December 13th, 2006
Hi everyone — I’ll be taking off for some long overdue vacation time on Dec. 15 so I won’t be posting too much until the start of the new year. Happy holidays until then!
May 8th, 2006
Make sure to come to the next SFWIN event, this Thursday, May 11, at 6 PM, hosted at Adaptive Path’s office in San Francisco. See you there!!!
April 15th, 2006
The SFWIN meetup last Thursday (hosted at Adobe’s office) was a huge success. Click here to see a photo. Thanks all for coming. Stay tuned to www.sfwin.org for announcements about the May event.
March 20th, 2006
Hey everyone, if you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, be sure to come to the SF Web Innovators (SFWIN) meetup this Thursday. This month’s event is hosted by Microsoft and co-sponsored by Fish and Richardson. There will be an open bar and catered finger food and deserts. Last month over 120 people showed [...]
March 11th, 2006
I’m headed out to PC Forum this weekend. If any of my readers are there be sure to find me and say hello. Looking forward to seeing you there!
November 27th, 2005
The next SF Web Innovators Network (SFWIN) meetup is happening this Thursday, Dec. 1, at Deep Sushi. Think "TechCrunch" for SF people. Please RSVP on the wiki if you plan to come. Space is limited for this event. Hope to see you there!
October 31st, 2005
Top Ten Sources has selected Minding the Planet as one of the top 10 sites by "Thinkers of the Web." Thanks!
October 26th, 2005
Hello readers! I am trying a little experiment to see who is reading this blog. Anyone who posts a link in their blog to the permalink of this blog entry will get a reciprocal link back to their blog from within the body of this blog entry. I’ll search periodically for sites that link to [...]
October 26th, 2005
I had lunch with Chris Law and Paul Martino at the Web 2.0 conference earlier this month and we hatched an idea to start a monthly get-together for Web 2.0 tech startup people in San Francisco. We love the concept of the Techcrunch barbecues — but they are all the way out in the Valley, [...]
September 1st, 2005
I just got back from vacation and am catching up on the terrible aftermath of Katrina. I find it unbelievable that with our enormous military budget, it has been 3 days and we are still unable to provide even basic food, water, shelter, medical care, and security to the stranded people of New Orleans. It [...]
April 8th, 2005
Scientists in England claim remarkable results in a new approach to fighting cancer that is based on modifying a patient’s T-cells to better target cancerous cells. The approach may provide a cure for all types of cancer "within 5 years." Wow, let’s hope so. This could really be an important breakthrough.
January 24th, 2005
Typepad seems to be suffering another spate of comment spam — so I’m disabling comments for a while and taking them off the front page. Sorry about that. Will consider bringing them back if Typepad can do a better job of blocking spam.
October 6th, 2004
In case you were wondering why this site has been quiet for a few weeks — I was in Italy for two weeks. Just got back. Had a wonderful time there visiting friends and eating incredibly great food!
August 20th, 2004
(8/23/04 — Update: Good news! Micah was freed by his captors yesterday!) ————————— Some of you might have heard about Micah Garen’s kidnapping in Iraq. If you haven’t already, check Google News: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&tab=wn&q=Micah+Garen I worked with Micah at Earthweb. He’s a really great guy and needs our support. I’d appreciate it if you could call [...]
August 11th, 2004
Well the Channel Mob seems to have picked up 1 posting, but not the others yet. We are looking into why this is the case. I have contacted the people at pubsub.com that make Mystack, which is the agent we are using for the Channel Mob — as you can see by the comments on [...]
August 10th, 2004
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/08/starting_a_chan.html
August 8th, 2004
There are several reasons behind the GoMeme concept which shed some light on why this is potentially interesting. First of all, whenever a site links to an article they find on the Web, they are essentially helping to then promote that article to others. This means they are relevant to the content of that article [...]
August 8th, 2004
Current Results of GoMeme 4.0, in Google
August 8th, 2004
OK, we are having some technical difficulties getting the Channel Mob to work. It should work — I am looking into it and will have an answer and possibly updated HTML sometime next week. I think it’s probably just a minor glitch — we should have this thing up and running in a few days.
August 5th, 2004
Philipp Lensen has made a cool visualization of the Meme spread results data-set. Check it out! It only shows a visualization of a limited subset of the sites that participated. Very nice Philipp. So can we visualize the full set of results?
August 5th, 2004
I have an idea to start a “Channel Mob.” Wanna try it with me? What’s a Channel Mob? It is a new way to automatically syndicate links to articles on your own sites to other sites that participate in the group. A link to any article that you “post” to the channel mob will be [...]
August 5th, 2004
There are by some estimates more than 3 million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don’t get noticed. But this posting could solve that. Let’s help the smaller [...]
August 4th, 2004
A GoMeme is a specially modified piece of content that spreads virally along social relationships in a manner that benefits every site that helps it spread. Any piece of content can be transformed into a GoMeme.
August 4th, 2004
What is a GoMeme? A GoMeme is a specially modified piece of content that spreads virally along social relationships in a manner that benefits every site that helps it spread. Any piece of content can be transformed into a GoMeme. It’s a piece of content, or a meme, that is specially modified to spread virally [...]
August 4th, 2004
This funny article is Gomeme strain 3.0. We’re perfecting the method. The GoMeme has evolved so that now it can attach to any blog posting! See if you spot it! Now we are getting somewhere. This is a fundamentally useful way for bloggers to benefit by syndicating posts for other bloggers. See what I mean? [...]
August 4th, 2004
I have been blogging literally all night. You know how it is. I don’t actually feel tired but my brain is telling me that I should probably sleep now. If you comment on the previous posts tonight or tomorrow AM, I will get back to you around noon USA Pacific Standard Time (California). Sorry for [...]
August 4th, 2004
I am willing to offer a $500 prize to the Webmaster, other than myself, who spreads the new GoMeme most successfully, by midnight Pacific Standard Time, September 1, 2004. But first, I need your help to define the rules for this contest, and a method for juding the competitors. We need to design a contest [...]
August 4th, 2004
Aha, now I understand it! Nick, from Netpolitik has posted an insightful analysis of the dynamics that make the GoMeme experiment work. Nick calls our species of meme a “Bloggie Meme.” That’s pretty cute. I thought of some names too, by combining blog + meme — such as a “Bleme” or “BlogMe” or “BlogMeme” — [...]
August 3rd, 2004
A Meme is Born The Meme is certainly spreading nicely in its second day of life. There are nearly 200 blogs participating that we know of — possibly more that we can’t see trackbacks for. Once Google indexes everything (in a few days to a few weeks), we should have a better idea of the [...]
