Author: Vince Kimball

Christopher Morley: “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

RSS Kerfluffle. Dave Winer says that MoveableType's RSS support is “funky”. Aaron Swartz offers an extensive and sensible survey of the question. I still don't understand the issue, or why it matters. I'm running a major development effort that supports RSS. I don't care about personalities; I just want our RSS to work with everyone… Continue reading RSS Kerfluffle

The Ws of weblogging. Sam Ruby has kicked off a fascinating discussion to distill the technical aspects of weblogging, in The Anatomy of a Well-Formed Log Entry. [dive into mark]

Getting Under the Hood of the Macromedia XML News Aggregator Sample Application by Daniel Dura and Josh Dura  [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

Get Connected with ColdFusion and the Data Connection Kit by Ben Forta  [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]

McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection. Quote: “Excellent material on the challenges of building in the necessary time for reflection to power organizational learning and change. One interesting aspect to this line of thought is that reflection has to become an explicit process for it to work at the operating pace of today's economy”… Continue reading McGee's Musings – Structuring time for reflection

Insider on the US war against terror. Here's a Washington Post interview with Rand Beers, a former National Security Council aide who quit working for Bush to work for John Kerry's campaign. The administration wasn't matching its deeds to its words in the war on terrorism. They're making us less secure, not more secure,” said… Continue reading Insider on the US war against terror

Tim Bray on Search. Tim Bray has posted the first of what he says will be a series of articles on search technology. It looks like he's off to a good start…. [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

Cover Letters. Here's some advice for people writing cover letters. Don't take any of the standard career-services-office advice for writing cover letters, or your cover letter will look exactly like everyone else's cover letter. If you write one of those “I work great on teams but am also a strong independent worker” cover letters, your… Continue reading Cover Letters

News.Com: Why Europe still doesn't get the Internet. The all-but-final proposal draft says that Internet news organizations, individual Web sites, moderated mailing lists and even Web logs (or “blogs”), must offer a “right of reply” to those who have been criticized by a person or organization. [Tomalak's Realm]