Jon Udell: Soft security, Wiki, blogging, IO

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Updated: 8/6/2002; 12:29:19 AM.

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Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Soft security, Wiki, blogging, IO

Dan Green, aka DotNetDan, passes along a really thoughtful page from the MeatballWiki on tenets of SoftSecurity. It begins:

AuditTrail. An audit trail tells you who did what, when. It doesn't necessarily allow you to undo what they did. It does let you know who was responsible.

ReversibleChange. If anything that can be done, can be undone, no damage need be permanent. Version control is one way of making changes reversible. You can reverse a change without knowing who made it originally.

DelayAction. When you can't reverse a change, delay that action until PeerReview has a chance to prevent disaster.

EnforceResponsibility. Knowing who was responsible is not enough. There must be consequences.

PeerReview. Your peers can ensure that you don't damage the system.

Dan also wonders how Wikis and blogging/IO compare. I'd say the most basic difference is that Wikiites inhabit shared spaces, while bloggers and IOers occupy individual spaces which they then agree to federate in various ways. But it's a continuum, not an either/or distinction. Wikis also federate, and blogs and IOs can become shared spaces. Many modes to explore, many ways to learn and share.
9:08:43 PM

Early adopter advisory: OPML data loss!

How delightfully odd. In my news aggregator, I'm subscribed to the NewsIsFree channel for newly-added channels. The newest channel: Jon Udell's I/O. I never registered it but of course it's public, so it's fair game.

I had been thinking of it as a semi-private space for musings that I didn't want to make part of the more formal record here. Creating such semi-private spaces is one of the next things to bootstrap, of course.

Meanwhile, since my IO has been fully outed, but isn't quite current on NewsIsFree, here's a recent item of interest for those on the bleeding edge.

- Made a separate OPML for my Archives.

- Linked to it from here [i.e., main outline]

- Seemed fine at first, but today I moved an item there expecting to be able to transfer it from the main item to the linked OPML. Seemed to work but...oops, after saving, it wasn't there, and it wasn't here either!

I love the bleeding edge!
8:42:23 PM

Sun's Java versus open source Java

Sam Ruby cites this:

Jon Udell: Java may have arrived late to the Web services party. Grrr. There are plenty of Java implementations. Many are very good. Some have been postively groundbreaking.[Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog]

Agreed. I ought to have said something like "Sun's official Java platform."
12:33:24 PM