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• Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:12:27 AM the first post of the day - written from quicksilver.
• How to Construct an RSS 2.0 Feed for Faster Parsing I’m parsing more and more RSS feeds and I’m seeing some very basic problems. While the feeds are valid, they’re obfuscated. Harder to parse - not by poor tag usage - but by misusing the content within the tags. Here’s a quick run down of the tags as documented in the RSS 2.0 Spec and my
• Tell Me When It’s Over “In my experience, until the feature is done, it’s quite difficult to predict when it will be done…” - Johanna Rothman
• Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:53:57 PM word of the day: ad hominem. The first time I read it today, I had to look it up. I’ve since heard & read it 4 more times since then. All from different sources, published at different times.
• Where Do You Want People Talking About You? One of the complaints I continually hear about companies supporting forums, comments, reviews under their own domain is that their customers will say something “bad”. The reality is, customers find places to have these conversations - with our without formal support. Case in point: KottkeKomments.com. Jason Kottke doesn’t have comments on his blog, so a reader created