Scripting News

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:07:35 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "Sergey, can you hear me?"

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:45:20 GMT

I went to see the Mets beat the Washington Nationals in Port St Lucie. It was a beautiful sunny day. I'll have pictures and movies tomorrow.

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:47:21 GMT

Technorati is also doing relationships between tags, as delicious is. Who will be the first to provide an API?

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:02:53 GMT

BBC: "Derakhshan's road to podcasting began five years ago in Tehran, where he worked for a reformist newspaper."

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:56:15 GMT

New header graphic. This is the first time a person has been the header graphic, but it's not the first time a person has appeared in a header graphic. That honor goes to Marc Canter, Jimmi Johnson, Jamis MacNiven and myself in this picture taken at Buck's Woodside in 1999. I've been planning on putting a person in that spot, and the Better Bad News video and Steve Gillmor's piece together made the choice pretty obvious. Brin is the executive in charge of not being evil at Google. Seriously, that's his responsibility. So he's The Man, right now. Google has always been uncomfortable in dialog with their community, but now is the time for a real dialog, not the usual stonewalling. The company is simply too powerful to exist entirely self-contained.

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:20:08 GMT

"Evil," says Google CEO Eric Schmidt, "is what Sergey says is evil."

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 07:29:16 GMT

Kevin Schofield, a 17-year Microsoft veteran, takes issue with ex-Softie-now-Googler Mark Lucovsky. Kevin says that Mark over-simplified, that the parts of Microsoft that develop web apps like MSN are just as fast as the new companies, Amazon and Google, and that developing a complex long-lived piece of software like Windows is hard work, especially when the engineers responsible for it take jobs at Google. Heh. A good, classy comeback.

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 07:26:08 GMT

Amazon has a RSS-for-Dummies book, and a podcasting book.

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 07:47:12 GMT

Sebastien Paquet: "There isn't an API method for fetching related tags from del.icio.us yet."

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 07:52:45 GMT

Eric Goldman: "From a legal standpoint, AutoLink looks questionable."

Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:01:20 GMT

One more time: Happy Trails To You. ";->"