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Today's CD - Back to Mine, Howie B

Inevitably, Winerlog has something to say about blognosing as well.

What is Syndic8 ?




I'm now getting indexed by Google. What's interesting about this is that I changed robots.txt to let the bots in. I then got linked by Scripting news. Google watch his site closely because of the large number of links both too and from his site. Now Google watches mine as well.

I've been working with newsisfree to build regex scrapers that will turn various websites into rss. Recently added are:-
  • Motorcycle News

  • Motorcycle Online

  • RoadRacing world

  • Spiked Online

  • RedHerring.com | Catch of the Day: Peer-to-peer pressure : Cache-sharing should eventually end up inside operating systems (and P2P companies will get purchased for this). The long-term proposition is to run the huge real-time service that helps machines find data in others' caches. This is a natural OS business extension, so guess which company is likely to get into this business? At last a P2P business plan... get bought by Microsoft!

    Today's CD: Another late night - Fila Brasilia

    Acme Klein Bottle : Klein Bottles for sale More lunacy from people with too much time on their hands...

    XP Final Cracked XP is barely finalized and already there are hacks to turn it into the corporate, no nag, no timelimit version. The real story here is that software copy protection turns us all into criminals because it's unworkable. We fought all these battles in the mid 80s, why do we have to go and fight them all again.




    RSSify - RSSify "takes your web page and turns it into RSS 0.92." [Scripting News] So despite my thinly veiled blog-dissing, I've been Scripting News-ed (there's got to be a better neologism than that). That should push up the hit rate.

    Isn't it time The Doc got on the Cluetrain? He's producing hideous and broken RSS from his Manila based blog. And now Dastardly Dave is doing it as well.

    You started the train, don't you think you should climb on board?

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    NetSlaves : Ethics? What's that?[in online journalism]
    Online journalism is even worse than offline for regurgitating press releases and analysis comment. Here's a few sound bites.
  • It's a hall of mirrors. With every source just reflecting every other source. Only the insanely rich are allowed to drop something new in the mix.
  • X have outsourced their thinking to Gartner.
  • The X market will be Y big in Z years.
  • Technology T is the future.
  • Technology T has been over-hyped.
  • Spend more on advertizing and you'll get better reviews.

  • What do you call a Blog Jounalist? A Blogalist?

    Today's CD, Morcheeba - Back to mine




    There's a group of people in a via web that have created a new term. Blognosing.

    I think we need a contrast to this so I'm inventing an alternative. Blog-Dissing.

    Remember, you read it here first.

    On one side we have Dave W saying "I did some writing over the weekend about Web Services, and realized that the term is vague, and it probably isn't what we do. I couldn't make it work. We already had a good term that explains why we have been investing in SOAP and XML-RPC, and I think we'll stick with it." and on the other we have Web Services Org with "GLUE Web Services Platform goes into Production"

    There's something going on here in the TLA soup of SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, ebXML but some days, I'm not at all sure what.

    Captured 'vampire' hogs TV limelight - AUG 25, 2001 : SABAK BERNAM (Selangor) - A bomoh, who claims that he has caught a shape-changing 'vampire' the size of two tennis balls near a cotton tree, made prime-time television and Malaysian newspaper reports yesterday. How very Fortean. It looks like a large ball of cotton wool in a jam jar.

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