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March 15, 2004
KTVX and Apple
Apple's PR service has a piece about Salt Lake TV station KTVX using Macs and Final Cut Pro to put together their news program.
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Microsoft, RSS, and BitTorrent
Dan Gillmor has a thought provoking piece about Microsoft's lack of support for RSS. Here are a few of my favorite quotes:
...automating micro-content routing tends to reinforce the ubiquity of small consumable, searchable XHTML fragments. ...you gotta buy a ticket for enterprise workflow and form routing...Microsoft doesn't want to seed a poor-man's BizTalk server around RSS alerts. [L]et's not forget RSS/BitTorrent enclosures, which offer a DRM-free standard for peer-to-peer content exchange and publishing years before Longhorn locks down those ports.From Your Winnings, Sir
Referenced Mon Mar 15 2004 10:10:50 GMT-0700
If you haven't heard about that last one yet, here's an overview article, a Wired magazine article, another piece by Dan and instructions for using RSS+BitTorrent in Radio.
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New OpenOffice Column
LinuxJournal has a new bimonthly column on Open Office. I used Open Office quite a bit a few years ago and felt it was a good start, but not something I was willing to commit to yet. I've been asking some people I trust lately and gotten roughly the same answer. Anyone care to offer a differing opinion? Post is at Ask Phil.
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Tim Bray's New Gig
Tim Bray, who posted a great general purpose "Position Wanted" piece on his blog a few months ago will be working for Sun. He will be "next gen tech and standards development at the intersection of RSS, XML and advanced search technologies." Good for Tim, good for Sun, and good for us, I think.