Thursday, April 3, 2003

xhtml in rss 2.0 Don uncaves. ;-) Accordingly, I've converted my rss 2.0 feed from to the to the more bandwidth and xpath friendly . It looks likegotdotnet and blogx users will soon follow. Hopefully the owners of the wellformedweb and w3future weblogs will take notice. The updated feed is valid, and it uses namespaces in exactly the way that rss 2.0 and xhtml intend. I've tested it with radio and syndirella. [Sam Ruby] Cool! Now we can start to see rich content in our news aggregators... oh wait, I need a Safari-based version of NNW first! 3:35:50 PM

Internet Applications, Unplugged A project I've been working on at Macromedia is starting to become known now, it is called Macromedia Central and is a way to deliver Internet applications that can be used both online and offline -- some stories are already being published. I'm very happy to be able to talk about it more tomorrow, and will be presenting in the morning at Flashforward. It won't be shipping until this summer, and we'll be talking about it sooner than usual since we want to include the developer community early. [Kevin Lynch] Very Interesting... taking Flash apps/content to the desktop. I can imagine some interesting monitoring GUIs that use RSS: a stoplight widget that shows that status & load on a server, for instance. In some ways, Konfabulator seems similar... 3:33:41 PM

Cringley on Future of TV Cringely, as always, writes some poignant thoughts on the future of TV: NerdTV, which will begin as a weekly program and accelerate from there, requires a total of only three people to create each program, making it probably the cheapest network show in the history of television. Extend this model to other types of programming -- drama and comedy, for example -- and suddenly Internet distribution will enable 10,000 would-be Spielbergs to make and distribute their movies, some of which will be pretty darned good.  The key here is not just the technology, but getting away from the idea that you have to fill a cable channel to make beautiful TV.  Rather than replacing traditional TV, the Internet will become TV's minor league, and the best shows will be eventually moved up to the majors. Ah, the dream lives on in others... 1:59:17 PM