Untangled

One of the keys to understanding how the Web works is to understand how social networks impact the structure of information (and vice versa). Jon Kleinberg at Cornell University has organized a couple great courses on the subject, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. One of these days, I’ll find the time to (re)read [...]

I ran across a spout yesterday about the uniform interface in REST. Actually, it is more of an attack on resource-oriented architecture (ROA) with the usual sideswipes at REST. Like most criticisms of my work, it got me thinking… not just about what was being criticized (in this case, the lack of REST constraint enforcement [...]

Noah Mendelsohn posted a pre-draft about some thoughts on resources, information resources and representations, in which he tries to make sense of the never-ending debate on httpRange-14 httpRedirections-57.
I’ve been vaguely following this discussion on the W3C TAG mailing list for some time and, against my better judgement, I feel a need to comment on the [...]

Last week, I resigned from membership in OpenSolaris shortly after midnight on February 14th (Valentine’s Day). I won’t attempt to explain all of the reasons here. What I find more interesting at the moment is the propagation delay in the news.
For traditional media, an event that happened last week would be old news by now. [...]

I have been posting things on the Internet for so long, in so many forms, that I never felt a need to join into the latest round we call blogging, particularly since I already spend most of my working days simply trying to get through the email. Lately, however, it seems that I spend more [...]