February 1, 2004

A New Architecture for News. It will start at the writing level, and move upward from there. That is the key. But how to we make this almost infinitely granular idea something we can all use? I don't see anything on the horizon (though I'm hearing about stuff over the horizon) that will begin to do it. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 6:27:07 PM     Card-based programming environment stacks up. Macworld reviews Revolution 2.1, a casual programming environment for non-programmers that's similar to HyperCard: On the surface, Revolution works much like the HyperCard we knew and loved. Your program is a set of blank cards. Just draw buttons, text fields, and other interface doodads; then assign simple actions to some of those elements with Revolution's Transcript language. You'll wind up with a card "stack" that's a working, running piece of software. The commercial software, which is offered for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and other operating systems, can import HyperCard and SuperCard stacks and supports SQL databases, data in XML, HTML, RDF and RTF formats, and the Internet protocols TCP, HTTP, and FTP. It is sold in $149, $299, and $999 editions. [Workbench] 6:25:31 PM     Social Networking Article with Key Links Posted Just posted a story on social networking and online collaboration with key links listed. 1:21:29 PM

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