The Desktop Fishbowl
Charles blogs all the random nerd stuff he can find.

Monday, 25 March 2002

While I was away, Dave Winer added the New York Times as a Radio-only newsfeed. I must say, I don't like the idea of this much. What we need is to convince content producers that RSS feeds are a good idea in their own right - that they'll be worthwhile because they'll draw people to the site to read the stories. Syndication is supposed to be open formats and open doors. It shouldn't be closed doors and exclusive deals to ship more proprietary syndication software. I'd have been far happier if Dave had announced that the New York Times had, on his evangelism, started publishing public RSS feeds. It's an uncharacteristic shortness of vision. 11:58:38 PM

I've been missing in action a while. This is basically the fault of me having far too much work to do in an isolated location (without direct net access). A contributing factor was the fact that I dropped my Powerbook on its corner, buckling the case, and I didn't want to use it much until I'd bought a torx screwdriver, pulled it open and made sure I wouldn't have it blow up on me any time soon. 6:55:29 PM

Doc Searls was pretty interesting today. Not that he isn't usually, today was just particularly neat. 6:48:23 PM