Its been quite some time. Days back, I was trying to figure out ways to post to my blog even without logging into it, by email. Blogspot does give me this, but somehow I could clearly feel wp far better than blogspot, it lets me enjoy freedom, tons of it. But then, every time I try to login to wp, I quickly realise how busy it is, from its load time (don’t tell me its software is bad). Eventually I failed to figure out such tricks, forcing myself back again to posting through wp on-line.
And then the big idea! I don’t know for sure how many hours a day I spend online, but I am afraid, if I really start taking statistics, it would make me face some music from my parents. Leaving that aside, I often feel this.. Yes the web 2.0 way of social bookmarking is good. Pretty good. Equally good was the google psearch (personalized search, underline ‘was’, for me delicious is far better). But would it not be better, if a firefox plugin(I dont take the risk of suggesting new features for IE.. even after witnessing the ‘grand’ release of Vista!) could observe me all the time and noting now nicely what links I am traversing and storing it in some cute data structure, so that when I return back trying to figure out what I was looking for and felt very interesting that day after the Math class? (that one seems to run quite long..sentence that is.). That would be one more aspect of personalizing search and the online experience. For eg, I see that it is helpful if a browser plugin notes down that I visited wikipedia main page, then to the ACL wiki page, and the from that page to the nlpers blog page and then (after realising this idea) visiting the wordpress login page to submit this post and so on.
If the current bookmarking without giving importance to the previous and later hyperlinks followed is to the bag of words approach of the state-of-art search engines, my idea would be mapped to something kind of discourse in natural language processing( twas a boring analogy perhaps).
And realising that my age old plans to contribute to the open source community with some decent project, here I sign off with a brand new exciting plan to jump into the open source software contribution, along with bolstering my research background. See ya.
