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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24179-2003Nov10.html&quot;&gt;Washington Post&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;George Soros, one of the world's richest men, has given away nearly $5 billion to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: defeating President Bush.&quot;" category="/Politics/Money" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:50:58 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Ready or not, it's time to start flipping switches in the transition of Scripting News from weblog to directory for the World Wide Web. Some changes will be visible to the public, others will only be visible to me. By this time tomorrow the cactus will be gone. Everything will change, except one thing will remain constant. It's all still the unedited voice of a person. But it will be modular, and it will be possible for my voice to be mixed with others, in new ways." category="/Dave/Scripting News" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:34:33 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Feeling mellow today, I picked up the phone and called Mark Pilgrim, and said we should work together. There's a story that's been circulating, it first appeared in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:fosg_EhEDo4J:aoir.org/members/papers4/rothenberg_aoir.pdf&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&quot;&gt;paper&lt;/a&gt; given by Matthew Rothenberg, a NYU professor, about standards evolution in the weblog world, and was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html&quot;&gt;picked&lt;/a&gt; up by Clay Shirky (who's also teaching at NYU these days). Mark and I both figure heavily in the story. One of the many lessons of the Rothenberg piece is that people &lt;i&gt;want us to work together.&lt;/i&gt; I think it's a good idea. Mark is a smart man, and we have done some great collaboration in the past. When we both get on the same page, mountains move." category="/Pundits/Clay Shirky,/Technology/Formats and Protocols/RSS" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:43:43 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Announcing a Scripting News dinner, on Tuesday November 25, at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kingtsin.com/&quot;&gt;King Tsin&lt;/a&gt; restaurant in Berkeley, 7PM. Thanks to Sylvia Paull, doyenne of Bay Area geeks, for coordinating. This will be the first Scripting News event in the East Bay. " category="/Dave/Scripting News/Dinners" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:09:55 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath524/kmath524.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2003/11/11/rockingchair.jpg&quot; width=&quot;65&quot; height=&quot;78&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named rockingchair.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been friends with &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/weblogsearch/?q=Sylvia+Paull&quot;&gt;Sylvia&lt;/a&gt; for almost 20 years, going back to the early days of the Macintosh. She worked at a company started by &lt;a href=&quot;http://kpcb.userland.com/stories/storyReader$21&quot;&gt;Will Hearst&lt;/a&gt; called Software Ventures. They did a program called Microphone, the early leader in the Mac communications market, before the Internet caught on, when lots of people were dialing into &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/scriptingArchive/2001/09/06#learningAboutIcq&quot;&gt;Compuserve&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=mci+mail&quot;&gt;MCI&lt;/a&gt; via modems. Anyway, Sylvia once said something to me that I'll &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/scriptingArchive/cats/Dave/Homilies/Mottos&quot;&gt;file&lt;/a&gt; under Homilies, that made a huge difference a long time ago, but it has special relevance today. She said &quot;I only go to parties my friends are welcome at.&quot; It's one of those mottos that makes sense from every angle, and it's a beautiful way to manage your personal relationships. Don't sweat it. If you're having a party, everyone is welcome. It's bad karma to try to split up friends. (It turns out it's just as bad to let yourself be split. You end up losing friends that way.)" category="/Dave/Homilies/Mottos" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:11:17 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/politics/11KERR.html?ex=1383973200&amp;en=f9454484b0b398b5&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2003/11/11/kerry.jpg&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; height=&quot;51&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named kerry.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_11_09.html#002190&quot;&gt;Joshua Marshall&lt;/a&gt; doesn't, in his gut, believe that Dean has it sewn up. Meanwhile &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/politics/11KERR.html?ex=1383973200&amp;en=f9454484b0b398b5&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;Kerry fires&lt;/a&gt; his campaign manager, and a new poll shows that Joe Lieberman &lt;a href=&quot;http://politicalwire.com/archives/003469.html&quot;&gt;leads&lt;/a&gt; in Ohio." category="/Politics/Presidential Election of 2004,/Politics/Presidential Election of 2004/Lieberman Campaign" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:41:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="A people hire A people, B people hire C people. Always strive for the most excellence. Never be scared to work with people who are smarter than you. Never be scared to &lt;i&gt;let&lt;/i&gt; others be smarter than you. (Filed under &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/scriptingArchive/cats/Dave/Homilies/Mottos&quot;&gt;Dave/Homilies/Mottos&lt;/a&gt;.)" category="/Dave/Homilies/Mottos" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:05:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politicsnh.com/calendar/index.shtml&quot;&gt;This week is shaping&lt;/a&gt; up to be huge in NH, with Kerry, Dean and Clark touring at the same time. " category="/Politics/Presidential Election of 2004/New Hampshire Primary" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 03:36:39 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/11/11&quot;&gt;Greenspun&lt;/a&gt; in Mexico City. " created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:08:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.StateDemocracy.com&quot;&gt;StateDemocracy.Com&lt;/a&gt; looks interesting." category="/Politics" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:20:44 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/churchsigngenerator/index.php&quot;&gt;The Church Sign Generator&lt;/a&gt; has great potential." category="/Fun/Neat Net Tricks" created="Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:01:34 GMT"/>
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