The web is 20. Is it still relevant?
Interop: the future of hardware
Why open standards are the future of consumer electronics.
Why the Open Web Matters
At 20, there are many assaults against the open web. Here’s why it’s important to keep it alive.
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…
Capacity planning and RSS
Ways to manage the traffic load of an RSS feed
The case for Elert
A few weeks ago, Amy Gahran, of contentious.com, started a contest to find a new nickname for RSS. I submitted Elert as my entry. Today, I found that it’s one…
Webalizer.conf hacking: HideAgent
Many people have written to me to point out that they still get duplicate entries in their user-agent table after using the GroupAgent trick I highlighted. To remove those, you…
Webalizer.conf hacking
I’ve been working on cleaning up my webalizer.conf file in order to get better statistics. Since I haven’t seen anyone posting the following information, I figured I would, since it…
Dean Missteps
Is Howard Dean using a spammer?
Extending the Olive Branch
Congratulations to Dave Winer for realizing that his personality had become a polarizing force in the RSS discussions and for basically giving RSS 2.0 to the community. There is really…