Saturday, January 03, 2004

New toy: View Other People's Feeds.  

Jay McCarthy, one of our Thursday night regulars, visits Edwards in NH. 

Ben Toth: "It would be nice to see 'starter packs' on specific topics." 

Boston Globe: ''I have absolutely no prior restraint on what I publish,'' said Scoble.  

Thanks to everyone who helped bootstrap the Share Your OPML website. There are 135 subscription lists in the database this morning. The next step is to make it possible for people to browse other people's lists, assuming they have given permission for others to browse them.  

Will Richardson: Blogging and RSS. (For educators.) 

Wes Felter says that the new top level domain, dot-name, started off with the right idea, but then morphed to be just like all TLDs. Wes explains the right idea: you can't buy smith.name, but you can buy john.smith.name. This is even neater than the idea I discussed yesterday. Read the comments there, good stuff, as usual. 

Dowbrigade visits presidential candidate John Kerry in New Hampshire yesterday. "John Kerry is an old-line, traditional politician of the Kennedy-Patrician school, but he's a good example of the genre, and would at least stand a chance against President Bush. On the other hand, were he somehow to win the election, nothing would really change."