I posted an entry to the FoxForum Wiki a while ago on News Aggregators and RSS. Fellow FoxPro MVP Alex Feldstein picks up on it and updated it here . Posted from the FoxForum Wiki, RSS available at http://www.tedroche.com/RSSFeeds.html
Archive | 2003
Microsoft’s Got Blogging On the Brain
Mary Jo: Microsoft’s Got Blogging On the Brain. Link from Scripting News
Deep Thinking about Welogs
Andrew Grumet: Deep Thinking about Weblogs. Is blogging at a tipping point? Link via Scripting News. A good summary of where RSS and weblogs are, and some tantalizing hints on where aggregation and association can take us.
Longhorn may be a long time off…
Longing for Longhorn? You’ll have to wait till ’05. Microsoft’s successor to Windows XP will hit the market after a prebeta release late this year for developers and two beta versions in 2004. from Computerworld News
Blogging survey….
“Viral research:.I’ve been asked by about four sources to fill out A Survey of Blogs and Bloggers. It’s waaayy too long, and far too obsessed with politics, but still. Might be interesting to you. Or somebody.” from The Doc Searls Weblog
And inta here….
Arrived in Knoxville. Very pretty airport, and comfortably small. It’s so GREEN down here! Lawns already need mowing. In Contoocook, the snow’s just finished melting three weeks ago…
Outahere
Off to the client site for a multi-day visit. Hope to connect when I’m down there. Y’all take care!
Wordy error notices of death
Don’t you hate it when a machine tells you you’re wrong? Wordy error notices of death.
“I just went to register a product at the Creative site, and got this:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a01a8’
Object required: ‘cmdl’
/register/OCXnp.asp, line 212And just yesterday I failed to buy a product at Buy.com because it insisted that my zip code was an error, and offered a popout menu with ten other nearby zip codes, all wrong. So I failed to make the buy. Smooth, huh?”
from The Doc Searls Weblog
More on social software, via hyperorg
More on Social Software from Jonathan. Jonathan Peterson follows up on his blog entry about why social software is taking off: Cocooning, technology, commute times, and commodity McJobs all put tremendous isolationist pressures on individuals, anything that can lessen those pressures by enabling real, emotional, human, re-connection will thrive. I concur…. [Joho the Blog]
Hyperorg: The Social Software Dust-Up
The Social Software Dust-up. Stowe Boyd jumps into the “Is social software just hype” kerfuffle. So does Ross Mayfield. If nothing else, the brouhaha is prompting some good writing…… [Joho the Blog]