Vladimir Sedach

Have Emacs - Will Hack

October 20, 2009

Web shortcomings and opportunities

Topic: Web programming

There is a very interesting post itemizing some of the perceived shortcomings of the web over at the SpaceCollective.

Some of those problems have been addressed by researchers in the past - notable examples are Eric Freeman's Lifestreams, and Ted Nelson's transclusion (I assume this is what the author of the SpaceCollective article means by the term collage; in any case you can start using a limited form of transclusion today).