pointdexter points out that the best of FOAF isn't getting a page telling who you know - you already know THAT - it's being able to find people who you SHOULD know. currently FOAF accommodates that because I can look at the people's FOAF files that I have linked and see who they linked, so i can figure out if maybe i should know them. what it doesn't do is help you find arbitrary people who you should know but aren't really linked to yet - so there needs be a LOFF (Looking For a Friend) application built on top of FOAF that will check out FOAF geopoints, similar interests (blogs or keywords) and spit back people you may want to know. anything to keep us from going down to the bar and meeting drunks.#

peter merholz links a review that he co-author for Boxes And Arrows. It's interesting because it looks past a big name and checks the facts and the process behind a recommendation. I liked reading the review.#

matthew denis writes about how his workplace is dying and it is oh-so-obvious. cubicles disappear and strangely the others get larger. and employees are such a rarity they are treated like animals in a zoo. i would hate working like that.#

les wonders about the Mechanical Turk behind Google's AdSense service that notices when people complain about the monotonous ads and changes them on account of it.#

derek writes about why i don't normally goto conferences... waiting in lines. i hate at it.#

neil writes about how there are no killer features that will make one browser better than any other. there are only killer apps which create a new domain... he says that ''People won't switch to Mozilla or Firebird because of any great features, because those features aren't what people think of as a browser. The only way to get people to use a browser is if that browser is something else. Like, a complex information-overflown workflow organizer. Oh, and to anyone who wants to create that, don't put a Back button in it -- people will think it's a browser.'' - yep.#

dave pollard meta-blogs about writing and blogging. the blogging process. he has a nice diagram that matches mine fairly well. he then moves on to talking about the next step of blogging and the things that fit around this diagram. the key point is that a blog is very a blunt instrument and for real conversation it would be useful to easily move a discussion to other mediums (when appropriate) and maintain links between them all so that the discussion could be tracked, yet be at the right place at the right time. pie in the sky, but what a nice pie it would be.#

discovering that you don't always need the mouse is a very liberating and productivity increasing moment indeed. one thing to make sure you bring along with you: nice wrist and forearm cushions so you don't get them all worn out on the side of a desk. i don't really use my mouse in unix, but a lot in os x... but i mostly do browsing there so i find it to be reasonable.#

dr. frank informs us today about how to do vocals in the studio. he talks a lot about how your vocals are just another instrument that need the same amount of attention and arrangement. he writes a little about what he's been doing recently and i noticed what he's talking about because i just got his Eight Little Songs in the mail yesterday. it's very good, it reminds more of his other solo cd rather than MTX in general. i like it verrry much.#

keith writes on ''Standards, Semantic Markup, Distributed Authorship and Knowledge Management'' - interesting#

proceedings from the Linux Symposium 2003 are here - yummy pdfs.#

carly really liked the movie "How To Deal" and wishes she looked like Mandy Moore's character. she muses on wanting to look "classy" versus "indie rock" - i think she could do it. side note, a friend of mine just got his hair cut and i said it looked very emo, he said "You started it. Plus I specifically asked for 'indie rock.'" - i thought it was very funny.#