12 month ago
plasticbag : I'm afraid I got rather cross with Nick Carr again for doing another one of his posts about why everyone's missing the point... - Arguing that the Web 2.0 rhetoric is keeping people too focused on the browser would be rather less stupid if he'd actually read any of the Web 2.0 rhetoric, focusing as it does significantly on data, services and the way they manifest everywhere.
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33 month ago
plasticbag : There's an interesting petition on public geographic data in Europe that I think most of you should sign - Free access to geographic data that the tax-payer has already subsidised heavily would create an amazing amount of creativity, and social and economic value. Web of data benefits from it muchly. Obey!
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33 month ago
plasticbag : Mike Schinkel's piece last year on well-Designed URLs - This was one of the pieces that I've used as a source recently, although I'm not sure I agree with the idea of recommending alternative short URLs for print. Otherwise, pretty great stuff...
deusx : Mike Schinkel's Miscellaneous Ramblings - Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! - "The following are my (current) set of rules for how to ensure beautiful URLs"
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