I came across this The P2PJ 2001-December Archive by Thread, which archives an interesting conversation on [P2PJ] Web of trust for Internet content while digging around for graph theory and other comp.theory mucky muck.

This search came about tangentially after coming across a /. post about the USC mo-bio lab solving a 3-SAT (more) problem with DNA computing. USC News article: Engineering: Using ‘nature’s toolbox,’ a DNA computer solves a complex problem. My friend made a /. account to post some info. Will /.’s moderation system work and moderate it up (my long-time experience says no).

Related to infoanarchy thread:

• RDFWeb background reading – Social Networks, Web of Trust
• RDFWeb.org
• See also: SXSW 2002 notes on Open Source Tools for Community and Collaboration and Peer-to-Peer Journalism: Weblogs and Collaborative Media

From the NYTimes: Where Music Will Be Coming From

But the moment something becomes free and ubiquitous, its position in the economic equation is suddenly inverted. When nighttime electrical lighting was new, it was the poor who burned common candles. When electricity became easily accessible and practically free, candles at dinner became a sign of luxury.

Feeling considerably improved today.

Jeez, food poisoning/stomach bugs suck.

SXSW – tiring. At the airport right now, and online having discovered two wireless access points, Mobilestar and Wayport. I paid $6.95 for 1 day’s service for the latter, which isn’t too bad considering the convenience factor.

Moving notes on to http://randomfoo.net/sxsw/ at the moment. Eventual links on SXSWbaby! Notes Exchange to come.

Woo, back online. Blogging from AustinWireless-BoothL1 courtesy of the Austin Wireless Internet Users Group.

Going through the airport wasn’t the ordeal that it could have been. Not having luggage to check in helps, I imagine.

Last post before I head out tomorrow morning for Austin. Ta.

Glen Murphy has a new design up, which he already hates. The non-flash motion graphics are nice and wizzy. With Moz 1.0 coming out soon, I’ve begun renewing my interest in DHTML (primarily for interfaces though, and I’m still not convinced I shouldn’t be going with XUL or XWT).

Speaking of which, sure everyone (me among them) hates frames in web pages, but they’re damn useful for web applications, much more intuitive than the combination of iframes/CSS/DOM manipulation that’s otherwise required. So, yeah, I’ll probably continue using them for that purpose, even if frames are officially dead.

My friend in Austin has been going conspiracy nutty recently, however this is rather interesting. Try to Hunt the Boeing!

Sure I’ll be at SXSW. And as of today, I even have a room. So much left to do, so little time.

[Of the sites I went to for getting hotel information, Expedia had by far the best interface. Of course, doodads worked better in IE and you can’t bookmark very effectively, but the number maps and clean listing of hotels when searching for hotels near a location (in this case, the Austin Convention Center, of course) was pleasantly useful. Even the zooming doodad for the map worked better than expected.]