Ideas For Dozens: Upcoming

-MG: preference corollation problem re: critiques

MEME: More purple fingers at the State of the Union

Many freshman congressmen, along with Katherine Harris, and a visiting Iraqi woman showed their purple fingers as marks of pride at tonight's State of the Union. (NYT)

Spam on del.icio.us

Looks like del.icio.us has started to get hit with spam. Will be interesting to see how they respond. I have a sense that much rides on their response for the future of tagsonomies/folksonomies/theNewWhatever.

MEME: Iraqis' purple fingers on election day.

As markers of

• resistance to tyranny(David Brooks in NYT)


• national pride(St. Petersburg Times)
  


• Israeli interference(alJazeera)
  

My frst post on Neopoleon.com. I'll be writing over there on various IDEAS for the web.

Coinage: "Clipcasting" -- A podcast that, like Metafilter, consists entirely of links to other podcasts and other audio content. Since "links" obviously won't work directly (you can't click through on your iPod to a referenced media file -- not yet anyway), instead, the clipcast consists of clips of good bits of audio from various sources (podcasts, public radio shows, the internet archive, etc.) surrounded by brief introductory remarks as in a normal linkblog.

Last night I heard this story on the bbc about "video" games for the blind. Apparently they involve having to locate enemies in the stereo spectrum and attack them in the proper direction using the arrow keys (for example). I thought that this would be a great tool for engineers and recording musicians to do some rigorous ear training for stereo field locating and close listening. Also, they could be good for getting to know a new set of speakers or headphones. It seems this is the main page for finding these games. Here is a free one. I haven't found one yet for Mac, but would like to.