Jorn Barger : I hate database-y
"Reading databases is no fun. They're convenient for the author, not for
the reader." Jorn makes some good points; I understand how all the fluff and meta information can be annoying. On the other hand, since adding links for categories and individual days, I've started travelling back and around and through old posts. Sort of like going out for a walk and letting the green lights at crosswalks guide your direction. It may just be navel-gazing but it has been very interesting for me, seeing things long since forgotten. Maybe the happy medium is to hide the meta information in some
clever and foofy DHTML trickery.
Dave Winer : Design vs. Cheese
From where I sit, this just sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Meanwhile, serious students of design-weeniness will tell you that this argument is hardly new and certainly not reserved to the arena of weblogs.
National Post : Canada is cyberterror hotbed: U.S.
"They see Canada as a conduit they don't have control over and that's what unnerves them. We're further increasing the integration of our economies and at the same time they do not control how we approach security issues."
Mary Anne DeMonte-Whelan on the bidding war for Videotron
"This is a politically motivated counterbid. Quebecor and the Caisse [ de dépôt et placement du Québec ] want to keep a strong presence in the new economy based in Quebec."