is it just me

Tags are the new classification systems for nearly all current web applications. But how do you keep track on where you posted, linked, commented or uploaded stuff. Florian Bailey posted a simple but effective idea to do this (HT to René Sprotte for linking me to this):

My problem is how to aggregate everything I publish easily. I tried various ways to do this. For comments there are services like disqus but sadly only a few sites actually integrate it, Facebook and Friendfeed are partly an answer to it but even with them I can only add sites where I have an account ( or that allow me to use my facebook account) or a public RSS Feed is available.

At the end, all of these services only work with some sites, the only global services that work on every site are search engines.

So I’m now trying to aggregate everything I publish with google.

For this I created my personal tag, it’s a unique string I will add to every kind of content I publish anywhere on the internet. And Google will do the rest.

My Personal Tag is: #ptfjib80
# – as identifier of a tag
pt – personal tag
fjib80 – as unique string

I like the idea because it so simple, clean and pretty straightforward. I’ll try to use my personal tag #ptwollepb999 from now on. What about you?

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I was lately attending the Complexity Sciences Winter School at the ISCTE in Lisbon. The Winter School is organized by John Symons, Rui Lopes and Jorge Louçã and deals with topis around the subject “social structures in communication networks”.

As ususal I microblogged via Twitter about the event (the hashtag was #csws09). Unfortunately only one other attendee did use Twitter to blog about it. Nevertheless I created some Wordle word clouds and an animation of how these clouds changed over time. The first cloud is generated from Tweets before the Winter School, the following are for each day of the Winter School and the last one shows an overall word cloud.

We are currently working on techniques for generating these visualizations automatically and adding more interactivity to it. Furthermore we are investigating the emerging social networks and networks of artefacts. Please let me know, if you are interested in this stuff or have something interesting to add to these kinds of visualizations of communication flows.

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