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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/04/30/strategyTax&quot;&gt;Strategy Tax&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&amp;doc_id=202114&amp;page=1&amp;_DARGS=%2Fartcol.jhtml.2_A&amp;_DAV=artcol.jhtml&quot;&gt;Fortune&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;But now that the Internet boom has flamed out and now that the economy has stalled, it may be that a tidy sandbox is not enough; it may be time, in fact, for Jobs to start sculpting a new sandcastle.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/technology/01FREE.html?pagewanted=all&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;It's a terrible thing to say that if I lose 80 percent of my customers it's a good thing,&quot; he said, &quot;but they weren't customers really, they were visitors.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.siliconvalley.com/research/sv150/041601/svmain041601.htm&quot;&gt;SJ Merc&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Exodus must now fight perceptions that it will collapse all together.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Press release: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2001/Apr01/04-30NCompassPR.asp&quot;&gt;Microsoft Acquires a CMS&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;NCompass Resolution 4.0 is a Web content management system that enables businesses to quickly and cost-effectively deploy highly dynamic and personalized e-business Web sites.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Upside: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.upside.com/HardwareSoftware/3aedeefb1.html&quot;&gt;Microsoft spends $36M on Web software company&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="Lawrence Lessig: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/30/opinion/30LESS.html&quot;&gt;Let the Stories Go&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/youChooseTheStandard&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: Based on what you know right now, if you were the Benevolent Dictator of the Universe, which would you choose as the standard for RPC across the Internet?"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kendow.com/manilacourses.html&quot;&gt;Ken Dow's online&lt;/a&gt; introduction to Manila course starts next Monday."/>
		<outline text="This is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,,3_754971,00.html&quot;&gt;kind of rivalry&lt;/a&gt; among BigCo's that I support."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/18589.html&quot;&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Leave it to Microsoft to sell submissiveness as a virtue.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wirednews.com/news/culture/0,1284,43402,00.html&quot;&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;When the recently sealed New York Times Capsule opens in the year 3000, curious new millennium dwellers may wonder what living in the late 20th century sounded like.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://2020hindsight.editthispage.com/2001/04/30&quot;&gt;Susan Kitchens&lt;/a&gt;, who has been writing about her 100-year-old grandfather's hip replacement surgery, has something to say this morning that was unexpected. Only click if you're ready for a surprise."/>
		<outline text="Gary Krakow: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.com/news/565419.asp&quot;&gt;Mac OS X Supports Flames!&lt;/a&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.davosnewbies.com/2001/04/30&quot;&gt;Lance Knobel&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I've become an unwitting observer of a Darwinian struggle that I suspect is being repeated in many places.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://soapbox.weblogs.com/2001/04/30&quot;&gt;Marek&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;If your company is a steamship then go for the iceberg.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Don't forget tomorrow is Tuesday. Take a programmer to lunch. Take &lt;i&gt;two&lt;/i&gt; programmers for twice the fun. Act now, you never know, you might &lt;a href=&quot;http://world.std.com/~jlr/doom/doom_eng.htm&quot;&gt;not&lt;/a&gt; get another chance."/>
		<outline text="Apple on board">
			<outline text="I note, with pleasure, that SOAP and XML-RPC are on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/wwdc2001/descriptions.html#607&quot;&gt;agenda&lt;/a&gt; at Apple's WWDC starting May 21 in San Jose. "/>
			<outline text="I hope the Mac developer community embraces these protocols, they're very good for the Mac, imho, because they allow lots of choice, no one knows what OS is at the other end of the pipe. "/>
			<outline text="This is how the Windows monopoly can ease, by making it safe and easy to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; use Windows."/>
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		<outline text="Can't touch that">
			<outline text="Some people still think deployed formats and protocols can change. This is a major disconnect. People on mail lists think that &quot;everyone&quot; is here, and that they all can change their implementations just because some people think they know how to do it better. "/>
			<outline text="However, in the real world, once code is deployed to customers, if you change the formats, you break the users. So there comes a point beyond which you cannot change the format, if you care about the users. If you're in business, you have to care about the users. Almost every mistake we make is when we decide our point of view is more important. "/>
			<outline text="This happened last summer when some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/&quot;&gt;RDF&lt;/a&gt; people tried to take over &quot;RSS&quot;. I was left saying but but what about the users? Well the revolution didn't happen, predictably, and imho the revolutionaries did more to break RSS than Netscape did when they turned off their servers last week. We're still picking up the pieces from both breakage events."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2000/09/02/whatToDoAboutRss&quot;&gt;9/2/00&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;In the overworked world of Web development, there's no time to study, there's only time to do.&quot;"/>
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		<outline text="SOAP 1.1 deployment">
			<outline text="A breakage-related discussion is going on on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soapbuilders&quot;&gt;soapbuilders&lt;/a&gt; list. Some people think we should change the way we use the SOAPAction header. (Or do they? The messages are confusing.) Others think we should change schemas. Oy the breakage that would fall out from that. No way."/>
			<outline text="Meanwhile, as the arguments develop, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/microsoftDeployingSoap.gif&quot;&gt;Microsoft is deploying&lt;/a&gt;, which means very soon we must lock down our SOAP stack and say &quot;This Is It,&quot; this is what we will support for perpetuity, so UserLand customers, please start deploying, and of course that will be good, even when new people come along and say we're doing it wrong, which according to Murphy's Law, which applies to protocol specs, they surely will. In my humble opinion, the time for that is passing &lt;i&gt;quickly.&lt;/i&gt; We published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soapware.org/bdg&quot;&gt;spec&lt;/a&gt; to explain our practice, and we think it's a solid basis for our software interoperating with others. "/>
			<outline text="BTW, we're trying to avoid the situation where SOAP interop means &quot;Works With Microsoft,&quot; which as I've said &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/03/29/unstallingSoap#myChoice&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt; would be a failure for SOAP."/>
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		<outline text="RDF query">
			<outline text="What is it about the culture of RDF that says &quot;All your spec belong to us.&quot; I saw a presentation at the W3C Web Services Workshop where a nice man from Colorado explained how SOAP could be RDF-ized. While he was speaking I was wondering why they don't create their own revolution, then we can support them. Instead they try to impose their point of view on us, they must wonder why everyone runs away when they show up."/>
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		<outline text="Dinner with Docs">
			<outline text="I had a lovely dinner last night with &lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com&quot;&gt;Doc Searls&lt;/a&gt; at Siam Garden in Menlo Park. I've been going there for ages, and Lee, the host, always greets me as &quot;Doctor Winer&quot; and I call her &quot;Doctor Lee.&quot; (BTW, they have the best Thai food on the peninsula.)"/>
			<outline text="I always introduce my guest to Lee, she has a fantastic memory, so I said, and this is my friend.. (Gulp. His name &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; Doc!) ..Doctor Searls. I had to explain that he's not &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; a doctor, and then Lee said she isn't either, and I admitted the same was true for me. We all had a good laugh and went on with our dinner."/>
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		<outline text="Dotcom lunacy?">
			<outline text="This morning I got a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/iAmOneOfThePeople.gif&quot;&gt;reminder&lt;/a&gt; to vote in the Webby Awards, not like any sites I care about ever get nominated. I'm tempted to say that this is a remnant of the dotcom lunacy. OK this one time I'm going to succumb to temptation."/>
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