Jim Barksdale refuses most interviews these days. He's no longer serving as, say, CIO of FedEx or CEO of Netscape and has little use for hacks. Still - via a bit of string pulling - we were able to secure the business and technology legend on Semi Coherent Computing. Many of you will remember Barksdale as the star of the …

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Wednesday 19th December 2007 20:17 GMT Alan Pearson

STOP PUTTING ATTACHMENTS ON RSS FEEDS

Please, please for the love of technology, STOP putting attachments on RSS feeds.

It's designed to be a really quick way to grab headlines, not be forced to download your attachment crap.

STOP IT. STOP IT NOW.

Put a link in instead.

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Wednesday 19th December 2007 23:09 GMT Ashlee Vance

Re: STOP PUTTING ATTACHMENTS ON RSS FEEDS

We're taking ARSE to the next level, man.

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Thursday 20th December 2007 11:47 GMT Anonymous Coward

Re: STOP PUTTING ATTACHMENTS ON RSS FEEDS

Doesn't that make this a podcast (of a pretty nasty type - one that downloads ALL the MP3s?!?)

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Thursday 20th December 2007 16:31 GMT DirkGently

Transcript?

Or at least excerpts?? What a waste of space on the Internet!

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Monday 24th December 2007 19:23 GMT Nathan Cable

Thanks!

I just wanted to drop a line (and probably risk being flamed by the looks of it) saying that I really enjoyed that interview. The Netscape saga was wrapping up just as I started to get involved in the tech sector. It was illuminating, to say the least, to hear Barksdale's perspective.

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