I've been posting with XMLRPC! 

No idea why I waited so long to try this out - but 10 minutes after looking up how to do it, I successfully posted from blogHUD.com to my Wordpress blog. How cool is that!!! very, Mister Bond!

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9/11 Report as a comic to make it 'more accessible' 

I bought a comic book while here in Boston. It's a graphic adaptation of the 9/11 Report created by two superheroes of the comic world, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón (who drew Casper and Wonder Woman)

Apparently, both of them had attempted to read the tome report and got to page 50 and gave up. So, they decided to turn it into a comic. USA Today reported that it was to 'make it more accessible to Americans'

I think this a great idea and goes through the whole timeline of events on that fateful day.

I won't be reading it on the plane on the way back - I'm too bust consuming Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (finally!) ;)

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At the airport 

Good wifi at Logan here in the NW lounge. Off in an hour or so.

Back to London 

Off back London soon. Good bye sunshine - hello rain.

Cisco pays $92M for a small VOD startup. 

Purchasing Arroyo allows Cisco to sell end-to-end video packages to cable companies and other content providers looking to reduce the number of vendors

Wow!. That's very interesting. It takes the delivery tools closer to the 'tubes'.

I just found this in one of moreover's feeds. Entrepreneur News in the General/Business category. Note use of the 'source' element - yes, it's a redirect. That's the only issue I might have - but hey, it's free!

Before RSS 

Years ago, I used AvantGo. Every day. I could read news on my Palm V PDA. It was great. OK. It wasn't a newsriver (which I LOVE) but while on the underground in London for about an hour, with no connection, all we could do is sync it all over and browse it offline.

Back then I'd never even heard of Dave Winer. ;)

All this and a passion for mobile gadgets and information at my fingertips turned me on to Moreover. They were, without a doubt back then, the biggest single source of feeds I could ever find on the internet. Perfect for a keen createc/developer like myself, eager to build something *I* needed. It wasn't about building product or system that I could tout around or ("hey Jonny, stop pipedreamin'!") get paid to build and develop.

Here is a link to their full list of RSS feeds. I can't believe it's still there! It's for personal use only, btw. (Hey! where's the OPML?! ;) I did one of this once, I'll see if I can find it)

This thing called XML used to baffle me. People who I thought were super super clever about programming software only understood. I realised there were things I wanted (and needed) to learn on the web, so I asked 'the web''. People typed back replies with words and instructions. What an amazing resource we have.

Suddenly it all made sense. An epiphany. Data. Information. The internet and most importantly, ALL THOSE PEOPLE on the internet. ALL THE TIME. Creating content. All day while the world gently spins.

The huge difference in creating multimedia cdroms and presentations (which is what I was doing at the time about 13 years ago) compared to the world wide web and the 'live' nature of it was astounding. When finishing a multimedia cdrom or presentation/conference project, sure it made me feel good, but when I switched off my 66Mhz super pc it was gone. Vanished. No one could see what I had done. All I had was this plastic disc.

The fact that I could learn how this HTML thing was written by the very fact that I could view and stare at this code for hours, with all those odd pointy brackets, then reassemble them with my own words in between - then upload them to the web to a location any one could see - for twenty fours hours a day , seven days a week - was incredible!! Phew! It still is! I HAD to find out how all this worked. Woo! blink tags!!!

I love displaying data and making the tools to make data and display it.

Praise the internet!!! And all those SIMPLE data things!!! (not forgetting those who came up with those simple data things) Without them all, Lord knows what I'd be doing with my life now.

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