Author: fioritto

Weblog changes

I added two static pages in MT using Matt Haughey’s method. I started down the path that Brad Choate outlined, but I didn’t have time to fully understand how templating works in MT. The other method works fine, but as mentioned in the text is not as elegant as Choate’s hack. Ongoing changes to this weblog: Changed design through the…

From Shorts to Snow

March is certainly full of surprises. We went from running yesterday in shorts and t-shirts to finding the yard covered in a light dusting of snow this morning. Gotta love this weather…

More on the RSS Tipping Point

Chad Dickerson at Infoworld says Over the past several weeks, requests for InfoWorld’s Top News RSS feed have regularly exceeded the requests for our home page. This has been going on long enough now that we’re certain that it’s permanent. I think it’s a big deal. During the business day, we track hour-to-hour performance (using a combination of shell scripts…

Topix.net Launches

 I have been test-driving Topix.net, the new news aggregation site, and I have to say, I am impressed, at least on the functionalities side. For me, the RSS feeds on niche topics is a killer… The site is similar to news aggregators like Google’s, MSN’s or Yahoo!’s, but it takes the concept to the local level…local news on my alma…

Tribe.net

“Tribe Networks, a company pioneering a new approach to the online classifieds business through its popular Web site Tribe.net, today announced its support for RSS.” (from PR Newswire) [Lockergnome’s RSS Resource]

Disruptive incremental innovation

http://www.innovationtools.com/weblog/innovationblog-detail.asp?ArticleID=380 The March 2004 issue of MIT’s Technology Review magazine contains a fascinating article by Michael Schrage entitled Disruptive Incrementalism. It explains how incremental changes in products and services can sometimes lead to major successes. 

The New Content Syndication

http://rss.lockergnome.com/archives/opinion/009374.phtml InformationToday reports, “RSS is an XML-based technology that revisits the publishing question, “Just what is the value of a new headline or the title of a magazine article?” In some ways this is, of course, an old question, because table-of-contents services have been available for decades. But the new spin is how these small, tasty morsels of information are…