Archive | March, 2003

American TV Networks Puzzled by Low War Ratings. Reuters: TV’s War News Coverage Outdrawn by Comedy Repeats. With networks wondering just how deep the American appetite for war… link from Dan Gillmor’s eJournal. A rerun of “Friends” outdrew the war coverage. I think the problem was simple enough: there was no news to report.

… and has paid $92 million over the past two years as the company declined. I think I’ll try to work out an employment arrangement like that with TR&A… (from the New York Times

Steve and I try to catch a movie at the theater at least once a month. The trailers are an important part of the preparation and of the experience. Tease, Thrill or Scare ‘Em, You Have to Snare ‘Em. “Movie trailers embody the great promise of modern consumerist entertainment: that there will always be more.” By A. O. Scott. at the New York Times: Business

If you don’t remember that it’s broke, how will you ever remember to fix it? Joel Spolsky writes about Painless Bug Tracking. Thanks to Garrett Fitzgerald for the link.

The “What’s New in VFP8 book is following right behind the product, with an expected shipping date of March 24th. Friends and collaborators Doug Henning and Tamar Granor have written this one. Looking forward to it!

News.com on RSS traction. “News.com ran this piece about growth in the use of RSS as a non-news format.  This is a theme many of us are tracking.  What will be the first truly broad killer app to use this?” from Jeremy Allaire’s Radio

The news.com piece makes the good point that RSS has nothing to do with blogs. It is a generic mechanism for pushing notices onto the web in a publish-and-subscribe metaphor. With a standardized format (okay, four), sites can easily be written to gather and process many of these RSS notices. There’s an opportunity there, folks. Wish I could work it out.