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Idiot Wind

I've been debating how to handle this. Do I just ignore it; i.e. send a negative gesture of lack of intent? Or do I play nice and debate the points one by one; i.e. send a neutral gesture of balanced dialogue? Nope.Stowe Boyd's post about RSS is flawed. Flawed in...

Tags: RSS, Stowe

Blog posts 2006-02-07

GestureBank

A few nights ago a few of us were gathered together by Yahoo to preview some new RSS tools. As is customary at these events, the Yahoo executives chatted us up. Scott Gatz, the company's lead RSS guru, refused to tell me what the announcement was about until I pointed...

Tags: gesture, GestureRank

Blog posts 2005-12-02

Running Silent

It's not easy to keep radio silence. Not in a week like this last one, where Oracle swallowed Siebel Skype swallowed eBay Microsoft swallowed RSS Salesforce swallowed Google Sun swallowed its message As Dan Farber puts it on...

Tags: gesture, silence

Blog posts 2005-09-18

Vacation

Jon Udell called today to say he's going on vacation. Of course, he's actually going to remain at home in his bedroom with a shotgun in case somebody reads this (not likely according to the Feedster 500) and decides to take advantage of his absence to steal the plans for...

Tags: E-mail, RSS, Doc, pile

Blog posts 2005-08-16

The RSS Crisis

In the new Gillmor Gang, just released on Podshow.com, I remind several of the Gangsters of Robert Scoble's late great RSS bandwidth crisis. You'll have to listen to the show for the context in which I brought this up, but here's the reason why the latest great RSS naming crisis...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-08-15

On Demand

At an ETech some years ago three I think I was standing behind Anil Dash in a Birds of Feather discussion about blogs. Doc Searls was "on stage" as I recall, with a few others in a semicircle, and a matching semicircle opposite composed of many of the blogerati. Sitting...

Tags: Jonathan

Blog posts 2005-07-04

RSS and Attention

Nick Bradbury

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-06-30

Remix this

First, a joke I heard about Google and Microsoft. The Google guy says they've been hiring people away from Microsoft. Then the Microsoft guy says they've been hiring people away from Google. Then he says, "Guess who's getting the better deal."Microsoft the white hat. You bet, folks. Microsoft not only...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Winer

Blog posts 2005-06-29

Crosstown Traffic

Now that David Weinberger has released himself from any responsibility for keeping up with blogs, I'm taking the opportunity to release myself from being an evangelist about anything. I hereby renounce the thought that I am carrying the ball, the water, the meme, or any other burden--for RSS, attention, podcasting,...

Tags: evangelist, RSS

Blog posts 2005-06-20

60 Days

On Thursday, Google laid down a 60-day window for offering RSS support in their Fusion operating system/office suite hybrid. On Sunday night Steve Jobs laid down a 60-day window for RSS enclosure support inside iTunes. Today, as the smoke clears from these two cannon blasts across Microsoft's bow, Bill Gates...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., Apple iTunes, 60-Day

Blog posts 2005-05-23

Do no simple

Google did some smart yesterday. They somehow seeded the impression that they were heading directly at the pot of gold at the end of the RSS rainbow. You can play along at home with the webcast, but I'm warning you: the first half is Google in a Nutshell (could...

Tags: Google Inc., Jeff Raikes, RSS

Blog posts 2005-05-20

Om Opens the RSS Kimono

Om Malik comes through in the clutch: Steve “DA RSS” Gill-more wins … feeds restored to full length. Now I need him to convince ZD to remove its registration form! Not sure what he means by ZD, Ziff Davis Media, who I used to work...

Tags: RSS, Feedburner

Blog posts 2005-04-27

GigaOm Full Text Feed Simulation

Here's what a full text feed would look like, Om. Since early this morning I have been watching Sun’s Network Computing Ads show up in most of my Feedster-powered feeds. They are tastefully unobtrusive, and effective. And Sun is a big advertiser....

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-04-26

Waiting for Attention... or something like it

A week ago, attention seemed to be on a lot of minds at the O'Reilly ETech conference. I had interesting conversations with a number of people, watched the light bulb go off in some, and came away with the feeling that things were on the move. But its newfound visibility...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-03-28

Bodcasting

Splash! Fwoop! Znorf. It's the sound of nextgen RSS plays parachuting into the Valley, Rte. 128, and everywhere there's a broadband connection. Odeo, Brightcove, ourmedia, the Times--by this time next spring the forest will be thick with bees circling in search of unpolinated flowers. The RSS Bubble is here.The Ask...

Tags: toolbar, RSS

Blog posts 2005-03-01

Them is Us

I just spent the last three days immersed in the strangely parallel universe of public broadcasting and the Integrated Media Association's New Media Summit. Parallel in that, as I said to one of the organizers, "I figured you guys existed; I just didn't know who you were." Strange in that,...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-01-29

The Berlind Triangle

David Berlind navigates himself into the shadowy nether world between email and RSS with his recent post. His TalkBack section provides a fascinating look at the marketecture of comments, where the respondents weigh in with proprietary solutions to David's reasonable suggestion that RSS be leveraged as an email replacement. My...

Tags: RSS

Blog posts 2005-01-25

Times they are not a'changing

Rojo to fix bugFrom Rojo's Chris Alden on the Rojo blog:Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesnt want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a...

Tags: Rojo, TimeS

Blog posts 2004-12-28

"Broken" RSS

Microsoft's first blogger(no, it ain't Scoble) weighs in on the emergent Podosphere:Many of the nabobs were so convinced of their own stories about RSS isbroken, that it never occured to them that something like podcastingcould be successful. They were so busy trying to reinvent RSS thatthey ignored an...

Tags: Dave, RSS

Blog posts 2004-11-16

Digital convergence, RSS and rights management

Comcast’s second-quarter results offer a fascinating snapshot of where user preferences are trending in the broadband market. With DSL maxing out at much slower download and similar upload speeds, customers are switching to cable for high-speed access. I just took advantage of a six-month offer at $20 a month. But...

Tags: Comcast Corp.

Blog posts 2004-07-28