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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
OPML "crappy" Robertson says — James Robertson: "Ye gods, it's time someone came out and said something. OPML is a really, really crappy format." — James, here's the deal. I really don't care about specs. I'm a user here. When users say they want something the correct answer …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Developer challenge: I'll switch blogs to the first blogging service that supports OPML — Here's the deal. I will switch to the blogging tool that outputs OPML automatically like what Michael Arrington did by hand. — Will it be a Microsoft service? I hope so.
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James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants:
Some one has to say it — Scoble wants OPML: … Ye gods, it's time someone came out and said something. OPML is a really, really crappy format. Really crappy. I had massive headaches implementing OPML support for import/export in BottomFeeder. Why? Because there's no real specification.
Ellie Gibson / gamesindustry.biz:
Half of all Xbox 360 owners will use Live - Bach — European launch titles to be announced 'in the very near future' — Microsoft executive Robbie Bach has predicted that half of those who buy an Xbox 360 will sign up for Xbox Live, despite the lack of interest in the online service amongst current Xbox owners.
Brooks Boliek / Reuters:
Senators turning up heat on P2P pirates — WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Lawmakers pushed federal authorities Wednesday to crack down on peer-to-peer services that pirate copyrighted works, while one P2P operator told them pressure from the recording industry was forcing him to change his ways.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
And when will there be a museum of blogging? — I suppose it's appropriate that we had a meeting about the future of media with old media and new, big media and small, mass media and personal at the Museum of Television & Radio's Media Center. The big guys aren't history yet. But I suppose they could be.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Ray Kurzweil deciphers a brave new world — Ray Kurzweil was one of the most remarkable and prolific inventors of the late 20th century. — Now Kurzweil, who can claim credit for developing the first text-to-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flat-bed scanner, is busy inventing a future …
Brad Hill / The Unofficial Google Weblog:
Google, UPN, and Baby Steps — Google's headline-inducing acquisition of "Everybody Hates Chris" is part of a larger deal than I realized when that TV pilot was first released on Google Video. Google has reportedly signed an agreement with UPN to provide streaming access to already-aired TV shows …
Adam Hertz / Technorati Weblog:
Site Performance and Improvement Update — We've been making a lot of updates and tweaks to our backend, as described at the beginning of the month. Most of these changes have been around speed and performance, and I hope that you've noticed the difference. We've also been listening to a lot of your feedback and comments.
Terry Pedwell / Globe and Mail:
What's with them young whippersnappers? — Ottawa — Canadians illegally download 14 music CDs or other files from the Internet for every file they take from the web legally, a new recording-industry poll suggests. — The illegal downloading has cost retail music stores more than half …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Webmasters, tell us what we don't know — Having been to a couple of Search Engine Strategies conferences, I realized how much you look to search engines for information on how your content is indexed by them. I've heard stories of elaborate scripts that scrape search engines, using 'site …
Martha McKay / northjersey.com:
A hand-held kiosk — When Travis Misurell arrived for freshman orientation at Montclair State University last month, he received the ultimate welcome gift. — School officials handed him a $250 Motorola cellphone - and told him to use it. — Not for phone calls, but to tap into a multitude of …
Scott M. Fulton, III / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Dell extends XPS series, confirms 256 MByte memory requirement for Vista PCs — New York (NY) - In a press conference to unveil Dell's an extended and updates range XPS line of products, founder and chairman Michael Dell told reporters that for any computer to be "Vista ready," …
Rhys Blakely / Times of London:
Skype signals online video plan — Skype, the internet telecoms company owned by eBay, today moved closer to becoming a major platform for digital content and hinted it could soon offer online video services. — Underscoring how rapidly the media landscape is shifting …
Bradley S. Klapper / Associated Press:
U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of Web — GENEVA — A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's principal overseer.
