oh, hell. the register made me do it:
“So good ole Dubya has become the 33 1/3 president of the United States, spoken of compassion and then forced young girls to live with their sexual mistakes. But what do Americans really think of him?
If you really want to know what’s going on in the world, you tap your query into a search engine. And what better engine than Google?”
even though i never used blogvoices, it’s a drag that it is shutting down.
at least that news is tempered, in some small way, by the release of How to manage your site with Blogger, PHP, and XML :
“This document will show you how to use Blogger to store your site information in XML and then transform that XML into HTML on your server using PHP.”
one of these days, i’d like to begin spending more time on ex machina talking about me. i’m not talking crazy narcissistic – just little dabs here and there.
today, however, is not one of those days. today, i will throw a couple of links into the annotated bookmark bin and call it good:
“The basic protocol being used in CD metadata query is both simple and general: “Tell me what you know about the resource whose CD checksum is some-huge-number” — a protocol reminiscent of the PICS label bureau protocol. The MP3 community could build enormously useful services on top of this, even without adopting a more general framework such as that provided by RDF, but they have stopped short of the next step.”
“The lesson for peer-to-peer metadata architecture is simple. Unique identifiers create markets.”
The Parable of Umbrellas and Taxicabs:
“Anyone who’s spent any time in New York City knows that when it begins to rain, two things happen
immediately: It becomes easier to buy an umbrella and it becomes harder to hail a cab. As soon as the
first few drops fall, people appear on the street selling cheap umbrellas, while a lucky few pedestrians
occupy all the available cabs.Why does an increase in demand produce opposite effects on supply — more available umbrellas and fewer available taxis? The answer is the nature of the resources themselves. Umbrellas are small and inexpensive to store, so it’s easy to take them out when it’s raining and put them back when the rain stops. Additional umbrellas can be deployed in response to demand.”
remote collaborative authoring resources looks like a good place to brush up on the the world beyond blogger.
[ via cam ]
and who says the next four years won’t be a hoot ‘n nanny good time:
“Once at center stage in front of thousands of spectators, Bush gamely cocked a hip and put a gloved hand to his ear to listen for applause from the crowd — as Martin had just done in his musical number “Cup of Life”.
Bush also tried a brief dance move with both hands on his hips.”
“Yes, it’s about time for an all-pervasive message plasma, provided that it works with and for us, not against us. What will make that possible is a common way of representing message metadata, message content, and component interfaces. Jabber’s universal chat capability is cool, but its focus on XML-ized metadata, content, and interfaces is what really justifies the buzz.”
oye! :
“Cyber sex would allow people wearing virtual reality visors at opposite ends of the globe who have matching robots to see and hear each other on their Internet connection.
Choy said the online lovers could also program the system so that one partner could resemble the other’s favorite celebrity.”