April 29th, 2004
Developers _Are_ Users
Adam Curry: “I want to be creating and distributing content to everybody in the simpelest way possible. Blogger, MoveableType and Typepad users surely want the same.”
I’m a user. I’m also a developer. In fact, as a developer, I’m a user. As a developer, it is important to me that I chose formats that will scale to my needs. RSS 2.0 is simple, and good for doing a great many things, particularly syndicating weblog (or similar) content. However, “syndication” feeds and aggregators are becoming useful for other types of information as well. Apple and Amazon have touched on the edges of this, but so much more A Murder Is Announced trailer is actually possible.
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April 27th, 2004
Enter The RSS Ninja
Adam Curry: “[Google] is betting its future and shareholders money with a plan has historically been proven to fail. That is sad.”
Adam is referring, here, to Googles support for ATOM. There are so many things wrong with this, that I’m not entirely sure where to begin.
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April 26th, 2004
When I Grow Up…
Mother: “When you grow up are you going to meet a girl and leave me?”
Son:
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“No, Mom, I’ll never leave you. I’ll sail to you. Every night when you sleep in your bed on my [pirate] ship, I’ll snuggle you.”
Caleb, our youngest son, wants to be a pirate when he grows up. No, not the kind that downloads crappy, cut-off .MP3s from Kazaa, the kind that sails the high seas and lives the hyper-romanticized life depicted in pirate movies. He wants to have two kids. One boy and one girl. He’ll name his daughter Sara, after his aunt Sara, and he’ll name is son Sean, after his brother A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit on dvd
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Caleb is four years old. I certainly hope he DOES get to grow up and live on a ship, marry the pretty girl and have his two kids. I could, however, do without the murdering and plundering, though. We’ve got a few years left to try and talk him out of it.
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April 24th, 2004
Play Along At Home
Via Tim Bray: “…Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23
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, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions. I would add to the instructions: point back to where you got the idea so that we can follow the threads.”
From The New Hacker’s Dictionary, Third Edition: “The thought of uttering something that logically ought to be an affirmative knowing it will be misparsed as a negative tends to disturb them.”
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Well, _I_ Won't Be Switching Anytime Soon
Dave Winer: “[Gigablast is] designed to make transitioning from Google as painless as possible.”
How about a little vanity for a Saturday? When I search for “Cameron Watters” (quotes omitted in the actual search) on Google, Yahoo, alltheweb and Alta Vista, my site
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is the first (un-sponsored) link. On Gigablast, Teoma
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list on the first page are by and large to the same place.
One other small downside about Gigablast: The Add a URL feature is disabled at the moment. It’s probably just some technical thing that’ll be resolved soon enough. I probably shouldn’t jump to any conclusions and accuse anybody of a conspiracy or anything before all the evidence is in. That would be really foolish.
UPDATE: I’ve removed some of the stronger language in this post that may have been cause for offense to a prominent blogger. My original comments were tongue-in-cheek, but I don’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings and my comments may have crossed that line. Mea Culpa (sp?)
April 22nd, 2004
Do Formats Really Matter That Much?
In the below entry, I expresse concern regarding Dave Winer’s belief that it should be illegal for Google to demonstrate a preference for a given data format. As I’ve thought about this, it has become clearer to me just how wrong-headed such a belief is. Antitrust considerations aside, I’m not sure I believe that it is even fundamentally wrong for Google to demonstrate a preference for a particular format per se.
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The Tin-Foil Hat Club Strikes Again
Dave Winer:
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“I never in a million years thought Google would stoop this low, even Microsoft on its worst day never played this dirty.”
It appears that Google is fast becoming the “Evil Corporate Giant” de jour. And with Dave leading the “Shoot First, Ask Questions Later” crowd, it is not surprising to see so much invective about the alleged slight to RSS 2.0.
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