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walking around

the Yamanote, the ultra-busy circular train line often thought of as the heart (or more appropriately,

the crown) of the city, and taking pictures of the areas between the stations, when

the common images were too often close to the stations.

29 stations. Over 100 kilometers

paced out between March and December 2003,

always staying within 100 meters of the train line.

For the most part, the movement that started with OpenID and OAuth is largely over. All the cool kids got grownup jobs and have been mostly missing. Think of the people you used to hear from on a weekly basis, and then try to remember when was the last time they had something new or provocative to say.

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I also realized just how destructive choosing standards as a career path can be. The standards world is very demanding and will suck every free minute you have. Most people contribute very little, and at the end, a handful of people end up carrying all the load. The problem is, no one wants to foot the bill for those suckers. Only a handful of very large corporations (mostly telecommunication and hardware) support employees doing standards full time, and mostly to serve their self-interest.

It seems on paper indeed a possibility, but I have doubts about it. The civilization of hunting will be gone (it is mostly the case already), transforming it into a real sedentary community. But the most important change might be the growth created by the massive input of new cultures in the north. All these ships and planes are carrying people. If the traffic increases a lot, some of these people will start staying in these areas and will dilute the initial culture by pushing it in different directions. The traffic will also create massive ecological issues.

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The bookstore has to become a space for meeting (staying) not only browsing. The space might have to be reorganized around discussions opportunities, and maybe access to the books in electronic format, but…

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The ebooks give the possibility of a second hand market with more distribution of the values. When I buy an ebook, I should be able to sell it again and part of the money goes to me, part to the author. Really the infrastructure is already here for this.

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The bookstore is the books storage place. Ebooks only need a computer. Bookstore owners have their values in talking about the books (not how to keep them), then not the space. They will disappear exactly like the photography store of the past. People with knowledge of the books will meet elsewhere.