Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Roy On SOAP Roy T. Fielding, Chairman, The Apache Software Foundation W3C Mailing List "Businesses would have to be collectively insane to place [the web's] architecture at risk just because a group of software marketing giants claims that [SOAP] is the next big wave" 8:40:19 AM      comment []  trackback []

Yesterday was a busy day. Pat Colgan and Talli and I met with a Kennedy School professor who may be interested in getting funding for the academic peer review project I did for "Musea". It's exciting the think about that project moving forward at some point. The bigger, even more fun event was the OpenACS social last night at Redbones in Davis Square. It was good to see regulars Andy and Vinod, along with the infamous Roberto. I had the strange experience of discussing Pat's idea of fostering a greater sense of community by using the internet to capture descriptions of community assets (people with life-experience like war-veterans, or places with special historical/cultural significance ). I think he was inspired by the recent book "Bowling Alone", about the decline of community in America. That experience wasn't weird, but at the social, I had a discussion with someone writing software to geocode those very elements of society, using OpenACS. Very cool. 8:12:09 AM      comment []  trackback []