As we continue our explorations about how to integrate metadata into the OLE, we should take a look at Marti Hearst's Flamenco Project.

It has been fun and enlightening to look at the weblogs.com listing.  Fun to see my own blog listed every time I update my blog.  Enlightening when serendipity leads me to other blogs that I find intriguing.  For instance, BookNotes gave me a better sense of Bill Moyer's article in the current issue of The Nation, one that will move up higher on my to-read list thanks to the reference.  

Robert Cringely might be right that Microsoft's predatory practices are not the sole problem with the computer scene, that Microsoft really has no worthy competitors to compete totally on the merit of the technology and the savvy of its business.  He claims that Sun is squandering the lead it had with Java and that Microsoft is catching up quickly with C#. 

Michael H. Shuman (SF Chronicle):  "The U.S. peace movement once understood that peace is not simply the absence of war."  Note that Shuman is the author of  "Going Local:  Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age" (booksense, amazon.com), a book that intrigues the communitarian-Wendell-Berry-local-is-good side of me.  (A review of Shuman's book.)

Ellen Goodman (Boston Globe): "But this is a moment when patriotism can be connected to community-building, when we again remember that there are strings tied to the privilege of being an American and bonds that attach us to our neighbors. The moment can pass too quickly."

Widely cited story (in the blogging community, at least, according to daypop) about possible excesses of the terrorism crackdown at home:  "Armed government agents grabbed Nancy Oden, Green Party USA coordinating committee member, Thursday at Bangor International Airport in Bangor Maine, as she attempted to board an American Airlines flight to Chicago."