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Another Thought Experiment

Another Thought Experiment 01/16/2004 01:04 PM

Mark Pilgram expresses his concerns about how some aggregators plan to handle invalid Atom feeds. Mark believes that rejecting invalid XML on the client side is a bad idea, and proposes a thought experiment in which all web browsers use strict XML parsers and refuse to display XHTML that isn't well-formed.

This is a bit of a bait-and-switch, though. XHTML has the whole sordid history of HTML on its back, and since browsers have generally been forgiving of even the most convoluted HTML there's a substantial backwards-compatibility issue. The XML-based Atom, however, is brand-spanking new, so it doesn't have the same baggage as XHTML.

So, let's try another thought experiment. I've copied Mark's Atom newsfeed and made it invalid XML by adding a single & character, then uploaded it to my site:

http://www.bradsoft.c om/feeds/badatom.xml

Mark asks us to "imagine that all web browsers use strict XML parsers," but rather than use our imaginations, lets see what happens when we browse this feed in Internet Explorer:

Hmmm...IE appears to be doing client-side validation, and it shows an error instead of displaying the feed's contents. Okay, so let's try Mozilla:

Looks like Mozilla does the same thing. How about Opera?

So, the most popular Windows browsers all perform client-side validation, and fail to display the contents of the invalid Atom feed. There's nothing surprising here, of course - any validating XML parser will reject this feed.

Consumers of RSS feeds have had to code around all sorts of validation problems in order to be backwards-compatible with existing feeds. Atom, however, is new, so customers aren't already subscribed to hundreds of invalid Atom feeds. Being well-formed is a requirement of XML, and Atom is defined as an XML format, so why not expect Atom feeds to be well-formed? Let's get it right this time.

Thought experiment

Thought experiment 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
The client is the wrong place to enforce data integrity. It's just the wrong place. If you want to do it, of course I can't stop you. But think about who it will hurt. (1116 words)

"thought experiment"

"thought experiment" 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

Experience Experiment

Experience Experiment 02/05/2005 09:57 PM
The Brand Experience Lab links cool technologies with cool companies.

The great experiment

The great experiment 07/26/2004 08:54 AM

I'd like to welcome both the new Technorati website design and Politics Coverage into the world. We're still working out some kinks and bugs, so don't be surprised if there's an occastional problem - please let us know and we'll fix things ASAP!

Here's the press release announcing the launch. I'd just like to reach out and give HUGE thanks to the Technorati team. I'm so lucky to be working with you. You guys rock.

More to post later when I get to the Fleet Center for the DNC coverage today. As soon as the CNN coverage launches, I'll post as well. I sure hope the Wifi confinues to work after they turn on those ISM wireless video cameras (they both run at 2.4GHz)!

MT Comments Experiment

MT Comments Experiment 04/27/2004 03:59 PM
Okay, everybody out there in blogland, here's an open invitation to post whatever the hell you want in the comments thread of *THIS* particular entry. The ONLY requirement is that you post as ME. So, use *MY* name (Chris Pirillo), *MY* e-mail address (chris@pirillo.com), and *MY* blog address (which, in case you're too to have noticed, is http://chris.pirillo.com/). At the end of the day, everybody has to guess who the *REAL* Chris Pirillo is. So, go ahead - post as "me," and then guess who "I" am. All non-me comments will be deleted and banned permanently, so play by the rules or GTFO. This experiment is only valid for this entry....

An Experiment in Group Editing

An Experiment in Group Editing 05/03/2004 08:50 PM
JD Lasica posted the first chapters of his new book Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television: Check it out at the Darknet wiki. Much of the book has to do with participatory media, so I hope many...

Experiment Shows You Really Should
'Sleep On It'

Experiment Shows You Really Should
'Sleep On It' 01/22/2004 02:11 AM

The Underclocking Experiment @ PCStats

The Underclocking Experiment @ PCStats 06/05/2005 11:36 PM

OpenCourseWare in worldwide use and
experiment

OpenCourseWare in worldwide use and
experiment 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

MIT 's recently released OpenCourseWare ( OCW ) is being used by people around the world , who are putting its materials to different uses.

Mr. Cooper, who describes himself as "a lowly tech-ed guy" at Pacific University, in Oregon, says that he envisions a future in which professors and students, using free course materials like MIT's and open-classroom sites on the Web like Tapped In, will exchange their teaching services through a kind of online barter system.
"I could volunteer my hours [to teach] at the high-school level and that would give me credit to then get other hours from somebody else," says Mr. Cooper, an education-technology specialist at Pacific.
... At a Unesco forum about the project in Paris in July, Alain Senteni, director of the Virtual Center for Innovative Learning Technologies, at the University of Mauritius, said his institution had an interest in translating and adapting the content of MIT courses for French-speaking developing countries.
And Mohammed Dahbi, a professor at Mohammed V University's Agdal campus, in Morocco, said faculty members and administrators might use OpenCourseWare as a model for course structure and pedagogy when they recast their courses during the next few years. University courses, he said, are being rewritten as part of a broad reform movement in Morocco.

The high-profile, positive reception of OCW has prompted other institutions to pursue similar initiatives of Webbing up course content for world usage.

(via The Chronicle )

An experiment in Internet
self-regulation

An experiment in Internet
self-regulation 11/06/2003 03:53 PM
The research of Elisabeth Staksrud may determine what additional laws European governments think are necessary to regulate cyberspace.

The Pitch Drop Experiment

The Pitch Drop Experiment 09/17/2004 12:58 AM
a page about a 72-year-old experiment on the fluidity of pitch .. one of the most viscous fluids known .. liquid .. MORE

physics.uq.edu.au/pitchdrop/pitchdrop.shtml
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"experiment with one of the
screenwriting applications"

"experiment with one of the
screenwriting applications" 03/16/2003 08:25 AM

Database Design Experiment

Database Design Experiment 12/02/2003 03:44 PM
Initial release of the Database Design Experiment

BBC - BBC Four Drama - The Quatermass
Experiment

BBC - BBC Four Drama - The Quatermass
Experiment 04/05/2005 04:07 AM
The Quatermass Experiment live on BBC Four this Saturday .. a live remake of Quartermass .. update

bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/features/quatermass.shtml
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The File Sharing Experiment

The File Sharing Experiment 08/05/2004 12:38 PM

The File Sharing Experiment is a project with the goal of demonstrating how file sharing actually helps the music, movie, and software industry. Folks are encouraged to post purchases they've made and a short explanation of how they learned about the band/movie/game and why they ended up buying something for it. All the evidence is anectdotal, but when taken together, it's already over a quarter million dollars in reported sales and the site has been up for one week.

Personally, this was the point I tried to make in the heyday of Napster. You could find anything on Napster, but rarely could you find complete albums, so the service had the effect of promoting CD sales. I would often surf others' music lists whenever I noticed things I liked, download the things I hadn't ever heard of, then I'd end up buying CDs from Amazon.

Other News: eBay Experiment

Other News: eBay Experiment 07/16/2004 10:00 AM
EBay's music download program is strictly a trial run, so far.

Anarchy Offline Experiment (AO Emulator)

Anarchy Offline Experiment (AO Emulator) 05/03/2004 11:47 PM
Birth of AoE -- Anarchy Offline Experiment

Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu
Ghraib

Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu
Ghraib 05/07/2004 02:02 AM

Stanley Milgram, famous for his six degrees of separation experiment, is also famous for his obedience experiment.  A variation of that experiment at Stanford, called Stanford Prison Experiment (google) is very relevant to what is going on today in Iraq prisons.  It shows where the cutting edge of the blade called Human Nature is so, hopefully, we can sheath it as best as we can.

Frank Gehry Gives M.I.T. Its Newest
Experiment

Frank Gehry Gives M.I.T. Its Newest
Experiment 05/12/2004 09:53 PM
Frank Gehry, the architect, says his new computer science and artificial intelligence building at M.I.T. "looks like a party of drunken robots got together to celebrate."

N.C. Teacher Fired for Milk Experiment
(AP)

N.C. Teacher Fired for Milk Experiment
(AP) 06/09/2004 05:10 PM
AP - A science teacher who conducted an experiment in which students chugged milk until they vomited has been dismissed.

Mac Vs. PC, A Small Cost Comparison
Experiment

Mac Vs. PC, A Small Cost Comparison
Experiment 05/17/2004 01:13 PM
Next time someone tells you that Macs are expensive, you will have a few numbers to put into the conversation! By Francois Joseph de Kermadec, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Other News: eBay Music Experiment

Other News: eBay Music Experiment 08/03/2004 11:15 AM
eBay's experiment in selling music is off to a slow start.

Portsmouth's Free Experiment Expands

Portsmouth's Free Experiment Expands 05/27/2004 03:17 PM
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, expands a one-year trial of free Wi-Fi in its downtown: I first heard about this on the radio program I was interviewed on yesterday on New Hampshire Public Radio (show archived at this page). The first year had 600 unique users connect to a free hotspot in the Market Square area. They're extending that and hoping for twice the users using donated services and hardware. The cost must be quite minimal. Now 600 people (not 600 sessions) only translates into an extra few people a day, on average, but Portsmouth is using whatever tools they have to increase traffic to the community. The fellow interviewed alongside me on the radio said that their big time is cyclical, every four years, when the primaries roll through the state, and that reporters were filing over the free Wi-Fi this last winter....

First Plasma on the Levitated Dipole
Experiment

First Plasma on the Levitated Dipole
Experiment 08/21/2004 06:14 PM

The laptop experiment -- learning or
laziness?

The laptop experiment -- learning or
laziness? 09/27/2004 08:57 AM
Sympatico Sep 27 2004 1:10PM GMT

10.3: Experiment with multichannel
surround features

10.3: Experiment with multichannel
surround features 11/05/2003 10:58 AM
Pretty sure this wasn't in Jaguar. Go to AudioMIDI setup (in /Applications -> Utilities) and choose "Properties For" and select your audio interface. If you have one that supports multiple pairs of outputs (say a MOTU audio ...

DHTML Text Marker - An Experiment

DHTML Text Marker - An Experiment 07/12/2002 09:42 AM
Always liked the way some search engines (like google newsgroup search) highlight keywords in result pages ? Heres a way to do just that using plain old client-side javascript and some DHTML

Jennings leads an experiment in Internet
TV

Jennings leads an experiment in Internet
TV 09/04/2004 06:28 AM
Tallahassee.com - Sat Sep 4, 10:13 am GMT

Community Book Editing Experiment

Community Book Editing Experiment 05/03/2004 07:35 PM

J.D. Lasica is taking my approach to book-writing one more step. He wants community help in writing and editing, and has posted some chapters in this wiki. This will be interesting to watch.

Finite Element LibrarY eXperiment

Finite Element LibrarY eXperiment 12/10/2003 05:46 AM
Release 0.31 !!

Leak An Experiment in Open Source?

Leak An Experiment in Open Source? 02/19/2004 08:38 AM

Hackers continue to experiment with
64-bit viruses

Hackers continue to experiment with
64-bit viruses 08/27/2004 05:47 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 27 2004 9:52PM GMT

N.C. Teacher Suspended for Milk
Experiment

N.C. Teacher Suspended for Milk
Experiment 11/19/2003 03:31 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 19 2003 3:08PM ET

Cloning experiment shows cancer
reversible

Cloning experiment shows cancer
reversible 08/04/2004 01:25 AM
Content.sina.com - Mon Aug 2, 08:38 pm GMT

Alex Halavais » The Isuzu
Experiment

Alex Halavais » The Isuzu
Experiment 08/31/2004 09:40 AM
Enter Alex who took it up and then some. He made 13 false changes in Wikipedia .. introduce false information

alex.halavais.net/news/index.php?p=794
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Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from
Internet

Experiment Cuts Off Online Junkies from
Internet 09/24/2004 03:57 AM

Internet2 experiment sets speed record

Internet2 experiment sets speed record 09/05/2004 11:28 AM

A group of scientests working on Internet2 set a record for fast data transmission between the California Institute of Technology and CERN .

The team, which included folks from AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newisys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second (define) between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles.

(thanks to Suzanne Bonefas )

After bl0g experiment, Illinois village
'vanishes'

After bl0g experiment, Illinois village
'vanishes' 08/23/2004 12:18 PM
Abduction feared. Can you help?
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