Daring Fireball: Take Your TrackBacks and Dangle: a good overview of trackbacks and why they seem redundant.

Dave Winer’s What makes a weblog a weblog?

Sam Ruby’s "The Conceptual Model of a Log Entry". Need to track this.

Jon Udell writes about Engines, steering wheels, and open source, using the automobile industry as a point of comparison to Open Source projects. I gave a talk at a conference focussed on how cellular technology and cars come together in the future and posed the other side of this: how different would the automobile be if the industry opened up parts of the car as a platform for others to innovate on?

From Bryan Bell: “Centralized CSS in Radio”

Halley’s Comment: “Emerson: Self-Reliance". An Emerson theme to a rainy Saturday….

Christopher Lydon on Ralph Waldo Emerson, a fine Concord citizen.

Interesting XML pointers - new features in Firebird/Moz

The SOAP/XML-RPC/REST Saga, Chap. 51 : Good summary of the state of the REST v. SOAP et al argument.

Not having real luck getting a stable Radio installation on RedHat9 on wine. Have it basically working, but it uses lots and lots of system resources and has a few quirks here and there. Will probably stick with Radio on my Mac laptop for now, and decide what to do later on in the year when I shop for a new desktop. Some notes: quirky setting required for Wine 20020408 on RedHat 9 - LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.