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		<outline text="BBC: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1586000/1586889.stm&quot;&gt;Russia's threadbare forests revealed&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Only a small part of the northern forests of European Russia remain in relatively intact large sections.&quot;" created="Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:38:43 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.farces.com/farces/1002668279/&quot;&gt;Michael Fraase&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Microsoft intends to control every aspect of digital media, from creation to consumption.&quot;" created="Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:19:17 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-2001351208,00.html&quot;&gt;London Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Bin Laden, kneeling in a cave, clad in combat fatigues, summoned Islam to arms. Bush, suited and enthroned in the White House, called his own country to fight, but just as importantly, urged moderate Muslims to support (or at least not oppose) the operation against bin Laden and his Taleban protectors.&quot;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 23:13:43 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.com/news/640434.asp?0si=-&quot;&gt;WSJ&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Racing a deadline imposed by state education authorities, 'American Nation' authors and editors have been scrambling for nearly four weeks to place the proper historical perspective on a terrorist assault that has enveloped the country in a still-unfolding crisis.&quot;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 22:09:40 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Eric Soroos: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiredfool.com/discuss/msgReader$391&quot;&gt;JSP Proxy Responder&lt;/a&gt;." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:56:30 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I've been hearing a lot in the last couple of days about &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aljazeera.net/&quot;&gt;Al-Jazeera&lt;/a&gt;, the Qatar-based TV network that covers the Moslem world the way CNN covers the US. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/10/09/aljazeera.gif&quot;&gt;Screen shot&lt;/a&gt;. On NPR they interviewed people in their audience, they sound like people who have recently discovered weblogs. &quot;Finally I'm getting the news unfiltered by CNN,&quot; they say enthusiastically." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:42:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.curry.com/2001/10/09#updateOnThePresentation&quot;&gt;Adam Curry&lt;/a&gt; demo'd weblogs for the Dutch Education Ministry." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:33:35 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Dan Bricklin: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bricklin.com/robfuture.htm&quot;&gt;Copy Protection Robs the Future&lt;/a&gt;." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:17:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/index.html&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt; is having fun with his Radio 7.1 beta." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 21:19:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Wired: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,47418,00.html&quot;&gt;High Court Nixes MS Appeal&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Microsoft's appeal that could have prevented as-yet-unspecified penalties from being levied against the software maker.&quot;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 19:27:45 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/national/09INQU.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have ordered agents across the country to curtail their investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks so they can pursue leads that might prevent a second, possibly imminent, round of attacks, senior law enforcement officials said.&quot;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:31:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Radio UserLand: &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$6752&quot;&gt;Web server port changes in 7.1&lt;/a&gt;." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:06:45 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://directorytheme.manilasites.com/&quot;&gt;New Manila theme&lt;/a&gt;, designed for directory sites, patterned after SoapWare.Org." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 17:35:24 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0110090233oct09.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed&quot;&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The flight attendant said 'Get him,' and, damn it, everyone went up and got him.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/hyakugojyuuichi/&quot;&gt;Just when&lt;/a&gt; you least expect it!" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 18:06:54 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Java's strategy" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:41:24 GMT">
			<outline text="Reading this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1002605379&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; on BetaNews about Sun's response to Microsoft's move to embrace Java in .NET, once again I felt the urge to evangelize. " created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:41:29 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Sun, please move Java into the path of .NET. You're ceding them the high ground. Protect your leadership position. " created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:43:28 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Sun could instantly turn Java into the installed base leader in Web Services by baking-in SOAP and XML-RPC support. " created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:43:57 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Make Microsoft climb your installed base hill. It's almost as if Sun &lt;i&gt;wants&lt;/i&gt; Java to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=subsumed&quot;&gt;subsumed&lt;/a&gt; into .NET." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:45:57 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Microsoft's strategy" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:52:50 GMT">
			<outline text="It's simple, Divide and Conquer." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:52:53 GMT"/>
			<outline text="For each developer community, call it Foo, create a new community, Foo.Net." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:53:02 GMT"/>
			<outline text="It's easy for a Foo developer to use Foo.Net." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:53:35 GMT"/>
			<outline text="But the transition the other way is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; easy." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:54:02 GMT"/>
			<outline text="You'll see this happen with every open source development environment. None of them have any protection against this, either legally or in their communities. The leaders appear either not to know what to do about Microsoft, or aren't alarmed by Microsoft's strategy." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:54:19 GMT"/>
			<outline text="If they were alarmed, they would do what I recommend that Java do. (See above.) Protect your community, make it easy for them to participate in the Internet as a scripting environment without ceding their future to Microsoft." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:59:25 GMT"/>
			<outline text="As we've seen with Java, even an alert and aggressive competitor can't mount a defense without technical acumen at the top. We'll look back in a few years and play what if. What if the leaders of other development communities were paying attention when Microsoft challenged them?" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:54:46 GMT"/>
			<outline text="If they taught software strategy in colleges, this would be covered in the first semester. It's basic stuff. " created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:10:30 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="We've been here before" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:03:30 GMT">
			<outline text="In the early 90s when Apple had the high ground in GUIs, they gave the market to Microsoft." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:03:35 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I remember meeting with a MS exec in that period, he was grilling me for info about Apple's counter to Windows. &quot;When is it coming!&quot; he wanted to know, and what will it look like?" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:03:58 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I shook my head. &quot;It's not coming.&quot; " created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:04:41 GMT"/>
			<outline text="He thought I was bullshitting him." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:04:49 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I wasn't." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:04:55 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Today's Apple" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:12:05 GMT">
			<outline text="One more comment." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:12:07 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Today's Apple is &lt;i&gt;doing it right.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:12:11 GMT"/>
			<outline text="I've heard that they're blown away by the response that's come from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/applescript/macosx/web_services/&quot;&gt;baking-in&lt;/a&gt; SOAP and XML-RPC in Mac OS 10.1. In a way I'm blown away too, but on giving it more thought, &lt;i&gt;of course&lt;/i&gt; the Mac developers and scripters love it." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:12:16 GMT"/>
			<outline text="XML-RPC is the continuation of a philosophy of scriptable apps that &lt;i&gt;started on the Mac.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:13:14 GMT"/>
			<outline text="XML-RPC has broadened that, to include the Unix developers, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/stories/storyReader$1265&quot;&gt;who&lt;/a&gt; love it because it is so Unixy." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:13:40 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Mac developers meet Unix developers." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:14:11 GMT"/>
			<outline text="That sparks the kind of love that Microsoft never will gather around itself. They're simply unlovable. Not to be trusted. " created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:14:20 GMT"/>
			<outline text="So Apple says &quot;Hey this shit is interesting, let's give it a try.&quot;" created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:16:23 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Exactly." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:15:17 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Now Apple is too small to worry about trusting them. Sure they'd eat our lunch if they could, but they can't, so we don't have to worry. Their weakness is an advantage. Zig-zag. In the meantime the open source scripting leadership and the execs at Sun miss that they have a similar advantage, and don't use it. Shame." created="Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:17:35 GMT"/>
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