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  • Walled River

    Apple join the war against RSS. We need to defend the principle of a platform independent / open feed of news items from all the companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple who have seen the future as feeds insided their own proprietory walled “gardens”. Not sure if a garden is the right metaphor for…

  • World Outline Screencast

    Nice screencast from Dave Winer showing where the World Outliner (the successor to the OPML Editor) is at. Reminds me of GeekWeaver of course, though obviously slicker (and more specialised).

  • Artistic Filofax

    Some links on ThoughtStorms

  • Mentoring In The Large

    Dave Winer has a great aspiration for programmers to engage with long-projects that involve a teaching role.

  • Command 'n' Cursor

    I’ve been travelling with my trusty (but ageing) eeepc netbook this last week. There’s much to love about it but it’s starting to feel slow in comparison with my other machine. Increasingly when I use the netbook I try to get away with doing things in a ctrl-alt-f1 shell without logging in to the GUI…

  • Show Your RSS

    Dave Winer reminds us to help people find our RSS feeds, as it seems that browser-makers are increasingly trying to obscure them from us.[1]. My approach is non-standard, but hopefully conveys the message 🙂 [1] Rather like Steve Jobs trying to hide the file-system, some people love to take away anything that it might actually…

  • Iterative, Test-Driven Development

    My Quora answer : Iterative, “test driven”, development. Break your idea down into a number of simple “stories”, each of which describes a single chunk of activity which goes all the way through from the beginning to the end of a user’s experience with the software. Importantly a story is not a traditional “component” ……

  • System Modeller

    Wolfram Research present “System Modeller”. I’ve always been interested in this kind of software, so I need to check this out.

  • 1337

    Anyone else noticed that in terms of Unix Time we’re in a 1337 era?

  • Wiki Renaissance

    I believe we’re in a wiki renaissance. The Smallest Federated Wiki signals a new era of wiki, slick enough for the age of HTML5, mobile devices and the “internet of things”. So here’s a quick manifesto (in progress) that I’m writing about what’s at stake in the new era, how it’s the same as and…