I’m at the launch of TalkTourism.ie, a new site for tourism providers to talk about the development of the tourist industry in Ireland.
Archive for April, 2007
How many posts are there in the blogosphere and boardscape? Here are some napkin estimates I’ve made based on the latest State of the Blogosphere (now called State of the Live Web) from Technorati’s Dave Sifry and some statistics from BoardTracker.
According to Dave, there are some 230 million posts that use tags. This accounts for 35% of all posts, which leads one to a figure of 657 million posts on the blogosphere (at least those that Technorati tracks). However, this does not include comments.
BoardTracker, the largest message board search engine, estimate that there are over 3 billion discussions and about 50 billion posts on message boards. A discussion “thread” has on average 16 replies.
Accounting for comments in blogs (and I am unaware of any average figures for comments on blog posts as opposed to message board threads), this could bring the number of blog discussion entries (starter posts and comments) to about 10 billion posts and comments.
So the boardscape is roughly 4.5 to 5 times bigger than the blogosphere. Of course message boards have been around for longer than blogs, but they are interesting figures nonetheless…
I’ve been reading Jyri Zengestrom’s post about object-centered sociality again and I think this illustrates one usage of our SIOC Types module (T-SIOC) very nicely. I’ve extended my previous picture showing a person being linked across communities to this idea of people (via their user profiles) being connected by the content they create together, co-annotate, or for which they use similar annotations. Bob and Carol are connected via bookmarked URLs that they both have annotated and also through events that they are both attending, and Alice and Bob are using similar tags and are subscribed to the same blogs.
(See also Jyri Zengestrom’s presentation on object-centered sociality, his paper on collaborative intentionality and social knots, and this resource about organisations and objects.)
Terrible breaking news about the shootings at VT, and the death toll is still rising. I spent some months there in 1996 and 2000, so recognising quite a few of the places on the TV news coverage 
I wish they wouldn’t show the amateur mobile phone video footage though, it’s just not right.
Wink looks nice, kind of like Bigulo but for multiple OSNs. See it in action at wink.com, and here’s the “about” blurb:
Wink is a people search engine. We specifically target our search engine to find individual people who are active web and social network users. We search the public profiles on MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, LinkedIn, Live Spaces, and other sources. We’re adding more and more networks all the time and are developing new technology to find even more people in a variety of cool ways. We also use our PeopleRank technology that takes direct input about our search results from users and refines it to deliver the results that people think are the best. Wink People Search lets you find people by name, location, school, work, and interest anywhere on the web.
The second WebCamp event on “Emerging Mobile Internet” will be held on the 17th May at University College Dublin. The organisers are Karen Church and Jill Freyne.
More information is available from the wiki page at webcamp.org/EmergingMobileInternet.
Saw the Textorizer version of danbri and decided to give it a whirl. Here’s a weirder looking me made up from the word “cloud”:
Basically, the Textorizer creates a SVG (scalable vector graphic) version of whatever image URL you give it. You can specify the destination size, the edge-detection threshold, and the words you want to use in your output graphic.
Another year (for me at least), and time for another WordPress style (now using Blue-K2)! Thanks to everyone for their wishes and to those who spotted my birthday on Skype - I was surprised to hear from friends old and new who obviously got a message when they logged in…
The first version of a SIOC exporter for phpBB 2.0.x is now available. You can download it from DERI’s subversion repository.
I’ve performed two test installs of the plugin at boards.co.nz and boards.com.cn.
Do let us know of any issues or comments either here or on the sioc-dev mailing list.
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