Burningbird

Yet another Onion story come true.

I once asked Tim Berners-Lee if he ever had any regrets about inventing the Web, and he told me "no, but there's an off switch no one has discovered yet" — I worry…
-JH

So, if everything is distributed, why does it all reside in the Bay Area?

So, this question is off-topic but relevant. I notice you using an embed tag inside of your object for the flash video. Is that kosher xhtml? I ask because I like the way your videos are showing up in the feed. Mine at MichiganInnovators.org do not, and I think it is because I am using the object tag without the embed.

Doh! I have Flash off in my feed reader, so I didn't see the video at all.

edited:

Bud, doesn't validate, does now. I've edited it to remove the embed.

As for the lack of distribution, that one doesn't make sense. You shouldn't need to have hands on the machine, unless you really are doing all the server management, which could be what's happened with these sites.

Hey Shelley, I just spent several hours figuring out embedding flash objects in a way that works in all browsers without embed. Seeing you succeed made me realize there must be a way to get it to work. I now work in all modern browsers, we'll see if I validate. No embed may still keep me from working in feed readers regardless.

All I notice about the web 2.0 space is that it seems to lead to concentration, not distribution.

Bud, I've edited the object, but this also showed me that I was no longer serving up pages as XHTML. The recent Wordpress update seems to have changed my html type back to text/html. I've since fixed, and I should now visibly see when something isn't valid.

Thanks for pointing this out.