Archives for the "HTML" tag
Microsoft Loves RSS
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 [...]
Tags: Content, HTML, History, Microsoft, OS, RSS, Standard, Syndication
In Technology
Commenting and Spam
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 [...]
Tags: HTML
In Analysis
Back from BloggerCon 2
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 [...]
Tags: HTML
In Business, Media, Technology
Traffic Stats and RSS
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 [...]
Tags: HTML
In Analysis
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 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 [...]
Tags: HTML
In Technology
Microsoft Lock-in?
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 [...]
Tags: Computing, HTML, HTTP, Intel, Linux, Microsoft, Telephony, Verizon, digital media
In Business, Technology
