Dangerous Thinking

I’ll post all of this, as it says all you need to know!

Create custom experimental XML feeds

Radio’s RSS writer is now user-extensible. The RSS writer in Radio is now officially user-extensible. “Before generating the RSS, we check user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile,” Dave writes today. Excellent. This will open the floodgates for all sorts of useful metadata experimentation. We’ll see Radio UserLand sites emitting RSS 1.0, and others extending RSS .9x. It’s not the format that matters to me, it’s the experimentation. … [Jon's Radio] 

This is brilliant news.  Ordinary Radio users like me can now experiment with tagging topical categories of posts related to “official” court filings (such as opinions), court rules, and FAQs.   Enabling an end user to sort, filter or interpret by topical content.

One Small Example:  A lawyer in New Orleans, is watching the progress of asbestos mass litigation in the courts of Louisiana, becomes aware that very similar issues involving medical monitoring and asbestos mass litigation are pending before the West Virginia Supreme Court.  If the WV court has an XML feed for recent opinions (which we do), the lawyer in New Orleans could subscribe to that feed and watch for orders and opinions regarding asbestos mass litigation.  Understandably, however, the lawyer in New Orleans may not want to read all of the posts about another jurisdiction’s opinions – only those concerning limited issues.  With this new feature, the lawyer in New Orleans can target the request, saving bandwidth and precious screen time.  [Rory Perry's Radio Weblog]

I’m glad that Rory was able to translate Jon’s post for me.  I figured it was a “good thing” but I didn’t know why.  WOW!!!!  I’m all for this.  Where do I sign?

[Ernie the Attorney]

This is seriously cool.

Now, how is it going to help me focus my news aggregator?

Wired Magazine: Blogging Goes Corporate. via  [Scripting News]

So when is “blogging” going to be a feature article in Newsweek or Time?  Hell, I’m thinking it’s possible that before the summer is over it will be a cover story. 

[Ernie the Attorney]

Or struggling software company grabs an opportunity? If blogging is truly disruptive, most corporates will fail to assimilate it.

Mauritius to invest in ‘cyber cities’. Mauritius is looking to the information technology sector to help boost its economy which has seen growth slow over the past five years. [BBC News: business]

I hear the weather is better than here in Worthing…