Scripting News

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 06:50:34 GMT

Consider that none of the professional reporters, in hundreds of articles about blogging, predicted the importance of bloggers before they became important. Now that it's happened, they're still writing superior, dismissive pieces about people writing in their pajamas. One wonders when just one of them will write the story the other way. "Pros fearful of a future when they have to compete with amateurs on a level playing field." Except it's not the future anymore.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 22:54:23 GMT

Must-read insider's story telling how Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone made it on the airwaves in 1965. "... the DJ was very polite when asked if he would kindly play the acetate during a free moment."

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 23:04:26 GMT

Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:45:10 GMT

For the Harvard I&S conference: "Tip O'Neil said all politics is local -- it seems Tom Daschle would agree..."

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:11:09 GMT

2600.com is "now making available an RSS feed for our readers' convenience. It contains the headlines for articles posted to our website, and in addition can be used to automate downloading of our radio programs Off the Hook and Off the Wall." Bing!

Sat, 04 Dec 2004 02:04:08 GMT

Bob Wyman of PubSub.com has a test ping server.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:44:24 GMT

Scott Rosenberg's remembrance of the IBM PC.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:44:50 GMT

Newsweek: Tivo for your iPod.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 16:30:46 GMT

Wired: "Survivalists live off the grid, but Hodder hates being without it -- even for a few minutes. She's more of an interface grrl."

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:13:40 GMT

New header graphic, a Saskatchewan skyline, taken from the Trans-Canada Highway on 9/2/04.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:24:30 GMT

Michael Hall is looking for advice on programming languages.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:15:18 GMT

ESPN: "Bonds wasn't the only player of his time to get much bigger physically during his career."

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:16:22 GMT

Photoblogs: Roll Your Own RSS.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 15:42:44 GMT

Patrick Mann: "I'm a security tester on the IE team."

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:56:47 GMT

I was hoping that my partner in podcast, Adam Curry, would be back on the air today, but apparently it's not going to happen any time soon. British Telecom says they have no more ports, that someone has to leave before he can get one, and there's a wait list. Of course we're all really disappointed, not just Adam, he's part of an international community.

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:09:43 GMT

Up in the middle of the night coughing like a fool, I was just about to chug some cough syrup, then I heard this on KOMO News. "A medical study shows sugar water works just as well as many common cough syrups when it comes to suppressing nighttime coughing."