Eric DeLabarWeb 2.0 from a Web Purist and J2EE Developer

First things first, three new entries to the Blogroll: Bokardo, Like It Matters, and Own Your Identity. I’ve been a long-time Bokardo reader, and the other two entries came from that. Josh Porter from Bokardo is a contributer to Own Your Identity, which is also contributed to by Brian Oberkirch of Like It Matters and Myles Weissleder. Own Your Identity is the blog for the Ch.imp (Content Hub and Identity Management Platform) project, which is described in this post. I love the concept, a decentralized identity hub that you install on your own domain.

I also came across ClaimID, a blog on managing your online identity, which lead me to MicroID, which seems like a microformat-based cross between FOAF’s foaf:mbox_sha1sum and an inverted XFN rel="me", in other words you place a meta element on pages that you own with a hash generated from your online identity (consisting of email and url), which looks something like this:

<meta name="microid" content="mailto+http:sha1:53410a9d6d408f3a92288a6543f16f4a9703ceea"/>

I’m not 100% sold yet and I think I’m missing some of the details, but I’m interested, and I’ve added it to my head element.

I haven’t said anything about it yet, but I love Google Reader. Not only is it an amazing feed reader, it has a neat little service where it recommends feeds to you based on your existing reading list. Yesterday night it recommended Matt Snider’s blog to me.

Matt writes about JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks, and includes some very in depth analysis and excellent code examples. Matt, like myself, seems to prefer a very OO approach to JavaScript, so I will probably be referencing his articles in future posts. If JavaScript is your thing, go check out his site, subscribe to his feed, and be sure to checkout the archives for some great stuff like this article about an isDOMReady implementation, and a great overview of JavaScript frameworks and libraries.

As I said yesterday, if you or someone you know blogs about topics similar to mine, please let me know. If I like the site, I’ll gladly add it to my blogroll, write about it, and probably use it as a conversation started in a future article.