“The priorities seem wrong here - I don’t see this step getting us any closer to getting better services when there are other much more fundamental issues that need solving.”
Alex Barnett blog : Syndicated search engines broken - Part II
Alex definitely has a point regarding the state of feed search: as he’s previously pointed out, […]

I’ve been wondering if there’s value in an aggregated feed of blog posts and comments. Ideally a threaded one, where the comments followed along behind the post they related to - perhaps even as children - requiring prior art or a new namespace, I suspect.
Obviously on blogs with a ton of comments that would […]

SuprGlu is a sort of a personality aggregator for the web published by Iridesco. If you wanted to collect all the information available by you or about you that you’re responsible for, SuprGlu’d be a place to do it.
The essential idea here is that you give SuprGlu a bunch of inputs of your data […]

Alex Barnett pointed to Nick Bradubury’s vision for attention data in OPML. As might be expected, I’m not sure how much I agree with what Nick proposes. My objections, though, have nothing to do with OPML as a potential format, for attention data or anything else. I think OPML’s grand, and it […]

Tom Simpson regarding Jeff’s request:
“If you write a book, the publisher knows how many copies of the book have sold, and they can report that to you. Do they report how many copies were sold to libraries (cache)? Do the libraries report how many times the book has been checked out?”
I don’t see the book […]

Jeff Jarvis:
“That’s theft. If you took a song and cached it and fed it out to lots of people these days without reporting back to the owner, you’d get sued or slapped in jail.”
I couldn’t agree more with Jeff here.
This seems like yet another example of the double standard in online content production. Since […]

I’ve been looking more closely at the SSE announcement since it came out; the next few posts are likely to be about this, and some (like this one) fairly (ok, very) long, so be forewarned….
After reading through the spec and accompanying FAQ, I started rifling through the commentary thread at memeorandum.1  Alex Barnett already has […]

Love this:
The objective of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) is to define the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating appsXML Developer Center: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML
From my 10 minute lookover of this, I’m pretty excited.  I don’t have time to completely grok the usage or to look for holes right now, but I’d […]

It was great to see Nick Bradbury start to talk about the same idea I was talking about earlier; a discussion about the attributes of attention we’d like to see collected:
“What I propose is that aggregator users and developers have an open discussion about what specific attention data could (and should) be collected by aggregators.”
Nick […]

I have another reason to add to Steve’s list of Top Ten Reasons Dave Winer doesn’t care about attention.
Dave’s seemingly a person of many strongly-held opinions.  One that echos in my recollections of Dave’s writing was quotably reiterated just a few days ago:
“But imho, one way to do something, no matter how flawed that one […]