Friday, June 11, 2004

I did my first audio Morning Coffee Notes this morning.  

Links from today's talk: The Gillmor Gang, Tom Can Cook, etymology, Steve Rubel, Polderbits, Andrew Grumet. 

The users control RSS, always have.  

The Skelecosm: Why I Chose RSS 2.0. "Which standard is easy enough to implement in Notepad, and guaranteed to work everywhere?" 

Doc Searls: "RSS is opt-in authenticated email." 

Cringely: "I give credit to Dave Winer of Userland Software for inventing web logging, and I think the idea then was to publish, to share your thoughts with everyone else. But most people's thoughts aren't really worth sharing. Most web logs are little more than lists of annotated bookmarks and the value of those bookmarks can probably be best derived through a web aggregator, in which case people would be writing not to be read but to be counted, which isn't nearly as much fun." 

Rome is a set of "Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats." 

Andrew is playing with his new Gateway DVD player. 

Slate: "He accidentally zapped himself with spyware, then spent days documenting his attempts to get rid of it." 

Don Park: "Why is Korean cuisine so spoon-centric?" 

I went out for Chinese dinner in Waltham last night after seeing both Kill Bills on Wednesday. Now Asian women seem like Kung Fu godesses, I expect them to say something clever or to swing around Japanese steel. One of the stars of Kill Bill is a Chinese-Japanese-American living in Tokyo, but there are lots of other shrewd, powerful and sometimes demented and cruel Asian women in the movie. 

US Army War College: "What if you were given a tool that would monitor the flow of new information on your favorite web sites and let you know what is new on each site?"