Monday, February 07, 2005

The Independent chose this site as one of their 12 best blogs. I loved what they said about me, and the blog. Grouchy? Sure, why not. 

Mary Hodder responds to Frank Barnako's bit, below. I support what she said. I've asked Mary to lead discussions at conferences twice. I point to her with total confidence in her integrity. Barnako's accusation, even though it was just by implication, was undue and unsupported. And it was yet another example of a professional journalist taking a swipe at all bloggers when they're really criticizing one blogger.  

RSSWeather now has OPML support. This is going to get very interesting when my new outliner ships. Of course it loves OPML. And RSS.  

Frank Barnako at CBS Marketwatch says that bloggers won't keep secrets, citing the story on Mary Hodder's blog about Ask Jeeves buying Bloglines. Funny thing is, reporters aren't supposed to keep secrets either. In the old days they'd call this a "scoop" and reporters would work hard to get them. 

Interesting quote from Paul McCartney on Curry's about the Beatles and materialism. "John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'" Very cool. Note that John didn't say "Now let's write a song to buy me a swimming pool and you get nothing."  

BBC: "Ellen MacArthur is confident she can successfully complete her round-the-world trip in record time." 

Taegan Goddard reports that Deep Throat, the confidential source behind the Watergate scandal, is ill.  

A heads-up about an upcoming server change. Since I'm not pursuing a podcasting business with Adam Curry, he's going to move his sites off my servers, on or before the end of this month. That includes ipodder.org and curry.com, but not audio.weblogs.com, which will remain on my server. After the transition, ipodder.org will be hosted on one of Adam's servers, and he will be responsible for its performance. I will continue to host The Dawn and Drew Show for the forseeable future. Sorry if this is confusing.  

Thanks to Susan Mernit for the pointer to Lisa Williams' fabulous 4 minute tour of podcasting. She says it's an instant classic, and it surely is!