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Monday, April 19, 2004
Credit where due 
| | I've given Air America some shit for not having its network together. But right now they say they're back on the air in Los Angeles and Chicago, due to arrive in San Francisco and San Jose (two tiny stations, but better than none), plus others in Sacramento, Colorado Springs, Portland (Maine), and Boulder. And they're already on in Chapel HIll, West Palm Beach and Plattsburgh/Burlington. (I notice with less than the full schedule in at least one case.) Meanwhile they're on the air with Sirius as well as XM. And Dish Network too, soon. Which is cool with me, since I get Dish, and have a household FM station hooked up to the Dish receiver. |
What do the cattle say?
| | This looks like an interesting online conference. Just a bit short on demand-side representation. Unless the host provides that, which might be the case. |
Required reading
Responding to demand
Quote du jour
| | far as i can tell, howard stern saying penis hasn't killed anyone. |
Vaster than you think
| | By the way, denying the poor is what makes conservatives giddiest, much like a few glasses of Dom Perignon at the Moxtopia compound. Close second is reading Maureen Dowd. It's like the homeless intellectual outside the grocery store who tells us we are ripe for a liver transplant. |
| | Most weekends, the vast conspiracy gathers around, drinks French wine and laughs at how the country is spending too much money on a commission only to answer the painfully obvious. |
| | Aside from protecting Americans from its domestic terrorists (liberals), the VRWC was too busy taking three hour lunches. You didn't hear it from me, but after lunch George Dubya takes a nap under the oval office desk with his blue presidential blankie. Much better than soiling a perfectly good intern's dress, n'est pas? |
| | Osama has taken a strong liking to wearing vintage Versace. |
Depends on where you stand
| | One of the reasons I pointed to Sheila Lennon (leading into the Bloggercon session that produced all the inter-A posting Seth laments) was that she had good stuff to say, and isn't in the usual A listings (she's on mine, for what that's worth). I love the way Sheila often just makes Good Sense in her blog, then goes on about her non-blogging life, the professional part of which helped make her paper a Pulitzer finalist. |
| | One good thing about RSS is that every pointer in every post is a knock on the door of the pointee. That's what happened in this case. Truly exclusive places, such as high school and the newspaper business (to pick unfairly two examples), don't welcome knocks from everybody. The blog world is, by design, non-exclusive. Also, knocking on doors is the whole point. If it weren't linky, it would be, um, pointless. |
| | The world of blogs is flat as a floor, with a sharp rises around various edges, which come and go. There's your power curve. Or curves. Focus on those and you lose track of the fact that the whole thing is one big floor. |
Right between the I's
| | In Coding in Paradise, Brad thinks out loud about how to develop code that works within the framework Daniel elucidates. In this response, Brad brings up directory services, another subject dear to my mind. |
| | Identity and directory services kinda go together, I figure. |
| | There is one area of search optimization that the JXTA team is working on very hard: Finding another computer listening to a pipe address. Simply, a computer that wants to accept information or create a two-way conversation. That¹s what most network applications do, so that¹s a reasonable area to optimize. That also means that even if we discover the application somehow, we still have the system to discover other computers in a P2P network. |
| | But why throw away the purest view of ad-hoc networking? Well, I am not throwing it away. Just putting it back where it should belong. Applications should be applications - not a service. |
| | Since you are the one who created the Binary ID work for JXTA, it is cool to see you lay out your full vision for that code. |
| | I also didn't know that the JXTA team is focusing on optimizing search for pipe endpoints, rather than optimizing on searching for advertisements, for example. This is important to know. For example, when designing a JXTA based P2P app, such as a content management system, I would ask myself where I store and search for the files for a particular content site. I might store the actual content inside of JXTA advertisements, and then use JXTA's Rendezvous or Resolver systems to search for those bits of content. However, if the JXTA team is optimizing pipes, then it makes more sense to advertise the existence of that content in an advertisement along with a pipe endpoint to find the content, but not put the actual content into the ad. Instead, I find the advertisement for where to find the content, then open a pipe to the peer that actually has the content. |
| | This is interesting, because it makes JXTA more about service discovery rather than using JXTA as a place to actually implement your services. JXTA becomes more of a directory service, where I search for what I need and find pipes to actually request the service, rather than a place to actually implement the service, such as putting instant messages between two peers into advertisements that are found using the Resolver service. |
| | Much of what they talk about is over my head, but I like the sense of pioneering I get from both, which in the computing frontier is what you get from independent authors who are free to create new interdependent relationships for their code. |
| | I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but the notions of independence and interdependency seem especially important to me lately. The key to ... something. |
| | By the way, if some of the permalinks above don't work for you, Brad's post is also in the comments below Daniel's. |
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