Sunday, March 10, 2002

[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog] It seems to me that with RCS and clouds bifurcating, there will become a greater demand for aggregating services such as blo.gs.  This seems to me to be heading in the right direction - decentralized mission critical things like publishing, centralized augmentation services like statistics.  For this to scale, the next step in the evolution is that clouds will need to ping each other as opposed to the polling that blo.gs has to resort to now.  Just like weblogs.com did a few months back. 11:46:19 PM

[Hack the Planet] GNOME 2.0b2. In typical open source fashion, you have to set an environment variable to get the long-awaited antialiasing. 11:43:11 PM

[Slashdot] Andreesen "Grows Up" 11:42:15 PM

[diveintomark] Accessibility bookmarklets. Malevolent Design: Developer bookmarklets. [via WebWord: Color Vision] Validate your HTML with one click, see how it would render in Lynx, simulate colorblindness or low vision. The last one is especially amazing, but relies on IE/Win proprietary behaviors. Definitely worth checking out if you use Windows. 11:37:47 PM

[New York Times: Technology] College Students as Future Spenders. The typical Web-tethered college student is giving e-commerce a feeble embrace. However more important than students' current spending power is their future spending power. 11:35:40 PM