I've just published an issue of my newsletter, the Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. Here's the table of contents:
The
year of unique IDs: We're about to get very interested
in assigning meaningless numbers to lots of things. Very
interested.
Last year, it was Web
2.0 and tagging.
This year, it's going to be unique IDs (UIDs), and
for the same reason that Web 2.0 and tagging matter:
The Web is going miscellaneous. (The fact that I'm
writing a book about the invigoration of the miscellaneous
could not possibly have colored my perception. Nope.
All of this is based on highly scientifical research
done by people with clipboards who were teased as children.)...
Living
on an Internet houseboat: Save the Net for aging hippies?
Probably not going to happen.
As we survey the damage being done to the Internet by (sometimes)
well-meaning regulators trying to save the Net from itself,
I find myself asking: Are we living on the same Internet
planet?
The answer pretty clearly is No. And it's not just regulators
whose vision of the Net is so at odds with mine. There are
plenty of academics, librarians, and even some of the Net's
creators who view it as an occasional resource, a place to
go to do research, and a swamp of filth.
To me, the Internet is a social world...
My
book: Progress report: Here's what chapter 3 looks
like.
Although readers of my blog might not know it, working on Everything
is Miscellaneous is my full-time job. Here's what
chapter 3 is currently about, although it may undergo drastic
revision...
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by D. Weinberger at December 7, 2005 06:08 PM
Comments
Nice! I especially liked the unique ID piece.
Related and probably of interest is the new info: URI scheme:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/uri/info.html
URIs can be used as unique IDs (e.g., permalinks), and info: is an interesting effort to have a standard designed for identification rather than access or naming.
Regarding your note #1: I don't know if I'll launch anything before you're done with your book, but my project, the iCite net, is built on a globally unique ID mechanism, iCNS, that is a DNS-like approach to maintaining a globally addressable collection(s) of unique identifiers (for electronic things, e.g., documents, people, bits, etc., acccessible via computer networks).
Posted by: Jay Fienberg | December 8, 2005 03:13 AM