There's been some discussion of XMPP at sfComplex to use it as a
distributed agent messaging infrastructure. It's interesting that
Google App Engine is supporting it directly:
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/xmpp/overview.html
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It may be the Berkeley Relic speaking in me, but I have often found
ettiquette to be the next door neighbor of fascism.
Do you all remember the Sandwich Nazi of Seinfeld?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 09-09-04 01:18 PM:
It may be the Berkeley Relic speaking in me, but I have often found
ettiquette to be the next door neighbor of fascism.
It doesn't ring the same bells for me. I'm fond of Eco's (vague but
indicating) characteristics of fascism:
1.
Glen,
You caught me in a slap-dash quip which I regretted the minute I started
reading your post. I have long been cranky with some of my associates who
have insisted, for instance, that using caps in an email message is
SHOUTING, or that it is bad manners to send messages in HTML. Now, I
I guess he means the Italian author Umberto Eco.
In a 1995 essay Eternal Fascism, Eco attempts to
list general properties of fascist ideology. I would add
lack of differentiation, uncontrolled growth beyond
the normal limits, invasion of adjacent systems, and
generally malignant, agressive
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 09-09-04 03:09 PM:
You caught me in a slap-dash quip which I regretted the minute I started
reading your post. I have long been cranky with some of my associates who
have insisted, for instance, that using caps in an email message is
SHOUTING, or that it is
Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM:
I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on how to
use the web so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it
be useful. Don had a few barn raising sessions: come with your laptop
and we'll show you how to use
Nicholas Thompson: no, I also don't read blogs. Probably no consolation, but
I don't/
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