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DaveNet: Chris Lydon's weblog for the ears. Today's song: "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."
Slate: Could a Hacker Steal the 2004 Election? RSS Magic for .NET "provides developers an easy way to download, read, write, and manipulate RSS data." Don Park: "I consider XHTML to be the centerfold geeks are masturbating to. I am a geek too and find XHTML to be sexy enough to ogle. But I don't expect it to cook my dinner nor raise my children." Thursday night meeting at Berkman starts in -1 minutes. All day today all everyone wanted to know -- what happened to Halley, what happened to Halley. Well who knows but Hal, but at least the girl is back online. No new comments. The world waits, with baited breath. On this day two years ago O'Reilly Associates lost one of its own to a heart attack. Sad day. Life is precious. Honor it always. Jenny: "I can't print most of the adjectives I'm using in my mind to describe these weasels for fear of blocking my site from library terminals that are being forced to filter content." Dan Gillmor: "Erica Derr, a North Carolina woman, has donated her $400 tax rebate to the Howard Dean presidential campaign." Josh Marshall, one of the BloggerCon presenters, is looking for an intern to help with his weblog. Chris Lydon interviews the Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds. Inc Magazine has a new RSS 2.0 feed. Custom RSS feeds from Adrian Holvaty. John Robb: "While I appreciate what Dean has been able to do with the Web, my gut is telling me that in five years, Karl Rove and the Republican political machine will turn this same collection of technologies into something to be feared." Computerworld: "A Rolling Stones concert today in Toronto will be made possible in part thanks to wireless technologies, according to Todd Griffith, IT specialist for the band." Schpiels like this make Larry Lessig one of my heroes. And it's curious that Stanford made him move his site off campus because a Presidential candidate was a guest. Would they invite a candidate to speak in a Stanford auditorium? Would people understand that there's no endorsement implied or would there be? What if the offer were made on equal terms to all candidates, would that make a difference? On this day three years ago: "A lot of people assume we're rolling in dough, and we're not. That's one of the reasons I like that the music industry is bringing money into the discussion."
DaveNet: Rolling Stone supports RSS 2.0. Today's piece is getting some great newbie questions so I started a FAQ page. Onfocus: "Several people have mentioned that it would be nice to show the newest products in the Amazon RSS feeds rather than the top-selling products. There's a quick hack to make this happen." New version of SharpReader supports the RSS 2.0 author element. Essay: What changed with RSS? WSJ: "Most people want to be up on the latest trends." 6/11/00: "One day the trend may be trend-free." Thanks to Jenny for the link to How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer by Stephen Downes. I linked it into the howtos section in the directory. Adam Curry: "Can you name this rock superstar whose band sold millions of albums in the 70s, 80s and 90s?" Mike Walsh: "I figure Chris and I probably could ask three questions apiece at each event before they throw us out." Python 2.3 is shipping.
Matthew Thomas: How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks. Manila beta feature, see a whole month of posts in the archive, or if you're really brave, a whole year. Newsweek: "Senator Hatch hasn’t yet codified his Dr. Strangelovean no-due-process piracy antidote into upcoming legislation." Paul Stacey: "Its been quite a while since a technology 'blew me away' but last Friday I had one of those Eureka moments while riding the bus from downtown Vancouver to White Rock where I live -- all because of RSS feeds & blogs." EFF: How Not To Get Sued By The RIAA For File-Sharing. Chris Lydon interviews Elaine Scarry. Heads-up, I'm working on the long-delayed unified spec for the MetaWeblog API. It's been documented in layers across several pages on the XML-RPC site. The goal is to have a spec-on-one-page that explains its design, how it works, and links to prior art. Shhh. Don't tell anyone. Today is Doc's birthday. Hmm. "Raised as a Norwegian girl for the first ten years of his life." Clay Shirky: "It doesn't matter if the Wifi backchannel is a bad idea; it's not going away." Nelson Minar: "Gnomedex was great. I enjoyed having WiFi access during the conference despite my discomfort with people paying more attention to computers than people at meetings." BBC: "A week without e-mail is more traumatic than moving house or getting divorced, say techies." Smack in the middle of summer and the heat wave has broken. It's lovely, in the 70s, relatively low humidity, light breeze, finally the weather is a joy in Boston. Joe Firmage: "What we are trying to build here is the PBS of the Web." Last year on this day: "If you've never smoked you have no idea how weird it is."
Two years ago: "If you want a clue Mr. Moose.."
DaveNet: Berkman Hosts RSS 2.0 spec. News.Com: "The [RIAA] said Monday that Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, will replace Rosen at the RIAA's helm." Onfocus: Amazon RSS Feed Builder.
Boston Globe: "While keeping details shrouded in secrecy, organizers of Boston's first flash mob planned to convene near Harvard Square at 6PM next Thursday for the stunt." Thomas Creedon has PNG working in Manila. Excellent Radio fact sheet from Marc Barrot. Last year. Must've missed it. Insightful. Tim Gray has a question about generating RSS 2.0 dynamically with PHP. News.Com: "In a win over rival Google, Overture Services said Monday that Net publisher Knight Ridder Digital will use its search services for one year." Andrew Grumet: "In the middle-late 90s I would sometimes listen to a radio show called The Connection. At the time I remember thinking, this show is too good." Builder.Com: "XML-RPC is a simple, stable, and well-understood specification. It’s not a moving target like so many other Web service specifications. It also has longevity, because the only things that it depends on are technologies such as HTTP and XML, and basic programming constructs such as arrays, structures, and scalars. None of those things is going away any time soon. And since everything related to XML-RPC is freely available and downloadable, you can have a Web service up and running in a single afternoon." Thanks to Dean Peters for the pointer to the Holy Bible RSS feeds. AlwaysOn interviews venture capitalist Vinod Kholsa. NY Times: "A blizzard of recording-industry subpoenas seeking the identities of music swappers is provoking fear and anger and professions of remorse as the targets of the antipiracy dragnet learn that they may soon be sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages." According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Amazon recruiting weblog that read something like an ad, was actually real, and authored by Ted Timmons, who has his own weblog, outside of Amazon.
RSS feeds from the Net.Law weblog: Cornell Law School has two feeds for US Supreme Court decisions, one for recent decisions, and one longer term. The American Bar Assoc has a feed for its Law Practice Today magazine.
We have a sub-directory containing articles and howtos on RSS 2.0. If you're looking for independent opinion, or a tutorial, this is the place to look. As always, you can suggest-a-link to have an article included in this directory. And if you want to include this directory in your directory, you can, with our blessing. It's also available in OPML. BBC: "Lance Armstrong claims his fifth consecutive Tour de France." NY Times: "The number of organ donations from the living surpassed those from the dead, and has for the past two years." Greenspun: "Is it time to accept Bill Gates as my personal savior?"
Gary Burd explains how Amazon's RSS feeds work. Rory Blyth generates Amazon RSS feeds, with a great browser-based user interface, no SDK. NY Times review of Gary Wolf's book about Wired Magazine. Marvin Minsky: "I hate lying on the beach -- it's worse than prison for me."
Crimson: Harvard to House Blog Standards. Charles Cooper: "Instead of opting for a proprietary land grab, a company that was an RSS tools builder freely gave up its guardianship to a nonprofit trust." Thanks! Amazon is offering an RSS interface. Not sure how to find all the feeds. They have an example feed for top-selling DVDs. Jake: "We haven't been able to get Radio to register incoming TrackBack pings from a Movable Type site." The first confirmed presenter for the technology panel at BloggerCon is Susan Mernit. Scott Rosenberg: "The only thing I could reasonably predict, going into this project, was how thoroughly unpredictable the range of bloggers and blogging would be." Roger Benningfield: XML-RPC for Cold Fusion. Deane asks if readers should strip styling from RSS items. RFC: "Shall we run an experiment is to see if aggregators can work with RSS feeds that have a xmlns attribute at the top level, on the rss element?" Frank Paynter interviews the avuncular Uncle Rageboy. BBC: "A US music industry crackdown on internet music 'pirates' has sent subpoenas to allegedly unwitting parents and grandparents, court documents have shown." A possible performance boost for Manila servers. Not for the faint of heart. We had one of the best Thursday meetings ever. Quite a few newbies, so we spent much of the time with demos and Q&A, including text wrapping around pictures, permalinks, the difference between stories and newsitems. Chris Lydon and Bob Doyle explained how Blogradio works; Biz Stone was there from Wellesley, Wendy and I talked about BloggerCon. We talked about a cooperative cross-university site with case studies promoting weblog use in education. Lots of other good stuff. If you're in the Boston area, please come some Thursday. If you're an experienced geek or a total newbie, ages 9 to 90, it's fun for the whole family!
Cringely: Son of Napster. Jim Moore notes that presidential politics is played with chump change. Bush will raise $200 million to control a budget of $1.7 trillion. That's leverage! Deane Barker: "Here's an idea that credit card companies should implement: a RSS feed of your credit purchases." Chris Lydon interviews David Sifry, developer of Technorati. I upgraded the Berkman weblog server, now all the weblogs can have Trackback. I wrote a howto. It'll be interesting to see what kinds of questions come up at tonight's meeting. Trawling for ideas for the technology panel at BloggerCon. BloggerCon has a logo, designed by Bryan Bell, of course. Mike Walsh would like Chris to interview some non-bloggers. Reading Mike's site, I now understand why some people find Scripting News a bit brash even in their face. I could say "Here's why Mike's weblog is a failure" or "How Mike could do better with his weblog." Mike would probably say it the first way. So would l. Why? It sells more papers. If you want people to click, say something provocative. If you want to blend into the crowd, say the same thing politely. NY Times: "Enabling wireless technology in university auditoriums has led to a back channel of communication for students to reveal their thoughts." Ray Ozzie: "WiFi sniffing is easy to do, it is commonly done, and the real question is at what point will someone do real damage by using what they sniff, and when will this be brought to the public's eye by the courts or by Congress?" David Galbraith: "RSS is a winning meme, people outside of the grass roots weblog are starting to talk about and use it and RSS 2.0 passes the good enough test (with a couple of tweaks imho) for applications beyond headline syndication." Essay: What changed with RSS? Last year on this day: "Silent signs of progress."
DaveNet: On Beauty in Women. Happiness is a new RSS application from Wired News. Jake has the second half of Trackback working for Radio, or so he thinks. Please help him test it by pinging this post. Humor: FOAF Splinters Into 10 Competing Efforts. Dan Gillmor: Voting machines need paper trails. Boston Globe: Blogs shake the political discourse. NY Times: "The service seeks to capitalize on the popularity of iTunes, the music service that Apple Computer introduced in April." Greetings from Boston, where there's a summer thunderstorm going on as I write this. Writing without editors Excellent Jeff Jarvis piece about editors. I got the pointer from Scoble, who astutely points out that even in the weblog world we have editors, they just don't pay us as well as the ones in the print world. At the end of the Jarvis piece he says: "And if I'm wrong, you'll tell me. For you are my editor." I used to say things like that, but it's naive, don't give up your power Jeff, they'll grind you to a pulp and leave you for dead. No editors, and that's an absolute, as far as I'm concerned. Look at the comments on the Andrew Grumet post I pointed to last night, if Jarvis is right these are Andrew's editors. One says UserLand was a BigCo, the only one in RSS space. Another poster says that the world is more complicated than Dave says it is, but doesn't explain how. We often wax poetic about how much better it will be when we wrest control from the ink-stained dinosaurs, but when we replace them with people whose main qualification is that they have a laptop and net connection, have we actually accomplished anything?
Chris Lydon interviews Doc Searls. Andrew Grumet: "The newcomers are big enough to hire people whose full time job is to argue with you until you run out of energy to fight. And to hire still more people whose full time job is to make the protocols so complicated that only other BigCo's can afford to support them." Dave Rogers: RSS, Tinderbox and Your Calendar. Is anyone blogging for real with AOL's weblog software? I'd love to see reviews based on usage, not demos. Bob Doyle has video of various sessions at OSCOM, May this year, at Harvard. NY Times: "The deaths of Saddam Hussein's two eldest sons in a battle with American troops in northern Iraq could be an important victory in the campaign to control, and even end, the guerrilla-style insurgency that has almost daily killed or injured allied troops." According to Ptypes, my personality type is mercurial. As were Leonard Bernstein, Jack Nicholson, Liberace, Mickey Rooney, Socrates and Charles Manson. Two years ago: "I feel unloved. I'm going into my cave now." New! -- the invasion of LiveJournal users on Weblogs.Com. Sounds like a new sitcom on Fox. It's only 8AM in Calif, and it just hit a new high water mark, replacing one that's stood since early April. Starring Kiefer Sutherland.
Connectivity is going to be quite limited for the next few days. Expect infrequent updates. Still diggin! I read on Michael Gartenberg's weblog that AOL's weblogs were really nice and simple and slick, so I thought, let's see if I can create one too. So I entered my screen name and password, okay so far, but you have to be an AOL member to create a weblog. There's a trial period of 45 days in which you get 1045 free hours. That's 23 hours per day. But get this, after that it's $23.90 per month. That's pretty hefty considering that all I want to do is run a weblog. For the first year that would be approx $264. I can get a blogspot blog for $0. openDOOR interview with Cameron Marlow, Blogdex guy, MIT alum, on weblogs. News.Com: "Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless are negotiating whether to let each other's Wi-Fi subscribers roam between their two networks." Bob Doyle's Blogradio Studio in its portable case. BBC: A blog for everyone. NY Times: "Amazon.com is negotiating with book publishers to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of thousands of nonfiction books." Joi Ito: Technorati talks FOAF, as does Paolo. More RSS badges from Bryan Bell. Don Park adopts the new standard. Markoff: "Mr. Wozniak described WozNet as a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio signals and global positioning satellite data to keep track of a cluster of inexpensive tags within a one- or two-mile radius of each base station." Three years ago today: "I was searching for a symphony by Charles Ives, and instead I found folk songs by Burl Ives." Four years ago today: "It's as if Steve Jobs read my mind." Trackback in Radio
There was some confusion about Trackback in Radio. There's a common bit between Frontier and Radio, apps.trackback. The part was released for Radio, with no explanation. Not cool. So the next thing on Jake's to-do list is to complete the implementation of Trackback for Radio (it's already released for Manila, here's my test post). Last night he released a test version of the easy half. The other side isn't that hard, but it's more difficult than Manila because Radio is not a publicly accessible Internet app, it runs on the desktop. After that, Jake is going to review how Manila supports RSS (there are some glitches, as reported by Mark Pilgrim) and add a feature that allows per-category feeds (Manila calls them departments). It was good to see Jake. We're going to meet again today to keep the conversation going. Three questions about RSS I spoke with Jon Udell yesterday to recap the last few days of excitement in RSS space. We talked about a lot of things, among them that we'd like to respond to some questions that have come our way. 1. How to interpret relative URLs in RSS feeds. 2. A new namespace that replaces the channel-level elements: webMaster and managingEditor, and item-level author, that allows identifiers other than email addresses.
There are other questions out there, but it seems reasonable to start with these three frequently raised issues.
Connectivity is going to be quite limited for the next few days. Expect infrequent updates. Dig we must! Thanks to Chad Dickerson for the pointer to Forrester's RSS feed. I didn't know it was there. PC World has one as well. Barney Lerten: "As someone who writes local news full-time for the Internet, I have high hopes for news aggregators, blogs and RSS." Betsy Devine: "Julia Child brought French cooking to American TV." Steve Hooker: "A tool to make a Backlog RSS file of all the posts that went to your front page." Radio. Today's movie with the Scobles. Harmless, fun, intelligent ending. The good guys win.
Happiness is a new Bryan Bell graphic.
John Palfrey: "Why is the Berkman Center involved in this matter?" John is Executive Director of Berkman. UserLand: Trackback for Manila. Released. Register: "The [RIAA] confirmed that it was serving subpoenas at the rate of 75 a day." An open letter to Dan Gillmor. "I appreciate that Dan, who is not a technical person, feels entitled to an opinion about RSS." Do you know of RSS 2.0-compatible modules? Happiness is a new Chris Lydon interview; this time with North Carolina weblog opinioneer, Ed Cone. I checked in with Chris yesterday. He asked me for a one-word headline for all the news about RSS. I gave it a moment's thought and said: Hope. Comments on RSS 2.0: David Galbraith, Dave Sifry, Don Park, Luke Hutteman, Halley Suitt. Tonight's dinner with Scoble: Premier Pizza. 7PM. Scoble's directions from 101. Exit Montague Expressway. Left on Agnew. Right into Safeway parking lot. Look around for Premier Pizza. Scott Johnson: "Feedster now understands CC syntax." Greenspun: "Are you sure that you want to overwrite all the most critical files on this machine?" ComputerWorld: "Users this week reacted with a mixture of concern and resignation to the discovery of a critical flaw in almost all versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software, including the Windows Server 2003 operating system." Chris Pirillo: "Expect to hear a lot about RSS at Gnomedex." Shrook lets you "keep up to date with your favourite websites via a fast growing web technology called RSS." Radio Keola: "I lack the technical acumen to comment on the merits and shortcomings of RSS and Echo/Atom." Major disconnect. Keola, insist on having it make sense to you. Chris Heilman: "I worry that Echo may already be owned by some big company." 400 days no smoking Dave Last year on this day: "Whether I go back to work in the same way I did before, or choose to chart a new course, remains to be seen." I did both. How about that. BTW, as the title says, today is the 400th consecutive day of Dave the smoker who doesn't smoke. Sometimes the days aren't any easier. Being in Silicon Valley is tough, because I keep running into places and situations where I smoked in my former life. Moving to Boston was a good idea from that standpoint. All new places, not as many triggers. On the other hand my lungs are very sensitive to smoke. Even though I still have cravings, I doubt if I could smoke without collapsing in a coughing fit. Good protection.
Jon Udell and Brent Simmons comment on today's news. There was some confusing language in the announcement that I'd like to try to clear up. When we said we are independent, we meant independent of Berkman. You and a couple of your friends could start an advisory board and have no more or less authority than the one we started. Second, we wish to advise people who use RSS. We are not, in any way, advising Berkman, Harvard Law School or Harvard University. Dan Gillmor: "RSS is absolutely vital. It must be flexible enough for the aggregator creators to adopt in their own innovative ways. It must be kept out of the hands of corporate monopolists and would-be monopolists." Pat Rock: "I just can't tell you how cool this is." Tristan Louis: Extending the Olive Branch. Chuq von Rospach: "My support and $3 will buy you a Frap at Starbucks." Morbus Iff: "Bravisimo." RSS 2.0 News There's lots of movement with RSS to announce today.
2. The spec is licensed under terms that allow it to be customized, excerpted and republished, using the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license. So Berkman is basically acting as a distributor for the technology. We hope that this will inspire new profiles that extend RSS so it can meet the needs of diverse applications. 3. Since UserLand specifically disclaimed ownership of the format that the specification describes, no transfer took place on the format itself. 4. An independent advisory board has been formed to promote the wider use of RSS, to maintain the spec according to the roadmap, and to remove one of the major objections, that only UserLand could answer questions about RSS. The three-member board votes, the majority rules. The three board members are Brent Simmons, Jon Udell and Dave Winer. 5. The first task for the advisory board is to carefully review the RSS 2.0 specification in its new context. Quite a few documents moved, there probably are broken links. Help from the community is requested. 6. A place for comments, questions and suggestions. Other news Saturday night pizza with Scoble in Silicon Valley. News.Com: "Yahoo's acquisition of Overture Services could give it some potent legal ammunition in its battle with Google in the lucrative Web search market." Yesterday we posted a Legal FAQ for our weblog hosting site. Comment here. A Murphy Morning Good morning Scripting News people.
Postscript: Magically the server is back. Must have been a routing problem. Onward! We make mistakes here On Don Park's site someone calls me an emperor with no clothes. There's a disconnect that I would like to correct. I am not an emperor, I am a person. You will see mistakes here because I am human. This is not a major discovery. I see them too. BTW, if you think you don't make mistakes, you do; you're making one right there. Hey people like that
Thirty-one years. Then I needed heart surgery to stay alive. That's when I quit. You want give me shit for being stupid, why dick around with the small stuff -- go for the gusto.
RSS feed generated by AOL's weblog software. For comparison, here's a Microsoft feed. They look just about the same. AOL has guids (that's good) but they're both easy to parse, human-readable RSS. This is one area where the two online giants are compatible. Good news. Neel Ishwar Murarka: Blogger RSS Template. Ray Ozzie: "People are discovering why compartmentalized security such as that implemented by Groove is so important moving forward." Change in terms of use for weblogs hosted at Harvard Law. Jon Udell: "They didn't get that the wire could also stretch across continents and oceans!" Jim Moore: "The best networks win." Last year on this day I wrote: "Say and do the honorable things while life is here." Worth a read, hard to excerpt. To Yoav, most of my edits are trivial changes, or things that I wrote that were too personal or could be misinterpreted. About girlism, from a guy At the end of the day yesterday, I wrote this ode to beauty in women. It didn't get a lot of reads, probably because it was the end of the day. I did get an email from Halley. Of course she liked it. Summary: If you're a woman who likes to dress up and go out, god bless, keep on trucking, love that style, and don't worry about idealized and objectified measures of beauty, that isn't beauty; the things that make you who you are, the differences, the imperfections, and what you do with them, are what make you hot. Grouchy about timezones Time zones are so weird. I used to live here in California. Back then everything was okay. Then I moved to Massachusetts, three time zones east. But all my websites (except Scripting) are still in Pacific time. No problem, just shift up by three hours. But now I'm back in California. Stayed too long, now I'm on West Coast time, but my time zone calculator hasn't caught up. I'm still adding three hours. Oy. By the time that little thing resets, I'll be back in Cambridge, waiting to adjust again at three more levels. If only the world could get it through it's thick skull that it revolves around me, and adjust accordingly, automatically.
Happy Birthday to Dylan Brandt Jacobs. He's 0 today. Mom and son are healthy. Chris Lydon interviews David Weinberger. "My bubble never popped." Bob Doyle's Portable Web Studio for Blogradio Productions. Matt Haughey's new PVR weblog. Good idea! You want Trackback? You got it. News.Com: "The Massachusetts attorney general's office said Wednesday that tougher penalties are necessary to prevent Microsoft from engaging in anticompetitive behavior." Blog Change Bot is a "blog monitoring service which updates you via AOL Instant Messanger when a blog you are interested is updated." Zawodny: "What makes Dave think that Yahoo and Google's technology doesn't already 'understand' RSS, I wonder?" Steven Johnson: "We're wrong to think of Google as a pure reference source. It's closer to a collectively authored op-ed page -- filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion -- than an encyclopedia." I wrote this little story for women who are getting older, ones with little imperfections, the little things that make them beautiful, different, special, worth loving, worth caring for and about. Cartoons. Advertising. OS X. Raumpatrouille. I am going to stay in California through the weekend, so this Thursday's meeting at Berkman is cancelled. We'll pick it up again next week, for sure.
Keith Teare took my pic with his cellphone and automatically blogged it. Hey so what if I was making a stupid face. It's cool technology! Yeah. GovExec.Com: "The Homeland Security Department has chosen Microsoft Corp as its preferred supplier of desktop computer and server software." Julie is an American cook with a weblog. News.Com: Hot spots elude RIAA dragnet. BBC: UK beach gets wireless web. "The service, called PiertoPier, is being offered free to anyone who has the right gear and relies on volunteers and donations to keep it alive." Jake Savin is testing a release of Trackback for Manila. I should have a demo of it for y'all to try out later today. This is the stuff we were working on in April, finally in the pipe for release. The world's first installed parking meter was in Oklahoma City, on July 16, 1935. Last year on this day: "Someone says that weblogs aren't journalism. OK, suppose a journalist has a weblog. When that journalist writes something on the weblog, therefore, it must not be journalism." Three years ago: "Look at this picture, Gates answering a reporter's question, Maritz and Muglia with their heads down as if they go through this experience every day and know that it isn't working." It was part of a game called a TranceFest. Don't read Mike Donellan's entry with a full mouth of coffee, as I did. Chicken is a Scheme to C compiler. It now supports XML-RPC. It's the 79th implementation.
Feedster now can index your entire weblog if you have an RSS archive of it. I have one for much of 2002, and all of 2003.
MozillaZine: "AOL has cut or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and are dismantling what was left of Netscape." Peter Rukavina once pulled the brake on the subway, figuratively. AlwaysOn Network has a nice 0.91 feed. Subscribed. Thanks for all the emails to Mark Pilgrim. Update: It looks like the app that watched me is gone. Thanks to everyone who helped. And thanks to Mark himself. Scott Johnson: A Suggestion for Aggregators. Glenn Fleishman writes about hating. BTW, to Glenn, I am ready to give up. For me the technical challenge at UserLand is over. It's time for a new generation to take charge there. I'm available for guidance and advice, but the engineering has to be done by younger more robust bodies. My work now is on applying the technology, that's my work at Berkman, Harvard Law School and Harvard in general. We're also getting ready to do some work with MIT. I feel quite differently about RSS. It needs to stay constant so the world can rebuild around it. That process is already well underway. It's a remarkably important technology. Last week at the XML Devcon, I couldn't believe how much the Microsoft-centered developer community was talking about RSS. We're going to do something bold and liberating for RSS, and I'll be very much involved in its future. Stay tuned. You can tell that Scoble hasn't yet been to a meeting with Bill Gates. Gates is just like the director in his CNN story. Scoble works at a company that places a very high value on direct communication. This also happens to be one of my core values. I don't like bullshit. If someone says "I know this" and I think they just believe it, I ask for proof. More than once I've gotten the proof. I know I'm fallible. So are you. Now that we know that can we get over it? Maybe. Scoble also suggests we have another dinner this weekend here in the Valley. Interesting idea. I'd do it, for sure. I'd also like to see if we can get a small conference room somewhere with a projection screen and net connection and we'll do a Thursday-like meeting. Does anyone at Stanford read this? Last year on this day: "One of my correspondents, a Scottish professor, had a bypass in late May, he's about three weeks ahead of me." Later today, the story about weblogs in politics might appear on The World, a co-production of the BBC and WGBH-Boston. I was interviewed for the story. If you like that kind of stuff, please listen to the interview Chris Lydon and I did last week. Ryan Irelan has a transcript.
Halley: "Let's call this movie Exhibit A of Girlism." Hey it looks like I might be staying in the Bay Area through the 21st. That's a lot of dinners. Steve Gillmor has somethng to say, as always. I keep a file of sensitive stuff that I've deleted from Scripting News, stuff I found too personal, more vulnerability than I wanted. It helped to do the writing, but once I saw it in public, I got scared, and took it down. Now that people have set up a system to record everything on Scripting that I post within five minute intervals, I don't think I'll be writing any more of that stuff here. I guess it's time for weblogs to become like television. Polished and politically correct. Impersonal. Commercial. That's what they're really saying. When there's no room to change your mind, there's no way to take a chance. That's about it. They found a way to stop me from taking chances. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
