Scripting News

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:59:31 GMT

If you haven't seen the Better Bad News show on AutoLink, it's just 12 minutes, it's a classic, funny, and states the case so well. Pass it along, let's make sure everyone sees this.

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:14:53 GMT

On today's Diane Rehm Show, former CBS correspondent Tom Fenton, says the networks are no longer in the news gathering business.

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:27:12 GMT

News.Com has some kind of weblog with an interesting post about Rob Glaser and Steve Jobs.

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:39:52 GMT

I'm learning to use del.icio.us and have some basic questions.

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:34:23 GMT

Next question: I've seen that del.icio.us has the concept of "related" tags. Is the algorithm for determining what's related described somewhere?

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:33:17 GMT

Declan McCullagh: "Apple Computer's attempts to strong-arm Web publishers into divulging their confidential sources illustrates how bloggers, Internet journalists and other online scribes remain second-rate citizens."

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:33:45 GMT

I'm interested in knowing what lawyers think of this. Will it be overturned on appeal? Will it be appealed?

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:33:25 GMT

John Palfrey: "Some have suggested that the answer for bloggers is to establish a professional association. This seems like a mistake to me -- perhaps even completely the wrong way to go."

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:08:38 GMT

Doc Searls: "There is enormous room for improvement in blogging tools."

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:01:58 GMT

Pictures: Mets vs Nationals in Spring Training.

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:18:13 GMT

Movies from yesterday's game: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:30:10 GMT

Hey the Dowbrigade is coming down for spring training!

Google Desktop Search API?

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:38:26 GMT

According to John Battelle, Google Desktop Search (GDS) in its final non-beta form, will have an API. I'll be interested to hear what other developers think, but to me, right now, it's a big yawner, for a few reasons.

1. GDS isn't that useful, most of my work is stored on the net so I can find it where ever I am, so while I needed desktop search a few years ago, Google's came too late to make a difference.

2. It does a great job of indexing spam, so when I search for stuff, I get all the spam that's been sent to me on the search subject. I was surprised how much there is.

3. It's a resource hog, so it got uninstalled a long time ago.

4. An end-run around Microsoft? Feh. Google is the new Microsoft. I'm interested in end-runs around Google.