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Happy Bastille Day, everyone. A great day in the long struggle against tyranny.

"The arc of history is long, but bends toward justice." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Turningtables is apparently the blog of a solider stationed in Baghdad. It's very interesting to read. He can't really comment on government policy, but he writes about what his day-to-day life is like out there. Apparently, he's some sort of equipment specialist, so he doesn't do any actual fighting (he keeps refering to the infantry as "pukes"), but he's still out there.

Ry4an wrote another cool little program today: WikiChump. It follows links on an IRC channel and posts them to a PHPWiki page. Neat!

Dan Hon: Inflection Point. Interesting discussion of where to go with metadata and file history (unlimited undo) now that we have such cheap storage space. Doesn't mention LifeStreams, though! I'm not sure if Dan Hon is recapitulating these ideas or if he read them somewhere else.

Brad DeLong: The Gospel of Metadata. Brad plans on just using Google to search for everything on his hard drive.

The cool thing about what Dan writes about is that most of what he suggests could be collected automatically, and would work with a search engine, not against it. I am convinced that tagging files with metadata is a losing proposition versus content-based search. But passive metadata would add to search without requiring any effort from the user.

'AOL Journals' To Bring Blogs To Millions

The "blogosphere" may never be the same after America Online releases free blog-publishing software to its 34 million members this summer.

Could this be the September that never ended, part II? Or will "AOL Journals" just become another LiveJournal-style blogging ghetto?

I welcome all people to the have weblogs, including AOLers. It will be interesting to see how the weblog tracking tools handle the influx of new people.