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DiSo is built on the idea of implementing social networking concepts on existing standards where possible. One of those standards is XRDS Simple, a service description and discovery format that is a part of several recent and upcoming standards including OpenID and OAuth. This weekend I decided to build a generalized service for Movable Type that implements XRDS.

I have no idea how to categorize this post from longnow.org about Richard Feynman, a fascinting and personal look at one of the giants of modern physics. Find yourself 20 minutes of pressure-free time and read it, then read it again.

Phusion, via Akita on rails:

These are the slides from a presentation I gave to about 80 developers at work at a recent day-long training event.

Yesterday the news came out that Chris Messina, my DiSo co-conspirator, and Will Norris, author of the WP-OpenID plugin, are joining Vidoop to work on DiSo full time. This is excellent news, for Chris and Will obviously, but also for the ideas and ideals that DiSo represents.

A few of you might be interested in my (frustratingly slow) progress on a Friends/Blogroll plugin for MT. You can watch it take shape in my Flickr set: MT plugin 101.