<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773</id><updated>2011-04-21T16:04:57.945-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wondir Land- on Live Q&amp;A and the Social Web</title><subtitle type='html'>A psuedo-corporate blog about Wondir.com's Live Q&amp;A, as well as perspectives on social media and the web as a collection of people rather than documents.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>153</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110419827266781107</id><published>2004-12-27T17:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-27T17:44:54.286-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Moving Wondir Land&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wondir Land is moving &lt;a href="http://wondiring.typepad.com"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110419827266781107?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110419827266781107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110419827266781107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/moving-wondir-land-wondir-land-is.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110410938469945466</id><published>2004-12-26T17:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-26T17:03:04.700-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.rss-specifications.com/september-blog-2004.htm#19"&gt;RSS IM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is worth checking out. Looks like Jabber is merging instant messaging with RSS syndication. Very cool. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110410938469945466?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110410938469945466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110410938469945466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/rss-imthis-is-worth-checking-out.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110324607330813435</id><published>2004-12-16T17:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-16T17:16:04.086-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.nzlinux.org.nz/blogs/index.php?p=72"&gt;Visions of Aestia: Dumb RDF and Smart RDF&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is a great explanation of RDF fundamentals. I have a feeling that we'll be hearing as much about RDF in the coming years as we are about RSS now (not to pretend that the two are distinct, as they overlap considerably, as the above post discusses.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110324607330813435?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110324607330813435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110324607330813435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/visions-of-aestia-dumb-rdf-and-smart.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110297521427521466</id><published>2004-12-13T14:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-13T14:00:14.276-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6693381/site/newsweek/"&gt;MSNBC - The Alpha Bloggers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt; Worth reading.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110297521427521466?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110297521427521466'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110297521427521466'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/msnbc-alpha-bloggers-worth-reading.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110228141791967440</id><published>2004-12-05T13:16:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-05T13:16:57.920-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/12/the_difference.html"&gt;Marc's Voice: The difference bewteen signing up and using a SNS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The important line for me in Marc's post is: "What can I do with this social network besides meet people?" This is why &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; has a place in the SN space. We can give those networks something to do with each other-- &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;Live Q&amp;A&lt;/a&gt; in particular. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110228141791967440?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228141791967440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228141791967440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/marcs-voice-difference-bewteen-signing.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110228114201397542</id><published>2004-12-05T13:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-05T13:12:22.013-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000137022355/"&gt;Marc�s got Huminity - The Social Software Weblog - socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huminity.com"&gt;Huminity&lt;/a&gt; is a site I need to try. If I understand correctly, this is is the first instantation of social network chat. By this I mean chatting with your n-degree organic social network, not with a category of users (ie Yahoo chat).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110228114201397542?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228114201397542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228114201397542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/marcs-got-huminity-social-software.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110228075451157214</id><published>2004-12-05T13:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-05T13:12:47.606-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://forrester.typepad.com/charleneli/2004/12/msn_spaces_will.html"&gt;Charlene Li's Blog: MSN Spaces will make blogs communication tools&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;I couldn't agree more. Soon people will start to post units of communication, rather than one-way opinion/diary/commentary posts to their blogs, and people will respond faster. Blogging will become an IM broadcast, each post an "instant message in a bottle," that anyone interested can respond to.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110228075451157214?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228075451157214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228075451157214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/charlene-lis-blog-msn-spaces-will-make.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110228004231568600</id><published>2004-12-05T12:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-05T12:54:02.316-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/12/01/end_of_email_era_in_korea.html"&gt;apophenia: end of email era in Korea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110228004231568600?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228004231568600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110228004231568600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/apophenia-end-of-email-era-in-korea.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110211478895098980</id><published>2004-12-03T14:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-12-03T14:59:48.950-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;ActiveWords: the Silver Bullet of Desktop-Apps&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Had the pleasure of meeting with &lt;a href="http://buzzmodo.typepad.com/buzzmodo/2004/11/staying_alive_o.html "&gt;Buzz Bruggeman&lt;/a&gt;, the man behind &lt;a href="http://www.activewords.com"&gt;ActiveWords&lt;/a&gt;, at a Redmond Tully's yesterday. Great guy. I really believe in his idea, have been a big fan for quite some time and use ActiveWords on my desktop relentlessly. Probably saves me several hours a day. I never use my Favorites folder anymore (or many of the features I used to depend on before ActiveWords) for that matter. It's the only new application I've tried this year that I can't live without.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a word, ActiveWords is the ultimate shortcut to wherever you want to go, whatever you want to do. For example, whenever I want to go check the stats at &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;, which is central to my job, I simply enter the letter "a" then double-space. It doesn't matter where I type it, whether I'm in Word, email, a browser or even if I have no applications open at all. ActiveWords just "listens" to what I'm typing wherever I am and knows what to do. In the above example, my computer launches the browser and brings me to the URL for the admin at Wondir, where the stats are. Usually this process would take me quite a while, but with ActiveWords it takes me a split-second and bam, it's done. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All of this hinges on the fact that ActiveWords gives my computer a new "ear" to listen to me and a new "eye" to see what I'm saying. In the above example, my computer suddenly knows where to go b/c I've told ActiveWords what "a" means to me. It knows that whenever I type "a" then double-space that I want to go the admin URL for Wondir. It also knows that when I type "sc" then double-space that I want to go to Scottrade.com. It even knows that when I type "pa" then double-space that I want to paste the the standard Wondir partnership proposal piece into a document (a piece of text that is several hundred words long). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So ActiveWords gets me to any destination, or initiates any task, that I want it to, skipping all of the busy-work steps in between. It's the ultimate macro, except without the pain in the ass associated with macros. To create a shortcut, you simple type "add" and double-space and it opens a window that walks you through the steps. Takes about ten seconds, generally, at the most, to create a new shortcut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The same goes for all sorts of other things that used to take me a long time and now take no time at all. I can't imagine not using ActiveWords, and I predict that this shortcut-system, whether ActiveWords' version or another's, will become an indispensible, standard component of everyone's on and offline experience in the not-so-far future. At the extreme, a resourceful user of ActiveWords could eventually bypass the need for the mouse and GUI altogether. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110211478895098980?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110211478895098980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110211478895098980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/12/activewords-silver-bullet-of-desktop.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110167446285966966</id><published>2004-11-28T13:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-29T12:33:10.406-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.jpbutler.com/"&gt;Wondir and Abuzz?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;It's true that Wondir and Abuzz are not altogether different. Yet their differences far outweigh their similarities. You had to be a member to ask and answer at Abuzz, as far as I'm aware. At Wondir, you don't need to sign up. You just show up at Wondir.com and type your question into a big box, just as if you were using AskJeeves or Google. That's it. Seconds later you may be getting instant message responses from other people out there that have answers to your question. You don't even have to choose a category or an expert etc to send your question to. It's all taken care of for you. The web-based instant messaging feature and high-speed question board reduce response times to minutes, sometimes seconds. Yes, there have been hundreds of Q&amp;amp;A sites to date, and they're all different from one another, but despite their differences, in the end, they're still much more similar to one other than they are to Wondir, the black (or actually green) sheep of the bunch. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110167446285966966?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110167446285966966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110167446285966966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/wondir-and-abuzz-its-true-that-wondir.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110150338997914298</id><published>2004-11-26T13:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-26T13:09:49.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3gsearch.blogspot.com/2004/11/wondir-very-familiar-model.html"&gt;3G Search: Wondir, very familiar model&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Esteban Kozak, the author, mentions that he was "amazed to learn that Wondir's strategy is practically an exact copy of our initial vision." I'm wondering what company or website "our" refers to. I looked around on Esteban's blog but didn't find a reference to the website or company he's talking about, although I'm quite curious. Also did a quick search on the "3G Search" but didn't find much right off the bat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110150338997914298?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110150338997914298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110150338997914298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/3g-search-wondir-very-familiar.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110133837211850007</id><published>2004-11-24T15:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-24T15:19:32.116-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.inflatablechurch.com/"&gt;Inflatable Church. This is no joke :)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110133837211850007?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110133837211850007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110133837211850007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/inflatable-church.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110133063020393311</id><published>2004-11-24T13:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-24T14:14:13.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://searchlounge.blogspot.com/2004/11/wondir.html"&gt;The Search Lounge. Search engine reviews by Stingo.: Wondir&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Wondir gets an in-depth review from Stingo. Although the review is mixed, it's very helpful to get this much point for point feedback. All in all, judging Wondir from a "quality of results" p.o.v. may be unfair this early in the game, given that unlike search engines, we don't have the critical mass of online users/answerers or searchable content (in the form of previous asked questions with answers) to really show off what Wondir can do. But if/when we have thousands of questioners and answerers online at any given time, and tens of millions of previous asked questions with answers to search, then I think the same reviewer would have quite a different experience (even if our UI and technology stayed exactly the same). Either way, really appreciate people taking the time to look into Wondir in this much depth. I'll be sure to save Stingo's review.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110133063020393311?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110133063020393311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110133063020393311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/search-lounge.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110098188205662817</id><published>2004-11-20T12:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-20T12:18:02.056-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001058.php"&gt;John Battelle's Searchblog: Grokking Wondir&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110098188205662817?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110098188205662817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110098188205662817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/john-battelles-searchblog-grokking.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110037934456316737</id><published>2004-11-13T12:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-13T12:55:44.563-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/thezerosystem/217125.html"&gt;Wondir member feels the love&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;We try to respond to everything that comes in. We're still small enough that a single comment/suggestion from a user can trigger a change, a new feature, etc, and alter the course of Wondir's future.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110037934456316737?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110037934456316737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110037934456316737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/wondir-member-feels-lovewe-try-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-110013786413623978</id><published>2004-11-10T17:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2004-11-10T17:56:24.723-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://us.ratemyteachers.com/"&gt;Wondir.com Partners with RateMyTeachers.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RateMyTeachers.com is very cool and we're proud to power their Live Q&amp;A function. RateMyTeachers gives students the chance to grade their teachers. They're growing very fast, have millions of ratings already, and chances are whatever/wherever your school may be, they've got it covered and teachers are being rated by their students. If you visit their &lt;a href="http://www.ratemyteachers.com"&gt;home page&lt;/a&gt; and click on Find Your School, you can zoom in on your elementary, high school, etc, and rate your teachers (or see how your former teachers are being rated.) You'll also see a scrolling question ticker and ask-box, like the one at the top of this blog, that their members are using to Q&amp;amp;A with each other about their teachers, etc. &lt;p&gt;Their sister site is &lt;a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com"&gt;RateMyProfessors.com&lt;/a&gt;, also worth checking out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-110013786413623978?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110013786413623978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/110013786413623978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/11/wondir.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109909460253440795</id><published>2004-10-29T17:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-29T17:03:22.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2004/000907.html"&gt;VentureBlog: The Internet And the Death Of 80/20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above is very worth the read.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109909460253440795?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109909460253440795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109909460253440795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/ventureblog-internet-and-death-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109909332012375010</id><published>2004-10-29T16:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-29T16:45:26.113-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/001031.html"&gt;Unbound Spiral: Skype API&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just downloaded Skype for the 1st time after reading the above. I never thought of it as an instant messenger, but it looks like it serves in that capacity as well. We'll see how this goes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109909332012375010?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109909332012375010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109909332012375010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/unbound-spiral-skype-api-i-just.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109899425489602093</id><published>2004-10-28T13:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-28T13:10:54.896-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=30870"&gt;WebProWorld :: RSS Spam A Growing Trend?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;This could be a real issue, but what I don't get is the line that reads: "Feedster and its ability to turn a search query into an RSS feed." What do they mean by that? Are they saying that your search itself gets syndicated by RSS when you use Feedster... what? I'll have to look into Feedster and see what they're up to that I'm not aware of. Or maybe they just mean that Feedster allows you to search RSS feeds by way of search terms, but that's not how it's stated above. Anyway, something to look into.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109899425489602093?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109899425489602093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109899425489602093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/webproworld-rss-spam-growing-trend.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109892209305184341</id><published>2004-10-27T17:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-27T17:18:36.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="res://C:/Program%20Files/Pluck%20Corporation/Pluck/PluckExplorerBar.dll/INDEX.HTML"&gt;Esher Dyson discovers "search'n'chat"&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, &lt;a href="http://www.baidu.com"&gt;Baidu.com&lt;/a&gt;, the search 'n' chat site, is Chinese, so I couldn't really check it out, other than to imagine what must be going on as I stare at the symbols. &lt;p&gt;The basic gist is that you can respond to other searchers searches in near-real time, I believe in the form of a thread. So someone searches on "blogs" and this starts an instant-thread that anyone can participate in. I just took a look and of course can't make heads or tails of it, as it's in Chinese and I'm not sure how to use those translator tools, but this is just the thing I've been interested in for the last four years if I understand it correctly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I originally launched GlobeAlive.com along these lines, whereby you type in a search/query and have your search posted to a live board, where anyone could click and respond to your search (and really respond to you) by a web-based instant messenger. We later changed the format so your search produced a results list of people on the net right now that signed up to be available for Jabber-based chat on that keyword or phrase, so you were in control and could just click and chat w/ them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; does something even closer to &lt;a href="http://www.baidu.com"&gt;Baidu&lt;/a&gt; than GlobeAlive, I believe, in that your search (which must be entered in the form of a question) is posted live to the question board, and anyone can click on your question and instant message you or otherwise respond to your search/question in a thread-post format. I approached &lt;a href="http://weblog.edventure.com/blog/"&gt;Esther&lt;/a&gt; at the Web2.0 about Wondir, but not sure I made the concept very clear as I often don't talk about it in a search context, even though that's how it looks and works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, great to see someone talking about this. If anyone knows of any English sites that are trying this approach to search, please let me know. Or any options at Baidu.com for an English version? I'll have to poke around over there and see. Perhaps an auto-translator could help, there's probably one around I could plug into.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109892209305184341?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109892209305184341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109892209305184341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/esher-dyson-discovers-searchnchat.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109892001629804117</id><published>2004-10-27T16:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-27T16:33:36.296-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000812.html"&gt;Attention Podcasters: Feedburner announces SmartCast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks like Feedburner goes beyond Podcasting with SmartCast by focusing on the RSS enclosure trend in general rather than Podcasting alone, although that's the immediate application of interest.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109892001629804117?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109892001629804117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109892001629804117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/attention-podcasters-feedburner.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109891020407147180</id><published>2004-10-27T13:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-27T13:50:04.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Google Desktop Image Search?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know if you can search images on your desktop by way of Google DS? Don't see that as an option, but that would be quite nice.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109891020407147180?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109891020407147180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109891020407147180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/google-desktop-image-search-does.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109883864592152648</id><published>2004-10-26T17:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-26T17:57:25.920-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/wikinews.html"&gt;Is Wikinews on the way?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109883864592152648?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109883864592152648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109883864592152648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/is-wikinews-on-way.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109883512018908435</id><published>2004-10-26T16:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-26T16:58:40.190-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=6628_0_3_0_C"&gt;Compelling Take on the Semantic Web&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109883512018908435?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109883512018908435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109883512018908435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/compelling-take-on-semantic-web.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109839895555893421</id><published>2004-10-21T15:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-21T16:34:44.023-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;The Magic of PubSub&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm very interested in what &lt;a href="http://www.pubsub.com"&gt;PubSub&lt;/a&gt; is doing because of what I see as an untapped aspect of the blogosphere: real-time interaction. For example, suppose someone posted something in the title of their blog such as "hey, anyone out there want to chat about podcasting? I've got some ideas I want to bounce off someone." Another user, who has a Pubsub account with the keyword "podcasting" sees that post arrive in his Gush aggregator or IE sidebar (via the Pubsub plugin) in real-time and clicks on it. This is where real-time interaction is slightly awkward, given that the comments section on blogs isn't really designed for it, but let's say that the original user has Chatango on his/her blog. The two then begin chatting about podcasting, just moments after the blogger posted the initial message. &lt;p&gt;In this way, using Pubsub, every blog post becomes an "instant message in a bottle" that anyone out there with their ear to the blogospherese that might be interested in that message can click on in real-time and respond to. (At first glance, one might think that anyone with an RSS aggregator subscribed to any number of bloggers' feeds could do this, but that's not the case. With PubSub, you subscribe to keywords, so you don't have to know the blogger in advance, and aggregators don't show you each post in real-time, although PubSub does.) Such a medium, in my mind, would facilitate all sorts of blog-initiated interaction beyond the standard personal publishing/diary/news/commentary quality of blog posts (which is great, but I feel, limited). People could/would suddenly use their blog to engage in live Q&amp;A, initiate specific-topic chats, meet people w/ mutual-interests in real time, sell things in real-time (with a reach far greater than any chat room or walled-garden community) sending an "instant message in a bottle" into the web by way of their blog whenever they wanted to engage in a real-time conversation w/ someone out there on the net (who they don't happen to know) but who has the answer/product/service/conversation/profile/purchasing interestes, etc they're looking for in a response.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109839895555893421?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109839895555893421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109839895555893421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/magic-of-pubsub-im-very-interested-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109831906157438760</id><published>2004-10-20T17:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-20T17:48:05.316-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/001001.html"&gt;Unbound Spiral: One Step Beyond the Buddylist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.henshall.com/about/"&gt;Stuart Henshall &lt;/a&gt;goes into a fair amount of detail with regard to the hype over presence. Like identity and IM, I think there needs to be an open solution that (hopefully) reaches ubiquity someday. Maybe there already is, I haven't gotten involved in the presence conversation, but it does seem far too difficult to find out whose available contact at any given time without the usual hassles of launching an IM, for example, that they happen to use and have running and have you on their buddy list, etc. I think Jabber might have a solution, we'll see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109831906157438760?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109831906157438760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109831906157438760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/unbound-spiral-one-step-beyond.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109831786805957759</id><published>2004-10-20T17:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-20T17:55:02.720-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://napsterization.org/stories/archives/000326.html"&gt;Mary Hodder on Webnotes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/"&gt;Danah Boyd&lt;/a&gt; chimes in w/ a plea for the return of &lt;a href="http://www.e-quill.com/"&gt;e-quill&lt;/a&gt;. Either way, this graffiki medium is compelling in its simplicity. I still find wikis difficult to use sometimes, whereas this seems to be a cinch, although it's clearly another animal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109831786805957759?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109831786805957759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109831786805957759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/mary-hodder-on-webnotes-danah-boyd.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109831747420132273</id><published>2004-10-20T17:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-20T17:57:54.210-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="res://C:/Program%20Files/Pluck%20Corporation/Pluck/PluckExplorerBar.dll/INDEX.HTML"&gt;Microsoft announces new client application to integrate communications&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This looks interesting. Especially the bit about interoperability w/ AIM and Yahoo (only for business users though, it seems.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109831747420132273?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109831747420132273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109831747420132273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/microsoft-announces-new-client.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109821176671852008</id><published>2004-10-19T11:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-19T11:49:26.716-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Google Your Outlook&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've always wanted a search feature in my outlook, to find a phone number in some ancient email, etc. I just used Google Desktop to find one-- bam, it grabbed it. I think this is the best thing about Google Desktop-- indexing and searching old emails. I wonder what Scoble thinks of this. I'm sure MS will build a counterpart in a flash, or maybe Longhorn already has it. But until then, I'm really digging Googling my Outlook.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109821176671852008?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109821176671852008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109821176671852008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/google-your-outlook-ive-always-wanted.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109814381721176442</id><published>2004-10-18T16:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-18T17:06:07.813-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;A Conversation with a Wondir Regular&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(We received the following email via feedback@wondir.com. Follow-up comments are from Larry, our head of programming. Permission was granted to publish the thread and identify the author of the original email.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all- is the Wondir team planning to redo the website's design anytime soon? If you are, you might want to take into consideration these following points:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Would be a good idea to have an auto refreshing page for the question board. That way people can get all the questions as they come in, and don't have to keep refreshing to see the new questions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good idea. We've heard this from others too.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. It might also be a good idea to have a sidebar or something, listing the number of people currently signed in and who they are. Maybe have it so that people who get disconnected from the site can easily find who they were just talking to; or even if just for the regulars who want to talk to their fellow regulars...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are in the planning stages on an overhaul of WIM. One of the things we're considering is a "Wondir Buddies" (final name TBD) list in a separate window that might contain presence information for other Wondir users that you select, maybe also folks who have answered your questions or whose questions match your alerts. And some other goodies. What do you think of putting it in its own window vs. a sidebar on the main window?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Maybe you could start a wondir-regulars chatroom where only members who have a position in the highest 20% of answerers or something can have access to. I bring this up because on several occasions I have seen people try to get together with people they met the other day to talk, but find it best to chat on an instant messaging service or chatting website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Have all the questions that come in from the Answerbus website appear as a different color on the question board. This would be helpful to those who are regulars on the site and really want to help real people. Posting answers to questions submitted by websites is at most times useless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I understand your feelings about this. But there are several reasons why we don't want to encourage people to skip questions originating from outside of Wondir: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;1) You never know who might be looking at the answer you post - it's not necessarily just the person who asked the question. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;2) Some of the 3rd-party website users do "click through" and view the responses on our site. (The questions *are* coming from real people, just not directly.) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;3) The questions and answers go into the database that we search to provide "related questions and answers" results on the results page you see when you ask a question; so every answer helps. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;4) We will be making questions and answers available to a wider audience through such means as RSS feeds. So, answering a question on Wondir is never useless!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;5. Make it available for any user to report another user. This would be helpful if at any time a user gets out of hand and insults a visitor or fellow user. People, with the click of a button, could have that user reported.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good idea. Would require additional staffing on our end to respond to "reports," which we have not ruled out.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Have a page praising people in the highest percentage of answerers. This&lt;br /&gt;would give people motivation to stay and participate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;How is this different from our Wondir 50?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Maybe it would be good to have a page on the site that lists suggested websites for all the different categories. This would be helpful to people who are unable to find an answer on the Wondir site. For example: I noticed a real large percentage of questions related to the pregnancy category, a lot of these questions involve topics that are covered in full on other websites. (The possibility also exists to gain a profit from this through the advertising of these sites).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;We are looking at a variety of ways to partner with other sites.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. Instead of having people enter their areas of expertise in their profiles, have it as a question in bullet form, where people can click on their areas (it makes it clearer to the user). That can be done, while at the same time, if users answer a lot of questions in a certain category, they are listed under that category. (This occurred to me because last night I answered many questions in the pregnancy category and there was one visitor that asked for me through posting a question ("is neonfx out there and available to answer a question?")). She was looking for me because she had noticed I answered a lot of questions in the pregnancy category and she needed advice in that category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sorry to be redundant, but good idea(s).&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Make mentioning a user's nickname in a question a default question alert. This would of been useful in the case I described in the last point where someone was looking for me. I have a messenger service (msn) that alerts me of new incoming emails, and this gives me a very useful way to know when certain alerts come in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some people would hate this, and anybody can easily do this themselves manually, so we'll let things be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. On that note, make the topic of the question alert the subject heading in the emails Wondir sends. This is useful because the questions in full don't fit in the subject column in most email services while in the inbox page. This would be useful in the case that a user places a higher priority over certain alerts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;By "topic" do you mean the alert name? On the flip side, if you get multiple alerts for the same alert profile, the first few words of the question might help you to differentiate between and/or prioritize them.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. Give warning if you do perform changes to the site, either in email form, or as a separate tab on the main Wondir site. This would be helpful for many to smoothly adapt to new features.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;We do try to inform everybody via the "weekly wondir" emails but are also considering communication methods more directly tied to the site - like a separate tab or a Wondir Buddies status window (as I mentioned above).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In all, I love Wondir.com and the idea behind it. Your team really has come up with a brilliant idea to make many people happier, a brilliant way for many people to seek advice on anything. Points I mentioned in this email are just suggestions for making Wondir.com a better site, just things that have gone through my mind these past few days, not at all things that need to be done urgently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would really appreciate it if this email is replied to by a person and not by an automated response email service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;My pleasure.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you for your time,&lt;br /&gt;Joshua Gonzalez (aka NeonFx)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109814381721176442?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109814381721176442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109814381721176442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/conversation-with-wondir-regular-we.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109788941536202334</id><published>2004-10-15T18:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-15T18:18:40.053-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;DocuTicker&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.resourceshelf.com/"&gt;Gary Price &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.librarystuff.net/"&gt;Steven M. Cohen &lt;/a&gt;(two friends of &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href="http://home.tampabay.rr.com/shirlk/"&gt;Shirl Kennedy&lt;/a&gt; team up to give us the daily &lt;a href="http://www.docuticker.com/"&gt;DocuTicker&lt;/a&gt;. Here's there sum: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Docuticker is a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo's,&lt;br /&gt;think tanks, and other groups. DocuTicker is compiled by the librarians who&lt;br /&gt;bring you ResourceShelf.com.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109788941536202334?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109788941536202334'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109788941536202334'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/docuticker-gary-price-and-steven-m.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109788815312319548</id><published>2004-10-15T17:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-15T17:55:53.123-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Got Jot?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I missed the Jot demo at the Web2.0, but heard it was impressive. I just checked out their online demo though via &lt;a href="http://www.rojo.com"&gt;Rojo&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/"&gt;Joho (the blog)&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://www.jotspot.com"&gt;Jotspot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think they're on to something. As easy as wikis are to use, they need to be a lot easier to reach ubiquity. I don't think they get much easier than &lt;a href="http://www.jotspot.com"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109788815312319548?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109788815312319548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109788815312319548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/got-jot-i-missed-jot-demo-at-web2.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109786319753238860</id><published>2004-10-15T10:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-15T10:59:57.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Yelp!&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who's tried &lt;a href="http://www.yelp.com/home"&gt;Yelp!&lt;/a&gt; Looks a local social network Q&amp;A site, centered around business recommendations. Maybe a good partner for &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;. I'll have to get in touch with them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109786319753238860?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109786319753238860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109786319753238860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/yelp-whos-tried-yelp-looks-local.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109779659383342041</id><published>2004-10-14T16:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-14T16:29:53.833-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Blogospheric Inflation&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000387.html"&gt;Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, October 2004&lt;/a&gt; to see the speed at which the blogosphere is growing. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109779659383342041?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109779659383342041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109779659383342041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/blogospheric-inflation-check-out.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109778861205739846</id><published>2004-10-14T14:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-14T14:16:52.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Calling all Librarians&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.librarystuff.net/"&gt;Steven M. Cohen&lt;/a&gt;, a prominent voice in the librarian and information resources community, was kind enough to give us &lt;a href="http://www.librarystuff.net/2004/10/wondering-about-wondir.html"&gt;his take&lt;/a&gt; on Wondir and extend our invitation to librarians to stop in and answer a few questions at &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109778861205739846?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109778861205739846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109778861205739846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/calling-all-librarians-steven-m.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109769454042312580</id><published>2004-10-13T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-13T12:09:00.423-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;TypePad Q&amp;A&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're just starting to experiment with adding Wondir's basic Live Q&amp;amp;A functionality to blogs. &lt;a href="http://wondir.typepad.com/wondirlog/2004/10/eden_post.html"&gt;Here's a very early-stage example&lt;/a&gt;, look for improvements over the coming days, and we should have something polished soon, at least for TypePad users.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109769454042312580?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769454042312580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769454042312580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/typepad-qa-functionality-to-blogs.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109769378080016764</id><published>2004-10-13T11:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-13T11:56:20.806-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Is it possible to subscribe to Gush announcements from particular groups? Or can one only send Gush announcements? &lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109769378080016764?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769378080016764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769378080016764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/is-it-possible-to-subscribe-to-gush.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109769348543656812</id><published>2004-10-13T11:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-13T11:51:25.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;PubSubbing&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used the &lt;a href="http://www.pubsub.com"&gt;PubSub&lt;/a&gt; sidebar today to watch the blogosphere update itself in real-time. Since I'm with &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;, I'm interested in seeing who's asking what in the blogosphere in real-time, and PubSub let me do that. I watched as several questions/posts per second cascaded down the page in real-time as I saw the live Q&amp;amp;A slice of the blogosphere. Very cool. Now how could we get those live Qs in front of Wondir users to respond to in real-time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109769348543656812?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769348543656812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769348543656812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/pubsubbing-i-used-pubsub-sidebar-today.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109769320467132760</id><published>2004-10-13T11:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-13T11:46:44.670-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Blog-to-IM&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does anyone know of a service/app/project out there that notifies you by IM when someone has posted a comment to your blog? Would it even be possible to do that, and to send the comment in the IM message?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109769320467132760?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769320467132760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109769320467132760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/blog-to-im-does-anyone-know-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109753365721376523</id><published>2004-10-11T15:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-11T15:27:37.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;The Semantic Web in 5 years&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark Graham sent me &lt;a href="http://www.ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, a Utopian (and yet not altogether unrealistic) vision of what the Semantic Web, coupled with Google, could do for us in just a few years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109753365721376523?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109753365721376523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109753365721376523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/semantic-web-in-5-years-mark-graham.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109727010398150369</id><published>2004-10-08T14:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T14:15:03.980-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;The end of the walled garden&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A number of speakers at the Web2.0 expressed a very meaninful idea in my opinion: that lock-in data and the walled-garden approach to community information is a dead-end, and that the communities that open up their content to be shared with other communities will win in the end. It's not the content that makes the site valuable, but the way the site displays and shares the content that makes it preferrable in an open web (much as Google won out because it had a better way of sorting results, rather than having better content per say.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109727010398150369?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109727010398150369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109727010398150369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/end-of-walled-garden-number-of.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109726566569170555</id><published>2004-10-08T13:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T14:21:56.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Pubsub&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has anyone used pubsub to interact with other bloggers in almost real-time. This is a possibility I'm interested in-- blogging as a messaging medium, not simply a publishing medium. With near real-time RSS aggregators, real-time alerts (on both the publishing side and response/comments side), it may be possible with a new app or some combo of what's out there now to use blog posts/comments to see who's saying what at any given time and to jump in on the conversation in real-time. I hear pubsub might be step in this direction, will check it out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109726566569170555?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726566569170555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726566569170555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/pubsub-has-anyone-used-pubsub-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109726535356727453</id><published>2004-10-08T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T14:23:04.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Sxip In&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Spent some time with the good people at Sxip at the Web2.0. I really hope this catches on. I'll be sxipping-in to as many sites as possible. A lot of people have been skeptical of the identity space-- so many have tried to tackle it, from Microsoft to PingID. Who thinks Sxip is going to pull it off and reach ubiquity? Who thinks they won't?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109726535356727453?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726535356727453'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726535356727453'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/sxip-in-spent-some-time-with-good.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109726511498605100</id><published>2004-10-08T13:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T12:51:54.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Rojo&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who's tried Rojo? What do you think? I'll be trying it later today, thanks to Mark Graham. Can't wait to see what this is all about. From what I hear they're merging social networking with RSS aggregation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109726511498605100?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726511498605100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726511498605100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/rojo-whos-tried-rojo-what-do-you-think.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109726718570972906</id><published>2004-10-08T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T13:26:25.710-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Using the Wondir ask-box to search for past questions and answers&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a conversation I just had with one of our regulars at Wondir. He said he's was okay with me putting it up at Wondir Land with his IM handle. I edited a couple of my comments to safequard myself agains misrepresenting the Wondir auto-intepreter system, otherwise unchanged:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;MtlCstr: Howdy&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: hey!&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: Zup!&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: You know&lt;br /&gt;what would be cool on Wondir - is a way to search through previous questions and&lt;br /&gt;answers.&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: I mean without posting a new question.&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: It could&lt;br /&gt;have all kinds of limiters like date and category.&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: very&lt;br /&gt;true&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: we're certainly considering it&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: Sometimes I&lt;br /&gt;find new info relevant to an old question and it would be nice to have an easy&lt;br /&gt;way to find it and post the info.&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: you can run a search at&lt;br /&gt;Wondir right now via the ask-box, your search won't post to the boards unless&lt;br /&gt;it's interpreted as a question&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: for example, try typing&lt;br /&gt;"education" (without the quotes) into the ask box and clicking "ask"&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr:&lt;br /&gt;ok&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: So what parameters govern whether it is interpreted as a question&lt;br /&gt;or not?&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: it's slightly complex&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: I guess that's a&lt;br /&gt;"duh"&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: (in general) if it has a question mark at the end, if it's more than&lt;br /&gt;a critical number of words, if it contains "who, what, where, when, how" kind of langualge in it, then it's a generally interpreted&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: OK&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2:&lt;br /&gt;cool, let me know if u have other questions&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: OK&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: mind&lt;br /&gt;if I pass this conversation around to the others at Wondir, and possibly put it&lt;br /&gt;up on the Wondir Land weblog, it would be good for others to see this and know&lt;br /&gt;they can do that&lt;br /&gt;MtlCstr: Sure - fine by me&lt;br /&gt;AllenSearls2: thx&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109726718570972906?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726718570972906'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726718570972906'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/using-wondir-ask-box-to-search-for.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109726625118649771</id><published>2004-10-08T13:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T14:19:22.090-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Who saw the keyhole presentation at the Web2.0? Was that not amazing?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder how many years off the "spatial web" is. Once you can got to a website, zoom in on any point on the satellite view of Earth, such as your own house, and start clicking on your neighbors houses to view any content they've tagged to their own homes, such as their blogs, photos, profiles, etc, then we may have a whole new sense of local community (and a whole new sense of stalking, I suppose.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109726625118649771?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726625118649771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726625118649771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/who-saw-keyhole-presentation-at-web2.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109726578068767989</id><published>2004-10-08T13:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-08T13:03:00.686-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Podcasting&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of talk about podcasting, thanks to Doc and Jeff Jarvis and others. Who's podcasting? How's it going for you?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109726578068767989?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726578068767989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109726578068767989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/10/podcasting-lots-of-talk-about.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109632471761365018</id><published>2004-09-27T15:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T15:38:37.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_press_releases/One_million_Wikipedia_articles_%28US%29/Print"&gt;Wikipedia surpasses one million articles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; is trying to become something of the Wikipedia of Q&amp;A, compiling a body of user-generated content in the form of massive amounts of questions and answers on every conceivable topic. Not at a million yet, but we have hundreds of thousands thus far.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/"&gt;Ross Mayfield&lt;/a&gt; points out the magnitude of what Wikipedia has accomplished: "if each article took 1 person week to produce, getting the next million would take 40,000 full-time equivalent resources to get it done in the same amount of predicted time."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109632471761365018?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109632471761365018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109632471761365018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/09/wikipedia-surpasses-one-million.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109632335943624957</id><published>2004-09-27T15:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T15:15:59.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Semantic Web Gaining Traction?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years I've been hearing about the semantic web, and most of those that I've talked to feel it's a pleasant and worthwhile vision but too nebulous and far off to be taken seriously at this point. Perhaps &lt;a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/10/frauenfelder1004.asp"&gt;this interview with Berners-Lee&lt;/a&gt; will help clear things up.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109632335943624957?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109632335943624957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109632335943624957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/09/semantic-web-gaining-traction-for.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109632293569240413</id><published>2004-09-27T15:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T15:08:55.693-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Ahmed Puts the Ticker Up&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Found &lt;a href="http://ahmedshayan.blogspot.com/2004/09/ask-question.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt;. This is the first I've seen the &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir ticker&lt;/a&gt; go up as a blog post. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109632293569240413?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109632293569240413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109632293569240413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/09/ahmed-puts-ticker-up-found-this-on.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109416847491545069</id><published>2004-09-02T16:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-09-02T16:41:14.916-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Test the Wondir Blogging Category Ticker&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How does this look? Do you see questions scrolling by at the top of the page. These are live questions from the Wondir Blogging category. You can click on one of those and answer it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109416847491545069?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109416847491545069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109416847491545069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/09/test-wondir-blogging-category-ticker.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109390341458541746</id><published>2004-08-30T14:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-30T15:15:01.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Marc Canter introduces us to "Sell-side Advertising"&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I really like what &lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/"&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; is calling "Sell-side Advertising" and perhaps &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; can be a part of it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After reading &lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/08/sell_side_adevr.html "&gt;Marc's post&lt;/a&gt; it's making all the more sense. Definitely worth the read.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109390341458541746?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109390341458541746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109390341458541746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/marc-canter-introduces-us-to-sell-side.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109390077394943680</id><published>2004-08-30T14:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-30T14:19:33.950-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Rise of the Answer Engine&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040816.html"&gt;When Search Engines Become Answer Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)&lt;/a&gt; ties in well with the micro-content and rss movement. &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; is an answer engine, but driven by human responses rather than answer results. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109390077394943680?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109390077394943680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109390077394943680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/rise-of-answer-engine-when-search.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109356432824884954</id><published>2004-08-26T16:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-26T16:52:08.246-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Un-destroying the Inquisitive 8-year old&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks &lt;a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/"&gt;Doc&lt;/a&gt; for pointing out &lt;a href="http://if.geekfreely.co.uk"&gt;What Happens if...?&lt;/a&gt;, a site not easily described with a quick sum. Here's what the author had to say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;This site is dedicated to the lost inquisitive desires that growing up destroyed.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;br /&gt;I wonder what this guy thinks of &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109356432824884954?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109356432824884954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109356432824884954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/un-destroying-inquisitive-8-year-old.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109295795931822834</id><published>2004-08-19T16:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-19T16:28:32.943-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Who is Steven M. Cohen?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For those of us who have watched the &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; question board for countless hours we have gotten used to the mysterious post: “Who is Steven M. Cohen?” showing up again and again. Well, the mystery is over. I was doing a search on librarian organizations today as part of our campaign to broaden the answer community at Wondir and found none other than &lt;a href="http://www.librarystuff.net/"&gt;Steven M. Cohen&lt;/a&gt;, author of &lt;a href="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.llrx.com%2Ffeatures%2Frssforlibrarians.htm"&gt;LLRX.com - RSS for Non-Techie Librarians&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109295795931822834?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109295795931822834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109295795931822834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/who-is-steven-m.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109243680022382033</id><published>2004-08-13T15:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-13T17:39:59.433-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Craig, eBay and Left Field&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heard about this on cnn of all places today, then got to Craig's blog via Doc and thought Craig had something more surprising than the deal itself to say &lt;a href="http://www.cnewmark.com/archives/000265.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109243680022382033?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109243680022382033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109243680022382033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/craig-ebay-and-left-field-heard-about.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109242464431001717</id><published>2004-08-13T12:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-13T17:40:23.183-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Human Powered Heli-flopper&lt;/h3&gt;Wouldn't it be cool if there really was a &lt;a href="http://batman.mech.ubc.ca/~hph/index2.html"&gt;Human Powered Helicopter&lt;/a&gt; that got off the ground? Unfortunately, &lt;a href="http://www.slashdot.com"&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; didn't. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109242464431001717?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109242464431001717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109242464431001717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/human-powered-heli-flopperwouldnt-it.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109236650753482974</id><published>2004-08-12T20:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-13T11:53:00.786-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;My Favorite User Name&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw this screen name at Wondir: &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;hauntedmeatloaf&lt;/a&gt;. Nice.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109236650753482974?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109236650753482974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109236650753482974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/my-favorite-user-name-saw-this-screen.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109235421580011837</id><published>2004-08-12T16:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-13T11:49:05.970-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Flickr what?&lt;/h3&gt;Yet another reference to &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/"&gt;apophenia&lt;/a&gt;. I really need to check that out. I started to sign up but was just trying to I get a window for friends to put on my blog, looks more like a social network centered around shared pics, or...? Need to figure it out, as it seems to be making a lot of people happy right now :) I see &lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/" rel="acquaintance met"&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; uses it and says "it will never suck."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109235421580011837?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109235421580011837'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109235421580011837'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/flickr-whatyet-another-reference-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109227179011057288</id><published>2004-08-11T17:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-13T11:49:43.140-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;The Feeds-First Movement&lt;/h3&gt;This is my first "Blog This!" post, doing it all from a little window generated by the google toolbar, wonder if this will work...&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/" rel="acquaintance met"&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; talks about &lt;a href="http://www.kottke.org/04/08/web-platform"&gt;Jason Kottke&lt;/a&gt;'s post suggesting we make web pages from feeds instead of feeds from web pages (that oversimplifies it but I think the point is still there). If I understand him correctly, which I may not, I agree and was hoping people would get turned on to the idea that documents and web pages are not the be-all of the web anymore. Here's his clip from Jason's piece:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I'm beginning to think that feeds (and content tagging) should be the starting point, not an offshoot. Until now, our tools have produced web pages then feeds. I'm thinking we need tools that create feeds and then let us combine them into web pages.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109227179011057288?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109227179011057288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109227179011057288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/feeds-first-movementthis-is-my-first.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109226640350049447</id><published>2004-08-11T15:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-13T11:50:34.056-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Xtreme Democracy&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/" rel="acquaintance met"&gt;Mitch Ratcliffe&lt;/a&gt; joined forces with others to bring the &lt;a href="http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/archives/000161.html"&gt;Xtreme Democracy&lt;/a&gt; book online, it's about the emergence of online activism.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109226640350049447?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109226640350049447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109226640350049447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/xtreme-democracy-mitch-ratcliffe.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109226399938342553</id><published>2004-08-11T15:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-11T15:39:59.383-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Not another network&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zephoria.org"&gt;Danah Boyd&lt;/a&gt; on getting &lt;a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/08/09/abuse_of_the_term_personal.html#004326"&gt;yet another social network spam-invite&lt;/a&gt;. Needless to say, she wasn't happy about it. Has anyone tried &lt;a href="http://multiply.com/"&gt;Multiply&lt;/a&gt;? Just looked at it and it seems like a newbie. I added a comment to Danah's post that I'd be interested in finding out if there's any kind of meta- social network or an aggregator, so you can interact with all your friends and let them interact with each other, regardless of what club they're in. But for that to happen, I think &lt;a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/"&gt;FOAF&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/"&gt;XFN&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.sxip.com/"&gt;SXIP&lt;/a&gt; or yet another will have to really catch on. Who uses these currently and what do you think? I'm using XFN and exploring the other two.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109226399938342553?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109226399938342553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109226399938342553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/not-another-network-danah-boyd-on.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109217044328498345</id><published>2004-08-10T13:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-10T13:40:43.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Lol&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark just sent me this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WGuest804304 asked: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;How do i get rid of blackheads quickly? I want to&lt;br /&gt;impress some a guy i like.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunnerz answered: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I dont think you can impress him with how quick you remove your blackheads.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably can't blog this at &lt;a href="http://bestofwondir.blogspot.com"&gt;the Daily Wondir&lt;/a&gt;, but still like it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109217044328498345?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109217044328498345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109217044328498345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/lol-mark-just-sent-me-this.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109210429591819024</id><published>2004-08-09T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-09T20:03:43.993-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Thanks Scoble&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went to the &lt;a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/"&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2004/08/07#When:11:25:43PM"&gt;bbq&lt;/a&gt; this weekend. I think I called Robert Scoble "Robert" at least once or twice before realizing that everyone (at least it seemed to me) just called him "Scoble." I'll have to work on that :) Had a good time, met some great people, thanks Scoble :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got to meet &lt;a href="http://blogs.geekdojo.net/adam/"&gt;Adam Field&lt;/a&gt;, who blogs at &lt;a href="http://blogs.geekdojo.net/adam/"&gt;Adam's Mindspace&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.eastbourne.org/index.php"&gt;Eastbourne&lt;/a&gt; (I believe) not too far from where I went to school in Brighton, England at the &lt;a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/"&gt;University of Sussex&lt;/a&gt;. We talked about the ridiculousness of American outrage over gas prices, among other things. We calculated the average cost per gallon in England is about 7 bucks. Anyway, great guy. Hope to hang with him as he travels thousands of miles to Seattle about once a month. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also had a great talk &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/963786"&gt;Dennis Hamilton&lt;/a&gt;, with blogs &lt;a href="http://nfocentrale.net/orcmid/blog/lair.asp"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nfocentrale.net/miser/astraendo/pn/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://nfocentrale.net/orcmid/BlunderDome/clueless/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; who's getting a first class master's online, he's the first I've met who's doing this. Brick and mortar educational institutions are in danger :) He asked about how my interests in philosophy tie in with my interests in social software. I promise to blog about that soon, as it's something I've thought a lot about. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finally got to meet &lt;a href="http://www.scripting.com/"&gt;Dave Winer&lt;/a&gt;, who took these pics of the &lt;a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/crimson1/2004/08/07#a2080"&gt;bbq&lt;/a&gt; on his new Nikon coolpix 3200, which I only know b/c I spent way to much time studying the coolpix line in my past life (job). I was sitting there with the others, mostly Microsofties and &lt;a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74"&gt;Channel 9&lt;/a&gt; folks, when Dave looked at me and said "who are you?" I was somewhat intimidated, but he was actually very kind to me and it was fun.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109210429591819024?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109210429591819024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109210429591819024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/thanks-scoble-i-went-to-scoble-bbq.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109210070240283293</id><published>2004-08-09T17:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-09T18:48:14.266-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;There are expert sites, and then there's Wondir&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This comes up so often that I thought I'd blog about it. Got an email from &lt;a href="http://jd.typepad.com/"&gt;JD Lasica&lt;/a&gt;, who passed a compliment on to my father (&lt;a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/"&gt;Doc&lt;/a&gt;), calling him "a true rock star of the tech world." That's great, I'll pass it on to him. JD also asked me to compare and contrast expert sites, such as &lt;a href="http://www.abuzz.com"&gt;Abuzz&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://answers.google.com/answers/"&gt;Google Answers&lt;/a&gt;, with &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p&gt;I wrote a bunch about this a while back, but will summarize here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wondir has at least four layers of uniquess that distinguish it from standard expert-sites, all of which I think are providing a great service, but none of which have all four of these components:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wondir is &lt;strong&gt;free&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wondir is &lt;strong&gt;live&lt;/strong&gt;. You can ask and answer in real-time, using the on-site Jabber chat (it engages automatically when you ask or answer, you don't have to download it.)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wondir is for &lt;strong&gt;everyone&lt;/strong&gt;. Anyone can ask, and anyone can answer. You don't have to register to do either, although you can. And if you're answering, we let the other party decide whether or not you're an expert.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wondir is a &lt;strong&gt;cinch &lt;/strong&gt;to use. You just ask your question in a big box on our front page and seconds later you're chatting with someone with an answer (or getting an answer soon thereafter if no one's around w/ your answer). It's as quick, anonymous and easy to use as a standard search engine, except there are live people on the other end. Answering is just as easy. You just click on a question and answer it by chat, post or even email, whichever you wish. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contrast this with Google Answers, one example of the standard expert site model:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Non-live, primarily email based interaction.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Members only.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pay per answer (although Abuzz and others don't require this)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elaborate asking and answering process.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think this is one reason why Wondir, although just getting started and with an infinitesimal fraction of the resources of a Google, already has several times more questions and answers per day than Google Answers, and more than any of the free sites as well, including &lt;a href="http://www.allexperts.com"&gt;AllExperts&lt;/a&gt;, Abuzz, &lt;a href="http://www.answerway.com"&gt;Answerway&lt;/a&gt; and so on. We see &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Live Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; as part of the simple day-to-day functionality of the web, like using a search engine or a browser, rather than an elaborate members-only service. Of course, being a free-for-all medium means Wondir has to deal with all kinds of silliness in the mix, but so do search engines, so does email, so does anything that goes for ubiquity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*JD mentioned that weblogs have in some ways replaced standard expert sites. I agree. Wondir may also make each question and answer, like blog posts, available via an RSS feed in the future.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109210070240283293?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109210070240283293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109210070240283293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/there-are-expert-sites-and-then-theres.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109209488115202323</id><published>2004-08-09T16:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-09T16:41:21.153-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;You don't want to know&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just saw this posted at the site: &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;this is a weird question but what is a camel toe? and im not talking about a camel!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109209488115202323?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109209488115202323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109209488115202323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/you-dont-want-to-know-just-saw-this.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109182284244388765</id><published>2004-08-06T12:54:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-06T13:07:22.443-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Levels of Social Networking expertise&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="11524"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll have to save &lt;a href="http://www.robotegg.com/projectsite/index.htm?page=/projectsite/NetworkMaterials.htm"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; as a resource, found it at &lt;a href="http://www.corante.com/many/"&gt;Many2Many&lt;/a&gt; Good to have a breakdown. Haven't decided where to classify myself: Newbie/Aware/Enthusiast/Head, etc, partly because the community I'm responsible for at &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; is not a social network, although it's being used partly as one and may evolve into one by sheer internal demand. We'd like to be a meta-social network, ideally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109182284244388765?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109182284244388765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109182284244388765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/levels-of-social-networking-expertise.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109182059280425148</id><published>2004-08-06T12:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-06T12:29:52.803-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Social Software expedients&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's &lt;a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/"&gt;FOAF&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/"&gt;XFN&lt;/a&gt; and now &lt;a href="http://www.sxip.com/"&gt;Sxip&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/ rel=friend met"&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt; tells me, is the one to watch. Apparently &lt;a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/"&gt;Doc&lt;/a&gt; is on board with it. I wonder if &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; could use any of this to enhance live Q&amp;A.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109182059280425148?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109182059280425148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109182059280425148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/social-software-expedients-theres-foaf.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109173863722832559</id><published>2004-08-05T13:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-05T14:29:20.180-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Social Search&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did a search on &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&amp;url=social+software"&gt;social software&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt; last year and go "O" results. Tried it today and got 30 for the last 7 days. Looks like people care about it now or at least have focused their thoughts on that term. How about &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=social+search&amp;amp;btnG=Google+Search"&gt;social search&lt;/a&gt;? Someone at the Etcon last year, I believe it was one of the partners at &lt;a href="http://www.socialtext.com/"&gt;Socialtext&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/ rel=acquaintance met"&gt;Ross Mayfield&lt;/a&gt;, probably, that either coined that phrase or mentioned it to me. There's still no way to search online society the way we search online documents/pages, and it's rather alarming there isn't, since we want other minds to interact with at least as much as we want web pages. If anyone knows of a social search engine, let me know. &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.feedster.com"&gt;Feedster&lt;/a&gt; of course are just social search engines, if we define online society as bloggers, but of course there are those tens of millions of people chatting and conversing in myriad ways in all the walled garden communities out there that we have no access to at the moment, kind of like the way documents were not shared before the net and the web. I suppose &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;'s a social search engine in some ways as well, at least from a Q&amp;amp;A pov. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109173863722832559?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109173863722832559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109173863722832559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/social-search-did-search-on-social.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109173631917136644</id><published>2004-08-05T12:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-05T14:31:42.436-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Have Partner, will Blog&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; setup the first step of a partnership with &lt;a href="http://www.pregnancy.org"&gt;Pregnancy.org&lt;/a&gt; today. &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/taxonomy?changeChannel=true&amp;amp;channelUID=1.11.65urlfile=indexAbsolute.jsp"&gt;Check it out&lt;/a&gt;. How does it look in Mozilla? Trying to work that out. We're sponsoring our categories now, so if anyone's got a cool site with some significant traffic in a category at Wondir that's not already taken, let me know and we can talk about a free sponsorship/ link-exchange or something more.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I hear &lt;a href="http://molleeolenick.blogspot.com/ rel=colleague"&gt;Mollee&lt;/a&gt; at Pregnancy.org has a blog? Cool, &lt;a href="http://molleeolenick.blogspot.com/"&gt;take a look&lt;/a&gt;. Omg, she uses the same template as &lt;a href="http://bestofwondir.blogspot.com"&gt;the Daily Wondir&lt;/a&gt;, right down to the shade of &lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;green&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109173631917136644?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109173631917136644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109173631917136644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/have-partner-will-blog-wondir-setup.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109166495854632033</id><published>2004-08-04T17:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-04T23:09:14.433-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Forgive me blogfather, for I have slinked&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My apologies to &lt;a href="http://www.meskill.net/weblogs/"&gt;Judith Meskill&lt;/a&gt;, who's actually responsible for &lt;a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/5067520217564842/"&gt;the impressive list of social networking sites&lt;/a&gt; over the million+ member threshold, rather than &lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/"&gt;Marc&lt;/a&gt;. I mislinked. My apologies &lt;a href="http://www.meskill.net/weblogs/"&gt;Judith&lt;/a&gt;, thanks for the note. There, that's two links now :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109166495854632033?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109166495854632033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109166495854632033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/forgive-me-blogfather-for-i-have.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109164893071696994</id><published>2004-08-04T12:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-04T12:48:50.716-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Social Media Consultants&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are &lt;a href="http://www.socialmedia.biz/2004/08/social_media_ce.html"&gt;two specialists in social media consulting&lt;/a&gt;, something which I expect to become more prominent. Met &lt;a href="http://www.socialmedia.biz/2004/08/social_media_ce.html"&gt;Jerry&lt;/a&gt; at the BlogOn, his card reads "Sociate." I'd like to hear their thoughts on &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Live Q&amp;A&lt;/a&gt; as the emerging third pillar of the social media boom taking hold (blogging and social networking being the first two).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109164893071696994?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164893071696994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164893071696994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/social-media-consultants-here-are-two.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109164799376732548</id><published>2004-08-04T12:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-04T12:33:13.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2004/08/04"&gt;Dave Winer&lt;/a&gt; in town?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks like he'll be coming through Seattle, or maybe he's already here? Hopefully I can meet up with him at one of &lt;a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/08/01.html"&gt;Scoble's get togethers&lt;/a&gt; if I'm still in. I've still only met two of the four &lt;a href="http://www.cluetrain.com"&gt;Cluetrain&lt;/a&gt; ringleaders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109164799376732548?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164799376732548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164799376732548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/dave-winer-in-town-looks-like-hell-be.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109164685283457710</id><published>2004-08-04T12:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-04T12:14:12.833-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Ehow?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Found &lt;a href="http://www.ehow.com"&gt;Ehow.com&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/"&gt;Doc's It Garage.&lt;/a&gt; They could definitely use some &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Live Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt; over there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109164685283457710?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164685283457710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164685283457710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/ehow-found-ehow.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109164605212169717</id><published>2004-08-04T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-04T12:02:24.033-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/08/instead_of_1m_m.html"&gt;Marc's&lt;/a&gt; Million+ Member Social Networking Clubs&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's &lt;a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/5067520217564842/"&gt;the list in progress&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109164605212169717?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164605212169717'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109164605212169717'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/marcs-million-member-social-networking.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109148664620672569</id><published>2004-08-02T15:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-02T15:44:06.206-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;The Daily Wondir&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been posting notable Q&amp;As from Wondir here, but from now on I'll be posting most of them at &lt;a href="http://bestofwondir.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Daily Wondir&lt;/a&gt;, a blog just for selected Q&amp;amp;A sessions that we're syndicating. But it's a bit more white bread as a blog, so anything obscenely funny or otherwise not pc enough for The Daily Wondir but still worth publishing I'll post here, like the one a few posts below :) This is still the main blog for everything Wondir. An entirely uninhibited blog is &lt;a href="http://globalive.blogspot.com/"&gt;Blog Alive&lt;/a&gt;, which I resurrected for freeblogging about anything, and is neither Wondir authorized nor necessarily associated with Wondir, although there's some overlap in my interests.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109148664620672569?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109148664620672569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109148664620672569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/daily-wondir-ive-been-posting-notable.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109148568333489931</id><published>2004-08-02T15:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-02T15:28:03.333-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Sony Clie&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hadn't occured to me that people would already be trying to use &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; and Wondir tools, like the scrolling question ticker on their handhelds, but &lt;a href="http://irish.typepad.com/southeast/2004/07/is_it_safe.html"&gt;here's&lt;/a&gt; a reference to trying it on a Sony Clie? I wondir if it works? This came from the &lt;a href="http://irish.typepad.com/southeast/2004/07/is_it_safe.html"&gt;News and Views from Southeast Ireland&lt;/a&gt; blog. Interesting that we seem to have as many users in the UK as in the US. Also a kick to see them quoting that question, perhaps our funniest publishable post thus far at Wondir: &lt;blockquote&gt;Is it safe to use a loud vibrator externally on the clitoris? Will it damage the babies hearing?&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109148568333489931?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109148568333489931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109148568333489931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/sony-clie-hadnt-occured-to-me-that.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109148500039321988</id><published>2004-08-02T15:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-02T15:16:40.393-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://mahshoeno.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mae-Shoe-No&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No idea what that means but I like obscure mystifying blog titles like that. Here's what the author &lt;a href="http://mahshoeno.blogspot.com/2004/07/web-site.html"&gt;Pril&lt;/a&gt;, who I found through &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt; had to say &lt;a href="http://mahshoeno.blogspot.com/2004/07/web-site.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;. I believe this was her first post. I guess we are sort of a message board with a twist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.org/"&gt;www.wondir.org&lt;/a&gt; great website it is a message board for the most part but you ask or answer questions anyone may have! it really is fun! well i'm off to explore this blog stuff i know i understand it i just don't at the same time! ummm a question maybe i'll check that web site!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109148500039321988?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109148500039321988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109148500039321988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/mae-shoe-no-no-idea-what-that-means.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109147892892632128</id><published>2004-08-02T13:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-08-02T13:36:03.176-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;This Just In...&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Shoes" at Wondir just found this question/answer pair at Wondir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;Where can i find information about having oral&lt;br /&gt;sex upside down in a plane bathroom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;-try the mature content category&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-it's probably not healthy&lt;br /&gt;unless your husband owns the plane &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109147892892632128?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109147892892632128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109147892892632128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/08/this-just-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109097395922988781</id><published>2004-07-27T17:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-27T17:22:10.490-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;My favorite question today&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just found this question at Wondir: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;ho is driving the answer bus?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt; &lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109097395922988781?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109097395922988781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109097395922988781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/my-favorite-question-today-just-found.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109096728268583162</id><published>2004-07-27T15:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-28T13:46:33.690-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;BlogOn and On and On...&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2004/blog/"&gt;The BlogOn&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;seemed to prove that &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;q=social+media&amp;btnG=Google+Search"&gt;social media&lt;/a&gt; is outstripping everything else right now for the focus of our&amp;nbsp;attention&amp;nbsp;with regard to&amp;nbsp;emerging web apps. I'd like to see blogs and social networks plug into live Q&amp;A to&amp;nbsp;enhance social media interactions with a more real-time dimension, and that's one reason I was there, spreading the word on &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt;, but mostly I was there to listen to people who know a lot more than I ever will. Highlights (for me) included: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Got to learn the details of the &lt;a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/"&gt;foaf project&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; from &lt;a href="http://marc.blogs.it/"&gt;Marc Canter&lt;/a&gt;, who was very tolerant of my ignorance of code, as was &lt;a href="http://www.itconversations.com/blogs/gg/index.php"&gt;Steve Gillmor&lt;/a&gt;, when he explained the intricacies of &lt;a href="http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/attentionxml"&gt;attentionxml&lt;/a&gt; I'm terribly interested in these projects and any projects that support social media that everyone can use. Preferably the one's that support Doc's &lt;a href="http://www.worldofends.com/"&gt;NEA&lt;/a&gt; model from the &lt;a href="http://www.worldofends.com/"&gt;World of Ends&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;sort of an unofficial sequel to &lt;a href="http://www.cluetrain.com"&gt;Cluetrain&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bumped into &lt;a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/"&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt; on the plane back. I was pissed my plane was late but had lateness to thank for the opportunity to meet him. We'd met at a dinner almost two years ago at the Etcon&amp;nbsp;when &lt;a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/"&gt;Doc&lt;/a&gt; introduces us but I was convinced he didn't know who I was when I approached him. Great guy, btw.&amp;nbsp;I asked him how we balanced representing Microsoft with writing compelling, uninhibited&amp;nbsp;posts on his pseudo-corporate blog (which&amp;nbsp;can't be easy). I asked if it was just a matter of using good judgment, and he said it was actually more "taking risks" that was probably most responsible for making his blog work. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Talked to &lt;a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/"&gt;Dave Sifry&lt;/a&gt; briefly. If I didn't know better, I would have thought &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt; was Google with the kind of attention they were getting at the conference.&amp;nbsp;A household name Internet&amp;nbsp;company&amp;nbsp;broke in while I was talking with him to hand&amp;nbsp;Sifry their card and invite to meet up. I congratulated Dave, who was moderating the "metrics of influence" panel,&amp;nbsp; on &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/27/mon.blog.roundup/"&gt;teaming up with CNN&lt;/a&gt; for the democratic convention. I remember a year and a half ago when I met Dave for the first time at the etcon and although there was a big buzz among bloggers&amp;nbsp;about Technorati already, I didn't know they'd get this kind of mainstream press this soon; they certainly deserve it. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Met &lt;a href="http://markpincus.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marc Pincus&lt;/a&gt;'s dog, who was wearing&amp;nbsp;Marc's BlogOn name tag and roaming around. I'm sure I'm not the first to blog about that, it was great, I'll have to check &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt;. Marc was very cool and kind and we talked about &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub,Login.vm"&gt;Tribe&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Tribe's doing a great deal more than standard social networking, especially at the local level. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Got to meet &lt;a href="http://www.hodder.org/"&gt;Mary Hodder&lt;/a&gt;, also of &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt;. She was surprised to hear that my old site &lt;a href="http://www.globealive.com"&gt;GlobeAlive&lt;/a&gt;'s motto was "the world live web," which Technorati now uses&amp;nbsp;throughout their site, thanks to a tip from Doc, I believe. I like the term and hope it catches on. &lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt;'s web is 7-minutes old. Compare that to Google's web, which is refreshed once every few weeks. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Got to see &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=management"&gt;Reid Hoffman&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com"&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt; again. Does Reid have a blog? Here's a &lt;a href="https://www.socialtext.net/red-herring-spring/index.cgi?action=weblog_display&amp;category=Blog%3A+LinkedIn&amp;amp;login=user1652"&gt;post from&amp;nbsp;Reid&lt;/a&gt; I believe. LinkedIn's member-base is about 900,000 I believe (three times the size of all other online&amp;nbsp;business networking sites combined)&amp;nbsp;and it's still in beta, and those are professional/business contacts,&amp;nbsp;a more scarce resource&amp;nbsp;perhaps&amp;nbsp;than friends of friends of friends, although it's a very different thing so I shouldn't compare. &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Will add more here...&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109096728268583162?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109096728268583162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109096728268583162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/blogon-and-on-and-on.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-109037070986764959</id><published>2004-07-20T17:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-20T17:47:41.273-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Funny Batch&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Cindy just sent me a batch of Qs from the Wondir database. Thanks Cindy!&amp;nbsp;Her comments in brackets: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;What is the medical condition grout?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How long does it take to t.h.c to get out of the blood circulation?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;How do&amp;nbsp;you make marijuana thats already grown more potent? is there any easy processes?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;How can I pass a salvia&amp;nbsp;test?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[Are they testing for mint-breath these days?]&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;My boyfriend has been charged for wreckless driving ….&amp;nbsp; &lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;[Wreck-less. Isn't&amp;nbsp;that the point?]&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Y r boys such idiots?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-109037070986764959?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109037070986764959'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/109037070986764959'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/funny-batch.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108940644103263645</id><published>2004-07-09T13:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-09T13:54:01.033-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Doc's IT Garage Launches&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/"&gt;Doc's IT Garage&lt;/a&gt;, a relatively new blog generating a buzz that lets the programming crowd talk/blog openly, without corporate constraits. A very decentralized theme, check it out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108940644103263645?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108940644103263645'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108940644103263645'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/docs-it-garage-launches-check-out-docs.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108932182338197376</id><published>2004-07-08T14:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-08T14:23:43.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Wondir questions of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got a couple from Cindy at &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; today, her comments in brackets.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[somehow I think there is a better way to ask this..]&lt;br /&gt;30 Jun '04, 08:07  &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;What is the most popular organ donated?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;08 Jul '04, 10:59  &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;How does a man with a long penis sit on the toilet without it dangling into the water in the bowl? I'm not that big and I have that problem sometimes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108932182338197376?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108932182338197376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108932182338197376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/wondir-questions-of-day-got-couple.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108924678984453125</id><published>2004-07-07T17:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-08T17:13:48.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Wondir Ticker Color&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm experimenting with the color on the Wondir question ticker:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table width="100%" height="30" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/img/Wondir_Logo_Ticker.gif" width="92" height="30" alt="To Wondir Home Page" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;applet archive = "http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/ticker/ticker.jar" CODEBASE="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/WEB-INF/classes/" code="org/wondir/ticker/TextScroller.class" width="475" height="30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="categoryID" value="1.9"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="siteName" value="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="tickerDistrib" value="true"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="applet_width" value="475"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="applet_height" value="30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="border" value="yes"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="border_color" value="9933FF"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="mouse_over" value="slow"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="scroll_delay" value="20"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="xspace" value="14"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="target_frame" value="_self"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/applet&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108924678984453125?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108924678984453125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108924678984453125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/wondir-ticker-color-im-experimenting.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108914432119566603</id><published>2004-07-06T13:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-07-06T13:56:07.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;July 6th: Wondir Question of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Shoes", a moderator at Wondir, found this question posted on the Wondir boards this weekend. If you're easily offended, please forgive. It was too funny not to blog:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Is it safe to use a loud vibrator externally on the clitoris?  Will it damage the babies hearing?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108914432119566603?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108914432119566603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108914432119566603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/07/july-6th-wondir-question-of-day-shoes.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108853570563486435</id><published>2004-06-29T11:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-29T12:01:45.633-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Wondir Questions of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More courtesy of Cindy.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WGuest502050 on 16:11:27 2004-06-28 asked:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Im looking for someone i met here yesterday. IM me&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thos on 16:21:04 2004-06-28 says: &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;I'm me too&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 Jun '04, 12:20         &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Can you malester a pie?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21 Jun '04, 16:09         &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;can u have sex while u r pregnant? and if so, can u like, get pregnant again or something?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28 Jun '04, 09:10         &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;how many people are allowed to be in a waiting room?&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108853570563486435?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108853570563486435'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108853570563486435'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/wondir-questions-of-day-more-courtesy.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108845515365764981</id><published>2004-06-28T13:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-28T13:39:13.656-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Couple Gets Married through Wondir&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haven't confirmed whether this was a real post or a gag, but here goes:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WGuest380469 on 16:19:02 2004-06-28 asked:&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Susan..this is where we met..and i want you to know that i love you with all of my heart...will you marry me?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WGuest494465 on 16:19:52 2004-06-28 says:&lt;br /&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;yes! baby you are my world i would love to marry you!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108845515365764981?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108845515365764981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108845515365764981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/couple-gets-married-through-wondir.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108837303848555686</id><published>2004-06-27T14:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-28T13:42:42.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Wondir Question of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got this one from 'Shoes', one of the first Wondir moderators:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WGuest151674 on 15:30:58 2004-06-27 asked:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.Wondir.com"&gt;TV COMMERCIALS CLAIM THAT ENZYTE CAN GIVE A GUY FIRMER ERECTIONS. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS IS TRUE?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WGuest501329 on 15:56:36 2004-06-27 says: &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href="http://www.Wondir.com"&gt;yes it's true and then the guy dies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108837303848555686?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108837303848555686'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108837303848555686'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/wondir-question-of-day-got-this-one.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108611780090493555</id><published>2004-06-23T12:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-23T16:54:42.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Testing Live Chatvertising&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Testing&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script language="javascript" src="http://www.liveexpert.com/xc.asp?V=1&amp;C=91&amp;P=2455&amp;AI=633&amp;T=626&amp;AW=250&amp;AH=250&amp;PU=0"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108611780090493555?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108611780090493555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108611780090493555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/testing-live-chatvertising-testing.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108750759268215583</id><published>2004-06-17T14:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-18T12:05:09.693-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;More Wondir Questions of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courtesy of Cindy at Wondir here at a few strong contenders, with Cindy's comments in brackets:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;What is behind the moon?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;Why are nobel gases special?&lt;/a&gt; [because they win prizes??]&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;How does air get to your foot?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;How can I stop fighting with my Girlfriend? All we do is buttheads.&lt;/a&gt; [for want of space?]&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Can you tell what this means???]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;I am 17 yrs. old, I do sex individually. Does it affect my future?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;HOW IS FLOOD PRESERVED?&lt;/a&gt; [blood?  food? I could not tell]&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/"&gt;When is it considered statuary rape?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108750759268215583?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108750759268215583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108750759268215583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/more-wondir-questions-of-day-courtesy.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108750709736761370</id><published>2004-06-17T14:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-17T14:18:17.366-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;The Straight Dope on Eating Spiders in Your Sleep&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following up on yesterday's Wondir question of the day, Cindy at Wondir found this link to &lt;a href="http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mspidereat.html"&gt;the history of this urband legend&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108750709736761370?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108750709736761370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108750709736761370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/straight-dope-on-eating-spiders-in.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108743927206706850</id><published>2004-06-16T19:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-16T19:27:52.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Wondir Question of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;When you go to sleep do you eat 6,000 spiders at night while you are sleeping?&lt;/a&gt; ( 1 response ).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108743927206706850?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108743927206706850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108743927206706850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/wondir-question-of-day-when-you-go-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108689391048827405</id><published>2004-06-10T11:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-10T11:58:30.486-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Testing the new Wondir Ticker&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table width="100%" height="30" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt; &lt;img src="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/img/Wondir_Logo_Ticker.gif" width="92" height="30" alt="To Wondir Home Page" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;applet archive = "http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/ticker/ticker.jar" CODEBASE="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/WEB-INF/classes/" code="org/wondir/ticker/TextScroller.class" width="475" height="30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="categoryID" value="1.9"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="siteName" value="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="tickerDistrib" value="true"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="applet_width" value="475"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="applet_height" value="30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="EAFEE7"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="border" value="yes"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="border_color" value="006600"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="mouse_over" value="slow"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="scroll_delay" value="20"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="xspace" value="14"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="target_frame" value="_self"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/applet&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108689391048827405?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108689391048827405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108689391048827405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/testing-new-wondir-ticker.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108646189903747913</id><published>2004-06-05T11:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-05T12:11:47.530-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Question of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got this one from Cindy at Wondir. Her comments: "Here is what you might call a totally appropriate misspelling  :-)."&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here's the question that was asked:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;04 Jun '04, 04:44   &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;I'm 18 years old and just recently lost my vaginity to my boyfriend of 1yr... &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108646189903747913?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108646189903747913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108646189903747913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/question-of-day-got-this-one-from.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108630766818389166</id><published>2004-06-03T17:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-05T11:55:05.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Let's Not Partner with Ask Peeves&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When looking for Question &amp; Answer sites for Wondir to partner with, I just bumbed into &lt;a href="http://www.askpeeves.com"&gt;this anti-advice site&lt;/a&gt;, showing an unshaven, frowning Ask Jeeves butler flicking off the visitor, pretty funny. Let's not partner.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108630766818389166?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108630766818389166'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108630766818389166'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/lets-not-partner-with-ask-peeves-when.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108620142329184985</id><published>2004-06-02T11:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-03T12:43:14.886-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Wondir Question of the Day&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Cindy for getting these to me. Apparently these questions were asked at &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;Wondir&lt;/a&gt; in chronological order by the same user:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 May '04, 02:55   &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;What is a perpetual motion machine?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 May '04, 02:57   &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;wot is a perpectual motion machine?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31 May '04, 02:58   &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/index.jsp"&gt;wot is a perpendicular machine? heeeeeelp!!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108620142329184985?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108620142329184985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108620142329184985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/06/wondir-question-of-day-thanks-to-cindy.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108579182816419513</id><published>2004-05-28T17:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-06-15T14:49:05.530-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Square Pegs and True Partnerships&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we move out of beta, we're talking to all kinds of people about all kinds of  partnerships, what Wondir can do for you and what you can do for Wondir, etc. Many of the situations are square pegs, there's not really a fit but both sides like each other and want to make something work. Whenever you create a new-concept people will often suggest you use it for something so far removed from your vision that you're taken aback: "Hey, this would work perfect on a handheld bilingual GPS," they say. "Excuse me, what...?" But here are a few perfectly round pegs:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For all Sites&lt;/b&gt;: Let your users instantly reach out and answer questions related to your site's subject-matter by placing the relevant Wondir Question Ticker anywhere on your site. Here's a sample of the Wondir Question ticker, showing questions being asked right now in all categories at Wondir.com, but there are Wondir tickers for any particular category- health, pets, relationships, etc, even your own personal and private category:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;applet archive = "http://www.wondir.com/wondir/jsp/ticker/ticker.jar" CODEBASE="http://www.wondir.com/wondir/WEB-INF/classes/" code="org/wondir/ticker/TextScroller.class" width="665" height="30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="categoryID" value="1.9"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="siteName" value="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="tickerDistrib" value="true"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="applet_width" value="665"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="applet_height" value="30"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="EAFEE7"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="border" value="yes"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="border_color" value="006600"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="mouse_over" value="slow"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="scroll_delay" value="20"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="xspace" value="14"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="target_frame" value="_self"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/applet&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some revenue sharing for your click-throughs from your site will be available down the road.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For Communities &amp; Social Networking Sites&lt;/b&gt;: Let your members/visitors ask and answer real-time questions related to your site's category using Wondir’s unique Q&amp;A format by opening a private Wondir category devoted and accessible to your users exclusively. Wondir.com's public users would not have access to your Wondir forum.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For Message Boards&lt;/b&gt;: Wondir questions related to your site's category will post as new topics/threads on your message boards, thereby creating more activity and page views on your site. Your users' responses will not only post to your message boards, but to Wondir.com's counterpart message boards as well, including a link back to your site.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For Groups of Experts&lt;/b&gt;: Invite your users to give advice to Wondir users in your site's category at your users' convenience at Wondir.com. In exchange for doing so, we welcome your users to promote your website or organization/cause in their answers, which will be seen by many of our thousands of daily visitors, some of which may truly need your help and may in turn become your supporters. If and when we add auto-signatures to each answer promoting your cause or site would be an automatic part of the answering process.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For Search Engines&lt;/b&gt;: If you're a search engine and would like to display Wondir's keyword-matched "People to Ask" results below your search results, this would give your searchers access to live experts ready to provide free live advice on their search topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;For anyone who likes Wondir&lt;/b&gt;: Wondir links to you, you link to Wondir. Not much of a partnership but if there's a site in the Wondir family, this is harmless and can drive relevant traffic both ways.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Custom partnership&lt;/b&gt;: If you would like to partner with Wondir but do not see the partnership option you would prefer above, let us know what you would be interested in pursuing and we would be happy to consider your proposal.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can get in touch with me at asearls@wondir.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll add to this list soon...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108579182816419513?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108579182816419513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108579182816419513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/05/square-pegs-and-true-partnerships-as.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108517435243844963</id><published>2004-05-21T14:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-21T15:59:31.786-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Question of the Day Candidates&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cindy at Wondir sent me these she found at the site:&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;What are signs that your boyfriend is worthless?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;What are some sexual ways to turn a man on?&lt;/a&gt; which inspired someone to respond: &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;The list of what not to do is way way shorter.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Does it look really bad having sex in the car?&lt;/a&gt; followed by a slightly different question from the same user a few minutes later: &lt;a href="http://www.wondir.com"&gt;Does it look bad to have sex in the car more then once?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108517435243844963?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108517435243844963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108517435243844963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/05/question-of-day-candidates-cindy-at.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6478773.post-108508248534715529</id><published>2004-05-20T12:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-05-20T12:49:26.920-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Political Action Software gets Legs&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/"&gt;Britt Blaser&lt;/a&gt; blogs about the integration of politics and technology &lt;a href="http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2004/05/19.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Britt founded &lt;a href="http://www.XpertWeb.com"&gt;XpertWeb&lt;/a&gt;, the first open-source, peer 2 peer infrastructural identity protocol, was active in the Dean campaign and is now spearheading the political action software movement.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6478773-108508248534715529?l=wondir.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108508248534715529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6478773/posts/default/108508248534715529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://wondir.blogspot.com/2004/05/political-action-software-gets-legs.html' title=''/><author><name>Allen Searls</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16252944718964559185</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry></feed>
