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| Saturday, June 25, 2005 |
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Headlash 
| | Methinks attention is a demo sell, and we haven't seen it yet. Once Technorati (where it's being worked on) or somebody else serving the long tail does something useful with it, the world will rock. Meanwhile, we'll roll along in quiet expectation, waiting for the tech to get ready. |
| | To help, here's the rarely quoted pony: |
| | Attention.XML is an open standard, built on open source (see XOXOSampleCode) that helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. |
Even though I don't watch TV
Cutting the cards
| | It's up to Microsoft partners in the RSS conversation to make clear how extensions to RSS aren't exclusive to Microsoft or Windows — or, if they are, how they don't lock anybody in or out of the development path for RSS. |
| | We're getting exactly the same kind of pushback on the Identity Metasystem (which Kim Cameron and others at Microsoft conceived) and Microsoft's InfoCard (an implementation that works with the Metasystem), but lots of explaining and help from others inside and outside of Microsoft who are trying to make sense out of what the company is doing. |
| | The two efforts — RSS and Identity Metasystem — are not identical by a long shot. But one thing they share at this point in history is Microsoft working proactively in a networked market context that's larger than itself, and with some unprecedented humility. |
| | As Dave says, "this is what movement looks like." |
| | Which brings to mind something that came up early in our discussions about the Identity Metasystem. It comes from an old Mother Jones slogan: You trust your mother, but you cut the cards. |
| | The good news is that Mom's at the table, playing. |
Flying out from the future
| | This is possibly the most spectacular trip I've ever taken in an airplane. |
| | It begins with several progress photos on Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (or T5), due to be completed in 1009 days, it says on the official site. Apparently the expansion is controversial. I knew nothing about it until I observed it on departure from the far-back window seat (42J) on the right side of a United 777. |
| | If that sounds like a bad seat, it isn't. Not for me, anyway. I had seat 18A in Economy Plus. It featured slightly more leg room, but a view out the window of the top of the very wide wing. All Economy Plus seats are over the wing in a 777, it turns out. So I swapped it for the one in front of the bathrooms. |
| | The window was mostly clean, though little frost stars formed on it, causing brown dots to appear in many of the photos. |
| | I only got a couple shots of volcanoes in Iceland. But the real treat was Greenland. The sight of glaciers, sliding over a stark landscape of carved mountains and beveled plains into the sea, calving off countless icebergs, is beyond amazing. How jaded flyers with window seats would prefer to sleep or watch bad movies is beyond me. |
| | I'll put up the other sets when I have time. Meanwhile, you can still step through all 316 shots I took on the trip. |
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