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Go Mobile with Mogul

November 24th, 2007 · No Comments

My mobile phone was getting a little long in the tooth, so I’ve been researching phones for a few months. As tempting as the iPhone is, I didn’t want to switch to AT&T. A couple of weeks ago I took the plunge and bought the HTC Mogul instead.
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Tags: Opinion

Are You Readable? Find Out with Your Feed

November 14th, 2007 · 6 Comments

The literary world - especially academics - has a number of readability metrics that show how “hard” a given work is to read in English. If you are a writer, these metrics can give you a pretty good swag at how easy it will be for people to read your work.
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Tags: 411 · Feeds

Atom Compliance Shows XML Parsing is Still a Mess

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

RSS and Atom guru James Holderness just issued a report on the how well namespaces are being handled by feed readers that understand Atom. The results are dismal:
…Matters haven’t improved much since this issue was first discussed nearly two years ago.
… Of the thirty-odd products I tested, ten 2 were incapable of subscribing to [...]

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Tags: Feeds · News · Opinion