Gadgetopia

Winer Watcher: Mark Pilgrim, who runs Dive into Mark, has set up a page that pings Dave Winer's site every five minutes. It compares what it gets to what it got the last time, then displays the posts with color-coding to show what Dave has added, removed, or changed.

Dave Winer has exposed his subs.opml file. If you ever wanted to know what the grandaddy of blogs has subscribed to, here it is. One-hundred ninety feeds, none of which is this site.

Dave Winer keeps mentioning something called "Channel Z." No idea what it is, but he's been dropping hints like this one for about a month now: Channel Z status -- I'm using it every day, in fact I'm using it to write this post. At some point I plan to ...

Scripting News: Dave Winer, creator of RSS, is immersed in a continuing battle over the blogging standard and the Echo project. I still can't figure the whole dispute out, but Winer is apparently upset that people are trying to re-write RSS...or something. I don't know, but Winer is a smart, ...

Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Bloggers: Three thousand blogs hosted at weblogs.com have gone offline because Dave Winer decided to shut the server down. ...some users protested that they had no warning of the shutdown, and thus were unable to download copies of their sites, including user comments. Winer said ...

Weblogs Compendium - RSS Readers: Big 'ol list of aggregators. Via Dave Winer, who was irritated that Radio wasn't in the list.

Can't Edit Without A License From Amazon: Nice. "...the USPTO granted another single-action ordering patent to Amazon that also covers the use of buttons to expand/collapse sections of a form, as well as the use of an EDIT button to (you guessed it!) present data to the user for editing..." ...

Enclosure Extractor: For $14.95, you too can have viruses delivered via RSS. "Enclosure Extractor allows you to easily extract and download enclosures from newsfeeds. The bulk of feed readers do not support enclosures fully. Enclosure Extractor fills this gap by letting you enter a newsfeed (either a single RSS file ...

Interesting things are happening at UserLand. John Robb has left, and Dave Winer is hinting that big changes are coming. Two theories abound: (1) they will open source some or all (Frontier, Manila, Radio) of their products, or (2) they will be acquired. With Google's purchase of Blogger some months ...

Miguel de Icaza of GNOME fame made some interesting observations regarding Microsoft's recent decision to release certain Longhorn technologies (mainly Avalon, the new UI framework) for Windows XP. My prediction is that Avalon v1 will be a throw-away: it is not really the foundation on which you will build applications: ...

DeanSpace: He's got his own software development team. He's a shoo-in. "DeanSpace is an open development community providing powerful web-tools, quality support, and expert advice to Howard Dean's grassroots supporters. Our goal is to better interlink existing web activism, bring new citizen participants into the political process, and assist individuals ...

Ray Ozzie's Weblog: Ray Ozzie gets medieval on the future of email here. "Anyone who is doing a critical business process online that involves substantial dialog between individuals should NOT be using email at this point in history, and many no longer are." That Ray feels this way shouldn't be ...

Share Your OPML: Top 100 Feeds: If you're new to RSS or are just looking for some new feeds, Dave Winer's "Share Your OPML" site has an OPML file of the Top 100 feeds that you can download and import to your aggregator. This site allows people to upload their ...

As good a time as any: Dave Winer announced today that the kernel of Manila and Radio the object database code will be open-sourced sometime in the next few months. To fans of UserLand Software it must seem inevitable that the kernel will go this way, it sure ...

RoadMap - Sam Ruby's Wiki: This is a consortium of some of the A-list bloggers to standardize what a Web log is. They're trying to distill the basic elements of a blog, and develop a standard to which blogging tools can adhere. While that seems unrealistic in the vast blogging ...

Why Microsoft won't beat Six Apart: A good article on how and why software gets adopted by the masses. Interesting information on what happened with Quark. "I wouldn't worry too much yet, because no team has asked me the important question yet. What's that? 'How do you get the A-list ...

Payloads for RSS: A long time ago (in Internet time), there was a short-lived start-up called LoadTV. You installed the LoadTV viewer, subscribed to some channels which had content you wanted to see, and it downloaded full-motion video in the background all day long. The best part was that whatever ...

Harvard Weblogs: What makes a weblog a weblog?: Here's an awfully interesting attempt that succeeds in defining just what a "weblog" is. It's written by Dave Winer, who should know since he founded Userland. "At Berkman we're studying weblogs, how they're used, and what they are. Rather than saying 'I ...

Google cache raises copyright concerns: The NY Times is raising a fuss over the fact that Google's caching feature allows people to view archived articles that they would have to pay for over at the Times' site. "Through a caching feature on the popular Google search site, people can sometimes ...

Let's get ready, now: This is a little look into what's shaping up as a political battle over RSS. Apparently the major blog systems can't settle on a standard, and Dave Winer has a brutal (yet probably accurate) explanation on how Bill Gates is going to use this to his ...

That post I made about attribion got me thinking about the format and content of blog postings. The way I see it, there are basically three types of postings. Original Content, No Target This is where you actually write something yourself, and there's no "target" of the post no ...

Wired News reports on Transitive Computing, which is set to unveil a new software called QuickTransit, which claims to be the ultimate platform emulator. A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that allows software developed for one ...