Well, you may have noticed that I don’t post here very often these days; it’s because I’m working on a new web project, meaning that I will have not have the same time to post on this weblog as before.

After almost 17 months of blogging here, I’m getting tired of writing in englis… yeah, really.

You should know more about it in a week or less.

Today, 37signals lauched their new web-based application, Writeboard.

It allows you to share a text-based document (the same as Backpack’s) with other friends/colleagues. The main difference between Writeboard and Backpack is, according to me, the ability to compare different versions of the document.

I would like to suggest an alternative name for this software: Semiwiki, or a controlled wiki.

I argued with a friend this morning about the citeelement in HTML. I thought <cite> could only be placed at the end of a blockquote element to indicate the source of the quote. And she thought it was for define citations in a paragraph while I thought that the q element was for them. But we were both wrong.

As it’s said in the W3C HTML 4.01 Specification, CITE contains a citation or a reference to other sources.. Well, the example is more explicit:

As <cite>Harry S. Truman</cite> said,
<q lang="en-us">The buck stops here.</q>

The cite element is mostly used to define who said something.

That’s quite confusing, isn’t it? <cite>, <q> and <blockquote cite=""> are really different, but are used for the same thing: quotes.

A List Apart (which also offers great t-shirts) has two great articles about two different things related to multi-columness: one about multi-column lists by Paul Novitski and another one about the “experimental” multi-column CSS3 module by Cédric Savaresse. Worth a reading.