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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2000/10/02/moneyAndTheWeb&quot;&gt;Integrity, Money and the Web&lt;/a&gt;. "/>
		<outline text="The Picasso story in The Paper was even more interesting. He didn't pay the bill. He just did a sketch for the restaurant. A Picasso sketch was worth more than $9K, obviously. I corrected the DaveNet piece so I won't get emails on this into the next millenium. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="A big Manila enhancement">
			<outline text="Tonight we're going to deploy a new feature for UserLand-hosted Manila sites, and distribute it through updates to Frontier servers running Manila outside UserLand. "/>
			<outline text="Before I hype it, let me say that it only works for people who edit their sites with MSIE 4 or greater on Windows."/>
			<outline text="The feature is WYSIWYG editing. When you edit a page in a Manila site, if you're the type of person who doesn't like to look at HTML tags, now you won't have to."/>
			<outline text="Hey it's shipping. Here's a screen shot of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/wizzyEditor2.gif&quot;&gt;wizzy editor&lt;/a&gt;, and a shot showing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/wizzyEditor1.gif&quot;&gt;ugly stuff&lt;/a&gt; it hides. Here's the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dave.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$131&quot;&gt;page&lt;/a&gt; I was editing, just to prove it's for real."/>
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		<outline text="While you wait">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/tools.html&quot;&gt;While you're waiting&lt;/a&gt; for wizzy editing in Manila, if you're a developer working with Radio UserLand, you definitely must check out the new Tools feature that shipped earlier today."/>
			<outline text="Guest &lt;a href=&quot;http://static.userland.com/images/radiodiscuss/MyTool.gif&quot;&gt;databases come&lt;/a&gt; to Radio UserLand, and a new folder called the Tools folder. Each database can have data, &lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/stories/storyReader$689&quot;&gt;nodetypes&lt;/a&gt;, HTTP &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1028&quot;&gt;responders&lt;/a&gt;, XML-RPC &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1075&quot;&gt;handlers&lt;/a&gt;, SOAP &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/soap&quot;&gt;handlers&lt;/a&gt;, a suite of scripts, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/frontier/gifs/hiersharedmenu.gif&quot;&gt;menu&lt;/a&gt; of commands, a &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1356&quot;&gt;thread&lt;/a&gt; that runs in the background and a &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/stories/storyReader$1006&quot;&gt;Website Framework&lt;/a&gt; website. Every trick the pros use. And the really cool thing about Tools is you don't have to link these babies into the right places in Radio.root, that's done &lt;i&gt;automatically.&lt;/i&gt; It's never been easier to extend the environment. If you're a Frontier 4 user, hanging out waiting until all the michegas is sorted out, now's the time. Go go go!"/>
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		<outline text="A breath-taking experience">
			<outline text="Knock at the door. A courier. Please sign for this. On the outside of the envelope, &quot;Attn: Service Agent&quot;. It's from Wilson Sonsini, a famous Silicon Valley lawfirm. Service agent! (I'm being served.) Not a good thing. "/>
			<outline text="Should I sign for it or not? Maybe Conxion is suing me? Maybe I've infringed on a patent? As I open the envelope I wonder how my life is changing."/>
			<outline text="All for naught. I forgot to send back my release for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000926/ca_critica.html&quot;&gt;merger&lt;/a&gt; of Peer Logic with Critical Path. It's a late notice. Easy to deal with. Just like the water bill, or PG&amp;E. I signed the form and mailed it back. Life is &lt;a href=&quot;http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=CPTH&amp;d=t&quot;&gt;good&lt;/a&gt;."/>
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		<outline text="ebXML will not use SOAP">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sdtimes.com/news/015/story1.htm&quot;&gt;SD Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The SOAP architecture, in which Microsoft has played a leading role and which had been under consideration as a possible transport mechanism for the messages by the TRP group, was rejected as being too closed an architecture for the stated open and collaborative direction of the ebXML initiative. Instead, the ebXML initiative chose MIME-XML technology to wrap and send the message.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="This wasn't a surprising development. The goals of ebXML, as far as I can tell, are much more complex than those of SOAP. Further, the things that ebXML does that SOAP doesn't, put it squarely against BizTalk and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uddi.org/about.html&quot;&gt;UDDI&lt;/a&gt;, all the extras Microsoft and the B2B vendors are adding to SOAP. (That's probably what the &quot;too closed an architecture&quot; comment is about.)"/>
			<outline text="These are of no more concern to me than the things ebXML does. I am not a B2B technology vendor, and I'm happy to have compatibility with Microsoft's software at the SOAP level, for now; and I think that some parts of Microsoft will produce software that our stuff will connect to. "/>
			<outline text="I'm looking for a mass market, something like the Web browser was in 1994, but coming from &lt;i&gt;lots&lt;/i&gt; of independent developers working together. I get excited when I hear that people like Philippe Kahn and Rohit Khare (and three other genius-level developers who must remain nameless at this time) are building user-level products around SOAP, and nothing more than SOAP. "/>
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		<outline text="SoapWare">
			<outline text="SOAP is a remote procedure calling protocol, as I see it, it's not doing the same things as ebXML. I'm sure their goals are noble, and the software and services they deliver will be useful, but I'm interested in the Internet as a creative environment, so I see SOAP differently, to me, it connects user-level tools into clouds of content. My vision is far more focused than the Dot-Net vision, and the (apparently competitive) ebXML vision."/>
			<outline text="It can be so simple, just do the things we were doing with COM and Apple Events, but do it over the Internet. No lock-in. Happy users. And to open source developers, this can be a basis of friendship. IBM's SOAP implementation is open source. Let's get all the environments wired up and validated, and start building great reliable clouds for all the users who will soon be running SoapWare on their desktops."/>
			<outline text="(I checked, SoapWare.Com and SoapWare.Net are taken.)"/>
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		<outline text="Random notes">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.quicktopic.com/4/H/RJxvUjWnrveKSCunnsa&quot;&gt;Jim Flanagan&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The Internet interprets Dave Winer having a bad day as damage and routes around it.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="Our servers are getting pounded by spiders again. I wish they would crawl during off-hours, not primetime."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/vacationForTheDg&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: How do you feel about the vacation for the DG?"/>
			<outline text="Tog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.asktog.com/columns/041ApplesLatestWoes.html&quot;&gt;Why is Apple in Trouble?&lt;/a&gt;"/>
			<outline text="Fortune: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fortune.com/fortune/mostpowerful/&quot;&gt;50 Most Powerful Women in Business&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xplatypus.com/ &quot;&gt;XPL&lt;/a&gt; is an &quot;open source initiative, to make a programming language that is an application of XML.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Interesting idea.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=integrity&quot;&gt;Dictionary.Com&lt;/a&gt; on &quot;integrity.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="Hey, it looks like I'm going to the Giants-Mets game on Wed. &lt;i&gt;Let's go Mets!&lt;/i&gt;"/>
			<outline text="Info Today: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infotoday.com/it/oct00/news14.htm&quot;&gt;eMedicine Receives Patent for Internet Publishing Software&lt;/a&gt;. “The software is unique—it is the only enterprise software that allows all production to take place on the Internet.” &lt;i&gt;Hmmm.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
			<outline text="NY Times: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/02/technology/02FBI.html&quot;&gt;I was a Playboy reader for the FBI&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com/2000/10/02&quot;&gt;Oh the joy&lt;/a&gt; of being read by a thoughtful person. Doc hits the nail on the head. There is no Microsoft in Web content tools, nor is there likely to be. Remember about the Internet and outages, and what it does to them. This is part of the &quot;grain&quot; of the Web too. "/>
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		<outline text="Baseball and politics">
			<outline text="The Major League Baseball &lt;a href=&quot;http://baseball.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2000/index&quot;&gt;playoffs start&lt;/a&gt; tomorrow. Braves, Cardinals, Mets, Giants, Yankees, As, Mariners, White Sox. "/>
			<outline text="Isn't it weird that we have so many major league baseball teams, but only two major league political parties?"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.igc.org/cvd/irv/index.html&quot;&gt;Instant Runoff Voting&lt;/a&gt; might get us more political parties. "/>
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		<outline text="Radio UserLand">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://html.ourfavoritesongs.com/dave@userland.com/readme.opml&quot;&gt;A new feature&lt;/a&gt; on OurFavoriteSongs.Com. It can now render OPML files in HTML. This opens a small door for the Radio UserLand people to write for people who don't have RU. It's a necessary bootstrap, not a purist's solution."/>
			<outline text="BTW, I'm still thinking about what Radio UserLand will be when it grows up. The Tools feature gives the users a chance to think about what I'm thinking about. (It should go out today, Murphy-willing, of course.)"/>
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		<outline text="The CMS list and me">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mail-archive.com/cms-list@camworld.com/msg00488.html&quot;&gt;What Cam says&lt;/a&gt; on the CMS list is a partial telling of the story. He had special terms on my participation, that were off the wall, so I said no, I'll read the archives, which is working out pretty well. However, I wish the archives were up to date. It's only &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mail-archive.com/cms-list@camworld.com/maillist.html&quot;&gt;reflecting&lt;/a&gt; messages that were posted last Thursday."/>
			<outline text="BTW, imho, every list has a different culture, and I try to respect that. FoRK is a free-wheeling list. It's a good place to bring tough issues, you'll get flamed, for sure, but a large number of smart people are there, and the list cuts through the BS pretty quickly. The CMS list is quite different. I mostly listen there, to get an idea of what system developers are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mail-archive.com/cms-list@camworld.com/msg00480.html&quot;&gt;thinking&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mail-archive.com/cms-list@camworld.com/msg00486.html&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt;, I've learned a tremendous amount just from lurking on the list. "/>
			<outline text="Perhaps there's a need for a CMS vendors list, also professional, where vendors talk among ourselves about standards and other issues we can address as a group."/>
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