Tuesday, December 02, 2003

PC World: "As digital music site MP3.com prepares to go silent under new ownership, mobile media group Primetones.com warned this week that over a million tracks from independent artists could be lost in the shuffle." 

Ralph Nader has an exploratory committee website.  

Weather for Cambridge: Clear, low of 17, chance of flurries. There's no doubt about it this time, winter has arrived. 

Eric Wagoner: "Jorn Barger, editor of Robot Wisdom, is missing." 

Jorn Barger can be found in the archive of Scripting News, at least references to him can be found. 

Another innovation in the right edge. The search form is replaced with a popup menu that takes you to a bunch of places in my world. I missed some things from the blogroll too much, but I didn't want an endless column of links, just the essentials, and neatly tucked away in a popup. As they say in Italia, prrrronto. (BTW, I know I have to get rid of the Go button, and can do it with Javascript. But first I have to eat dinner.) 

Lots of good stuff today on OPML-DEV. We found out how Amphetadesk, NetNewsWire and Bloglines use attributes in subscriptions files, for reading and writing. Stan Krute is collating the new data, in an outline, of course.  

Don Park suggests that Blogger and Movable Type adopt RSS 2.0. I've been asking them to do this for a long time, repeatedly, and ask once again. Don casts the RSS 2.0 spec as an immovable object in the way of something, but we went to great lengths to make sure that it wasn't in the way. It's licensed under the Creative Commons for-attribution license. So all you have to do, if you want to produce a derivative work, is credit me with authorship of the original. Period. End of obligation. And if you don't want to use my spec as the basis for yours, your obligation to me is zero, nada, nil, void. How much less of an obstacle could it be? Don suggests "backward compatible." I like the sound of that.  

According to the DNC weblog, the White House told a big lie about the President's encounter with a British Airways jet on his way to Baghdad on Thanksgiving. 

Rogers Cadenhead is interviewed about Radio UserLand. 

Robert Scoble asks important questions about Atom.  

JY: "I love when Dave creates new things." Thanks! 

I moved the Recent Categories list onto a separate page. Too much screen real estate. Added to the directory. Thanks for the email. Great ideas. Good to know there's so much interest in this humble weblog. 

Maybe Doc is ready for Payloads for RSS. 

The state of Arkansas has an RSS feed. Via Ray Matthews. 

Pito Salas understands what I'm doing. You gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.  

Greenspun: "Why bother pretending to care about another person's troubles?"