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I thought hCard was for contacts. The MicroFormats wiki page: http://microformats.org/wiki... doesn't have much on using it for places. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... seems better but there doesn't seem to be a good example of how hCard would used for a Place Page. - Adewale Oshineye

hCard is for any contact information — especially addresses and places. A restaurant can be a contact, as can a business. If fact, this is what the format is for, so it's disappointing that Google didn't lead by example and make sure to use the appropriate microformats. - Chris Messina

You can find them -- since at least 2006 -- on every Yahoo! Local place: e.g. http://local.yahoo.com/info-36... Yikes! Half the HTML on the Google page doesn't even use quotes around the attributes. Haven't seen that style in a long time. - Sam Pullara

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OpenFF: Evan Prodromou

It would make a lot of sense to use Laconica as a base for this software and build the Friendfeed-like functionality as plugins. I think it could be pretty awesome.

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Hate Laconica. Build from the ground up. - Matthew DeVries

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Laconica has 85% of the needed functionality. Big additional code would be feed-scraping and clustering feeds for accounts. Building from the ground up is a big waste of time and effort. Also, as the Laconica creator and lead dev, I can commit to providing resources to make this project work. - Evan Prodromou

Oh, also: why do you hate Laconica? Good information to have! - Evan Prodromou

It's just Twitter - Matthew DeVries

Evan, how had you imagined building "plugins" for Laconia? Do you simply mean putting the "load" on the client? Indeed, a laconica and or Twitter client could add lots on top of the respective notification services to provide a FriendFeed-like experience. http://a.tinythread.com/ is a good example of this IMO. The threaded comments there look pretty friendfeed-ish imo. - Meryn Stol

Laconica has a server-side plugin architecture already. 3rd-party code can "hook" important events in the main code and enhance or replace the default processing for those events, firing either before or after the events occur. There are hookpoints in the code for UI events (showing the header, showing the sidebar, etc.) database and domain object events (saving a new status, saving a... more... - Evan Prodromou

@Matthew Devries, no, it's not! You need to look a little closer. - Evan Prodromou

Evan, I do not have any experience with Laconica. Does it already support threaded conversations? That would be a start. - Meryn Stol

@Meryn also, you may want to check out our threaded conversation pages like http://identi.ca/convers... . It's hierarchical, not flat like FF's, and it's based off the same @-reply mechanism that Twitter uses. But it could be customized to work more like Jaiku or Friendfeed (where comments are distinct from other notices.) - Evan Prodromou

Show me a threaded conversation with 10,000 characters of text. - Matthew DeVries

SMS as the core of the service? - Matthew DeVries

Laconica as a base need serious consideration, imho. - Micah Wittman

@evan, while I've got you 'on the line', I'd sure appreciate any feedback on my userscript for language translation - I'm close to finishing an adaptation for identi.ca, but at the moment you can test out the twitter port: http://translatorize.com/ Thanks! - http://identi.ca/micah - Micah Wittman

Matthew DeVries, no, SMS is not the core of the service. That would be crack-addled. - Evan Prodromou

Matthew DeVries: w/r/t 10K of text: not sure I understand what you mean. 10K for each notice? 10K total? What point are you trying to make? - Evan Prodromou

Can Laconica make a post like this? - Laconica is an open source microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OpenMicroBlogging standard for interoperation between installations. While offering functionality similar to Twitter, Laconica seeks to provide the potential for open, inter-service and distributed communications between microblogging communities. Enterprises and... more... - Matthew DeVries

Sure seems like there is overlap between laconica and openff goals. Plugins could be a great way to fill any laconica gaps towards a Friendfeed like feature set - Jason Wehmhoener from iPhone

The Twitter ecosystem is showing sure signs of producing equal capabilities as FriendFeed (except for update speed - that's limited by the speed of the Twitter API), so I think that will eventually happen to Laconica too. If not, then I see not much future for Laconia anyway. Social media will not stop at 140 char microblogging. The future for Twitter - if any - is being a hub in something much bigger, something even more advanced than FriendFeed. - Meryn Stol

At the moment, I have big doubts though if even Twitter will survive. Other ways to do push notification (e.g. pubsubhubbub) pose a big threat. I'm talking long-term of course. But that doesn't make either Laconica or Twitter seem attractive for me as a developer to put time in. I'd rather invest in technologies which seem to have a bright future ahead. - Meryn Stol

@Matthew Devries, 0.8.x versions and below limited to 140 chars/notice. 0.9.x and above will support variable-length notices, from 1 to unlimited. We'll use truncation to deal with channels (like Twitter or SMS) that are space-constrained. - Evan Prodromou

Interesting idea, Evan Prodromou. Does Laconi.ca support real time through the web interface? - Vezquex: God of FF

@Raphael yes it does. We support three different real-time update servers: Cometd (using Bayeux), Orbited, and Meteor. We'll probably have a Strophe-based XMPP update at some point in the near future. BTW, that's all implemented with plugins. - Evan Prodromou

@Meryn Laconica supports a distributed protocol, OpenMicroBlogging, for a federated approach. We also have plugins in progress for RSSCloud, PubSubHubBub, XMPP PubSub, and FETHR. - Evan Prodromou

You may have something here. I'll take a look at the documentation. - Vezquex: God of FF

Great info. Thanks for dropping by, Evan! - Kevin L

I think comments as separate from notices is a big difference. Does Laconica do groups or lists? - Kevin L

Evan: What I mean is that anything evolved out of microblogging probably won't matter much for the future of the web and social media. I think the future belongs to completely standardized hubs, using the pubsubhubbub protocol or a protocol yet to be invented. I simply don't think microblogging will survive as a core technology. I think it will prove too limited by its past. - Meryn Stol

yes, Laconica does groups. It also has lists. - Evan Prodromou

Meryn, the "micro" part is a gimmick. Once you lift the character limit, there should be no problem. - Vezquex: God of FF

I don't see much reasons to have laconia hubs when there are "standardized" hubs, willing to route around anything inside an Atom feed. Why register for a particular when people can get push updates from across the web? All a user has to do in the future is produce an atom feed. The hubs will be invisible to the user. They only see their app, a kind of Wordpress or something. - Meryn Stol

BTW This is one of the reasons why I also probably won't be contributing to the OpenFF server clone. I don't think it has much future. I think we can already see the end of the road for centralized services. I still am interested in writing a client which can talk to all different (either centralized or federated) services out there... From a user's standpoint, broad compatibility with existing networks is a big plus. - Meryn Stol

Last I saw the OpenFF was building toward a decentralized setup, sending content not to the server, but to your friends, who connects to their friends, etc. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, huh? I think the first goal is to build something very much technological the same as FriendFeed. Federation is the next step. But peer to peer is not even on the agenda (at least for the openff project as I know it). And as I said, I don't particularly like that roadmap. It does not really excite me. - Meryn Stol

I kindly invite everyone who want to think on more broad terms about "feed technology" to join http://friendfeed.com/feedtech :) - Meryn Stol

The very first thread I saw about the project, the consensus was to finally just push ahead with federation. If they've drifted from that goal, then yeah. boring. - Matthew DeVries

Laconi.ca is a natural choice to build a project of this type on top of, IMHO. - Earle Martin

Evan, I learned some interesting things about laconica from this thread and will be taking a closer look - Jason Wehmhoener

As this is a community open federated project I suggest to use open source Jaikuengine with pubsubhubbub running on Google Appengine. Reasons: Dealing with scalability(twitter has Big DDOS issues) Google infrastructure is the best, Real time push and pull based on pubsubhubbub (community hub is available). Jaiku threaded conversation is cool.It has Channels too. Regarding Macro (not... more... - Srini Vemula

You don't need to adapt laconica to that when NoseRub is so much close to what Friendfeed is. Actually, there are only a couple of features left in NoseRub to be a friendfeed clone (feature-wise, not presentation-wise). A running service using NoseRub is Identoo.com (Identoo is to NoseRub what identica is to laconica) - Marcos Marado

Marcos, does Noserub have some kind of plugin and/or theme architecture so that changes to Noserub can be made without coordinating those changes with the core Noserub development team? I ask because when I look at indentoo.com it doesn't look/work much like Friendfeed, so it's possible the Noserub team has different goals. However, if Noserub supports plugins and/or themes it's possible that different goals can be supported without any issue. - Jason Wehmhoener

If somebody wants to build plug-ins for Laconi.ca that make it more FriendFeed-like, or join the NoseRub project and add more FriendFeed-like functionality to that system, or just work on other projects that connect FriendFeed proper with Laconi.ca with NoseRub instances, I say more power to them. My impression to date has been that all that's distinct from the OpenFF effort, the intent of which is to build an OSS "clone" of FriendFeed as a new and separate project and code base. - Ken Sheppardson

BTW, I've spun this off into the Feed Tech group as http://friendfeed.com/feedtec... - Ken Sheppardson

OpenFF: Meryn Stol

Who agrees with the following? OpenFF : FriendFeed ~ Laconia : Twitter. - If you don't agree, why not? Please be explicit.

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If most people involved in this project agree, it will probably clear things up by quite a bit. Many techies have a good sense of how Laconica compares to Twitter. - Meryn Stol

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I have never used Laconia :) - Roberto Bonini

I agree fully with that, but that leads to the networks being reduced to nothing more than real-time forums, which I would love. I'd much rather see something along the lines of identi.ca pop up. A hosted solution based on that platform, that outshines it's platform(laconica in this case). Identi.ca is the only real service I've seen use laconica, even though the platform is open.... more... - Jimminy

I think "openff.org" will gonna host an openff instance (if only for dev purposes), so openff.org will be the identi.ca if we follow through with the comparison. - Meryn Stol

Yeah, that's spot on. With the only exception being that Laconica includes federation features, whereas Twitter does not. - Jason Huebel

Jason, but openff plans federation down the road too, no? - Meryn Stol

Jason: I would love to see a federated openff. I think it's the most important part of an open Friendfeed. - arjo

@Meryn and arjo, absolutely. That's a significant goal on OpenFF's roadmap. Granted, it's something that won't happen until after a basic "clone" of FF is complete. But as we go along, architectural choices will be influenced by that future goal. - Jason Huebel

I'll add federation to the roadmap. - Vezquex: God of FF

Think of it as a "reference implementation"... - Tyson Key

Jason - I tried to tell him that, he wouldn't believe me. - Matthew DeVries

I'm kinda tech stupid, but do I understand this right, would a federated OpenFF be essentially unblockable in Iran/China etc., without just blocking the internet outright? - Matthew DeVries

@MDV, probably not. I can think of at least a couple of ways to block content easily. We might consider adding a proxy layer to allow federated communication across TOR or something. But that just a quick idea and nothing I can say would actually work. - Jason Huebel from iPhone

the usage scenario for twitter & ff are entirely different. one way to look at it is that twitter/laconica wouldn't be of much usage if i hosted it on my own server and i was the only(or one out of ten) person there. Whereas FF/OpenFF can be a great tool for aggregation of all the online stuff where anybody interested in following you can visit and subscribe. Of course a truly federated... more... - Abhishek

Hey I picked up that one of openff's goals is federated. I like that, a lot. - Mark Essel

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That really is fascinating. Thanks! - Earle Martin

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Retrofitting Blade runner: Retrofitting Blade runner: issues in Ridley Scott's Blade runner and Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep? - http://books.google.com/books...

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"This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner, especially the film’s relationship to its source novel, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Essays consider political, moral and technological issues raised by the film, as well as literary, filmic, technical and aesthetic questions. Contributors discuss the film’s psychological and mythic patterns, importance political issues and the roots of the film in Paradise Lost, Frankenstein, detective fiction, and previous science fiction cinema." - David Bausola from Bookmarklet

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an excellent book, I've read it on occasion and intend to purchase it one day in one of the Amazon binges - Michael Bravo

The part about moral discourse where it compares Tyrell Corporation to Nazi scientists, (and by dint of that replicants to Jews which would make Bladerunners SS officers) is chilling stuff. PKD said that the inspiration for Bladerunner came from an entry in a concentration camp guard's diary where the guard complained that he was having to play classical music loudly at night in order... more... - Graham Sergeant

more people should understand that inspiration for the story. then there would be less stupid arguments about whether Deckard is (or isn't) a replicant. PKD understood that the concentration camp guards were not *behaving* as humans, despite being human, and having human parts. - Karim

I thought the "Deckard is human" tribe was hunted to extinction in the late 90s - Graham Sergeant

maybe they were, but i've always been in the IT DOESN'T MATTER tribe. :-D it's like arguing about whether it should be spelled "Baty" or "Batty." once you understand that human beings can act like robots, and robots can act like human beings (by using the Empathy Box, by saving Deckard's life, etc.) then it doesn't matter who is "artificial" and who isn't: what matters is who *acts* like a human being. - Karim

the whole "is he or isn't he" argument is just so much tribalism, an attempt to reduce the story to us vs. them. - Karim

which, the story of gutted original script aside, is more or less the gist of the latest Terminator, eh? - Michael Bravo

Michael, yes, and similar ground was also covered in the remake of "Battlestar Galactica," as well as ages ago in the various "Ghost in the Shell" franchises. in the latter there are characters who are completely artificial except for their brains, and one of them has a lot of angst about whether she's still really human... - Karim

I'm an avid GITS fan, so... :) also liking BSG quite a lot, but I don't have a TV series habit, so I'm stuck somewhere halfway through the first season, fully intending to continue though. - Michael Bravo

It's an important distinction in that the "hero", who we have been following for the entire story, even glimpsing into his interior life at the mythical reverie implant, an emotional high point of the film, is the same as those he is hunting, and we are taught, by dint of Deckard's replicant status, that replicants have as rich an interior life as we do, yet are an enemy to be disposed... more... - Graham Sergeant

one man's "destabilization of built-in moral assumptions" is another man's cheesy plot twist. "And the guy persecuting the X's was an X himself!" distracts from the real point of the story, in my opinion. - Karim

PKD was happy to put the question in the novel as a kind of *doubt* -- something the protagonist questioned, something intended to cause cognitive dissonance in the reader. by resolving the doubt (and the cognitive dissonance), the story loses the ability to make the reader question his OWN humanity. - Karim

The revelation that we have been empathising with a replicant (in the sense that we empathise with the protagonist in classical storytelling) is precisely what brings the audience's humanity into focus and the apparatus the story uses to do this is that which makes Deckard most human to us; his emotional reverie inside his most private moment which is actually an implant externalised as... more... - Graham Sergeant

Also, I'm not sure I would call it a twist, it is more of a dramatic reversal in a sequence of reversals that starts with the revelation that Rachel is a replicant unknowingly, Baty killing his "father" and saving his persecutor, to reciting poetry and revealing more emotional richness than any other character in the film. A twist comes out of nowhere but a dramatic reversal is part of the build up to a story climax - Graham Sergeant

Bladerunner raises the distinction between human and replicant so that it can then erase that distinction. - Graham Sergeant

i choose to believe the same -- that the story of 'blade runner' is a story that gives us the opportunity to think about what truly makes us human, and i think any story that does that in an effective way is a good one. when i was in college, albeit a long time ago, thinking about that same question, i was thrilled at the idea that humans were so similar to our non-human primate relatives. - docrivs

if we examine critically the science fictions and current scientific and technological realities that make up our world we can now be thrilled at the idea that we can continue to alter our attitudes about what it means to be human. - docrivs

Docrivs, I'm sure Ray agrees with you."Ray Kurzweil's wildest dream is to be turned into a cyborg—a flesh-and-blood human enhanced with tiny embedded computers, a man-machine hybrid with billions of microscopic nanobots coursing through his bloodstream." http://www.newsweek.com/id... - Tom Himpe

@tom there was a speech William Gibson gave at some scifi writers' gathering (or some such, I can dig it out if you are interested), in which he said that we are all actually cyborgs for a long time now, we just don't realize it yet, meaning. for example, this - you are now digesting information that goes into your optic nerve via pixels on your screen and before that has traveled... more... - Michael Bravo

#cyborganthropology that's pretty damn cool, tom. thanks. the creator of some of the most widely-used electronic musical instruments in the world seems to me to be an appropriate visionary for that dream. i think he'd probably agree that it is fascinating to see a future ahead of us in which the lines between humanity and machine-ity (is there a word for that?) will be blurred even further. - docrivs

#cyborganthropology mike, that's exactly the kind of thinking that has fascinated me for a very long time -- probably when i first learned about computers and electronics, as a child. what is the difference between people and robots, was a question i asked a lot at school. the answers i received were never satisfactory -- all that talk about 'spirit' and 'soul' and 'humanity' and 'consciousness'... it never did it for me. i'm also fascinated with networks -- bits travelling through the air or wiring... - docrivs

Graham, i'm still not buying the idea that saying Deckard is a replicant "brings the audience's humanity into focus." if anything, it serves to turn Deckard into The Other. you can call it a "dramatic plot reversal" instead of a twist, but it amounts to the same thing -- a tired science fiction trope in which it is revealed that the man is really a machine. (e.g. the ending to Star Trek's "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" and The Outer Limit's "Demon with a Glass Hand") - Karim

i agree that the story intends to blur the relationship between human and replicant, but PKD never really explains in the book that Deckard is a replicant. to the extent it doesn't matter, PKD ends the book by having Deckard find a real toad, thought to have been long extinct. Deckard really cares for the toad. but at the very end, his wife Iran finds out the toad isn't real. which *doesn't matter*, because she ends up ordering some artificial flies for it to eat. - Karim

karim: that's pretty cool about the toad. i haven't had read any of pkd's books yet, i don't think. he didn't write 'a scanner darkly' did he? i read that. it was strange, but had some cool ideas. you make me want to watch 'blade runner' again to see if i see what you see. i like stories when the android/cyborg/robot/replicant doesn't know that it is part-machine (or a human-simulated machine). i just saw that alien movie with winona ryder, and this conversation reminds me of her character similarities - docrivs

yikes, docrivs, i hope i didn't totally spoil the book for you? i figured everyone here would have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. :-) yeah, i think PKD did write "A Scanner Darkly" -- the film being fairly faithful to the novel. a case could be made for Deckard not being a replicant in the movie: he feels bad about "shooting a woman in the back," and feels bad about telling... more... - Karim

Dick did indeed write "A Scanner Darkly." I quite liked the rotoscoped film adaptation. With the opening "aphid" scene, it was clear the movie was going to be pretty faithful right from the beginning. - Christopher A Carr

i haven't seen the film yet, but i did look it up to see if pkd wrote it. i like books that blur the edges of reality/dream/hallucination. i need to read electric sheep. that's been one i've been hearing about all of my life. i was more into fantasy sci-fi, as a kid, and didn't get into the future stuff for awhile. no, you didn't give it away -- the book. i'm sure that my having seen the movie first will spoil it more than anything else. - docrivs

Blade Runner riddle solved http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... "the Director's Cut edition - although deliberately ambiguous - convinced many that the hero was indeed a replicant and in a Channel 4 documentary Scott at last reveals they are correct." - John Hardy

Karim, Bladerunner isn't cheesy... ok, the voice over was cheesy but that's gone now. There's no way any of those plot turns from science fiction shows come close to the subtletly of the now iconic origami unicorn. All plot devices and premises are old as the hills, it's how they're treated that matters. and the emotive richness of Bladerunner is unmatched in the science fiction genre.... more... - Graham Sergeant

Graham, i *partially* agree with your last comment. :-D i don't think the movie is cheesy. i think "revealing" that Deckard was really a replicant is a cheesy reveal :-D it's the ending to an M. Night Shyamalan film, not a Ridley Scott film. Mr. Scott obviously would disagree with me :-D as would you, but that's just the way i feel about it. the "Deckard = replicant" reveal answers a question that i think PKD deliberately *meant* to be ambiguous and unanswered. - Karim

J.J. Abrams gave a TED talk on the importance of mystery (http://www.ted.com/talks...) and it's something i agree with wholeheartedly: that it's important for some questions to remain unanswered, that the important thing is that the question *makes us think*, makes us wonder, *adds* to the story because it forces us to consider things instead of having all the answers handed to us on a platter. - Karim

first time I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" i puzzled about whether Deckard was an andy -- which led me to wonder what one was, exactly: how many artificial parts could someone have before they were a machine. which reminded me of the love letter from Hamlet to Ophelia, where he pledges his love to her, for as long as "this machine is to him." (i.e. as long as Hamlet lives... more... - Karim

have you all seen the trailer and website for the surrogates? it looks frickn awesome!!! - docrivs

trailer for 'the surrogates' -- http://news.septagonstudios.com/... - docrivs

docrivs, that does look all kinds of awesome. mashup of The Matrix with Ghost in the Shell :-D - Karim

yup, that's what i was thinking... and 'true lies' (is that the one where arnold's dreaming the whole time?) and 'strange days'... i love this kinda stuff - docrivs

Bladerunner show us 3 characters (Deck, Rach, Baty) who it says are definitely replicant but all display empathy amongst other rich emotions, the one trait we are told, that should differentiate them by it's absence. Each one of these characters also commit murder as well. This is as much a hall of mirrors as the book as we still can't tell them apart even though the film gives us the... more... - Graham Sergeant

The deepest mystery that we'll never penetrate is what it means to be human. Both film and book complicate our thoughts on this. Compared to this, withholding Deckard's status is a bit flimsy. - Graham Sergeant

Thanks for the pointer to the TED talk, I'll watch it. Meanwhile, on the subject of mystery, let me list a quote from one of my favourite books, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin (in a separate comment due to the lack of formatting in friendfeed comments) - Michael Bravo

"The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing. But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. ... Tell me,... more... - Michael Bravo

Good quote from a great writer. - Graham Sergeant

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OK so any chance FF will support replies pushed to identi.ca, as it does to Twitter?

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Yes please. General support for other micro-blogging services would be most welcome, Plurk and Identica would be my top 2. I'd like to CC to these and others please? - Kol Tregaskes

yup yup! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)