William Adams talks about locks, badges, passwords, and other security devices that help him sleep. It’s a really interesting read, and is a perfect example of the mind state of someone who is off-the-scale ‘N’ Meyers-Briggs type (NT or NF I cannot decide). People who take personality tests on the Internet score ‘N’ more frequently […]
Only days after Gillmor pleads with us to stop blocking RSS adoption, and already Microsoft has responded by syndicating Dare Obasanjo’s blog via RSS directly into the home page of the MSDN XML Dev Center. Tell me what other BigCo listens like that? And I just saw something RSS-related that Ciam Sawyer is working on […]
How crazy is this? Last night we decided on a whim to head to Vancouver to pick up some stinky herbs from Tong Ren Tang (no 3 north of Westminster in Richmond). I immediately thought of one of our favorite bloggers up there, and although I knew his wife was nearing her due date, I […]
This Steve Gillmor rant doesn’t make any sense. He starts by pointing out that RSS has unstoppable momentum, and that support for RSS by Microsoft sites, products, and employees is high.
But then he explains that Microsoft is ?retarding the RSS momentum?, because, as he explains, SteveB and BillG have never said the word ?RSS? in […]
Now if you look at my RSS feed, it looks pretty.
Gina Venolia recently did some research on blog usage patterns, and found that many blog consumers never successfully make the transition to using an aggregator. One common thread in our internal discussions is that the ?orange XML? icon is kind of geeky, and even if […]