Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator. TV News in a Postmodern World: The Busine$$ of RSS “Want a glimpse of tomorrow? Innovators Bill French and Harry Hayes are SmartStream Alliance™ and have a product that's so compelling that news executives of every sort will be scrambling to be first in their market with it…. RSxStream is… Continue reading Trusting Libraries for Your Aggregator
Author: Vince Kimball
Thirty Years With Computers
Useit.Com: Thirty Years With Computers. For the field in general, it's worth remembering the downsides to centralized computing. We must take steps to keep users in control as we grow the power of the network. It's essential that we keep a strong front end to balance out improved back-end features. [Tomalak's Realm]
Zinni
Zinni is instigating a shareholder/customer revolt: “There has been poor strategic thinking in this,” says Zinni. “There has been poor operational planning and execution on the ground. And to think that we are going to ‘stay the course,’ the course is headed over Niagara Falls. I think it's time to change course a little bit, or… Continue reading Zinni
John Robb's Weblog
An important indicator of how we are moving from a nation-state to a market-state: our defense department is now run like a corporation. The all volunteer army was the first step. Outsourcing of tasks to private corporations was the second. Estimates are that upwards of 30% of all sanctioned defense activities in Iraq are outsourced —… Continue reading John Robb's Weblog
Comcast Is Spam King
Comcast Is Spam King. C/Net reports that Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers are the biggest spammer on the Internet. In a politically incorrect moment of truth-telling, Comcast network engineer, Sean Lutner reportedly told an antispam working group in Washington, D.C., last week, that Comcast users send out about 800 million messages a day, but a mere… Continue reading Comcast Is Spam King
Transcript
Transcript of last night's CBS interview with General Anthony Zinni. [Scripting News]
Blogging your software company
Blogging your software company. As our developer continues to push forward with the back-end coding, I continue to refine the launch plan of the new startup. The primary issue that we're facing is that our service, while it adds a lot of value to an online advertising campaign, is going to require a fair amount… Continue reading Blogging your software company
Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available
Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available. After a lot of work on Anders' part, we now have an updated version of the C# 2.0 Language Specification on the website. Not only does it have updated information on the “big 4” – Generics, iterators, anonymous methods, and partial classes, but it also has new information on… Continue reading Updated C# V2.0 Specifications now available
NetNewsWire and External Weblog Editors
NetNewsWire and External Weblog Editors. ecto rules, and Adriaan Tijsseling is a cool cat. Adriaan writes: With the forthcoming NetNewsWire 2.0 release, you can now set ecto as the external blog editor. You'd be reading a cool feed in NetNewsWire, select a command, and – whoosh – the feed item's link and contents appear in… Continue reading NetNewsWire and External Weblog Editors
Blogging Blackstone!
Blogging Blackstone!. Good to see that Tim Buntel has been 'persuaded' to create a blog dedicated to Blackstone, the next release of ColdFusion. Since Tim is product manager for ColdFusion, this should be a juicy, insightful and definitive blog! Welcome to the blogosphere … [An Architect's View]