Tuesday, September 21, 2004

> Hossein Derakhshan: There are a few newspaper in Iran that when they personally attack someone, it's been perceived by everyone as a badge of honor; and I received my first one yesterday...
[Editor: Myself (English)]   10:24:43 AM  Link  Google It!  
> Phil Windley: Through Sam Ruby, a pointer to mod_speedyfeed, an Apache 2 module that allows feedreading clients to only download the entries that have changed since the last access instead of the entire RSS file. This could cut the transfer amount significantly for many syndication sources. For now, it just works for Atom, but I don't see anything about it that couldn't work for RSS as well. The module is triggered by a header that the he client adds to the request like so...
[Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]   10:20:52 AM  Link  Google It!  
> Adam Curry: In today's source code I mentioned an essay I wrote 4 years ago. Certainly the original source code for what the iPodder is becoming. For extra history points see Dave's Virtual Bandwidth piece that followed and ultimately resulted in Payloads for RSS.
[Adam Curry's Weblog]   10:18:21 AM  Link  Google It!  
> Ken Olsen: There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
[New Urban Legends]   10:07:29 AM  Link  Google It!  
> Scott Young: We're working on a new Radio UserLand 8.1 release, and we'd like your help testing the recent changes. This beta-release includes several bug fixes and improvements. Some new features are a new linkToStyleSheet macro and in the news aggregator: Atom feed support and a new sort order preference.
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> Jonathan Schwartz: One man's virtualization is another man's web service...
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> Darren Barefoot: As you've probably heard, Amazon has launched a search engine called A9.com. You can read about why they think you should use A9 here. When I try out a new search engine, I always search for my name. This ego-search started years ago, and provides a decent baseline to evaluate a search engine's effectiveness. After all, what more do I know about than me? By default, A9 shows text and image results on the same search results page. When I searched for my name on my PowerBook (using Firefox), I was amused to note the first two image results...
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> Mitch Kapor: Please join me in a conversation with Joe Trippi about his book, The Revolution Will not be Televised. We will stream it live at Of, By, and For, this Friday the 24th at 2:00pm Pacific time. As you might know, Trippi built the Dean for America campaign and started rewriting the rules for American politics using the Internet...
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