Amy Gahran posted today at Poynteronline about How Bloggers Might Supplant Major News Organizations. You can go there to see why she thinks this might happen. Seeing her headline sparked another thought for me. Yesterday, I heard a comment on the news about how the LA Times had laid off a large number of employees...
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Yesterday, NPR's Talk of the Nation talked about blogging. Unfortunately, RSS was mentioned only twice: once by a caller, and once by a guest. Neither mention gave much detail, and there was certainly no focus on it--the host asked no questions--and it dropped out of the program as quickly as it had entered. It's nice...
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Ah, the good ol' days, before I learned how complex the internet is. I remember the peaceful days of my youth last year when I started designing Info Bite List. RSS had a few problems. Atom had a few problems. I had some answers. Designing an alternate format was easy. The internet was my virtual...
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I've periodically wondered who all these people are who've banded together to build Atom. I knew it wasn't a corporate effort (though of course, many if not most of the members' corporate affiliations are related to RSS and now Atom). A few of the names were familiar from my experience with RSS and XML before...
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"I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if about 3000 weblogs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

By now you've probably heard about the sudden death of weblogs.com and the roughly 3000 blogs that had been hosted there. I'll admit my initial reaction was...
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I read an article about RSS and Atom yesterday at New Scientist. It struck me as not having been written by someone familiar with digests, but rather cobbled together from what knowledge and impressions they were able to glean from a few conversations with some key players (Dave Winer and Anil Dash are the two...
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I was wrong. While Atom may be going to the IETF, now that they've approved the creation of the Working Group, it will certainly not be without further discussion. Over the weekend, there has been a flurry of discussion on the subject--people questioning whether a clear consensus has emerged from the community, people suggesting we...
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The other day, as I pulled into a tech company parking lot, I saw one of those Hummers that the ostentatious are buying as status symbols these days. It looked ridiculous. A few weeks ago I saw one at a stoplight. It looked ridiculous too.

The Hummers like these that one sees around town have...
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Since deleting a few high-click-thru, low-conversion ads a few days ago, my number of conversions has increased. It may be a fluke--I'll have to wait longer to know for sure. It occurred to me as I glanced at my stats this morning that it may not always be good to have your ad at the...
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Tim Bray writes that "the IESG has approved the creation of the 'AtomPub Working Group'". While this doesn't technically finalize the decision over whether to go to the IETF, the general consensus seems to be that that's where we want to go, and I imagine we'll do so without further discussion. Thanks to the W3C...
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