antville will have a seamlessly integrated rss aggregator. soon. tobi has published a small preview at blog.p3k.org. this is going to boost antville, some have no doubt. that's brave and right :) the really nice thing is that the rss aggregator itself (parss) is actually separated from antville (what'll be integrated is just the client). parss features an xmlrpc interface which makes it open for any client software, and it supports both ping and fetching rss feeds on a scheduled basis. more to come soon or christmas is near :))

So where are these imaginary earthshaking geek outlaws who laugh in derision at mere government? Well, they do exist, and they're in Redmond. The big time in modern outlaw geekdom is definitely Microsoft. The Justice Department can round up all the Al Qaeda guys they can wiretap, but when they went to round up Redmond, they went home limping and sobbing, and without a job. That is a geek fait accompli, it's a true geek lock-in. In 2001, Microsoft has got its semi-legal code in every box that matters. They make those brown-shoe IBM monopolists of the 1950s look like model public citizens. (bruce sterling)

also authors like bruce sterling are asking for money to keep his weblog up and running. i assumed at least he is on the safe side. financially.

update: he didn't ask, he says, it was the publisher of the weblog. but nobody gave her money, though.