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[Apperceptions] What element of the long tail am I addressing? Above all, I am an artist and so that means to me that I must define my own nitch. Do I want others to find it interesting? Of course. Do I want to make money from it? Not necessarily. Do I want money? I want the freedoms that I think it can help me obtain. Is this xBlog a vehicle for that? It might be, but it's not what drives me. Making art from applications is what drives me at this moment. RSS, blogs and video are all just paints on the palette.

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[L0rdDiabl0's Blog] RSS Ads, How it should be done?: This post was intended as a reply to Richard’s latest post about RSS Advertising, but it got so... discussed the issue of RSS advertising, and he described how Google contextual Ads are not suitable... is that it’s intuitive and understandable with constant value across all sites and blogs, and that what made

[CogDogBlog] Bloggregation: One level worth doing, and quite easy to do, is to set up a Bloglines account so the new blogs can at least be browsed in one place. I tried to demonstrate that this is one approach teachers can do to either create a resource collection for students (gathering relevant RSS sources in their discipline or project area) OR to aggregate blogs created by students. The hitch with bloglines is having another email address available if you do not wish to mix it up with other sets of feeds (folder level sharing would be nice), but with my own server I can create one time use email addresses, and that is also what Yahoo mail works well for. I think I have created 10 or 12 Yahoo mail addresses in my life.

[Naked Conversations] Ch 6 Consultants Who Get It: Andrew Carton may be blogging his way out of the consulting business. He didn’t intend it that way, but that’s how it was heading when we interviewed him in May 2005. He had founded a consulting company specializing in digital entertainment convergence and had launched a successful business blog as a platform to support his ideas in that area. He was doing quite well, but wanted to reach a broader consumer audience, when he “ stumbled upon my Treo smartphone - this was my ”˜Eureka’ moment. I had some very specific ideas about the type of information that I thought was lacking elsewhere and that I wanted to develop.” He wanted to make it fun, “not just about tech specs and no “endless babbling on my life with Treo, but a destination where people could learn something while being entertained.” So he started Treonauts and the result is looking like a standalone business.

[Blogs.msdn.com] Andrew Conrad's WebLog :: A couple of weeks ago, I made a post that I thought some sort of client side data structure, which was designed to store projections of a domain model instances (both in memory and persisted in a data store), was a necessary part of any O/R framework.

[Blogs.msdn.com] Scott Woodgate's Business Process and Integration OutBursts :: The soon-to-be-released BizTalk Server 2006 will build on the core architecture of BizTalk Server 2004 and make strides in all dimensions of application-to-application, business-to-business, and business-process automation. In this session, we cover the enhancements BizTalk 2006 introduces in the runtime engine, including support for in order message processing, non-atomic interchange, execution of pipeline from an orchestration, and the creation of error handling orchestration for automatic error processing. We also demonstrate the new adapters that will ship with BizTalk 2006 such as the POP3 adapter, WSE 2.0 adapter, SPS adapter and enhancements we've made in the SMTP send adapter to supports attachments and 'follow up' flag. If creating flat file schema has been your Achilles heel, you certainly won't want to miss a demo of the new flat file wizard that will make creating flat file schema a breeze.

[Blogs.msdn.com] Jonathan Hardwick :: NewsGator should win big from its use of Outlook as a platform, but seems to use Outlook features as a crutch instead of a stepping-stone to better things. For example, I want subjects highlighted instead of authors, I want to filter out read items, and I don't want an icon in every damn message saying "hey, I'm a message!" In NewsGator this means creating an Outlook view, applying it to every one of my feeds, and then trying to ignore how it all still looks like email. FeedDemon started with nothing, added “newspaper styles” (which use CSS to format feeds any way you want), and now they’re so successful that Dare put support for them into RSS Bandit. This is an example of where a rich client like FeedDemon really shines - with no preconceived notions of how things “should” be, it evolves a much more powerful set of features in response to user demand.

[Blogs.law.harvard.edu] RSS 2.0 Specification: RSS places restrictions on the first non-whitespace characters of the data in <link> and <url> elements. The data in these elements must begin with an IANA-registered URI scheme, such as http://, https://, news://, mailto: and ftp://. Prior to RSS 2.0, the specification only allowed http:// and ftp://, however, in practice other URI schemes were in use by content developers and supported by aggregators. Aggregators may have limits on the URI schemes they support.

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