D'Arcy says: RSS is the talk of Merlot

It's a little freaky. Everyone (and I mean everyone) is talking about RSS here. Merlot apparently even demoed RSS feeds from it's collection (I guess that makes our presentation on Friday rather moot. oh, well…) Garry flew in from Oz, and is going to be showing some cool stuff they're doing with RSS to syndicate stuff all over the place. He's going to be in Calgary on Monday, after the conference, and we'll be talking more then. This is shaping up to be Learning Object Syndication Festival 2003. UPDATE: ok… maybe not everyone is talking about RSS, but a whole… [D'Arcy Norman's Learning Commons Weblog]

TypePad is a wonderful idea whose time has finally come. UserLand started this with the right idea some time ago, but couldn't make a go of it. Now that the rest of the world is ready, Ben and Mena of Six Apart, developer of Movable Type, have rolled out TypePad.

I was ready to purchase the service, but I stopped to take an inventory of my blogging self. I have a server-based weblog product. It has multiple categories, scripting, automation, no recurring fees, supports multiple standards and is frequently updated and fixed.

I'm sticking with Radio, and I'm ready to evaluate Frontier and Manila. I want to create websites, give 'blog space to friends (through Manilla) and have a place to experiment and evangelize RSS and weblogs.

Robert Scoble gets in on the hot Trackback action…

Kudos to Radio UserLand for adding Trackback. I'm gonna add it tonight before I go to bed.

[The Scobleizer Weblog]

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Trackback love for AndrÈ

Here's some trackback love for you, baby!

Trackback for Radio has been released! Excellent work jakester! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Terry notes that Infoworld is running ads in their RSS feeds:

I'm Not Doing the Ad Thing
Screw InfoWorld. I just unsubscribed from their RSS feeds.

[ads removed–Steve]

Infoworld has every right to try and make a buck. I have every right not to read it. I'm not renewing my “free” print subscription either…[b.cognosco]

I removed mine before the ads started; the signal-to-noise ratio was to low.

Ric Ford and MacInTouch have been doing it for maybe the last three months in their RSS feed. Ric's ads are discreet, short and at the end of the feed. I subscribe to his feed to show support, but I don't read it. Since he doesn't put the full article on the feed, I have to go to his site anyway, so what's the point?

I've enabled the stories functions in Radio. My first post is a simple list of some of the equipment and configurations I use to run Radio on a home server. I hope to add more content soon, including a weekly article and a short story from authors I know.

For now, I've added a link to Stories on the right side of the page with a short list 9one story now) for easy reference.

I wouldn't be posting this, except I'm reading Jeffery Zeldman's book.

Joe Clark's Building Accessible Websites is now available online in its entirety. [TopStyle Blog]

Dann Sheridan writes:

Garth Kidd dropped by last Friday and said, “I'd blog on storage, but I don't think my employer (a vendor) would much appreciate it.”[X-log]

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Garth has the same problem that many of us face: what to do about expressing our opinions about technology without placing our jobs in jeopardy.