Wow, Thanks for sharing this Fred (and Irene). - Kevin Fox
A Korean man in Georgia circa 1965: "He pulled over at a rest stop to go to the bathroom. He stopped short of the restroom doorway. There were two entrances, one marked "White" the other "Colored". He stood there for a long minute. Was he white or was he colored? He had to make a decision because he really had to go to the bathroom. So he went into the white bathroom. Without incident." - Clare Dibble
It's amazing to me to think of how long ago this *wasn't*. Hell, my brother was born one year after this took place, and I was born just six years later. The times they are a changin' (he says hopefully). - Joel Webber
I'm honored by all of your sharing and comments. :-) - Fred Chung
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I am that way about people changing (or not supporting) urls indefinitely. I think people iteratively implement technologies. It's easy to throw up an RSS feed, but it takes thought into tuning it to your app. What feeds do you use to access delicious.com, btw? (we can talk offline if you want) Our "default" feed at the moment is RSS 1.0 which I don't think supports GUID, but our RSS2 uses them... and I verified just now that they are unique enough and we don't plan on changing them any time ... ever? - Dave Dash
What's the matter, Gabe? Is something about that phrase not sufficiently perfect? - Bruce Lewis
How unique is unique enough? Seeing as how the whole point of a GUID is to be unique. - Gabe
"Sufficiently perfect" was supposed to be a joke, but I didn't make my humor unmistakable enough. (None of this is meant as a slight on either Gabe or Dave; I'm just in a silly mood tonight.) - Bruce Lewis
I think it's mainly that stream-oriented processing of feeds is so different from normal web development, where the only history that reallly matters is not breaking links (and even then you can change urls if you leave redirects behind). Also, for a while the dominant consumers of feeds were snapshot-oriented (e.g. My Yahoo, igoogle), so there was little incentive to get GUIDs right. It's getting better, though. We're not seeing as many cases of GUID abuse now as we did in the early days of Google Reader. - Ben Darnell
“I'd love to be able to see what posts of mine have been liked, not just a count of how many things have been liked by my top likers. (I know, it's not a word, but I can't think of a better way to express the idea.)”
It'd be great to have this, because then I can see what people like about me and my thoughts, which will help me avoid things that show off the lamer side of me. - Chris Charabaruk
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I can see how many likes my stuff gets... - Mattie Kenny
Mattie, I think Chris means without having to scroll through your whole feed. A link that would display only the posts that received "Likes". Maybe ffholic does this? - Laura Norvig
"Hey John, you know I've covered Plaxo during each step you guys have made over the last couple years. For the purposes of this article, how should I describe the company today? "Contact management" isn't inaccurate, although it doesn't fully capture Pulse and other features you guys offer. Contact lifestreamer? Lifestreaming management? Lemme know and I'll update." - Eric Eldon