Ajax was big at this year’s OSCON. Whereas the phrase “Web 2.0” seemed to be accompanied by awkwardly constructed sentences, noticable hesitations, or nervous laughter, “Ajax” flowed of the tongue like sugar.
Although this is only my second OSCON in as many years, from discussion with a sample of those I met this last week, OSCON [...]

Update: It has been a few weeks. Now that the dust has settled, I’d like to note that I made an enormous mistake posting these thoughts. I am, in fact, embarassed that I even had them to begin with. I apologize to 37signals and applaud their strategy to convert freeloaders to paying customers. I am [...]

Elias makes an interesing point about tagging and folksonomy. Typically tagging’s shortcomings can be categorized into false positives and false negatives.
The false positives are obvious. The false negatives are somewhat more subtler. Not everyone has the same folksonomy. This is both the boon and bane of folksonomy. The boon is those with similar folksonomy can [...]