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Scripting News http://www.scripting.com/ Dave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution. en-us Copyright 1997-2009 Dave Winer Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:45:59 GMT http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html OPML Editor v0.73 scriptingnewsmail@gmail.com scriptingnewsmail@gmail.com <rules> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html#disqus_thread <rule><outlineSpacing>1.5</outlineSpacing></rule><br><br> </rules> <br><br> Sun, 06 Jul 2003 07:00:00 GMT <rules> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html#disqus_thread <rule level="1" to="1"><br><br> </rules><br><br> Sun, 06 Jul 2003 07:00:00 GMT DaveNet: <a href="http://davenet.userland.com/2003/07/06/onAolsEntryIntoWeblogs">On AOL's entry into weblogs</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/davenetLtaHrefquothttpdave.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/davenetLtaHrefquothttpdave.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/davenetLtaHrefquothttpdave.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 12:13:25 GMT "thinkusaalignright"Little bit of serendip. Did you listen to John Philip Sousa's <a href="http://www.ask-escs.com/dws/ssf/Dallas%20Wind%20Symphony%20-%20Stars%20and%20Stripes%20Forever.mp3">Stars and Stripes Forever</a> this weekend? I did. I even sang it. Very cool. Now for the serendip. You could spell his name as So USA. And it would be true. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/quotthinkusaalignrightquot.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/quotthinkusaalignrightquot.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/quotthinkusaalignrightquot.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 14:24:56 GMT NY Times: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07NECO.html?ex=1372910400&en=a1c9026c667117bf&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">Blogs in the Workplace</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/nyTimesLtaHrefquothttpwwwn.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/nyTimesLtaHrefquothttpwwwn.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/nyTimesLtaHrefquothttpwwwn.html#disqus_thread Mon, 07 Jul 2003 01:04:07 GMT <a href="http://bcuni.net/blog/one-entry?entry%5fid=1361">Simon Carstensen previews</a> my keynote for the Sells Brother's conference. How did he know what I was going to lecture on? We <i>do</i> have forward motion, but it's not at a level visible to the people who only worry about XML. We're moving forward by bringing weblogs to law, libraries, politics, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/07/technology/07NECO.html?ex=1372910400&en=a1c9026c667117bf&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">business</a>, medicine, and that's just the beginning. We were working on the XML level <i>five years ago.</i> Now we need it to stay quiet down there so we can rock and roll at the political and societal level. It's not just about ones and zeros boys and girls, it's about changing the world. The arguments of the software world are so boring. "Let me stand on your toes for a while." <i>Oy!</i> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpbcuninetblo.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpbcuninetblo.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpbcuninetblo.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 13:42:14 GMT Another way of looking at it. In 2000 when the RSS community was flaming about RDF, the wireless world was inventing WAP and WML, and creating new companies with multi-billion-dollar market caps. Had the fight not happened, some of that would have flowed into the weblog world, which as we know now had a future, where WAP and WML didn't. So don't think the fights are trivial, they aren't. They cut off growth. Could we have capitulated then? Would the fighting have stopped? I think the events of this summer prove that it wouldn't. This neck of the woods likes to destroy stuff. Lessig take note. Your faith in the open development process could use a bit of refinement, imho. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/anotherWayOfLookingAtItIn2.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/anotherWayOfLookingAtItIn2.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/anotherWayOfLookingAtItIn2.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 13:52:10 GMT Steve Kirks: <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111853/2003/07/06.html">Open Letter to the RSS Community</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/steveKirksLtaHrefquothttpr.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/steveKirksLtaHrefquothttpr.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/steveKirksLtaHrefquothttpr.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 15:02:37 GMT <a href="http://webservices.miseldinedev.com/subsHarmonizer/index.aspx">Philip Miseldine</a> has a subs harmonizer running in .NET. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpwebservices.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpwebservices.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpwebservices.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 11:52:20 GMT <a href="http://fuse.ghostcassette.com/archives/2003/07/subsharmonizer.html">Andrew Pearson</a> did a subs harmonizer in PHP. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpfuseghostca.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpfuseghostca.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpfuseghostca.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 18:00:58 GMT <a href="http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2571">Brent Simmons</a>: "Help!" http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpinessential.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpinessential.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpinessential.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 18:48:05 GMT <a href="http://scriptingnews.userland.com/stories/storyReader$849">Three years ago today</a>: "Other people make good mirrors, but the answer to the who-am-I question is inside." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpscriptingne.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpscriptingne.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltaHrefquothttpscriptingne.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 12:48:36 GMT For several months this Google <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=rss">search</a> would turn up a UserLand page as the number one hit. Today it's not in the first ten pages. Must be a bug. Or do they play games with their search engine? Straight question. <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/crimson1/pictures/viewer$353">Screen</a>. It's really hard to believe it just fell off the Web in the last few days. And while I'm at it, I don't like it that they label my older specs as deprecated (in caps no less). You won't find that word anywhere on the pages, I hate that word, it says "abandoned" to people who use them. It says that about RSS 0.91, which is what the <a href="http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/24#a302">BBC uses</a>, which I am pleased to promote, even though in a private place I wish they'd use the latest. We have to talk about the whole thing Google. It's time to get to the next level. Your mistakes were understandable a few years ago, now they're not so funny. (PS: I know that the use of deprecated comes from Open Directory. Good reason to replace it with something that really is open. The editor of the category is not always disinterested, as I'm sure is true in this case. The question is is Google itself disinterested. We're always going to be asking that question, until we know for sure it's no, and then we move on. So far it's yes, but lately with a caveat.) http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/forSeveralMonthsThisGoogle.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/forSeveralMonthsThisGoogle.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/forSeveralMonthsThisGoogle.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 13:37:37 GMT <rules> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/06/ltrulesgt.html#disqus_thread <rule level="1" to="1"><br><br> </rules><br><br> Sun, 06 Jul 2003 07:00:00 GMT <rules> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltrulesgt.html#disqus_thread <rule><outlineSpacing>1.5</outlineSpacing></rule><br><br> </rules> <br><br> Sat, 05 Jul 2003 07:00:00 GMT <rules> http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltrulesgt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltrulesgt.html#disqus_thread <rule level="1" to="1"><br><br> </rules><br><br> Sat, 05 Jul 2003 07:00:00 GMT <a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/07/05/sony_image_station_with_metaweblog_api.html">From Japan via Joi Ito</a> comes news of a new developer using the MetaWeblog API. You've probably heard of them. ";->" http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpjoiitocomar.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpjoiitocomar.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpjoiitocomar.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 01:07:12 GMT <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/07/05.html#a681">Don Park has</a> some ideas on weblog APIs. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpwwwdocuvers.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpwwwdocuvers.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpwwwdocuvers.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 01:14:59 GMT <a href="http://business.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/07/04/website_turns_tables_on_government_officials">Boston Globe on</a> MIT's new government <a href="http://opengov.media.mit.edu/">website</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpbusinessbos.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpbusinessbos.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpbusinessbos.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 01:36:38 GMT <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_07.html#004146">BuzzMachine reports</a> on a demo of AOL's blogging tool. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpwwwbuzzmach.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpwwwbuzzmach.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2003/07/05/ltaHrefquothttpwwwbuzzmach.html#disqus_thread Sun, 06 Jul 2003 01:47:43 GMT