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Thursday, June 26, 2003

"I am content"
Dave Winer's commitment to RSS is beyond doubt. In fact, he says he himself is content in an RSS container. He has also issued a broadminded endorsement of the Echo project, saying he'll recommend Userland support it without, of course, backing off from RSS support.

categories: metablog radioactive

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Will Ferrell's class day speech
Those Harvard schmucks, they get the best graduation speakers. This year Will Ferrell serenaded them as "shiny little very smart pieces of dust."

categories: x-syndicate

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Give 'em hell, Johnny!
Senator (and Democratic presidential candidate) John Edwards takes the incumbent administration to task for its oligarchic, anticapitalistic policies (On Rewarding Work And Creating Opportunity).

categories: x-syndicate

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Unsubscribing from Wi-fi News
Wi-Fi Networking News is a great example of a journalistic niche blog. Glenn Fleishman rules his beat and proves the concept. He's the go-to guy for all things wi-fi. If I were writing an article on wi-fi I'd start with his blog and then ask him questions before I went practically anywhere else.

But the site just generates too much information about wi-fi for me. It outspecs my level of interest or ability to digest. I need other people to filter this stuff for me. I already read BoingBoing Blog, for example, and Cory is fairly wi-fi obsessed, so I get a good overview there.

It's weird to unsubscribe from a newsfeed because the source is too good!

Note: I've been fiddling with the basic RFB design although the site really needs a total overhaul. Poking around the home template (and the CSS file in the gems folder, http://radiofreeblogistan.com/gems/tabloid.css), I've removed nearly all the blogrolling.com javascript-driven blogrolls. Some of them will be parked on the appropriate category pages or on other sites. I'll migrate any sites that seem missing over to my subscriptions (http://radiofreeblogistan.com/gems/mySubscriptions.opml), now listed on my home pages as my sources, since in this blog context that's what they are.

Also, from a much older to-do item, I added a little who am I info to the main page, because I know sometimes people like to know who's writing. I still hate the design, but that'll keep.

Anyway, honoring an old suggestion, I'll post something when I add to or subtract from my subscriptions, as an informal way of annotating the evolution of my weblog newsfeed subscriptions.

categories: metablog

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BloggerThis! on Google toolbar
The beta version of the Google toolbar (PC only) includes a new BlogThis! button for posting directly to Blogger weblogs.

Observes Dave Winer at Scripting News, "They probably could have worked with other tool vendors to provide a tool-agnostic Blog This capability."

categories: bloggerz metablog

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Sound an echo to sense
In the comment thread for Burningbird's entry called Echo Project for Poets , Joe Shelby points out that "Echo is already a name for a product ... that just released [a 1.0 version] under the LGPL license."

If the goal is to surmount pass squabbles, the Pie/Echo project should steer very clear of anything that could be called highjacking. Looks like the name discussion may have to go back to the drawing board. Too bad. Echo (Matt Haughey's suggestion) kind of felt right.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense;
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

categories: metablog

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MT license flap
The advent of TypePad has prompted renewed scrutiny of the terms in Six Apart's license for Movable Type, specifically related to commercial uses of the product. A generally pro-MT take on the dispute can be found on MovableBlog, but it includes thorough links to the other sides of the argument.

categories: metablog movablefeats

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Ecce Echo
The collaborative project to design a new vendor-neutral weblog format (edging toward the name Echo instead of the original placeholder, Pie) proceeds at a dizzy pace over at Sam Ruby's wiki. For those of us unable to keep up with the multiple, distributed debates taking place 'intertwingled' all over the wiki, Shelley Powers has posted a sort of status update that clarifies a lot of the burning issues.

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