Dave linked, via Twitter, to a blog post by Marc Canter encouraging us to boycott Google because they had the temerity to… *gasp* …sell their services to those nasty, nasty republicans.
Heh.
It might be the silliest thing I’ve ever read on Canter’s blog. In the next post, blames his mistakes on those nasty, nasty Republicans. I mean, really, if Marc had read as far as the second paragraph he would’ve realized what was going on:
As Official Innovation Provider, Google Inc. will enhance the GOP’s online presence with new applications, search tools, and interactive video. In addition, Google will help generate buzz and excitement in advance of the convention through its proven online marketing techniques.
While I wouldn’t put spinning trivial things past either of the parties (aside: how anyone can see enough difference between them to identify with one and hate the other is beyond me.), this press release sounds like the kind any business would use for the same kind of “event”. It’s not “lying”, it’s some young republican staffer with an MBA putting it to good use.
I wonder if Dave will write a post about how those nasty, nasty Republicans are at it again.
In other news… Dave is going to be announcing a “brilliant” (he says so himself) new use RSS tomorrow. I really hope it’s a contraption I can attach to the hind-quarters of my dog that updates an RSS feed every time he has a bowel movement… following him around the yard is getting kinda old.
Let’s see: Dave’s been programing a podcatcher for weeks. I wonder?
Mp3 files can be moved about by showing their links in enclosure elements.
When he starts moving Divx TVshows he’ll get some real attention.
It will do much less than iTunes has been doing for a couple years. But you’ll be able to spam Twitter that you downloaded an MP3. Oooh.
While Dave is playing political organizer, Eliot Kimber, espouses true RSS heresy:
“In the domain of program-to-program communication it would not surprise me if something specifically designed for that task supplants XML, something like JSON. “
Imagine if Atom added JSON as a line format. Dave would go quietly insane.
http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/2008/02/xml-is-10.html
It’s about time for another format war.