Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Kerry won big in the Super Tuesday primaries. The networks report that Edwards will withdraw tomorrow. 

The BBC now has an RSS feed for each of their Arabic News categories. 

Very impressive RSS 2.0 support from Borland. Thanks! 

The Boston Globe has new RSS support too.  

A sad note. Thea Partridge, who did Thea's Galleria of early Frontier sites, died in December. 

Jeff Jarvis: "I have some suggestions for Bloggercon sessions." 

Michael Gartenberg: "The vendors should heed the words of the head of Black & Decker, who once said that customers don't buy the tool maker's products because they need 1-inch drills; they buy them because they need 1-inch holes." 

Welcome to Emily's List. 

Rebecca MacKinnon wants to know about the American OhMyNews. 

Philip Greenspun: "A man goes to see Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion, and is inspired to take his family to Israel to see the places where Jesus lived and died. While on vacation his mother-in-law dies." 

NASA reports that part of Mars "was soaking wet in the past." 

I did a lunch presentation today at Berkman. Lots of stuff for BloggerCon here. Also there's a third item under integrity (the new one is #1). 

Andrew Grument reports on the number of feeds people subscribe to.  

Over 100 people have registered for BloggerCon II. Lots of West Coast people. Shaping up very nicely and quickly. Excellent. 

On this day six years ago, UserLand explained why we were so excited about XML. Seems like a long time ago, but the reason hasn't changed. It's all about interop. Not elegance, not boiling the ocean, not making geeks happy. XML exists, imho, to give more choices to users.  

Like Lance Knobel, I've been watching and listening to coverage about Haiti from the major networks and NPR, trying to figure out what happened, and almost no one is even trying to say. It's like the Meet The Press episode with the governor of California promoting two ballot propositions but never saying what they do, and not being asked. On Sunday I thought I heard US Secretary of State Colin Powell say that Aristide's crime was that he didn't appear to be supporting democracy (looking for the quote). All the talk about Haiti having a Constitution, when it comes time for a change in power, they do it the usual Latin American way. 

A Jamaican columnist provides another point of view on the events in Haiti. It was written before Aristide left.