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If you ever commented on a post at my old blog, I now moved the post to be a part of my new blog and its entries. The submit dates are off, but the main goal is to participate in a conversation. If you would rather have the comment removed just let me know….

AtomEnabled is the new site for everything about Atom. There is a special area for developers with detailed information. Last night Blogger announced support for Atom. I have an Atom feed. I tweaked my RSS feed a few times, and now that Atom information is more easily obtainable I might start tweaking Atom a bit as well. After tweaking my feed makes its way through the FeedValidator to make sure everything is well formatted. My Atom feed gets less hits (6% of aggregator traffic) than my unpublished (Meta reference only) RSS 1.0 feed. (11%) RSS 2.0 accounts for 83% of…

Presidential Market 2004 is a simulated futures market allowing you to buy and sell shares of the major 2004 presidential candidates. The highest valued portfolio on election day wins a trip to the inauguration in Washington, D.C….

Apple now has its music store offerings available as a customizable RSS feed. Interested in the top rock songs? How about rock, alternative, and pop?…

President Bush has just concluded his 2004 State of the Union address. The White House published the transcript online….

MusicPlasma is a search engine to help you visualize your musical taste. Enter a band’s name and you will see that band’s near neighbor relation. The “more the artist is famous or representative of a specific style of music the more the halo (circle) around the artist will be large.” For some reason Norah Jones eclipses Bob Dylan. Overall a very cool tool. Flash required….

Technorati is now faster than ever before! Try out the new beta. Nice work Dave and Kevin!…

Yahoo! established Yahoo! Research Labs yesterday. They have an implementation of Nutch and hot searches of the day. Some good research papers on clustering as well. I would like to see a university partnership, similar to what Google has going on with Stanford….

NY Times covers the move to create software to block pop-up advertisements on the Web. Microsoft claims that Windows XP Service Pack 2 will not block pop-ups unless users enable the feature. DoubleClick is developing technology that will work around Microsoft and other software vendors’ attempted blocks. “In December 2001, 1.4 percent of the Web ads measured by Nielsen/NetRatings were pop-ups or pop-under ads, which appear behind the main browser window. That rose to 8.7 percent in July 2003. But it has declined since, to 6.2 percent in December.” Microsoft already has anti-spam technology in client software such as Outlook…

Bill Gates has built a privacy buffer around his Medina estate according to an article by Warren Cornwall in The Seattle Times. The city will not let gates use the properties solely to house his cars, but some Microsoft employees occupy the houses to keep the codes alive. He now has a corridor to the main road, which makes sense to me….