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Dienstag, 8. Februar 2005

John Sowa: "Standards efforts lead to standards, but not always the ones that were intended."

2005-02-08-std

Arthur Whitney: {x y z x}/[_n] — In einer Erzählung von Stevan Apter.

Das muss so ziemlich das grandioseste Stück K sein, das mir je untergekommen ist (und an grandiosen Stücken K herrscht wahrlich kein Mangel). Bei Gelegenheit Walkthrough.

2005-02-08-k

Viz du jour: Baby Name Wizard NameVoyager. Don't forget to type.

2005-02-08-artOfNaming

"Flickr is part of something else too, something radical: the massive sharing of what we used to think of as private data."

It's not about tags, baby. The key to understanding those communication formats is not some new-fangled way of organizing information (albeit that's nice as well), it's (bite-sized delivery of) continuous transparency. If you think about it, it's really a no-brainer: To show up, you need to be visible.

It's a journey of small steps. Probably no one remembers by now how radical unedited publishing of one's sources felt in the beginning.

"Knowledge is a rare thing — you gain by giving it away." — Ivan Sutherland

2005-02-08-artOfTransparency

[create TiVo] SDK.

2005-02-08-boom

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