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"Learning 2.0" is the 2nd highest-ranked Technorati search this morning. Huh!

Have you been following the blogosphere conversation about Techmeme, its new leaderboard, piling on, and groupthink?

Seems like everybody who's complaining also visits regularly. Me too, but I do agree it incents bloggers to behave like iron filings drawn to a magnet.

Maybe that's the trouble with relying on algorithms. They can seek out items like other items, but math has a harder time detecting something original and new (while also being important or consequential). You need human judgment for that, just like you need people to intervene in the social problem of juvenile and rude behavior in comments, even though the techies keep saying identity systems are the answer.

Human brains and machine brains dividing the labor in a smart way. Calacanis isn't all wrong when it comes to that part.

Robert Scoble is tweeting his wife's labor.

I think I recall his saying his reportage would be text-only. That's kind.

Hope everything goes well for mom and baby.

Update!! Friday morning. Birth announced via TwitterGram: mp3

Congrats to all.

Update, Sunday morning: Scoble explains how TwitterGram works.

The New York Times does a roundup of social sites catering to older netizens, remarking that "Some of the older users of the sites say the experience feels more comfortable to them than when they tried MySpace, Facebook or Friendster."

Stowe Boyd says he doesn't buy it, contending that "connection transcends demographics."

Yeah, I know... except I have to admit I really have enjoyed hanging out on message boards that discourage teenagers from posting. They're book discussion sites and don't specifically target boomers, just grownups. No YouTube- or Digg-flavored "she's hawt" comments. You know?

A discussion of Facebook and Moodle integration is going on in the Moodle forums. The thread. Registration is required, but painless. Then I think you have to join the "Moodle Lounge" course to read or post on the board.

I'll read it more carefully later and may have something to say.

Last time I visited my parents at their Florida place I had to get online with dialup. This year there's a nearby Rally gas station with wifi. So it's 9:40 p.m. and I'm online, outside, in a t-shirt and shorts. We Northerners need spring break. Also anyone whose blood has been thinned by living in warmer climates. Just three years in L.A. made me not really a Michigan person anymore.

By this time you must have seen the quiz that asks you to identity which terms are Star Wars character names and which are Web 2.0 cutsie business names.

I had an idea. It sounds too much like Odeo, but how about Oh-Ree-Oh for a name? You know, that chilling chant sung by the guards of the castle of the Wicked Witch of the West? You could use a guard as the logo/mascot.

That's me, after messing around with Adobe Audition filters.

Watch it on YouTube

Drupal categories are more than just categories with the introduction of the taxomony module in 4.7.

But first I need to learn how to turn them on so you can see them. Upgrades. Re-learning stuff. Hmmpf.

Check out today's post on 0xDECAFBAD.

This sort of thing warms my heart. I used to think I was born in the wrong century to thrive in a cottage industry culture, but if we burn down a bunch of 20th century effluvia, it's just the right time.

Les writes well for a programmer, doesn't he? And he reads OSC's Alvin Maker series! That shows some good taste, too.