Burningbird

Debate continues?

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 20, 2002

Instead of writing a new post, I updated the Bombs away posting to reflect new view, opinions, what have you.

I also gave my opinion of the Coders Only Club (COC), this tendency on the part of some elite technologists to respond to expressed concerns and arguments with exhortations to a) deliver code; b) stop practicing stop energy; or c) variations of create your own softare and/or join the organization and help from within, then.

Can one only discuss RSS or other technologies if one delivers RSS aggregagors? Can one only express concerns about Creative Commons if one is willing to join Creative Commons? And isn’t asking questions, or even expressing criticisms considered part of the growth equation?

If the only way I can give opinions is by being “one” of you, fuck it. I’m not interested. I don’t like members only clubs. If I write software for people to use its because it’s something I want to do, not to become part of this ‘technology elite’.

Technology

Wasting time

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 20, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I just realized that I wrote two postings that have accomplished absolutely nothing of value. I should have spent my time writing code instead. That’s what technologists do — write code.

What am I doing wasting my time writing? I should be coding.

Weblogging

De-link this De-link that

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 20, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

A couple of people have discussed de-linking in their weblogs (Dorothea and Elaine). Life goes on. Personally, I wish I hadn’t brought up delinking in my discussion about replacing the blogroll.

I’m replacing my blogroll with something else because I’m trying out new technology. An experiment, if you will to see how well it works and if it is an improvement on existing blogroll linkage. I’m doing so because I am a technologist. Sometimes I get paid for my effort. Sometimes I don’t. But it’s what I am and what I do. I’m a code machine, a COC (Coders Only Club) wanna be.

And because I do happen to believe in community, I’ll pass on the code to you. To use, or not, in your own weblogs. That’s what you do, being whatever you are.

Specs

Mark Pilgrim’s What is RSS

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 19, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Mark Pilgrim has a new article over at O’Reilly Network: What is RSS. It focuses on working with the major varieties of RSS out in net land.

Considering that Mark isn’t exactly the greatest fan of RDF/XML, I thought his coverage of RSS 1.0 to be unbiased. He didn’t holler out with, “RDF sucks but it’s out there, so we’ll have to live with it!” I’ll make Mark a fan of RDF/XML yet.

Tags RSS

Weblogging

Non-Tech content

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date December 19, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I am going to be heavily involved with technology and technology-related writing in the next few weeks. For those of you who aren’t interested in technology (and why aren’t you?), I would like to point you to some excellent non-tech related posts worth your read:

Steve Himmer’s The Words behind the Words

Jeff Ward’s response

Steve Himmer’s response to the response

AKMA’s two posts on learning: here and here

Though somewhat technical, Jonathon Delacour’s continuing series “Conversation with Joe Clark”, such as the third entry are well worth a read.

Loren Weber’s continuing series on the poet MacLeish, including the latest entry

Back to the technology. Back to the book.