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Sam Ruby seems to be having some interesting ideas about how XPath/XQuery fits into the whole Atom equation. I must admit I’m not fully up on what’s happening here (if someone could give me a brief digest I’d be eternally grateful). However, my 2c: An XML database is the logical backend for a weblog publishing or aggregation system. Whatever the back end, XQuery is the logical front end for rendering weblog style content metadata – as XHTML, ATOM, RSS whatever – it can do so on the fly. If you have a weblog application layer written in XQuery it is human readable and extensible. Plus you can have an entire weblog style content management system written in XQuery. If you have XQuery you don’t need SOAP or XML-RPC – or Atom for that matter, unless… the Atom API can be expressed in XQuery directly. So my question is, can Atom,…

Sean Neville is on a roll with some great ideas: Project Atom, Amazon, Mobile Web Services, and Fireflies at REST via Jeremy Allaire. “

Low-Cost Supercomputer Is Among World's Fastest It is common wisdom these days that because of economies of scale Linux running on cheap Intel boxes is much cheaper than dot com era Sun Hardware. The Big Mac, clustered Apple G5 supercomputer is the world's third fastest and makes government supercomputers look like a colossal waste of money. But it uses chips that are a tenth of the price of equivalent Intel processors, so doesn't this make those Intel boxes look like a waste of money? Does OS X on PowerPC 970 mean that Apple has a real chance at the server market? "The IBM processors in Apple's G5 Macs cost one-tenth as much as Intel's Itanium 2 processor and also less than a 64-bit chip from Advanced Micro Devices"

Kendall Grant Clark: A Web of Rules “if the Semantic Web is to happen, it will be because of a loosely coupled collaboration between three communities: the academics, the industrialists, and the hackers. This view gives me some pain, however, since the hacker community (by which I mean people who develop open source software for fun and for profit) is perhaps the one least engaged in the Semantic Web effort.” “There are some obvious inflection points at which hackers are engaged with the Semantic Web; these points include FOAF, RDF, RSS 1.0, and n3. By and large, however, the hackers are not engaged with the Semantic Web effort and, more to the point, it hasn’t yet generally ignited their technical imagination.” Even if the “hackers” aren’t involved in the formal semantic web effort, my guess is that this is where it will evolve in a ‘survival of the fittest’ fashion…