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This is cool, Jon Udell used the W3C’s XSLT transformation service to convert the XML newsfeed from Macromedia to an RSS feed with the help of an XSLT stylesheet In my opinion, Macromedia should make their feeds available as RSS 1.0 and 0.91 or 0.92 – and possibly a number of other formats. Shouldn’t be a big deal to do – and would make the feed more available than it is today. I am especially missing a category definition in the feed, being able to filter the newsfeed to only […]

Macromedia – Designer & Developer : Logged In : Blogs are HUGE Ed Krimer, Vice President of Developer Community writes about the Macromedia weblog experiment : Almost immediately, other bloggers started referring to our blogs in their daily entries. Most bloggers seemed pleasantly surprised that Macromedia was encouraging some of its employees to create and update blogs on a regular basis. When Wired wrote about us, we knew for sure we had done something very different. I don’t think though we’re quite ready for Barbara Walters – yet. [Via Mike

Nice to see Waldo linking back to my blog. He is contemplating moving to Moveable Type, which would make his blog available with RSS. Good luck with the installation Waldo, its a chore to install – but when its up and working its well worth the sweath, tears and hair loss *g*

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

Webmonkey Joshua Allen has made The Weblog Tool Roundup – its a nice article going through the benifits of using weblog tools, and looking at which tool would be good for you, if you are thinking about setting up a weblog.

In addition to Radio that I purchased for its outliner, but that also includes all the workings of a weblog publishing system, and news aggregator, I have found a new piece of software that makes my days keeping updated on what is new on the weblogs I visit a whole lot easier. The programs name is AmphetaDesk, and to quote the makers of AmphetaDesk: AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator – it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy

Dave is probably gonna be happy if he reads this, another convert to the Outliner crew. I was structuring my day today, and found myself structuring the items on my list just like one would with an outliner (like the one in Radio), so this evening I just gave in and spent about $40 US for the program. I have only just gotten started, so I am in no ways an Outliner pro yet, but I am at least on my way. I must admit that for a guy that

Interesting article in Wired: The Blogging Revolution