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		<outline text="Good morning ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's time for the annual &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/awards/2001/&quot;&gt;Scripting News Awards for 2001&lt;/a&gt;. These are the best weblogs this year in my humble opinion. Who will win? That's up to you!"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hp.com/sbso/advice/articles_general3.html&quot;&gt;Hewlett-Packard&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;A new species of the personal Web page has emerged recently with dedicated hordes of devotees. This new beast is a blog, short for weblog. Blogs are essentially minimalist Web pages heavy on personal opinion, as well as a collection of links mirroring the blogger's recent Web travels.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Now you know it's getting mainstream.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:31:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://brentashley.manilasites.com/2001/12/17&quot;&gt;Brent Ashley&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I've been saying for ages that Linux will never be ready for prime time until I can take a bare machine, pop the disk in, and have it up and configured pretty well automatically, without partitioning, farting with X parameters, finding drivers, all that.&quot;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:00:11 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flutterby.com/archives/viewentry.cgi?id=4364&quot;&gt;Dan Lyke&lt;/a&gt; says he may do his own award nominations, and I think that's a great idea. The process of thinking through what sites you value and why and then saying so publicly is a good one to go through. I learned a lot doing this." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:21:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="BTW, the awards are #1 in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.daypop.com/top.htm&quot;&gt;Daypop Top 40&lt;/a&gt;. First time I ever got a #1. &lt;i&gt;Thanks!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:48:26 GMT"/>
		<outline text="BTW, today's Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=awards&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for &quot;awards&quot;. You gotta know I'm going to be checking that again in a few days. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:06:48 GMT"/>
		<outline text="While the rest of the development team has been focused on Radio 7.1 and beyond, Brent has been &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/news/&quot;&gt;kicking butt&lt;/a&gt; on Frontier and Manila. Lots of new features. For example, today &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontier.userland.com/emailConfig&quot;&gt;Frontier got&lt;/a&gt; the ability to send a configuration email. This will be an invaluable tool for getting quick answers to server configuration problems. " created="Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:20:02 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redhat.com/support/wpapers/redhat/RHNetwork/RHN-technical/&quot;&gt;Red Hat&lt;/a&gt; is using XML-RPC in a strategic way. That's cool. "/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://spicynoodles.com/2001/12/17&quot;&gt;Andre&lt;/a&gt; has a pic of a Euro." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:12:04 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Michael Fraase: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.farces.com/stories/storyReader$230&quot;&gt;Is spam killing email?&lt;/a&gt;" created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:09:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="BTW, we found another &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001189/&quot;&gt;brilliant kid&lt;/a&gt;, Jeremiah Rogers. This one groks outliners. When I got an email from him last week I thought what a smart person. I bet he's young. Then I see his pic on his blog and am blown away by how young he is. " created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 20:59:15 GMT"/>
		<outline text="There have been lots of great acceptance speeches today, but none more enthusiastic than the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=effusive&quot;&gt;effusive&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.2020hindsight.org/2001/12/17.html&quot;&gt;Susan Kitchens&lt;/a&gt;. I found myself rooting for her, just reading her gush. A natural-born blogger if ever there was one." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 19:48:45 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.camworld.com/journal/rants/2001/12/17.html&quot;&gt;Cam is pissed off&lt;/a&gt; that I nominated him for BOTY. &lt;i&gt;Bummer.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Tue, 18 Dec 2001 03:26:43 GMT"/>
		<outline text="To Brent, re &lt;a href=&quot;http://inessential.com/2001/12/17.html&quot;&gt;Inessential&lt;/a&gt;, that &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; a corollary of Murphy's Law. It's close kin to the one that says that broken computers can often be repaired by taking them for a drive in the car." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:20:14 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Two years ago we were &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1999/12/17/aMillenniumVignette&quot;&gt;contemplating&lt;/a&gt; a new millennium. &quot;It's like a graduation, but on a global scale. There's never been anything like it. It's never happened before, and in our lives it will never happen again. If you screw it up you won't get another chance. So play it safe and assume everyone means well, and let it go at that.&quot;" created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:06:47 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Wired: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,49091,00.html&quot;&gt;Madcap Maneuvers Halt MS Hearing&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:59:00 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Dan Mitchell &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001112/2001/12/17.html&quot;&gt;reviews&lt;/a&gt; Apple's iPod. " created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:08:37 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Notes on the choices" created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:25:04 GMT">
			<outline text="I feel terrible about not nominating sites I love. An example, Daniel Berlinger's &lt;a href=&quot;http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/&quot;&gt;Archipelago&lt;/a&gt;. Daniel is such a sweet guy. I thought about it, but it's not one of my mainstays. Like he says, maybe next year. Same with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bump.net&quot;&gt;Bump&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:25:09 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Then, there was the Best-Named-Blog category. I only had &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnudist.com/&quot;&gt;two&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogblogbaby.com/&quot;&gt;entries&lt;/a&gt; there, and I didn't know either site well. Then Dori Smith &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.backupbrain.com/2001_12_16_archive.html#7978436&quot;&gt;posted&lt;/a&gt; a reminder, after I had finished, saying that I had once complimented her for having such a great name for her blog. Ouch. Backup Brain has become a regular read for me, and the name itself fades into the background. It's a two-personality blog, Dori writes it with her husband Tom Negrino. If there had been a best named blog category this year, no doubt BB should have been in it." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:26:11 GMT"/>
			<outline text="There are people who run weblogs, like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiredfool.com/&quot;&gt;Eric Soroos&lt;/a&gt;, who are expert scripters, but their sites don't cover scripting, or update too infrequently, to make it into the scripting weblogs &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/awards/2001/#bestScriptingWeblog&quot;&gt;category&lt;/a&gt;. Part of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/12/09#awardsCriteria&quot;&gt;criteria&lt;/a&gt; for choosing a site is frequency of updating, and the expectation of continued updates. It's entirely subjective. And so far no flames, thank you, my &lt;a href=&quot;#fragile&quot;&gt;fragile&lt;/a&gt; condition may be getting me some sympathy, if so, that's cool. And I'm sure that lurking in the shadows are some sites I'm going to kick myself for not honoring. I'll use Scripting News, my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=bully%20pulpit&quot;&gt;bully pulpit&lt;/a&gt;, to make up for that." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:28:48 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Fragile" created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:59:31 GMT">
			<outline text="Today is a special day not just because of the opening of the awards site but also because My Back Is Out. This happens every few years. I'm like a cripple. Walking is very slow and painful. Bending down to pick something up an impossibility. Yet here I am contemplating a day of work, hoping I don't start coughing (I have a lingering cold) or laughing too hard. Oh the fragile human condition. And the spam flood continues in force. 180 messages this morning, almost all of it offering things I have no interest in. Sympathy is appreciated, solutions not. " created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:38:10 GMT"/>
			<outline text="BTW, to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.camworld.com/&quot;&gt;Cam&lt;/a&gt;, who is one of the nominees for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/awards/2001/#bloggerOfTheYear&quot;&gt;Blogger Of The Year&lt;/a&gt;, we think of email in different ways. I want my readers to be able to send me email. Hiding my email address would make that impossible. I'll put up with the spam. There is no alternative other than to stop using email altogether." created="Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:00:30 GMT"/>
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