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Unsung heroes of open source
  For solving a host of vexing problems with quiet competence, and for doing it in ways that invite others to stand on their shoulders, I salute them all.
Management by objects
  As Windows steadily evolves into a family of products that integrates by means of managed objects, all sorts of benefits accrue.
The network is the blog
  The blog network is made of people. We are the nodes, actively filtering and retransmitting knowledge.
The semantic web, digital identity, and Internet governance
  Individual acts of self-defense may ultimately combine to bootstrap the semantic Web.
Tales from the data-entry trenches
  Locating human proxies between customers and our database records isn't cheap, reliable, or secure.
Whatever happened to SVG?
  It's tempting to conclude that SVG just plain failed. Yet it keeps popping up on my radar screen lately.
Speech recognition circa 2004
  Because recognition accuracy is such a difficult problem, dictation software has to pay very close attention to me.
Can rich Internet apps be web-friendly?
  The idea that an application wears its state information on its sleeve, readily available for users to bookmark, modify, and trade, is an underappreciated strength of Web-based software. As the RIA bandwagon picks up steam, let's honor that idea and find a way to move it forward.
Introduction to MSH
  MSH is quirky, complex, delightful, and utterly addictive.
Under Gmail's hood
  As early adopters discovered long before I did, there's an architecture behind this JavaScript/DHTML wizardry.
The Wiki way
  I asked the JotSpot guys what will happen if Wiki applications become a maintenance challenge, as did many Notes applications before them.
Computer telephony: why wait?
  If the mammals keep waiting for the dinosaurs to die out, we'll keep missing chances to exploit them.
Making old technologies new
  There's no shortage of foundation technologies, and latent within many of them are unanticipated uses.
From access control to accountability
  The way forward, Geer suggests, is not to abandon ACLs but rather to augment them with aggressive monitoring that holds people accountable for behaviors that can’t economically be permitted or denied.
Doing the impossible
  A few months ago, key Microsoft architects were telling me that it would be impossible to decouple the Avalon presentation subsystem from the Longhorn OS.
The TiVo Olympics
  This Olympics was utterly transformed, for me and for a few million other viewers, by TiVo.
Collaborative knowledge gardening
  ...collaborative systems for building a shared database of items, developing a metadata vocabulary about the items, performing metadata-driven queries, and monitoring change in areas of interest.
The architecture of participation
  Discussions about open source and innovation tend to cluster around two opposing memes. One says that open source can't innovate; the other that only open source can innovate. Both are wrong.
A strategic vision for dynamic languages
  As operating systems consolidate around managed interfaces, they'll choose the Java and .Net VMs, not the Perl, Python, or PHP VMs.
Tragedy of the network commons
  A recent survey found that 75 percent of Dartmouth students have shared their network passwords.
Federating identity the Shibboleth way
  Capturing the identity of individuals, along with personal information about them, has become a habit
Web standards on the move
  While Internet Explorer sits on the sidelines, benched by Avalon, the rest of the players are creating some excitement on the field. Go, team!
The Google PC
  On the Google PC, you wouldn't need third-party add-ons to index and search your local files, e-mail, and instant messages. It would just happen.
Thin client, rich data
  Bosworth's hunch is that a Web-style thin client, driven by a rich data model intelligently synchronized with the services cloud, could do most of what we really need -- both offline and online.
Optical illusions
  The real integration challenge resides inside our heads. There is no single frame of reference for data.
The artful logger
  I confess to a deep fascination with the seemingly mundane topic of logging.
Push me, pull you
  Trust me with control of the channel, and I'll be more likely to trust you with my business.
Google's supercomputer
  Google's supercomputer -- or supernode -- gives it a leg up on the competition. Yours, however you define it, will too.
Attack of the killer accountants
  You can’t get from the Model T of today’s HTML and PDF reports to the intergalactic cruiser of XBRL in one turn of the evolutionary crank.
Jack of all trades
  Here's a challenge: Let's improve the various functions performed by e-mail without multiplying the interfaces people must learn in order to use those functions.
Proxy power
  Fault tolerance, service-level agreements, access control, and business activity monitoring are among the many things enabled by intermediaries that watch (and sometimes transform XML) message flows.
Scribbling in the margins
  The fuzzy intersection of official and unofficial data has never been a comfort zone for information technologists
Human interface guidelines for the Internet
  We need HCI (human/computer interface) guidelines more than ever. And we need them not only for Windows, OS X, GNOME, and Flash, but for the uber-platform that subsumes them all.
Making email identity work
  The truth is we've had plenty of innovation over the years. What we've lacked is follow-through.
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