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This time, it's personalized.
7:47:29 PM 
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really simple shit. I love "RSS". I love my aggregator. I want the two to work in harmony for a long, long time. If I understand correctly, several blogtool vendors are making up their own versions of rss as they go along. Most of these new formats won't work with my aggregator unless adaptations are made. This doesn't make any sense to me, if you want your blogtools to become popular, wouldn't you want the established base be able to read them? Reminds me of railway history, where newcomers developed incompatible 'broad-gauge' trains and tracks. Go ahead and learn from this history, the outcome is as predictable. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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As of yet, I still have not seen anyone point out what is wrong with these supposedly "funky" RSS feeds.
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My aggregator (the one in Radio Userland) had not been broken by these feeds in any way.
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The broad-guage railroad was an bad analogy to make, since there were and are good reasons to use non-standard guage---or rather the only compelling reason for 4' 8.5" standard guage is that all the other kids are doing it. (Mind you, that's pretty compelling.) Furthermore, these "funky" RSS feeds are still working as RSS without any need to change the trucks on your rail cars.
7:34:07 AM
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Medicine, Paternalism, and Social Software
Some discussions of distortions in health care markets were stimulated by stuff that I wrote here and here about prescription drug pricing. This led me to think about the whole subject of paternalism in medicine, which led me to think about whether reputation systems and social software could provide an alternative. My thoughts are disorganized, but here goes.
[Corante: Bottom Line]
Arnold King floats the idea of reputation systems for doctors instead of "paternalistic" regulation of doctors by the government. He fails to discus the major problems:
- The consequences of a bad choice are someqhat higher than in your avaerage market.
- An overwhelming majority are in no position to make any sort of informed judgement to contribute to a reputation system.
Some times high prices and complex procedures are worth what you get for them. While I am sure there is always room to do better, they can't be dismissed out of hand.
7:28:35 AM
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 In the continuing proletarian struggle against Republican spam. This time, it's personalized. By radar@poboxes.com.
Let me be the next uninformed commentor on RSS.
really simple shit. I love "RSS". I love my aggregator. I want the two to work in harmony for a long, long time. If I understand correctly, several blogtool vendors are making up their own versions of rss as they go along. Most of these new formats won't work with my aggregator unless adaptations are made. This doesn't make any sense to me, if you want your blogtools to become popular, wouldn't you want the established base be able to read them? Reminds me of railway history, where newcomers developed incompatible 'broad-gauge' trains and tracks. Go ahead and learn from this history, the outcome is as predictable. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
As of yet, I still have not seen anyone point out what is wrong with these supposedly "funky" RSS feeds.
My aggregator (the one in Radio Userland) had not been broken by these feeds in any way.
The broad-guage railroad was an bad analogy to make, since there were and are good reasons to use non-standard guage---or rather the only compelling reason for 4' 8.5" standard guage is that all the other kids are doing it. (Mind you, that's pretty compelling.) Furthermore, these "funky" RSS feeds are still working as RSS without any need to change the trucks on your rail cars.
By radar@poboxes.com.
Doctor knows best.
Medicine, Paternalism, and Social Software
Some discussions of distortions in health care markets were stimulated by stuff that I wrote here and here about prescription drug pricing. This led me to think about the whole subject of paternalism in medicine, which led me to think about whether reputation systems and social software could provide an alternative. My thoughts are disorganized, but here goes.
[Corante: Bottom Line]
Arnold King floats the idea of reputation systems for doctors instead of "paternalistic" regulation of doctors by the government. He fails to discus the major problems:
- The consequences of a bad choice are someqhat higher than in your avaerage market.
- An overwhelming majority are in no position to make any sort of informed judgement to contribute to a reputation system.
Some times high prices and complex procedures are worth what you get for them. While I am sure there is always room to do better, they can't be dismissed out of hand. By radar@poboxes.com.
These are the morons who are defending the rights of Americans to be morons.
shocking. The Mirror is running a story that's quite disturbing: US troops admit shooting iraqi civilians. A quote:
- "There's a picture of the World Trade Centre hanging up by my bed and I keep one in my flak jacket. Every time I feel sorry for these people I look at that. I think, 'They hit us at home and, now, it's our turn.' I don't want to say payback but, you know, it's pretty much payback."
- Who's running pr at the pentagon?
[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
If there's any of you left that think that Iraqis flew the planes into the World Trade Center, will you please kill yourselves now? Thanks. By radar@poboxes.com.
Causing trouble already, pt. 2. I got a mean letter from the apt. management because I had a big pile of boxes out on my balcony.
Now I have a big pile of boxes in my living room. By radar@poboxes.com.
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