Xarg blog Archive

There is a great interview with Martin Fowler at artima.com. One thing in particular that caught my interest was his views on code ownership (and they are the same as mine).

Martin Fowler:

Weak code ownership and refactoring are OK. Collective code ownership and refactoring are OK. But strong code ownership and refactoring are a right pain in the butt, because a lot of the refactorings you want to make you can't make. You can't make the refactorings, because you can't go into the calling code and make the necessary updates there. That's why strong code ownership doesn't go well with refactoring, but weak code ownership works fine with refactoring.

It's exciting to see the uptake of the RSS 2.0 Blog Archive format described by Dave Winer. Theres are namespaces defined for Radio and Movable Type and there are several blog browsers being written.

From looking at the server logs I see more and more services which are consuming blogs and hopefully doing something interesting with them. Providing full archives in an easily consumed format should help that along. Blogdex and daypop are cool but even cooler are the services that will take your archive and help you explore the things you are already thinking about like technorati and blogstreet. I would like to see a service take your browsing history, let you score your interest in the pages you visited, and generate a personalized syndicated feed. (something like the Amazon "Page You made" page only with ideas rather than products).