Scripting News

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:46:16 GMT

BBC: "United States President George W Bush has added to the drama of California's recall election by saying movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger would make a good governor."

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:30:30 GMT

If you're interested in weblog APIs, please review the new MetaWeblog API spec. Today it moved from my test site to the XML-RPC site, replacing the spec from 2002 (which has been archived). It's important to review this for accuracy and completeness now, I'd like to finish this rev in a week or two. There haven't been any comments for quite some time, so perhaps we're almost done. After it's frozen, as you know, it will be too late. ";->"

Sat, 09 Aug 2003 00:13:08 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "Clay Shirky is the Adlai Stevenson of Team RSS."

Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:11:39 GMT

Dan Gillmor on Microsoft's blogging software. "This strikes me as no threat to the current and upcoming end-user tools from the vendors we use today."

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 18:13:29 GMT

Andrew Grumet has a philosophy of aggregators that matches mine. The three-pane "feed reader" is a disaster, it's merely recreating a mess I want to run away from. I like having a new queue every few hours.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 20:18:36 GMT

Adam Curry on a Dutch ISP using RSS for trouble tickets.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:15:26 GMT

Jon Udell: "Let's stop punishing RSS syndication for its success by asking it to carry the whole burden of XML usage in the semantic Web." Amen.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:09:08 GMT

Happy Birthday to InstaPundit and many happy returns!

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 20:21:19 GMT

It turns out the Blogger API is two years old today too!

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:39:07 GMT

All Things Considered: '"Theoretically, pages on the Web are governed by standards -- rules about how they are built, how computers read their instructions and display them."

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:32:24 GMT

Dann Sheridan: "Since installing a new firewall on the home network last night, I haven't been able to publish to my site because my firewall thinks it is being attacked by Radio."

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:52:09 GMT

Cone: "Limbaugh's show prep no doubt includes weblogs."

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:49:25 GMT

Oh geez, Notepad popups.

Amit Dubey, via email: \"After the Liberal Party Convention this November, Paul Martin will likely become Canada's next Prime Minister (some pollsters report he has the support of about 80% of the delegates). He also is a blogger.\"

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:03:44 GMT

Zawodny: "Ever wanted to talk directly to the Yahoo! Search team in an open forum? Well, now you can."

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:04:59 GMT

Four years ago today, a milestone piece on standards in instant messaging, in News.Com.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:01:48 GMT

How dorky is an application used by three people that hits one of my sites 10K times a day? Sometimes I wish the kids would just grow up. Or if that's not possible, at least leave home. Or if that's not possible, die.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:44:36 GMT

"cheesecake"