Steve Hooker: shropBlogs

BT: Superfast broadband to trickle out in U.K

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:45:51 GMT

Initially, just 2,000 lines in London and Strathclyde, and these will be limited to employees only. The rest of the UK, and only those close enough to an exchange, will have to wait till the 2nd half of 2005, which means probably Christmas.

I'm on Telewest, 4Mb. They could up that to 8Mb in a blink of an eye, and will surely top BT for marketing reasons. So, that'll be good. Also, good that broadband is becoming so ubiquitous.

PubSub's Boolean Syntax Help

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:28:43 GMT

Here's the last part, you can search attributes like, URI, title, body, channel for newsgroups, source for domains. Most excellent. Most powerful.
" 4. Exclusion

(VB or "visual basic") & !GROUP:microsoft

This subscription will return messages which contain the terms "VB" or "visual basic"; however, the subscription will not return messages originiating from any newsgroup (or weblog) that contains the term "microsoft" in the group name or weblog title.

This subscription might be used to retrieve newsgroup postings about VB that do not originate from one of the many microsoft.XXX newsgroups. "

PubSub, you are a diamond, not only do you provide super cool ways to search RSS, news releases, weblogs, newsgroups (the old usenet), you give us an API to get them ourselves.

Now you can build the newspaper of your choice. If, that is, you use an aggregator. For my bloggers: I'm just going off to fix up some nice searches.

Tee shirts

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:07:42 GMT