Brian Jepson’s Weblog

The
Scobleizer: “OK, it’s official now. RSS is a big deal. Sun
Microsystems just opened up a developer-focused RSS feed, says Nauman
Leghari.”

Scripting
News: “Another cool thing about driving to NY is when you get close
enough to see big green Interstate highway signs that say New York City.
For some reason I giggle when I see one.”

The
Scobleizer: “TechED Weblogs have already started up.”

Sam Gentile was
selected as one of the new INETA
speakers; congratulations!

Tom Hoffman: OSCOM Day
1

Glenn pointed yesterday to an open memo from Jeffrey
K. Belk, senior vice president of marketing at Qualcomm, on CDMA vs. Wi-Fi
on the road. Belk definitely had some interesting points, but as Glenn
says, “while his
fundamentals are almost always correct, he has set up some strawmen, and
has misstated the state of the Wi-Fi hot spot industry.”

I had a chance to try out Sprint’s CDMA2000 PCS Vision network myself for
the past month, and I was pleased with the speed; it’s faster than my T68i
phone, and both major CDMA carriers (Sprint
and Verizon)
offer an attractively-priced all-you-can-eat plan for around $80 a month.
Still, even if I had a plan like that, I’d use Wi-Fi hotspots occasionally
when I need the extra speed boost. Glenn nails it a lot in his rebuttal, but
particularly here: “If I can get 80 Kbps for $80 per month everywhere, but
find myself within short walks (or on top of) 1 Mbps for $50 per month in
certain places, the right answer might be a subscription to both services.
They’re not exclusive.”

Nicholas
Riley has a suggestion for using xterm instead of Terminal for speedier
antialiased fonts.

Sounds like Sam will be
first in line for the new Zeppelin DVD and CD.

Although Rhode Island is greyed out on the current list of T-Mobile
hotspots, the Cranston
and Providence
Borders appear to have T-Mobile hotspots.

Tim
Bray: “how many subscribers do you have?”