All this news about Bill’s movements along with other stuff recently has reminded me very much of the first email I ever sent.
I was the only person I knew who had ever even heard of the internet. I had no one else to try sending one to. I very much doubt it was ever read – but it didn’t bounce. And back then, well before inbox-overwhelming spam, you’d have known if it did
Here it is/was: [Circa 1992 : Bristol UK]
To Bill Gates:
Greeetings from the UK.
[... a short sentence about myself...]
Twenty years ago people would have laughed if you told them that it will be possible to earn a living sat at a desk in front of a screen, tapping away at plastic buttons, moving a device called a mouse around on a soft pad.
IN TWENTY YEARS TIME YOU WILL BE ABLE TO EARN A LIVING SAT AT HOME, WEARING SPECIAL GLASSES AND GLOVES, CLICKING YOUR FINGERS WHILE WAVING YOUR ARMS AROUND IN THE AIR.
MICROSOFT SPACE. MICROSOFT ROOMS.
Close the Windows, the room’s getting cold.
Now who’s laughing?
Thank you for your time.
Jon Kossmann
Createc.
Anderson & Lembke High-Technology Business-to-Business Advertising
And in honour of that, here's the first time I spoke to him. Dave Winer, while in Florida on a beach gave me his cellphone number, so I called it via Skype from London then hooked the three of us up for a goofy chat which we uploaded for a podcast Those were the days ))
UPDATE: fixed the mp3 link – was going to the old box
I was asking Chris Pirillo today if there was an OPML list of the attendees and their RSS feed for this year’s impending geekfest in Seattle, Gnomedex6.0. He pointed me to a few feeds created by a service at Blogrolling.com
One of these feeds was RSS 0.92 and seems to be used to supply the website link and rss feed url, using the description for the RSS.
So, I knocked up a quick PHP script which takes that RSS 0.92 feed and converts it, in the best way I can figure out, to OPML.
And hey, I’m even giving you the PHP source code I actually used to do it. VIEW THE SOURCE, LUKE!
Don’t say I never give you anything
UPDATE: Heh. I just saw a hit on the file from a familiar IP address and the ‘User Agent’ – Frontier/9.0.1 (WinNT) – that can only be one person I know
No prizes for guessing where this OPML is about to show up ? Ahh – there it is!
Put up an ad for Gnomedex next to ‘The RSS Platform’ in SL with a flickr viewer, called ‘flissl’. Just after, I bumped into Chris in SL who still had a bottle attached to his head
I added the feed submission form last night on the podcast.com home page. Soon this will be folder specific – so people can submit feeds for any branch/folder level. Feeds that get added will be checked by our system first, then eventually added to an appropriate folder. Soon, users will be the ones who'll be able to do this too, thus 'curating' their own podcast directories.
This is the personal blog of the 'createc' known as Kosso. Most of the thoughts here are his and not those of his employer.
However, being the founder of his own company means he can say what the hell he likes.
All this news about Bill’s movements along with other stuff recently has reminded me very much of the first email I ever sent.
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