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Saturday, April 05, 2003    The Alan Kay myth Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary [Slashdot] The myth continues.  I'm amazed that John Markoff is pertuating the myth that Alan Kay developed the Alto machine all by his lonesome.  That myth has been around for years.  Where's the mention of John Warnock and what became Postscript?  Where's the mention of Bob Metcalfe and what became Ethernet?  And what about Charles Simonyi and what became Microsoft Word? Throughout the 80's - Alan Kay was the godfather of computing, until it became clear that he was - shall I say politely - taking a little more credit than he deserved.  By sheer luck, he assembled what can be argued was the single greatest technology team ever put together.  Maybe that's really what he should be credited for - but this myth that he invented the Alto is just plain hooey. He did the same at Apple, using his Houdini skills - to attract experts to his Vivarium project.  Wrapping Apple's money around his expert PR hype, he turned the Vivarium project into his personal playground - where he in fact developed a program called "Playground" with Jay Fenton - our co-founder and programmer - which he stole (or shall I say) "lured away" from MacroMind. They then hired my ex-wife, Devorah to teach VideoWorks to the kids of the Vivarium project - as a sort of "make-up" for stealing Jay. Nowadays Alan is into something called Squeak.  It still suffers from the same problems that Smalltalk did - no modularity and no good way of developing GUIs.  But god bless him anyway - he'll always be "Alan Kay" - the former godfather of our industry - the guy who"invented" the Alto. 10:15:02 PM     - Let me hear from you []  Knowledge Management | New kinds of Content   Topics in RSS Exploring topics in RSS2.0. I've been doing some thinking about how to encode topic information into RSS2.0 feeds.  As a simple test of the Radio callback facility I have implemented a very simplistic protocol.  Within each <item> is a tag <topic id="topic_id" type="topic-type" source="url">topic name</topic> for each topic associated with the item (post).  A concrete example (using the rsstopics namespace): <rsstopics:topic rsstopics:id="the_state" rsstopics:source="http://matt.blogs.it/topics/topicsT.html#the_state" rsstopics:type="generic">the state</rsstopics:topic> Whilst this does have the advantage that it's simple and direct it's also a bit silly to invent a new format for topic information when we have two standard culprits available already: Resource Description Framework (RDF)  XML Topic Maps (XTM) .... I have described approaches using RDF, XTM and a hybrid of the two.  Each has advantages and disadvantages although I believe the hybrid makes the best use of both formats. I'd welcome comments and or opinions from interested parties. [Curiouser and curiouser!] I'll spare you all the details - but any interested parties - who'd like to help Matt bake topics into RSS - should check out this post and contact Matt.  This is REAL important stuff. 5:36:01 PM     - Let me hear from you []    Weblogs and Musicians Musician weblogs. In Online Communities and the Future of Culture I claimed that all kinds of culture-makers were getting online because it rewarded them with more meaningful contacts with people who can appreciate their work. Here are a few blogs by musicians that I happened across lately. Phil Jones' BeatBlog - "what would happen if a culture did try to blog music, to create little fragments of rhythm and melody, to hyperlink through them?" Reusable Music Objects. I like. Brad Sucks -  "I write, record and produce songs in a small home studio and put them on www.bradsucks.net for people to download without copyright and hopefully enjoy. I'm also releasing the audio source files for all of my tracks in case people want to mess around with them or collaborate with me." Violinist blogs InTune diaries - A Scoop site. SongTrellis - seems to be a Manila site for a community of musicians If you know of any others, please leave a comment! Hopefully Google will index this and help other musicians find one another. [Seb's Open Research] Seb's got his finger on the pulse of culture.  There has always been aclear overlap of digital technology and musican's.  An inordinate number of programmers are also musicians.  This is why we abandoned the first music product for the Mac - MusicWorks - and stuck with our visualization/animation/authoring tool - VideoWorks. 2:09:54 PM     - Let me hear from you []  the matrix   Matrix sequel to premiere at Cannes The futuristic sci-fi sequel "The Matrix: Reloaded" will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where its filmmakers and stars will walk down the red carpet. The second film in the "Matrix" thriller trilogy, "Reloaded" will be shown out of competition on May 15, the second day of the festival, which runs until May 25. That's the same day the film will be released worldwide. Actors Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss reprise their roles from "The Matrix," the 1999 blockbuster action film. Jada Pinkett Smith joins the cast for the second edition, which was also written and directed by sibling filmmakers Larry and Andy Wachowski. The final film in the trilogy, "The Matrix Revolutions," is scheduled for release in November. The original won four Academy Awards and grossed more than $460 million worldwide. The world's best known film festival, in its 56th year, serves as a launching pad for movies that are shown out of competition. [Associated Press] [via Salon] In related news: Third Animatrix Released: "A Detective Story" [Slashdot] 1:59:27 PM     - Let me hear from you []    Creative Networks Mapping my creative network. Inspired by Liz's brilliant initiative, I thought I'd try and map out part of my creative network for the benefit of my readers and the other people who come across this blog. The task wasn't all easy, and I found myself wishing for more dimensions to work in - hence the "Missing from the picture" section. But here's the result. Now please don't come and tell me to change my map because you'd rather appear somewhere else; this reflects my current, very personal mental model of my immediate neighborhood. Words in blue indicate themes. Sorry I haven't had time to embed links into the map, but hopefully this will be helpful anyway - though, come to think of it, it might actually tell more about me than about the people in the map!. Drawing this made me realize how people and topics or themes were two very fundamental building blocks in my current worldview - and I believe my left sidebar reflects this. Does everybody think that way? (I doubt it.) [Seb's Open Research] I love being associated with creativity, business and games.  Lots of folks are missing - like Dave Sifry, Doc, Phil Pearson, Kevin Werbach, Eric Norlin and Andre Durand (I think they're joined at the hip), Mitch Kapor, Marc Barrot, Paolo Valdemarin - the list goes on and on - till the break of dawn. 1:45:05 PM     - Let me hear from you []    The Cowgril tells it like it is warfuck "Bombing for Peace is Like Fucking for Virginity" [the reverse cowgirl's blog] 1:24:30 PM     - Let me hear from you []    More designer face masks SARS designer masks. Brand Protection: This article reports that (unauthorized) designer masks in HK is a booming business. [The Trademark Blog] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] This is my third post on designer facemasks in Hong Kong. What can I say - at least they're staying safe. 1:05:55 PM     - Let me hear from you []  New School Tools   Technology should serve the people - not vice versa I'm thinking about the NYT link breakage some more. I decried that it wasn't a good decision for its customers. Wait a second. Are web readers customers? No they aren't. They weren't paying for that privilege. Now, take that to the "free software world." Guess what, when that world decides to do something, you have no voice. Why? Because you aren't a customer. You can't make a "giant sucking sound" as you take your money and go elsewhere. The NYT (and Knight Ridder before it) didn't care about screwing us, because we simply were not customers and were not helping to pay the bills. Journalism is expensive. They decided to turn off the free tap. I wonder when the software industry is going to make the same decision? [The Scobleizer Weblog] This is why I think software should be charged for - based upon the end-user's behavior and usage patterns. If they simply dabble with the software, aren't dependent upon it or relish it - then DON'T expect them to pay.  None of this 30 day free trial stuff. But as soon as they become dependent upon the functionality, fun or community aspects of the software - then it's a reasonable time to charge for it.  That might be on a monthly basis, yearly or flat rate - one time charge.  It's also reasonable to think that super-users will arise - those vocal proponents and advocates who start making demands for features. THOSE folks can get charged even more!  I bet there are a LOT of those kind of Radio users.  I bet they'd pay $100 or more for advanced versions of Radio - that the rest of us wouldn't even care about not receiving. This is all part of the trend to have software and technology bend over and serve the users, rather than vice versa.  God bless Don Norman. 9:46:13 AM     - Let me hear from you []