77 degrees and only partly cloudy today in Taunton. Am blogging from the porch. Chicken dinner at 8pm. Yum.
It’s beautiful!
The Porch
Archives for July 2003
Amen Brother
Jon Udell: “Wake me up when it’s over.” [Scripting News]
One more reason why I love Adam Curry
taking a stand on rss. Time to come clean on an investment I made a year and a half ago. At the time, UserLand software had released a Mac OSX version of “Radio” and I was totally digging the built in news aggregator. I came up with a cunning plan: I asked Userland if I could purchase a pre-installed feed on their aggregator, which supports “RSS” xml feeds. I paid $10,000 for a one year license. To date I’ve been delighted with my purchase and although I haven’t checked recently, I’m pretty sure Userland still has me in the defaults.
Besides investing in the technology with user licenses for “Frontier” and “Radio Userland”, I ponied up to the bar and made a commitment to a format. And now I feel fucked.
The $10k didn’t ‘just’ give me an automatic base within the userland community, it got pasted on web pages all over the world and I’ve built up an audience that consists of 50% aggergator users.
But this investment is clearly being halted short by the (N)echo project.
So I’m invoking an age olde american tradition of letting my wallet do the talking. I will again invest $10k in aggregator default placements this year, but I will spread it around, to all developers who adhere to RSS2.0. Include (N)echo and you’re out of luck. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
Feedster Rocks
Speaking of John Robb, I note his post is still cached in Feedster. Heh. The Webserver can be turned off, but if the RSS feed has been grabbed, there’s nothing you can do to remove it from the Internet.
It’s Actually Hot in Boston
Next. To say it’s hot and humid in Boston would be like saying, well it’s too hot to think of something creative. I give up. As I was driving to work this morning I saw a boy and a man fishing in the Charles River at Watertown Square, and I thought this captured what the heat feels like. It was over 90 degrees at 10AM. In Yiddish the word for that is Oy. [Scripting News]
Curiouser and Curiouser
Some news: John Robb is leaving UserLand. This is part of a bigger transition, one that we’re not ready to talk about yet. It should be, net-net, good news for Manila and Radio users, and for the weblog community. We weren’t ready to announce, John surprised us by writing about his departure on his weblog. He’s a surprising guy. Anyway, part of my reason for being in Calif next week is business. I think UserLand will do fine, although things are still uncertain, but that’s life in the big leagues. Thanks John for all your help, and best wishes to you and your family for much continued success. Onward! [Scripting News]
John Robb Leaves Userland…
Yeah, but where is he going?
Ground is shaking in UserLand. John Robb’s abrupt departure and blog disappearance smells bad. Dave is hinting at a bigger change that should be “net-net good news for Manila and Radio users and for the weblog community.” While going open source is a possibility, “We weren’t ready to announce, John surprised us” seems to point to a buyout. My list of suspects with recent news about AOL’s entry into BlogLand are:
- Yahoo
- Adobe
- Symantec
- Macromedia
Intriguing drama unfolding…
[Don Park’s Daily Habit]