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		<outline text="Today's Song: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9802/lyr-soundofmusic.htm&quot;&gt;The Sound of Music&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$19844&quot;&gt;Eric Kidd posted&lt;/a&gt; a history of &quot;Open Source&quot; yesterday. "/>
		<outline text="Josh Allen &lt;a href=&quot;http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$19845&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; an eloquent response to Eric saying that histories of the Internet are just stories. "/>
		<outline text="There are far too many lawyers involved in what people &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/sex/world/2000/08/18/cop_photo/index.html?CP=RDF&amp;DN=310&quot;&gt;can&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/08/18/internet.vote/index.html&quot;&gt;can't say&lt;/a&gt; on their &lt;a href=&quot;http://voteauction.com/&quot;&gt;own websites&lt;/a&gt;. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/21shar.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Software programs like Napster and Gnutella have achieved a reputation for fostering a communal spirit of sharing among millions of music-loving computer users. The reality may be more selfish.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Jakob Nielsen: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000820.html&quot;&gt;Mailing List Usability&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="Is XML forever doomed?">
			<outline text="My pov: Only programmers comment on XML formats. Designers and writers almost never comment. Therefore all XML formats tend to evolve to please dedicated gutsy XML programmers, and freak out other folk, which imho defeats the purpose of XML, as a low-tech interchange format between applications written by programmers on all platforms, at all skill levels. "/>
			<outline text="One more thing, as a busy programmer, I also appreciate simple formats with simple docs. I read so many specs that I don't have time to understand. Unfortunately for most of the specs, the subtleties come right at the beginning, before I have a chance to get hooked."/>
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		<outline text="A little bird">
			<outline text="A little bird whispered in my ear that Disney and Yahoo are working on a merger. At the same time CNET and Yahoo are pretty close to merger agreement. "/>
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		<outline text="Cluetrain and (we)blogs merge too?">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.evhead.com/&quot;&gt;Evan Williams&lt;/a&gt; pointed to &lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;Doc Searls&lt;/a&gt;, a Cluetrain author who uses &quot;Manila&quot;. Now I'd like to point to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rageboy.com/blogger.html&quot;&gt;Chris Locke&lt;/a&gt;, a Cluetrain author who uses &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/&quot;&gt;Blogger&lt;/a&gt;. "/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/cluetrainArmadillo.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/cluetrainArmadilloThumb.gif&quot; height=&quot;69&quot; width=&quot;50&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I think weblogs are the flipside of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cluetrain.com/&quot;&gt;Cluetrain Manifesto&lt;/a&gt;. Same philosophy. Empowering everyday people to say what they see. Let the cream rise to the top based on the quality of thinking, not based on whether or not, for some stupid reason, their opinions are &quot;important&quot;. (How many idiotic Forrester quotes do you want to read?)"/>
			<outline text="I read Blogger sites and I read Manila sites. (I'd like to think) I read a site independent of what software they use, but I don't always live up to that. That's where I turn to the Cluetrain philosophy. Why should I hold myself back? Why shouldn't I learn from all people who have good ideas? "/>
			<outline text="I got a wonderful email from Chris yesterday. He found Weblogs.Com and discovered that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/stats/findinweblogs?q=rageboy&quot;&gt;he can ask&lt;/a&gt; which weblogs are pointing to him. I hadn't used that feature in a while."/>
			<outline text="Since he's sure to read this, Chris, also check out the &quot;Hotlist&quot;, the most pointed-to pages in the Weblogs.Com database. "/>
			<outline text="(Ooops, I notice that it hasn't updated since 8/14.)"/>
			<outline text="To people who criticize weblogs, yeah it's a great big circle jerk, and it feels great!"/>
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		<outline text="Way down south">
			<outline text="Chris tuned into the tagline on Weblogs.Com, &quot;Way down south in the land of cotton.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="If you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=way+down+south+in+the+land+of+cotton&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&quot;&gt;search for that phrase&lt;/a&gt; in Google, a page on Weblogs.Com comes up number two. Not much help. "/>
			<outline text="I was looking for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danemmetthouse.com/emmett/dixie.html&quot;&gt;lyrics&lt;/a&gt; to the song. "/>
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		<outline text="My bandwidth story">
			<outline text="Yesterday I almost got thrown off the stage at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco. I could hardly finish a sentence. "/>
			<outline text="Now I can.."/>
			<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2000/08/20/myBandwidthStory&quot;&gt;My bandwidth story&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="It was a total Cluetrain experience."/>
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