July 23, 2003
List header metadata
There's an established standard for mailing lists and how they're supposed to announce their presense in messages. RFC2369 covers it....
Why bother making commenting smarter?
It's good to see the conversation on commenting continue to develop. Much like weblogging itself, commenting management won't happen until some frameworks evolve.
July 22, 2003
Weaving a rich comment path
I'm getting the impression folks are starting to come around to the idea of bidirectional and/or signed comments. I've believed this has been needed for quite a while now.
July 10, 2003
RFID for pets?
How about making a device that'd keep a pet out of an area or off a piece of furniture? I'd...
June 19, 2003
Easy as Pie?
Sam Ruby's got an effort going to establish the concept of what a
Well Formed Weblog would provide via XML. I've met with Sam and talked with him on several occasions and I think he's on to something here.
April 27, 2003
Personal RSS and advertising?
Hmmm, Kottke got me thinking. There are several RSS feeds already available that focus on informing you of promotions, deals...
March 27, 2003
Toward secure comments
Trackbacks, once your get your apache server chroot properly configured, are a cool thing. You create a post and you...
March 23, 2003
Portable protected storage?
The Windows OS has the ability to present protected storage resources to software. Try sending encrypted e-mail from within Outlook...
March 19, 2003
Caching pseudo dynamic pages
Bill McCoy wonders about HTML page caching with this IMPblog: IMAP weblog software....
March 10, 2003
Meeting proxies?
Seeing as how uplinks and web sites often fail just when you need them most (like during a live presentation)...
March 07, 2003
Raison d'etre?
As for weblogs and their raison d'etre, if you don't get it, you don't get it. There's nothing for you...
February 27, 2003
Profile assistant?
Internet Explorer has a really handy feature called the Profile Assistant. Basically it's a user controlled way to have you...
February 23, 2003
Schema
When using RSS and RDF it's possible to add information using modules and schemas. I've created a few schema. Here's...
February 09, 2003
Quantum Data
I've had this saying for years, I call it 'quantum data'. It's based on the idea of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle...
February 03, 2003
Me and my digital shadow
Where's my digital concierge? Where's the thing that shadows me as I travel about from one online resource to another?...
February 01, 2003
Challenge and Response
Is there a way to sign items in RSS feeds or HTML pages such that something that cared could challenge...
January 25, 2003
PostBack, TrackBack, through Hell and Back?
It seems some nice traction is building toward using more robust tracking of comments and postings. Will it withstand the...
January 22, 2003
Key discovery
Justin raises questions about discovery of keys. What he's suggesting is exactly where I'm thinking is worth heading. The trouble...
January 12, 2003
p2p blogging
There's a fair amount of interest generated in dealing with the Chinese blockage of reading weblogs. Here's an idea, make...
January 01, 2003
Testing the profile assistant
Need to fill in a form automatically? Are you using IE? The profile assistant built into IE may be able to help.
