AKMA asked what tag I would apply to him from Dan Gillmor’s HonorTags. I do grow tired of offending people with my plain speech, but to use less now would ruin a fine and longstanding streak, so I’ll go for broke. I would if I could try to find something urbane and witty, not to mention delicously snarky […]
Author: Shelley Powers
Finger in the dike, thumb in the damned
Sam Ruby has asked people to publish a link to this post about the iTuned RSS 2.0 to generate enough noise to wake the dead. Or Apple, whichever comes first. I do admire Sam’s persistence in wanting to ensure that RSS 2.0 is and remains a valid syndication format. When asked why we should care, Mark Pilgrim wrote in […]
Cornered
Tuesday I called Charter Communications to see if I can continue the high speed internet but cancel the basic television lineup. I was informed that I could, but it would cost 10.00 more a month. Since I’m already paying twice as much for Internet access as Charter advertises at the company site and on TV, […]
Sponsoring squid people
Danny Ayers posted a note about funds and looking for work, sponsorship, or patronage. Since RSS is the new ‘hot’ thing and people are throwing around money as long as whatever technology being funded has “…and RSS” attached to it, Danny has to be a hot property right now. He recently wrote a book on syndication feeds, […]
How many emails?
If I’m part of the squids, at least I’m a Giant Squid if my email popularity has anything to do with it. I woke up this morning to find 56,770 emails in my general email account. It would seem a host of hackers used ‘burningbird.net’ to send both phishing and virus emails throughout the world. […]
