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  Monday 25 March 2002
It ain't real unless the Big Corporations drive it...

 ...even if they're back-seat-driving.

Dave Winer writes about John Dvorak and the big companies that appear to be driving the direction of web services:

Suppose Dvorak doesn't know that there are lots of independent developers doing cool stuff with XML-RPC and SOAP? It's quite possible especially if he reads the reports written by his colleagues in the other big pubs.

My guess is that he does know that there are independent developments, but considers it irrelevant. By the time such developments become important enough for him to write about, one or another of the big companies have bought their way into the game.
2:32:12 PM   comment/     

Endangered Species eat one another

Yesterday (Sunday 3/24), the Santa Cruz Sentinel had an article about Orcas vs Otters:

... research from UC Santa Cruz scientists suggests man's actions a quarter-century ago is just now wreaking havoc on the food chain ... Orca whales are devastating the Alaskan sea otter population, the researchers say, because man hunted the whale's traditional prey to near extinction. To really help the otter, and restore nature's balance, man must consider doing the previously unthinkable.

Before the middle of the 20th century, the great whales formed the bulk of the Orcas' diet. Roughly half a million of those great whales were killed between 1940 and 1976, so the adaptable Orcas aimed at smaller prey -- sea lions and otters.

Reminds me of the similar issues at Wilder Ranch -- saved from development in the 1970's, partly because of finding an endangered species of snake there. Another property nearby was saved from development partly because of finding an endangered species of frog. That frog is one of the main prey species for that snake.

Seems like we get in over our heads almost any time we try to manage ecosystems.
10:45:31 AM   comment/     



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