Monthly Archives: August 2007

“Global naming leads to global network effects.”

Posted on August 27, 2007 by Karl

First, a reminder about what makes the Web, the Web…. W3C.org: Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One: 2. Identification: In order to communicate internally, a community agrees (to a reasonable extent) on a set of terms and their … Continue reading →

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New Looks

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Karl

Leonard Witt’s blog and PJNet got a great facelift. So did Scott Karp’s Publishing 2.0 courtesy of bokardo. Doc Searls recently moved into new digs. Steve Rubel is contemplating a move to WordPress.com from TypePad (I think his reasoning is … Continue reading →

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Simple RESTful URLs with JSPs

Posted on August 19, 2007 by Karl

Bill de hOra posted an interesting question the other day, that has to do with mapping views to requests, cleanly, in a RESTful way, as Sam Ruby framed it: it’s easy to forget that Servlets were Java’s response to CGI, … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! and Google Move to Squeeze Newspapers Further

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Karl

Yahoo! has relaunched it’s local search service. It better surfaces community driven participation and feels far more like a destination than before. Screenwerk: Yahoo! Refreshes, Redesigns Local. They still haven’t gone as far as I expect them to one day … Continue reading →

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Social Software Rule: “Personal Value Precedes Network Value”

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Karl

Bokardo: The Del.icio.us Lesson: The one major idea behind the Del.icio.us Lesson is that personal value precedes network value. What this means is that if we are to build networks of value, then each person on the network needs to … Continue reading →

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Lead in Baby Bibs!!!!!!!!

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Karl

Ya know, I’m sure this is a bit of fear mongering, but yesterday I cursed out loud “holy fuck” when I saw this headline in the New York Times: Some Baby Bibs Said to Contain Levels of Lead. It would … Continue reading →

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We’re No Better Informed About Our World Than In 1989

Posted on August 16, 2007 by Karl

Despite the information and communication revolutionary time we live in, Americans remain in the dark about our world. Pew released a survey back in April detailing Americans knowledge of current affairs, comparing the status quo to that of 1989. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Moving to a Mac?

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Karl

There’s a possibility I’ll be switching to a MacBook Pro as my development machine at work. A few years ago, before OS-X, a switch like this would have made me feel a little worried. I’m productive in Windows. One of … Continue reading →

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Here’s a thing that’s been disturbing me about Facebook and Social Networking services…

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Karl

Tim Berners-Lee, as quoted by Jon Udell in a piece that greatly influenced me back in the day, called the web “a shared information space through which people and machines could communicate.” . The original piece in which Tim Berners-Lee … Continue reading →

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Have you read ‘the dip’?

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Karl

I’m in the process of writing a piece on Philly Future, about it’s future, titled, “Philly Future, is it in ‘the dip’ or in a cul-de-sac?”. If you’ve read Seth Godin’s “the dip” you would immediately get the reference. The … Continue reading →

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