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		<outline text="Survey: &lt;a href=&quot;http://surveys.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/shouldJournalistsDisclose&quot;&gt;Must journalists disclose?&lt;/a&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/radioAsASlidesEditingTool&quot;&gt;New feature&lt;/a&gt;: Radio as a Slides editing tool for Manila."/>
		<outline text="Microsoft: &lt;a href=&quot;http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/code/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/529/msdncompositedoc.xml&quot;&gt;SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://thauvin.manilasites.com/2000/12/20&quot;&gt;Erik Thauvin&lt;/a&gt; has updated his Bookmarks-to-OPML script."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$1133&quot;&gt;Which&lt;/a&gt; XML-RPC environments support asynchronous calls?"/>
		<outline text="Best wishes to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pyra.com/&quot;&gt;Pyra&lt;/a&gt;, dealing with an outage on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;BlogSpot&lt;/a&gt;. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$6412#6415&quot;&gt;David Davies&lt;/a&gt; on FileMaker 5."/>
		<outline text="Macromedia: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/productinfo/usability/tips/&quot;&gt;Flash Usability Tips&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="A new SOAP &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soaprpc.com/faqs/glossary.html&quot;&gt;glossary&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="I expect great things from &lt;a href=&quot;http://xmlbastard.editthispage.com/&quot;&gt;this site&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/12/20/christmas/index.html&quot;&gt;Scott Rosenberg&lt;/a&gt; wants an email program that works."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.feedmag.com/daily/dy070799_master.html&quot;&gt;Clay Shirky&lt;/a&gt; sees English as the British Navy of today."/>
		<outline text="Press release: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.softquad.com/top_frame.sq?page=press/pr_20001219.html&quot;&gt;Microsoft uses XMetal&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="Motley Fool: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker001220.htm&quot;&gt;Don't Bet on Patents&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="Categories">
			<outline text="A new idea is going to enter the Scripting News vocabulary."/>
			<outline text="&quot;I started a new category.&quot;"/>
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		<outline text="Predictions for Y2K++">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001220/ts/mdf141345.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/shimoPeresThumb.gif&quot; height=&quot;52&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;3&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I started a new category for predictions for 2001."/>
			<outline text="Prediction: Al Gore and/or Bill Clinton will become a partner at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kpcb.com/&quot;&gt;KPCB&lt;/a&gt;."/>
			<outline text="Prediction: The Two-Way-Web, an ever-broadening pipe, will become the focus of the VC community, equal to or exceeding the hype of P2P."/>
			<outline text="(Both will also appear in the Venture Capital category as well.)"/>
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		<outline text="Continuity">
			<outline text="Last night at a geekish party in Menlo Park, I heard the story of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/CoverPage.html&quot;&gt;HTML 3.0&lt;/a&gt;, a 1995 spec produced by a working group of SGML gurus (purists?) to set HTML right. Neither of the major browser vendors participated. Presumably no Web developers participated either. Backward compatibility was not a major goal. It went nowhere. "/>
			<outline text="Then came &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/&quot;&gt;HTML 3.2&lt;/a&gt;, which was continuous with earlier versions, and it was adopted, more or less."/>
			<outline text="Discontinuity is a mathematical term. A function has a discontinuity at y if the limit of f(x) as x approaches y is not defined. The derivative of the function is not defined at y. "/>
			<outline text="Applied to HTML, there was a &lt;a href=&quot;http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/courses/limits/sld030.htm&quot;&gt;discontinuity&lt;/a&gt; at 3.0."/>
			<outline text="Tim Bray on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mailpages.scripting.com/2000/12/20&quot;&gt;Mail Starting 12/20/00&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;I think your basic point (continuity wins) is correct, but I don't think you have the right historical example.&quot;"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://searchrequests.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/disturbingSearchRequestsAd.gif&quot; height=&quot;24&quot; width=&quot;175&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; "/>
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