Very good to catch up late this afternoon with Thomas (Vander Wal), over here in Oxford, and to talk for two caffeine-fuelled hours in the King's Arms about folksonomy, the threat posed by Googlistan (and here), the future of online publishing, Microformats, the importance of attention, the Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, DLAs, Design Engaged …
If it was again a curious experience to meet up for "real" with someone you've been talking to over the web for some time, it was also, as it was at Reboot and Open Tech, an experience that more than lived up to hopes and leaves me looking forward to further opportunities to continue our non-digital conversation. This may be as soon as Tuesday evening at the inaugural meeting of ORG, the Open Rights Group.
Meanwhile, I have Thomas' Design Engaged presentation, Clouds, Space & Black Boxes (pdf) to ponder.
Oh, and there's this: I was bemoaning that Technorati was failing to respond to pings and was insisting (as of earlier today) that I hadn't updated my blog for the last 20+ days. I'd emailed their technical help (twice) and things persisted as before. I know, I said, I should email Dave Sifry. So tonight I did and within four minutes I'd had a reply and the problem had been fixed. How's that!
