Scripting News

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:09:29 GMT

DaveNet: Nutch, an open source search engine.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:20:53 GMT

Paul Nakada, via email: "It appears that the coding muscle for Nutch is Doug Cutting, the author of Lucene, an Apache Project open source search engine. We use it here at salesforce and have a huge amount of respect for Doug's coding."

Thu, 14 Aug 2003 01:45:03 GMT

NY Times: "Can Johnny Blog?"

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:44:59 GMT

John Palfrey: "I'm not sure there's ever been a conference at the Berkman Center that has received so much attention as BloggerCon has two months before it's actually happening."

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:02:48 GMT

Chris Lydon interviews the Real Live Preacher. "He's a Baptist minister in South Texas who started a blog as a sort of personal refuge from his church -- a confessional place where he could voice some of the doubt and confusion in his life, or so he thought." Side-note, we're using a new CSS-based theme on Chris's site, should be easier to read.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:04:53 GMT

Remember my father who was so sick late last year and early this year? He and my mom just got back from a hiking trip in Switzerland. The Miracle Man.

Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:42:24 GMT

Simon St Laurent did a Plain Old XML rendition of a FOAF file, which is usually coded in RDF. I admit, I tried the same thing, with similar (good) results. I bet almost anyone who had done a little HTML, the low-tech stuff, could understand what's up here. As everyone who cares knows, I find the extra RDF bits to be noisy and fluffy (not funky).

Thu, 14 Aug 2003 03:55:26 GMT

Microdoc News remains one of my favorite sites.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:43:05 GMT

Dan Gillmor links to four Microsoft job openings with the word blog in the description.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:09:20 GMT

Der Schockwellenreiter: Was ist RSS?

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:55:58 GMT

GROKLAW is following SCO.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:56:15 GMT

Maureen Dowd says that because some boring pols are using weblogs poorly that the genre is doomed. First, I agree about the blogs and said so in Monday's column. "There are plenty of candidates with weblogs, they are mostly pointless, dull and uninteresting, now. It will get interesting when voters with weblogs make their presence felt with the candidates, and then (get this) invent new candidates." Lots of boring candidates use telephones too.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:59:52 GMT

I was telling Chris yesterday that 99 out of 100 Times articles about blogs go like this. 1. Do blogs mean the end of journalism as we know it? 2. No. Dowd has a new angle. 1. Do candidate blogs mean the end of blogging as we know it? This time the answer appears to be yes? Heh.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:22:21 GMT

Daniel Bright: RSS 2.0 using XmlTextWriter.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 13:20:26 GMT

Adam Curry: To Collect and Serve.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:05:31 GMT

Two years ago today we celebrated the Blogger API.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:07:44 GMT

Scoble is hosting a blogger's dinner in Seattle tonight.

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:38:49 GMT

Paul Boutin: "If wireless Internet access is such a hot technology, why is it such a dud business?"

No fleecing

Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:08:47 GMT

Andrew Orlowski reports on the pricing of BloggerCon.

As I explained, publicly, I'm not being paid to do BloggerCon. His story says that I am going to "fleece" people who come, which means "To defraud of money or property; swindle." This is a really ugly accusation, and factually incorrect. Doesn't Andrew say that professional reporters are good at getting the facts right? What happened to his extensive fact-checking network?

Last June Andrew asked me to correct a story I ran about the Register. He was earnest and insistent -- my article could do real damage to his publication, he said. I gave it some thought and ran a retraction and apology. I didn't want to be responsible for the Register going under. That's how you do it, Andrew argued, when you get the facts wrong. I only had his word that I had the facts wrong, I had two sources who said I had it right. I decided to trust Andrew.