---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-03-25
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![1984](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024im_/http://static.flickr.com/29/117155606_0caafe9e09_m.jpg)– [‚ÄúWe need microformats‚Ä? – Bill Gates](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/03/we-need-microformats-bill-gates) (Sez Marc: “Tim O‚ÄôReilly told me that he had to clue Bill in on microformats the night before.” — lucky Ryan King wasn’t around, otherwise Bill would’ve [copped an earful](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://theryanking.com/blog/archives/2006/03/22/richard-macmanus-gets-microformats-wrong)…)

– [Google bullish on Atom, Microsoft bullish on RSS?](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/25/google-bullish-on-atom-microsoft-bullish-on-rss/) (Robert Scoble links to [my thread](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=144) about Google’s Atom bullishness. Robert: “our RSS platform is reading in Atom too and we‚Äôll support whatever the community adopts.”)

– [ It’s Giant Webpages in the Sky‚Ñ¢](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2006/03/_its_giant_webp_1.html) (Best. Startup. Name. Ever — it’s a billboard tech company)

– [Ben Barren hearts hListings](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2006/03/hlist-my-ipod-with-video.html) (as do I — Ben: “We’ll be definitely deploying some of this krunk downunder.”)

– [Microsoft Outlines Its Windows Live Developer Strategy](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1940334,00.asp) (“In Microsoft’s world view, developers can build their own ‘Windows Live experiences'”)

– [Web 2.0 Boom](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://www.sprenzy.com/index.php/?p=17) (from one of my fave new blogs, called A Startup Tale – Sprenzy: “Tomorrow is my last day of work for the “man”. Then the real work begins.”)

– [New Tim Berners-Lee interview](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.3337) (security, mobile web and Web Services the three big issues of the Web, according to TBL)

– [Jeremy Zawodny disappointed by Valleywag wit](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/006530.html) (tells Nick Douglas he must do better… hmm, snark baiting is a dangerous business)

[Photo: Dave Winer](https://web.archive.org/web/20100526092024/http://flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/117155606/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_14.php))*