Maelstrom: Martin's Musings

Re-Emergence of Pownce as Motion

Looks like the move of Pownce to SixApart -- Has emerged has Motion -- as part of TypePad (which is the blogging service I use. It (Motion) is mainly a developer preview. I would like to get it going but I am getting a little confused on the setup. I have an API key and I am not quite sure what to do with (;-) ). However, it looks like fun. I like the idea of creating a centralized blogging platform. Recently, SixApart added PubSubHub as part of their TypePad blogs automatically. TypePad seems to be finally recognizing some of the potential it has alluded to in the past.

Technorati Tags: blogs, evolution, twitter, microblogs, social, transaction

Micro Doc, Microblog

I am doing a microblog on http://www.martinhall.org/micro_doc, I am trying to keep this more up to date.

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Twitter what?!?

I marvel how something like Twitter is like (micro-) blogging. The social side is quite a bit more heightned. You do not need to read all the RSS feeds to keep up with people (you still do but Twitter seems to give you the essence.

Tags: twitter, blogging, microblogging, community

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Privacy and PAOGA

I might find myself blogging more on privacy,  security and other stuff. I have always had an interest in this. But now, my girlfriend, Svea has just started a MS IA at Norwich University (online degree). And my amigo, Matt, has been working for PAOGA which focuses on helping individuals to maintain control of their privacy but letting the 'right' people access the 'right' stuff.

Matt some interesting things to say on translucence, privacy and identity management. It is a bit of a long post, but worth it, you can fins it here.

Tags: security, paoga, privacy, information assurance, identity, identity management, translucence

Windows Live Writer

I suppose I am just a sucker for some of the new blog clients. The latest is Windows Live Writer, it is the one that Microsoft is promoting through their Windows Live line of services and products. It defaults to wanting to post to your Windows Live Spaces account. But it is pretty smart about connecting you to your own blog service/software or give you access through one of the blog APIs.  The WYSIWYG seems pretty good has a kind of pared down version of Word feel to it. It is definitely a worthy competitor to the other clients (Performancing, Qumana, etc.).

(Update: I am finding it less than easy to add tags, and other things. There is a plugin for tags, flickr. If you want to add tags to two different services (say Technorati and del.icio.us) I am not even sure how you might do this.

tags: blog, blog+client, window, live, writer, microsoft

MashUp Camp University

Tomorrow I am going to Mashup Camp University. From what I understand, the pre-MashUp parties have already started. It has been a little while since I have been to a conference, particualrly one like this, it is going to be fun. Since I have been playing around with Matt Mower on a Web 2.0 psychometrics/sociometrics site (Metaxio), I figured this was a good time to get back in. Since I have been letting my programming skills atrophy for a number of years, Mashup University will be a good way to get back in, and to also start networking again!


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Better start blogging!

It seems to me like I have spent so much time trying to get this blog up, that I stopped blogging altogether -- it was a little sparse before that but at least I was doing it!