Monday, September 12, 2005

Scoble has been raving privately about two new services from Memeorandum, for months, but hasn't been able to talk about it publicly, until now. The two services are Tech Memeorandum and Political Memeorandum. "Memeorandum chews through thousands of blogs in minutes and tells you what's important. It does this every few minutes. It is dramatically faster than I could ever be. It's all machine based. No humans involved," says Scoble. I'm looking forward to checking it out. 

Microsoft PDC session on the future of RSS. Maybe RSS has something to say about the future of Microsoft. Not a joke, not even slightly. If Microsoft wants to accomplish anything by using RSS, they have to let RSS use Microsoft. It's not enough for MS to embrace RSS, they must let RSS embrace MS. I don't think this has really sunk in over there at MS yet, but I have hope that it will.  

I'm having coffee with Don Hopkins -- one of the programmers on The Sims. He says "every object has a bit that says whether it's burning or not." Pretty coool! 

Rogers reports that CSPAN has begun podcasting. 

The Jerusalem Post is hosting blogs with Manila. 

John Roberts at CNET points out their daily tech podcast.  

On Friday I asked where are the mainstream news podcasts. 

Om Malik reports that eBay is buying Skype for $4.1 billion. 

Jon Udell's departure checklist.  

I just got news that Terry Teague, one of the most senior members of the Frontier community, and longtime employee of Apple Computer, died over the weekend. He will totally be missed.