Month: August 2004

Adam Curry, who continues to crank out entertaining and informative “daily source code” audio blog posts, releases his audio blog post publishing script.

It’s a beautiful Sunday in Massachusetts. The sun is shining, the chicken is brining, and we’re off to Ipswich to pick berries.

Why doesn’t this Google search for “feedster” return a link to www.feedster.com? Microsoft seems to have no problem linking to their competition. This is a little scary given Google’s ability to define reality. It’s now a routine conversational turn for me to say to friends, “Google it and you’ll find the Web page.” It’s too early to tell but I’d hate to see Google become the FOX News of the Web.
Update Feedster de-Googled. Scott says, “Google has pulled us quite thoroughly — you can’t even find out who’s linking to us.”
Update 2 Actually http://www.feedster.com doesn’t appear in MSN or Yahoo! searches either. Maybe it’s a problem with the robots.txt file?

Wow, I just realized that my thesis was signed five years ago. Oy, time marches on.

The research group I did my Ph.D. with has a new website: Boston Retinal Implant Project. The project was covered in this month’s MIT Tech Review.

Adam illustrates by example how quoting works in the audioblogosphere in yesterday’s souce code.

Hey, my page is the top Google result for “list of 9 11 comission recommendations”!

Philip Greenspun reviews William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition.

There’s a profile of Icelandic singer Björk in this week’s New Yorker. It’s not available on line, unfortunately, but an accompaniment to the Björk profile is.

Lucas Gonze is thinking about best practices for RSS enclosures. Lucas is the creator of the very cool Webjay system, putting him right in the thick of the Internet media revolution.