Archive | August, 2003

Interesting conversation going on at Jason Kottke’s site on RSS 1.0 and 2.0. As a feed provider, my primary concern is shipping out content to the most consumers, and if I need to use two formats to do that, that’s fine. My use of RSS 1.0 will be pretty limited to cutting and pasting similar fields from 2.0, I guess, until I find some better documentation on how to manipulate it.

I’ve found a few of the aggregator sites prefer or require one format over the other, so providing both is pretty much required. Looking forward to finding out if more advanced tool can be built with the more complex format.

Back in New Hampshire, gaining yet another travel story. Not the horror stories of 18 hours trapped in Buffalo or others I’ve heard, just the minor, dragging out annoyance of thunderstorms and delays and uncertainty and waiting and waiting. Arriving at midnight is just so much more late, psychologically, than 10:30 PM. Glad to be home.

A cart out on the tarmac stuck the jetway and ripped out their power cords. We were forbidden from boarding the plane on an unpowered jetway, so had to wait 90 minutes while they moved the jet and set everything back up again. A fully packed flight and a few testy infants didn’t help the mood. Like I said, glad to be home.

Ask Tog: It’s Time We Got Respect. “‘I have met the enemy and he is us.’ When Pogo mouthed these words so many years ago, he must have been thinking of software designers, or interaction engineers, or human interface folks, or whatever we who create the interaction model for our products are calling ourselves this week.” Linked via Tomalak’s Realm

Steven Levy has a good perspective on the imbalance of record industry piracy problems and national security. “The bill says if you share a single tune with your pals online÷as millions do every day÷you are a felon. Penalty: up to five years in jail” By Steven Levy in NEWSWEEK

matrixXP. Adam Curry points to an excellent spoof: MatrixXP [quicktime movie] 
[Adam Curry: payload]