What I'd like to see in 201X in regard to browsers

  • December 9, 2009
  • James Skemp
Situation 1: WebKit Microsoft drops all active development on Internet Explorer 9. Instead, they throw their full support (development team) behind WebKit. Apple, with Safari, and Google, with Chrome, are already behind WebKit. Apple's implementation on Windows, via Safari for Windows, is shoddy at best, and Google's Chrome is a completely slimmed down version. By getting Microsoft's support behind the engine you have an experienced team that has already developed for Windows.

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The State of the Web - A Trailer

  • April 22, 2007
  • James Skemp

“It's true that I have some of my best thoughts at night ... or at least, so they then seem.”

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Algorithms or human judgement? Give me logic

  • December 23, 2006
  • James Skemp
Earlier today, it was noted in the news that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is working with Amazon on a search engine.  This new engine supposedly will use human judgement to weight results.  Naturally, sources are saying that this engine's competition is Google.  While Web 2.0 has some good things going for it, this is one of the silliest ideas I've heard of in a long time. First, DMOZ anyone?  Want your site to show up high in the DMOZ directory?

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Status update on logging into my Root /Vault

  • April 22, 2006
  • James Skemp
Thanks to some great support, I'm now able to log in to my Vault.  Now that I'm in, I'll be bouncing around items a bit more.  There's also some great articles that I'd like to comment on, that revolve around the project, so that'll end up meaning new philosophy-related posts (instead of just the porting-over of old ones. Hooray!

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Attention: Where do you put it?

  • April 18, 2006
  • James Skemp

In some way, I found AttentionTrust.org. Basically, AttentionTrust operates under the principle that your attention is both yours, and of worth.

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Web 2.0 and overload

  • October 22, 2005
  • James Skemp

I've been reading a good deal today, before and after my excursion around Madison (on Homecoming game-day, even). There are three that really stick out:

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