Scripting News

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:52:38 GMT

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:38:46 GMT

Oracle has three new RSS 2.0 feeds and a Radio weblog.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 09:50:21 GMT

Jake reports that Trackback for Radio is now released.

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:08:47 GMT

Evhead: \"Google is not a famousness-ranking-by-first-name engine. It's a search engine.\" Bummer.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:18:12 GMT

An article in News.Com, while extremely incendiary, may be seen as the last gasp in the Great RSS War of 2003.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:16:59 GMT

John Palfrey: "The substance that seems to matter most is some combination of the following: openness on the Net; interoperability; true consumer and technologist choice; and effectiveness and stability of the technology."

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 12:28:16 GMT

A response to Sam Ruby's comment about namespaces in the News.Com article. The only other comment I can see worth responding to right away is Mark Pilgrim's comment about RSS being controlled by a single vendor. It's simply not true. UserLand transferred, for free, all of its IP in RSS to a non-profit who then licensed it under the Creative Commons. In what way is it controlled by a single vendor? What more could UserLand have done?

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:48:44 GMT

NY Times: "To lie effectively, one has to have a notion that other people have minds and can be deceived."

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:24:56 GMT

A letter to Palfrey, Ruby, Bray, Pilgrim, cc'd Festa.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:35:33 GMT

A heads up. Tim Bray says the News.Com reporter left out something important. I said "Hey Tim, you have a weblog, what are you waiting for?" He said he'll write it up. I don't want to steal his thunder, it's quite along the lines of the letter I sent, linked to above. Look forward to linking to it tomorrow.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:21:10 GMT

Charles Cooper, also in News.Com: "Whether that ends the feuding with folks who have very different ideas about how to advance the spec is anyone's guess. But it strikes me as laudable. Instead of opting for a proprietary land grab, a company that was an RSS tools builder freely gave up its guardianship to a nonprofit trust."

Tue, 05 Aug 2003 00:01:16 GMT

Diego Doval comments on the move to Harvard, today's News.Com article, and working on Pie-Echo-Whatever.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:54:27 GMT

Paolo: "Hydra is cool."

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 10:19:26 GMT

My Radio weblog now has Trackback.

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 09:03:15 GMT

Three years ago: "The Republicans nominated a presidential candidate that some say knows as much about the world as an 'average TWA pilot.'"

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:31:09 GMT

NY Times: "The online edition of The New York Post, which is owned by the News Corporation, ran an article last month about a murder in which the victim's body parts were packed in a suitcase, and Google served up an ad for a luggage dealer."

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:28:54 GMT

NY Times: "On Saturday, a flash mob collected near the American Embassy in Berlin, and far from deriding Iraqi policies or some other momentous topic, they wore silly hats, waved flags and popped Champagne."

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:19:23 GMT

Scoble: "So, how do you get people back to work? Easy: provide incentives for rich people to invest their money in new companies." If someone asked if they should invest in RSS, which so many developers seem to have creative ideas about now, what would you say? What incentives would make it worth the risk?

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:13:05 GMT

RSSJobs allows you to "create and save searches for Monster, Dice, HotJobs,and more in one location, then delivers the results to your favorite RSS Reader."

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 08:14:51 GMT

Scott Reynen: "This utility will take a monster.com or hotjobs.com job search URL and produce an RSS feed of the results."