PUBLIC MARKS with tag udell

On my winter vacation this week, I've been spending some of my time sketching out a book proposal. The idea would be to explore the professional blog as a literary form that grows out of, and extends, two traditional forms: the resume and the autobiography. That might seem self-evident to blogging cognoscenti, but it's still unfamiliar to most people. Unusually for me, this book would address that audience. Profiles of readers I'd like to reach:

"I’ve gotten plenty of mileage out of XPath and XQuery, and my dream is that these XML-oriented query disciplines can be federated at large scale. But first things first: We need to create the data web".

"That suggests to me that publishing models based on owning subscription will face an interesting dilemma. What happens when the data is inherently decentralized, and when users freely share it?"

"Without structured search there's no reason to produce microcontent, and without microcontent there's nothing interesting about structured search".

"Them: So what are we really talking about here? Me: Do you want the cosmic answer? Them: Sure. Me: OK. We're in the process of creating a planetary nervous system. Them: Yeah, we get that. But how?"