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lets see what we can do with SVG + CSS3 combo

im lazy so i will just quote:
http://www.caslon.com.au/weblogprofile1.htm
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Several studies indicate that most blogs are abandoned soon after creation (with 60% to 80% abandoned within one month, depending on whose figures you choose to believe) and that few are regularly updated.

The 'average blog' thus has the lifespan of a fruitfly. One cruel reader of this page commented that the average blog also has the intelligence of a fly.
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From creators of Skype comes new start-up. Joost (http://www.joost.com/, currently in beta stage) is a video content silo, much like youtube, just with "serious" content - copyrighted, full movies and so on.

It hopes to get money from in-video advertising.
So, lets just wait and see how it will turn out

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hmm...
ok. now i have the word for swarm inteligence and self-consiousness of complex systems. Thailence. whatever.

Thalience and the Semantic Web
http://tersesystems.com/post/400060.jhtml

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One of the fundamental constructs of Thalience is the mutability of identity. To humans, who have concepts thousands of years old for naming and identifying the world around them, from Eden onwards, it would be a little unnerving to have trees, rocks and soil identifying themselves. However, this is precisely what the omnipresent Winds must do; as the form changes from sand grain to rock to brick, the Winds exchange information about what they are and what they do. When there isn't a clear word for what they are, they invent one and scatter consensus information about it. The end result is that while a human can pick up a sand grain and talk to it individually, he has no hope of talking to the desert, which is the communual intelligence of billions of sandgrains and an uncountable number of nanotech entities.
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