Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community

Good reference well worth your time.

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community. Sometimes an essay is timeless. That's an apt description for Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John "Tex" Coate. I met Tex online when Fig-Tex (Cliff Figalo & Tex) ran the WeLL. Tex won the respect of everyone on the WeLL, even the over-the-top rowdies... [Internet Time Blog]

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New Gadget Site

Not being as disciplined as Ernie, I have both gadget sites in my subscriptions list.

New Gadget Site. Gizmodo's Peter Rojas has started a gadget weblog of his own called Engadget. I've replaced the blogroll link for Gizmodo with a link to Engadget, which will give you some indication of my preference between the two sites.... [Ernie The Attorney]

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Virtual Bubble Wrap

For that time during the day when your brain is fried.

This is completely silly and an utter waste of time!.

But I can't stop playing with Virtual Bubble Wrap (requires Flash). For even more fun, try Manic Mode (make sure your speakers are turned down!

[Marc's Outlook on Productivity]
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Most people can't handle more than a couple hundred feeds

If you're going to be in the tail of a distribution it helps to be in the tail occupied by interesting folks like Scoble. I certainly don't entertain plans to surpass his subscription count. I'm hovering around 300 feeds now and that is probably a but beyong my practical capacity.

Most people can't handle more than a couple hundred feeds. Andrew Grumet has computed the distribution of subscription numbers among Share your OPML participants. Here's the cumulative graph, which highlights how much of an outlier Robert Scoble is with his (at last count) 1296 subscriptions:
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[Seb's Open Research]

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