Yeah, of course I knew the Universe was a big place...

...but Mike L's post really brings it home. Follow his first link to get an idea of just how many galaxies there are out there; then follow his second link and zoom out bit by bit from our neighbourhood stars and see how small we are just within this little corner of our galaxy. Like I said, I'd heard the figures but it helps to see. Mind bending stuff.

Testing oneTag

Well, I'm not at MW2008, more's the pity, but I'd like to try out Mike Ellis's latest tomfoolery which is, as usual, a bloody good idea. OneTag lets you bring together all the stuff tagged with your choice of tag, from your choice of sources. It's in action on the MW2008 conference site so let's see if this post gets in there. First OneTag spam, anyone?
Cheers, Mike!

[edit] the answer to this is it didn't work and it didn't work and it didn't work and I decided to look at the Pipe, followed that lead to Technorati and found that it hadn't updated my site's content since February, pinged it and it's now listed, but because I have very little authority (a measly 3) it won't show up with the feed that's currently in the Pipe. Bummer. Still, at least I found out that Technorati had forgotten about me!

Yahoo semanticises(?) business

Sorry, that's a lame title. "Means business", I mean (sic). Anyway, exciting reports of their plans for using various forms of structured content that are out there, inluding key microformats, eRDF and RDFa, Dublin Core(!). There'll be a developer platform, too, and the ability to "create mods for Yahoo search that leverage their semantic data". This sounds more than Google Base or something, this is very cool and I wonder if it might mean that using custom POSH will also work.
Hmm, exciting!
[edit] see this too