One Web Day

It seems kind of corny, but I agree online life is worth celebrating and protecting. The motto seems to be "one web, one world, one wish." The first two seem clear, but what wish?

Mine would have to be that people learn about the importance of open data to one web.

Carnage against DRM

Important post from Mircrosoft employee Dare Obasanjo AKA Carnage4Life on DRM and Vendor Lock-in:

A number of recent events in the digital music space has made me start coming around to Cory Doctorow's way of thinking on DRM.
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I now have to make music purchasing decisions based on whether I think iPod/iTunes or Zune/Zune Marketplace will be around in 5 years. That sucks.

I'm definitely not buying DRMed music anymore. Ripping from CDs is the way to go.

First blogroll addition: Jon's Radio

Added a blogroll include to the (for now) right. First addition is Jon Udell, who is a year or so ahead on all things computing and that comes with an astute sense of how computing interacts with individual autonomy and freedom.

About every fourth post on Jon's Radio is a must-read. Check out his ongoing discussion of data translucency and selective disclosure. This will impact you and society, whether you're ever aware of it or not.

hAtom blogger template?

LazyWeb!

I want a(n?) hAtom Blogger template.

Help me with my grammar too.

Please. Frankly I feel a little safer if my data is in a standardesque format. That way I have to rely less on Blogger formally supporting any kind of export.

If you don't get this, uh, learn.