Interesting words from Ozzie (not Osbourne):
August 19th, 2002
Over the weekend, Ray Ozzie, CEO of Groove and creator of Lotus Notes, VisiCalc, and other apocryphal software packages, posted an interesting take on blogging called Architecture Matters: The Rebirth of Public Discussion. In this he writes:
“[B]logs accomplish public discussion through a far different architectural design pattern. In the Well’s terminology, taken to its extreme, you own your own words. If someone on a blog ‘posts a topic,’ others can respond, but generally do so in their own blogs, hyperlinked back to the topic’s permalink.”
I had an interesting response here regarding this idea, but Blogger choked while posting and I lost it. Dammit.