malmoe is out there trying to tell the whole story about weblogs: weblogs - was sie sind und was sie können ( via p3k: thanks for putting the original out)

'Weblogs sind mit Sicherheit die boomende Netzanwendung der letzten zwei Jahre gewesen.'

'sie sind's gewesen': why is it over and what comes next??? would be an interesting question, but no answer.

'"Die für mich sowieso interessantere Community in Sachen Antville ist die der Entwickler.“ (tobi) Womit relevante Fragen wie nach den Nutzungsmöglichkeiten und den kommunikativen Chancen und Gefahren von dieser Seite der Vernachlässigung preisgegeben werden.'

what does he want? easy to use, but no ego for the developer?? the 'chicken and egg' game doesn't always work out. i think .. ja, chris pointed to an article: 'Currently the theoreticians are more excited about internal blogging systems than are the people who actually have to implement them.'

it has to be said again and again: the ease of use of antville is not something that is given naturally, but it can be taken freely. there is a difference. wake up out there.

j. coplien: ... If I ask the analogous question for software, whether it really does live in some multi-dimensional world in the same sense that buildings do, they'll probably take away my license to do real work and suggest I go write poetry or something.'

i think that's the point when richard gabriel comes in. instead of bell he works at sun. interesting stuff is hidden under Onward!2002

'The Onward! Track contains technical and philosophical papers describing new paradigms or metaphors in computing, new thinking about objects, new framings of computational problems or systems, and new technologies.'

jeffrey o. kephart from ibm talked about 'autonomic computing' and 'biologically inspired software' and questions like the following have been raised:

How will programming quickly/slowly, in the large/in the small, with closed/open models and with highly structured/unstructured, organic approaches play out?

when i have more time i will try to find out how this was answered.

daniel dvorak talked about 'problematic encapsulation in high-risk systems' but what the hack is 'lean thinking'??