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Be Stingy

Regarding Dave Winer’s idea for some form of centralized syndication feed system, I got a chuckle out of the comment, “What problem am I having and how is a centralized service going to help?” in Phil Ringalda’s post Centralized Subscription? Not that way thanks. You see now the great benefit of being exposed to us techs through weblogging: […]

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Mega Meta Mommy Backplane

Kim Cameron responded to my I, URL posting with a very gracious response. Gracious, in particular, considering that I was a ‘bit rough’ on him, as well as the Liberty Alliance. Years working with the multi-mega-corporate data model efforts at various organizations and my own studies and writings on RDF have left me impatient, I will have […]

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Self-documenting technology

Danny Ayers points to a Jon Udell article about dynamic documentation managed by the folks who use a product, rather than relying on stuffy old material provided by the organization making the software. In it, Jon writes: Collectively, we users know a lot more about products than vendors do. We eventually stumble across every undocumented feature or quirk. […]

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Technology Weblogging

Close your trackbacks

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After a couple of test trackbacks yesterday, I knew that today most likely we would start seeing trackback spam, and so it has proved. I would suggest that people turn off trackback capability if they’re concerned about receiving spam, until safeguards are put on this other rather huge, gaping hole […]

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Coding on the hoof

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This last week I’ve been heavily into development, trying to get OsCommerce to agree to operate a certain way, in addition to doing some really strange things to the version of WordPress in use at Bb (changes which will then get ported to Wordform). In fact, you may see things […]