Yes, yes, everyone links to Jason Kottke. We try not to recycle the fave memes of the weblogging world here on the File, but we do suggest that this post on Kottke.org has provided an interesting jumping-off point for a discussion (contained in the comments on that post, which we would link to if we could) about the limitations and possibilities inherent in the world of individual publishing on the Web; specifically, how to fix/deal with/ignore the limitations inherent in the organization of all of this information weblogs typically publish -- to say nothing of the often similarly idiosyncratic information contained in websites published by organizations.
(Boy, that's a long sentence.)
Much of the discussion, incidentally, flies right straight over our barely-know-HTML heads, but there's considerably more than technical talk about metadata and DTDs goin' on. One more innovation the Web provides is that its future is not being (wholly) decided elsewhere. It is being hashed out in places individuals who don't run telecom companies or hold office can access -- like comment threads on weblogs. Do we sound very 1997 about this? We probably do. And yet, there it is.
Posted by BT at May 11, 2002 11:07 AM