Peercasting Ready for Primetime?
From the “what do I know about anything” department: Peercasting Ready for Primetime? Lots of stuff about wise uses of client bandwidth that I suppose I’ll have to think about.
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Blog design in the age of RSS
Blog design in the age of RSS:
“The risk is no longer of losing readers with an an insufficient volume of posts, but of annoying readers with insufficiently interesting posts. In my original article, I argued that Long Tail tactics discourage overthinking the quality question. Throw it all out there and let the marketplace sort it out, I urged; good will rise to prominence and bad will fade to obscurity. But the problem with RSS is that it isn’t a marketplace. Once someone’s subscribed to your feed, they get everything, whether they want it or not. Bad content is as prominent as good content, and one can tarnish the other. So what are the new Rules of Push? Is there a Push threshold–a post worth pushing? If not, what to do with it?”
Chris’ Long Tail article has been around for a bit, but I’ve just started reading and re-reading it after spending months reading about the article (future essay topic: The Internet and the Rise of the Secondary Source?), and it’s one of the few pieces in recent memory that I’ve actually found myself highlighting. As I spend more time in the web development area, his thoughts are having a big influence on me, and since I’ve been thinking a lot lately on my potential use of RSS in future projects, this bit is timely. Alternate future essay topic: Stop Shifting My Damned Paradigm So I Can Actually Get Something Done.
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Is it representative of most OS X users? Beats me. I’ve definitely got some catching up to do in 2005 - my dock’s pretty much Firefox, NetNewsWire, BBEdit, Transmit, VLC, Omni Outliner, Mail, Terminal and calculator - not the graphing one, the plain old regular one (the conversions are handy in this semi-metric world). There are some other apps (MarsEdit is under evaluation), but I really haven’t taken the time (ha!) to learn better ways of doing anything. That said, nobody at my (PC-based) workplace can understand how I get so much done in my free time. With the exception of Visual Studio, I can do pretty much everything faster on my Mac (although to be fair, I don’t have to put up with my boss interrupting me every five minutes when I’m at home.)
The Code Room: MS “reality” show online
The Code Room: while it’s hard to envision a Microsoft marketing technique as a “reality” show, it’s probably as realistic as most of the other stuff out there. Now, I can’t exactly fault MS for making the download a self-extracting EXE, but it’s kind of hard to watch on a Mac. If Microsoft wants to inspire passion for their development environments, they might want to drop the cost of entry and at least make their ads cross-platform…