I’m firing on all (one) cylinder today. Sam Ruby references a citation at Simon Willison, who quotes Tantek: “…we now have Trackback and Pingback to help automate generating comment hyperlinks to blog-on-blog commentary. While I certainly applaud these efforts at automating the plumbing, I must ask – why is there any distinction in the presentation? I ask […]
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Tying communication threads together
A discussion broke out at Sam Ruby’s talks about weblog popularity. In particular, Jim Winstead wrote: The navel-gazing among some webloggers is pretty monumental, and systems like technorati, blogdex, and popdex reflect that. I agree with Jim. As I mentioned in my own post, Third Generation of Weblogging, following an analogy of human growth to weblogging generations, […]
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O’Reilly twenty-five year anniversary
O’Reilly is celebrating it’s 25 year anniversary. That’s a lot of critters on a lot of covers. Congratulations to the many people I have worked with at O’Reilly, especially Simon, Tara, David, Andy, Linda, Ron, Edd, Nate, Todd, and Derrick I’m celebrating by finishing the first draft of the last book I’m writing for O’Reilly. Rah.
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Mein America
I don’t watch much commercial TV, so the ad I saw may be old to most of you. The TV commercial showed a group of men having lunch at a diner, one of whom is complaining about taxes. His companions are obviously uncomfortable with the talk, and a couple in the booth behind the man […]
Next week I’m delivering to my editor the complete first draft of “Practical RDF” for O’Reilly. Yeah, finally. No one has seen the complete TOC, including the tools, APIs and whatever used in the book and I thought I would provide a heads up before the book is released for public review. If you’re interested, […]