Sunday, June 05, 2005

A Sunday Morning Coffee Notes about Jobsian reality distortion fields, AutoLink (again, sorry), Feedburner, progress report on my outliner, and when quality really matters.  

NY Times: "Steven P Jobs is preparing to take an unprecedented gamble by abandoning Apple Computer's 14-year commitment to chips developed by IBM and Motorola in favor of Intel processors for his Macintosh computers, industry executives informed of the decision said Sunday." 

Tod Maffin claims to listen to 100 podcasts a day. 

Doc Searls wonders if it's Intel that's having the sex change, not Apple. 

News.com: Intel, Apple coupling could woo Hollywood. 

Note to Jake Savin. I'm using the HTML dialog feature in Frontier on Windows and it's working great. I never wrote any apps that used this before. Sometime it takes a while, I think this has been in the codebase for about five years or so.  

BBC: "The explosion in podcasting has led to home-grown shows, playing music ignored by conventional radio." 

NY Times: "The received wisdom about Silicon Valley is that the region is single-mindedly dedicated to technological innovation. But that's not quite right." 

Feedburner makes light of the appearance that they are seeking lock-in (giving them the benefit of the tiniest sliver of doubt). Here's a post from an exec at the company, and here's my response. If they are not seeking lock-in this is not the way to communicate it. (Postscript: In the comments on my response, the Feedburner guy flips his position, and now says they're thinking about providing users with a way out. So the roach motel might get an escape hatch. Amazing how a little light can help. I wish more people would join in this examination, it should be easy to get them to change, and it's a very precarious situation, and not a good one for RSS. I've sent an email to some of the Identity Gang, asking them to look into this. It seems to me that an RSS feed is an important part of one's identity, and should be under their control.)