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Friday, July 4, 2003
RSS Subscriptions Harmonizer
Dave Winer's RSS subscriptions harmonizer is an outstanding idea. I hope it sees some rapid support. As anyone who's ever played around with different aggregators knows, there is a considerable investment of time in getting all your subscriptions loaded and organized -- even if there is an import wizard. A harmonizing web service will be a major boon to RSS usage across both business and personal arenas.Now, can we do it without the tech community turning it into a goat rodeo?
subs harmonizer. I've been tracking Dave's work on his subscriptions harmonizer. I haven't delved into all the details yet, but It seems to me this is the perfect tool for weblogs in a place of business.If a group of people within a company synchronize their |RSS| subscriptions with a harmonizer, a single weblog page can be generated on the fly that represents the interests of the entire group. Powerful mojo. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Government Information Awareness
This is totally kick-ass! GIA showed me more in 30 seconds about my local representatives that I could have found myself in a couple of hours of web searching. I'd love to see some of our state judges put in here. We've got a few loonies on the bench that need airing. Sunshine has a way of chasing out the rats.
Government Prying, the Good Kind. The government has endless ways of keeping tabs on Americans and what they're up to. Now the Government Information Awareness site turns the tables, letting you keep an eye on your government officials. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
Independence Day
Happy American Independence Day. This is still America and I am still happy to be here. I agree that it is the worst possible place to live -- except for all the others. And while I appreciate the offer, I'm not going to Canada. But you guys are welcome to come down here for a visit any time you can get past the Border Patrol.
Small World
Here's something kind of neat -- I live in a small exurb of Atlanta, GA called Conyers. It used to be a little rural community but has grown a lot in the nine years I've been here. It was made famous in the late '70s in the original Smokey and the Bandit movie when, in the opening scene, truck driver Cletus Snow tells Bandit he's "...going to Conyers to pickup a load of manure."Anyway, I was reading the little local community newspaper this morning and saw an article about myConyers.com, a community portal sponsored by local computer consultant Imijit!. Turns out these guys are blogging and building Open Source CMS systems (using PostNuke) right here under my nose.
I've seen Imijit! owner Scott Hartsell's business cards down at our local coffee house for a year or so, but never thought anything about it. (BTW, our coffee house is really cool, but Shelly absolutely refuses to put in WiFi. What a bummer.)
So it's a pretty small world when you find Open Source business bloggers right in your own neighborhood. Now that I've found them I'll have to get out and meet Mr. Hartsell for coffee one day. Maybe together we can get Shelly to see the WiFi light!
Thursday, July 3, 2003
The Scales of Justice
Man gets one year and $3,000 fine for beating wife -- life sentence for spitting on cop.
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) -- An Oklahoma man arrested on suspicion of beating his wife faced year in prison and a fine. But when he spit in an arresting officer's face, he got a life sentence instead, officials said Wednesday. [CNN.com]
Hmm. And I was thinking about buying some wooded acreage in Oklahoma. Maybe I'll go to Canada instead.
Those Dangerous Canadians
From GovExec.com comes news about how the Fatherland, er, umm, Homeland Security Dept. is going to keep us safe from those dangerous Canadians.
Homeland Security reassigns hundreds of agents to northern border
More than 375 Border Patrol agents will be reassigned to the countrys northern border as part of the Homeland Security Departments ongoing effort to increase security on the 4,000-mile boundary between the United States and Canada.
Whew! I know I'll sleep much better tonight.
Wednesday, July 2, 2003
NewsMonster Update
Today's update of NewsMonster successfully imports OPML.
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