Jean-Louis Gassée : Câble contre DSL
"Pour donner une dimension du grouillement, pardon, du potentiel de cette nouvelle vague d’accès au réseau, une des mauvaises langues de la Vallée explique qu’ISDN (Numéris) c’est le socialisme et que les nouvelles connexions à large bande, DSL et le câble, c’est le capitalisme chevauché par les entrepreneurs."
Jeffrey Zeldman : Looking into the Web Crystal
"There are two ways forward. (1.) We can begin building alternative networks of worthwhile content, repositioning ourselves as authors, rather than service providers. (2.) We can hire on as consultants and directors to help the Money People avoid mediocrity. Whichever direction we choose - and many of us will do both - charting a survival strategy must be our first order of business, lest the Web's future look like television's past."
The People's Photos
"The Archive of pictures found on the street by me and you."
Jean Paré : A trap for journalists
"The issue raises grave questions for young apprentice journalists to ponder. Should journalists attend executions? Should they visit concentration or extermination camps, in Kosovo or elsewhere? Should they do so only by stealth, or even if invited?...This was legal, of course, but if torture were legal, would reporters attend the session to describe it on TV at supper time?"
Jorn Barger : The First-Cut Manifesto
"The goal is to make at least one full pass over a document, and classify every character into some meaningful
category, with a high level of robustness when faced with bad human editing." Interesting, but the "It" that does all this work sounds more like a human than a computer. If someone had figured out how to make computers be "very flexible at reading dates in human formats", we wouldn't have thousands of programmers sifting through lines of legacy code looking for the year 1900/2000. via
kottke.org.
Dan Lyke : Newwwsboy2: Newwws Harder?
"I need my formatting engine to be smart enough to extract more information out of my standard e-mail format. It should be able to figure out lists. It should see things that look like poetry and not blow away all of the line wrapping. Jorn points to
No-Tags Markup which seems to have some good ideas similar to mine." I could be wrong, but it always seemed to me that's what XML is for. I think the dream is that eventually we'll all start developing DTD's for our personal correspondence (or whatever) and that there will be the equivalent of an x-header telling a mail client where it goes to parse the mess it's been sent. The code, however, is only beginning to be written.