ColdFusion guru Ben Forta asks the question.
I have to say I tend to agree. FireFox on the mac crashes on me about once every few weeks but the tab interface, better rendering, and web developers plugin are too much to give up.
I love Russell Beattie's weblog, but the ads in his RSS feed drives me crazy. Don't get me wrong, I think anyone with a popular product should be allowed to monetize that if they want to, but this format just doesn't work for me. On top of the fact that it intrudes on my pristine RSS environment is the issue that the ads rarely if ever match the content. Why is there an ad for Dell here?
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How about a Sprint ad or something at least relevant? Personally I'd rather see Russell push some products he likes using Amazon or see if he can wrangle a sponsorship with a mobile startup like a game or mobile app company. Anything but these useless ads.
Interesting post by Steve Rubel on if RSS is stalled and what it's going to take to "tip" RSS use for the less technically inclined. I still view RSS adoption alot like Web adoption. For just about 100% of the less technical people I know if they had to install a web browser to use the Internet they wouldn't. To me RSS is in the same boat. The average person isn't going to use it until an RSS reader (whatever that is, maybe even the OS or browser) is installed on everyones desktop.
RSS needs the equivalent of "clicking on the big E". Until I can tell someone in one sentence like that how to get on RSS it's not going to have huge penetration into the mainstream (meaning hundreds of millions, etc)
Cool Nike ad created by Joseph Jaffe. If you saw the masters this weekend it was a pretty dramatic moment and makes a very cool commercial. (link via Scoble)
Update: I had a little trouble downloading the movie, probably because Jaffe is being Scobledotted. Dave Winer has the file here:
http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/movies/justDidIt.wmv
Another great article from Eric Sink. Any article with a Hans Solo quote has to be good. Best line:
"Some Microsofties say that Bill Gates occasionally walks into the office of a random developer and instantly understands the code at a deep level. Others claim that Bill is 7 feet tall and can shoot lightening from his fingertips. I've never worked there, so I don't really know if all the legends are true."
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Then it occured to me, that I haven't used my CD Player, portable or at home, in a long, long time. That I rarely, if ever see anyone walking around with a portable CD player anymore. They have all been replaced by MP3 players. If everyone is switching to MP3 players, whether they are Ipods, in phones, in PDAs, in cars, whatever, then that means that everyone is going to have to go through a multistep process in order to get the music from where or how they buy it, to the place they want it.
That's not good for the people selling music. Particularly retail stores. Think about it. Apple has done such a great job of selling us on why we should store our musically digitally, that every one is either doing it, or on their way to doing it. Which means that 90 pct or more of music being sold is currently being sold on a physical format that the segment of the music buying public that spends the most amount of money on music doesn't want. They are being sold CDs. They want to listen to their music from hard drives or flash drives. That's a problem." (Marc Cuban)
Note: If you're not reading Mark Cuban's blog you're really missing out. He's really really good. For those who don't know he's the guy who sold Broadcast.com at the height of the bubble to Yahoo for 5 BILLION dollars and now owns the Dallas Mavericks basketball franchise.
"XML was frozen and published in February 1998. As it came toward the end and it became obvious -- well, not obvious, but likely anyhow -- that this was going to get a lot of momentum, we were besieged by requests for extra features of one kind or another. We basically lied and told the world, we would do all that stuff in version 2. You have to shoot the engineers and ship at some point, right? I think there will never be an XML version 2. There is an XML version 1.1, but it's controversial and not widely supported." Tim Bray (via Dave Winer)
Nice post on some good sites to get royalty free images. (via Alex Moskalyuk)
I'm totally addicted to Yahoo fantasy baseball. I've been playing for about 5-6 years. Here's this years squad, they're monsters. I'm a little light in stolen bases but beyond that I'm solid.
I basically stole Adam Dunn in the 11th round and Damon in the 10th. I'm also looking for big comeback seasons out of Ordonez and Garciaparra.
1st place is $2500 bucks which is just enough for a nice little vacation this fall.
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