Archives for November, 2004
Email to RSS…okay, maybe I was wrong
Monday, November 22nd, 2004
I’ve noted a couple of times that I don’t see a real long-term value in email -> RSS conversion; it’s handy for the short term (as with situations like my roll-your-own RSS feed approach for sources that only provide their content via email), but longer term…I’ve not seen much future there. The devil is in [...]
Content and Anti-Content
Friday, November 19th, 2004
Yesterday I dropped a del.icio.us link to this short Wired article on RSS into the feed. Today I noticed a post on the RSS Weblog that mentions something in the Wired article that seemed bizarre: Andy Baio is quoted as saying “RSS is a syndication format. It’s not well-suited to carrying ads. [...] It’s designed [...]
Truste XSS Vulnerability / Won’t Someone Give del.icio.us Some Money?
Thursday, November 11th, 2004
I was just planning on a quick little del.icio.us link for this cross site scripting vulnerability that is shown corrupting Truste’s “click to verify” privacy seal program. Not really huge news in and of itself, though a little troubing. I know and like some people who work at Truste, but they’ve picked a tough job [...]
Him Name is Hopkin Green Frog
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
It’s no All Your Base are Belong to Us, I’ll grant you, but there’s something very soothing about clicking through the pages of lostfrog.org this morning. I suppose that one might say that I, too, feel like I misplaced my metaphorical frog at some point last night. For what it’s worth, I did actually lose [...]
Token Election Night Post
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
From CNN.com: Posted 8:04 p.m. ET, November 2 Latest CNN projections indicate Bush will win Alabama, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, and Kerry will win New Jersey, Illinois, D.C., Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts. In other news, CNN projections also indicate that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, that situation comedy “The Golden Girls” will not return [...]
