09/26 BlogBridge Usability Victims — We are looking for a few people who would be willing to give verbal feedback on BlogBridge usability. I think it would take at most 1/2 hour of your time, and you’d have a chance to have a very direct impact on the direction of the product. Please call Pito or email me at pitoatblogbridge.com and I will fill you in. When we have T-Shirts, you will get one, gratis!

09/26 BlogBridge releases coming fast and furious — BlogBridge is going “Great Guns” as I told my friend David in answer to “What’s going on with BlogBridge?” Well I don’t really know what the heck that means except that I am pumped to see the progress we’ve been making. More and more every day. And now there’s a way for you to see it too! We...

09/14 BlogBridge Beta 4: Sept 15, 2004 — Ok, guys, we have another beta release with lots of great new goodies! It will be up on the web site tomorrow hopefully. It sports lots of new features, which I will be describing when I have some more time to do it. For now, please go to the BlogBridge web site and look around. Some links of intere...

09/11 Sept 11, 2001 — ### No words necessary.

09/10 Why Blogs are great, #102 — I am often asked what’s so special about blogging. I always answer, technically it’s pretty simple, so that’s not it. It’s that there are people in the world, who for their own reasons have chosen to write down their thoughts and opinion. I learn things that I would never have learned otherw...

09/10 Patterns from the master — I came across a fascinating article,a transcript of a speech by Christopher Alexander, architect and author of “A Pattern Language.” Alexander is the guy who invented Patterns as they have now been broadly adopted by the Software ...

09/10 Simulation is hot! — Here’s an interesting link that continues on the theme from my previous post on Agent Based Modeling. This isn’t agent based, but it is kind of the most auspicious use of simulation one could imagine: “Computing the Cosmos. One of the biggest computer simulations ever run is illuminating the deepest mysteries of the universe.”

09/08 Agent Based Modeling — And now for something completely different. I was reading this book: “It’s Alive” over the weekend. Particularly of interest to me was all the discussion about so-called “Agent Based Modeling.” Agent based model...

08/26 What’s wrong with Feed Readers? — Here are two very interesting posts on the question of Feed Readers: Glassdog asks “What’s wrong with Feed Readers” Rasterweb talks about “More aggregator maddness” Info Freako This is of more than passing interest to me of course, as it relates to the design ofmy Blog Reader: BlogBridge. Some of the ideas mentioned here are already planned for BlogBridge, but there are lots of good tidbits to insipre further work!

08/24 A new term: Blobjects — A very thought provoking speech by Bruce Sterling at SigGraph 2004. Recommended. “When you shop for Amazon, you’re already adding value to everything you look at on an Amazon screen. You don’t get paid for it, but your shopping is unpaid work for them. Imagine this blown to huge proportions and attached to all your physical possessions. Whenever you use a spime, you’re rubbing up against everybody else who has that same kind of spime. A spime is a users group first, and a physical object second.”

08/20 BlogBridge Starz! — Finally. Ever since we started working on BlogBridge, I’ve been talking about helping a user slice and dice and sort through a ton of blogs and other channels, finding the good from the bad, the interesting from the boring. Remember the catch phrase “… *the ability ...

08/17 eBay to assist in setting BlogBridge Price — So, some day we will consider BlogBridgecomplete enough to actually be worth a few bucks. But the question is, how much? I’ve said many times, that even if every single cool idea I have is perfectly realized that the most one could expect is maybe $20 or $30 per...

08/15 This Is Rumor Control — This is a really interesting new sitewhere the posters, apparently well informed folks in the intelligence, defense and state communitycomment on what’s going on in the world. (Then again, it could be a 16 year old in Argentina.) They also have a sense of humor:

08/13 XP SP2 Shows Why Microsoft Is A Great Company — I’ve said (and believe) that there’s no other company on earth that has the capability to develop, debug, beta test, deliver software on a massive scale like Microsoft. The number of configurations (both legal and illegal) of hardware, system sofyware, application software, languages, etc that ...

08/13 XP SP2 Makes a Hash Of It — As you know, I am quite impressed with Microsoft’s ability to build and ship and deploy and sell and support software at an absolutely mass scale. Yet, on my second XP SP2 installation, it totally destroyed and hosed my computer. It took a superhuman effort (with...

08/11 Microsoft Internet Explorer Blog — The Internet Explorer team at Microsoft has a blog.It’s not too active yet. Still it’s an example of why I like blogs so much. I mean: how else and where else could I get up to the minute information about what’s going on with a product that affects me a lot? It’s great!

08/10 BlogBridge Beta 3 — We just put up BlogBridge Beta 3. Check it out. It’s got many neat new features, most particularly the BlogBridge Service which I wrote about recently. Here are the key links of interest: BlogBridge Beta Download [BlogBridge Website](http://www....

08/05 Can you change the license of an Open Source product? — This puzzled me. Once we released the BlogBridgesource code under the LGPL, it was out in the open, and published to the world. Had we forfeited the right to change the license? The answer depends on who owns and holds the Copyright to the code. As it is, all th...

08/05 BlogBridge open source license — I’ve done a little research about what the Open Source really means, legally, when it comes to BlogBridge. I wrote about this question a few months ago, and now, having consulted with people who know, here’s an update. First of all, start with the goals. - BlogBridge s...

08/05 Two really cool new applications — Today I was introduced by two totally different people to two really cool little utilities. - Anagram.This application works with Outlook and pulls and structures contact information out of emails. Simply, you select the text with the name, phone numbers, address etc....