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July 02, 2003
How the use of a Wiki is influencing the Echo process

Some of you might have noticed that theres a project going on to replace todays RSS formats with a format everyone can agree upon.

Yesterday Clay Shirky wrote a nice piece called "RSS, Echo, Wikis, and Personality Wars" where he talks about how Sam Ruby has moved the format process away from egos (Need we mention Mark, Dave and Sam?) and over to the actuall format.

Though both weblogs and wikis support conversational patterns, weblogs are "conversation as published comments" while wikis are "conversation as shared editing." Weblogs tend towards polarized or divergent views, while wikis tend towards convergent ones, which is just what you want for a conversation around standards.

[Via Mamamusings]

Posted by jarle at 11:11 AM
Bush, not so believable after all?

In the news today: Most Americans don't trust Bush on Iraq

The poll by the University of Maryland found that 52 per cent of respondents said they believed President George W Bush and his aides were "stretching the truth, but not making false statements" about Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's chemical, biological and nuclear programmes.

Another 10 per cent said that US officials were presenting Congress, the American public and the international community "evidence they knew was false," indicated the survey.

Only 32 per cent said that they thought the government was being "fully truthful" about the Iraqi arsenal.

Ouch..

Posted by jarle at 10:08 AM | Comments (8)