Friday, January 13, 2006

Microsoft has a new beta service called Expo which give you "Free ads that are easy to post." 

New Flickr set: I toured MacWorld Expo this morning with the Scobles, and there was a surprise waiting for Patrick, his first Mac. He's one happy kid! 

Okay the biggest secret I learned today was that CES was boring. Scoble made it sound so exciting through his blog. Second biggest secret, they got a picture of a famous blogger, a guy who's in the Technorati 100, who blogs while sitting on the toilet with his pants down. Scoble has a picture and won't share it. I can't believe what a wuss he is. 

Paolo continues the discussion about the relationship between desktop and server-based software and data. He's totally correct about the difference between Radio and the (newer) OPML Editor, where your data is stored in XML files in the filesystem and then is upstreamed to the centralized server. Upstreaming in Radio is still more powerful than the OPML Editor's, but there are tons of advantages to keeping all your data in OPML files. You're protected against database crashes (but filesystems can crash too). And you can use other XML-generating tools to create content and flow it through the same backend that the OPML Editor uses. Users don't have to be aware that all this is going on, the defaults are set up so that it "just works," but having things be so open means we have more options as we go forward.  

Daniel Berlinger has been experimenting with AJAX and NewsRiver. 

My spam filters have been over-zealous for some time, not sure how long. I just discovered a huge amount of mail that I hadn't seen until now. I'm digging my way through it, but I'm going to have to something about this.  

One of the stories I missed because of the email problem is the closing of the 2nd Ave Deli in NYC. I got a dozen pointers from people about this. I love their soup and hot dogs.  

PublicRadioFan.com has "program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world." 

Expression Engine has OPML support. You can see it in action on Rick Ellis's site.