links for 2008-11-26

this surprised me, a bit

"Except, in my opinion he shouldn’t be complaining about documents. He should be complaining about documents stored in files.The source of my disagreement with Stephen is his confusion between document and file. In his blog post, whenever Stephen refers to a document he describes a file. Documents are not necessarily files and files are not necessarily documents." – the piece doesn't really outline the definitions of what Larry considers files vs documents, but i don't really agree anyway. average users are not going to be able to make that distinction, in my view, so as much as we might like to avoid the conflation it is inevitable.