http://blog.teledyn.com/node/777 Comments for "Blogspace Irregulars" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/777 <p>Following leads from <a href="http://www.blogdigger.com">BlogDigger</a> I ended up in a very interested experiment in self-organizing blogroll taxonomies over at the <a href="http://topicexchange.com">topic exchange</a> where my new-found <i>sujet de favorit</i> of <a href="http://topicexchange.com/t/social_software/">Social Software</a> immediately caught my eye.</p> <blockquote><p>"<i>Oh goody!</i>" I thought, "<i>Finally a trackback autoblogroll for <u>my</u> topic!</i>"</p></blockquote> <p>But then I came to a sad realization: I can't play! Why? Because my blog isn't 'social software' or even 'social computing' or even 'knowledge managememement'. My blog is all over, it's about this and that, here and there.</p> <blockquote><p><i>the reality of me is just me</i></p></blockquote> <p>So ... rather than be left out because I'm wild and untamed (ok, how about 'undisciplined'?) I thought, "<i>I could start my <u>own</u> topic for all those like me</i>, a topic for the <em><a href="http://www.trentu.ca/jjoyce/fw-104.htm">unhemmed as they are uneven</a></em> for all those fidgetty bloggers who just can't sit still in any kind of topic jar.</p> <p>Thus is born of necessity the <a title="Channel 'blogspace_irregulars'" href="http://topicexchange.com/t/blogspace_irregulars/">The Blogspace Irregulars</a>, the original trackback topic-exchange of the unconstrained.</p> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/777#comments here comes everybody Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:27:27 -0400 mrG 777 at http://blog.teledyn.com