Scripting News

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:56:26 GMT

Howard Rheingold gave a talk at Berkman today. Approx 25MB.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:56:35 GMT

David Weinberger talked about his next book. Approx 25MB.

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:43:00 GMT

Sun has an excellent RSS 2.0 feed for their group blog. Nice use of the source element.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:06:37 GMT

My webcam is at Berkman today. We're between meetings. At 4PM the room should fill up again, providing more interesting distractions for the terminally bored.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:25:45 GMT

Great picture of Jim Moore and David Weinberger.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:11:29 GMT

TDavid: AmphetaDesk.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 21:20:41 GMT

After Newsweek's RSS feeds come online, God is the next one to pop.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:07:23 GMT

Tim Bray invokes Godwin's Law. "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:12:57 GMT

Stonyfield Farm blog. "A chance for you to look inside Stonyfield and get to know us, and us to know you."

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:03:44 GMT

eBay is the latest tech giant to support RSS 2.0. The announcement comes from their senior manager of developer relations, Jeff McManus. There's a feed for special offers and announcements, and one for system status messages. Thanks to Micah Alpern for the pointer. Internet News has the story too.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:43:21 GMT

Bernie Goldbach: Opera with RSS.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:30:38 GMT

MacWorld: How AirTunes Works.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:32:22 GMT

Ray Daly: FeedDemon and Bloglines.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:37:40 GMT

Roger Benningfield: Newzcrawler vs FeedDemon.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:46:32 GMT

Morgan Pugh: FeedDemon.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:17:45 GMT

Wired: "From fancy hotels to fast-food joints, the number of venues offering high-speed wireless Internet access is expected to grow at a heady clip this year. But industry analysts aren't expecting laptop users and their credit cards to follow."

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:29:56 GMT

Boston's Logan Airport now has wireless. "The Logan Wi-Fi system is available in nearly all public areas of Terminals B, C, D & E." $7.95 for 24 hours.

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 10:29:27 GMT

It's in the low 50s this morning, as it has been all spring, but later today a heat wave is sweeping into the Boston area, with highs in the 90s. Oh my god. I'm totally not ready for this. I'll be indoors in air conditioning all day at Berkman, listening to Howard Rheingold, David Weinberger and Mary Rundle. I may record the Rheingold talk, if I am permitted to do so.

Standards nazis

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 12:35:16 GMT

When we were developing SOAP in 1998 and 1999, another group was working on WebDAV. SOAP was higher level, you could create a toolkit that mapped SOAP calls on the procedure-calling mechanism in any scripting system. I never understood WebDAV, so I hired a smart young guy to implement it for UserLand (he works at IBM now). Never happened.

There were three groups at Microsoft, one working on WebDAV, another working with Allaire on WDDX, and a third working on SOAP. Anyway, if this were a horror movie, we'd say They're baaaaack, about the WebDAV folk. Amazingly, they're talking about retrofitting weblog APIs to be part of WebDAV. What an stunningly stupid step backwards.

Some corporate programmers are amazing that way, rapidly driving off the cliff to get off the high road and quickly get mired in the mud. Glad I'm not involved in that debate. Eventually even SOAP got mired, so we stuck with XML-RPC. Oh for the good old days, when we could ratify a standard proposed by Evan in a matter of hours. Look at all the overhead that's come into it. Blogging as a technical art, may almost be over, the standards nazis are taking over.