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"Some basic values have to be preserved." - Tim Berners Lee

Across wires, airwaves, and generations.

Tim Berners-Lee (M.I.T.), father of the World Wide Web...

The Invention of the World Wide Web

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1969 The Future Information Console

The Internet in 1969

"Fingertip shopping will be one of the homemaker's many conveniences. What the wife selects on her console, will be paid for by the husband at his counterpart console."

"An electronic correspondence machine, or home post office, which allows for instant written communication between individuals anywhere in the world." Dig that stylus!

"A monitor checks all circuits every few seconds and serves a backup circuit, if and when trouble develops, and alerts the communal service agency for replacement."

So, I have 19 connected sites right now, but I've kept them all on private. That was before there were mute links for the streams people don't want to see. I know that mute has been around for a long time, now, but my brain hasn't been around nearly enough recently to A.) be very productive with any of those stream B.) consider turning them on just to see what happens on buzz. So, maybe I'll try to make an even bigger mess of things at some point in the coming weeks.

Truth be told, I'm really more invested in anticipation of some kind of a #salmonish nirvana that will usher in an open WWW era for activity streams. Before there was WWW, the old timers used gopher, telnet, ftp, and such for everything. Even with all the advances we've seen in this space, I just can't shake this feeling that all this social stream messaging is still like that gopher stage of the net, and we're still waiting for Netscape to arrive.

2010 -- Something Wonderful

I do like where Orkut is going with these features, and it echos sentiments I've said many times.

/cc @Jyri Engeström @Kevin Marks

Temple of Tolerance: Essential To Who We Are

Obama Backs Mosque Near Ground Zero

I can't possibly applaud my President loudly enough. At the same time, I'm a bit surprised that we haven't taken the opportunity to really put it to the extremests with the fullest force and conviction. This speech is a great first step. I'll try to very briefly summarize why and how I believe we could do much more.

9/11 was the ultimate expression of intolerance for human differences. It was hateful and cowardly at the deepest possible levels.

The best way to respond to those negative intentions is with an overwhelming expression of their inverse: the ultimate expressions of acceptance, understanding, interdependence, and tolerance.

I propose a Temple of Tolerance to be erected -- on or around the hallowed soil of Ground Zero, wherein We The People of the United States of America invite people of all faiths -- as well as those of no supernatural belief or of steadfast skepticism -- to build active places of worship, learning, and inquiry within a university campus style setting. In such a setting, we will interact with others numbered among at least the top two or three dozen religions in the world, in an everyday living context, helping us to both widen our sphere of understanding and practice what we preach as a nation in a very palpable, pragmatic manner.

What else could possibly be more quintessentially American than to respond to the ultimate expression of intolerance with the ultimate manifestation of tolerance?

Footnote: While I can understand and even appreciate the inverse of this proposal as another viable option in the minds of many respected peers and close friends -- namely, religious superstitious thinking leads to all this violence; so don't invite any of them; just say no to all of them -- I also tend to believe that the paths of human self-discovery and social progress are notoriously uneven and certainly imperfect. Therefore, I believe that this deep Openness is better than Closedness, even if (especially if) we believe that our particular Closed world would be the best of all possible worlds for others. How could we possibly ever make such an assertion and keep a straight face, really?