Scripting News

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 23:10:35 GMT

I did a bunch of work on the RSS 0.94 spec this morning, pulling all the required and optional elements except "item" into a new table, ordered roughly in relevance to most implementations. I want to do the same thing with the elements of item. Still in steps 1 and 2 in the Road to 2.0 map, I'm following various discussions, and doing a lot of thinking.

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:25:19 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "RSS is an XML syndication standard authored by Dave Winer of SOAP fame, and currently mired in a standards struggle that extends to even what the acronym stands for." It seems Steve had a dream quite similar to the one I had a few days ago. ";->"

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 20:13:54 GMT

Ed Cone: "One of the participants at the upcoming Cato Institute debate, economist James Miller, wrote an article called 'Let Hollywood Hack.'"

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 13:07:56 GMT

Thanks to Mark Pilgrim for organizing comments on RSS 2.0. As part of my thinking process for RSS 2.0, I wrote an essay on Discontinuities.

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 13:08:40 GMT

Thanks to Paolo and Evectors for creating the software that helped Dreamweaver work with Radio.

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 22:26:54 GMT

Colin Faulkingham: "RSS is a dead format that's not really going to go any further."

Sat, 07 Sep 2002 13:00:02 GMT

Saw a great movie on HBO last night, from 1991, starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, it was called Regarding Henry. I thought any movie starring those two actors would have to be superficial, overly commercial, and unsatisfying. But what a surprise. This could turn out to be a life-changing movie for me. I saw a lot of parallels in my own life in it. I'll write some more in a bit.