Search has become the holy grail of the desktop. While search on the desktop is nothing new - Microsoft has been pursuing WinFS in fits and starts over more than the last decade - this time something is different: everyone thinks it's important.

An interesting (old) post in Artima's Java Buzz titled "Are Weblogs an Incarnation of Lifestreams?" by Hugo Pinto asks if Weblogs are the first widely-adopted incarnation of LifeStreams? As it happens I'm finishing up a historical piece on Lifestreams that is going to be published by MIT Press and I've been asking myself that very question.

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