Month: September 2003

Aggregator as hub. Intranet aggregators. I spent most of the week visiting small and large companies. The more I talk with “real people working in real companies” (meaning: not nerds spending their whole days hacking), the more convinced I am that a news aggregator is the ideal center for any Intranet. The basic idea is… Continue reading Aggregator as hub

It's all starting to fall into place. When the researchers and tool vendors hook up with the content providers and entreprenuers, new kinds of micro-content will flourish.  We all need to work together to first establish standardized micro-content types, then we should make sure this stuff can be subscribed to via Echo-Atom-PIE AND RSS 2.0… Continue reading It's all starting to fall into place

Mary Jo Foley: “The Blaster School of Hard Knocks — Blaster is teaching Microsoft how to better communicate. But there are other lessons Redmond could stand to learn.”  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Spencer Goad explains why Apple is cooler to the teenage crowd. He should know, he's a teenager. He's also a Microsoft MVP. Whew.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Brian Johnson is tracking security alerts. It's important everyone get the latest Office related ones. All Microsoft employees are being forced to get that patch. Last time that happened it was a few weeks until Blaster came out. Make sure your friends get that. Robert McLaws is also reporting on Microsoft patches every Wednesday.  [The… Continue reading Brian Johnson is tracking security alerts

SoBig Pain in the Butt. While most of the media's focus remains on the Blaster virus, a variant of which was created by a high school miscreant, the SoBig virus rolls on in relative obscurity. Perhaps it doesn't have as cute a name as Blaster, but for sheer pain-in-the-neck productivity loss, the SoBig virus reigns supreme.… Continue reading SoBig Pain in the Butt

Breakfast With Seth Godin. “White collar people are afraid of everything except following instructions,” says Seth Godin, the Fast Company columnist and marketing guru. But Seth points out if you merely do what you're told to do it's the quickest route to the unemployment line. “The minute your job can be put in a manual, it… Continue reading Breakfast With Seth Godin

When Does “Own” Not Mean “Own?”. Today I sat in on an interesting meeting with two reps from Baker & Taylor. They were at SLS to demo their new ebook product, ED (which stands for Electronic Delivery). While their site looks nice and they have the general idea at this stage of the game, the… Continue reading When Does “Own” Not Mean “Own?”

CFMX Coding Guidelines – Coming Soon!. Release 3.0 of the coding guidelines are currently going through their final internal review and I'll be publishing a non-Macromedia-specific variant of them fairly soon. The changes include breaking the very long document into half a dozen files, updating examples… [An Architect's View]

BTW: if you want to search your RSS archives in Radio use Mark's “Radio Kit.”  He also has a tool for trackback (which UserLand has already added), search weblog (for the desktop), a browser-based outline editor, and a way to change the dates of Radio posts.  Maybe Mark can give us an update on the status… Continue reading Radio Kit