Announcement: “The public review of OPML 2.0 begins.”
OPML 2.0 is easy to understand if you’re intelligent, have common sense and are patient. I explain, in this podcast, why the improvements in OPML 2.0 will help users.
Here’s what the CIO Insight interview with me looks like. Pretty funny! Do I really look like that? [...]
Archive for February, 2006
28 Feb
Scripting News for 3/1/2006
27 Feb
Scripting News for 2/28/2006
Steven Cohen has become an incredible evangelist for OPML.
I got an email from Scott Rosenberg at Salon describing an experiment they’d like to try with Scripting News and you, the readers of Scripting News. First, I’m going to get a comp subscription, so I can read everything on their site that subscribers pay for. Then [...]
27 Feb
Scripting News for 2/27/2006
CBS: “President Bush’s approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent.”
Earlier this month I was interviewed by Ed Cone at CIO Insight about RSS, podcasting, blogs and what’s next.
Iced Coffee & A Bagel: “I think New Orleans is now one of the most technologically advanced cities in the U.S.”
I’ve seen reports [...]
26 Feb
Scripting News for 2/26/2006
A new prefs system is on the way for the OPML Editor.
Tim King wants to edit a day’s worth of WordPress posts in his outliner. I haven’t released the code that does this, but I could clean it up and ship it. Hmmm.
Sunday night on WAMU is old-time radio. Drama, comedy and westerns. I [...]
25 Feb
Scripting News for 2/25/2006
I had a long Dim Sum lunch in SF yesterday with Matt Mullenweg, the lead developer of WordPress. We talked about a lot of things, it was very pleasant and very productive.
This comment is becoming more frequent in the OPML community, and I’m glad people are thinking about how long the free hosting is going [...]
25 Feb
Why the backchannel is bad for RSS
This is a verbatim copy of an emal I sent to Brad Feld of Mobius Venture Capital.
Brad, I appreciate you taking a proactive role, but there’s something that’s not right about all this — we need to get out of the backchannel and have this discussion in public. So many reasons for it.
1. People, rightly, [...]
24 Feb
It’s their world, not mine
Listening to Art Buchwald on the radio, being interviewed by Diane Rehm. He’s in a hospice, having refused treatment for kidney disease, so he’s dying. It takes a lot of guts to talk with a guy who’s about to die, but what an interview! Wow. Made me think of so many things.
One was a [...]
24 Feb
Scripting News for 2/24/2006
David Wilkinson has a mockup of an OPML Editor 1.0 website for review. It’s a little homey, imho, I was hoping for more color, like the Firefox download site. Maybe even with rounded corners and Ajax-ish tech.
I’m thinking about a series of OPML Roadshows in April, to take the 1.0 release around the U.S. to [...]
22 Feb
How much has been invested in RSS?
In yesterday’s piece I wrote of the RSS 2.0 roadmap: “There’s a huge community that has invested billions of dollars around its assumptions.”
Sounds good, but while I was riding on the BART yesterday for a lunch appointment in San Francisco I wondered if it’s true, and if so, how you’d come up with an estimate [...]
22 Feb
Scripting News for 2/23/2006
Essay: How much has been invested in RSS?
I love the political storm President Bush is caught in over the UAE port managers, because it is totally unfair, as he says it is. Of course they’re perfectly qualified to manage the ports. They’re not terrorists. They employ Americans. There’s no extra risk. I love it because [...]
