Blogging Roller

Something odd just happened in my aggregator and I'm not sure how to explain it. I was reading through my Java related subscriptions and I noticed that The Server Side feed had just one entry, an "AD" for a service called Pheedo. It looked like this:

So I went to theserverside.com and checked their newsfeed. It looked just fine and did not contain even one reference to Pheedo. Hmmm. What happened? So, I went back to NetNewsWire and choose "View XML Source" for The Server Side feed. I saw a feed with a The Server Side header and an atom:link element pointing to Pheedo with rel="start". See the screenshot below:

So, what happened here? Just a glitch when The Server Side installed the Pheedo stuff or something more sinister. One thing's for sure, we're gonna need Adblock for feed-readers real soon now.

Simon Phipp's and Jim Grisanzio have organized a <a href= "http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink/20050621#free_beer_at_javaone">JaveOne bloggers meetup at the <a href= "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=661+Howard+Street,+San+Francisco&spn=0.035205,0.059566&hl=en">Thirsty Bear from 6-8pm on Monday June 27th. See you there.

I'm attending JavaOne 2005 next week and speaking on Thursday at noon. The talk is titled Beyond Blogging: Feed Syndication and Publishing With Java™ Technology (<a href= "https://www28.cplan.com/javaone05_93_1/session_details.jsp?isid=270318&ilocation_id=93-1&ilanguage=english">TS-7318) and there are four speakers Alejandro Abdelnur (not attending), Pat Chanezon, Kevin Burton and myself.

I missed the fortnightly Raleigh bloggers meetup last night. We were out celebrating Leo's third birthday, Andi's birthday and the sale of our old house in Charlotte. I'm going to try to make it to the Chapel Hill meetup tonight, but it looks like work might run a little late today.