Sunday, December 12, 2004

Scoble reminds that something new from Microsoft will be announced tomorrow. "Come back on Monday." 

Enough is enough. I went to a doctor today, got some antibiotics and cough medicine. I want to be well again.  

Ed Cone: "We shouldn't confuse the power of personal publishing with a get-rich-quick scheme, or forget why we started blogging in the first place. This thing will happen if a few people get paid, or a lot of people, or nobody. That's one measure of its real value. And that's the real local news.” 

Two Mac developers flirt with shipping an outliner but in the end, just in time to avert disaster, regain their sanity. I'm not so sane. Sometime pretty soon (praise Murphy) we'll ship an open source (GPL) outliner that knows OPML and the Web very well. For Mac and Windows. It won't care about working with Blogger or Movable Type. This is how we escape the APIs quagmire. No working group. Just a bunch of calls. They will work. They won't feel elegant to the architecture astronauts. They will threaten us. We will be scared. We will shiver with fear. We will quake in our boots. But we'll get over it.