Scripting News: 11/9/2009

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Scripting News, the weblog started in 1997 that bootstrapped the blogging revolution.

Three Droidie pieces

I wrote two pieces over the weekend on the new Droidie blog.

1. Net-net: I love the Droid.

2. The holy grail in communicating cameras.

3. Press Up to Play? Huh?? Wazzat!?

A superfast RSS subscribe

I wanted an easier way to subscribe to feeds..

So I wrote down the way ~~way~~ I wanted it to work and this is what I came up with.

I'm on a site and think "Gee I'd like to subscribe to this." I see it's got an XML icon in the address bar.

I click on a Bookmarklet and after a few seconds, am transported to the Feeds page in River2. To subscribe, I just click the Submit button.

So that's how I made it work! :-)

http://newsriver.org/bookmarklet.html

Boom!

Last update: Monday, November 09, 2009 at 5:13 PM Pacific.

~My Projects~

Droidie

Rebooting The News

ListBrowser.org

Protoblogger.com

My Father's Site

rssCloud

River2

Berkeley list on Twitter

The Bay Bridge Blog

Unberkeley blog

~About the Author~

Dave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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