It's going to be the future soon.

The perils of being a science fiction author.

Charles Stross's tentative sequel to Halting State has had to be scrapped once again due to reality preceding art. Another major financial scam has come to pass.

Still I guess it's better than being pre-empted by Dilbert.

Google fanboying: Data Liberation Front.

Googleblog posted a list of all the Google Twitter accounts, which included something I'd not run across before.

A team working towards data portability. Twitter seems to be their main public presence; they don't have a central website.

Their goals are:

• Liberate data across web services.
• Make that data portable across cooperating web services.
• Allow users to own their own data which is submitted to the Cloud.
• Do anything else to allow users to have fine-grained, easy access, and control of their data.

To that end they have been pushing for existing data in Google to get import/export functionality, and building tools to make it easier to transfer entire blogs between providers.