Erdos Had The Number First

So, everybody and their brother is looking at metadata these days. Why don’t any of the blog engines have good support for metadata?

Movable Type (which is what I use)
doesn’t seem to have any to speak of.

The whole reason why I’m even interested is that I’ve recently been working on some blogger-as-report functions at work. There is still some amount of hesitation, and I’m don’t think it’s a problem to discuss it.

So, we have a group of peole doing research and producing reports. We have another group of people who consume these reports and make comments, suggestions, etc. They are currently using email. This use of email, I think, is dumb. We should use blogs.
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So, people know about the “Tragedy of the commons”, where farmers graze out
common land because it’s, you know, common and it’s not _their_ land.

Research and Tech companies are doing the same thing. Basic research benefits industries and people, not companies. So why fund it? Sure, if you’ve got momey to burn you might allocate 10% of your staff’s time, but you know as well as I do that your staff is going to dedicate that 10% of their time to their own projects anyway. By giving it official aproval, you just aproving of what is already happening (see Dave Barry’s comments about the National Pretend Speed Limit).
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