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		<outline text="OK, I'm outta here for the night. Tomorrow is going to be a double-whammy. I think you're all going to be surprised who the Blogger Of The Year is. Well, I guess not everyone. Heh. It was a race to the finish. Something to behold. But, as with the other honorees, you guys made the right choice. &lt;a href=&quot;http://wmf.editthispage.com/&quot;&gt;Hack The Planet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com&quot;&gt;Black Hole Brain&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.suck.com&quot;&gt;Suck&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintomark.weblogger.com&quot;&gt;Mark Pilgrim&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; and.. tune in tomorrow, about 7AM Pacific to find out who you all chose for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/awards/2001/#bloggerOfTheYear&quot;&gt;BOTY&lt;/a&gt;." created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:48:17 GMT"/>
		<outline text="One more thing before I go. I own &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph%20Crosby&quot;&gt;Joseph Crosby&lt;/a&gt; (remember him?) on Google. And I'm getting lots of hits for it. Yow. Who'd a thunk?" created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:05:55 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.burningbird.net/weblog/2002_01_06_burningbird_archive.php#8584347&quot;&gt;Burning Bird&lt;/a&gt; says that Radio 8 isn't the second coming. She's right about that. It's the eighth. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:44:18 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://80211b.weblogger.com/2002/01/07&quot;&gt;Glenn Fleishman on Microsoft's Mira&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Other companies have offered and withdrawn similar products already.&quot;" created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:42:02 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001285/&quot;&gt;Dan Shafer&lt;/a&gt; just showed up with his Radio 8.0 beta. Dan wrote the docs for 1.0, back in 1991. Nice to see you again Dan!" created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:23:54 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Tonight fifteen fresh guinea pigs are trying out what may be Radio 8.0. If there are no deal-stoppers we're going to go with it. It's certainly not bug free. But it seems to work. FWIW. Murphy-willing. I am not a lawyer. In this lifetime. Etc. etc." created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:25:08 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/justCurious&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Has Joel Spolsky ever pointed to your site?&quot;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:36:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Heehe. ROTFL. As I said on Joel's DG, he's from NY, I had dinner with him at Katz's. The wiener boys were worried that I hurt his feelings. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2002/01/10/joelIsAMensch.gif&quot;&gt;Nahhh&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:55:35 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/technology/circuits/10NETT.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;There are no vans with Internet Inc. logos at the roadside, no workers in Cyberspace hard hats hovering over manholes.&quot;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:22:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2000/01/10&quot;&gt;Two years ago today&lt;/a&gt; AOL merged with Time-Warner. " created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:46:53 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Script of the day: &lt;%sys.unixShellCommand(&quot;cd /Applications;ls&quot;)%&gt;." created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:19:29 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001245/2002/01/10.html#a41&quot;&gt;Larry Staton&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;On the left, underneath the XML button is the temperature in Orlando at the time of this post. How did I do it? I wrote an AppleScript that executes a SOAP call to a server, and the server returns the current temperature.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Try that with .NET.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:02:32 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.crabapples.net/rob/archive/2002_01_06_default.htm#8577092&quot;&gt;Dear Rob&lt;/a&gt;: The number of people who have submitted .NET solutions to the problem Larry solved -- 0. Aside from that, I heard that .NET won't run on the Mac, so how could Larry use .NET to display the temperature via SOAP on his Mac-based website? Another thing to consider, many Web developers hate Microsoft, for good reason. Consider that as another appreciable barrier to ease of use. The sick feeling that comes from hearing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freep.com/news/locoak/ntrunk28_20011128.htm&quot;&gt;trunk&lt;/a&gt; slam and your &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessweek.com/microsoft/updates/up90129a.htm&quot;&gt;air supply&lt;/a&gt; being cut off. I could launch into a speech about how much damage that pesky antitrust suit cost your company with developers, but I have to rush off to a meeting, and you've heard it &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=locked+trunk+microsoft&quot;&gt;before&lt;/a&gt; anyway. One more thing before I run, last time I heard, .NET doesn't have a CMS. Microsoft of course &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; offer a CMS, it costs almost $50,000 per CPU, which is probably out of Larry's price range. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 22:15:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/technology/10PATE.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Amid a general surge in patent activity, IBM was granted 3,411 patents by the USPTO last year, the first time any company collected more than 3,000 in a single year.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.com/news/685165.asp?0dm=C268B&quot;&gt;WSJ&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Everyone was afraid when the Internet was introduced that people would stop coming to the library, but that hasn’t happened.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="Radio 8 Roll" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 18:28:44 GMT">
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/macOsX&quot;&gt;Brent wrote up&lt;/a&gt; a description of how Radio 8.0 is a Mac OS X app. Not being a X user myself, I found it quite illuminating. He says &quot;OS X's Services menu allows applications to work together. At this writing, very few shipping Carbon apps support the Services menu. Radio is one of those few.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Nice!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:39:10 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com/2002/01/09&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2002/01/10/browndwarf.gif&quot; height=&quot;70&quot; width=&quot;93&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I started updating the real Radio UserLand home page yesterday. One thing that's now revealed is the price. $39.95. That's less than a lot of people thought it would be. We want to sell quite a few of these puppies. BTW, looks like there's a good chance we'll ship tomorrow. The store probably won't be up yet and there will be a few loose ends, but people will be able to download the software, and start blogging over the weekend. Every copy starts out as a Trial Version. You pay the money to turn it into a real version. There's nothing the Trial Version can't do -- but it stops working after thirty days." created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:40:42 GMT"/>
			<outline text="We're also going to open the archives of the support mail list for beta testers. What a fantastic group of people who helped us &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=wrestle&quot;&gt;wrestle&lt;/a&gt; this monster piece of software into the land of ease-of-use. There are a lot of lessons in the archives, and by opening it up, we'll eventually get them in the search engines (see below) so whatever isn't covered on the website will be available to people who are exploring the product." created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:47:12 GMT"/>
			<outline text="And we've lifted the embargo on the testers. They are now free to talk about Radio 8 on their blogs. To kick things off, an essay by Michael Fraase, entitled &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.farces.com/2002/01/10/soundSalvation&quot;&gt;Sound Salvation&lt;/a&gt;, after the Elvis Costello song, Radio Radio. &quot;But like old-time radio, the interesting stuff on the web happens at the edges.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Yes.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:50:18 GMT"/>
			<outline text="More from the Fraase essay: &quot;Radio has given moderately sophisticated computer users the power to publish syndicated dynamic content on the web with little to no knowledge of the underlying technology (although that’s open and accessible for our nerd buddies; Radio is built upon open formats and protocols). What that means is that the net is becoming less and less like television and a whole lot more like something much more powerful of which we’ve only begun to scratch the surface.&quot;" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:09:47 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Yup, the users cared" created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:19:49 GMT">
			<outline text="Here's a good morning teaser question. If you knew you were going to be stranded on a deserted island and could only take one website with you, which would it be? "/>
			<outline text="The correct answer is also the winner of the award for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/awards/2001/#bestWeblogUtility/distraction&quot;&gt;Best Weblog Utility/Distraction&lt;/a&gt; for 2001, as chosen by the readers of Scripting News. The envelope please."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/2002/01/10/google.gif&quot; height=&quot;43&quot; width=&quot;147&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;20&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;It's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt;, of course. The relationship between Google and Weblogs has become &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=symbiotic&quot;&gt;symbiotic&lt;/a&gt; in the last year, as Google &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/08/18/googleUpgradesTheWeb&quot;&gt;transformed&lt;/a&gt; itself a Just-In-Time search engine. Weblogs, which flip their home pages every day, provide a constant source of new stories and perspectives for Google's fantastic robot and ranking engine."/>
			<outline text="Google wasn't the Web's first search engine, but they're the best, hands-down, by far. It's fast, timely, remarkably intelligent, and easy to use. How did they get that way? They kept it simple and focused on user experience. "/>
			<outline text="As they were &lt;a href=&quot;http://groups.google.com/corporate/history.html&quot;&gt;starting up&lt;/a&gt; in 1998, one portal CEO told them, &quot;As long as we're 80 percent as good as our competitors, that's good enough. Our users don't really care about search.&quot; "/>
			<outline text="Oh how wrong that poor CEO was. " created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:21:58 GMT"/>
			<outline text="We really &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; care about search. One of the few VC-funded companies to survive the dotcom bust, Google is profitable and growing. It's one of the cornerstones of the Web's revival, focused on giving good service, and staying easy to use, and having the courage to point offsite, trusting users to come back again and again, and we do, in ever-increasing numbers. "/>
			<outline text="In so many ways Google embodies what's great about the Web, and it's with a hearty &quot;I totally agree&quot; that we give Google our award for Web utility in 2001. Thanks Google, and keep up the great work." created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:22:28 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Tomorrow, the final award for 2001, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/awards/2001/#bloggerOfTheYear&quot;&gt;BOTY&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 10 Jan 2002 16:25:57 GMT"/>
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