Monday, January 17, 2005

> Mike McBride: I've been doing this blog for a few years now, and it's afforded me many opportunities to meet new and interesting people who share similar interests... This blog and these connections have increased my value as an IT professional to the point where the organization I work for is aware of my blog, and though no one reads it all that often (They have no idea what I'm talking about half the time, being non-techies), it's not considered problematic to have a blogger on staff. That being said, you'll notice I never mention anyone by name, including the place where I work. I talk about the technology I work with, and how users interact with that, but nothing else. No one had to create a "blogging policy" for me to know better... Seems to me that the whole Blogger Bill of right's movement is about people who didn't seem to understand that all those other, existing, policies applied to writing online too.
[Life of a one-man IT department]   2:54:56 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Glenn Fleishman: I've been poking some more at isbn.nu, the book-price comparison service I run, and with a suggestion from a news aggregator developer, have added RSS syndication to search results for books. If you search on an author, subject, or title, you can now subscribe via RSS to the results of that search...
[GlennLog]   2:29:45 PM  Link  Google It!  
> David Sifry: Tags are a simple, yet powerful, social software innovation. Today millions of people are freely and openly assigning metadata to content and conversations. Unlike rigid taxonomy schemes that people dislike, the ease of tagging for personal organization with social incentives leads to a rich and discoverable folksonomy...
[Sifry's Alerts]   2:15:59 AM  Link  Google It!  
> Denise M. Howell: Are feeds implied licenses, or can they alter express ones? I don't think there's an easy answer, but a court could be asked this question before long as businesses built on RSS continue to explore what they can and should be doing with the material they aggregate. Marty Schwimmer (Bloglines, no thanks), Dennis Kennedy (don't make me put ads in my feed), and Robert Scoble (people who live in full post houses shouldn't throw republication stones) have more. Mark Fletcher expands and contracts.
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