- Tim Bray: Explosion.
A small proportion of people are flaming assholes, something that I’ve observed to hold generally true across genders, age cohorts, and ethnic groups.
- Dare Obasanjo: This One’s For You, Jon Udell.
- Danny Ayers: The principle of sufficient irritation.
- Michael Sippey: why /who/ needs echo?
An hour spent on supporting whatever this new format ends up being is an hour not spent on fixing bugs or adding new functionality.
I think we’ve all been mired in the muck of the current political debates so long that we no longer see the opportunity cost of standing still.
- Clay Shirky: RSS, Echo, Wikis, and the personality wars.
- Jeffrey Zeldman: RSS tango.
If you want to syndicate all your content — every word, every script, every image — maybe what you’re looking for is not a new syndication format. Maybe what you need is a news reader that understands XHTML.
I seem to recall that this has been discussed before. And while not in any way wishing to restrict anyone’s free speech, I shall simply note in passing that anyone who likens syndication to storing my groceries on the sidewalk so people can eat them without sitting across the table from me
is probably not someone you want to advise you on how, or indeed whether, to build a new syndication format.
- Michael Barrish: Echo.
I have taken to reading comments about [Echo]. … Oddly perhaps, this experience feels remarkably like watching porn on a blocked cable channel.
- Gary Lawrence Murphy: Echos of RSS.
All this initiative is doing now is frightening off any further development on semantic-web.
Gary wins the modified Godwin’s Law award for being the first to bring up the Semantic Web.
- Tim Bray: The End of Innocence.
I’m sorry, this has just gone way, way too far. Words written in public become deeds, and some deeds are inexcusable and I see no point in excusing the inexcusable.
- Tim Bray: A Web Interface for Web Publishing.
- Syntax is the normative document defining the Well-Formed Entry format.
- Joe Gregorio: The EchoAPI (draft).
- Joe Gregorio: Six Places.
- Foaf examples. Long after this weblogging fad has come and gone, we will have wikis, mailing lists, and IRC.
- Conspiracy theories aside, it is odd that a search for pages on backend.userland.com with the exact phrase “RSS 2.0″ in the title doesn’t turn up the RSS 2.0 specification, titled simply “RSS 2.0″. However, turning off duplicate page filtering reveals the problem: the RSS 2.0 specification is identical to the RSS 0.94 specification, right down to the title. Google is now much more strict about detecting and filtering out duplicate pages on a given server. And since /rss094 has virtually no Googlejuice whatsoever, it’s not surprising that it ranks lower than well-linked articles about RSS. What is surprising is why Google’s algorithms chose to include /rss094 and filter out /rss, instead of the other way around, but that’s hardly evidence of a conspiracy. (I realize that I’m wasting my breath here, since everyone knows that all good conspiracy theories are impervious to both evidence and logic.)
- Ian Hickson: Two.
W3C Snakes and Ladders
- The line.
However long I had been standing in line, I didn’t have any idea going into it that it would take as long as it was. Because of this, I was running dangerously low on food and water.
- Aaron Swartz: HTML diff.
Rough code, badly documented
. Documentation is like sex…
- Windows 2000 SP4 Fixes. New! Improved! Now with a slightly less oppressive EULA!
- How did you come up with your username? “f8dy” was the random username I was assigned in college.
- Clint Fong: Bailey’s first day.
- Ian Hickson: Zero.
Today I started work at Opera Software.
- John Gruber: SmartyPants 1.4. Curly quotes for everyone!
- Jeremy Zawodny: Fun with mod_rewrite. mod_rewrite is like sex…
- HOWTO – install Debian onto a remote Linux system. Don’t ask.
- xml2rfc
- John Gruber: Casady & Greene.
Well that sucks.
- The Register: Websites — Are you helping the disabled? Probably not.
- Leslie Orchard: Syndicated Whuffie.
Bayesian filtering
is the new magic pixie dust.
- Grant Hutchinson: Here kitty, kitty.
I’ve noticed several subtle (and pleasing) differences in comparing the menus found in Jaguar to those in the pre-release of Panther.
- Slashdot: Anti-Spam Webforms Leave Out the Blind.
- My first two days at Franklin Street.
The creature dies or disappears. Then Scully admits that the fat-sucking was unexplainable. The end.
- Sample “billion laughs” documents (last section). I wonder how many news aggregators are vulnerable to this. No, I’m not going to test it.
- CSS Slants. How does this work? I have no idea. But it does.
- Michael Pick: Fun with CSS pull quotes.
- Tom Coates: The internet is not shit.
- Bob Stayton: Docbook XSL: The Complete Guide. No offense to the author of what appears to be an awesome book, but why doesn’t the HTML version of a book written in Docbook about making the HTML versions of books written in Docbook look better look better?
- John where Anna had had had had had had had had had had had the teacher’s approval. Or something.
- FeedDemon beta 2 release notes. Download.
- Dean Allen: Daily Oliver, July 4, 2003. Cute little laptop ya got there.
- Kevin Fanning: If those sketchy pictures suck.
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