Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

Well one interesting early result from the Meme Propagation test is that Technorati doesn’t seem to be working quite right. I have been tracking trackbacks there and I noticed two things. First of all, Technorati is not updating the number of links and sources to blogs properly — because I know the number of citations [...]

Here are some further thoughts on the potential uses of the open dataset that may result from the Meme Propagation experiment.

If enough sites participate in the

I’m off to Fortune Magazine’s annual Brainstorm conference again. Glad they invited me back; it’s one of the better events of the year in my opinion. If you’re going to be there, come say hi!

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” — Pablo Picasso

I’ve finally given in to the comment-spammers. I’ve had to turn off comments on this weblog until Six Apart, the company that hosts this Weblog, does something to prevent un-authenticated commenters, or to enable me to moderate comments before they appear. And it turns out they are working on just that. So hopefully soon there [...]

This is a fantastic article that calculates the ROI of “K-logs” — Weblogs used for collaborative knowledge sharing in an enterprise — versus traditional enterprise portals.

I have mapped the domain www.MindingThePlanet.net to this weblog (novaspivack.typepad.com) now so you can get here without having to remember how to spell my name. Just note the “.net” at the end of the new domain please.

Hey everybody, if you ever come across anything really interesting, trend-worthy, or just plain cool — please email me a link at nova “at” lucidventures “dot” com (I have to write it that way to hide from spammers, but you get the idea). Note that my spam filter will ask you to authenticate yourself before [...]

So now that Orkut has been summarily shut down after only a brief period online, perhaps it would be better to rename it “Kaput”???

Until Typepad figures out a way to effectively block out comment spam I am stripping out HTML from comments on this Weblog. So if you want to put links in your comments, please include links as text not HREF’s for now, so that they don’t get stripped out. Thanks.

Josh Kirschenbaum made me a really great new banner for my blog today. Thanks Josh!!! Really cool!

As part of our upcoming venture round, Radar Networks will be moving to the Bay Area in coming months. I have been out in Palo Alto for over a month now, and I must say, The Valley Is Back!!! It’s great out here!!! The pulse of the tech VC industry is racing again.

I am looking for stats to support the hypothesis that RSS is “going to be huge” – do you know of any good sources, good numbers, etc? How many RSS feeds and users are there today? What is the growth? Syndic8.com’s stats are ok, but that’s just one site log. Can we project the growth [...]

This just in from secrecy_news-admin@lists.fas.org — a list that tracks secrecy in government — ORDERS IMPOSED ON PRIVATE INVENTORS RISE Over the past year, 133 secrecy orders were imposed on new patent applications, limiting or preventing their disclosure on grounds that they could be “detrimental to the national security.” More than half of the new [...]

Scientists are focusing their search for extraterrestrial life on the Gemini system. Cool; I’m a Gemini. I’ve always felt a bit like an alien too. Maybe that explains it?

Yah, Ahnold wins in California. Yah, He is now the Governator, yah. What is this world coming to, yah?

I received this in email today — it’s a really cool idea. The US Postal Service plans to release a new stamp that is just a few cents more expensive than normal. The extra pennies will go to raise $35,000,000 for breast cancer research. This is really smart. I would pay a few cents extra [...]