Flicker Fusion

Cross-Bucketing.

brilliantcrank:

The act of publishing the same content within several “buckets” as a way to help promote the content throughout a website. It is the first new term of Web 3.0.

I like it, Greg. It also reminds me of a feature request I’d love to see Tumblr implement: let me hide auto-posts piped in from other services (call it “shooting holes in cross-buckets”). For instance: there’s a high likelihood that if I follow you on Tumblr, I probably do on Twitter as well (and if I don’t, there’s probably a reason for that) and I never never want to see your tweets in my Tumblr dashboard. Since the dashboard knows where auto-posts come from, it shouldn’t be that hard to have a quick setting that says “hide posts from Twitter”.

I’d use the hell outta that way more than the new “ask me anything” ridiculousness.

The new millennium’s first 10 years is really Microsoft’s lost decade. It is a decade of shattered dreams. Microsoft 2000-2009 is a casebook study why no company should allow its ranks of MBAs to swell too large. The company’s 5,000-plus layoffs should have sacked 95 percent of the MBAs rather than the many good, hard-working employees sent packing. I repeatedly hear Microsoft employees privately complain about there seemingly being one MBA – or lawyer – on campus for every other employee.

The new millennium’s first 10 years is really Microsoft’s lost decade. It is a decade of shattered dreams. Microsoft 2000-2009 is a casebook study why no company should allow its ranks of MBAs to swell too large. The company’s 5,000-plus layoffs should have sacked 95 percent of the MBAs rather than the many good, hard-working employees sent packing. I repeatedly hear Microsoft employees privately complain about there seemingly being one MBA – or lawyer – on campus for every other employee.

—Joe Wilcox on Microsoft’s decade of shattered dreams

Did we really need a mathematically-ranked, up-to-the-minute amalgamation of the utterances of millions of everyday citizens to give us this snapshot of our collective attention span? Chris Brown, Paranormal Activity, Snow Leopard, Kobe Bryant … man, you could have predicted those topics by lazily wandering down to your local newsstand like once a month and noting the boldface names on the magazines. The overmind appears to be spending a lot of time ZOMGing over the same stuff as the undermind, as it were.

Did we really need a mathematically-ranked, up-to-the-minute amalgamation of the utterances of millions of everyday citizens to give us this snapshot of our collective attention span? Chris Brown, Paranormal Activity, Snow Leopard, Kobe Bryant … man, you could have predicted those topics by lazily wandering down to your local newsstand like once a month and noting the boldface names on the magazines. The overmind appears to be spending a lot of time ZOMGing over the same stuff as the undermind, as it were.

—Clive Thompson discusses the problem of trending topics over on Collision Detection – he’s pointed to some nifty solutions, including Flocking Me.