Bye-bye!

> follow link

The link is a bluish color. It points to BirdBrain's Nest, another fine weblog.

> examine link

Suddenly, a link storm occurs! A link was deposited in your lap!

You know, it comes home yet again that the Internet DOES move things along more quickly... I'm disappearing for a week and I expect that half of you will forget I exist. I'll probably miss at least one big story. (The recent Amazon patent controversy is only what, 3 days old?) I'll miss multiple small ones, but interesting ones. In other words, the penalty for disappearing for a week is stiff around here. (Wait until my honeymoon, I suppose, it'll be even worse.)

Since the features just aren't worth anything yet, in a couple of hours, the Linkback page will simply cease to exist. Hopefully, by this time next week, I should have context and decay working. (I figured out how to do them both at once, simplify the database by linking only to a site without regard to the contents of the links, and overall simplify the process immensely while gaining features, speed of processing, and decreasing time-to-program. Sometimes a little bit of design thought can save tens or hundreds of hours of work...)

On Misnomer, Dru Jay discussed yesterday the relationship of my essay on Weblog Communities and the Tragedy of the Commons. I have to apologize to him; I simply forgot about referencing that stuff as a source of some of the root ideas. While my thinking on the topic doesn't stem solely from that reading, they did contribute a lot to the ideas. His comments are dead on, and I've added a link to that day on his site to the end of the essay; it really belongs as part of it. Do read the comments if you haven't already.

A few loose ends to clean up here...