4/10/2003

Okee. So Contribute is an editor that you, the website manager/creator, can let your clients/content contributors use in a limited way. Still, I want it much simpler and on the web. On other scores I am figuring out exotica like RSS feeds ( a form of the NYTimes Newstracker), and info intake strategies from a very good guy Steve Cohen who is part of the library world. Not to get too far off the track. I care about the social side of techie things, thus don't like to go as deeply as cutting edge software development environment like Eclipse tho' it would be important to understand their implications. I guess I am a little jaded from so many years of seeing NEW, REVOLUTIONARY stuff, that I'd rather focus on the revolution once it hits the streets, often decades hence. Its background. This is not to say its unimportant; it is, but in ways we probably can't forsee just now. I am relatively more interested in technologies that are more in the plain folks world and which are being used in power struggles, and which are at the root of power shifts. This would be control of the spectrum, classic monopoly business & free speech issues, copyright & patent, and how common folk are using technologies, eg, wireless, Palm, etc in interesting innovative ways to better life.