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Who is your audience and what are you trying to accomplish?

Recovered from Wayback Machine. Just posted the following over at RSS-Dev (edited to remove typos): There seems to be three separate threads running along the lines of “Who are we and what are we trying to accomplish”, mixed in with proofs and justification of keeping RDF in the mix. How can the energy expended into […]

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The turbulent waters of RSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was pleased and rather surprised to see so many comments attached to my posting on RDF. As to be expected with recent discussions, the thread soon turned to issues of RDF/RSS. That’s cool. What isn’t cool is something such as this by Morbus Iff and Dave Winer’s absolutely atrocious […]

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Standards Web

Issues of accessibility

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Mark Pilgrim’s Thirty Days to a more Accessible Web. The series covers basic steps we can take to make sure our weblogs and web sites are accessible. His first tip is on DOCTYPES. I tested my weblog against the 508 […]

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Congrats, Sam Ruby

I consider Apache to be an excellent example of what the computer industry can accomplish when it pulls together to create a truly open product. When I heard that Sam Ruby was just elected to the Apache Board of Directors, I had to post a note about the event. Congratulations, Sam! The Board will be richer for […]

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Dot Com Bust Redux

I’m assuming the only reason that the RealNames failure is getting air time is because the former CEO has published its business dealings with Microsoft. I glanced through Keith Teare’s papers at his personal web site, and just can’t see the fuss. Microsoft chose to terminate the relationship with RealNames. With the nebulous nature of the product, the overall opinion […]