Random Articles

• What’s Better? In 10 minutes, everything will have an RSS reader built into it; email clients, browsers, audio/video/image players, phones, every single website. Each application parsing and presenting feeds in a way that’s contextually appropriate. I hope. If you want a ‘good enough’ general purpose feed reader, use Google Reader or Bloglines, or Newsgator, or or or or or
• And Nobody Cares About You More Than You “…in a world where everyone is a publication, you just can’t play favorites, you have to find a way to spread the news on your own, without help from middlemen….No reason you can’t cover your own rollout. It requires that you understand your product, have an idea how people will see it.” - Dave Winer
• The Benefits of Screencasting in Software Development Yes, I’ve been too busy working on the FeedSeeder project to write up too much about it. That said, I’ve been privately documenting it’s development with screencasts. At the end of each development day, I start at the beginning of the app, load up iShowU and walk through all the functionality as if I’m presenting it
• Tags Less For Me and You, More For Us In working with FeedSeeder, and interesting transformation has happened. I actually see value in tagging text. For video, audio, and pictues - text tagging is a no- brainer. There’s really no better way to get the media categorized than by asking the community to do it. Text for me was a much tougher sell. I kept asking
• T-68 and Counting I made enough progress on the core functionality this weekend, that I can actually start thinking about how to implement the interesting bits.