Cristian is wondering if I removed comments from my weblog because of what he or Dave wrote. I removed them because the comment server wasn't working very well and it was slowing down page downloads. Now I have put them back.

I don't like comments the way they work today as I wrote some time ago, but I prefer having them because they allow me to get valuable feedback which I don't want to loose. Personally, I don't like to leave comments on other sites, I would like to be in control of all my contents, including my comments. Trackback is a first step in the right direction but it's still missing something.

I think that weblogs are only the first step in the direction of private/public space management applications.

Before weblogs we all had a public space on the internet: our mailbox. Everybody could leave us a message in this space and we could retreive it when we wanted.

In a way weblogs represent the contrary: our weblog is a space where we can write and let other people retreive our content. This space can be open to everybody or only to a group of people, it's a tool help us connecting with the rest of the world.

Weblogs are only the first widespread application that use this public space, many others will follow.

While some may have a different idea, I think that this public space should not exist only on one server or be provided by one vendor. Users should be able to pick services and features from different providers and easily connect them together.

But we need good plumbing (APIs) to develop this vision, we must get to the point where everybody will be able to connect tools with a single click.

Yesterday my little RSS experiment didn't work very well. I'll run it again next week. Thank you for your help.

Swimming with the Razorfishes: Now that Paolo has stolen this gif from Dave, I have to link to it. I'm absolutely mesmerized by this animation.

My wife got the image in a message of a mailing list, she forwarded it to me, I posted it, Marc picked it up, Dave too, no thefts. :-)