Recognize also that there are very real tensions between doing the right thing in the short term and doing the right thing for the long term. Code centricity tends to draw you to the former; architectual centricity tends to draw you to the latter, and honestly, neither pole is correct, but rather it is the dance between the two for which a particular team with a specific culture working in a given domain must find balance.

via InformIT.

JUST SAY NO TO FLASH

via Tenacious Frog – Just Say No To Flash.

Gotta love a guy who recognizes Flash for what it is – self-indulgent eye wash.

I was looking for Jonathan Cheyer’s Purple Number plugin for WordPress, when Google coughed up Jon Udell’s post: “Purple Numbers for PDF documents?“. I’m glad to see such an industry stalwart plugging for Purple Numbers. While this post is interesting on it’s own accord (it might help to move the years old discussion forward), what really caught my eye was his reference to Silona Bonewald and Citability.org.

Silona Bonewald is the force behind Citability.org, a budding effort to make “government accessible, reliable, and transparent with advanced permalinks”. Interestingly there doesn’t seem to be any knowledge of all the previous related work done in this arena. Also, I don’t see any of the usual suspects listed as supporters at Citability.org. We’ll have to hook Silona up, she’s just up the road in Austin. Here’s Jon’s interview with Silona.

I’ve begun to move away from my old SAsites domain/site. It just didn’t feel relevant anymore. I’ll be using this site as my main biz site. If you got here via my business card, see my About Me page or jump to a description of some sites I have developed.

PurpleSlurple is a little script I wrote back in 2002 as a result of my participation in a couple of news groups. It facilitates fine-grained addressability of Web content.