http://www.scripting.com/ It's even worse than it appears. en-us Copyright 1997-2007 Dave Winer Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:16:41 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss OPML Editor version 0.71 dave@scripting.com dave@scripting.com Great to see all the cool people <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/23/internet-fame-celebrity-tech-media-cx_de_06webceleb_0123land.html">honored by Forbes</a> as the most popular people on the net. Scoble, Arrington, Calacanis, Om -- the stars of our corner of the galaxy. I knew them when they were knee-high to a grasshopper. These guys deserve it. Mazel tov. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:57:53 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:3:57:53PM <a href="http://thomashawk.com/2007/01/forbes-thinks-web-photographers-dont.html">Thomas Hawk</a> took some of the pictures, but didn't get credit at first. He deserves it. See, creative people like to get credit for their work. People act so surprised sometimes. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:55 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:4:00:55PM <img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2007/01/25/boot.gif" width="84" height="79" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named boot.gif">I don't know how you feel about this, but I find the little <a href="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2007/01/25/annoyingPopupWindow.gif">popup preview windows</a> that are showing up on various blogs to be <font size="-1">REALLY ANNOYING.</font> Makes it hard to hover over a link to see where it points. And sometimes it's pointless, like when the page it links to requires a cookie or a password. You know the web is pretty good just the way it is. And these little widgets ought to give <i>users</i> a way to opt out. Or why not just forget the whole thing. Your favorite curmudgii. Uncle Davey. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:02:12 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:4:02:12PM See you at the <a href="http://bayareamixer.eventbrite.com/">PaidContent mixer</a> tonight. Maybe I'll get paid for some content? Heh. Of course not. ";->" Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:55:08 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:3:55:08PM <a href="http://www.calacanis.com/2007/01/25/napster-3-0/">Jason Calacanis reviews</a> Hype Machine, a service that scans music blogs for MP3 songs and maintains custom RSS feeds with enclosures that you can subscribe to with a podcatcher. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:33:38 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:11:33:38AM <a href="http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2007/01/newsworthiness.html">Ed Cone</a>, Greensboro's first blogger, on violence involving Palestinian students at <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5800+W+Friendly+Ave,+Greensboro,+NC&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=13&ll=36.109588,-79.8876&spn=0.059911,0.215607&iwloc=addr">Guilford College</a> yesterday, in Greensboro. Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:00:13 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:6:00:13AM <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/scripting" ><img src="http://www.linkedin.com/img/webpromo/btn_myprofile_160x33.gif" width="160" height="33" border="0" alt="View Dave Winer's profile on LinkedIn"></a> Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:08:59 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2007/01/25.html#When:3:08:59PM