

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Thanks to Dina, I know it now - <A href="callto://mathemagenic/">Call me on Skype (please, make sure that I recognise your name or you have a nice autorisation message - I tend to decline calls from people I don't know :)

[Mathemagenic]

I want to join the club but our corporate firewall appears to be too locked down. Skype locks up on me when I launch it at work. Not sure that being able to use it from home or the road will be enough to justify it.  Time to go chat with the folks in IT again.

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Compatibility of Weblogs and ISSN. This article, written for ISSN registrars, offers a fascinating glimpse into the issues faced by librarians with respect to understanding - and reacting to - the weblog phenomenon. ISSN is, of course, the unique number assigned to a serial publication. Weblogs are classically serial publications, and therefore, should be registered. But traditional authorities view weblogs with scepticism. I have tried to register OLDaily with an ISSN, but have had no success. But given especially that OLDaily is my primary point of publication (and that its archives, though complete, may be lost to the library community) this failure to register my weblog's existence is a bit of a concern to me. If you work in libraries or serial registration, please read this article. By Joe Clark, September 24, 2003 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]

I've looked into ISSN a couple of times and retreated from the bureaucratic complexities coupled with technological ignorance I've sensed. Perhaps this will help.

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