Nine days after I should have said this, Happy New Year to everybody! 
Diego: "Each language and tool has its place. Instead of useless pissing contests, we should be focusing on how to make these various languages and tools interoperate and complement each other better". Diego's defense of Java, which I totally agree with, is a sign of these times. It's great to have all this information at hand and everybody can write anything on the web but how do we protect unaware people from misleading information? How do you tell when a source is unreliable if the source is able to make a lot of consensus around him/her? Unfortunately the pagerank or technoraty score or any other ranking so far has been a good proxy for reliability. Personally, I've seen so many hobbysts with so little clue talk from their elevated pulpits that I'm starting to be a little worried. Last century's end's challenge was to make people create all this bottom-up knowledge. From my point of view, this century's challenge will be to sort it out.
