I got to say, this post, Undecipherable Specification Error, by Sam Ruby is brilliant, and a terrific look into the moment by moment minutia of a technology in motion that may just well touch everything.

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Ben Hammersley:

While developers in the US are being hamstrung by their courts, and their counterparts in Europe are about to have software patents kick the chair out from under them, the developers in the warm and cheap places are getting busy. If you really care that your software was written in the US, then the Grokster case is quite a big deal. If not, you just shrug and move on. The rest of the world’s a big place. They make software there too.

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Yeah, poking fun at potential customers or authors is probably not so cool if you’re a for-profit publishing company. Oops. That said, if you’re interested in writing for O’Reilly definitely take a look at the link below. –Justin

Check out this very detailed webpage set up for authors called So You Want to Write a Book? There are seven chapters.

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Man, I shoulda went to Gnomedex. RSS, err, I mean syndication was all the rage.

Dare Obasanjo notes that Mark Fletcher of Bloglines…pleaded with the audience to stop the practice of providing the same feed in multiple formats. Having the same feed in multiple syndication formats confuses end users who are trying to subscribe to the feed and leads to duplicate items showing up in search engines that specialize in syndication formats like PubSub, Feedster or the Bloglines search features.

And another great quote from Dare on ads in feeds:

Scott Rafer of Feedster said that he agreed with Microsoft’s presentation from the previous day that Subscribing is a new paradigm that has come after Browsing and Searching for content. Although we have figured out how to provide ads to support Browse & Search scenarios we are still experimenting with how to provide ads to support the Subscribe scenarios.

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Dare Obasanjo: Gnomedex 5.0 Trip Report: Dean Hachamovitch on Longhorn, IE 7 and RSS

Phil Ringnalda: MS embraces RSS

Sam Ruby: Simple List Questions

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