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"My overall point, even though I didn't set out with this as my overall point, isn't that the world needs an Etymologizer, although it desperately does..."
Inside has a long article on the future of copyright law (or, in other words, the future of digital content, or even just the future itself.) This is a good one to read if you are still unsure what all the fuss is about.
Why hasn't the more like this style of blogging caught on? The more I think of how I want my blog set up, the more I come back to something like this. I want each post to have a category (or categories) that it falls into. Then the page becomes more like a database. You could choose to only see web related links, or only see personal posts, or only see posts about travel, or apache, or space, ect... Simple, really, but maybe it is not simple enough? Can you really categorize your interests in a rigid way? Maybe the simple "newest post at the top" blogger style is the most sophisticated thing we can do that still gets lots of people involved.
Looks like Ricoh has a new camera with some of the functionality I've been looking for. With an optional communications card it can do email, ftp, http, fax, as well as create html files containing your pictures. I can't find a price, but probably not cheap.
A little something for the future: the rosetta disk (from eatonweb.)
Postal experiments. Another good link from robotwisdom.