Thursday, April 25, 2002

How to influence members of traditional media? Let's say one's opinion matters to the editor and publisher of a popular newspaper or magazine; you have some influence. Let's also say that we believe that newspaper or magazine would be well-served to make their news feeds available via RSS.XML. What's the proper layman's (non-programmer) language to use with a business person to explain what might be required on his end? How much time is his I.T. staff going to spend working on the problem? What resources must they have at their disposal? What showstoppers might exist in their past decisions that would make the move overly challenging or costly? 10:54:50 PM     Comments[]

Life can be such a rat race! Yesterday I linked to this. It told of the demise of www.dooce.com, the weblog of a talented designer and writer. I don't necessarily care for some of the subject matter or the foul language I read there. But, the expertise, ability and talent overflowed in the work! I've watched the comments posted here. Near the bottom of the comments someone posted using the name and email address of another extremely talented designer. Finally, out of respect, the person that had been 'impersonated' entered a civil comment/retraction. I'm not sure what I (really) believe about punishment for malicious hacking, violating security, web impersonations, etc., but I'm reasonably sure that penalties can't get too severe for idiots who do absolutely ridiculous pranks with information systems that exist for 1001 reasons other than their amusement! 6:33:04 PM     Comments[]

Immersed in "design" For two days I've plowed through every good design of a weblog I can find looking for ideas and techniques. Mark Pilgrim was right when he valued content over form. But, I can't help myself. Some of the designs of these sites simply invite readership. Sure, I'm only going to read a grand total of 2 posts about somebody's cat, but without the great design, I'd read far less than that! This whole HTML thing is impressive when you see it done right. Now I'm hoping that all of it isn't so tied to someone's artistic flair that design-challenged morons like me can never produce good-looking work. Top 10 Web Design Lists. TaskZ maintains a Top 10 List Archives and its newest addition is the Top 10 Information Architecture and Interface Design Sites. List is pretty accurate, in my opinion. [Link LucDesk]... [meryl's notes] 5:50:28 PM     Comments[]

What's another rss feed? #67 Agency.com has started a weblog. It's a moveable type system, so it also has an rss feed you can subsfribe to. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 5:35:43 PM     Comments[]

I've now subscribed to enough sites that... I can just about make it through my morning news aggregator by 5PM. If everyone lived like me. we'd need 3.4 planets [Inside Gretchen's Head] 5:33:59 PM     Comments[]

The very essence of terrorism... is the set of fears and worries that well up in all of us when rumors of suicide bombers at the mall or chemical explosions in Manhattan or fires in hotels happen and we can't immediately determine whether or not our lifestyles are threatened or an accident has happened. DRUDGE: "URGENT // Fire hits high-rise Castle Beach Hotel on Miami Beach" [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson] 5:30:02 PM     Comments[]

Who's Zoe or is this another Google Box/Instant Outliner tool? Zoe: "Do for email what Google did for the Web."  [Scripting News] 5:25:53 PM     Comments[]

And then... Zoe: The goal is to do for email what Google did for the Web."  [Scripting News] 5:23:47 PM     Comments[]

This afternoon... another attempt at understanding how to (neatly) add graphics to posts a complete revision of Radio Static 11:14:18 AM     Comments[]

More education - what is blogrolling.com? Blog Update. As you will see, I finally updated the blog roll. I really gotta start using blogrolling.com. No more of this only-once-a-month updates. [Inside Gretchen's Head] 9:12:45 AM     Comments[]

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