So I just read an interesting post about Technorati Tags on Shelley Powers's blog entitled Cheap Eats at the Semantic Web Café . As I read Shelley's post I kept feeling a strong sense of deja vu which I couldn't shake. If you were using the Web in the...

I noticed an eWeek article this morning titled Microsoft Won't Bundle Desktop Search with Windows which has had me scratching my head all morning. The article contains the following excerpts Microsoft Corp. has no immediate plans to integrate desktop...

I had promised myself I wouldn't get involved in this debate but it seems every day I see more and more people giving credence to bad ideas and misconceptions. The debate I am talking about is one click subscriptions to RSS feeds which Dave Winer recently...

Coincidentally just as I finished reading a post by Tim Bray about Private Syndication , I got two bug reports filed almost simultaneously about RSS Bandit's support for secure RSS feeds. The first was SSL challenge for non-root certs where the user complained...

I've been doing a bit of reading about folksonomies recently. The definition of folksonomy in Wikipedia currently reads Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using simple tags in a flat namespace . This feature has begun...

My article on Cω is finally published. It appeared on XML.com as Introducing Comega while it showed up as the next installment of my Extreme XML column on MSDN with the title An Overview of Cω: Integrating XML into Popular Programming Languages . It was...

If you've been following the blogosphere you should know by now that the Google, Yahoo! and MSN search engines decided to start honoring the rel="nofollow" attribute on links to mean that the linked page shouldn't get any increased ranking from that link...

It had to happen sooner or later. MyMSN now supports adding RSS or Atom 0.3 feeds as content sources for your home page. RSS/Atom content modules can be customized to show articles from up to 1 day old to up to 365 days old, display from up to 1 article...

Derek has a post entitled Search is not Search where he alludes to conversations we had about my post Apples and Oranges: WinFS and Google Desktop Search . His blog post reminds me about why I'm so disappointed that the benefits of adding structured metadata...

Its begun to spread around the blogosphere that MSN has added support for RSS to a couple more of its web offerings. Yesterday on the MSN Search weblog, Brady announced that there are now RSS Feeds for Search Results on the MSN Search beta site. The URL...

I've been playing around with the photo album in my MSN Space and have begun to get interested in online photo sharing. I've never been big on taking pictures. The last time I took pictures were on my vacation in Hawaii with the ex last year but I didn...

Recently Ted Leung posted a blog entry entitled Linguistic futures where he summarized a number of recent discussions in the blogosphere about potential new features for the current crop of popular programming languages. He wrote 1. Metaprogramming facilities...

C|Net News has an interview with Bill Gates entitled Gates taking a seat in your den . One of his most interesting answers from my perspective was his take on Microsoft and blogging. The question and his answer are excerpted below One of the big phenomena...

In response to Krzysztof Kowalczyk's post entitled Google - we take it all, give nothing back and some of the responses to that post , Adam Bosworth has fired off a missive entitled We all stand on the shoulders of giants . He writes Recently I pointed...