Anyone else who reads this blog going? I've toyed with the idea, but it's a 6hr plan ride and not sure if it's worth it.
It's pretty amazing how fast podcasting is going mainstream. I was just in Yahoo Finance and they have a big writeup with links to some major casts.
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Oh if you haven't listened to the latest podcast from Jason Calacanis you should. Alot of good insights into the future of podcasting as a business and also a pretty entertaining rant about Dave Winer.
"Which is better? A mobile stylesheet for phones, PDAs and smartphones that restyles the XHTML for mobile viewing ? or ? a separate mobile version of a site that only displays the bare minimum XHTML without the need for CSS." - (via Benjamin Adam)
I'll be here at my computer if you need me :-)
"This show makes me feel good, and yes sometimes I get a little teary eyed, and there just aren't enough shows on TV that can evoke that kind of response from me." (via Joseph Scott)
I also think this show is the future of television advertising. Now that our cable box has a PVR we rarely watch commercials. This trend is definitely going to continue as more and more "normal" households figure this out. EMHE of course has commercials but also does a great job of product placement. It's integrated into the show in a way that's not too obtrusive, because often I actually do want to know the company that provided the windows or what type of flooring that is. The Sears parts are a bit much but even they are better than watching a standard commercial.
One of the products I was disappointed in the other day just posted a comment clearing up some things about where their blog is. Turns out their main blog wasn't linked up where it was easy to find. Now it is! If you're a Buyer and in need of some nifty Excel templates to do the heavy lifting for you then you should check them out http://www.buyeranalytics.com
Also if you're an ISV or future ISV you should take a look as well. I think this is a great niche product idea.
"I thought we were avoiding some RSS-related damage when we chose one and only one format -- Atom -- for our feeds. I thought it was nice that we were using the same thing Blogger was, and that we used a big, prominent icon to label it. I thought we were making it easy for people. Nope. I was wrong."
I normally don't reproduce full posts but this one is fantastic and I couldn't pick out just one part.
http://securityawareness.blogspot.com
ps. This is from a company that specializes in computer security.
" This is my first rant written on a Mac. Ever.
Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart; just obstinate.
Here?s the deal. ?I?m Mad! And I?m not going to take it anymore.? Of course I am talking about the WinTel world. Before anyone in Redmond or Inteland freak out? well maybe you should. I have had it.
Brief history. I grew up an analog geek. Tubes ? valves. Built an analog computer in 1961. Programming in 1966 and on. First home machine in 1974: SWTC with binary switch encoding on the front panel. (Boooooring?) PET in 1977. Trash, too. Compaq, 1981 was it? DOS 1.0 and Lotus 1,2,3 1.0 and I still have the disks. CPM and pip.
Things used to work.
And this is exactly why I am coming to subscribe to the view that indeed, the WinTel hegemony is a threat to the national economic security of any organization or nation-state that relies up it.
In the coming weeks I am going to keep a diary of an experiment that I began in my company at 6PM GMT-5, April 29, 2005.
An experiment predicated upon an hypothesis that the WinTel platform represents the greatest violation of the basic tenets of information security and has become, indeed, a national economic security risk. I do not say this lightly, and I have never been a Microsoft Basher, either. I do not and will not dis any one company without a fair bit of explanation, justification and supportive evidence or experience.
So bear with me as I attempt to document the results of my experiment and I will attempt be fair to myself, my company, our clients and the computing public at large.
I am coming to the belief that there is a much easier, more secure way to use computers. Since I have spent several years focusing my security work on Ma, Pa & The Corporate Clueless, I have also come to the conclusion that if I and my kind (reasonably fluent) are having such problems, what about the other 98% of humanity who merely want a computer for e-mail and multi-media (Porn)."
Oasis announced that the OpenDocument format is now an "offical" standard. Tim Bray says anyone who's putting anything in "other" document formats is stupid. So I guess he's talking to basically everyone in the world.
OK you say, but now there's a standard! Oh boy great. So now I can put my data in this great format that 99.9% of the world probably can't open.
But now new applications will spring up around this format you say! Really? It's a revolution you say? I say no.
Go ahead and download the 706 page spec doc. Just a little light reading. Got any great ideas on how to implement it in your app? Any guesses at the number of years it would take to build an app that supports it?
Microsoft isn't going to blink an eye at something like this. No single company (or organization) can compete with them in the office document world and with a format like this only large companies can even afford to build to it.
I still say the office document revolution either IS RSS or needs to be something simple like RSS. A simply format like that would let an entire community of apps be developed and that would have a chance, maybe, of beating Microsoft.
So after you download the PDF above, take a look at the RSS spec. You can build a useful app with that spec in an afternoon.