Anil Dash: With all due respect to Matt and Meg, we've all had about a day or so to analyze the data on this and make our knee-jerk calls about how this will affect revenues. I'm sure it's somebody's full time job at Times Digital (I dunno who, but it's somebody) to run the numbers on this. That person's probably been playing with Excel for months to figure out exactly the implications of this.

Dan Bricklin points to a great article by Chris Daly, Are Bloggers Journalists? Let's ask Thomas Jefferson. Common Sense and other pamphlets like it were precisely the kind of political journalism that Jefferson had in mind when he insisted on a constitutional amendment in 1790 to protect press freedom -- anonymous, highly opinionated writing from diverse, independent sources. In historical terms, today's bloggers are much closer in spirit to the Revolutionary-era pamphleteers than today's giant, conglomerate mainstream media.

An interesting article on Technology Review, "Star Wars" Spawned a Galaxy of Technologies , which talks about the number of technologies George Lucas developed for the Star Wars movies and then sold off cheaply. While the article itself was good, what I found more interesting was that every time they mentioned money they gave the value in both dollars and euros. Well we have the Internet in Europe too yo u know :-) Sometimes we even read articles written in the US and its handy to have currency values that we understand.

I've always disliked Hungarian Notation, at least the kind that I originally learned, which mandated putting type specifiers at the beginning of each variable name. Now Joel explains the difference between Hugarian Apps Notation and Hungarian System Notation, and why one is good and the other bad. The source of the divergence comes from misunderstanding the use of the word 'type' in a paper by Charles Simonyi. This misinterpretation of Hungarian Notation as it moved from the Apps group to the rest of Microsoft and then beyond reminds me of the origins of the "

Dave Child does cheat sheets. He does them very well. So far he has ones for PHP, CSS and mod_rewrite. Warm up the laminator, baby. Thanks, Joe - compliments are always appreciated :) Posted by Dave Child on 2005-05-13 Thanks Joe. I don't know if you have seen the one about n3 and RDF. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/v2.1/resource/html/id/94/ Posted by karl Dubost on 2005-05-14

Mark Pilgrim announces Dive Into Greasemonkey. It's what he does. Added to the "toread" pile. Also: is it just me, or are there some things that "Dive Into" should not prefix? I, for one, parse the title as "Dive into Grease..." and stop there, shuddering with aversion. Posted by Scott Parkerson on 2005-05-11 Jeffrey Zeldman has repeatedly commented that "dive into mark" has homoerotic overtones. Your mileage may vary. Posted by Mark on 2005-05-11 I'm waiting for Dive Into Naked Objects.

The latest draft of the Atom Publishing Protocol is now available. Normally we automatically produce diffs from the last version, but in this case the changes were so large that the tool we use lost its mind and produced nothing of value. Sorry about that.

Let me tell you a story. My son, my oldest son, had two bad habits. Had being the material word. His first bad habit was that he would sit at the dinner table with his legs and arms pulled into his shirt. This would stretch out his shirts in the front making him look like he was wearing maternity clothes. I have nothing against maternity clothes, but on an eight year old?

Congratulations to Dr. Rhona Free for winning the National 2004 CASE Professor of the Year. I took several classes with Dr. Free and they were all excellent, to the point that I was seriously tempted to switch to Economics as a major. I'm very glad to see her get the recognition that she deserves. And I'm also glad to see that she is still at Eastern, which is filled with great professors truly interested in teaching.

The new <canvas/> element, being standardized by the WhatWG, was just turned on in Mozilla. We are turning canvas on -- it's already on by now. Get over it. Nothing in a relatively new spec is set in concrete, but that does not prevent useful work from being built on it. This is how the Internet protocols, and then the web, were built. Welcome back to incremental innovation. The lull of six years of monopoly-induced stagnation is over.

Sparklines, as defined by Tufte, are intense, simple, word-sized graphics. Kind of like this: . I seemed to stumble across them at just the right time, as I have regression tests I am adding to on a daily basis. The result is a flood of information. I believe sparklines may be the answer to my information avalanche. All of my regression scripts are written in Python and the output of those scripts is HTML.

So Adobe is buying Macromedia. The deal combines Adobe's Acrobat, which enables users to create, view, share and print documents, with Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave software. [Guardian Unlimited] Great. So does this mean that every time I view a web page that utilizes Flash I'll get to see this: Heh :) , that's a good one. Indeed, that's one of the annoying things about the (formely known as) Acrobat Reader.

We are finally replacing the carpet in the second floor of the house with hardwood flooring. After looking around we settled on Bamboo, it was a good price and a nice light color. What's being replaced is "builder's carpet", the cheap carpet that our spec house got built with. One of the best parts of any project is the new tools. Since we're doing such a large area and it will take four or more weekends to do the whole project it is cheaper to buy the air compressor and nail gun than it is to rent them every weekend.

My latest XML.com column is up, Constructing or Traversing URIs?. "REST is defined by four interface constraints: identification of resources; manipulation of resources through representations; self-descriptive messages; and, hypermedia as the engine of application state." [Roy Fielding] Of the four interface constraints of REST, the last one, 'hypermedia as the engine of application state', is the least utilitzed. This article builds the concept from the ground up, and then applies it to the design of our Bookmark Web Service.

My wife Lynne recently Lasik Eye Surgery and was very happy with the results. Here's the story in her own words. Today was the day of my Lasik surgery procedure. Before I begin to discuss today's events let me share what led me to decide on Lasik. I started wearing glasses at age 15 and quickly switched to contacts because I didn't care for glasses. My eyesight would get a little worse each year.

It's definitely spring time here in the Carolinas. The Cherry tree has started to bloom. It sits on the north side of the house and is a little behind the rest of the cherry trees in the neighborhood. Last summer's treatment of the front yard, including de-thatching, aerating, and slit seeding has paid off. The lawn survived the winter and has come back quite well this spring. The Bradford Pear tree is doing good, though the flower clusters aren't as large as they have been in past years.

Patterns Patterns are the recurring solutions to the problems of design What patterns exist for putting together RESTful services? Detecting Lost Updates Editing the Web - Detecting the Lost Update Problem Using Unreserved Checkout. A W3C Note from May of 1999! Post Once Exactly POST Once Exactly Announced in a post from Mark Nottingham. Personally I think he missed a great opportunity to name it Post Only Once.

Last September, when talking about the Creative Commons Search Engine, I stated: Will this Nutch powered search site change the world? Yes. Because in a year or two CC Search will have set the example and all the major search engines will being able to index and search on CC License metadata. Just six months later and Yahoo! is now offering Creative Commons Search. [via Boing-Boing] One step closer to a low-friction future.

A couple weeks back Bruce Sterling came to town and gave a talk at Kamphoefner Hall on the NC State campus. It was a standing room only crowd for the event that was co-sponsored by the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program and the design center. It was an excellent, wide-ranging talk. If you didn't make it to the talk, you can see him cover many of the same ideas in a streaming video of his talk at Germany's "

Ian Hickson: I'm getting tired of hearing XForms advocates say things that are either misleading or clearly wrong, so here's a quick list of myths, or misleading truths, about XForms, which I have heard recently (most particularly during the multiple demos of XForms software at the plenary in Boston last week). i like HTML version Posted by arkady on 2005-03-09