Sunday, November 16, 2003

BlogTalk 2.0 will be held in Vienna, Austria, July 5-6. 

Tomalak's Realm is five years old today. Thanks Lawrence! 

Everyone's testing their sites on SurfControl today. Scripting is considered "Computing & Internet."  

Today's song: "Gonna put up my antennae." 

Mitch Kapor's weblog goes on hiatus. 

New graphic. This picture was taken in Sierraville, CA on July 4, 2000. I started a list of previous graphics. You can always find a description of the current graphic at the bottom of the page.  

NY Times: "During an election season increasingly defined by grass-roots organizing, Iowa is the hottest place to be for ambitious young campaign workers." 

Jennifer Howard: "A year ago, I barely knew what blogs were. Within a few months, they'd become a staple of my daily media diet." Dowbrigade comments. 

Flip-switch day 

Lots of changes today, but ones with (Murphy-willing) very small impact on the user interface. In fact, unless they don't work, you shouldn't see any difference at all. Since this is Scripting News, and not Knitting News, we'll go ahead and say which switches got flipped.

First, www.scripting.com now resides on the east coast instead of the west. The new Monster servers, the 3GHz meat-eaters that climb skyscrapers, are now both managing the content and doing the serving for everything on scripting.com.

The picture of King Kong to the right will appear when the new server is visible through DNS to your browser. If you see a broken image and want to see what the picture looks like just click on it.

Second, a big change in the way the outliner works. We used to have to tell it how to format a day of weblog posts using Rules, a great feature if you want a lot of control over how things look, but a pain in the butt if every day looks exactly like every other day, as is always true in my weblog.

Third, this is going to be a product, not one that I plan to sell (although I may give it to UserLand and they might sell it). It's a new kind of outliner-based Web CMS, that does weblogs and all the other stuff you see popping up here on Scripting. I spent much of the day exploring ideas for how to package, test and then ship this. Should it be a Manila plug-in? Or something that's linked to Manila on a sort of peer basis? Or should it be completely independent of Manila? I want to deliberate on this decision, because I expect to live with it for a long time.