Nick Bradbury

Damn. Last year we lost Kurt Vonnegut, and now we've lost George Carlin. Two darkly hilarious guys who despite their cynicism still made us (or, at least, me) laugh out loud at the human condition. I never subscribed to the growing bitterness that Carlin showed as he aged (I agree with Terry Heaton that his best work was earlier in... [read more]

Our support team just received an email from a FeedDemon user which contained a screenshot of an error he was encountering. Clearly visible in the screenshot is a RAR file which contains a crack for FeedDemon. Yep. Not only did he contact us despite using a pirated version, but he also included a screenshot which proves he’s using a crack!... [read more]

Read/Write Web: The Art, Science and Business of Recommendation Engines Mark Pilgrim: Sharecroppers SuckBusters!: No More Confirmation, Pt. 1 Coding Horror: The Power of Defaults Data Mining: The Blogosphere: A Fresh View Web Worker Daily: Web Worker stretches Steve O'Hear: Do ordinary users care about data portability? Scott Hanselman: FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog Dave Winer: RSS wasn't invented... [read more]

RSS - The Newspapers Revenge? Feed publishing best practices Mind the Gap The Dilbert Blog: Nearly Funny Things "Beta" Is Not an Excuse MSN Video - Arrested Development Privacy, the Web and Rich Internet Applications Why Scale Matters in Tagging Systems YouTube: Young (ok, VERY young) rockers playing Iron Maiden (via Dethroner) [read more]

Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy It's a Malformed World Al Jazeera English RSS feed (via Kevin Burton) Brightcove.com goes full-screen The Laws of Simplicity Data Portability 10 Tips for Moving From Programmer to Entrepreneur Google… the OS for Advertising YouTube: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground YouTube: Rush - YYZ YouTube: The Beatles - Revolution [read more]

Two link dumps in a row? That's a sure sign I'm in another coding frenzy :) Kevin Murphy: Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds (via Alex Barnett) Danny Chamberlin: "Those Were the Days" with a Bradsoft.com twist Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up Eric Meyer: W3C Change- Outreach Wired News: Cyber Crime Getting Organized [read more]

Michael H. Goldhaber: Hoorah!! Here’s the first installment of Chapter 3! Danah Boyd: Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama MSDN: XSLT Security MSDN: Enhanced Styles in Internet Explorer 7 Nicholas Carr: Office generations Kim Carmeron: The virtualization of crime Scott Karp: This is What the Social Networking Privacy Backlash Looks Like Read/Write Web: Webified Desktop Apps vs Browser-based Apps... [read more]

Anil Dash: Write Something Meaningful Open XML Translator project (ODF support for Office) Google Account Authentication FrontPage: The King is dead, long live the king Web Users Open the Gates Can Publishers Survive in an RSS Age? Scaling up is good. Scaling *down* is even better. [read more]

Mikkel Heisterberg likes how easy it is to subscribe to comment feeds in FeedDemon 2.0.0.24 The Silver Bullet: Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It The 7 (f)laws of the Semantic Web The Perils of PC Posture Smart Browser, Where Art Thou? Plagiarism and Full Text Feeds Programming Your Hands 10 Features You'll Find Only... [read more]

Dave Winer suggests that Apple and Microsoft build BitTorrent support into their operating systems. Sounds good to me. I've been wanting to add BitTorrent support to FeedDemon and FeedStation for quite some time, and this would certainly make it easier to do so. Jeremy Zawodny nails it about GData. Google objects to IE7's search box. I wonder if they also... [read more]

RSS and Blogs The demise of the geek bloggers OpenSearch RSS 1.0 Specification RSS is automated web surfing Command-Tab: RSS+XML Photoshop Files cuene.com: More on Attention and the Attention Economy Download details: IEDevToolbar HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing XML Feed History: Enabling Incremental Syndication It's A Whole New Web RSS Readers Behaving Badly RSS Security Browse. Search.... [read more]

As you've probably guessed from my lack of blogging lately, I'm in hardcore development mode right now, working to get the next beta of FeedDemon 1.6 out. So here's a slew of interesting links to make up for my code-induced silence: A blog a second- Wait a second AttentionTrust.org Explained Better BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee on the read/write... [read more]

60 Days Atom has a Branding Problem Do we owe it all to the hippies? Gillmor Daily Podshow Google Print Microsoft Product RSS Feed Index Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags Tips for getting good customer support The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds Trade-Friendly Bands Unofficial Google Maps Embedding How To What’s left for RSS to disrupt? Plenty.... [read more]

Adam Bosworth's Web of Data: Is RSS the only API your Website Needs? Atom Version Incompatibility BigRedButton (Shockwave) CSS and Email, Kissing in a Tree CSS Cheat Sheet CSS Organization Tips CSS XML Buttons Del.icio.us bundles Firefox 1.1 Plans Native SVG Support Hiring is Obsolete Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Major League Baseball Empowers Fans to Blog Note to self:... [read more]

How to Start a Startup IETF Last Call on the Atom Format IT Conversations Milestone: 500 Shows Mozilla Gains Canvas Element Support RSS becoming a key driver of traffic for NY Times RSS and The Big 3 Safari 1.3 and feed URIs The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML Vote with your feed Why Google is Syndication Shy... [read more]

Anil Dash: The Blog Cycle BitTorrent 4.0 Released Feedster's Corporate Blogging Policy Podcasters at Gnomedex Size Matters + Slippery Slope = Trouble Ahead The Anti-Entrepreneurial State The Complete Calvin and Hobbes The Sorry State of Affairs in Weblog APIs "Welcome back, Beatallica" Why Attention.xml Could Change PR Forever Zeldman: Userism [read more]

Beauty is in the Eye of the Blog Reader Doodling with the Google logo FlickrGraph Google Maps proves "It's the experience, stupid" Happy Birthday, Delphi Misinformation about the IE7 announcement Non-Blogger Fired For Blogging! RSS Metrics, Podcasting Saving RSS: Why Meta-feeds will triumph over Tags Tabbed Browser DNA The Four Best Web Design Books You May Have Missed [read more]

Atom 0.5 Draft Bloggers Without Borders BlogJet 1.5 Final Release Dump the World Wide Web! Goodbye Trackback, I barely knew thee How do you stand it? Introduction to Browser-Specific CSS Hacks Natural Phenomena Named After Frank Zappa One Click Subscription: The World is Full of Bad Ideas Podcast Logos Tabbed Browsing Turns 7 w.bloggar 4.0 [read more]

6,225 FONT tags- A Conference Bonanza Adam Bosworth's: ISCOC04 Talk Explorer Exposed! Feedster Offers a Way to Search Just Weblogs First Look at Firefox-Based Netscape Having a Blog is Critical for Your Shareware Business How To Build Traffic To Your Blog IndieFeed Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? Joe Gillespie retires MyVirtualBand New Google chapter- library hookups OJR article: Will Satellite,... [read more]

RSS Amazon RSS Feed Generator Google News RSS Generator RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy Syndication Wars: The Elephant and the Tiny Little Mice CSS and WebDev The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks and Hacks (Chapter 1) An Introduction to Client-Side XSLT RuthsarianLayouts The Box Model Problem Other The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel The True Effects of Piracy... [read more]

RSS, Blogs and Podcasting How to Create Your Own Podcasting Show On Windows The "Long Tail" of the Blogosphere New Food for IPods: Audio by Subscription CSS and WebDev WellStyled.com DOM Image Annotation CSS2 Tableless Forms Other Evolution in Action Flaming and the Design of Social Software Time Management vs. Progress To Hell with Web Applications Can we please bury... [read more]