Monday, May 10, 2004

Traffic statistics for your RSS feed. Feedburner lets you track traffic from your RSS feed, and if you are a Blogger user who wants to add an RSS feed to your site, it can convert your Atom feed to RSS. Sure, a lot of us (me included) use a freebie statistics package like SiteMeter. But SiteMeter only shows hits on your blog's webpage, not on your RSS feed. So you might well be getting more readers, but your stats package only knows about it when someone clicks through from their aggregator to read directly on their site. A very cool thing indeed. And out of Chicago! I love to hear of great tech startups in the Midwest, instead of just in The Usual Places. Chicago is a great town. [Learning the Lessons of Nixon] Cool! (And thanks for the full-post RSS!) 8:53:14 PM    comment []

More from Hack the Planet: FreeCache is a system of cooperating caches to move large files of free content closer to users (but you can just call it the poor man's Akamai). Like Coral but unlike BitTorrent or OCN it requires no client software. 8:48:46 PM    comment []

Congressional panel to weigh digital copyright. The harsh penalties for circumventing copyright protection technology could eventually be replaced with a fair-use-friendly "Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act." [CNET News.com] 8:48:42 PM    comment []

Jon Udell article about Mail To The Future, August 1999. I'm working on transitioning this app to the Scripting News servers. It's not part of UserLand's future, so I'm going to run it here. Getting pretty close to flipping the switch. Working on the XML-RPC interface now. [Scripting News] 8:47:58 PM    comment []

From Hack the Planet" Man, the Internet Archive is doing all kinds of cool stuff lately: The Petabox is a machine designed to safely store and process one petabyte of information. (If you have a hard time imagining what to do with 1PB of storage, consider the Google Operating System.) (Brewster Kahle talked about this in his closing keynote at CFP2004 -- v. cool.) 8:47:37 PM    comment []

Sasser Worm Suspect Confesses. German police have arrested an 18-year-old man suspected of creating the Sasser computer worm. Police say he may have produced the Nevsky virus and be connected to the Skynet group of virus-writers. [Wired News] 7:33:56 AM    comment []