Scripting News

Sat, 17 May 2003 22:47:50 GMT

Fascinating post from Evan Williams dated 5/10 re weblog APIs. Must-read, carefully.

Sat, 17 May 2003 19:59:22 GMT

Scoble: "Google is getting a lot of pressure from its advertisers to devalue webloggers." Must-read.

Sat, 17 May 2003 10:24:02 GMT

A few articles have appeared recently from print journalists suggesting that Google and other search engines are giving too much weight to weblogs. One even invented a "news" story that Google was going to take blogs out of the index. He didn't have a source at the company, it was pure speculation, and later strongly rejected by a company spokesperson. It's a wonder this guy keeps his press badge. Anyway, Doc Searls, the happy blogger (always!) finds a glass-half-full solution. The print journalists should walk down the hall to their publishers' office and request that they make their archive publicly available so it can be indexed by the search engines. Google is just indexing what's on the Web. If you want to be in Google, you gotta be on the Web. It's pretty simple.

Sat, 17 May 2003 20:34:54 GMT

Ernie the Attorney says "Help Larry Lessig re-populate the public domain."

Sat, 17 May 2003 20:01:01 GMT

Don Park: "If today's Blogland is LA, tommorrow's Blogland will look like NY with skyscapers reaching for the sky."

Sat, 17 May 2003 12:22:52 GMT

NY Times: Dating a Blogger. "It's like all your friends are reporters now," said Douglas Rushkoff. Right on.

Sat, 17 May 2003 12:18:25 GMT

Paolo Valdemarin emailed me late last night from Italy with an interesting best-practices type idea for the element in RSS. It goes like this.

Sat, 17 May 2003 13:10:46 GMT

Diego Doval's review and discussion of blogging APIs is still going strong.

Sat, 17 May 2003 10:58:37 GMT

Now of course some publications probably wish their archive wasn't on the Web.