Chordata, my directory of RSS and Atom feeds has been growing quickly, and is soon to see some changes that should make it grow a lot faster. In preparation for that growth, I decided yesterday that it's about time to give it a URL that's more memorable and independent than "chordata.geckotribe.com". Unfortunately, "chordata.com" was alread...
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Google Toolbar Keeps Controversial Linking Feature: "Google executives have stressed that they are only giving users more choice. AutoLink does not add links unless a user clicks on a toolbar button to initiate the feature."

I hadn't realized at first that AutoLink had to be activated by clicking a button each time the user arrives...
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Sometimes having a lot of people working on Atom is great, because we get a much wider variety of experience and insight than a smaller group would have available to it. But all too often, it feels like trying to get the US government to move--too many checks and balances keep the status quo entrenched,...
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One quick tip for getting the maximum value from your mail client's SPAM filter. Once you've got it configured or trained so that it's not getting many if any false positives, be sure to have it automatically file new SPAM messages in their own folder rather than leaving them tagged as SPAM, but sitting in...
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Our VoIP adapter from Vonage arrived today, and I placed my first VoIP call...which I answered myself on our Qwest line. Next, I talked to my wife with her on the Vonage phone and me on the Qwest cordless. Then I called my mom to invite her to dinner (and got her voice mail). So...
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The new H.264 codec in QuickTime 7 offers two to three times better compression than MPEG-2 video, enabling HD video to be encoded at about the same bitrate as today's DVDs. This should be a huge benefit for online video applications such as iChat and online movie watching.

Macworld: Feature: Sharpening the picture

I don't spend nearly enough time in iMovie. I have Adobe Premier and After Effects, but they're not what keep me away. If I were to do a complex movie, I'm sure I'd use them, but for anything that's not too fancy, iMovie is just easier. Maybe having an iMovie-related blog will remind me of...
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The New York Times Company Investor Relations: "NYTimes.com's RSS feeds generated 5.9 million pageviews on the site in March, which represents a 342% increase year over year and a 39% increase from February's 4.3 million pageviews. The sections that were most popular among RSS feeds included: Washington and Business. The feeds have been available since...
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Google's AdSense ads have started showing up in RSS feeds from a few different publishers. At present, they're just testing the concept, so not many publishers are able to participate, but it sounds like the program will be expanding soon. This will likely lead to more feeds carrying full content, rather than just summaries or...
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Macworld: Feature: Surfing with Safari, Tiger-Style discusses the new RSS and Atom handling features in Apple's Safari web browser. Among other new features, Safari 2.0 enables you to bookmark keyword searches within feeds. It sounds like this release will help raise awareness of RSS and Atom feeds, but it may not yet be feature rich...
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