Eileen’s decided to bring the site to a close, but it will go out with a cavalcade of stories and essays from folks such as Rudy Rucker, William Gibson, and Charlie Stross.

Eileen’s run the site out of her own pocket and donations over the past five years. Thanks Eileen, and here’s to your next venture.

Webnote Happy’s a bookmark manager that lets you store the URL, title, and a description for a web page. You can also hit a hotkey (Cmd-Shift-D) to create an entry for the frontmost window/tab in Safari. It’s aware of Net News Wire, so you can set it as the ‘weblog editor’ and bookmark items in the feeds you’re reading.

You can incrementally search the contents of the title and description fields, which enables you to do a sort of ‘tagging’ of entries.

I like being able to stash away links without pumping the data up to my weblog or del.icio.us stream. So it complements, rather than competes with Buzz’s Cocoalicious.

Webnote Happy’s a Core Data application, so it stores the link database as XML in ~/Library/Application Support/WebnoteHappy/WebnoteHappy.webnotes. The enterprising scripter should have no trouble grabbing that file, and using it to generate Atom entries, or cUrl commands.

Mint, like Google Analytics and MeasureMap, can’t tell you about syndication feeds (unless readers come through Bloglines or similar.) So this is a sample skewed towards people who may not be cutting edge users.

Popular Pages

Do Cats Cause Schizophrenia

Recent news reports on a possible link between toxoplasmosis and mental illness triggered plenty of searches on the keyworks. I think one is a temporary spike.

Web Sudoku

Another ‘faddish’ result.

Entries about Toys

The category contains an entry with a photo of an exotic car in the body shop near me. Lots of people looking for an image of one.

Republicans for Voldemort Redux

Either people looking for the comic, or wondering about the tshirt and bumper sticker.

Entries about Humor

Mainly searches for “humor+mpeg”

Apache 2 for Mac OS X

Searches for the keywords. Tiger Server comes with Apache 2, by the way.

Lossless XHTML

From the microformats site

Localized Date Parsing in JavaScript

Christopher Walken in a Fatboy Slim Video

Visual PHP Editor for Mac OS X

Searches

Clients

• Most (82%) are on Windows, 14% on Macs.
• However the browser breakdown is:
  • IE: 54%
  • Firefox: 32%
  • Safari: 9%
  • Everything else: 5%
• So 5% of my Mac readers are on Firefox?

  ETA: Todd Larson reminds me that I ought to check my math when posting in the middle of the night. That’s anywhere from 20 to 36% of Mac visitors using Firefox.

• Most readers have tiny (1,024 x 768) screens.

Meanwhile if you’re anxious to try out XQuery, Michael Kay, the author of the Saxon XSLT engine, wrote a short tutorial.

People don’t tag multiples: Using tags like folders is like drawing Venn diagrams with no overlapping circles — possible, but so destructive of the value of the system as to make the effort pointless. — Clay Shirky

Analogies

LC subject headings apply as many as are appropriate for later retrieval

Tagging’s an overloaded operator

• later retrieval
• collaboration
• publicizing
• categorization
• hard to get people’s head wrapped around the idea

Technical barriers

• People don’t know about pinging for indexing.
• Using feedburner to automate pinging
• You have to understand RSS, search, pings and the rest of the Web 2.0 technologies
• Hard to get photo sharing users to cognitive shift
• Need a tagging tool for HTML adverse writers. Blummy a good approach.
• IE7 restrictions on bookmarklets.
• Tagging UI’s intimidating Furl’s sucks, but not intimidating
• LJ shift from memories to tags confused and angered users

Functional tagging

• Flickr and Technoratti tags for publicizing
• Tags for retrieval
• Gutenberg Project around tagging
• Tagging gap – economic/cultural
• Portablity of attention data
• emotional tagging
• snark tagging

Power dynamics

• Maintaining privilege — you’re not Glenn Reynolds, Xeni Jardin, or Atrios, how do you get heard.
• iTunes sharing in workplaces — selective sharing to establish idendity, then the boss looked in, and everyone shut up.
• the universe of taggers is full of young white men
• tagusablity for these conversations

ETA Marshall wrote with a corrected attribution to the ‘venn diagram’ quote. Thanks!

Why?

In Mark Pilgrim’s world of the future, where your web browser does more than just display HTML documents, it means that when you want to add a site to your aggregator, your aggregator wouldn’t look for an Atom feed. Instead it’d parse the site using an hAtom filter (XSLT, JavaScript, DOM, XQuery) and pull the content into the aggregator’s database.

Um, sorta like what services such as Feedfire do already.

The XML version of Atom would become your aggregator’s format for sharing feed data.