Scripting News

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:32:50 GMT

Glenn Reynolds: "It would be child's play to take RSS feeds from a number of weblogs, filter them to extract the references to stories in the Times, and then have an ombudsman look at those references to see if correction, amplification, or investigation is called for." Amen.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 06:40:22 GMT

Crib sheet for today's session. New: quick topics section.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:25:08 GMT

Denise Howell blogged my keynote. It went pretty well. My closing line, delivered by accident (I didn't know it would be the closing line) was good enough to be a Scripting News motto. First a canned line. "Idealism is okay. Don't knock it if you haven't tried it." And then the killer. "Idealism has practical real-world applications."

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:38:05 GMT

A topic exchange channel for the conference I'm at.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:28:59 GMT

Bob Doyle videotaped the presentation, it'll be online at Berkman, he says, later today.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:07:46 GMT

Yule Heibel accepted my invite to define Open Studios. Check out the comments. Give it some thought and be creative yourself, unless you actually know what it was about (May 18 and 19) then you must share. ";->"

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:37:57 GMT

Technorati keyword search. "As far as I know, this is the most comprehensive, most quickly updated weblog search engine with over 360,000 blogs covered and indexes rebuilt every couple of hours," says David Sifry, developer of Technorati."

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 06:42:24 GMT

At dinner with Doc and Halley last night, Doc said something like this. "We'll always read the NY Times." I cringed. I said that people probably once said "We'll always take trains from LA to NY." Sometimes technology brings about big shifts. Maybe the whole idea of a "news organization" doesn't make sense. One thing's for sure, the Times is struggling, right now, with it's core mission. I don't think it's an accident that's happening in 2003. While some forms of communication survive basic sea-change transitions, as radio survived TV, some don't, like newsreels. Then Doc being Doc, said they actually still used newsreels when he was in school. I wonder what that was like, I'm only a few years younger, and they were gone by the time I came along. Someone probably said "We'll always get our news from MovieTone." Those statements are comfortable. Don't mistake comfort for truth.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 10:59:05 GMT

Col Jessup: "You can't handle the truth."

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 06:46:58 GMT

Last night Doc and I went downstairs to check out the room. It's perfectly awful. Flourescent lighting. The stage seems miles from the audience. Audience. Oooops. This is a blogging conference. Maybe the first question to answer, before What Are Weblogs? is What Is A Blogging Conference? Wouldn't it be more fun to have it in an arboretum? Hey, how about we begin with a demo of listening? We talked about that last night too, how hard it is to just listen.

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 06:28:46 GMT

Paul Boutin: Slammed! "An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes."

Mon, 09 Jun 2003 06:33:19 GMT

Denise Howell posts interview transcripts for Ted Leonsis, Mark Cuban, Terry Semel, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.