Archive for May, 2006

I’ve done quite a bit of research into emotions and the primitives that underlie the words we use to describe how we’re feeling. Over at We Feel Fine, it looks as if there is an attempt to classify blog entries depending upon the emotional words each contains.

The issue with such efforts is that the words one uses to describe how one feels necessarily Continue reading

In response to my entry titled Structured Blogging - Exploit or Exploitation?, Marc Canter responded with these comments. What follows is my reply.

When used as a noun, the word ’standard’ tends to imply an ideal. In this sense, a standard is a conceptual end towards which one turns their attention. Through action, one might thereby strive to approach the ideal, the standard. Continue reading