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oops!! so.. blog.hotornot.com is actually still under development, but I guess because we had Dave Winer's weblog in the test dataset, it was showing up in his referrer logs and he noticed it.
I don't think Jim and I have EVER gotten the chance to launch a product without it being trial under fire.. We thought we'd have that luxury this time, but I guess not!! It's just like Adam always says.. "There are no Secrets, just information you don't have yet."... and now everyone has it.
Well, enjoy! Please don't send us bug reports yet, as we're still developing it.. Basic functionality should be there now, though.. [james hong's Radio Weblog]
Hahahahaha
2:12:08 PM 
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Just had a silly thought while playing with the HotOrNot interface. What if every post in an aggregator had a HotOrNot style slider (yeah, I know its a bunch of radio buttons, but thats as close to a slider that html lets you get).
Suddenly your aggregator could collect stats on you various feeds. Then when you go to you subscriptions page, you can instantly see which feeds are consistently bringing in good info, which ones are mainly dross with the occasional nugget that makes it worthwhile, and which ones are _crap_. Would make it easy to kill dud feeds.
Now, lets add another element to the subscriptions OPML file that breaks out this data. Suddenly people can compare their ratings of weblogs with yours, and thus know whether to trust your ratings of weblogs that are not in their subscriptions file.
Like an instant distributed trust system.
And then, if we could somehow organise it such that when I am on my radio homepage, i could get a summary of what my readers thought of my previous X posts, what they liked and what they disliked, suddenly we have achieved a feedback loop. Feedback loops are the basis of self tuning systems.
Think of the possibilities....
1:57:36 PM
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Comments on Staying Sane.
XML has nothing to do with semantics and the semantics could change drastically without any change to the schema. You can't express semantics using a context free grammar---only syntax. Certainly most XML (unless its nonsense) has a semantics associated with it, but the semantics is not expressed by the XML or its schema.
[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
It's just data, after all. Collecting the following for it's link value:
Short notes points out an article on XML and Semantic Transparency by Robin Cover that says just what I've been saying on XML and semantics. Should be required reading for anyone using XML. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]
1:31:27 PM
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new Swing library. There's a new Jelly library for creating Swing user interfaces. [jelly]
Declaritive UIs. Damn fine stuff.
1:21:50 PM
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Just to keep the meme alive, here's mine:
Is my Blog HOT or NOT?
:)
[Later...] I can see a major problem here. Every second or third weblog I see I want to subscribe to. Ugh. Oh, and it just asked me to rate my own page. Whats up with that?
1:05:43 PM
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Instant blogging. That was fast. Is this blogging or instant messaging? Thanks for the heads-up on Anthony Eden, I'll email him as soon as my mail-server comes back up. [Blogging Roller]
New meme: BlogMessaging. You heard it here first folks! ;)
12:51:08 PM
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Brett and Mike. With those aussies bloggin' like madmen, I barely need to surf the web for myself anymore. Don't slow down guys. [Blogging Roller]
Glad to be of service ;)
On a completely unreleated note, Anthony Eden, of JPublish fame, is attempting unsuccessfully to migrate to Roller. I told him to mail you Dave, but maybe you should take the initiative here. ;)
11:35:29 AM
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Business Use for Instant Messaging. Ernie the Attorney provides a short, succinct scenario for the business use of IM. [Blunt Force Trauma]
Having been subjected to IM in business scenario for the last four months, I have to say it is interesting. With it, you can silently team up during phone meetings and thus control a meeting by pre-flagging good cop/bad cop moves. It's funny. It's effective.
11:32:51 AM
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Enteprise software is a rip off. Bitter, party of one.
Michael Thomas complains in Salon today that the big problem for IT companies isn't the accounting, it's the products, which often don't work. This certainly jibes with my experience. I've found that the more a software product costs, the less likely it is to work properly, and the harder it will be to implement. In the Java world, for example, I've used Tomcat, Resin (a cheap servlet engine from Caucho Software), and BEA WebLogic. Of the three, WebLogic was the hardest to get up and running, the hardest to deal with on a day to day basis, and was the most expensive by an almost unbelievable factor. I'd be willing to accept that BEA offers a lot of features that the others don't, but frankly I've never run into limitations in the other products that sent me looking for more.
I'd have to say I agree. The fact that BEA can charge up to $60,000 per CPU (you read it right) is criminal. Their software is good, but it's not that good. Remind me if I'm ever running a BigCo to go through my software expenses with a fine toothcomb. Personally I'd buy Resin or Orion, a large support contract with the vendor, and then hire some very smart people with the change. [rc3.org] [rebelutionary]
I'd have to say, the main reason we saw this is that people honestly believed to get VC funding, you had to be running completely buzzword compliant. You had to be running Oracle on Sun boxes, switched with cisco switchgear, served using BEA, and load balanced using F5 load balancers.
If you actually had enough money left over from buying all that gear, with hot and cold standbys, then honestly it was enough to keep you going for 1, maybe 2 years.
Funny how most startups failed, spectacularly.
10:50:27 AM
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Excellent mash-up video. When I was an editor at Wired, Howard Wen wrote some great pieces for me. He just sent me a great mash-up video he did of Christina Aguilera mixed with with The Strokes. it's remarkable how well these two completely different songs fit together. Great use of video, too! (Howard told me that he would appreciate it if people mirror the video clip from other sites, to reduce the load on his server). Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
This is what we stand to loose if we get D-Disney's plan. Which is sad, because this mash-up video really works.
10:40:27 AM
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The Snake Oil wagon rolls through my referral logs. Okay, so I've seen my first spam via my referrers. [...] Not linking directly to these pages, out of some vague sense of "Don't encourage 'em." [0xDECAFBAD]
It had to happen. So we are going to need a distributed spam guard for referer logs now. (Or, at least a process that automatically parsers the referer's html page looking for the reference, and flagging bogus pages as "dubious").
10:33:43 AM
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Japan and patents. Speaking of Japan and patents, here's an interesting note from The Register's article on ISO withdrawing JPEG's standard status if Forgent enforces its patent:
"It's becoming impossible to set standards in multimedia; huge numbers of patents are granted. In Japan there are 4,000 patents on image and wavelet technology alone. It's followed the US model, where for many, many years, the US has allowed patents on very small changes to very detailed technical terms and where the benefits are few," said [Richard Clark, JPEG committee member and JPEG.org webmaster].
[markpasc.blog]
I don't think we need much more proof that Patents are stopping innovation. Sad.
10:32:03 AM
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Self-Publish Stigma Is Perishing. Major houses gobble up rights after authors create a buzz for their work. Also: Book clubs that work for business ... and more in M.J. Rose's notebook. [Wired News]
Good stuff. I wish the various music people would follow suit. Whats on the radio these days bores me to tears.
10:30:50 AM
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I must say, I am mighty impressed with JPublish. The ability to prototype in jython, and then lockdown to java later, if and when required, is mighty fine. The generated url's are designed to be bookmarkable, such that the app is search engine friendly.
This is not so much a CMS, as a well thought out webapp framework. Which does lead one to wonder, how will it compare with the three zillion other java webapp environments out there. For my money, the hook that this has over so many is that it is well designed, things are predictable, and of course Jython. Or any BSF scripting language actually.
I just have a thing for Jython. Heh.
8:18:38 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Brett Morgan.
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