Google killing Google Reader may be the best thing to have happened to the RSS ecosystem in a long time.
Google Chrome Points To New Web OS
With a new browser, Google looks to make the web the app platform.
Standards as social contracts
Looking at the efforts Dave Winer is undertaking in terms of getting OPML to become yet another standard, I’ve been thinking about how formats get adopted. The key insight I…
RSS and Media: Can’t we all just get along?
I keep trying to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is getting in the way. Last week, it…
RSS on Fire
There’s an old rule in journalism that trends can be spotted when you hear/see the same item happening three times in a row over a short period. If that’s the…
Capacity planning and RSS
Ways to manage the traffic load of an RSS feed
From David to Dave
The New York Times has an interesting article over a fight about how to best clean Michelangelo’s David. It’s an interesting study of how technology sometimes clashes with more traditionalist…
Is there an Echo in here?
The latest in weblogland is the discussions surrounding Echo, a new format for weblogs. While the idea initially sounds good (“hey, a new format… that shows progress”), I’m not sure…