Tuesday, November 25, 2003

onionnetworks' OCN? When did the Open Content Network go live? (hmmm--- in January, 2003?!) They have swarming knoppix 3.3 ISO downloads, which I found after using bitTorrent to grab my own copy (@170K/sec, thank you) and haven't tested. I wonder if they'll grab any mindshare from bT? 10:34:21 PM      comment []  trackback []

"mainly a database guy" http://www.kimbly.com/blog/000276.html Yup -- that pretty much sums it up. :-) I've always been into the idea of faceted navigation (what a database guy would call 'parametric search'), and I think Kim's baking it into a Wiki makes a lot of sense since adding and maintaining navigation on a decent size wiki becomes a lot of work. I would like to see if her navigator could be pulled out of Diamond Wiki and used with a crawling engine, so that other Wikis or sites could take advantage of it. Kim's blog is pretty mind-expanding -- since odds are very good that you work on things less complicated than her. (lachoy will appreciate Kim's argument that perl is maintainable ) 4:28:22 PM      comment []  trackback []

Dive into cognitive dissonance RDF still interests me, in much the same way that rodeo clowns and Microsoft Certified Solution Developers interest me, which is to say that it seems like an awful lot of work for questionable payoff, but once you've learned it, you tend to rationalize your behavior and defend it to the death. (652 words) [dive into mark] lol. 10:59:03 AM      comment []  trackback []