The Mesh
Quote: "I really think we're on the brink of going beyond just 'linking', where the intertwined mesh that connects data, editors, routers, layout programs, membership servers, information repositories, schedules, channels, feeds, objects, APIs, data structures, compound document architectures and dynamic data - all coalesce in the mesh.
That mesh is being formed by a loosely coupled conflagration of an open source community of developers building something great. It's a decentralized infrastructure, currently based on nothing but chutzpah and instinct. It's at this mesh level - that crucial standards building can enable an entire generation of 'openness.'"
Comment: A very important concept...that elearning developers/managers need to consider as well. Current standards efforts are an attempt to create one way of doing things (see One Standard: Why We Don't Want It, Why We Don't Need It). This effort seems to be against the grain of how the rest of the Internet is maturing. Critical statement that standards people need to post on their mirror: "These new kind of tools connect stand alone islands - currently categorized as the worlds of entertainment, communications, messaging, on-line storage, mobile services and personal publishing - together into a meshed universe - somewhat resembling the real universe."