Communications Design Group

Huh?!? I actually had no idea. Following up that last Jonathan Edwards video I discovered that SAP are funding a PARC-style research lab run by Alan Kay (!!!!!), who has hired Vi Hart, Bret Victor and Edwards among others, to go and do their crazy software art, reinvention of programming stuff. More : SAP Looks …

What are you thinking, Dave?

What is it that makes the web so great? Linking. What is it that silos will not do. Same thing. Linking. … Here’s the problem. Linking hasn’t gotten an upgrade in many years.That’s not to say an upgrade isn’t possible, it is. But it takes two (or more) to make it happen. I can’t link to anything in a …

What’s Like RSS? (OPML version)

For a while I’ve thought Dave Winer’s What’s Like RSS? question needed to be developed further. Perhaps some kind of outline / catalogue of open formats that are well-established, have no “owner” but multiple existing stake-holders, and are unlikely to change at any time in the near future. Anyway, I thought one should exist, so …

The new WordPress is Calypso?

Source: Are You Affected By WordPress Calypso? | PJ Brunet | LinkedIn Brunet thinks it’s not going to affect free WP users. Maybe. What would, I think, be a radical move, would be to recreate the PHP model with node.js. That is, rather like VB.NET embedded VB and JSP embedded Java in HTML templates, to …

WordPress.com and App for Mac

Did WordPress just translate itself to node.js? Big question, will they also open-source this code-base for users to host on their own sites? If so, this is probably the beginning of the end for PHP? WP is certainly the only PHP application I run. And probably the most widely used PHP program in the wild. …

Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp

Interesting to go back to Stevey’s Blog Rant from 2006. Quite perceptive … the ascendent Lisps today, at least the ones that have caught my attention, are Clojure and Racket. Neither of which really existed at the time he was writing (although Racket’s ancestor, Dr. Scheme did). Both of which do, indeed, have offered a …