NearWaldenDave Douglas' Radio WeblogQuote of the Day- March 16, 2005 Via Spencer Katt, attributed to Chris Maden: "XML is like violence: If it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it."http://radio.weblogs.com/0111105/2005/03/16.html#a595 Bruce Sterling Lite- March 16, 2005 David Isenberg excerpts a very interesting segment from a recent Bruce Sterling article.http://isen.com/blog/2005/03/bruce-sterling-moves-to-pasadena.html Lessig limits his publishing- March 16, 2005 Lessig says he won't publish under a restrictive copyright license again.http://radio.weblogs.com/0111105/2005/03/15.html#a593 Social Physics- March 13, 2005 From Clay Shirky: "Fascinating new effort called Social Physics..."http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/21/social_physics_org.php Forecast for Infotech Policy in the New Congress- March 13, 2005 Ed Felten summarizes: "Cameron Wilson, Director of the ACM Public Policy Office in Washington, looks at changes (made already or widely reported) in the new Congress and what they tell us about likely legislative action. (He co-writes the ACM U.S. Public Policy Blog, which is quite good.) ...http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000775.html Why Wikipedia might keep working...- March 13, 2005 A good analysis of why Wikipedia et al might continue to work, even under various attacks and criticism: First Two Laws of Commons-Based Peer Production (Ross Mayfield)http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/02/27/first_two_laws_of_commonsbased_peer_produc... Appcasting- March 13, 2005 Fraser Speirs: "Appcasting is the practice of using the enclosure feature of RSS 2.0 feeds to deliver updates and release notes for new software applications." (Via ranchero.com.)http://speirs.org/appcasting/ |