Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Re: Discussions about Blogshares There's an interesting conversation going on about Blogshares. Joi has a Chat with Seyed, creator of Blogshares, and Pierre Omidyar gives his own thoughts bout it in Joi on Blogshares. I don't know have a definite point of view about this experiment yet: I think that the sociology of influence games warrant a much more complex regulation system than a market, but at the same time as Omidyar points out, this may lead to some interesting results in the area of "collaborative, value-creating  blogs". An example of analysis of influence games and their complexity is Pierre Bourdieu's excellent The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field, where he analyzes the autonomization of the literary field, led by Flaubert in the 19th century. See http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745611524 and http://www.semcoop.com/detail/0804726272 to get an idea of the content. Clearly a simple market mechanism will not be a good enough mechanism to regulate the complex relationships that the actors are involved in the literary or scientific field. 12:06:20 PM    comment []

Welcome Anders My ex-Netscape colleague Anders Eriksson started a java blog (I just discovered it on javablog). Welcome Anders ! Your RSS is valid but Radio cannot understand it. Maybe because it is RSS 1.0. I need to switch to a more tolerant RSS reader. I get Can't subscribe to the channel. The most likely cure is to check the URL in a web browser and see if you can get it to read the feed. The following message probably won't help you figure out what went wrong, but we include it here because it might. "Can't evaluate the expression because the name "title" hasn't been defined." 11:12:04 AM    comment []

Link: Brian Behlendorf on the air. [Sam Ruby] Brian Behlendorf on the air. [Sam Ruby] 10:53:25 AM    comment []

Re: Matrix reloaded Matrix reloaded Name calling at Sam's Intertwingly about CSS. Mark Pilgrim's concluding remark "Instead only try to realize the truth. There is no trunk. Then you'll see that it is not the trunk that locks, it is only yourself. " reminded me my favorite Zen Koan. "Two monks were arguing about a flag. One said: `The flag is moving.' The other said: `The wind is moving.' The sixth patriach happened to be passing by. He told them: `Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.'" I would say that Mark is closer to enlightment than Dave :-) 10:51:46 AM    comment []