Scripting News

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:25:14 GMT

AP: "All is right again in blog land." Whew.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:32:32 GMT

Thanks to Wired and AP for their help getting the news out. The blogs carried rumors and panic, and when it was clear that the panic was wrong, didn't carry the correction. This time the pros beat the crap out of the blogs in a story about blogs. Something to think about. This time they fact-checked your ass. Am I angry about this? Yeah, you bet I am.

Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:53:51 GMT

Technology.Updates.Com looks interesting. Lots of RSS feeds.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:33:04 GMT

Reuters: "Jason Smathers of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has been charged with stealing a list of 92 million AOL customer screen names and selling them to Internet marketer Sean Dunaway of Las Vegas."

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:16:33 GMT

ComputerWorld: "Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president, has said he is concerned that Java might fork into incompatible versions if it were made open-source, undermining Java's 'write once, run anywhere' capability."

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:19:46 GMT

Ralph Nader "...abhors high-tech, uses a manual typewriter..."

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:19:41 GMT

Wired: "What was decried as the death of a blog universe when Dave Winer shut down free blog host Weblogs.com turned out to be little more than a four-day server outage surrounded by a heck of a flame war."

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:43:42 GMT

News.Com: "Computer trade show Comdex, once the biggest event on the tech calendar, has been canceled this year,"

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:08:07 GMT

Tomorrow at 7PM, a bloggers dinner in Cambridge. It's kind of sad, this will be my last Thursday at Harvard, but what the heck, we had a dinner when I came to town, let's have one as I leave. It's at the Bombay Club in Harvard Square. Please post a note here if you're coming, we'll call the restaurant tomorrow afternoon to tell them how many to expect. We'll sing a song, make a toast, praise Murphy.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:04:12 GMT

BBC: "Dr Mockapetris came up with the DNS system 21 years ago while he was a scientist on the Arpanet project."

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:19:28 GMT

Hacking Netflix: "I think most companies don't get blogs yet."

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:36:20 GMT

Don Park: Murder She Wrote.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:29:31 GMT

Mark Bernstein on comments and trackback. A thoughtful post but I don't agree, last week's events happened on blogs, not in comments or through trackback.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:32:00 GMT

One difference between what happened to SixApart and what happened to me, is that I came to their defense, and they joined the mob. I'll still come to their defense in the future, when I think the community needs moderation, but I won't forget what they did, trying to hustle new business with the people whose sites were stranded. That totally increased the pressure, because the users were the ones who weren't freaking. And how much was at stake? Hmmm. Project the revenue from a couple hundred people with free weblogs. Some kind of gold mine? An amazing lack of perspective. I saw other competitors do horrible things that week. Only Evan Williams did the right thing, he did what he could to put it in perspective. I won't ever forget that either. Thanks again. Mark, this is what we need more of. People with the courage to stand in front of the mob and tell them to stand down. You want to solve the problem? That's how.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:51:24 GMT

Another difference was they were talking to customers about money, and I was finished hosting free sites after four years of free service. Another diff: SixApart is a company and I'm a person.