Archive for March, 2006

RSS common icon proposal

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Been participating in this thread over at The Shifted Librarian. The gist: the RSS Advisory Board is considering a proposal that would add official support for the common feed icon to the official RSS spec, and additionally actively encourge everyone who publishes a feed to use the icon regardless of what type of feed (RSS, […]

Internet Identity Workshop 2006

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Phil Windley posted the public announcement for IIW 2006 this morning. This year’s event will be held May 2nd & 3rd at the Computer History Museum in Mountainview, CA, and will feature a new format. Since the subject is developing so rapidly at the moment–it seems like every day a new service adopts OpenID, and […]

Happy Pi Day!

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Yes, you heard me. It’s Π Day! 3.14. Feel free to celebrate at 1:59 (AM or PM, your choice) or 3:09 (15:[0]9), whatever suits your fancy. Celebratory times, in honor of Pi Day’s most famous birthday boy, may be GMT or based on your current locale’s position relative to the sun.
I’d completely forgotten about Pi […]

LII under the knife

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

I just read some disturbing news over at the Shifted Librarian, and the fact that I’m several days behind on my reading doesn’t make it any less disturbing. Apparently the Librarian’s Internet Index is facing at 50% budget cut next year. If you aren’t familiar with the LII–and really if you aren’t, you should be–they […]