BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Nick Carr wrote a post that has resonated strongly with several people. He writes of the A Listers who say, “link to me to be linked in turn”, and thus perpetuate their own dynasty. He calls it an innocent fraud from John Kenneth Galbraith’s book The Economics of Innocent Fraud. It is, Carr says, about […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A long time ago, I wrote a post called Tyranny of the Standards for O’Reilly. I was basically ripped a new one by about 40 or 50 of some of the web’s more influential people. They did so because they didn’t agree with me. I’d like to think they also did so […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have to disagree with Dare on his recent post about the troubles at the W3C. I had to work, quite extensively at times, with the W3C working group related to RDF when I was writing Practical RDF. There were times when I thought I had walked into a lab and was chief […]
There have been Apache issues on my server. My hosting company OCS Solutions is working the problem. Frustrating, but such is the way of the web world. Well, unless you want to dish out the money to have your own server, which is then mirrored in a separate location, and then monitor it 24 hours […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Robert Scoble wrote yesterday: I notice a general trend looking through blogs, TechMeme, and Digg. There aren’t many coders anymore. Five years ago the discussions were far more technical and geeky. Even insiderish. When compared to the hype and news of today. It makes me pine for ye old RSS vs. […]