It's been a while since I've posted on this blog. Since I feel like it, here are some disorganized thoughts.
As is being widely reported, Rojo got bought by Six Apart. It seems like SA isn't interested in Rojo as a feed aggregation service, but as a platform. My immediate thought is: It's starting... I need to get FeedMuncher out there NOW!.
It's only a matter of time before someone (else) realizes that feed aggregation today is like email circa 1994, and that we all need standards that can be implemented by open platforms. I created FeedMuncher sort of as a proof of concept, to show that you can have a feed aggregation platform that provides a known set of APIs to interoperate with various clients.
I still personally use FeedMuncher on a daily basis (couldn't live without it), but between a full-time job and a full-time side project (more on that soon), I'm hardly finding enough time to sleep, much less work on another project. Maybe some day...
(As a fun side-note, I visited Rojo a little over a year ago and showed Kevin Burton what I had of FeedMuncher. He seemed to like it, although I never really talked to him much about feed aggregation as a platform...)
On a completely unrelated note, the stop motion animation project I worked on at the UofC is now on YouTube.