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I’m a recent convert and daily reader of Technology Evangelist. Now, going by recent posts you may think that odd given some of my responses — but I respect the viewpoints expressed and the through that goes behind many of the posts.

However, I do not always agree with the summations made — the recent thoughts on prioritized bandwidth entry is a case in point.

As is always the way — a few misconceptions made at the emergence of the “network neutrality” argument have now become so ingrained they’re actually warping what is really at stake. Lets take a moment to run through the crux of Tim Karr’s thoughts and how they stack up against the existing inkernet we all know and share a love/hate relationship with. There are a number of points Tim makes, but I’m going to focus on the two biggest misnomers of the increasingly confused stance that is “network neutrality“.

Is it me, or is it a bad year to be into pigeons, either as an owner or enthusiast? Europe and Britain are not alone as bad year to be into pigeons, either as an owner or enthusiast? Europe and Britain are not alone as the only places to experience this seemingly world-wide situation of almost epidemic proportions.

It seems my recent post on proxy Technorati pinging has received a response. It does appear however, that my primary thought behind the initial response has been misread, or not clearly defined. Writing isn’t my strongest trait, a little ironic for a blogger perhaps, however my desire was to point out some simple flaws in the idea.

Ed Kholer over at Technology Evangelist writes:

“It doesn’t take long to figure out that a blog’s ranking is directly tied to the number of links and unique sites that link back to the blog… Knowing that, what can be done to make your site rank higher? The most obvious strategy is to create interesting content on your site that’s worth linking to. Great. But what should you do when Technorati doesn’t register the hard earned links you’ve earned?”

A great little article on helping Technorati to help itself (and others, by proxy). Ed goes on to suggest “pinging” technorati on behalf of a linkee to your blog is a good idea. There are, however, a couple of points I would like to make on this, particularly as I believe it’s a flawed idea. Why? Read on..

Yet another meme is doing the rounds, this time I’ve been tagged by Phu.

I’m not a massive fan of memes, as a general rule it has to be said..

However, they do often begin to experience the “chinese whisper” syndrome and can change subtly from one blog to the next, that in itself, can be a fascinating thing to observe, as each ‘internet meme’ recipient stamps their take on the meme. Indeed occasionally so much so, that the meme evolves into something completely different and the cycle begins again.

There-in lies the conundrum — once one has completed a ‘meme’ and dilligently passed it on, the very same meme eveolves into something else and gets passed to you once again.

Thus, here then, are my 4 things in no particular order..

Let the Vista pimping commence:

“Manuel Clement and Robert Scoble have collaborated together to form 15 reasons why users should upgrade to Windows Vista“. — via.

But wait.. there’s more.

Podz reminds us that licensing hyper-links is somewhat stupid.

I have a little project on the go, drawn mostly from curiosity and partly from necessity.

..is now sports a lightweight RSS reader, powered by lylina.

Due to various policies where I work combined with an over-zealous firewall configuration, I find myself looking for a good online RSS reader that doesn’t require masses of bandwidth to access. Enter stage left, lylina. It’s primarily based on lilina, but sports multi-user and a mySQL powered back-end.

One of the things that always interests me, is what other people are into and (more importantly) what they read. Thus, I’d like to extend an open invitation to anyone who would like to have access to a simple, reliable, web based rss feed reader, that is shared with others and publicly (within a logged in context) lists all the feeds being managed by lylina.

Welcome to the incoherently.net rss news-reader service.
You are welcome to use the imbedded version below* or
directly open the reader.

*..requires a browser that supports IFRAMES. Can I play too?

Want to play too?
Not a problem - fill in the form below specifying a prefered username (and if possible a second choice) and I’ll hook […]

That’s it! Wordpress 2.0 has fucked me off for the last time. I’m facing having to move the entire blog into a sub-directory on incoherently.net due to the insanely aggresive mod_rewrite rules.

After plugining along for 19 months with an aging 3G nec 616, I’ve finally upgraded to a nokia n70 (pictured above). It’s a damn fine phone that has many good reviews, hell it’s even Om approved — it doesn’t get any better than that.

The single most annoying quirk however, is that 3 Australia decided it would be awefully good of them to disable the “Active Standby” feature that places frequently used apps, upcoming meetings, tasks and alarms on the main display.