Yesterday I received my copy of iLife '04. The official reason for the purchase was to get the latest version of iPhoto: with more than 2500 photos stored the older version had become unusable. The true reason was to get GarageBand.

I've been playing only for a few minutes with this new app, and it really looks nice. I'm no musician (I did study piano for a few years and I can more or less hold a guitar), but I guess I'll release here some GarageBand creation: it's simply too cool.

Now... which CC license should I use? :-)

PS: Yes, iPhoto '04 works quite well.

The New York Times has been using RSS successfully for quite a while now, this is why I'm asking. A very interesting and useful feature of the NYTimes site allows you to see all articles relative to a topic. For example, here's the Dean, Howard topic.

Now, wouldn't it be cool to be able to subscribe to the RSS feed for a specific topic? The Times News Tracker is a paid service now. Not only I would probably pay for such a service (something I wouldn't do to get email), but I'm sure companies would happily pay for corporate accounts to be able to add customized topics' feeds to their intranets aggregators.

As the developer of a topic-based RSS aggregator I can see huge advantages from such an approach.

Also: is the list of topics used by the Times public? It would be great to be able to use an ontology defined by the NyTimes. We have a simple OPML-based format for available, but even some other kind of complex and powerful topic mapping format would do: it would probably be a simple byproduct for the Times, but a good base to build new parts of the web.