Tuesday, April 09, 2002

I like this post! I had sushi with Adam Green tonight.  We had a long talk about what the next big thing is going to be.  What comes after the Web? The conclusion: PCs, Web Services, and lots of great apps.  It's subversive. It turns the Internet into an operating system. It flys under the radar of the bigs (which means that there is plenty of room for independent developers to have fun and make money) and it has a low price of admission: $39.95. [John Robb's Radio Weblog] How does one get "positioned" to play a part in this? Is there a money-making opportunity here for someone not employed at Userland and not involved in programming? Guess not, but I still like the sound of it all. 9:32:43 PM     Comments[]

Do You Trust Your Newspaper? I'm behind in getting much of Craig Cantoni's writing to this web site. However, he has just completed a new essay that deserves your attention, particularly if you are wrestling with any of the weblog vs. BigPub journalism questions. Provocative or strident? If that one doesn't do it for you, take a look at A Tax Quiz In Honor of April 15. 5:34:29 PM     Comments[]

The Good Stuff What Is Content Management? For us end-users. Do we know how many management features are wrapped into Radio without our realizing it? [Russ Lipton Documents Radio] I, for one, don't have a clue! I know some stuff is in there, but even with the help of the Discussion board, I haven't understood how to change the name of a category - much less how to do all the cool stuff. It's terribly discouraging. 1:14:17 PM     Comments[]

Now that's journalism! Pic a Mile. Matt Frondorf drove from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate bridge and clicked his camera every mile on the 3,304 mile trip. See the story: Taken On The... [meryl's notes] 9:15:19 AM     Comments[]

Can I make this work? RssDistiller: "Extract rss feeds from most regular web pages." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] Probably not! At least not after my weekend of wrestling with RemoteEdit for Radio Userland. Wait a minute - late breaking help! Paolo gives his RSS distiller for Radio a stretch:  screen shot.  Nice.  My experience is that any scraping of a website (I did it for Boston.com) requires a little work analyzing the source and finding the appropriate points in the page's HTML to nab the headline.  A couple more iterations usually gets you the news feeds you need. [from John Robb] 9:12:29 AM     Comments[]

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