Day 1 - The Launch Honeymoon

You should all launch a website sometime, if for no other reason than the fact that it's just darn cool to see where web traffic comes from. At right are the last 1000 hits. It reminds me a bit of a game I used to play when I was younger where we'd mark out twelve rows on graph paper, then start rolling dice, marking X's and racing to see who made it across the page first. 7 was darn tough to beat, but every once in a while a number like 10 would make an amazing showing. C'mon Morocco! This is starting to prove my theory that the Internet is disproportionately Dutch as well. Has anyone else noticed this?

Happily, besides just watching the hit counter turn over, I've also recorded a new screencast that's a bit shorter & sweeter. Just because the screencasts are fun to watch doesn't mean you shouldn't check out the manifesto & the tour though. There's a lot more to this MyHippocampus idea than just a pretty face and I think it's tough to convey everything I'd like to in the screencasts.

A few people have asked me about how to share the topics within your hippocampus. This is a good question, although you might be surprised that this isn't one of the features we've included to start off with. The reason this isn't high on our priority list is that we really feel MyHippocampus is first & foremost a personal tool. It seems to us that this whole instant sharing of cat-falling-off-the-tv videos is a bit, you might say, empty? "But wait!" you say, "I wanted to share my thoughts about a book!" Well, yes, hopefully those are a good deal more interesting than the cat videos. The problem that we've found however is that when you write something for public consumption, you're immediately hemmed in by a number of constraints. You can't just dash out some thoughts and your entries start looking like reviews. While that's fine in some contexts, we want MyHippocampus to be a place where you can jot down half-thoughts, inklings, and other fragments of ideas that wouldn't make sense to anyone else.

Certainly as time goes on and MyHippocampus evolves, the ability to publish your fully formed thoughts to the world will be a wonderful and important utility. For now though, revel in the fact that this is one place on the Internet that's all yours.