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Today's song: "Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box; they tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe." ![]() ![]() ![]() Want to hear what a 21st Century US political leader sounds like? Check this out and pass it on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ed Cone: "Guilford County's emergence as the campaign Weblog capital of the known universe may seem an unlikely turn of events." ![]() Scott Rosenberg: "Restoring competition in the browser -- or even the "middleware" -- market is a pointless exercise today. The unknown innovation, potential productivity and profits that a more freely competitive marketplace in this area might have provided are gone now, irretrievable. The technology industry has moved on to other realms." I strongly disagree. We could open up lots of doors in the two-way-web if Microsoft were taken out of it's monopoly position in browsers. They are protecting Office from the Web. If the Web weren't paying that strategy tax there would be lots of opportunities for growth. ![]() BBC: "Microsoft is still faced with possible sanctions by the European Commission over its alleged abuse of market power." ![]() RSS and Bandwidth ![]() A couple of comments. It's great to see one of my old programming buddies, Brent Simmons, get so thoroughly into bandwidth and RSS. Others have commented that RSS and aggregators are much like Push Technology, and they are. Remember Pointcast? Why did it go down in flames? Because it swamped the Internet with non-productive traffic. Really poor use of bandwidth. I think we're still early, that we're going to see enormous growth in this area, and hopefully we'll all get to make a bunch of money. But at some point we will show up on the radar of corporate network managers, and they're going to want to know why this isn't Pointcast all over again. By doing the bandwidth work now, we will have an answer for them, then. Now there's another reason for doing work on bandwidth. The sources of information, the feeds, have to foot the bandwidth bill for all those users. In some cases, like UserLand, we have to pay for the bandwidth for users of competitive products. Ouch! So at least we want us all to be efficient about it. Bandwidth ain't free, and we aren't in the dotcom era anymore. Namaste y'all and Happy Sunday. |
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