19may2002

More notes afterwards


a few random notes about things that cropped up. no particular order:

- lane becker has lots of good thinking done about how to establish a weblog
clearinghouse, combo rss, weblogs.com ping plus, open scraping language, etc. on
top of this, things like derived ontology, blogdex, etc could be built

- the biologic computing emit/receive model is INCREDIBLY important, mainly
because our node/arc connections model for the internet doesn't support it built
in. emit/receive would enable applications to automatically scale in a growing
system, but our current model would require things like notification
registration. i wonder if we could have the concept of callbacks/delegates on
the web in a scalable way? hm. we'd have to reimagine everything -- we'd need to
introduce the concept of *distance* into programming languages, and the internet
as a whole.

- the "former audience"

- two strands of the conference, technological and social. social just as
important. it's pretty much settled that any technology that is important and
going to make a massive change is one that is socially enabling. that's pretty
incredible!