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You can subscribe to my RSS writings using this RSS feed . In rough chronological order, earliest at top: 2003 RSS Future - Distributed marketing and the solution to spam? 2004 Email v RSS, let us move on... RSS Metric and Reporting...

IanD wants to know: "have been searching for ways to record skype calls for pocasts and its not as simple as it looks I saw Audio hijack pro for the mac would do it, is there a windows program like that? I looked at virtual wires but that wouldn't do...

Using RSS 101 - Screencast Using OPML 101 - Screencast Using Technorati and Tags 101 - Screencast Hacking Memeorandum 101 - Screencast Mum, you want to know where I live? Watch this screencast Google Autolink behavior screencast RSS...

If you've not heard about Bill Gates' Think Week, you should read today's WSJ article that gives you an insight into his 'a seven-day stretch of seclusion he uses to ponder the future of technology and then propagate those thoughts across the Microsoft...

Technology Futurist : "Since I saw Larry Borsato mention some figures in the 99.999% availability requirement-for-VoIP-networks debate, I decided it was time for me to dust off my networking theory book and implement Erlang's formula on an Excel spreadsheet...

I was reminded this week of my My 'Napsterization of Matter' thought exercise by the UK University of Bath's Replicator project news . Napsterization of Matter 'Napsterization of Matter' is a thought exercise I’ve been toying with for some years now....

ZDNet reports : "A new version of Skype Net phone software is now widely available . The latest version lets users import contacts from Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, MSN Messenger and Opera and other PC desktop applications."

JD on MX : RSS on PSP: " RSS on PlayStation Portable: Remarkable level of hackery on this new box... this Engadget article has a step-by-step, with many outbound links, to view weblog content (via RSS via Bloglines) on the new gaming console."

This is huge news...very exciting. Microsoft will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove's founder, Ray Ozzie (he's got a blog ), chief technology officer at the software giant. FT.com : "Microsoft , the world’s largest software maker, on Thursday said...

Via Mark Jen : "...noticed that jeremy and others had posted about the launch of Yahoo Search Developer Network (YSDN). note the striking resemblance in name to MSDN - i'm sure that isn't a coincidence. yahoo is really taking the lead here by not just...

Kevin O'Keefe proposed in January that lawyers have a moral obligation to blog . Interesting idea...I agree. "The American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct and a number of states have ethical rules & guidelines saying a lawyer has...

According to DMNews , JupiterResearch claims RSS will not have a significant effect as a supplemental alternative to e-mail marketing. (Via eINFO ) ""Most marketers remain skeptical of using RSS as a mechanism to supplement their e-mail marketing newsletter...

In a public effort to encourage Microsoft to add as much CSS 2 support as possible as its developers embark on IE7, Håkon Wium Lie (CTO of Opera Software and the father of CSS) and the Web Standards Project have begun the development of a test suite,...

Mum, you want to know where I live? Watch this screencast . (Thanks to Google Maps )

Dana triggered a thought...how can you be sure you are subscribing to the RSS feed you think you are subscribing to? I'm not so worried about the scenario he provides where you go to Technorati and generate an RSS feed based on keywords (Watchlist).....

Ourmedia.org is a free media content hosting and delivery site....if you have got video, audio, music, screecasts, or videoblogs you've created and want to share, then Ourmedia.org is for you. How is the service funded? Well, it turns out that Brewster...

Via Reuters . "Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates will be awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth Wednesday for his outstanding contribution to enterprise. He will become a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of...

(link bot tonight) Via ITFacts.biz : "Microsoft's Scott Wiltamuth posted numbers from Microsoft marketing on .NET Framework penetration. More than 120 mln copies of the .NET Framework have been downloaded and installed using either Microsoft downloads...

Ellen Finkelstein pinged me to let me know that her book, Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies was published this week. Nice one Ellen! According to the blurb the book explains, in plain English, you’ll find out how to: Use RSS to drive traffic...

Fark , where's the RSS feed?

Via Inside Microsoft : "A few days ago, Scoble complained that the Podcast Network didn't have one of those little orange XML buttons so he could subscribe to an RSS feed. Their response might have went just a little overboard. They created a page just...

If you are thinking of buying a GE GXCF20E Water Dispenser, then you should watch this .

If you, really, really need to read and manage your RSS feeds within your IDE then this RSS Blog Reader Plugin for Visual Studio .NET might be the one for you. (Via The Unofficial Microsoft blog .)

I'm curious to see how effeciently the 'six degrees of separation' theory works over the RSS-o-sphere and blogs, I'm helping Jay Cross of the 'Internet Time Blog' locate a certain Don Novello... "Does anyone have an email address for Don Novello, AKA...

Steve Rubel reviews the Office 2003 online campaign and identifies an opportunity for the Office marketing team to use the power of blogging as part of the mix. "Someone please post a link to this blog post on the Redmond Sharepoint server. Here are three...