Saturday, July 19, 2003

Eric Rice does some videoblogging ericrice.com -> New Videoblog: Multimedia Grok I wonder what two years from now will be like. My latest videoblog on multimedia blogs. In color and not nightvision like the last one! :-) For those keeping score, 2.2 MB. Posted by Eric Rice of ericrice.com 2:01:18 PM  comment []       RSS 2.0 on the move Click to hear my thoughts on: RSS 2.0 on the move Summary of the latest events revolving around RSS 2.0 10:03:55 AM  comment []       Seeking common ground Seeking common ground. Luke Hutteman: If the advisory board were to vote on possibly unfreezing the RSS 2.0 spec, this may really change some things. Only then could they truly move RSS forward and possibly add some of the extensions that Atom is talking about. It might even allow the Atom project to be folded into the RSS standard so that we can keep a single all-encompassing spec. Now that would truly be a step forward. [Sam Ruby] 9:09:45 AM  comment []       Comments on RSS 2.0 Comments on RSS 2.0: David Galbraith, Dave Sifry. [Scripting News] 9:07:08 AM  comment []       Atom Mailing List Atom Mailing List. Joe Gregorio: A new mailing list has been created for discussing Atom. It is being graciously hosted by IMC, the Internet Mail Consortium.  Special thanks to Paul Hoffman of IMC for setting up the list. [Sam Ruby] 9:04:39 AM  comment []       One thumbs up... One thumbs up.... David Galbraith raps it out.  Me too - I'm also in favor of.... RSS resolution. For the record, I am onboard with Dave's move to take RSS to the next level and appointing Brent Simmons and Jon Udell to an advisory board. At some point it would be good if this went through a standards organization like the W3C, however. I would suggest that it would be good if all RSS development focuses around a 2.0 core and that the developer community focus on RSS modules on the one hand and a message wrapper for RSS content based upon weblog API's on the other. With this any RSS 1.0 community work or Atom (Echo) work should fold into this arena. RSS 2.0 meets the requirement that I see as key (extensibility through modules) and any fragmentation of effort will be counter productive. There is plenty of work to do with defining modules and message wrappers - and to that I would add 'ping' server architecture, where the value of real-time information will demonstrate what a weblog published/RSS syndicated model can do what current search engines with nothing fresher than 15 minutes cannot - a Reuters for everyone. Technology at Harvard Law: Advisory Board [David Galbraith] [Marc's Voice] 3:22:20 AM  comment []       Ben's talk at ETCON Ben's talk at ETCON. Lisa Rein has finally found the time to post the video she shot during Ben Hammersley's speech at the O'Reilly ETCON conference this spring. This particular speech is important as Ben spells out exactly how Matt and Paolo's ENT is a kosher namespace extension - and thereby it can work with BOTH RSS 1.0 and 2.0. This is important - given the fact that RSS 2.0 is now focused on moving forward with such extensions. Now we get to see what happens. [Marc's Voice] 3:21:17 AM  comment []       An announcement about RSS An announcement about RSS. As noted on Scripting News today, the RSS 2.0 copyright has been transferred to Harvard, the spec has been placed under a Creative Commmons license, and an advisory board -- initially Dave Winer, Brent Simmons, and me -- has been formed. ... [Jon's Radio] 3:20:09 AM  comment []       Making Friendsters in High Places Making Friendsters in High Places. Good article by Leander Kahney in Wired News on Social Networking.  And I'm not just saying that because danah and I are in it.  Friendster has hit viral level of exponental growth which is drawing new interest into the space.  And as danah points out, people are starting to sell their networks on eBay.  One measure of value to users, where connections are the virtual economy. What we haven't seen yet, but see in virtual worlds, is exodus.  As users become invested in social ties, if the software doesn't continue to evolve to meet their needs, the colony will seek a new hive.  Perhaps that's because we still see the value of these social networks in ties alone, rather than the flow they support.   [Ross Mayfield's Weblog] 2:35:04 AM  comment []       RSS goings-on RSS goings-on. Dave Winer is transfering ownership of the RSS 2.0 spec to the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. This addresses one of the concerns that motivated the Atom project (nee Echo), but I suspect it won't keep that group from moving forward. There is growing recognition that syndication standards are important for the future of Internet-based applications, something I wrote about four years ago in Release 1.0. [Werblog] 1:02:40 AM  comment []       More questions answered More questions answered. I’ve gotten a couple more good questions about my participation in the RSS advisory board. I’ll answer them here: 1. Will NetNewsWire support Echo? If/when Echo is ready, NetNewsWire will support it. In fact, my plan is to go a step further and create a plugin interface for NetNewsWire, so that developers can add support for other formats too, even non-XML formats. Just because I’m on the RSS advisory board doesn’t mean I see this all as some kind of war. I’m no soldier. My focus remains making software that people like. 2. Why did I jump in the fray? As stated above, I don’t think of this as a war. But that there has been conflict between some people about syndication standards is undeniable. I consider the move and re-licensing of the RSS spec a move away from conflict. That’s a good thing. There’s a difference between being an RSS advocate, which I am, and an RSS absolutist, which I am not. [inessential.com] 12:30:09 AM  comment []       RSS 2.0 News RSS 2.0 News. There's lots of movement with RSS to announce today... [Scripting News] 12:20:12 AM  comment []       The Next Killer App The Next Killer App. Expect to hear a lot about RSS at Gnomedex. Not only is Scott Johnson coming, but Dan Gillmor plans on spending a considerable amount of time presenting arguments for how RSS is the gateway to the next set of killer apps (thank you, Dave Winer). Oh, and Nick Bradbury will also be in the crowd. You already know how I feel about this stuff. I received an e-mail earlier this afternoon from one Jeff Hardison: "I handle media relations for Amazon.com's Web Services initiative. I stumbled upon your AWS-based RSS feeds (and now subscribe to your music one). I'm writing to see if we could use your innovative use of AWS as a case study, should a reporter need one." Here's a chance to get all your RSS questions answered - once and for all.... [C:PIRILLO.EXE] 12:16:36 AM  comment []       Feedback on feeds Feedback on feeds. A look at two high profile and widely deployed necho/atom feeds: Blogger and TypePad, and some thoughts  on the implications of escaping and mime types. ... [Sam Ruby] 12:13:51 AM  comment []       Update: Debate flares over Weblog standards Update: Debate flares over Weblog standards. Despite technical battles, Weblogs prepare to alter the collaboration and content management space [InfoWorld: Top News] 12:07:10 AM  comment []

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