Congratulations Robert Scoble !

Via Scripting.  Wow.  I just heard that Scoble is now going to work at Microsoft.  Congrats!  Robert's good people.  This is definitely good for Robert, good for Microsoft and I suspect will be good for blogging as a whole.

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More RSS Resources

Boy the RSS stuff just is popping out of the woodwork.  Here's another good page of RSS resources.  And here's a new aggregator, Awasu, I've never even heard of.  Awasu doesn't seem to be .NET which certainly appeals to me.  But Awasu does get the "I don't care about people linking to me so I'll build my website with frames so they can't link to specific pages" award.  That's silly -- and from a company that understands blogs enough to write an aggregator?  Go figure.

And anti-mega has a great rant about RSS usability.  Its titled "RSS. Sucks." and in a lot of ways he's not all wrong.  If I was writing an aggregator, I'd definitely be looking at his points.  He also has some good comments on .NET and a comparison to Java.  Just these two points were good enough for me to add his blog to my (growing) blogroll.  Recommended.

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If You Need to Reach Me in the Near Future ...

Just a quick note that if you need to reach me sometime next week, you should it this week -- next week is php-con and I have no idea what type of connectivity I'll have.  Last time there was 0 connectivity save dialup so while I hope to be surprised, it wouldn't shock me at all if I was mostly disconnected from next tuesday thru the weekend.  Just keep it in mind.

And this will be a relatively quiet week for me since its the week of "Oh crap!  The conference is next week! **Must work on presentation**".

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Worth Reading: So Who Do We Fight Next ?

Very interesting.  Its not clear to me that he's wrong at all:

Not to jump the gun, so to speak, but our campaign to stabilize the Middle East via forcible regime change is not certain to stop at Baghdad. Instead, we may be on to Damascus, or Tehran, or even Riyadh.

If the United States is fighting a long war against radical Islamism (we are), and if a key to our strategy in that war is to eliminate regimes that we say may support terrorism (it is), and as we have already shown that we'll fight without United Nations approval, then more fighting seems almost inevitable.  More...

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