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Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:17:29 GMT

The Rave Award nominees for 2004 are up. I'm nominated in the Software Designer category, for RSS, along with the designers of Friendster, Skype, BitTorrent and iTunes.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:08:14 GMT

Law Tech Guru follows up on yesterday's post on Atom vs RSS.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:25:27 GMT

The concept of friendship is much-discussed these days in the blogosphere. For a refresher, I turned to a couple of essays I wrote last September when my uncle died suddenly. We don't have many friends, true friends, people who will listen to anything we want to talk about. I was confused then, but not now. My uncle was a friend, and I still miss him, terribly.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:50:12 GMT

BBC: "According to a new survey, UK women are now spending more money online than men for the first ever time."

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:03:12 GMT

AP: "Howard Dean revealed Monday that national campaign chairman Steve Grossman has departed."

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 20:00:43 GMT

Roy Neel: "There have been a lot of rumors around today about Gov Dean's intentions after the Wisconsin primary."

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:57:48 GMT

Several people sent a pointer to this page on the Feedster site, which is pretty clearly the source for the page on the Kerry site, below. They have similar pages for other candidates. What's interesting (and if true wrong) is that they've chosen weblogs that support the candidates to include in the synthetic feed for each candidate. What's the logic behind that? They might as well call the project The Echo Chamber. Aside from that, they have me down as a Kerry supporter? I don't recall making such a declaration. Would you say the NY Times is a Kerry supporter? We're getting confused here. At the same time Taegan Goddard is starting a political aggregator, but he's not including blogs, only pros. Oy. We need some philosophy here.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:22:39 GMT

Something interesting is going on at the Kerry site? Hmmm. Some kind of aggregator. Crawling Scripting News among others. A Feedster app? Here's my guess on how it works -- any blog posts on any of the sites they subscribe to that contains the word "Kerry" is included on their page. If so, we can probably do better. For example, I have a category for Kerry, with its own RSS feed. That way I can deliberately route something to their site. (That's why I did it that way, anticipating this application.)

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:13:06 GMT

I bought a new microphone for our Thursday evening meetings. The webcasts should be much better, Murphy-willing.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:54:48 GMT

Mike Walsh: "I decided to get a copy of my credit report."

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:33:19 GMT

Adam has arrived in Iraq. Pictures from the trip.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:08:01 GMT

Washington Post: "Will Google get steamrolled like Netscape?"

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:26:26 GMT

It's a bank holiday in the US. Happy birthday to Presidents Washington and Lincoln. It's an efficiency. We used to have two holidays, one for each. I think they collapsed them into one so we could have a January holiday for Martin Luther King. Good deal. George could not tell a lie, Abe freed the slaves, and MLK had a dream.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:17:46 GMT

Postscript: It's not true that President's Day is the result of merging the birthdays of Lincoln and Washington. Nixon said it is the "holiday set aside to honor all presidents, even myself." Heh. I don't think anyone's celebrating Tricky Dick. I'd love to see a picture of Dubya with Nixon. Now that would be cool, even if it were a fake.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:00:43 GMT

Caucuses and jury duty make you smarter. So do weblogs, if you use them the same way, to share ideas.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 05:01:38 GMT

Snopes exposes the fake Republican picture of Kerry and Jane Fonda.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:29:57 GMT

A rare unretouched photo of a young George W Bush visiting the Nixon White House around the same time John Kerry was appearing with Jane Fonda.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:20:48 GMT