Sunday, January 17, 1999

A preview of some of the hype for Frontier 6's workstation component and its relation to XML and my current thinking on what we need in writing and editorial interfaces for the web. This will be refined into the marketing document for Frontier 6.

Jakob Nielsen: Why marketwatch.com is overvalued. Unique visitors are a poor measure of user loyalty. Also, future users are late adopters and not likely to all patronize current popular sites. So beware of over-valuing Internet stock because you think that current user counts predict future success.

[Data] "The alien ship has just opened its forward hatches and released thousands of humanoid shaped objects."

If you want to measure the performance of your server from the outside using something slightly more accurate than a browser, check out Apache JMeter.

Allaire has started a thread on their site on XML-RPC integration with WDDX.

Dan Gillmor is keeping an eye on encryption.

InfoWorld forum on DSL.

56% of WebReview poll participants would not leave their jobs to chase aliens. But 44% would. There's hope for the world!

PC WEEK reports that it's going to be sticky to get server managers to upgrade to Windows 2000.

He could be any passenger waiting for a flight, sitting patiently on a red plastic bench in Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal One, luggage piled neatly by his side.

At least today's NY Times editorial page, which I've been reading every day, doesn't trash the Republicans.

From the Does Not Compute Department. The Democrats are spinning "If you call witnesses it's just going to drag on and on and on." But Clinton is a Democrat, right? If he had told the truth, any time before now (and even now!) we would save lots of time. I admire the restraint of the Republicans. The Democrats are throwing fuel on the partisan fire every time they try talk. My belief, if people were willing to focus, just for a moment, on what the President did, they'd conclude in a single day that he must go, and it would be over. We are much better than Clinton, and much better than the nasty Dems. They may be just right for the mass of Americans, but Americans who have minds and have the courage to look at the cynical corruption of Clinton are becoming Republicans, at least this is American voter is.