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<body><outline text="I'm not big into competitions, but I &lt;a href=&quot;http://commandshift3.com/site/tommorris.org/blog&quot;&gt;entered&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href=&quot;http://commandshift3.com&quot;&gt;Command-Shift 3&lt;/a&gt; which is like a HotOrNot for web design. I am quite proud of my site's design - it's pretty good for something that's not put together by a designer." created="Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:15:17 GMT"/><outline text="eSkeptic have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-12-19.html&quot;&gt;published a review by Norman levitt&lt;/a&gt; of Steve Fuller's new book on &lt;acronym title=&quot;Intelligent Design&quot;&gt;ID&lt;/acronym&gt;. I met Fuller last year, and his arguments are &lt;em&gt;really facile&lt;/em&gt; (I demolished a few of them &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2006/07/19#When:21:40:37&quot;&gt;back in July of last year&lt;/a&gt; on this blog) - but it was interesting to meet someone who testified at &lt;em&gt;Kitzmiller v. Dover&lt;/em&gt;." created="Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:12:36 GMT"/><outline text="I asked a question on AskPhilosophers on whether &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.askphilosophers.org/question/1929&quot;&gt;the Internet is a significant shift in how philosophy is studied and practiced&lt;/a&gt;." created="Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:14:19 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://adactio.com/journal/1393/&quot;&gt;Jeremy Keith&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zeldman.com/2007/12/19/let-me-hear-your-standards-body-talk/&quot;&gt;Zeldman&lt;/a&gt; have blog posts about the future of the &lt;abbr title=&quot;World Wide Web Consortium&quot;&gt;W3C&lt;/abbr&gt;. I completely agree with Jeremy. I'm trying to remain involved in &lt;abbr&gt;W3C&lt;/abbr&gt; activity - although I can't contribute tremendous amounts on &lt;acronym title=&quot;HyperText Markup Language&quot;&gt;HTML&lt;/acronym&gt; and &lt;acronym title=&quot;Cascading Style Sheets&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt;, I try to spend a fair chunk of time every day keeping up with what &lt;acronym title=&quot;Semantic Web Interest Group&quot;&gt;SWIG&lt;/acronym&gt; participants and Semantic Web people are up to and try to guide them towards what I consider the good - practical, human-oriented problem-solving rather than abstract, technical solution-hunting. I think the SemWeb people are in a unique position - because we can really invent stuff whole-cloth without having to worry tremendous amounts about backwards compatibility, we can really just say &quot;this is a problem, let's throw some solutions around and see what sticks&quot; rather than worrying about browser compatibility and so on. If you are in a position to get involved with &lt;abbr&gt;W3C&lt;/abbr&gt; work, please do - whether it's through the official channel of working on a specification for a member organisation or by being a mailing list or &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Relay Chat&quot;&gt;IRC&lt;/acronym&gt; participant, or work on building tools or unofficial stuff. The only way the &lt;abbr&gt;W3C&lt;/abbr&gt; will improve is if we all help. The alternative is a Web where browser vendors end up dictating where the world goes. And sometimes browser vendors don't always have the interests of Web users at heart. For instance, if a user wants to make their own browser, why should the existing browser vendors make it easy for them?" created="Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:21:56 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://meish.org/2007/12/17/reflections-on-le-web-3/&quot;&gt;Meg Pickard&lt;/a&gt; has a blog post about Le Web 3 and the &quot;Girls of Le Web&quot; video. I thought the video was completely tacky, brash and tasteless, which means it's a great fit for the Le Web brand..." created="Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:49:20 GMT"/>
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