Sunday, June 19, 2005

Here's an email I sent today to people registered for Gnomedex. 

Bob Stepno tells the story public media flameout in Tennessee. 

Chris Pirillo has the "pre-conference jitters." I know what he means, having run three conferences myself in the last two years. It's easier being a keynoter, but I'll be the first person on stage at Gnomedex, and I wonder how it's going to go.  

Kosso does what Kosso does, make buttons. I'm going to be wearing the OPML button myself. Hope he made lots of those.  

BBC: "A computer hacker may have broken into more than 40 million credit card accounts, US company officials say." 

Two years ago today: "We listened to you, we thought you were right, so we did it your way." 

Don Park: "Scoble is to Microsoft what the Schrodinger's cat is to Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: his observations of Microsoft and the view of world beyond it changes the company itself, from the ground up!" 

Last night I wrote file converters for Bloglines and RSS Bandit, to make it possible for OPML Editor users to edit, organize, combine and split RSS subscription lists created by these apps. There's been some unfortunate incompatibility, visible for the first time for users. It's a form of lock-in, but we're going to try to erase it.  

BTW, the OPML Editor understands RSS too. Surprise!  

Seattle weather forecast. Highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s. A bit of rain here and there.  

A glimpse inside Microsoft's rating system from the anonymous Redmond blogger, Mini-Microsoft. Glad I don't work there, I'd be a 1.0 for sure.