Wednesday, January 09 2002

Radio Crankypant #0: Dave Winer, "The next release of Radio has a new content management system, it's file-system-based..."

Which means that the actual CMS could be mounted remotely via Samba and a mod_perl Apache::Radio framework could be written if you wanted to use Radio for the editing but not for serving. Interesting. It is too bad that this setup will not (?) work via WebDAV, because then you could create a whole series of mod_perl handlers to transform/propagate changes to files as they are written to disk. This would allow you to build a group weblog where user foo could use Radio, user bar Movable Type (with some hacks; I've been meaning to figure out how hard it would be to add a callback framework - gak! must... write...footnote...code...) and user hello-world Zope. For that matter, user luddite could use the filesystem and a word processor. Interesting. Stick that in yer John Robb pipe and smoke it ;-) see also : Filesys::SmbClient and LocalFS (Zope)

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Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System

"The purpose of this document is to define the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS). An OAIS is an archive, consisting of an organization of people and systems, that has accepted the responsibility to preserve information and make it available for a Designated Community... The reference model addresses a full range of archival information preservation functions including ingest, archival storage, data management, access, and dissemination. It also addresses the migration of digital information to new media and forms, the data models used to represent the information, the role of software in information preservation, and the exchange of digital information among archives. It identifies both internal and external interfaces to the archive functions, and it identifies a number of high-level services at these interfaces..." (pdf) Sound familiar?

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Everyone has heard the horror stories about IT departments

made only worse when the discussion involves government IT departments. So it is especially nice to hear that atleast one person working for the Canadian government has a clue or two.

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The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : callow

To touch someone inappropirately

ex. He just callowed my privates.

see also : callow dict-ified

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The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : abominate

Abominate \A*bom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abominated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abominating}.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See {Omen}.] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See {Hate}. web1913

abominate v : find repugnant [syn: {abhor}, {loathe}, {execrate}] wn

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