In another off-line conversation with Allen Searls I was discussing the “release” of ReBlg (among other things). Allen quite correctly gently smacked me down for having these conversations in email and not blogging my thoughts, and that reminder and his recent post spurred me into action today.
I think that the ReBlg critics have been […]

Scoble says:
It [new blog service that he can’t discuss in detail] also will make comments unneccessary.
I’m not so sure, but am willing to be convinced. I’ve been thinking about how to solve the comment problem for a while but haven’t had any good ideas. As I was discussing with Allen a few days […]

Well, I’m back from my in-law laden vacation in Boston and a great time was had by all. Luckily I’ve got a wonderful set of in-laws who are always fun to be with and whom I love like family (which is good, since they are).
We stayed at the Kingdom Fine Arts Bed & Breakfast, […]

I’ve been really digging a lot of what Joshua Porter says over at Bokardo (and I really like the layout and interface of his site). But here’s a timely tale:
Here’s a scenario sure to be familiar to most of you:You’re in your feed reader, and you’re scanning your feeds to see what’s new […]

I don’t know if this has been done before - it’s so simple that it probably has - but I’m going to post it anyway.
I’ve been looking for a quick and easy solution to allow me to see a list of my del.icio.us tags in my Firefox window. I tag items in del.icio.us using […]

One argument that I’ve heard against Ads-in-RSS goes like this: “Ads in your RSS feed disrupts the flow of content in the agrgregator (what Dave Winer calls the river of news) and thus will drive users to other feeds where the same content is available but without the disruption.”
This view is unsupported by my observations. […]

The contents of my email to my hosting company regarding their misguided bittorrent policy:
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I read today that 1and1 is implementing a support policy regarding bittorrent files, and further that this policy is misguided.
This is unfortunate and must be reconsidered. The bittorrent technology is capable of vast and important non-infringing uses. I use it […]

Microsoft release a new version of the Office XML standard today:

Microsoft Makes XML the File Format for the Next Version of Microsoft Office (press release)

New default XML formats in the next version of Office (Brian Jones, Word program manager blog post)

Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas(Microsoft’s Office XML webpage)

Brian Jones - New Office file formats announced […]

Long delay since last posting; I’ve been busy breaking Rojolicious and putting it back together, working on the start of a response to Scoble’s request for a service, which is a lead-in to some stuff I want to do with attentionxml. Ai; not enough hours in the day!
In other news, I also opened a […]