Monday, June 30, 2003Casady & Greene to cease operations Thursday. An era is ending. Casady & Greene, a company that's been publishing software since 1984, will officially cease business as of Thursday. "With computers coming out loaded with software the way they are, people don't seem to think they need extras," Bonnie Mitchell of C&G told MacCentral. "And a small third-party company like ours finds it difficult to convince people that they do, in fact, need such extras. The products we carry will go back to their owners -- we don't own any of them -- and those owners will be supporting them and probably offering them for sale." [MacCentral]
Eek - I loved Casady & Greene software. They had some of the greatest games - Crystal Crazy for the IIGS.
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Cool - to see the gear from work used at Wimbledon.
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Part of problem is that the chips are so small that you can't find them. An interesting aspect is that they are idle unless a RFID reader is within a short distance (between inches and a few feet). The big concern seems to be that these chips can be tracked everywhere... except for the little detail that detectors would have to be everywhere to read all of them all of the time. The next question to ask would be how much a detector costs and who can get them.
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American Forces Carry Out Raids in Central Iraq. The raids, aimed at rooting out groups that have been attacking American and British soldiers, resulted in more than 60 arrests. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
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How much of a surprise should this have been? No one seems to like receiving telemarketting calls, and this offers a way for everyone to not get such annoying phone calls. I would have been more suprised had they not been overwhelmed.
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Strangely enough, it makes sense to me... that doesn't mean that I like it.
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Keep the pavement we have!
Dave: If you like using your aggregator to read RSS feeds, please find a way of saying that publicly. If you want mature steady leadership for the technology, find a way to say that too. If you don't want the pavement ripped up because a few competitors have fallen behind and want to create confusion until they can catch up, say so.
I'm a happy RSS camper. I use Radio Userland for my weblog. I use the built in news feature which reads RSS feeds to see what's changed. I've also just started looking at NetNewsWire Lite as another way to look at RSS feeds.
The main reason I like RSS is that it's just worked for me. I've been trying to figure out what all the yelling over Echo is... but since I don't have hours and hours to chase the details, I just get a surface glance and it's not pretty.
I'll admit that my weblog isn't very good... but I'm trying and learning and I think that's progress.
I saw when Scripting News disappeared yesterday and it was the strangest feeling. I'd been reading Scripting News for the last several years. Maybe not everyday and maybe not even following everything that happens. But I've always found the ideas expressed there to be thought provoking. I can remember when Frontier was introduced and I used it on windows when it came out there. I still have the Frontier book on my bookshelf. I used frontier to manage the content on my website. And I've used manilla at my last startup to share lots of information. I like Radio a LOT - I've been amazed to find Frontier so completely there within Radio.
I don't know Dave Winer much at all - except through what he's put on his weblog and into his software. The one thing that I can say is that he's tried his best to make the web a place to write. Frontier with it's content management then Manilla and now with Radio and weblogs. His story has evolved and changed direction by bits and pieces. He tries to do what he says - and when he said that the RSS spec was frozen, there were no more changes. Even when folks are beating him up to fix something that it doesn't say or it should say. Instead of going back on his word, he tries to explain. Sometimes the details get a bit heated... but he is consistent and I believe he tries his best to do the right thing.
Personally, I want my RSS readers to always just work and just ripping up the infrastructure because you can doesn't strke me as very bright. I'm sure that I've missed the finer points of the yelling... but as someone who wants to share what I write and be able to find stuff, it's hard for me the say that everything needs to be changed.
I'm wondering if chicken little was wrong this time and the sky isn't falling at all and it is merely an acorn again.
The short story is I like using an aggregator to read RSS feeds. I want mature steady leadership for the technology. I don't want the pavement ripped up.
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