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Wed, 28 May 2003 09:36:50 GMT

Thoughts on blogging formats and protocols in May 2003. As OSCOM starts, the issues of interop betw content management tools is very hot in the open source world thanks to work by Paul Everitt and Gregor Rothfuss. By making my position public about the equivalent issues in the weblog world, I will be joining with them in requesting that we put aside our differences (I'm not sure there are any) and establish a set of principles on how we build from here.

David Weinberger tells an interesting story about domain names and people's names. How do you find a childhood friend on the Web? he wonders. I had an related experience yesterday. May 27 is the birthday of a childhood friend of mine, Mitchell Stern. There's no good reason for me to remember his birthday, but I do. So yesterday I looked him up on Google. The first hit took me to a guy about the right age, living in about the right place, but on further inspection I noted that (gullp) he died. It's his obituary. Since there's no year on it, it's impossible to know if it's the Mitchell Stern I knew as a kid. Not much more too say other than it really spooked me.

Wed, 28 May 2003 11:48:28 GMT

Karlin has a date and location for an Irish bloggers get-together in Dublin.

Wed, 28 May 2003 09:48:01 GMT

Scoble is starting to understand his new relationship with the rest of the world. "You anti-Microsoft'ers will love this.." ";->"

Wed, 28 May 2003 09:32:06 GMT

Three years ago today, twenty-two pictures from Venezia, fourteen pictures from Firenze.

Wed, 28 May 2003 09:34:51 GMT

Four years ago: "Salon (justifiably) brags that they've matured to the point where they could send a reporter to Yugoslavia. But the web was already there. People on the ground all over the world. Some of them are great writers and have passion for the truth and aren't serving the same masters that the bigtimes at WSJ, NYT and CNN. And most of them don't have websites, yet, largely because it is too complicated and expensive to have one. When this bubble bursts we'll get a new burst of diversity in thought and vision on the web."

Wed, 28 May 2003 09:24:02 GMT

A must-read by Joshua Allen about CXO's and leaf-nodes on the weblog tree.