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A picture named abe.gifBBC article about RSS, with extensive quotes from Yours Truly. It's a good piece, imho. "Automated web surfing." It's so cool that they got a picture of the sushi belts. Here's a place to comment. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A new demo script for Frontier geeks that shows how to manage a huge dataset in an all-Frontier application. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Wow, someone at O'Reilly has the Really Simple religion. Right on.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

NY Times: "Mr Bush has had his Apple iPod since July, when he received it from his twin daughters as a birthday gift. He has some 250 songs on it, a paltry number compared to the 10,000 selections it can hold." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Clue: Someone ought to give him a TiVO. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A random observation. Today Google News found three articles that contained my name. Screen shot. One was the BBC article above, and the other two were on blogs. Their rules don't work, blogs get through. They're suckers for certain kinds of site names. It's Yahoo all over again, what a mess, so unweblike, back to gatekeepers. I know Google News is useful, I use it, but something is wrong about it. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Podshows are the future? Heh. Maybe.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Okay, I'm stumped. Every XML parser I throw this file at says it's not well-formed, but I can't see the problem. If you see it, please send me an email. For extra credit, skip the ad hominems. Postscript: Robert Sayre gets the prize, being first to find the problem; it immediately revealed the programming error in my code. Runner-up to Gardner von Holt. These guys either have very good eyes and minds, or very good tools, or both.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Watch this space for an announcement, real soon now. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named bucks.gifSteve Rubel asks if the RSS wagon has stalled and quotes me from our Starbuckian podcast in NYC on March 31. I posted a comment stating a new theory: RSS is waiting for its killer app, one that will drive adoption by non-core geek types. I'm pretty sure I know some or all of the attributes of this app. No point describing it, people don't listen. Maybe I should raise the money to make it. Or maybe I've gotten too lazy?  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

If you're shopping for an iPod alternative, the readers of Scripting News have some ideas for you. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Scoble is right, this Tiger Woods ace shot would make a great Nike commercial. I've mirrored the WMV file on my unmetered server. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A picture named iraqPollWorker.jpgNY Times: Blogs Incensed over Pulitzer Photo Award. Could you imagine the Times running an article about negative letters to the editor?, but today there's an article about bloggers who aren't pleased with a choice for the Pulitzer Prize and the way the Times reported it. It's a vivid demo of the progress we've all made, the Times included. Now the former audience is part of the news, as it should be, and not as numbers in polls, but as people with ideas. The reporters and editors always were in the story, but didn't acknowledge it, now at least they admit it's possible. This article is interesting from so many angles.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

     

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