--- F R E N D Z of martian --- "meta-information" information about information. sources of information. pointers to information. I want your meta-information! Where do you find interesting stuff on the web? If you wanted to find something random and interesting on the net, how would you go about it? Here's some of my meta-information: The infamous 'mobile phone health hazard' mails were sourced through a service called 'tracerlock' (http://www.peacefire.org/tracerlock/) which allows you to enter a search term, and then mails you whenever it finds a new link on the net that matches that term. It returns a lot of irrelevant stuff though and it can get annoying to sift through the irrelevant links. As far as search engines go, my list of faves is as follows - o http://google.com o open directory (http://dmoz.org/) I'm an editor for the 'Easton' area (cause I live there). o Inference Find - http://www.infind.com/ o http://alltheweb.com/ o need I mention altavista? Most of the interesting stuff comes through mailing lists. I just sign up for everything and then don't read half of it. Sometimes I'd like to sign off lists but usually if I trough around them something interesting turns up. Lots of lists available at http://topica.com and http://onelist.com but be prepared for lots of crappy lists run by teenaged american boys. ANYWAY, the point is - what's your meta-information? Some of these were already shared with me by people on this list. If we all share our meta-information we can only all become richer. There ends the meme. luvonya martian BTW a meme is like a gene, only it's an idea. The study of the spread of ideas is memetics - the theory being that the strongest memes in the meme pool survive. I think the relevant usenet group is alt.memetics. The people there are probably responsible for the creation of many of the virus hoaxes and 'good luck' chain letters in the search for the strongest memes (disclaimer:IMHO). -- Linux. May the source be with you. W4U - The World Wide Web Workers' Union - http://w4u.dhs.org/ W4U archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
