Just as Twitter was effectively killing my (and others) blogging fecundity, I saw that they posted a handy-dandy little link on the dash for inserting Tweets into your blog. Sweet. Now I can have the best of both worlds.
The Twitter giveth and taketh away.
Showing posts with label usability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usability. Show all posts
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Twitter is killing my blog
Twitter is killing my blog initiative. In fact this post can just be a straight copy-paste from some recent tweets (reverse chronological order):
Really? It's that easy? Can you beat that ease-of-brain-dump blogger.com? I think not. Some picasa functions came close for posting quick notes on photos, but there isn't really a native blogger equivalent (that I know of). The whole create post -> edit post -> post post life cycle is too long for a quick set of thoughts you want to jot down.
I could probably research this more, but really why would I when twitter is always there, and I actually have an audience that comments back to my posts. And so back to my original point: Twitter is killing my blog.
 | delagoya Ah, just saw that on XP you can't see my character cleverness. Sux4U dude about 23 hours ago from Snitter   |
| | delagoya suppose a hash assignment {:foo ➠ :bar } about 23 hours ago from Snitter |
| | delagoya and also wondering if I can use ruby's syntatic suger with random windings about 23 hours ago from Snitter |
| | delagoya It's like the evolution of large emails ☞ short emails ☞ IM about 23 hours ago from Snitter |
| | delagoya notice that twitter is killing my blog initiative. Why blog when a short tweet will do? about 23 hours ago from Snitter |
Really? It's that easy? Can you beat that ease-of-brain-dump blogger.com? I think not. Some picasa functions came close for posting quick notes on photos, but there isn't really a native blogger equivalent (that I know of). The whole create post -> edit post -> post post life cycle is too long for a quick set of thoughts you want to jot down.
I could probably research this more, but really why would I when twitter is always there, and I actually have an audience that comments back to my posts. And so back to my original point: Twitter is killing my blog.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Where has the Sematic web failed us?
News about the Semantic Web has being the "next big thing" has been hitting web application developers over the head for years, like it was news about the iPhone. But where are the products? Who uses it? Expect for academic papers, a standards process that nobody pays attention to, and ontology narcissists, nobody uses RDF or OWL or any of those supposedly "next generation" tool sets and languages. OK, maybe Powerset will, but I'll believe that when I see it.
Certainly the swoogle is no google, although it is starting to address what I see is the most overlooked part of the semantic web, usability. It seems that developers and proponents of Web 3.0 thinmk regular users of the web are a lot smarter than they are. Swoogle does actually show a pretty nicely formatted report on the metadata it has for a result, if you know what you are looking at that is. Yet the main result link leads to the originating ontology, which is and RDF xml file. Yeah, that's helpful. Even if Joe Public is aware enough to click on the metadata link, instead of the big red button that is the main link, I can't ever image him making heads or tails of the report, or for that matter caring.
Why is that? Why is usability not even a concern for majority of ontology & semantic web developers? What makes this situation even more of a disaster is that tagging (and tag clouds) are so wide spread and ridiculously easy to understand. How is tagging any different than RDF annotations? A little more text, that's what. Oh and querying RDF is a bitch, so developers are also affected by the situation, making adoption of this "standard" that much more unlikely.
PS: I am not part of, or hold any affiliation to, NG&E, but "the 85%" is one of those stereotypes that ring true to me.
Certainly the swoogle is no google, although it is starting to address what I see is the most overlooked part of the semantic web, usability. It seems that developers and proponents of Web 3.0 thinmk regular users of the web are a lot smarter than they are. Swoogle does actually show a pretty nicely formatted report on the metadata it has for a result, if you know what you are looking at that is. Yet the main result link leads to the originating ontology, which is and RDF xml file. Yeah, that's helpful. Even if Joe Public is aware enough to click on the metadata link, instead of the big red button that is the main link, I can't ever image him making heads or tails of the report, or for that matter caring.
Why is that? Why is usability not even a concern for majority of ontology & semantic web developers? What makes this situation even more of a disaster is that tagging (and tag clouds) are so wide spread and ridiculously easy to understand. How is tagging any different than RDF annotations? A little more text, that's what. Oh and querying RDF is a bitch, so developers are also affected by the situation, making adoption of this "standard" that much more unlikely.
PS: I am not part of, or hold any affiliation to, NG&E, but "the 85%" is one of those stereotypes that ring true to me.
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