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Environment

Bush attack on conservation

E.G. for Example has an excellent posting on the US Administration’s current efforts to strip away all progress made in the name of conservation for the last 50 years. Especially in light of so many revelations this year about Bush’s energy policies, the secret meetings, Cheney’s Halliburton roots taking such dominance in all of his efforts. Living […]

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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 […]