Ok, this is just funny.  This is not a comment by me about what I think of Nechoatompie, but the sarcasm of this post is worth reading:

It's not obtuse enough yet!. What I think is that the Atom API should use more random parts of the HTTP spec. Instead of just adding an additional header with something like <action>update</action>, it should overload those HTTP verbs that are just so underutilized out there like PUT and DELETE. I mean, they're there for a reason, right? Or hell, if not, let's invent one. Also, instead of using an XML based stanza for security like Jabber (you know, that completely useless and horribly written XMPP spec), let's use HTTP headers instead. And not just *any* HTTP header, let's find something completely unsupported by popular web tools like PHP so only really dedicated developers will use it, something like HTTP Digest Authentication. Yeah, that's the ticket!

Oh wait, they're doing just that! Great! I was worried that the spec wasn't geeky enough. Phew! Good thing. I mean, I hate simplicity for simplicity's sake.

-Russ

Comment  [Russell Beattie Notebook]

Well written, Russ.  This kind of dry humor makes me wonder if you have English blood.

AppleScript and mySQL.
“mySQL4AppleScript is a library of AppleScript handlers for accessing mySQL databases. mySQL4AppleScript requires mySQL to be installed on Mac OS X.” [Der Schockwellenreiter] [Andre Venter: Dev]

Brian Jepson's post, Fun with Dashboard and Mono, explores the use of some snazzy technology and intelligent agents to get close to what I was asking for in this post.  Be sure to read the backstory on Dashboard.  Geek warning, though.  It's intense.

D'Arcy links to an aggregator list. I've spent most of the day trying to find a NNW replacement. (I'm selling my laptop to by a desktop dual 1GHz G4.)

Looking for an RSS reader?
Well, you're probably not, but if you know someone who is, they might be thankful for this page, containing what appears to be a pretty comprehensive list of RSS readers for a whole lotta platforms…. [D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog]

Bill French points to this post in a comment about my post about leaving RSS to the business of information delivery.  Here  a snip of his comment:

…the trouble that the [RSS] industry is expriencing is the rush by marketing folks into the RSS fray without a complete understanding of what RSS syncation (sic) is good for or its historical roots.

Bill is making a great point here.  The market is ready for content syndication, but they don't know what the underlying technology is called and don't care.  See my two posts on the right sidebar for extra details.

The average customer cares about RSS vs. Nechoatom in the same way they care about Intel vs. Mac.  They want the most compatible best deal for the money.  Most average consumers don't care what chip drives an X-Box or Sony Playstation, just that the games are cool and easy to afford.

So is RSS the Playstation and Nechoatom the X-Box?  Discuss!

I've subscribed to his site now.  Thanks Bill!

Joe is at it again.  I had a blast with Phase 5 and am looking forward to all of the fun with ShareBlogs.  It's really made me take a different approach to BlogShares in general.  I've made a couple of new blog friends and learned that you really do get more out of an endevour when your focus is giving rather than receiving.

I've received share gifts over the weekend from blog owners, increasing my BlogShare worth.  Now it's time to give some back.  Watch your emails.  If you are a subscriber to the RSS feed of this site, you'll get a gift (send me some inventive proof, too :> ) and if you've given me a gift before, you'll find something in your stocking…

I've been evaluating two ways of reading aggregated syndication feeds: Radio Userland's built-in aggregator and NetNewsWire. To skip the suspense, NNW won. I used Radio extensively for the last three days, posting and reading content. With Radio running on my downstairs server (see this), response time was fast and reading news was a little easier, since I use the traditional view in NNW and Radio's layout puts all of the news on one page.

This brings me to the reason I shut of Radio's aggregator this morning. I read news by scanning the content, then reviewing interesting stories, then posting the content afterwards. With Radio's aggregator, that just wasn't possible. I subscribe to 92 sources and that makes managing headlines in Radio unwieldy.

I'm hoping that when I learn a bit more about Radio/Frontier/Manila, I can create a read-only aggregator page that's tailored to my needs.

Update: Brent Simmons (creator of NNW writes):

[snip]

The thing to remember is that the distinction between aggregator types isn[base ']t between mail-reader style and weblog-style, it[base ']s between GUI apps and browser-based apps. Dave writes: [base “]People who are just using mail-reader style aggregators are really missing something.[per thou]

Actually, no, they[base ']re not. [inessential.com]