Sites with RSS news feeds discover that the W3C and major browser manufacturers are seeing eye-to-eye. *snicker*

The W3C and major browser manufacturers are seeing eye-to-eye.

If you were using my portal in the last week and saw a nearly-blank page, it was because Netscape removed the RSS .091 DTD from its website. As a result I'm forced to workaround Microsoft's expectation of an always-available URL in the DOCTYPE declaration by stripping out the declaration entirely from the RSS feeds. Let's review: Microsoft parser short-sightedness and Netscape URL deprecation. Ugh. A nice one-two punch from the browser makers with the largest share.

Google Defies Dotcom Downturn
"It doesn't look like Google got the e-mail that the dotcom boom is over. While other e-businesses are cutting back, Google is increasing its infrastructure as fast as it can, doubling the size of its server farm in the last 10 months, to 8,000 systems. "

Here's a scary new law:
The Supreme Court rules that secret government-gathered evidence is allowable and unchallengable.

James envisions a copycat suit in response to the $5 billion lawsuit brought by families of victims from the Columbine tragedy against video game manufacturers.

I've wanted to use the phrase "all of the various metamedia" in a conversation, but haven't yet had the opportunity. :(