With Wordle.net you can create interesting word visualizations from a few simple inputs.

Input options include:
1. Entering a group of words that you hand pick
2. Entering an ATOM or RSS URL
3. Providing your Delicious.com username

It took seconds to create these clouds:

Me on Delicious.com

wordle.net - delicious.com word cloud

The Web 2.0 Expo

Web 2.0 Expo Word Cloud

I can see myself using this simple tool when creating presentations or posting online.

We can track certain aspects of this weaving, we can try to label that tracking as “attention”, but it’s not really. Attention involves more than the process of weaving our lives together, we have a mind with synapses that form on new concepts and apply thought to determine a desired outcome.

Interestingly, attention can be defined as a courteous act indicating affection; “she tried to win his heart with her many attentions”

In many ways this applies to the landscape created by the disparate parts of our online social interaction.

We try to influence the external world of people places and things by our presence; when online our digital ghost provides an influencing framework through a continually contextual presence interacting with our social wake and bow wave. Our acts of attempted influence is our attention, just as much as our attention, when speaking in the language of quantum physics, creates our reality.

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I was curious, so I clicked to visit the Live Journal page that Google had obviously crawled. I logged in using my OpenId, but was stopped from viewing the post via Live Journals privacy settings on the post.

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Now I’m wondering how Google was able to see the post, why they would crawl private posts at all and how this might impact users if it were made public. So I’m making it public. What do you think of this revelation?

I try to maintain a high quality here, adding quality ideas as they arrive. I don’t always get as much time to write as I’d like, but as work is subsuming my attention these days I thought I’d post an experiment here. This image was loaded, then Twittered recently. It was sent using an experimental process that we’re developing.

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I will not save my best observations for Twitter, but I may begin them there and expand on the subject here.

I will go outside and breathe fresh air more often.

I will visit 2-3 new countries in 2008. I will experience these countries as the local culture does as much as possible.

I will organize my RSS feeds for speed and breadth of information access.

I will capture more photos, in a more meaningful way, be more professional in their composition and will post them here more often.

I will be part of something most amazing in 2008. Just wait for it.

I will not regret the past any longer. History will not repeat itself in the same way as the 90’s.

I will embrace the Internetawebatron and it will embrace me. Especially the Tron part.

Happy New Year everyone.