Scripting News

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 23:37:18 GMT

Heads-up, some time in the next few hours (Murphy-willing) we're going to release tcp.im, which allows Radio and Frontier to be an instant messaging client or server (either can be either). It was a collaboration between Eric Soroos, Jeremy Bowers and myself; with Jake Savin doing the close. There may be some bugs and more docs to write over the next few days. Should be final on Monday. Allows us to reactivate instant outlining, and do weblog posts over IM. The first two transports supported are Jabber and AIM. There's a driver framework that makes it easy to support more. Obvious next choices are Microsoft and Groove. Looking forward to seeing what developers do with it.

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 21:18:49 GMT

Ed Cone introduces Tara Grubb. "She is the Libertarian Party candidate running against Howard Coble."

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:16:10 GMT

Christian Crumlish suggests that perhaps the Berman-Coble bill could be useful in some ways, given that many of us hold copyrights that may be misused by the music industry. I wonder if anyone at the RIAA has a copy of Scripting News on their hard drive? Hmmm. If the law passes, I could write a virus to find out. Of course it would have to look at all their computers to be sure we didn't miss any. Gosh this sure seems illegal to me. Hey I wonder if Rep Coble has any of my stuff on his computer?

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:31:20 GMT

Where were you when The King died?

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:23:41 GMT

Adam Curry: "Gnutella was fun to watch over the past few days. Enter search term Elvis a couple of times throughout the day. All kinds of wonderful and often rare material was being shared worldwide!"

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:04:00 GMT

Jim Zellmer got a letter from his congresswoman about computers, music and copy protection.

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:59:53 GMT

John VanDyk is trying to connect Frontier and PHP on Mac OS X using Edd Dumbill's XML-RPC toolkit. That's quite a mouthful. Somewhere, in there, there's a problem. Help John, he's a good guy.

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:49:40 GMT

John Robb, next week's birthday boy (he turns 40) belatedly celebrates the first birthday of his weblog.

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:38:02 GMT

Karlin Lillington has a beautiful new weblog. She's a professional reporter at the Irish Times. I've worked with Karlin many times, and am totally looking forward to what she does on her weblog.

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:35:36 GMT

MacInTouch readers discuss HyperCard.

Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:33:40 GMT

Steve Smith writes: "Just a note of clarification. Howard Coble is opposed this year -- he has a Libertarian opponent. The Libertarian may have zilch chance of winning, but if people in the district who care about this issue could be persuaded to turn out for him -- and to let Coble know why they're doing so, it could put a scare into the politicians who back these outrageous bills."