In less than two weeks, German leader Gerhard Schroeder will be with Chinese leader Zhu Rongji, on-board the maiden voyage of the new Shanghai magnalev. People’s Daily is reporting that Chinese business is propping up the German economy right now. From what I saw while visiting Beijing in September, this is probably true.
Havingbeen raised in [...]
Dave Winer is collecting information about importing and exporting feeds from various aggregators. To get a feed list from RSS Bandit, simply select File|Export Feeds as shown below. A file dialog box will appear; just make sure you choose OPML as the file type from the dialog box. There is also a File|Import Feeds menu [...]
If you follow Tim Ewald’s blog, you’ll know that he is religious about XML and run-time typing. If Dare Obasanjo is the Zen priest of XML, Tim Ewald is the Pentecostal evangelist(I am, naturally, an XML Zionist — Software is Microsoft’s birthright, and XML her manifest destiny ).
Tim is a harbinger, IMO, of where [...]
Blockbuster’s video rentals are way down, and use of high-speed Internet is way up. Do you think the two news items are related?
It’s interesting to see how storage is evolving, though. I find myself wondering why people would pay $1/GB of DVD+RW media and another $400 for the burner when they can just pay $400 [...]
At least Google is moving closer towards owning the semantic web, and nobody is fussing. They already have a web service interface, and webquotes allows what is essentiallyannotation metadata about a resource. And assuming that Sergey was not leading Dave on at the conference last week, they are gung-ho about allowing people to update metadata [...]