This morning Microsoft has released a public beta of version 7 of their Internet Explorer web browser, aimed at developers, although I’m sure a lot of tech-savvy and adventurous users will download and install it as well.
This release is significant for publishers who provide RSS 2.0 feeds for their content because this is the [...]
Archive for January, 2006
31 Jan
Microsoft ships RSS platform
31 Jan
State of the Union
Basically the state of the union is so bad that I’d rather crawl into my TV set and live in a fictional presidency.
Yesterday I got an email from Chris Lydon, a former colleague at Berkman Center, and collaborator on a few interesting projects, including the first real podcasts and blogging the New Hampshire primary campaign [...]
30 Jan
Berkeley Bloggers Dinner #2, Feb 9
We’ve got the date for the second Berkeley Blogger’s Dinner, it’s February 9 at 7PM at Afghan Oasis restaurant in the Shattuck Hotel, 2086 Allston Way. The SF Chronicle describes it as “the cavernous dining room where diners can sample chef Naim Amir’s Afghan dishes.” The food is excellent, and the room is huge. [...]
28 Jan
How to reform the VC industry
There’s a wisp of a discussion materializing in the tech blogosphere about reforming the VC industry. I have been thinking about this for many many years. It’s an exciting time because I think it might actually happen now. Here’s the rough outline of my plan to reshape the VC industry around the philosophy of the [...]
28 Jan
What is friendship?
Upfront caveat. There are approx 80,000 people who will think this post is about them. It’s not. That’s the point.
I write a blog, have since the mid 90s or so, and I sometimes write in a personal fashion, and people connect to that, which is fine, but it often creates misunderstandings that, I [...]
26 Jan
Yahoo game-changers for 2006
Yesterday I participated in a Yahoo management offsite at the spectacular Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay. They invited two outsiders, myself and Om Malik, to come discuss the new ideas of 2006 with them. They asked what I thought would be the game-changers. They were interested not only in ways they could change the [...]
25 Jan
Start OPML Editor support for WP
I’ve gotten some emails from people who seem like they might know what they’re doing on the insides of WordPress, so I’ll play along and start the bootstrap from the OPML Editor side of things (hoping some OPML Editor users or developers pitch in when they see questions they can answer).
The very most basic [...]
25 Jan
Dan Gillmor’s story
Dan Gillmor tells the story of Bayosphere, as he turns away.
There’s been a lot of discussion about this. It’s good that he told the story after the fact, but it’s too late to do anything to help. What if Dan had been blogging the process as he was going along. Yes, people would have [...]
24 Jan
Since WordPress is open source…
I sent an email to Matt Mullenweg the other day and then I realized I sent it to the wrong place. It should be posted publicly so anyone who knows how to work on WordPress and can write production-level code, high enough quality so it could be included in the main distribution, could see it. [...]
24 Jan
Comments and the Washington Post
Do you care if the Washington Post has comments?
There are plenty of places to post comments on the web, and lots of ways to find out what people think about articles in the Washington Post.
Frankly I understand what a nightmare it must have been maintaining a centralized cesspool of hate and irrelevant immaturity. Why [...]
