Here's a thought that someone is welcome to run with
We have all measure of weblog monitors and weblog rankings which are fine and useful. What I'd like to see, though, is
all that information spread out on a graph over time. I'd like to see what, if any, patterns emerge. For instance, can anyone really keep up the pace month after month, or do we lay low and let others take the lead in cycles? If I have even a modicum of self-discipline, this won't happen any time soon so if you like the idea, please, go nuts.
Builder.com on the Open Source Flash player
"By placing particular emphasis on the SWF file format, the compressed end product optimized for Web playback, Macromedia has downplayed the importance of its still very proprietary FLA format. FLA is essentially the true Flash format because it includes all the important structural details, such as scenes and layers, as well as the uncompressed audio and bitmap source objects and the symbol library. "
Salon : Why leave your 'marks online
"On these sites, I had to select the link I wanted to move, click the move button, wait for a refreshed page, click the folder I wanted to put it in, wait again for a new page, click another move button and then -- after another wait -- voilą, the bookmark sat where I wanted it to go. Moving filing cabinets would have been more fun." I wrote my own version of this and came pretty much to the same conclusion. I liked the idea of being able to slurp my bookmarks from any machine, cross-browser, but ultimately the only way it will ever really beat what we've already got is with
a standardized bookmark description and
standardized DHTML interface. Oh well, hope springs eternal...
Anthony Westell reads between the lines
and wonders if John Raulston Saul isn't secretly writing policy papers. see also :
The Lafontaine-Baldwin LectureThe free BeOS Personal Edition
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