Scripting News

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:46:47 GMT

As the fall term starts up at schools around the country, the Daily Princetonian is one of the few college news sites with RSS feeds.

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:31:36 GMT

Ethan Zuckerman reviews Outfoxed, Bob Stepno arrives in Knoxville.

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:31:41 GMT

Russell Beattie imitating NBC's Olympic commentators: "Whoohoo! These games could suck worse than Atlanta's!!! Yeah! We won't be the worst any more!"

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 02:09:55 GMT

NY Times: "In the first two days of competition, many of Athens's spanking new stadiums and courts were nearly empty."

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 22:33:53 GMT

In the leadup to the Olympics we learned that atheletes were banned from keeping weblogs. I was thinking of going to the Olympics, I still could, but would I be allowed to publish pictures I took? Would I be able to get a press pass or would I have to pay for every event? How much would it cost? Maybe this will be the last Olympics designed around television? Not much chance of that, of course.

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:01:48 GMT

Electoral Vote Predictor says Kerry 327, Bush 211.

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 14:52:06 GMT

My audio blog post for the day, riffs on Adam and The Gillmor Gangstas. Music. "Sandy, the waitress I've been seeing lost her desire for me."

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:28:53 GMT

A couple of corrections to today's audio blog post. First, the date at the beginning is wrong. The date at the end is correct. Second, the corporate guy on The Gillmor Gang was R0ml Lefkowitz. In my rant I appear to be saying his priorities are misplaced when his priorities are a shining example of pragmatism. I seem to have gotten confused on this point during the recording of the show, and wanted to clear that up.

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:56:07 GMT

Listen to Adam's latest audio blog post, that's what I want. Press a function key while I'm talking to play a song. A little premeditation, perhaps. Maybe another key that allows me to choose an MP3 file to play. I'm jealous, Adam has a song of the day. I have my own idea for a song of the day, it's not so goyisher. I might play clips from The Sopranos.

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:43:57 GMT

Ed Cone: "By writing directly onto the web, Thigpen has the ability to communicate with a potentially enormous number of people, in his own voice, unmediated and at almost no cost."

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:38:37 GMT

Joshua Brauer says RSS could have saved NBC's Olympics coverage.

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:17:00 GMT

Dvorak's list of the ten most important software products of all time. My list would be different. Think C would be on the list, as would be Manila and MORE. I might have included Pointcast, it was a real eye-opener. Don't forget MacWrite and MacPaint. Director. PowerPoint and FileMaker. Notepad and Teachtext. ";->"

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:41:53 GMT

Boston Globe: "You can safely delete Microsoft Rebooted from your summer reading list."

Sun, 15 Aug 2004 08:50:27 GMT

Jeff Sandquist is vacationing at home this year.