Your blog is boring and other links

* RSS, Blogs on a Roll, But How Extensive is Their Use? and a response.
* Swebok All you need to know about Software Engineering.
* Best Software Essays of 2004 via Danny.
* ISCOC04 Talk on how RSS 1.0 failed, with lots of other comments that seem to support a RESTful like system like RDF. With followups Fielding Bosworth and Quick Reactions.
* The Many Faces of J2EE, v5.0 Another annotations for J2EE 1.5 piece as well as Google and JBoss join SE/EE Java Council.
* Domain Speific Language and Domain Specific Modelling. Is UML really the best tool for the job?. The end of UML?

Universal Inbox

Tom recently pointed me to Spaces which is calling itself a Java based Outlook replacement. Not only does it do email, calendaring, tasks and notes but it has a built in RSS aggregator. The news items appear in your space/Inbox. This is similar to News2Mail but there doesn't appear to be a conversion. I've downloaded and played with it and it's very cool (cool meaning fast, seemingly stable, works with my mail settings, easily configurable, etc.) but not quite good enough for me to switch to using it. A recent blog by the author of Spaces mentions that "...in the future meta-structured storage integrated within applications will become the norm, rather than the exception".