BurningbirdLast of the O’Reilly book review, and I’m going to cover three different brands: the traditional ‘animal’ books, the Missing Manual series, and the Head First series. The RELAX NG book from the animal series is what you’d expect for one of these books. It is a comprehensive coverage of the topic, with relevant examples, lots of text, and few […]
I think, I think, I think too much. I miss my hour, taken in last nights Daylight Savings Time raid. Time for a bit of lightness before I get serious again: Ben Hammersley has decided to follow that old and obsolute BLX 1.0 standard rather than the shiny new BLX 2.0. As for his claim to have created an RDF […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the last post I introduced the topic of accountability and freedom of expression and tied Creative Commons in with backchannels and comments, and we could even extend this association to the ethics of weblog editing. I find it ironic that some of the people who support backchannels at conferences, also support editing and deleting of […]
The recent discussions about backchannels reminds me of the discussions about comment registration and editing, which, in turn, reminds me of the old discussions we had about Creative Commons. What do all these seemingly disparate items have in common? With each, there is a tradeoff between personal freedom and accountability. I wrote about Creative Commons […]
I have two more anniversary retrospective pieces to write, but the going is slow because so many of the old links are broken. In some cases the weblogs, and the webloggers are gone–and when I did stop thinking about them? Mostly though, we changed weblogging tools, or there was a time when all of us […]