Comments on: Sir Tim endorses syndicated Web ratings http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=334 Weblog about the Citizendium project and its Citizens. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: David Gerard http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=334#comment-153322 David Gerard Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:38:25 +0000 http://blog.citizendium.org/2008/09/15/sir-tim-endorses-syndicated-web-ratings/#comment-153322 I saw that and thought of your idea :-) I don't know if something like PICS would ever gain legs again. (The main proponent of PICS finally said on the HTML5 mailing list a few months ago that it's pretty much dead.) Third-party distributed databases would be a lot more workable as they wouldn't require web authors to do anything. I think what the idea needs now is some running code. I saw that and thought of your idea :-)

I don’t know if something like PICS would ever gain legs again. (The main proponent of PICS finally said on the HTML5 mailing list a few months ago that it’s pretty much dead.) Third-party distributed databases would be a lot more workable as they wouldn’t require web authors to do anything. I think what the idea needs now is some running code.

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