Scripting News

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:28:31 GMT

Harvard Crimson: Citizen Bloggers in NH?

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:26:33 GMT

A slightly longer version of the Crimson piece, circulated to the DaveNet mail list.

Thu, 01 May 2003 02:03:01 GMT

Brent Simmons: "Not all RSS feeds contain guids. My hope is that more and more they will since they�re so useful, since they make reading news so much better." Amen.

Thu, 01 May 2003 02:07:56 GMT

1/24/03: Guids are not just for geeks anymore.

Thu, 01 May 2003 02:18:13 GMT

Eric Soroos has Frontier running on Linux. This is big. Manila on Linux. Very important stuff.

Thu, 01 May 2003 02:05:26 GMT

News.Com: New dreams for Morpheus.

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:51:42 GMT

Two garden pictures, one taken on April 4, and one today. What a difference 26 days makes. It's finally spring in Cambridge. In the 80s yesterday. Too hot. Today it's in the high 60s. Just perfect.

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:04:07 GMT

A bug in Daypop shows what they filter out. Without filters, the top 10 reads like this. Blogger, UserLand, Blogger, UserLand, Apple, UserLand, Apple, Apple, Wolfelaar, Wired.

Rogers Cadenhead is doing a book on Radio to be published this summer by Sams Publishing. Chapter 1 is on the Web for your review. Very cool! Thanks Rogers.

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:34:36 GMT

Lots of travel in the coming week. To NY on Friday, Denver on Sunday, back to Boston on Tuesday and New Hampshire on Friday.

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:25:10 GMT

Overheard at a Cambridge pizzeria yesterday. A cop talking to another cop, telling a story about his young son who was cursing him out. Then, the next day, he overheard him saying exactly the same words to a mirror. The cop says "When people say angry words to someone else they're really angry with themself."

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:39:06 GMT

NY Times: "In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Virginia enacted a law Tuesday imposing harsh felony penalties for sending such messages to computer users through deceptive means."

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:42:30 GMT

NY Times: "Until recently, the record industry has been reluctant to act against the several million people who copy music over the Internet from one another for fear of alienating its own customers. But with CD sales plummeting, the record labels have lately taken a more aggressive stance." And do they think that spamming their customers will make CD sales rise? These are not business people, they're thugs. Lower the prices, and work with users. Give them products that take advantage of the new medium, instead of trying to hold on to the obsolete one. We've been saying this for years.

Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:35:16 GMT

MacRumors confirms that iTunes is coming for Windows. I was going to explain that Windows users generally don't care about Apple software for Windows, it usually sucks bigtime, but then I decided to avoid the flames, I have a busy day so never mind. ";->"