adam kalsey writes a web-based front end to an existing buttom maker so you can easily make buttons that are all the rage these days, quickly finds himself in at the heart of memestorm and not quiet sure what to make of it. maybe there’s a verb for this type of thing. “warchalked” perhaps?

tim bray has challenged the rdf community to come up with an rdf-based app that’s begs to be used and is viral. while i haven’t seen a winning example, i think that there are a few promising potential entrants from the foaf world. examples include spring desktop’s innovative foaf support. it’ll be intersting so see what typepad does beyond simly making it easy to produce a foaf file.

how does one imbue even more geek points on the world as a blog, which is a realtimeish geographic tracking of blog updates using weblogs.com, geocoding and rss? start mapping updates onto a dymaxion map. bucky would be proud.

it appears that google officially considers the blogclog a non-issue, ostensibly aggreeing with phil’s analysis, which goes something along the lines of, if you get crappy results then there aren’t any good results. i still think there are some interesting points about how searching through blogs represents a different “mode” of finding information, in the same way that i thing that searching usenet posting represents a different “mode”. and this difference is heightened precisely when it’s needed the most – when good results are ill-defined. hi. ho. at least according according to google, i’m full of crap and it’s a non-issue. on to more interesting things…

well, even if it needs to be a qualified as a New York Times top ten business paperback bestseller, it’s still quiet an accomplishment for a technical publication. congratulations to rael and tara.

steve jenson has whipped-up a simple little Jabber2Google rosterbot. requires java:

“After you start this jabber client, it will connect to the Jabber
server you specify and wait for requests. Add it to your friends list
and send it a message. In a few seconds, you’ll be sent the top 10
google search results for that message.”

there seem to be a crop of php developers discovering the value of xul. the intro is a little over the top, but it’s a nice entry-level article:

“Here’s a question: what if I was to tell you that you can write your own version of Word using something like HTML and JavaScript? What if I added that you could run on your hard disk or launch it directly from your Web server and use it to update your site’s content? It sounds a little far fetched, I know, but it’s right here, right now — and it calls itself “Zool”.”