Monthly Archives: March 2006

When is AJAX not AJAX?

I started this as a comment over at Alex Russell’s entry, “ajaxWrong”, copied here because I felt like it. He writes: This thing is appropriating the necessarily amorphous terminology of “Ajax” for an implementation that is directly at odds with [...]

On Ignorant Feed Handling

By way of Robert Sayre, I read that Dave Orchard – no relation – wrote: …In many applications, the software that gets an extension isn’t the last piece. So what does it mean for it to ignore the extra content? [...]

About XoxoOutliner

So, I keep making vague references to some cool things I want to work on. Well, rather than staying cagey and in some lame sort of stealth mode – here’s an early release, because I want to get some of it out of my head and onto the web. Last summer, in a fit [...]

More IntelliTXT crud (and, oh, AIM has an SDK coming)

Here’s yet another example of why I have a lot of angst for IntelliTXT advertising. Unfortunately, I’ve not activated my adblock or opted out for this site. Can you tell me which of these links are the real links to the relevant content about which this news story is written? It’s about [...]

Subscription lists defined in OPML 2.0 spec

The addition of subscription lists as a part of the OPML 2.0 spec is actually pretty significant, and I only just now felt it sink in. This has been one of the main uses of OPML up to now, and it’s mostly been passed around by oral tradition and whatever news aggregator happened to [...]

OPML 2 spec review in progress

Oh yeah, and “Today the public review of OPML 2.0 begins“ I don’t know what I’m doing, posting to the OPML 2.0 spec review mailing list. I’ve stayed out of all spec and format discussions on general principle so far, avoiding the Atom process like the plague. Life’s too short for sausage making, [...]

More long tail yawps

Anne says: “One thing that must scare the wigs off of media moguls is that many writers and other content creators will work for free, because it’s so intrinsically enjoyable.” My sentiments, exactly.

Quick updates from my parallel universe

I’ve mostly been in radio silence over here, while the real action happens over on my OPML blog. Eventually, I’ll iron out a better integration process – but for now, here’s a mini dump: The last episode of the first [...]