Scripting News

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:44:49 GMT

Big BloggerCon announce tomorrow.

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 02:32:04 GMT

Pictures from the Edwards campaign in Merrimack, NH.

Tue, 09 Sep 2003 02:46:00 GMT

Tonight was the first time I met a person, Marc Nozell, who reads my weblog, at a presidential campaign appearance. I have pictures of him (he's taking a picture of Edwards), and his wife and daughter.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 20:26:18 GMT

Senator John Edwards will \"hold a town hall meeting in Merrimack, at the Merrimack Community Bandstand at Abbie Griffin Park. The meeting is free and open to the public, part of Senator Edwards' plan to hold over 100 New Hampshire town hall meetings before the primary on January 27th.\"

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:32:34 GMT

Michael Watkins: "We are committed in Iraq because the costs of failure are too high."

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:16:21 GMT

8/16/01: "He is the best harvester of love I've ever seen."

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:53:33 GMT

BloggerCon in a nutshell, in progress. Comment here.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 13:22:33 GMT

Description of Halley's Day 2 session.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:09:52 GMT

S'More is an outliner that supports OPML. ";->"

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 16:52:41 GMT

NY Times review of my ThinkTank outliner, May 1983. It did not support OPML.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:27:43 GMT

I started a list of presidential candidate weblogs. If you know of others please let me know. Thanks.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:08:30 GMT

Two new signups for BloggerCon: 1. Chris Locke. Author of Gonzo Marketing and co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto. 2. Scott Heiferman, founder of Meetup and Fotolog. A summary of recent additions to the BloggerCon lineup.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:52:25 GMT

I've been emailing with an ex-Yahoo engineer about their directory. It's weird how little those outside Yahoo (like me) know about them. First, they're maintained by people called "surfers" who have god-like status inside Yahoo. They were the first Yang-Filo hires, and of course it's how Yahoo started, as a hierarchic Web directory. Many of the original surfers were librarians.

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 12:02:02 GMT

You've heard of Alpha Males. Check out Alpha Nails. ";->"

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:38:52 GMT

Three years ago today: "The best advice I can offer the music industry based on my experience in tech is to give the users what they want. Don't try to negotiate. Just give it to them."

Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:40:20 GMT

Four years ago today -- Carmen's Headline Viewer, one of the earliest aggregators, and as far as I know the first desktop aggregator. Funny story. It was supposed to have been written by a woman named Carmen. It was actually written by her husband Jeff, who was moonlighting from his day job at Microsoft. Jeff now works for Amazon.