Tomorrow is a special day here in rural suburbia. It's the big subdivision garage sale, one of the most incredible people-watching experiences any human being can ever have. In our case, it's more than 80 homes. It's always the Saturday before Mother's Day, and it's so big that folks bus in from Indiana for it. Residents sell food out of their garages (one year we made $300 on nachos and pretzels!). The mailman knows to take the day off and let a sub handle the route because the streets are so thick with cars that you're better off bringing a bicycle. If you're not selling, you know to leave the area for the entire day because you won't get a moment's rest and if you leave, you won't be able to get back to your house until around 4:00 p.m. It is truly a sight to see.

Translation: few to no posts on Saturday.  :-)

"I just finished reading the Salon article mentioned a minute ago, and there's a compelling suggestion in there, one I hadn't thought of: what if, while browsing a site, you could see what other blogs said about that site? Just click a button, and see a list of sites that had pointed to the site you were currently visiting.

This ought to send Jenny's mind reeling - it's a kind of massive annotation project. It takes the best of Google, Blogdex and Daypop and rolls them into one. It also transforms blogs from chronological archives to topic-specific commentaries linked by unique URLs. I like it.

And here's one for Rory, Ernie and Denise: combine this with Rory's comments from yesterday. When reading a court opinion on a particular topic, I could see what other lawyers had said about this decision, read opinions from other jurisdictions who had linked to it, and even see related commentary by topic. This takes the notion of metadata and exposes it in its most useful form - by establishing connections between related data and distributing it to interested individuals. (This is a bootstrapped version of what West does with their keynote system.)

As Neo would say, 'Whoa.' " [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

If I understand all of this correctly (and it's entirely possible that I don't), it's called "backlinking" and I first saw it in action over at diveinotmark. It started with disenchanted, got picked up by Jon Udell, and was implemented by Mark as "further reading on today's posts" at the end of each day's collection. If I was any type of a programmer at all, you would already see this in effect on my site because I am so fascinated by this flow. I am floored by the potential for library blogs.

I've never even met Rick and already he knows me!