Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Ready or not, Rebecca MacKinnon is podcasting. Yippee! 

Adam Weinroth classified a week of posts for three blogs: Scoble, Steve Rubel and Scripting News, with some not-too-surprising results. We're routers, DJs, front-page editors. An occasional scoop, plug, howto, but mostly links to stuff we think is essential or important.  

Ready or not, Microsoft is podcasting.  

Note to Paolo -- the OPML Coffee Mugs will be back soon. Jon Udell, you might find this interesting too. There might be a mug on Scripting News before the end of the week. How about that! 

Today's funky dialog contains a new fake user. His name is Jimbob McCorporate, and he has to use a proxy server. Google has never heard of him, but has heard of his soul brother, Bull Mancuso. 

On yesterday's Apple announcements. For users and most developers it's a non-event. It used to matter what the CPU was when developers optimized for specific architectures, but that generally doesn't happen anymore. Game developers do, and some graphics apps. But the vast majority of software is written at a very high level, in Flash, HTML, Javascript, Java, Basic, C, C++, anything but machine language. Also it might have made a difference when software was a face-paced business, when there was a huge difference between the apps available on one platform vs another. These days the most important thing about a platform is what apps don't run there, the viruses, spyware, etc. For that Mac OS has an advantage, for a while, but that has nothing to do with what its CPU is. The nasty bits are always written at a high level. So unless you're an employee or shareholder of Apple, IBM, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, this is meaningless stuff. People who worry about an Osborne effect worry for naught. When the Intel CPUs ship the Mac will perform better, but they were going to ship machines that perform better no matter what. For the vast majority, yesterday's event was Apple theater, nothing more.  

Register: "Having risen to prominence as a computing innovator, Osborne as quickly found notoriety as the industry's first victim of pre-announcing unready products." 

UserLand has shipped Manila 9.5. Scott Young has the details.