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On Retreiving Readership Statistics From RSS Feed Data
Several people have asked me recently how it is that they can extract useful “readership statistics” for content which they are making available via RSS, ATOM and the like. It’s a thorny question – there are many challenges, dead-ends and false-starts, and I don’t want to take up too much time analysing what not to
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For Your Consideration: Blindside
A couple of weeks ago I was honoured to be invited to the Blindside “barn raising” by William Heath, the director. To quote the “about page”:- What’s going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? There are experts, but there’s no one expert. We’re all in this together, so let’s share our evidence and insights
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The Top reasons you need a PR Firm
These are becoming more and more relevant to me… ravinglunacy The Top Reasons you need a PR Firm […] You treat your customers like shit. PR will be happy to help you. They can craft the “your customers are morons” message much better than you can. They can help select the best Consumer Friendly shade
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The Multi-Headed Beast of Web2.0 Adoption
I recently was forced to describe Web2.0 as a “Multi-Headed Beast”, and as the numbers of heads went up from Cerberus to Hydra proportions, I thought I’d whimsically arrange them into a spectrum of Web2.0 adoption, beginning with the ignorably trivial and working through towards the more larger goals of Web2.0; the result led to
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XenSource Denies Trademark Ruckus, Cites Sour Grapes
The drama continues; I shall have to hawk this around my colleagues because it doesn’t seem to me to square with what I’ve been told… blogs.xensource.com I can categorically state that Grandinetti’s statement is an outright fabrication and utter nonsense. XenSource has never made such an announcement, and would never do so. In my view
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How To Shoot Your Commercial Open Source Project In The Head
So there’s this software – Xen – which is an open-source virtualization solution embraced by the free unixes and linuxes as a non-proprietary solution for running multiple operating systems as “guests” under a “parent” installation. In short: an open-source competitor to EMC’s VMware. Some bright spark at XenSource – the administrators of Xen – has
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Randall Schwartz is Free
I have considerable interest in this case, as you may guess from the content. I am very happy this has happened, but gods – 12 years is a punishment even if it ends in expungement… news.com.com.com.com A former Intel contractor has seen his conviction for hacking into the company’s systems expunged, after a battle lasting
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Under a red moon…
Blood-red? Port wine? Merlot?
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Rachmaninov had big Hands
Go watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w and maybe the longer demo. Possibly the world’s spiritual successors to Victor Borge have been found in Aleksey Igudesman & Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
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When Hardware Vendors try to do Web2.0
When hardware vendors try to do embrace a phenomenon like DotCom, Linux, Web2.0 or somesuch, takeover press releases like this generally result:- Cisco SAN JOSE, Calif., February 9, 2007 – Cisco Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Five Across, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., a leading vendor in
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Brompton On Order
I’ve put in an order for my Brompton: a-la carte Brompton M-Type, 6-speed std ratio, L-type mudguards (no rack), raw-lacquer finish, telescopic seatpost, Marathon reflex tyres, S-bag set, Brooks saddle, no lights, dual-pivot front single pivot rear brakes, brompton bag For a gallery of huge pictures see the German website – much better equipped with