… the nickname I’ve given to my
previous musings
on
thread evaluation.
One thought I had about an Internet-scale ThreadRank, versus what’s
described there, is that one can’t make any
closed world assumptions.
For example, where the thread patterns page discusses the “blindingly obvious answer”,
it makes a closed world assumption that all responses (answers) are known. In a Web/blog-based
“thread”, there may very well be answers that aren’t known.
Moreover, there seems to be an assumption that most participants read most posts,
whereas with blogs on the Web, that obviously isn’t the case. Therefore, even if a
thread structure like that of the “blindingly obvious answer” was found, it wouldn’t
necessarily indicate that the answer was “blindingly obvious”; it could, say, just be
a message which was of interest to a number of people in some smaller community.
More thoughts as they occur to me … 8-)
Tim apparently agrees
with
me
that word processors may not be all they’re cracked up to be;
So, I understand why we still need spreadsheets and presentation packages, but assuming you had a Web editor with a good change tracker, why would anyone want a word processor any more?
An interesting corollary, of course, is that
OpenDocument
isn’t all it’s cracked up to be either… at least in theory.
“Using this binding, you can do correlated request/response over mail” Ouch! SMTP is one-way for a reason. Firewall admins, ready … set … filter!
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I’ll be there. Drop me a line if you want to get together.
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Nice. Next-gen PageRank? I wonder if the same patterns hold for blogs, or what new patterns blogs introduce?
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Cool. I wonder if there’s any way to benefit from this asymmetry on a large scale? And how does it relate to the long tail? Hmmm, much thought required …
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ROTFL! “I’ve attached a memo written by him that I think strikes the right balance between pre-announcement and non-delivery”
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I’m sorry, but Clemens’ 1.83 ERA at age 43 is one of the most incredible pitching demonstrations in the history of the game. Too bad he didn’t get the run support, which, of course, isn’t his fault.
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“The next step is to understand […] _why_ it is considered necessary/superior to the GET+query parameters approach” Indeed!!
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There’s more to the separation of interface and implementation than meets the eye
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