Scripting News

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 01:26:37 GMT

The Harvard weblog server, blogs.law.harvard.edu, is back up. A 12-hour outage. We were able to restore from a backup with no data loss. The server is taking quite a pounding right now, so it's slow. But it seems to be working. Thanks to Jake Savin at UserLand and Hal Roberts and Jesse Ross at Berkman for their help in getting us back on the air.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:14:59 GMT

Slate joins the parade with a new RSS feed. They also have an OPML reading list. Jonathan Epstein wrote an RSS tutorial for Slate readers.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:10:36 GMT

2RSS.Com has a public and free service that converts non-RSS feeds, such as those generated by Blogger, to RSS. Example.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:49:37 GMT

BBC: "President Bush's team says the use of images from the terror attacks in campaign ads was 'tasteful', despite angry protests."

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 23:11:52 GMT

This guy wants to marry a tree. Fine with me. No problemmo.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 23:26:34 GMT

HP: Blog Epidemic Analyzer FAQ.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 20:55:22 GMT

Dick Morris suggests Bush go negative, and has a workaround for McCain-Feingold.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:02:00 GMT

BBC: "Ms Stewart was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, two counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction of agency proceedings."

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:43:18 GMT

Scott Young: "I have been asked some questions lately having to do with the direction of UserLand and its release plans. Though I have spoken to many of you personally, I thought it would be good to provide an ongoing dialogue through my blog."

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:37:57 GMT

We had another fine Thursday meeting last night, mostly talk about BloggerCon, but some talk about tech stuff. After dinner, walking back to my car, Andrew Grumet told me that he planned to integrate BitTorrent with RSS. A namespace, a couple of Radio callbacks, and it should work. I'm in awe.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:30:41 GMT

Wired: "The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs."

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:14:04 GMT

Fatty won ton soup.

Fri, 05 Mar 2004 22:14:18 GMT

"It's even worse than it appears."