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Friday, November 26, 2004
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Digital Libraries
WebMink: Simon Phipps writes, "The principle of 'some rights reserved' seems so right for the massively-connected era - essential rights are protected, yet rights that grow the culture and the commons are released. If the concept had existed years ago, Paulo would not now be faced with writing letters to hundreds and hundreds of 'rights owners' worldwide to allow people to study his father's genius."
5:27:51 PM 
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Interopathon
Dave Winer: "I notice people are using the term interopathon, a term which I coined, in an incorrect way. It's fair approach to interop, it treats big software companies with patents and open source projects with large installed bases, and smart consultants with their own implementations, as equals. Basically the door is open to all, the playing field is totally level, and interop with each one is considered important, and until it's reached, no one gets to claim interop. Unfortunately Microsoft and IBM didn't want to play by these very fair rules, and went ahead worked privately with each other and tried to force it on everyone else. The usual way interop is not achieved in the software biz. Eventually interop came to mean "Works With Microsoft" but since Microsoft's architecture astronauts were in charge, well, SOAP is pretty dead in 2004, sadly, because a handful of people spoiled it for everyone else. When I resigned as Chief Hardass, I felt like a kindergarten teacher, a failed one."
My friend Larry thinks that the big companies have forgotten to think simply, or perhaps, they are trying to drive you to use their tools. Nowadays, I think if a technology is useful to developers, someone will write a open source, command line environment, to automate it. Someone else will integrate it with a refactoring browser.
5:24:05 PM
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Denver November 2006 Election
Westword asks the question Gunny for Govenor?. From the article, "The nasty tenor of the recently concluded campaign didn't leave Bob Newman with an unpleasant aftertaste. Politically speaking, the former Marine gunnery sergeant turned Clear Channel radio host found the results of the 2004 vote to be downright inspirational. 'I realized about noon on the Wednesday after the election that hate had gone out of style,' says the man known to his fans as Gunny Bob. 'It was the end of people passing bogus information and making brash claims and being extremely divisive.' In this spirit, Newman wants to be a uniter, not a divider, too. Before the last ballots in Boulder were counted, he authorized the formation of a committee charged with exploring the feasibility of his running for Colorado's governorship in 2006."
6:15:29 AM
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Colorado Water
Here's an article about last weekend's Grand Canyon flood from the Rocky Mountain News [November 25, 2004, "Flooding experiment brings visible changes to canyon"]. From the article, "The goal of the flood was to redistribute 800,000 metric tons of sediment along the Colorado River to cover archaeological sites, restore beaches and save fish and plants that have been disappearing since sediment-free water began flowing from the dam 40 years ago. The Interior Department began studying the effects of the Glen Canyon Dam in the early 1980s and found that beaches downstream from the dam were washing away. In 1996, officials flooded the canyon by releasing water for 18 days. But only about five of those days produced high floods. Scientists overestimated the sediment levels in the beds of the tributary rivers that pour into the river below the dam, and sediment that was redeposited by some of the flooding was soon eroded away by slower, more steady flood waters. The new flood was considered a refinement of the 1996 test."
Rocky Mountain News: "A spending bill awaiting congressional approval includes funding for a cost overrun on the federal Animas-La Plata water project in Colorado and New Mexico. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., added language to the bill that will also prevent the increased cost from being passed on to water users. The estimated cost of the project is now $500 million."
5:47:14 AM
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