Sunday, December 16, 2001

Clinton in the UK: The Struggle for the Soul of the 21st Century - Why do ex-Presidents give better advice and speeches after they are out of office? Probably because they can say what they really think instead of worrying about the eight million :-) factions and lobbyist groups! 11:23:52 PM

Zope News for October and November - nice summary of what is going on in the Zope community! 11:09:52 PM

Eric Norlin: Tick, Tock and ya don't stop - Hip hop and rap are like blogging because they both freely associate and link 4:31:45 PM

Dave Winer's Radio 7.1 News Page 3:20:27 PM

Here are a couple articles on Procmail: ONLamp.com Procmail Basics and how to run procmail on OS X. [mac.scripting.com] - A text based email client! A great way to avoid spam! 11:58:34 AM

Random thought: I wish all my friends had weblogs that they updated at least twice a week. Someday! I still think the tools are too difficult to use but Radio Userland and Manila are definitely giant steps in the right direction. 1:50:55 AM

TomPaine.com: WHAT'S NEXT, DISSOLVE CONGRESS?:"...I read about yet another person detained in the United States by authorities, and thought about the meager public response. More than a thousand people, mostly of Middle Eastern and South Asian descent, have been rounded up and held, largely in secret, since September 11. Most have been held on minor immigration violations that have no connection to terrorism. One Pakistani man died in prison. Officials said he died of a heart attack. " - The same thing is happening in Canada. 1:47:52 AM

"The End of Web Hosting As We Know It. SOAP, .Net and EJBs (Enterprise Java Beans) will bring about the end of web hosting, as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this for at least a year, and listening to Don Ferguson (one of only 56 IBM Fellows) at Tuesday's CDN 2001 solidified it in my mind. In Web 1.0 we outsourced our web hosting. In Web 2.0 we're learning to outsource the delivery of our content to providers that can do so from the edge of the network. In Web 3.0, we're going to outsource the application and move it to the edge of the network as well. Today, e-commerce applications are distributed to three locations: static content is delivered from the edge of the network, the application runs on origin servers located at a hosting service, and the back-end systems are run by our IT departments. But in the future, that middle component will disappear. We'll have CDNs and the back-end systems, but no centralized origin server. And no web-hosting services. In addition to content delivery (already at the edge), all session-management functions including shopping cart status, personalization, customization and localization will become edge services. The web server already lives at the edge in Web 2.0. In the next generation, the application server will live there, too. The only components of e-commerce applications that won't live at the edge will be transactions such as inventory queries and order add/delete/updates. These will be sent (using SOAP) from the edge back to our in-house systems, where transactional services based on .Net or EJBs will process the SOAP requests. The role of the IT organization of the future will merely be to provide SOAP-based services to its company's outsourced e-commerce application. The CDN of the future will include much of what ASPs tried to deliver but failed. The reason the ASPs failed (or are still in the process of failing) is that they merely took on the management of standard application packages. They took on the 80% of e-commerce that's easy. The in-house IT team still had to deal with the legacy integration issues. In Web 3.0, the Web services an IT department supplies for its outsourced e-commerce application will be identical to those it supplies for in-house applications. No extra effort will be required. The Web 3.0 CDN will also be an ASP, but it will run the application at the edge, not at a centralized origin site. "[Blogarithms] - We should save predictions like this later and check them out in the future, say five years from now! 1:32:12 AM

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