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| Friday, February 6, 2004 |
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Duh, cont'd
| | I just realized some of today's posts went into yesterday. The kind of thing that happens when you're doing five things at once. Sorry about that. I think I just fixed it. |
Peace out
| | In 1999, Dave badgered me into blogging. It took months before I gave in and started. I've always regretted that I didn't succumb before we finished writing Cluetrain, or blogging as a subject might have made the book too. |
| | I don't know when Dave started doing the same with RSS. I can't search out a quick answer. The one thing that's clear is that Dave has been the biggest and most effective advocate for RSS, and for what it does, just as he was (and still is) for blogging. |
| | On Wedesday, Mark ran down a history of the different RSS versions. Regardless of its technical details (I'm in no position to judge) it reads as a brief against Userland, the company Dave founded, and the credited source of several versions in the RSS series. Among other things, it accuses Userland (Dave, really) of what amounts to plaigarism. |
| | On Thursday, Dave responded with a denail of the claim. |
| | I don't know Mark very well. But I do know Dave, who has been a friend for many years. Without saying so directly, Dave is asking friends to stand by him on this one. And that's what I'm doing here. Dave may be wrong about many things (who isn't?), but I don't know anybody who's more devoted — often brutally — to honesty, and to getting at the truth. |
| | A few years ago Dave gave us one of the best pieces of guidance we've ever had: Ask not what the Internet can do for you, ask what you can do for the Internet. |
| | Standards at their best answer that challenge. Arguing is a natural and often necessary part of the process. But sometimes arguments cross a line beyond which everybody gets hurt, including the Net. I see that happening here. |
| | Even though I'm no technologist, it's clear to me that the Net has been improved, radically and fundamentally, by RSS and other standards like it (even if they come, as Mark claims RSS does, in 9 incompatible versions). |
| | There's so much left to do. Let's stop making it harder than it already is. |
One more excuse for sticking with the old Subaru
| | I just heard that Toyota has a good new Camry wagon. I'm interested, so I go to the Toyota Web site. What a @#%&* useless mess. First, "You must have javascript to navigate this site properly." That's, like, the index page. Eventually something comes up. Flash? Pop-ups? I don't even know what this crap is. Whatever it is, it doesn't work. Makes me remember why I loved Toyota cars but hated Toyota dealers. Customer-contemptuous promotional mentality starts at the top. |
Presents
| | Jabber.org's XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) has made some nice progress toward acceptance as a real-time communications framework. Christopher Saunders has a nice explanation at InstantMessagingPlanet.com. Congrats to everyone involved. |
Live New World
| | It's my oldest son's birthday. Also Ronald Reagan's and Babe Ruth's, not that I (or they) care. |
| | A year ago, Allen was working on getting GlobeAlive going. He's since moved on to other projects, but not without leaving behind an idea that I think has enormous significance: The World Live Web. Look up World Live Web now and you get page after page of webcam sites. (With a few notable exceptions.) |
| | Be interesting to see what the same search brings up a year from now. Betcha it'll be something completely different. |
The rest is herstory
| | Lick Magazine is a new zine+blog by Tony Pierce and his possette. Except for occasional posts by Tony, all the voices will lack Y chromosomes. On his main blog (busblog), Tony says, Lick will get way more hits than the busblog in 3-4 months. i made Lick though to give people an outlet to write things that they wouldnt write on their own blogs. |
| | On Superbowl Sunday, the day Lick launched he said, |
| | to me lick is like a dog that ran away and came back with a new haircut and a limp. |
| | and now only speaks german. |
| | it's almost halftime so i will just flick the switch and do this early |
| | so i can be a better host to my pals. |
| | i hope you like this first edition |
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