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Fans

Gordon Weakliem: These days, intertwingly.net is beating Yahoo! hands down. Why, thank you Gordon.

Apparently Jenny enjoyed reading my site too. I found her site very pleasing to the eye too.


Hive minds

Ken CoarSo I've concluded, at least for the moment, that I'm going to mostly just have my own original content here, rather than a list of links. [2002/12/31]

Ken Coar: Just read this a moment ago. Fascinating! ... More later; I just wanted to record this before I forgot. [2003/01/02]

Welcome to the collective.  Joe created a tasty morsel.  You picked it up and put a copy in your pile, with a rich pheromone trail back to the source.  Now others can do likewise.  This even works with two year old nuggets that are quickly picked  up by others and dropped into their piles.

Sounds inefficient, but often incurs less obligation than targetted mailing lists.

P.S.  Check your e-mail for in invite.  Oh, and by the way, your RSS feed is valid.


Non-vaporware UPP?

Abe Fettig: Hep Message Server is software that transfers bits of information between different messaging sytems on the Internet. When it's done, you'll be able to use Hep to transparently route messages between e-mail, weblogs, and instant messaging. [via Steven Noels].  Twisted. Python PyBlosxom.  Yummy.


Squeezing the left side of the toothpaste

Mark Baker: Take for example, a blog aggregator. If everybody had their own interface to their blog, aggregation would be an O(N^2) task. But luckily they don't, they all make their RSS available over HTTP GET, a very useful common abstraction. That, plus that RSS (all four versions 8-) is a common format, provides for O(N) integration complexity. Key words in that last sentence are all four versions.

Actually, that isn't so much the problem as all the weblogs out there that provide well formed versions of their content, but no discernable schema. This brings rise to such tools as Cheesegrater and Portalizer

To get a proper handle on this, we need to capture both parts of the interface. And to use applicable standards whenever possible.


Gump gets a little Help

dIon Gillard is integrating Gump and Maven.

Nicola Ken Barozzi is integrating Gump and Centipede.

Berin Loritsch compares Maven and Centipede.

Life is good.


Pingback client

Simon Fell: Here's a pingback client tool for Radio. What, no server support? Slackard! <grin>