Links and Search Engines: The MSN edition
July 30, 2005
I’ve been promising for a while to complete this series with results relating to MSN (and, for the record, this has nothing to do with Scoble begging for it). I finally got around to cleaning up the HTML output of Excel and can now present the third (and probably final) installment in my analysis of search engine […]
Microsoft Loves RSS
June 23, 2005
The blogoshpere is buzzing about Microsoft’s announced support for RSS. Here’s a quick history of how they got there, and the good and bad on what they are adding to the standard. How we got there? Microsoft is not really a new player in the syndication space. With the release of Internet Explorer 4.0, in 1997, the Redmond […]
Commenting and Spam
July 2, 2004
Phil Ringnalda has an interesting post about comments, moderation and spam. As someone who developed my own blog software (part of the interest in running a blog, as far as I’m concerned is in testing out my development chops), I thought long and hard about how to approach comments and avoid spam. My solution was more restrictive […]
Back from BloggerCon 2
April 18, 2004
Still processing a lot of the discussion. There were a lot of interesting comments from people that are far smarter than me. Got to meet a number of interesting bloggers and get involved in some fascinating discussions. However, I have to think a lot about what was said: was it all rehash of what’s been said in the past or […]
Traffic Stats and RSS
March 4, 2004
An interesting thing happened recently. I was playing around with Andrew Grumet’s tool based on the information in Share Your OPML and discovered that a number of people still subscribe to old feeds. This has direct impact on what stats can look like. While I do receive a fair amount of traffic on the RSS feeds (collectively, about 60,000 requests […]
Is there an Echo in here?
July 1, 2003
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 of the general direction. There are a number of question surrounding the effort. While the weblog world is generally very insular (thinking of blogs as a different beast from […]
Microsoft Lock-in?
June 3, 2003
The recent announcement of a partnership between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft represents an interesting new twist in the shaping of the Internet. For the past few years, Microsoft has been trying to figure out how to remain relevant in an era of increasing openness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the underlying protocol […]
Module Madness and Semantic Stupidity
April 25, 2003
Warning: This is a very geeky article. As readers of the weblog may have noticed, I’ve been getting into an increasingly obscure area of the Internet by trying to meld two different web formats (RSS and XHTML) and come up with documents that could be understood by multiple devices (web browsers, RSS readers). The exercise was […]
No convergence
April 24, 2003
It seems that what I am trying to do will not work. The concept of trying to mix RSS with XHTML seems to be flawed, as illustrated by the W3C feed. While it does validate as proper RSS, it fails miserably when it comes to validating as an XHTML document. This brings up an interesting point […]
Much Ado About XHTML 2
April 15, 2003
There has recently been much grumbling about XHTML 2 in general and its deprecation of the IMG tag in favor of the OBJECT one. While XHTML 2 is indeed a departure from the existing standards instead of being an evolution, it is important to realize that some of the things the workgroup is trying to do is fix […]
