Posting a photo in my WordPress Blog

I wish the Como Park conservatory could afford one of these.
I really appreciate that WordPress preserves proportions. BlogWare, in creating thumbnails, chops off the top and bottom of the picture which looks really unprofessional. Why would anyone want a thumbnail of someone’s body with their head and feet chopped off?

Alex Barnett does a screencast OPML 101

I have been wanting an explaination why Robert Scoble and Dave Winer are so passionate about OPML. Today I downloaded and watched Alex Barnett’s screecast called Using OPML 101.

Dave Winer has a WordPress blog!

Dave Winer is using his OPML editor to post on his WordPress blog. This stuff is over my head but I am happy to be on the bus and feel the ride is going to get interesting.

WordPress.com is now public

I felt really fortunate last night when I was given a golden pass to wordpress.com. I just saw that invites are no longer needed. I didn’t even get a chance to give my invite away! I am still happy to be here, though. I was a beta tester for TypePad and Blogware, too. My first Blog was with Dave Winer’s Userland. I still use his RSS aggregator.

Really Simple Sharing

Dave Winer just announced that Ray Ozzie, in his Blog, is demonstrating Microsoft’s transparency by describing Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) for RSS and OPML.

Early on, after we had a prototype going, I met with Dave to tell him about it and perhaps get him involved.  Immediately at our first meeting he spotted its potential to solve something else he had been thinking about – replicating changes among OPML lists or outlines being managed within different services or by different people.  He challenged us to see if the same SSE mechanisms could be applied to OPML.  As it turned out, only minor changes were required.  In essence, by connecting these dots between what we’d done to extend RSS and his vision for OPML, Dave’s catalyzing a new form of decentralized collaborative outlining.
Here’s the draft spec for SSE, and here’s a FAQ that we put together.  A forum where we can talk about it amongst implementers will be forthcoming.
One other important point:  We’re releasing the SSE specification under a Creative Commons license – Attribution-ShareAlike.  I’m very pleased that Microsoft is supporting the Creative Commons approach; you can see more about this at in the licensing section at the end of the spec.

Adam Green’s thoughts on the evolution of the Internet

Dave Winer turned me on to reading Adam Green in his evolving website, Darwinian Web.

Here are a few recent posts:

• 2006: The Year the Web Explodes
• Architecture for tags
• Everyone has their own Googlebase
• The urge to scale