so much for a relaxing holiday weekend. today i helped install an underground sprinkler system for my sister-in-law, i painted a room in the basement that we’re refinishing; i installed a bandwidth utility and finished putting cacti into production. and i ran 8 miles.
phew. as my grandmother likes to say, idle hands makes for the devil’s work.
it’s always educational and fun to someone like ray talk about trends in mobility and their potential impacts:
“If technology, molded into any of a variety of forms, can ultimately give us continuous awareness of the geo-location, activity, interruptability, and even potentially “state of mind” of those with whom we wish to “be close to”, what will it do to the nature of the nuclear family unit? The local community? The collaborative work team?”
Echo…echo…alright enough already
:
“Certain companies had better start looking at
providing a whole load more features that can’t be transferred via
the standards they so crave – lest the CMS they charge for today
becomes a valueless commodity through their own success
tomorrow.”
ev has posted an blogger api update:
“We will not be implementing or supporting the Blogger API 2.0. We apologize for having that out there in a semi-final looking spec for so long. We know it was frustrating for developers. But please forget that ever happened.”
all of the hullaballoo surrounding rss makes me feel dumb. i don’t understand how a spec for something as simple as syndicating content can become the center of such a soap opera. it feels like i’m missing something.
part of my problem is that, like kellan, i never really could understand how rss 1.0 got labelled as “hard”. way back in the day, before blogger supported any flavor of rss, i used xml::rss to generate my feeds. after a few cups of coffee, i’d made a quick hack that produces valid feeds. i’ll grant you that it’s not exactly a “power feed”, but it’s not like it was rocket science to figure out how to produce the feed that satisfies my needs.
so what’s the big deal? sure some things need to be clarified in certain specs and i wish echo all the best in making Cool Stuff, but do we really need so much drama?
“And a majority, 52 percent, say they believe the United States has found clear evidence in Iraq that Saddam was working closely with the al-Qaida terrorist organization.
The number that believes this country has found weapons of mass destruction is 23 percent, down from 34 percent in May, according to a poll conducted by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland. ”
awhile back i was wondering about
worldwide blogging numbers by country
. beyond doing a few
google
searches i never went anywhere with the idea. and it’s a good
thing, because the
NITLE blog census
is doing a much better job that i could have done anyway. it
doesn’t directly answer the “by country” part of the question, but
there are some tantalizing nuggets in there already. and it’s
database of urls is
growing at a good clip
.