If you wondered why Scott had gone relatively quiet, he's working up a new Typepad blog.
4:11:38 PM    

I've been watching Jeremy Allaire's RSS-DATA notion out of the corner of my eye. Then a short post by Kevin Marks snapped my attention into sudden focus by calling RSS-DATA a 'Syntactic Web', a way to "pass around data structures without meaning". Yeah, that's it, the main thing is what it lacks. Coming just after my story about how the research hypertext community, including yours truly, missed the significance of the WWW, that resonates. We were thinking (or implicitly assuming) what was needed and interesting were more features. Turned out the answer was fewer features, a just-enough minimalism. This has the same smell.

Then I followed Kevin's link to this story. Yeah, I'm aware that some of it is mangled. But what mostly caught my attention was the tone of voice of some of the quoted analysts and experts. Methinks I hear the sound of oxen being gored. That's always an interesting sound to a VC....

You might be able to get a long way with a moderately robust data flow formalism, and 2-way or n-way agreements on meaning. OK, I'm paying attention now.
3:49:23 PM    

Interesting post on the influence of the new medium at Jarvis' digs.
9:55:56 AM