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tblee has some interesting articles about philosohpy and design posted on the w3c site. Definitely makes for some good reading.

• Principles of design - You’re probably already aware of most of these but the Test of Independent Invention definitely deserves some thought.
• The World Wide Web and the “Web of Life” - About the parallels between the philosophies behind Web design and the Unitarian Universalist church.
• Evolvability - How to design for evolvability and interoperability.

I just wanna know where does Nicholas Carr find the nerve to call someone else, really anyone, antagonistic.

hAtom has a much wider scope than most microformats. I’ve seen many cases when the answer to someone’s question about issues completely unrelated to syndication was “put it in an hAtom container” or “use attribute so and so from hAtom.” It is a generic microformat and in terms of scope is far from micro.

One possible example (which I need to find some time to create) is wrapping in hAtom all dynamic elements in a blog. So that every list of elements (xfn links, categories, etc.) can be consumed using the same semantics; The very least of which is ‘give me all contacts that have updated since a specific date.’

In other cases, I think it should be possible to use hAtom to define the scope of other microformats (especially rel-tag but also rel-directory and others).

So project nirvana is coming along pretty well. It’s actually quite amazing to see conversations from several blogs aggregated in one location and even threaded properly. I should write something about how blogs are changing. Been thinking about that lately as I’m repurposing blogs into more general entities and also there’s been some others writing about it.

Possible idea: Segement a blog’s feed by cagtegories/tags and republish each feed in the appropriate place.

Sprenzy is a brand new blog set to chronicle the start of a Web 2.0 business. So it’s quite natural that the author was somewhat upset when flickr’s Caterina Fake proclaimed that It’s a bad time to start a company. It started out quite sensible but then sprenzy brought out the big guns:

More importantly, what’s the opportunity cost of not taking the risk of starting your own business? There’s a line in the movie Braveheart that has always resonated with me. William Wallace cries:

Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you’ll live… at least for a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR FREEDOM!

William Wallace’s struggle for freedom was much nobler than my fight for freedom from the ”man”.

Mixing William Wallace and Web 2.0? There has to be a supr.c.ilio.us post somewhere in there. Ooh maybe if Braveheart embraces Pinko Marketing

I got a new domain! What other reason do I need to start yet another blog? This one should catalog all the silly ideas that settle into my mind as the beer settles into my stomach. Stuff that will not make it into Hellonline because it’s too silly and yet is not quite silly (or well-formed) enough to make it into Supr.c.ilio.us: The blog.