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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2000/11/15/clayShirkyOnP2p&quot;&gt;Clay Shirky on P2P&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/howtoUseRadioAsAManilaWeblogWritingTool&quot;&gt;How to use Radio&lt;/a&gt; as a Manila writing tool. &quot;As we know, editing in a browser is very convenient, but editing in an outliner, when you're at your workstation, is more effiicient&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=482&quot;&gt;Online Journalism Review&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The site is clean, quick to load, easy to read and filled with the kind of user-friendly, interactive features that Web sites are supposed to have but never do.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Palm Beach Post: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/tuesday/news_16.html&quot;&gt;Suit questions Cheney residence&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1068&quot;&gt;Maury Markowitz&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Who should parse the XML?&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://mailpages.scripting.com/2000/11/14&quot;&gt;More&lt;/a&gt; great mail."/>
		<outline text="A new tradition?">
			<outline text="After watching a week of escalating lies on TV, I wonder if it wouldn't be fun to lie myself?"/>
			<outline text="How about a new tradition. We've had Casual Fridays for years, where people can wear jeans and T-shirts (nice ones) to work, so everyone can relax. That was cool. Now how about Casual Thursdays, where we relax on honesty?"/>
			<outline text="Under the rules of Casual Thursdays, you wouldn't be &lt;i&gt;required&lt;/i&gt; to lie, but it would be permissible, even encouraged, to do so. When someone asks why you lied about this or that, ask them to look at the calendar. Or say &quot;I'll get back to you on Friday.&quot; That would be the keyword alerting the other person that you're taking advantage of the new rules."/>
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		<outline text="A recycled idea">
			<outline text="In my younger days I used to go to industry conferences several times a year, mostly sitting in the audience, listening to poor speakers drone on and on about how great their stuff is, how dominant they are, and thinking to myself Blah blah blah blah blah. "/>
			<outline text="Sometimes I'd lean over and whisper into the next person's ear, Blah blah blah, etc. It's always good for a laugh. My guess is that virtually 100 percent of the people in the audience know that the speaker is lying, so why not find a way to capture that information and display it?"/>
			<outline text="Here's the idea. Give 1000 viewers, on a rotating basis, a new device hooked up to their TV, a special remote control that has a new big easy to hit button, labeled &quot;Blah-Blah&quot;. You can hit it as many times as you want, when you feel insulted by whatever the person is saying. "/>
			<outline text="There would be a Blah-Blah bar at the bottom of the TV screen for everyone to see. It would add a new dimension of unpredictability to TV watching. And the people who spew lies would have to stop and ask every once in a while how they're doing, and then we could all have a really fine laugh if the Blah-Blah-Bar was high at that moment."/>
			<outline text="A visible Will of the American People. Or a new kind of reality TV, based on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Programs/Game_Shows/Gong_Show,_The/&quot;&gt;idea pioneered&lt;/a&gt; in the 1980s."/>
			<outline text="BTW, just for fun I applied to be the editor of the Gong Show category on DMOZ."/>
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		<outline text="Does my vote matter?">
			<outline text="This is the first morning since the election that my point of view hasn't shifted. After this is over if anyone tells me that my vote matters, I'm going to laugh. I'm laughing right now. "/>
			<outline text="Just do the math. Let's say it's not a close election. Clearly, in that case, my vote doesn't matter, the outcome would be the same whether or not I voted. Suppose it is a close election. Then it's going to court and a judge is going to decide. In that case my vote doesn't count. As they say in math, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=qed&quot;&gt;QED&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="The only remaining question is if the judge is impartial or is a partisan. How could the judge be impartial? "/>
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