Tuesday, October 29, 2002

Interesting weblogs according to Peter Drayton Weblog Revue. Here are a bunch of interesting weblogs, covering a variety of topics: douglasp (Doug Purdy). Recently outed by Dare as a Microsoft blogger, Doug is a Java & CLR geek who is deeply involved with both current and future .NET Remoting - a topic near & dear to my heart! Somwhat surprisingly, Doug's blog has very few .NET-specific references - instead it touches more on philosophy, Doug's reading list & marathon running, Mozilla, Mac OS X/TiBook fiddling and a number of other non-technical topics. Overall, eclectic and personal. Green Hat Journal (Pinku Surana). Pinku's a DevelopMentor instructor and also one of the authors of the Hotdog Scheme compiler for .NET. Topic-wise, his blog runs the gamut: observations on implementing closures in .NET interspersed with references to Justice Scalia's interpretations, thoughts on animal rights & privacy issues, and biotech. Tecno-Geek Weblog (Brian Maso). Brian's another DM instructur who recently started blogging about Java and Web Services. His first contribution to the discussion is a counterpoint to Steve Loughran's excellent The Wondrous Curse of Interoperability, wherein Brian asserts that Web Service interop is overrated. This is obviously a controversial stance... Thinking About Software (Alexis Smirnov). I met Alexis in person for the first time last week at the web Services DevCon, where he'd driven down from Montreal for the conference! Although I had read his blog previously and had seen his posts in Sam & Greg's Groove Experiments project, it is always good to put a face to a URL. Alex's blog tends to focus on .NET & Groove, with a good ratio of linkblogging to commentary. All Things Distributed (Werner Vogels). I met Werner at the last Rotor conference - he's a researcher at Cornell, focused on high-end distributed systems, clusters & cluster management, and scalability/robustness analysis. The scale & scope of the problems that Werner is working on was truly eye-opening - the weblog updates intermittently, but it's a good subscription. Fast Takes (John McDowall). John was CTO for 2Bridge, then mySimon, and is now now the VP Engineering at Grand Central. I met John ~4 years ago when I was interviewing for a spot at 2Bridge Software. John impressed me, coming across as a smart, level-headed manager & technologist. His weblog has a similarly thoughtful tone. [Peter Drayton's Radio Weblog] I link it here for further reference when i have time to go read this stuff. 3:48:56 PM    comment []

Portrait of a Blogger: a fun read Portrait of a Blogger. As blogs (love them or hate them) continue to grow in numbers on the 'net, I thought it might be useful to have an easy guide to study the habits and mannerisms of the wide range of bloggers that exist in the blogosphere. So, without any further ado, I give you a quick guide to the types of bloggers one might encounter in the vast internet universe. [kuro5hin.org] A fun read :-) 1:38:10 PM    comment []

Blogging mailing lists: an idea about the implementation Blogging Mailing Lists. I wish there were better tools for blogging mailing lists, so that these two types of conversations could cross over more often. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] Excellent idea. I think userland has that feature, send a mail to your blog, but what would be truly valuable would be to link automatically to the archived web version of the mail, in its thread context. In order to do this we would need 2 things: a standard WSDL for web archive of mailing list searching, something like MailArchiveSearch.wsdl: It could allow different modes of searching: date + author, or full text it returns the url of the mail in the archive An index somewhere, that could be decentralized using RSS, that would include the following informations: mailing list name: the key for lookup mailing list archive web site url of the entry point for the service that implements MailArchiveSearch.wsdl for that site (it could be implemented at a remote site, for example one that would aggregate search for different archives. a Google front end could do most of the archives I guess) Then when you forward the mail you are interested in, with your comments, to your favorite blogging tool, it would: extract the mailing list name lookup the mailing list search service, using an RSS aggregator like Merkaat invoke the search service if something is found, add a permalink to your post, to the archived email else, if no search service is found or if the mail is not found, just add your blog entry as is I may have a stab at implementing this for Radio, with the jakarta mailing lists, and maybe Google API... if I can free up some time for a personal project :-) 1:17:02 PM    comment []