From Seb's Open Research:

Wired has a list of books that are similar to Smart Mobs. Related books include:

• Digital Biology by Peter J. Bentley, 2001
• Beyond Chaos by Mark Ward, 2001
• Emergence by Steven Johnson, 2001
• The Moment of Complexity by Mark Taylor, 2001
• Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, 2002
• Nexus by Mark Buchanan, 2002
• The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, 2000
• Six Degrees by Duncan J. Watts, 2002

The Wired article summarizes the main contribution of each book. The general theme is that the role of the connections between objects in emerging networks can account for everything. Remember back to dynamic systems, differential equations and probability, no, well these are the basis along with biology for a new generation of patterns and ideas. [David Crow]

Do we need a book on emergent behavior in the blogosphere? On klognets?

Design hero Alan Cooper's advice.

Politeness isn't saying "Please" and "Thank you".

Polite software:

• is interested in me
• is deferential to me
• is forthcoming
• has common sense
• anticipates my needs
• is responsive
• is taciturn about its personal problems
• is well-informed
• is perceptive
• is self-confident
• stays focused
• is fudgable
• gives instant gratification
• is trustworthy

Cooper explains this tao of interaction design. I can see doing walkthroughs, testing the experience against these criteria.

Klogging calls for sharing information and klogs help with narrative, unstructured information. What about with structured information?

Stepping up to fill a gap in UserLand's Radio, eCriteria.net offers a web-hosted database to complement your blog. Not the first database service provider, but it may be the simplest. Standard, premium, and enterprise packages. DeadCellZones provides lookups by location.

Why isn't this built in to Radio? I want to blog a structured book list and book review using my writing tool. Sometimes. Movie reviews with a check box for "4-stars" and an auto link to the iMDB.org site. As part of a blog post. Syndicated with that post.

Why isn't this built in to manila? It runs on the frontier database and could easily do this work. Search my blog for movie reviews starring ...

Is this so far from the blogging vision that you can't include it?