Filesystem Sacrilege.
Preach it, brother! Or as,
wmf would say:
"
Lifestreams lifestreams lifestreams".
I'm a huge fan of this approach. Combine Tufte-esque task-based UIs (he
says the OS is just "clutter"), extended filesystem attributes for
metadata, pervasive search ("Google on the desktop"), aggressive caching
of running applications in memory (so starting and switching to them is
effortless) and get rid of this "file" concept as such.
Then, we will have the perfect computer.
Or, at least that's what I think.
Just a thought: how long until we start seeing advertisements -- text only
or otherwise -- in RSS feeds? I'm not expecting that this will happen in
personal weblogs (like this one), but what about news organizations or
weblog hosting farms?
Imagine: the top item of Wired New's RSS feed: "This channel brought to
you by XYZ". Or Blogspot could sell text advertisements for its free users
(who currently don't have access to RSS feeds).
I can't find anything in Google about this, but with more and more people
reading websites using RSS, can advertisements in RSS really be far
behind?