Context is everything. - Tags: Web 2.0 , Ajax , Advertising

Just when I thought it was safe not to blog about OPML and RSS, along comes Technorati to spoil my sabbatical with their favorites feature. Here are *some* (50) of my favorite blogs/sites . Almost all are webbish / tech-type blogs and sites. Others...

Don Box: "Someone recently asked me about how to handle an internal product debate around REST vs. SOAP. In hopes I never have to address this debate again, here's a record of what I told them. " Behold the truth . - Tags: SOAP , REST...

I suppose it was a no-brainer to predict that the Ricky Gervais podcast show was going to be a hit. He's the other no-brainer: charging $7 (or £4.50) a month for the next series of podcasts is a show-stopper. (via hashdot ). Who thought of that...

Mark Wagner has collated some interview questions (with answers) you might be asked if you were interviewing for a C# dev role. via Del.icio.us, via DiggLicious , via John Tropea .

Star Trek's Scotty (actually, actor James Doohan) will have his ashes rocketed to space . He's joined by another 186 deceased whose families have paid around $900 to $5,000 (US) for the privilege. Apparently this isn't a first. The same company that...

BetaNews has an interview with Gary Schare, Director of IE Product Management. Topics discussed include the changes coming in IE7, Active X, Ajax, Firefox and the Windows RSS platform. - Tags: IE7 , RSS , Microsoft

I created a quick screencast to show what I mean by the term ' Attention Engines '. Before I sign out for the night, I wanted to share some quick thoughts on others' recent posts discussing the Attention space. Don Dodge asks : "So, who are...

Long headline, I know - but I couldn't think of anything else. FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 2.0 introduces ability to import your feeds from the Windows Common Feed List . - Tags: RSS , OPML , Microsoft , Web , Tech

If digital identities are of interest to you, so should this quick screencast by Kim Cameron demo'ing Infocard - it's worth a download. Choose the second file to download (the 2.5 MB size file). "As a taste of upcoming MIX06 sessions, Kim Cameron...

Wow, I missed this the first time around... Megite is going letting me do what I've been asking Memeorandum (or enyone else that will listen) to let me do for ages - to pivot off my own OPML file. The feature isn't switched on for everyone yet, but...

Last year Dave Winer started to push the idea of Reading Lists for RSS . More recently, the idea of Dynamic Reading Lists and Feed Grazing (or Grazing Lists / Glists) has been kicking around. Its likely that Reading Lists support will become a common...

I've spliced my Del.icio.us bookmarks into my Feedburner generated RSS feed . If it annoys you, let me know. It is set to publish only once a day (if I've bookmarked anything, that is) so shouldn't be spammy. These are bookmarks I actually use...

The word 'memetracking' or ('meme tracker') has been used to describe services such as Memeorandum , Megit , Tailrank and Chuquet . I can't call them 'memetrackers'. I like them, they're useful sites and all that, but they aren't 'meme' trackers. ...

Xbox's Major Nelson has links to more Xbox team bloggers : "When I started this blog over two years ago, no one in the Xbox product team was blogging. I launched this blog in 2004 after I joined the Xbox team as a way of sharing a little bit of...

Fellow Web 2.0 Workgroup member Dion Hinchcliffe and two Microsoft architects Harry Pierson and Michael Platt have blogged about SPARK, a plannned series of high-level forums hosted by Microsoft on the topics of SOA, Software as a Service, Web 2.0, and...

Last week, the Microsoft RSS team published Windows RSS Platform API documentation - note: is draft - (known as the Microsoft Feed APIs)...you can find this at MSDN . In today's post , program manager Walter VonKoch outlines how the Common Feed List...

Steve Rubel has nice idea: "What I would love to see in the coming months is a tool that uses SSE and reading lists to implement the wonderful features in Stumbleupon right inside an RSS reader. Here's another way to picture it. What if users had...

When Joshua Porter and I started our non-formal podcasting efforts a while ago, we made list of the people we'd want to have on our 'show' and talk to. High on both our lists was Steve Gillmor . So we were thrilled when he accepted our invitation to...

The Virtual Earth blog has posted some info on the first of a three part tutorial on Ajax and Virtual Earth . "Upon completing this simple tutorial you’ll have a mapping application built with the Virtual Earth map control that utilizes AJAX to...

While driving to and from work today (including a detour for the ubiquitous drive-thru caffeine fix malarkey) I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation downloaded from IT Conversations called 'Imagining the Internet'. Loved it. The presentation...

When I heard this , I thought they were singing ‘Mash Me Up’. Selective hearing I suppose… Via the human aggregator .

Technorati's David Sifry has posted the latest of his regular updates providing a bunch of stats and analysis on the blogosphere's development. The bottom line is that the number of blogs created, according to Technorati, continues to double about...

I've finally got my shiny new OPML blog up and running . It's powered using Dave Winer's OPML Editor . Not much to see yet - it's rough, but it's ready...I've been meaning to get this sorted for ages but had fun and games on my machines...am rolling...

William, our four year son, summed up the dire result . "The good guys lose. The enemy wins." Congrats to the Steelers.