The FeedSeeder Project is awakening from a brief hibernation. While the core ideas will remain (they’ve even gotten more defined), the code is undergoing a rewrite (thankfullly, there wasn’t much to begin with). First item on the To Make Better list: OPML import speed.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Low Hanging Snark
“An inexperienced picker would pick the low-hanging fruit first” – Albert Pell quoted in Fast Company In the instances where I’ve heard the phrase ‘low-hanging fruit’ the above is true. Rarely does picking the easy stuff solve anything than checking something off a list. The real important, long-term actions take the commitment of getting a …
The Problems with School Choice
Seems to me, programs that encourage parents to send their kids to schools outside of their immediate neighborhood is a bad idea in a number of ways: Gives parents no incentive to improve their schools or neighborhoods. Makes bad schools worse by reducing their resources. Redirects education dollars into fuel tanks to bus kids further …
Food Industry Admits HFCS isn’t Natural
The best news I’ve heard in a while – High Fructose Corn Syrup isn’t ‘all natural’. The Center for Science in the Public Interest sued Kraft and Cadbury Schweppes until they agreed.
2008 Presidential Candidates as Tech Gadgets
For being really attractive, an expected move forward, and making it fun to improve ourselvesJohn Edwards = Nintendo Wii For being a really good solution with enthusiastic support, but never quite feels rightDennis Kucinich = RIM Blackberry For showing us what we all know the future looks like but still making us wonder if now …
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Awake in 5
Just got word that Jon Steinhorst‘s latest short film, Awake, is up at 3to1Studios.com. It’s a great looking, if emotionally tough, 5-minute piece. You may remember Jon from our podcast conversations.
Rick Requests Relevance
“…I want to be able to expand a feed (or a folder) and filter the items in the reader window by tag/category…it would be really cool to be able to drill down just to the stuff that was highest value, regardless of the publisher.” – Rick Klau
Relevance Still Different than Timely
“Unlike email, every article is not necessarily something you should read, or even look at.” – Dave Winer This is why I keep my RSS feeds and my email separate.
Putting the Digital Video ‘in’ Digital Video Recorder
Back in December 2005 I wrote: “Now, despite the TiVo being a Linux box and hooked up to my network – I can’t easily send video to it. To be clear – I don’t want to get video off it – I want to put video on it. Easily. As easily as setting up a …
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It Only Makes Sense if You Only Sell Ads
“Except for one thing. There’s no ringtone for sale. Just like there were no bathrobes a couple weeks ago. Or Dundee statues before that. Or Timberlake boxes. Or Timberlake box song ringtones” – Doodledee Heck, TikiBar TV understands this: “Rather than charging a micropayment for your show, sell fans a nice fancy mug!” – Dave …