the ryan king

Over the course of the last year, I’ve had many ideas for blog posts that, for whatever reason haven’t been written. As inspired by Tim Bray [1] [2], I’m just gonna dump them all here in one post. I figure a short quip is better than silence. If anyone seems to take interest in them, maybe I’ll write up more thoughts on the subject.

Scalability

Scalability isn’t about growing, it isn’t about getting bigger, it’s about working at various sizes. It’s about making things constant despite changes in N. It’s about making N less relevant.

Redo ‘Friends and Neighbors on the Web’ using XFN

An interesting paper that should be updated to use XFN-based graphs.

Confounding Things and People

People complain that XFN confounds people and URLs. However, people do this in the real world, too– witness vanity license plates. Sometimes the plates refer to the car, sometimes the person, sometimes both, sometimes neither.

Parsing Microformats

I gave a presentation on parsing microformats, but never blogged about it or shared it with the mf community online. I think there’s some good material in there that I should develop more.