Wednesday, August 21, 2002

Stellar year for home sales may be nearing end . The daily Review (Hayward) Aug 21 2002 5:05PM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news] 4:47:30 PM

blogs amplify The great thing about a topical community of webloggers is not that it doesn't just filter, it selectively amplifies.    First order, it will pick up and repeat interesting news and ideas -- if you are subscribed to a handful of the blogs in the community, even it's a small subset, you'll likely see everything interesting, and the really interesting things you'll see several times -- because interesting ideas at the shared "frequency" of the community make the network resonate.   Second order, not only do the interesting bits get widely broadcast, they also get refined as they travel -- as add comments or criticism or just add their own riff to the item.    This is not just collaborative filtering.  I think Dave Winer calls this "triangulation".   That didn't really make the idea register for me. 8:46:47 AM

Bay Area home sales up 22% SiliconValley.com Aug 21 2002 8:28AM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news] 8:24:24 AM

I'm a keen advocate of 'less is more' when it comes to web page design. Understated and simple. A bit like me. Thanks are owed to Open Source Web Design for the original template. [Pushing the envelope] Kool page. Just downloaded a new layout for my weblog. [Gerhard Froehlich] 7:13:23 AM

Bay Area home prices up 9.2% in July BayArea.com Aug 21 2002 8:08AM ET [Moreover - Bay Area news] 7:01:56 AM