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Here's more about the next generation "two-way" web. Sick of these stories yet? This one's a good intro to all the various players (not just Mozilla) who hope to enable the client side.
On line privacy: the good and the bad.
And oh yeah, just in case you thought that Clinton "signing" the new e-signature bill was a good thing: it wasn't. The bill has nothing to do with the very feasible technology of digital signatures (using public key encryption) which could be used to verify the author or signer of various electronic documents (the Clinton admin. is still very against public key encryption.) All this bill does is increase the power of those "click here to agree to this license" licenses. This is purely for the benefit of big business, and definitely not in any way for your benefit (unless you are a big business of course.) Thanks again Bill.
This is one of the things I'm waiting for: the Mozilla editor. This will be a key piece in building the two-way web (start reading at The Web as groupware section for the shorter version.) In other words, Mozilla, and the Mozilla editor specifically, could be the thing that takes web authors (those writing directly to the web, like we do on this site, through little textarea input boxes) to the next step. Imagine that our little posting page was actually a full text/html/image editor. Nice. I've been playing around with M16 (latest milestone release in the Mozilla march to commercial release) and I can safely say that the editor is not ready. But it is really cool. And it's gotten a lot of people thinking. Enabling collaboration (reading and writing; consuming and authoring; the two-way web) is the mantra of web developers. And I would think everyone has their fingers crossed for Mozilla.
Today is the first day I feel sort of normal since I drank way too much with S. on her last night in town. Still haven't really gotten anything done since then, but it's been a good week in other ways. Lots of interior changes. Sort of like I redecorated my mind. Not exactly sure how that night ended. Hope S. is still talking to me when she gets back.
(My dillema of late: If you know what this means, then you probably heard the news already; if you don't know what I'm talking about then you definitely wouldn't care. Oh well. I'm so pleased about this I'm going to blog it anyway.) MySQL has been GPL'd
Sounds good Alex. 5:30. (I'll get our private page up again soon. Promise:)