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Moving my blog

OK, so I moved my new Alex Barnett blog to here for a number of reasons, explained here at my, er, new blog . Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:38 AM by alexbarn | 3 Comments

If you like microformats and RSS you will love this.

If you like microformats and / or RSS you'll love it. If you don't know about microformats and / or RSS you need to watch it. Channel9 interviews Matt Augustine and Paresh Suthar about Live Clipboard and Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE). Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:04 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Syndicated search engines broken - Part II

A few days ago I grumbled at the poor state of the search engines specializing in syndicated (RSS'd or Atomized) content. Today, Michael Marshall Patrick is enthusiastically supporting a proposed standard by Bloglines that is trying to solve an apparent Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:34 PM by alexbarn | 17 Comments

My musical attention (data)

Earlier this month I mentioned that at the Content 2.0 event I asked LastFMs product manager, Matthew Ogle about the ability to export my data out of the system so it could be plugged into another. After all, the music I listen to, for how long and when Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 24, 2006 5:56 PM by alexbarn | 2 Comments

Live Clipboard + microformats + RSS (SSE) + Microsoft Outlook screencast

Matt Augustine (works in Ray Ozzie's Concept Development Team) presented a demo at the Supernova 2006 conference in the "Decentralizing Data" workshop, moderated by Tantek Celik . The demo, available here as a screencast , shows how to leverage Live Clipboard Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:54 PM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

Coping with Information Overload (video)

About four weeks ago I made my way over to ZDNet's studios in San Francisco to be interviewed by Mike Elgan for DevSource and discuss a number of topics close to my heart. The video (15-ish mins) is now published. Mike asked me about microformats , tagging Read More...
Posted Friday, June 09, 2006 7:19 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

Go and microformat stuff! ('cause it's going to happen anyway)

JasonKolb, rightly in my humble opinion, is getting excited by the potential of the microformats , RSS and the clipboard (mRc?) combo (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, read on): "With the looming rise of the clipboard to transport XML, disguised Read More...
Posted Friday, May 12, 2006 12:01 AM by alexbarn | 7 Comments

Live.com and OPML

New feature ( among others ) on Live.com : "- OPML Request: can I export my rss feeds that I’ve subscribed to on live.com in OPML format? You can now do this: click on add stuff -> ‘advanced options’" This may not seem like a big deal, but I think Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:00 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments
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RSS: 'beginning of the upcoming dissruption'

James Governor : "we're still just at the very beginning of the upcoming dissruption. 2005 was not the end of RSS adoption, or the beginning of the end of RSS adoption, but rather the end of the beginning. Turn the Long Tail the other way round. The mainstream Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:30 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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Microsoft in 2005

Beta News has a good review of 2005 from a Microsoft perspective - it reminds me of how much has been going on this last year including some major product lauches (Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Xbox 360, Windows Live, 64-bit Windows, MSN Spaces Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:48 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
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Ray Ozzie: 'the platform of the Internet really is the data'

ACM Queue has published an interview with Microsoft's CTO Ray Ozzie. Worth a read. " WK Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media, coined the phrase “the architecture of participation,” meaning a lot of amateur and casual programmers piling on and building Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:04 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Grokking RSS + SSE, but what about OPML + SSE?

It has been a week since the RSS / OPML/ SSE proposal was announced by Ray Ozzie and Dave Winer . There is plenty of grokking going on with respect to RSS + SEE, but I've yet to come across any posts taking the time to think through the implications of Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:20 PM by alexbarn | 3 Comments
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Attention podcast part 2, Joshua Porter and Alex Barnett

Here's the second of the two part Attention podcast Skype call I recorded with Joshua Porter : Part 2: .(mp3, 46mb, 48min) Part 1 notes ( .mp3, 43mb, 45min) We've already got some feedback to the first half/part of the podcast. In particular I wanted Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 26, 2005 2:36 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Microsoft proposal: Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML

(Updating with reactions, below) - Dave Winer : " Microsoft has unveiled a new proposal called SSE, which stands for Simple Sharing Extensions for RSS and OPML. ... So we need some way to share subscriptions between different applications, between vendors Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 7:22 AM by alexbarn | 6 Comments
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RSS via IM = immedi.at notification

Peter Brown took me aside while we both at the Seattle Mind Camp a couple of weeks ago. He asked for my opinion on something he was developing. It is called immedi.at . He described immedi.at as RSS via Instant Messaging service. At first I thought he Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:45 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments
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