Tim is on a roll today.  His "MakeMoneyFast" post (actually the title is "$$$$!"), he writes about his experiment with Google's new AdSense program.  He made almost $16 in two days.  Cool.  AdSense reveals what Google is thinking with its Blogger.com acquisition.

Only problem is that popularity of RSS feed usage is on the upswing and will eventually lead to majority of blog news being consumed via news aggregators.  This means Google will have to get into the news aggregator business (?) eventually.  Sure, they can do this with from the server side, but to cover all the bases, Google will need a client-side aggregator as well.

Recently, I have been getting spams with subject lines containing words I have used in my blog posts.  These spams arrive within hours of a blog posting.  If this is being done by a spambot, it seems to be using words I used to retrieve or build a short sentence.  For example, within an hour of posting "Just for Fun", I received a spam with "What are you doing for fun?" as subject.

I think bloggers open a window of security vulnerability each time a blog entry is posted.  Blogs provide hackers with enough information about the people, relationship, and context of each interactions between bloggers to attempt break-in via social engineering.  For example, if I wrote about something Marc Canter has written and then receive an e-mail with attachment from 'Marc Canter', I am more likely to open the attachment than an e-mail from "Mary Joe Slapfinger" out of the blue.

I made this using the Button Maker just for fun.  Cool tool.

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No matter which side of the fence you are on the funky issue, you will enjoy Tim Bray's I like Pie post.  It is another Tim Bray classic that leave you chuckling and nodding.  Like me, he likes Sam Ruby's effort to define a new syndication format from scratch.  Here is the bit I enjoyed the most.

"I regularly get pissed-off at Dave but I really truly do think he’s trying to Do The Right Thing; but there are many people out there who can't get past being pissed off. This is what life is like."

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Sam Ruby has kicked off an effort to create new syndication and archiving formats from scratch.  I think this is a good thing and a proper outlet for the funk.  Checkout the Roadmap at Sam's Wiki.

This is an attempt to remove the ongoing confusion over the funkyness I have accused MT and Six Apart of perpetuating.  I hope these examples will dispell any FUD hanging over us.

NOT-FUNKY RSS FEEDS:

       

FUNKY RSS FEEDS:

       

As you can see in these examples, funky RSS feeds replace common RSS tags with RSS 1.0 extensions.

Destruction is not extension nor innovation!

MT's default template generates these sort of funky RSS feeds.  If they didn't realize the problem before, they should have fixed it by now.  All they have done so far are public silences.

After watching Dave Winer and others struggle politely, I have used nastyness as a cutting edge to rip through the FUD and harmful silences.  Some might say my post was irresponsible, but I believe it served a purpose.  This problem can easily be fixed by Six Apart so I am still hopimg for peace breaking out soon.