Boy am I ever looking forward to Blogger adding RSS output. According to their web pages RSS generation is going to be added soon. Why is it such a big deal for me? Well, to be able to cover as much info as possible, I like to have it in one place, or to be more exact - I like to read RSS feeds through Amphetadesk. It is a small program that fetches RSS feeds from sites I want to keep updated on, and displays the latest stories from them in one single web page. It really saves me a lot of time. But these days a lot of the people I want to keep updated with, like Branden Hall, John Dowdell and lots of others are using Blogger and not making available any RSS feeds.

So my hope is that Blogger soon will be making RSS feed generation available for all their users. To me it seems like a pretty basic function that should be available to all weblog'ers.

The battle in the courts move on, and this time Macromedia scores.

Yahoo - Macromedia Wins Patent Counterclaims Trial Against Adobe

Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR - News) today announced that a jury ruled in its favor in a counterclaims suit against Adobe Systems. The verdict included a damage award of $4.9 million. Macromedia intends to ask the court to issue an injunction to stop Adobe's infringement, and also intends to appeal the verdict in the initial Adobe case.

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"The score is now Adobe one, Macromedia one, customers zero," said Rob Burgess, chairman and CEO, Macromedia. "Macromedia is absolutely committed to defending the right to innovate."

I would have to agree with Rob, the customers does not benifit from Adobe and Macromedia waisting time and money in the courts over patent claims.