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		<outline text="Continuing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://newhome.weblogs.com/personalWebPublishingCommunities&quot;&gt;What Are Weblogs&lt;/a&gt; thread -- weblogs are relational writing, that's why it is so close, if you're serious about it, to academic writing. Almost everything on this page relates one thing to one or several other things. Academic writing is supposed to be that way, but it was hard work before the Web. " created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:43:22 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Bill Humphries &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webloggerusergroup/message/909&quot;&gt;tells a story&lt;/a&gt; of meeting a journal-writer at a party. &quot;But those are just lists of links!&quot; she said dismissively re weblogs. Bill's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/index.php&quot;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; is just that, a list of links. I still go there when he updates, so &lt;i&gt;something&lt;/i&gt; is happening there. " created="Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:06:19 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Is weblog writing like any other kind of writing that came before? I think not. Linking has never meant so much. I speak from experience, having spent much my early life poring through card catalogs and library shelves, and rarely finding what I was looking for. I was doing then what DNS and HTTP do now (and Google). The Web is so much faster that it makes relational writing possible, much the same way that outlining software made outlining possible. (Before that many people faked the outlines, we were supposed to create them &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; writing the paper, but instead we wrote them after.)" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:58:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="One more thought before going for a walk. On the K-Logs list, &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/message/86&quot;&gt;Phil Wolff says&lt;/a&gt; that it must be hard to do what I do, beyond the scope of a casual blogger. It's true. I pour huge amounts of time into this weblog, both writing &lt;a href=&quot;http://backend.userland.com/rss092&quot;&gt;and&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://manila.userland.com/&quot;&gt;attaching&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/manilaRpcSpec&quot;&gt;software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;ornaments&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/&quot;&gt;to&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opml.org/spec&quot;&gt;it&lt;/a&gt;, it's like a Christmas tree, it grows up and new gadgets come online every year. (And then eventually you decide enough experimenting it's time to do this for real.)" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:50:22 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Anyway, of course no one but me is going to be willing to put so much time into it. But here's the key thing Phil, software always works that way. Someone has to do the iteration, and factoring and learning (and relearning when new people come on board) and waiting and sloshing through the details -- sometimes two or three times -- toward one end -- making it so easy to do that &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; can do it. This is the unfortunate fact of bootstrapping. Someone has to do it manually before you can figure out how to automate it. This is probably the last bootstrap I'm going to do, personally. In the future I'd like to just watch and critique other people doing them. I'm getting too old for all this digging!!" created="Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:10:30 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/11/16#l6c2b29fad9e4832bc3197ec6e42329ff&quot;&gt;BTW&lt;/a&gt;, it turns out that Scripting News is not listed in Yahoo's weblogs &lt;a href=&quot;http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Communications/Writing/Journals_and_Diaries/Online_Journals_and_Diaries/Web_Logs/&quot;&gt;section&lt;/a&gt; because it is already listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_and_Development/Languages/Scripting_Languages/&quot;&gt;under&lt;/a&gt; scripting. Is that anyway to manage the biggest directory on the Web? You gotta be kiddin. (That's like saying you can't get to this site by searching for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=dave&quot;&gt;Dave&lt;/a&gt; because you can also get there through &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=scripting&quot;&gt;scripting&lt;/a&gt;.)" created="Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:06:53 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Bruce Epstein: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/873&quot;&gt;Why Virtual Offices Suck&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Amen!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 18 Nov 2001 00:24:49 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/whats_new.html&quot; title=&quot;Hello my name is Harry Potter.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/11/17/harry.gif&quot; height=&quot;56&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;3&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mixed reviews for Harry Potter. Thumb-up from &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.manilasites.com/2001/11/17&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt;. He says &quot;Worth seeing twice.&quot; Thumb-down from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kottke.org/notes/0111.html#011117&quot;&gt;Kottke&lt;/a&gt; &quot;Goonies + Star Wars dumbed down for the kids.&quot; Who's next?" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 19:06:32 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://aaronland.net/toys/apache-xbel/&quot;&gt;Aaron Cope&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Apache::XBEL is an Apache mod_perl handler that uses XSLT to transform XML Bookmarks Exchange Language files into exciting and foofy dynamic HTML documents.&quot;" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:08:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Foofy? Is that a technical term?" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:13:11 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=2001_11_01_archive.inc#20011117&quot;&gt;Megnut&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;True paradigm-shifting, revolutionary thinking is rare and hard to come by.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Amen!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 23:42:05 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/11/17/amanpour.jpg&quot; title=&quot;I am brilliant and beautiful and I know it.&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/11/17/amanpourSmall.gif&quot; height=&quot;63&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;12&quot; vspace=&quot;3&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Good morning &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=nitpicker&quot;&gt;nitpickers&lt;/a&gt;. I think it's cool that &lt;a href=&quot;http://jrobb.userland.com&quot;&gt;Jrobb&lt;/a&gt; gets the top hit for the godess of CNN, no matter how you spell her name. I've already gotten two dozen emails on this. You might think you were the first to notice. Trust me, you weren't. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Now, instead of worrying about us UserLanders having a little fun dreaming about the luscious and brilliant and outspoken Ms Amanpour, here's something worth writing home about.." created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:55:51 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/17/technology/17INTE.html?pagewanted=print&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The Bush administration is considering the creation of a secure new government communications network separate from the Internet that would be less vulnerable to attack and efforts to disrupt critical federal activities.&quot;" created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:53:44 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Why do I worry about this? Because if the government has their own private network, they won't care if the one I use gets trashed by Uncle Osama and his evil-doing friends. " created="Sat, 17 Nov 2001 16:56:27 GMT"/>
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