BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Over at the RDF interest online forum, at least two developers of implementations based on RDF have received a legal mailing from a firm representing Unified Data Technologies Ltd (UDTL), implying a possible patent infringement due to the use of RDF/RSS. The RDF working group is consulting with the W3C […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I first moved to California this year, someone who used to work at Netscape — and who I admire and respect — talked with me about working at Loudcloud, Marc Andressen’s newest venture. Two things stopped me from pursuing the job. First, the personnel person was a jerk. Second, after […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I made my first posting today at 1:47:09 pm, talking about weblogging buzz and the fact that I had more buzz from my WSP discussion than the recent one on open source associated with John Robb of Userland. I was surprised to see a comment attached at 2:09 — normally […]
Damn! What is that horrible noise! Throws computer off lap, runs to check it out… Oh. It’s only my new teapot. I had put the water on to boil for afternoon tea and then promptly forgot about it. Unfortunately, I have boiled more than one teakettle dry when working on a new book, which is […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, hey, we made it into 2002. Pat yourselves on the backs. In the comments attached to my weblog postings from this last week’s brouhaha over open source and P2P (primarily open source), readers mentioned that some people, who will remain nameless (“quack”), deliberately make controversial statements in order to […]