Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Reuters: "Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq beheaded an American civilian and vowed more killings in revenge for the 'Satanic degradation' of Iraqi prisoners, an Islamist Web site said Tuesday." 

News.Com report on Reuters' support of RSS. I like this report because it focuses on what people are doing with RSS, not the brain-dead simple technology behind it. I also liked that they called out Google for being incompatible. More coverage like this and they'll have to join the rest of the technology and publishing industries and get behind RSS. It's the totally not-evil thing to do.  

Kevin Werbach: "And frankly, the attendees are just as impressive." I'll probably never get invited to Supernova, but Kevin I wholly agree, so why not have a page that lists all the participants. We have such an app running, created for BloggerCon, if you want to use it, just say the word, it would take a couple of hours to set it up for your conference. This way people can salivate about all the super-smart people who will be there. 

Bloglines adds enclosure support. I've attached a small enclosure to this item. Does it copy the enclosure to their server, or point to the original? Matt McClellan reports: "Looks like Bloglines points to the original." 

The Connection: The Anti-Blog. "Bad prose out there." 

George Packer: The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged. 

News.Com: "Sony on Monday revamped and expanded the scope of its Vaio computer line. Additions to the line include a new portable hard drive-based music player, a diminutive Windows XP PC and new PCs with enhanced AV functions. Also, the company revealed the development of a hard-disk recorder with more than a terabyte of storage capacity." 

Gizmodo report on the Vaio Pocket, pictured above. 

Register: Sony unveils colour iPod killer. 

Hans Kullin has a list of Swedish sites with RSS feeds. 

Betsy Devine did an experiment to see if Gmail only looks at the first paragraph in an email to figure out what ads to display. It appears her theory is correct. She writes about flowers, and the ads are about flowers. At first I couldn't figure out what she was talking about.  

Halley's Comment, a Blogger site, now has comments. 

I just heard that Yahoo's aggregator doesn't have a way to export subscriptions as OPML. If true, they should fix this right away.  

Scott Rosenberg: "Bush and his men keep parroting the line about torture chambers even as the scandal of American-sponsored torture in Saddam's notorious old prison was grabbing headlines worldwide." 

NPR's Juan Williams interviews US Secretary of State Colin Powell about the prisoner abuse scandal. "This is not over yet." 

Nicholas Carr: "In public, industry CEOs may continue to exercise their Peter Pan complexes, pretending that the IT business will never grow up. But behind the scenes they're dismantling Neverland piece by piece." 

Phil Ringnalda: "It's time for the users of syndicated XML feeds to stand up and be heard." 

Audioblog.com is "the powerful and easy-to-use audio publishing service that puts your voice in your weblog or online journal." 

Docs for the XML-RPC interface for MailToTheFuture.Com, 2/99. 

Three years ago today, Frontier for Mac OS X shipped.