Google killing Google Reader may be the best thing to have happened to the RSS ecosystem in a long time.
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…
Future Tense — Intro
A look at the trends that will change our lives over the next few years.
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…
Microsoft Loves RSS
A major win for RSS as Microsoft announces support for the format
Google Personal Page and History
How previous version of personal landing pages evolved
Podcast Acceleration
Although I haven’t written about them, I’ve been quietly monitoring the podcast space. I am amazed by how quickly they’ve taken hold and today’s announcement by Infinity Broadcasting that they…
Yahoo! 360 update: RSS copyright is a bug
In yesterday’s entry, I took Yahoo! to task for the fact that there was a Yahoo! copyright notice against the RSS feeds for blogs generated via 360. In a comment…
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