From Jeremy Zawodny’s blog:
Well, we just launched a beta of the next generation of My Yahoo that fits into that reality. Instead of “you can add anything you want, as long as it’s on the list of My Yahoo content” you can now add pretty much any public RSS or Atom feed. In other words, the content model is open.
Let me say that again, just for dramatic effect: the content model is open now.
RSS has slowly been edging into the mainstream for a while now. [...]
We finally found time to do some more work on Ping-O-Matic, and have implemented an XML-RPC interface. You can now send a standard weblogs.com compatible ping to http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ and we will ping a subset of our services. Currently, this is a fixed subset of seven services:
In the future, we will have ways for you to customize which services you would like us to ping on your behalf. [...]
I found some more fodder for my Blog Service Pinger:
I just ran across Neil’s Pinging service rundown, which in turn links to an article about pinging on UtterlyBoring.
There are a couple of ping services mentioned there that I will be adding. . [...]
I’ve made several new updates to this site over the last few days. . [...]
Some spammer out there is doing a joe job on my domain, and I’ve been getting a steady trickle of email bounces from servers at AOL and Yahoo. If somebody out there who has more time than I do wants to examine the bounces to try to figure out where complaints should be directed, I’ll keep a live archive online for your analysis. Currently, there are about 50 bounces in there.
I did scan over a few ot them, but I couldn’t determine any kind of pattern that would help me pinpoint the real origin. [...]
First off, I’ve added GeoURL to the list of services in my Service Pinger. It’s not an XML-RPC service, so I might rename the page to make it more general.
And second, the Ping Services are now available on the front page of The Blog Hunter, a weblog portal site which is sort of like Yahoo for blogs.
Reality TV shows like Survivor, The Bachelor, Big Brother, and the like seem to be all-the-rage right now. So much so, that next year will see the creation of Reality Central, a cable channel dedicated to those types of shows. Personally, I expect it to fail pretty spectacularly, as I believe that this is just a fad, and people are going to start getting sick of these shows and fall back to the tried-and-true sitcoms and fictional dramas.
However, it does bring to mind a prediction that I made years ago, back when shows like Cops and America’s Most Wanted were the television soup du jour. [...]
Man kills friend for drinking last beer. These are the kind of rednecks that give rednecks a bad name.
“There was only two beers left, so I took one, and I told Willie not to take my last beer.”
At least it happed in Texas, and not here in Alabama. . [...]
Rumor has it that AOL might buy Red Hat. Most of the speculation I’ve read assumes that AOL is looking for some way to reduce their dependence on Microsoft. That’s probably true. But I wonder what they have in mind…. . [...]
