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Weblogging

Weblogging criticism

This has been a spooky day of independent but bizarrely related weblog postings. At least, I see them as related. I’ve been having a discussion with Jonathon in the comments related to a posting of his about criticism and how this is a necessary aspect of weblogging. Of criticism, he states: I’d like to see it more […]

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Technology

P2P and relying on HTTP

The Don Box discussion about HTTP was a good read with valid points. From a P2P, not a web services perspective, we need to guarantee certain capabilities in P2P services that we take for granted in more traditional client/server environments. This includes the following: Transaction reliability — the old two-phase commit of database technology appears again, but this […]

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Weblogging

Dvorak. Again.

It seems that Mr. Dvorak isn’t too happy with webloggers, or with the Cluetrain folks, whom he seems to have intertwined into a blogging hydra, composed of equal parts of both. I was going to respond to this, and I expect that you all expected me to respond to something like this. I was ready to […]

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Weblogging

Flying a kite

You’ll have to excuse me today, for I seem to be in a non-weblogging sort of mood. It’s not that there isn’t anything interesting in weblogdom to comment on — there are interesting threads all throughout the weblogging community. For instance, there’s a thread on comments and weblogging being pursued by Jonathon and Chris as well as others referenced […]

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Just Shelley

California business costs

I just had a call from the San Fran tax collector. I didn’t need to pay one tax fee, but I didn’t pay my city business registration fee. So now they’re holding the one check until I send the other. I’m not sure if there’s something else I’m missing, somewhere. Checking my finances, I find […]