Scripting News

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:25:08 GMT

DaveNet: Boucher on Hatch; Microsoft aims at Google.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:29:17 GMT

DaveNet: What makes a weblog a weblog?

Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:42:54 GMT

NY Times: A Blogger's Big-Fish Fantasy.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:22:02 GMT

Here's Microsoft's about page for MSNBot.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:11:24 GMT

According to Laurence Simon, Senator Hatch may have a copyright violation on his own site.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:15:11 GMT

An anonymous source provides details on MSNBot. Google in the crosshairs. MS offered to buy Google. Search made $150 million profit for MS last year. Search baked into Longhorn.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:34:16 GMT

Ed Cone: "Virginia Representative Rick Boucher says legislation allowing the recording industry to damage personal computers is highly unlikely to be enacted."

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:10:58 GMT

BBC: "Microsoft is taking legal action against alleged e-mail spammers in the US and the UK."

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:43:08 GMT

Zawodny: The Bot from Redmond.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:18:35 GMT

Search Engine Watch: "Google has expanded its contextual ads program to allow many more content sites to carry its paid listings."

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:42:44 GMT

Glenn Reynolds enters the What Is A Weblog discussion.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:38:47 GMT

A question for Senator Hatch.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:25:40 GMT

It sounds like a presidential candidate is going to visit us tomorrow at the usual Thursday evening weblog-writers meeting at Berkman. That's cool. Last week we talked about New Hampshire. This week we'll talk about BloggerCon.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:23:40 GMT

Two years ago today, issues around Microsoft's (now defunct) Smart Tags in MSIE exposed key questions about integrity in web-writing.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:31:23 GMT

Happy birthday to Sheila, Andrea and Paul McCartney.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:55:27 GMT

BBC: "A US senator wants to develop new technology which would remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music tracks."

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:20:44 GMT

Martin Schwimmer: "If I were Senator Hatch's press secretary I would suggest to him that he say that he was not referring to destroying the computers of home users who might have in effect shoplifted a few CDs or movies, but was instead referring to those professional counterfeiters who use their computers as illegal printing presses to distribute counterfeit works on a large scale."

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:04:54 GMT

A new version of Oddpost, the elegant browser-based email client, is now an RSS reader. Nicely done, as always. More info in an email from Ethan Diamond explaining the design of the new features in context of recent comments here.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:40:40 GMT

A few days ago someone asked when I started doing permalinks. Here's the answer.

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:20:25 GMT

Graeme Foster: "Why not expose RSS feeds as POP3 and have an RSS aggregator in any email client?"

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:08:47 GMT

More great Adam Curry scans.