Enterprisey thoughts – John Gøtze
Netlife
Off to Germany
9 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
I’ve been invited to attend the 21st Century Literacy Summit on 7-8 March 2002 in Berlin. Amazing, these guys (AOL/Bertelsmann Foundations) actually fly in people to attend their conference.
“Society in the 21st Century is undergoing rapid changes as it shifts from industrial models to a “knowledge-based society.” In order for the broadest segment of the population to take full advantage of this transition, it is critical to develop and promote a new “21st Century Literacy.” New technologies have already become an integral part of everyday life. They have also transformed many aspects of how we learn and interact, especially in Education, Workplace, Public policy.”
World Book Day!
9 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
Today has been designated World Book and Copyright Day by UNESCO, and is celebrated around the world, e.g., here in Denmark.
So, today is a good day for opening up a refreshed version of my subsite with book recommendations. I’ve applied my GotzeGoogler thingy there, and added a few good, new books. So, go buy a book!
Although I know people like Dave Winer find it politically incorrect, Amazon’s new Web Service (for associates only) seems pretty damn cool. Strange DTD though …
The Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory GotzeGoogle Soap Agent
9 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
No, it’s not a new cleansing agent I have made. It’s the result of my experiments with SOAP::Lite and a bit (13 lines!) of Perl. What am I talking about? Modern internet technology! Web Services, SOAP, XML, WSDL and the Google API, of course! Check it out!
Having Google results served up on-the-fly, on-your-site, has been possible for a while if you used illegitimate scraping or roboting. Now it can be done legitimately using modern internet technologies, Web Services.
But, beware of what seems to be a conspiracy. Hmmm. Is a Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (RAND) conspiracy possible?
Web service develpment is not so much a technological challange (I could do it), but one of open standards.
Digitial city
10 years ago
by John Gøtze
in Netlife
“The Rise and Fall of DDS – evaluating the ambitions of Amsterdam’s Digital City“, Reinder Rustema writes that DDS might not have been open enough because of its institutionalisation and the closed design of the interface which did not allow improvement by the users. It intended to become a broadcaster and mass communicator more than becoming a community. This eventually made the users passive paying consumers of a telecommunication service. In spite of efforts to ‘design’ an on-line community, the major achievement of DDS has been more that it contributed computing power, disk space and connectivity to the internet for public use, much like the academic and research institutes have done in the early years of the internet.”
