Scripting News

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:33:16 GMT

Essay: If the Democrats Could Blog.

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:28:02 GMT

Jim Moore: "The Clark imbroglio continues."

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 21:57:39 GMT

Political Wire: "Kerry's campaign also appears to be in turmoil."

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:26:58 GMT

Dowbrigade pic of bloggers with Macs. "Ax of choice."

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:17:53 GMT

When asking for technical help provide at least the following three bits of info. 1. I did this. 2. I expected this to happen. 3. This is what actually happened.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:00:18 GMT

Dorothy: "What would you do with a brain if you had one?"

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:02:47 GMT

A slightly different question.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:01:09 GMT

Jay Rosen remembers Neil Postman. "He was expert in nothing. Therefore nothing was off limits."

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 19:46:27 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: "While doing research on Java implementations of the xmlStorageSystem API, the backbone of Radio UserLand web hosting, I found something unusual: Full support for the API in a commercial server product."

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:09:19 GMT

Don't forget to check out Harvard's Sex Tutorial Weblog, for a refresher course.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 15:36:28 GMT

Greenspun: "Anyone who can afford to charter a $2 million, $1000/hour helicopter ought to be someone with, if not a lot of friends, at least a lot of dependants."

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 14:48:41 GMT

Timothy Appnel: "Is Ben wasting his time trying to implement something that is stated to appear in his company's products because it could drastically change in the coming years?"

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:11:29 GMT

Response to Tim Appnel is here.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:23:26 GMT

Mini-essay: "A friend who was at BloggerCon writes, saying he thinks I prefer to work with people, instead of having them work for me, and asks me to explain this."

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:08 GMT

Phillip Pearson needs help with Movable Type's XML-RPC.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:51:42 GMT

If you recorded audio or video at BloggerCon, please post a note in the comments on this news item.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:01:26 GMT

BloggerCon moderator Lance Knobel filed this Guardian story about presidential weblogs.

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:02:53 GMT

Last night the Cubs won, evening their series at 1-1. The Red Sox won to take a 1-0 lead over the universally hated NY Yankees.

Response to Tim

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:09:54 GMT

For some reason Sam's weblog is not accepting comments, so here is my response to Tim Appnel.

Tim, this is the tricky thing about formats and protocols, when to freeze them, and getting buy-in on the freeze. If you look at the history of RSS, and assume it predicts what Atom will go through, the answer is that Ben will have to pedal hard to keep up. If anything, because there are so many more cooks, it looks like the Atom experience will be even worse. But it's hard to predict what will happen.

BTW, they have to worry not only about current implementors but future ones too. When we tried to freeze RSS 0.91, there was no Movable Type, or even Blogger.