Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Mike's Manic Minute 22 Mar 06 Joshua Allen is the man. . . This week I'm at the MIX06 conference (www.mix06.com) and last night a bunch of us got together, lead by Marc Canter http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/03/microformats-and-structured-blogging-bof  and Tantek from Technorati (www.technorati.com) to talk about microformats and structured blogging.  The basic idea is how can users keep and own their own data but still share it with a broad audience.  Identity Woman, Kalyia Hamlin, also pointed us all to http://itags.net which is an identity based tagging standard, yet another new microformat.   But why Joshua Allen?  Because he kept the food court security at the Venetian hotel busy for 20 minutes so that we could actually have the discussion!  Turns out there's three separate security companies employed by the Venetian and while he thought he'd set everything up with security beforehand, it turns out no one told him about the food court cops!   So kudos to Joshua for keeping them at bay, you da man!   If you want more information about microformats and structured blogging, check out: http://microformats.org/ and  http://structuredblogging.org/ and http://itags.net/   Podcast of the day. . . The Show On 10 http://on10.net/TheShow/   I'm breaking my rule here of allowing the word podcast to be used only for audio and tipping the hat to my compatriots over on the new site, On 10.  It's a new site for people who use technology to produce cool stuff and this is their podcast.   Manic Minute Recommendation: If you make stuff with technology, you gotta be on 10.     And that's your Manic Minute for March 22nd, 2006, brought to you by www.Business-Podcasting.com! MIX06 10:05:28 AM    comment []

Mike's Manic Minute 21 Mar 06 Windows Vista Whereforeart Thou? As many of you know I work for Microsoft but what follows is my personal opinion only.   It's hard to develop software. . .   I've been doing it since 1969 and I've had my share of bugs, little and big, and my share of learning experiences. . .aka don't ship it until you've really tested it. . . And in version 1 concentrate on stability not features. . .so I feel for all the folks who are both counting on Windows Vista and those who are building it.    It's a hard dilemma in this day-and-age to make the call to slip something that's slipped as many times as Windows Vista.  It would be harder still, in my opinion, to ship something that sucks.  Eighteen months ago the decision was made to change how Windows is put together under the covers, moving to a more modular structure, and that kind of thing takes time to get really, really right.  With gazillions of people basing much of their livelihood and, these days, their financial and social lives on applications that run on Windows it's just got to be right.   After all the pains of the last few years of viruses, trojans, crashes, etc. I really appreciate what it takes to stand up and say, don't ship it until it's right. . .hard thing to do but good call, again my personal opinion     Podcast of the day. . . MedicCast http://www.mediccast.com/blog/ This is a podcast for emergency personnel and is a fine example of narrow casting at its finest.  I've been helped by EMS folks in the past and they're damn fine professionals.   Manic Minute Recommendation: Thanks for saving so many lives!   And that's your Manic Minute for March 21st, 2006, brought to you by www.Business-Podcasting.com! 10:03:14 AM    comment []

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