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2 weeks ago

in Iran situation highlights strengths, weaknesses of Twitter on The Inquisitr
Yes but some longtime accounts have a reputation for reliability. You have to know who you're reading, and judge, over time. New accounts may or may not be reliable.

3 months ago

in Meanwhile In Japan on Retarded's Notebook
Think of it as population control!

8 months ago

in Full text in RSS? (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Atom has a summary and an content element, giving you choice. The RSS community tried to do something similar with summary in description and the full text in content:encoded.

8 months ago

in I need a server strategy (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Wasn't there an effort to port Frontier to Unix-based systems?

10 months ago

in Dare left something out (and it's important) (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Not really: XML-RPC does not take advantage of HTTP, especially not of the stateless caching feature of GET, not of the Safe feature of GET, not of the idempotence of PUT, etc. Frankly, I don't miss PUT & DELETE, but only using POST but not GET for safe operation is the thing, which keeps me away from XML-RPC.
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rogerben Well, you *could* use XML-RPC as a payload in a RESTful app... all you'd really need to do is treat the method/fail elements as vestigial organs and use HTTP verbs and URIs appropriately. But as others have pointed out, once you're doing that, why not just use JSON and get the bennies of broader client support?

1 year ago

in Dumbest Man Alive? on Notes From Off Center
Well, their first names are a bit similar! What marvellous grounds for a reasoned debate. This guy is the worst kind of idiot - one who can't do research or think for himself.

1 year ago

in New Rail Car Runs on Air-Electric Perpetual Drive on Modern Mechanix
Oscar - do you really think that a scientist, seeing the possibility of making such a machine, would say `I can't build it, I must maintain the way the world is viewed and suppress this invention'. No, he or she would be happily collecting a Nobel prize.

This is not to mention the enthusiastic amateur. You seem to know a lot about modern technology, perhaps you could enlighten us.

2 years ago

in 2007/07/07/what-should-technorati-do/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Did my comment yesterday not go through?
In short, have a look at Technorati's numbers on Alexa, Quantcast, and Compete, and if you have access to Hitwise and other commercial metrics companies, have a look at that, too.

I think all Technorati's numbers are up, so why would they need to change???

3 years ago

in The anti-RSS hype on Scobleizer
Well, normal people don't read 743 web sites. They usually read 2 or 3 daily and for that purpose RSS is an overkill. At least that's what they say on Slashdot.
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