Scripting News

Fri, 30 May 2003 10:45:39 GMT

Essay: What makes a weblog a weblog? In progress.

Fri, 30 May 2003 21:40:20 GMT

News.Com: "A day after developers at America Online's Nullsoft unit quietly released file-sharing software, AOL pulled the link to the product from the subsidiary's Web site."

Fri, 30 May 2003 21:48:46 GMT

Here's the source: waste.zip. Gnu General Public License.

Sat, 31 May 2003 01:56:26 GMT

Ed Cone links to a story from Mark Tosczak, a NY Times stringer, on getting credit for his work. "The real problem with the Times policy on stringers is that it's counter to what a newspaper is supposed to be all about: the truth."

Sat, 31 May 2003 01:59:33 GMT

Tony Byrne of CMS Watch stopped by to say hello. He says that there are successful 40-person software companies. In my talk yesterday I said this was a species of software developer with a lot of power, a beast of the 80s, extinct this century.

Sat, 31 May 2003 01:49:36 GMT

9AM: I'm listening to Jon Udell's keynote at OSCOM. The net connection works (obviously). Of course he's talking about things I love. Apparently he went over his allotted time, I wanted to ask him to comment on the opportunities for open source projects to integrate with commercial software. Jon is in a unique position to talk about that.

How I wrote WMAWAW

Sat, 31 May 2003 01:49:12 GMT

I did something different with this piece, I didn't publish it for a few months. I started writing it as soon as I got to Cambridge in March. We did about ten Thursday night sessions. I polished my skills as a user, and watched other people learn weblogs, saw what they got, and didn't. I asked other people for ideas of what made weblogs different from professional pubs and Wikis. I thought, and I wrote, and deleted, and wrote some more. In other words, I did something rather unlike a weblog to try to get to the core of what one is. So if you ever doubt that I believe in other forms of writing, put that to rest. There are occasions when you want to spend a fair amount of time reflecting and editing. Some writing that isn't like a fresco, writ in quick-dry plaster.