Sunday, October 10, 2004

Actor Christopher Reeve dead at 52. 

Adam has reviews of the KOMO and WGBH podcast feeds. 

Taegan Goddard reports that Kerry got endorsement from Atlanta, St Louis and Philadelphia newspapers over the weekend. 

Zawodny: "RSS 2.0 is something you should see reflect in most, if not all, of the Yahoo RSS feeds." 

Ethan Zuckerman has developed a new way to tap my brain.  

New pics: Don Park, Scoble, Stanford AV, Dave J, Cassidy, Amy. 

The BBC now has an Arabic feed. 

Today's movie: Cassidy Says Hello. Play it several times for full effect. 

Venture capital conferences about weblogs and RSS are like Republican conferences on the environment.  

Kerry missed several chances to nail Bush in the second debate. For example, when Bush listed his excuses for Iraq, he blamed the problems on the generals. He said he asked them if they had enough troops. They said yes. He asked if they were sure they had the right plan. They said yes. Long and drawn out. Kerry said it's the job of the generals to win the war, and it's the job of the President to win the peace. Aside from being nonsense (the President is the Commander-In-Chief, he's the highest military officer, the generals report to him); it was far from the strongest response. Try this instead. "Mr President, the American people hired you to keep them safe. Iraq is your responsibility. President Truman, who made the fateful decision that ended World War II, who stood up to General MacArthur and Senator McCarthy, had a sign on his desk that said The Buck Stops Here. America doesn't need a President who passes the buck and doesn't take responsibility. That's why we're in so much trouble in Iraq. We've had enough. It's time for you to go."  

Harry Truman: "The President -- whoever he is -- has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job." 

When a new activity is bootstrapping, lots can happen in a short time. Just one week ago I posted Anatomy of an iPodder, a technical document that helps aggregator developers add iPodder funtionality to their programs, making it easy for their users to subscribe to audio feeds. It's worth pointing to again, because in the last week the user base has grown and lots of new feeds have come online.