What's with option (c) -- is it a personal thing or a cultural thing? I've not often come across accusations of athletes withdrawing because their chances of winning are 'reduced'. Ridiculous suggestions that injury / illness claims are simply a prearranged reason for not winning? Sure, that I've seen. But this? - Reto Meier via fftogo
Linford Christie almost certainly double false-started in the '96 100m final because he knew he couldn't win, so I don't think (c) is un-precedented. - Nick Lothian
@Nick: Almost certainly? What's that based on? (a quick Google didn't reveal that as common belief) - Reto Meier via fftogo
@Reto - there doesn't seem to be much about it on the net, but http://www.swiftpapers.com/ess... references the belief. It was discussed a lot the time on TV & Radio. Reading about it now, it doesn't appear as certain as I remember it at the time, though.. - Nick Lothian
""Whilst man has been able to split water into hydrogen and oxygen for years, we have been able to do the same thing for the first time using just sunlight, an electrical potential of 1.2 volts and the very chemical that nature has selected for this purpose,"" - Nick Lothian via Bookmarklet
Hmmm ... I am not sure I completely agree. All the examples above are exceptions rather than the rule. We need some sort of system, whether public or private. Most of all though, we need an appreciation of sporting excellent. Some countries make sports way too important. In others the pendulum swings the opposite way - Deepak
@Deepak - India seems to appreciate cricketing excellence fairly well. That doesn't count? (Apart from not being in the Olympics, obviously) - Nick Lothian
Cricket is an edge case, and it's also somewhat recent. Cricket was not big in India till the mid-80's and that was fueled by an upset world cup victory, which led to lots of money (private money) being put into the sport. Plus in places like Mumbai there is a long history of community participation. - Deepak
Australia's government support of Olympic sports began after the '76 games when we failed to win a single gold medal. That was considered a national disgrace, and so formal funding of Olympic sports was started. The break-up of the Soviet block in the 90s helped, because lots of the best coaches in the world became available just as funding increased in the lead up to the Sydney games. In the mid-90s (before China started their program) we probably had the best gov. funded elite sports program in the world. - Nick Lothian
To some extent it is cultural. I come from a fairly sporty family (my grandfather played field hockey for India and has carried the olympic torch), but even for my brother who was super athletic, sports was never really an option, although he has participated in some national level sports. - Deepak
I completely agree with the second part of TFA, particularly: "Any money that the government spends on sport could be better spent on building infrastructure: roads, ports, power-generating units etc. It would also do a lot of good simply left in the hand of the taxpayers, who would then spend it according to their own individual priorities." - Chris Lasher
That part is quite true. Given a choice between sports and education, infrastructure etc, its an eas decision - Deepak
by the way , does this mean that we can now access citation information via Google search API ? Did anyone try this ? - Pedro Beltrao
This result is from a regular Google Search on "PathwayAnalyser: A systems biology tool for flux analysis of metabolic pathway":http://www.google.com/search?h... Note the extraction of the author name and the display of citation count under the search result. - Hilary
AFAIK there is no server side Google search API any more :( (could be wrong?) - Euan
lazywebsurvey: Is this something new that people are starting to notice? - Richard Akerman
as far as I can tell, it was introduced last wednesday 8/13...? I was recently part of a debate about Google Scholar where concern was expressed that GS was not being actively developed at Google, and therefore it seemed possible that it might be canned... This development effectively addressed those worries. - Hilary
No Scholar specific vars in the API results, dang. - Euan
Thanks Euan. It is a pity. Hopefully it is a matter of time but I am guessing they are not allowed to do that by some of the publishers - Pedro Beltrao
"Usain Bolt celebrated his coronation as the world’s fastest man 20 meters early, throwing out his arms and thumping his chest. But he still obliterated the world record in the 100 meters Saturday night, turning his Olympic gold medal performance into a show of astounding talent." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
I haven't seen the final yet, but during the heat before, it looked like he was jogging, yet he was ahead of everyone. It is like he is holding back so he can break his own record later. Bolt is insanely fast. - Bret Taylor
Adewale - you're right. Either his sponsor or some race director will pay him well to set the record again this year. - Hutch Carpenter
I agree with Bret, Adewale, & Hutch. Much better to break the record as many times as possible. Plus, it gives him more personality! Yesterday I was watching his 9.92 and it didn't even look like he was breaking hard...it was so easy. - Mitchell Tsai
Ugh, photobucket has the worst flash media player ever. - Tanath
What an feat of performance - he just blew away the other "fastest men" in the world. Between Bolt and Phelps, I really have to wonder how much further we can peak in human performance... - Vince DeGeorge
seriously @vince...he obliterated the field! - .LAG
I wonder if he can challenge MIchael Johnson's "Beamon-esque" 19.32 200m record. It sure seems like it. - Jeremy Raines
Also -- you know, we're not promised tomorrow. It seems like a true champion would want to set the record as low as possible on a fast track & grand stage, regardless of future incentives. - Jeremy Raines
now that everyone's seen it in HD. - that guy just pushed everyone else who ever sprinted off the table. - Richard Lawler via twhirl
Just watched the French video of this. He looked like he coasted to a 9.69. wow. - Harvey Simmons
I hate it when they don't push hard till the very end.. He could easily have run much faster, but instead had to start celebrating at the 90m mark. It was such a big race as well. I would have been more impressed if he ran it all the way in 9.60-9.65 than 9.69 or whatever it was officially at the end. - Colin Archer
he just doesn't care about the time, honestly, in ten years when the time has been broken, I think we'll all remember the watching him shut it down at 70m and start celebrating - Richard Lawler via twhirl
That was insane. Never seen a 100m run so fast and err .. so casually - Deepak
I'd always assumed that bike helmets were a safety no-brainer (so to speak) like seat belts, but according to this (extensively footnoted) wikipedia article, the evidence in their favor is sketchy at best. It's probably still a good idea to wear one, but... - ⓞnor via Bookmarklet
Very interesting. I had no idea that the evidence was so weak. - Paul Buchheit
I never wear one, but wouldn't drive an inch without my seat belt on. - Anthony Citrano
You guys might not remember the time I got Boeri to offer all Googlers massive discounts on ski helmets before the annual trip to Tahoe. I sent out a note to Misc excited to be sharing this with the company. Over the next hour, I was crucified for being such a naive jerk as to assume that there was any data that a helmet could save lives, etc. Classic Misc. :) That said, anecdotally, I have had my life undoubtedly saved by both a ski helmet (probably twice) and a road bike helmet. - Sacca
Well... you see the pointy end in the back? I flattened one of those while riding downhill when a dog ran in front of my road bike. I clipped the dog, went sideways and over the handlebars, and met the ground with the back of my head which, fortunately, was covered by the helmet. Before that I thought they were questionable (having never wrecked). After, I'm pretty sure I would have smeared my skull on the asphalt if I had tried to use it as a brake... - Kirk Kittell
My cousin, an experienced cyclist, recently was in a bad accident including broken neck vertebrae. There is little doubt that he would have been paralyzed or worse without a helmet. Maybe I've just been programmed, but I find it hard to believe that it would be harmful, or non-helpful, considering the copious evidence there is about the efficacy of motorcycle helmets. (Or is that specious as well?) - Kevin Fox
Seems like it's personal choice based on what you're doing. You could walk or bike to the grocery store and not need a helmet, but coming down a steep mountain or skating pools it might be a good idea. - Chris White
Kirk: Interestingly, the wikipedia page says that modern bike helmets are poor at protecting the back of the head, and people who engage in stunt cycling should probably use a different helmet. Glad it worked for you, of course. Kevin: Motorcycle helmet use does indeed seem to be well supported by statistics, partially because motorcyclists are more likely to hit their head hard, and partially because motorcycle helmets are much more protective than bike helmets. - ⓞnor
"The major causes of permanent intellectual disablement and death after head injury may be torsional forces leading to diffuse axonal injury (DAI), a form of injury which usual helmets cannot mitigate and may make worse.[61] Helmets may increase the torsional forces by increasing the distance from the centre of the spine to the outside of the helmet, compared to the distance to the scalp without a helmet." - Paul Buchheit
There must be one VERY dedicate person behind most of that wikipedia page. - Nick
It seems unlikely they're directly harmful; the rotational force argument seems weak to me. The indirect harm mostly happens by discouraging people from cycling, or by giving people a false sense of security. My take-away is that I should wear a helmet, but avoid trusting it to protect me, don't support mandatory helmet laws, and don't be judgmental about other people who don't wear them. - ⓞnor
@ⓞnor: Before the wreck I had no idea it was possible to hit the back of your head while riding. Maybe if I wasn't clipped in to the pedals I would have done a Superman instead of flipping. Anyway. This is tangential to the rest of the discussion here, but that article is really bipolar. There are some good citations in the article, but I wonder how it fits the 'encyclopedia' intent of the site. It looks like a restrained fight. - Kirk Kittell
Segway riders should definitely not wear helmets though. No sense interfering with natural selection. - Chris White
"In real accidents, while broken helmets are common, it is extremely unusual to see any helmet that has compressed foam and thus may have performed as intended." - bob
If nothing else, this makes we wonder whether bike helmets are poorly designed. I'll keep wearing mine, but it's a little disturbing that they can't show better evidence of efficacy. - Paul Buchheit
@Paul Just make sure not to wear yours in the playground. There's apparently plenty of evidence that that's bad ;-) - Kirk Kittell
@Nick: I'm guessing *two* very dedicated people who both respect the spirit of Wikipedia a great deal. - Kevin Fox
torsion: actually, why doesn't that make sense? The longer the lever, the greater the force. - j1m
It's just hard to imagine that's a bigger effect than the protection a helmet grants. - ⓞnor
maybe it lessens external injuries like scalp damage, skull fracture, etc but increases internal ones - ""The major discovery is that the skull plays an important role in protecting against rotational acceleration," says Phillips. He says almost all head injuries involve not just a direct blow to the skull but also damage to blood vessels caused by the brain rotating within the skull.
In mechanical terms, the head is an elliptical spheroid with a single universal joint, the neck. It is therefore almost impossible to hit it without causing it to rotate. The head tries to dampen these forces using a combination of built-in defences: the scalp, the hard skull and the cerebrospinal fluid beneath it. During an impact, the scalp acts as rotational shock absorber by both compressing and sliding over the skull. This absorbs energy from the impact." " - bob
I managed to read a bit, until I got to "Ordinary cycling is not demonstrably more dangerous than walking or driving, yet no country promotes helmets for either of these modes." At this point, having noticed I was reading the writings of a fool, I moved on. Not that that's not good snark. - j1m
Read the discussion page & history. A couple of people who are convinced that their view is correct, and a whole lot of people going WTF?! - Nick Lothian
I was just discussing this with my wife. We decided that there's no point in requiring our children to wear bike helmets because it's so unlikely that they would get into an accident where a helmet would actually save them. - Gabe Schaffer
Is that because they don't exist Gabe? - Paul Buchheit
Sadly, the community we live in requires bicyle helmets for kids under...12? 14? Irritating. I mean, I understand what they're trying to do, but still. - abacab
I never wore a helmet while biking pretty much every single day in Europe for 25 years, but after I moved to America, I kept getting dirty looks from other bikers, so I decided to bow to peer pressure and wear a helmet... - Frederic
I only wear a helmet when I'm on road bike. I think that the falls are more catastrophic on that bike 'cos I'm moving faster and on busier roads. On my 'city' bike -- more upright, fatter wheels, etc. -- I don't wear a helmet. I'm going slower and on streets with fewer cars. It all depends on the environment. - Kirk Kittell
Paul: Since we're working on having kids, we frequently have discussions about how to raise them. - Gabe Schaffer
Once in high school I forgot to tighten the quick release for my front wheel. Wheel came off when I went off a curb and the helmet saved my face and head from serious damage, although I still suffered a concussion. Based on that single experience, I think you are better off wearing it than not, but that's just me. - Alex Scoble
Well, one claim is that lots of people assume that the helmet helped them in an accident when it might not have (other than by preventing superficial skin cuts). Hard to say. - ⓞnor
I like to think that when I wear my helmet I'm more careful because I'm acknowledging that I'm engaged in a dangerous activity. - Kevin Fox
@Gabe. I hope you're having fun working on making kids :) What do you think about other safety precautions like gates in front of stairs and special electrical outlets. I think it might be good to let our children know that the world is a dangerous place, instead of trying to create an artificially safe world for them at home. - Robert Felty
Rob: I'm not concerned about electrical outlets. I've gotten enough 110V jolts to believe that it isn't dangerous enough to seriously hurt them, but will teach them not to poke stuff into walls. I thought gates are used to keep them out of places I don't want them, not for safety. - Gabe Schaffer
I've read that cars drive closer to bicyclists with helmets than without, which would increase the risk associated with biking while wearing a helmet. - Melinda Owens
Melinda: that was the case in two UK towns, Salisbury and Bristol. personally, I doubt that result would translate outside of the UK -- it's going to be very specific for that locale's driving culture. Personally, I don't even think it translates to where I cycle, in Dublin, Ireland - Justin Mason
@Frederic, that the US for you. @Robert, "that's why I let my kids use chainsaws..." - j1m
ditto. So is there a business opportunity there? - Trevor Glen
Possibly. But you'd have to deal with the Aussie record labels AND the US labels, and I think there has to be restraint-of-trade concerns. Maybe I should complain to the ACCC that US only licensing is anti-competitive. - Nick Lothian
Hi Marshall,
I guess the question is... how good is good enough?
For the semantic web ( freebase's subset of it, actually ) to answer your questions, a lot of data needs to be in place.
Freebase is some sort of a centralized effort to build this database. And that my friend, takes time.
However, I think the true value will come from the other side, from grassroots adoption.
The killer app is already coming from that side, and it is called Linked Data.
If RSS created a complete information revolution, imagine what will happen with a little more RDF scattered around the world. Around the enterprise.
It's a complex system.
I think you should cover Sindice next in the SW saga, and then point people to Kingsley Idehen's Linked Data Browser ( OpenLink ).
Nice to see David's remarkable work mentioned here... ;)
Best,
A - Aldo Bucchi via FriendFeed MT Plugin
@Aldo, you've correctly identified the problem with Semantic Web, but you're incredibly optimistic in your hopes for a solution. I don't see it taking off because it's just more work for content creators to do with little benefit. - Jason Carreira
@Jason
Yes, there is little incentive to publish. But that's not true for ALL publishers. Just those who are counting on capitalizing on the attention generated at the consumption of the data. ( like RWW ).
What about those who need to publish their data for human users, and then need to create APIs to deliver the same data in a machine readable form?
That's an incentive right there, and a BIG one. I have been using RDF for five years to do just that. As middleware in the enterprise, and it pays of.
The problem in that case is more about skills and tools. But that is changing too.
We will soon have our identity + data trying to merge through the walls of many internet properties. RDF is a smart, cheap, standard choice.
Let's say that I agree with you, but I am optimistic because I know how really powerful RDF can be from the "data bus" and blackboard perspective, and I am counting on more people realizing that in the short term. ( it's all in the power of the URL ).
The SW is already here. But it's gon - Aldo Bucchi via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Liking it cause I think the life science informatics people will have some opinions. IMO, Parallax is an amazing example of what's possible with structured data (and there are a number of example that Freebase has done a great job of highlighting, even if it doesn't quite fit optimally onto the semantic web) - Deepak
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-rdf-sy... vs. http://groups.google.com/group... - So Google got less than a year's head start on the SW. 11 years (!!) later, the SW is still gonna be useful, really! Any day now.... (Seriously - some of the stuff out of SIMILE was useful on the real-web. But point me at any other working, non-demoware SW site...) - Nick Lothian
if you look at the "readers choice" it's full of TED talks - Deepak
The Hans Roling/Gapminder TED talk has got to be the best talk ever. - Nick Lothian
Jamie: You're right - it came from a link on a page you bookmarked. - Jen Dodd
Paul Collier's TED talk on "4 ways to improve the lives of the bottom billion" is a great presentation - not as fancy as some, but really striking. I also like Robert Fuller, Stewart Brand, John Doerr, Freeman Dyson, and Bill Stone. (Yes, I have watched way too many TED talks...) - Jen Dodd
On the one hand, there's an incredible Darwinian pressure being exerted on these sites -- only the best one(s) will survive. On the other hand, if they're popping up like mushrooms, maybe none of them will get any kind of critical mass and the whole ecosystem will collapse. - John Dupuis
It took Nature Network many months to get any kind of critical mass going and parts of it are still kind of sparsely populated. - John Dupuis
Remote scripting API for easy embedding in other scientific websites - Todd Harris via twhirl
link user's reading habits with scientific expertise and social graph to evaluate and sort articles or other scientific info. - Pedro Beltrao
A clear use case for why I should participate in a vertical social network. Most don't add enough value or are too fuzzyily described to interest me. - Deepak
@Pierre - well it's true isn't it? I think Deepak summed it up well - there needs to be a compelling reason to use a vertical social network, and the best reason usually isn't features, it's the right users. It's quite possible to build a useful social network without ANY features (eg twitter), but no number of features can save a social network without users. - Nick Lothian
I want it to learn from the success of FriendFeed - Neil Saunders
Nick's comment is right on track. I think a user base is the most important part of a social science network - but the features are the reason those people join (or at least the early adopters join) in the first place. - Andreas Matern
"Circles are sized by the number of medals that countries won in summer Olympic Games. Use the slider to view past Olympics, or click on a country to display a list of its medal winners." - Karen Padham Taylor via Bookmarklet
This is just amazing infoviz. The most telling elements to me are how much being the host country influences the number of medals you win (presumably a 'home court advantage' and a larger number of competitors), and how many more countries have been participating in the games in the last 20 years compared to previously. It's really amazing. - Kevin Fox
That's pretty damn cool. I thought 1936 was especially interesting. - Cyrus Lendvay
It's cool to see that as time passes, especially from 1988 on, there are a lot more countries winning medals. - tim
This is amazingly cool. I love when I can bend time and space to my will. - Jonathan Terleski
It should be possible to produce this with the Google visualization tools. I'd love to see this with a population size and/or GDP axis. - Nick Lothian
Some fair points, but I worked out how to use starfish from the creator's blog post about it, while Hadoop's documentation makes me feel like I need a degree in computer science to get started. - Michael Barton
That fits what I've heard. CS types seem to pick it up pretty quickly, the rest curse the docs - Deepak
Hadoop is great, but turning that into a Twitter bashing session is kinda crap. There are plenty of dodgy Apache projects, too - Nick Lothian
I'm sure Hadoop is great, I've no doubt at all, after all it's being used by Google and Yahoo isn't it? EDIT The thing is that I'm trained as a biologist, so warm and fuzzy ruby gems are pretty good for my level of knowledge. - Michael Barton
Google doesn't use Hadoop. They have their own mapreduce implementation. Yahoo (and many others) are heavy hadoop users - Deepak
I'm sure it's true that Hadoop is better engineered than most 'agile' Ruby hacks out there (ie Starling or Starfish) ... although I've never used either, and I have to take the authors word for it. I was actually reluctant to comment here (let alone on the original post), since the whole tone smacks of flamebait / linkbait to draw in the rabbid Rails fans. .... Speaking of "adults who don't care about getting on the front page of Digg" .... - Andrew Perry
Adwale, but that's not what they use internally. I've head Google folks in Hadoop workshops say "I am not quite sure how Hadoop works, but this is how we do it". Google's implementation is their secret sauce. They are not going to share it - Deepak
Well the Hadoop community is a lot larger. You have entire workshops run by the NSF (see the Google/IBM thing above as well), dedicated to Hadoop. Yahoo's backing helps. I agree with Andrew that the original article is flamebait given its tone - Deepak
Why did the author bring up Twitter, Ruby, and Rails? Perhaps I missed the point of this article. - Chris Lasher
"If Michael Phelps breaks Mark Spitz's record of seven Olympic gold medals, he can thank 4x100-meter freestyle relay teammate Jason Lezak. Lezak swam a stunning 46.06 to anchor the U.S. in an unbelievable come-from-behind victory over France." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
Hm. Call me biased, but you'd think a summary of that even would mention that Eamon Sullivan broke the world 100m record in the opening leg of that relay for Australia (who finished 3rd) - Nick Lothian
As i watch the opening ceremonies, I can't help but think about how much perfectionism went into the creation of them. - Erica Baker
Some people are motivated by extreme pressure; eg: "I don't swim well at the little meets, because it's just no fun; I'd rather not be there," she said. "When the pressure is on, I know that everything I've trained for is coming to this point in time." (http://www.theage.com.au/artic...) - Nick Lothian
http://tinyurl.com/ohchina The country's quest for perfection apparently includes its children.
Lin Miaoke's performance Friday night, like the ceremony itself, was an immediate hit. "Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke becomes instant star with patriotic song," the China Daily newspaper headline said Tuesday.
But the real voice behind the tiny, pigtailed girl in the red dress who wowed 91,000 spectators at the National Stadium on opening night really belonged to 7-year-old Yang Peiyi. Her looks apparently failed the cuteness test with officials organizing the ceremony, but Chen said her voice was judged the most beautiful.
"The national interest requires that the girl should have good looks and a good grasp of the song and look good on screen," Chen said. "Lin Miaoke was the best in this. And Yang Peiyi's voice was the most outstanding." - Erica Baker
I suspected that she was lip-sync'ing but I thought she was lip-sync'ing to a recording of herself. :| - niniane
Clearly China needs to embark on a national campaign to make its little girls more cute. - Melinda Owens
@Gregor, Really it's 2/3 spectacular roads from throughout the world, with 1/3 plain old rural us roads mixed in, except those all have spectacular skies. Yeah, I don't know what they're doing mixed in. - j1m
I recognize that stretch of Greenwich Township, Berks County. It's a great road for bicycling. - Jeremy Hylton
Let's start with some definitions: what is a "network", what is a "collaborative tool", who are "scientists" and what does it mean "social"? What current sites, services and pieces of software count as "social networking tools for scientists"? Just those emulating Facebook? Databases? Journals? - Bora Zivkovic
All good questions, maybe we can have a first hack at them tomorrow at BBC/online here? - Cameron Neylon
I was thinking about writing a blog post about it, but had no time this week and will be in NYC while you guys are at SciFoo, so perhaps we can chat here and then post later on our blogs? - Bora Zivkovic
Great points by Bora - we don't even think about how these things are defined, we just parrot the buzzwords - Neil Saunders
Just don't say "social media" for scientists, or you'll be able to hear me scream from Seattle - Deepak
This is a central problem of all sites that implement social features, not just science sites, most of which are hopelessly web 0.9. Hence the rise of things like Facebook Connect and Google Friends. The best that we can hope for is that developers employ things like openID and better yet shared (professional) profiles like from epernicus.com. - Todd Harris
The contrary view would be that there are already significant efforts underway in standardizing this, and effort would be better spent in writing software and/or building communities - Nick Lothian
I think centralisation and decentralisation are inevitable ebbs and flows of computer systems. For a network to hit critical mass it needs to either manage to be a strange attractor for an interesting group, or offer enough new functionality (like FriendFeed) to bring people in who are already doing things elsewhere. - Richard Akerman
@Neil this is why I thought focussing on the existing sites might be useful rather than taking some grant philosophical position. @Bora I think chat here and/or on Google Doc and then update as we go around. Question as to whether it is worth putting this up as a session at BBC/SciFoo as well? - Cameron Neylon
I second what Nick said. The open social graph will happen, science networks really shouldn't be doing their own thing too... OTOH microformats and FOAF being available along with hashed email addresses would help. - Euan
@Euan @Nick I agree absolutely, that's why I'm pushing for adopting more widely used platforms, while looking at useful features and what people actually use. - Cameron Neylon
I think we should start supporting the standards and APIs that already exist, mainly the standard features that every social networking site needs. Those that don't will probably be left behind. - Martin Fenner
@Cameron - what do you mean by "adopting more widely used platforms"? Platforms as in standards? Or platforms as in software products? I agree with adopting standards, but not about software products (I'm somewhat biased, as I develop a product in this space). I don't think the market is ready for product consolidation yet - there are still too many new features being created, which makes it hard to pick winners. Plus, there's the whole hosted offering (Ning etc) vs installable software debate to consider. - Nick Lothian
@Nick good questions. I didn't mean software products because I don't think the right ones exist, but standards certainly. As for installable versus hosted my personal view is that something along the Wordpress model is a good route. There will be plenty of people with the skills and wish to deploy locally and plenty without the skills or resources to do it. In the end though I don't see this as a single product but as a platform. Essentially that means a data standard and tranport mechanisms of some sort. - Cameron Neylon
@Cameron Well that's easy then. HTTP+Atom+XFN+The OpenSocial REST APIs and datamodel+OpenID+OAuth - Nick Lothian
In terms of open standards/transports, it might make sense to also discuss XMPP Publish-Subscribe/Jabber (http://www.xmpp.org/). There's been some recent discussion on how it may be a better fit for some social applications than HTTP/ATOM. I found this presentation instructive: http://www.slideshare.net/rabb... - Fitzgerald Steele
