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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100593/categories/ideasForRadioUserland/2002/02/17.html#a134&quot;&gt;Frank McPherson&lt;/a&gt; gave me an idea for a new macro for Radio. If you use the Weblogs.Com interface, we know what your favorite weblogs are, and we know when they updated. So why not have an easy way to include that in your home page template? That's what this macro does. &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/2002/02/20.html#a977&quot;&gt;Demo&lt;/a&gt;. Call the macro this way: &lt;%radio.macros.viewFavoriteWeblogs ()%&gt;. That's all there is to it." created="Thu, 21 Feb 2002 03:46:47 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Paul Boutin &lt;a href=&quot;http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2002/02/20&quot;&gt;wonders&lt;/a&gt; if Dig-It (get it?) is a hoax." created="Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:53:33 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Amazon is &lt;a href=&quot;http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/promotion-glance/A2LK33CD53IY38/058-1682558-9837964&quot;&gt;auctioning&lt;/a&gt; three Segways." created="Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:57:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://buzz.weblogs.com/2002/02/20&quot;&gt;Branscum&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;PR is awfully helpful to companies trolling for investors, I am told.&quot;" created="Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:31:37 GMT"/>
		<outline text="A downside to CSS I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere. (And it may be a bug in MSIE.) When I visit Jonathon Delacour's &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100655/&quot;&gt;site&lt;/a&gt;, for a few seconds, this is &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/02/20/before.gif&quot;&gt;what I see&lt;/a&gt;. The formatting is applied, and then &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/02/20/after.gif&quot;&gt;I see this&lt;/a&gt;. The delay is long enough that I start reading before the makeup appears. I lose my train of thought, and start reading again." created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:20:04 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp&quot;&gt;Blue Robot&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Just one LINK element or SCRIPT element inside a document's HEAD element will prevent a flash of unstyled content.&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:27:07 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://dogma2000.cx/banners.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/02/20/dogma.gif&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; height=&quot;49&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named dogma.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yesterday after brushing up on &lt;a href=&quot;http://dogma2000.cx/&quot;&gt;Dogma 2000&lt;/a&gt;, I had a thought. If you believe the Web is a come-as-you-are, we're-all-just-folks writing and reading environment, why bother with CSS? Serious question. Go ahead and flame me if you want, but the question is still there. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:22:30 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/dogma2000OrCss&quot;&gt;Survey&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;If you had to choose between the philosophy of CSS or the philosophy of Dogma 2000, which would you choose?&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:02:58 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://pberry.weblogger.com/2002/02/20&quot;&gt;Patrick Berry&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;CSS is even more for the writer than the reader.&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:05:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#cindy&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/02/20/cindy.gif&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; height=&quot;46&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture of Cindy McCaffrey.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Follow-up on an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Google-Ads.html&quot;&gt;AP report&lt;/a&gt; saying that Google is selling out to advertisers. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#cindy&quot;&gt;Cindy McCaffrey&lt;/a&gt;, Google's VP-Corporate Marketing, sent an &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/stories/2002/02/20/cindyMccaffreyOnGooglesAdPolicy.html&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;http://doc.weblogs.com/&quot;&gt;Doc&lt;/a&gt; and myself saying the report is not true. &quot;The AP put out an article last night that pretty directly implies that we're going to enable advertisers to influence rankings through payment. Wrong.&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:57:17 GMT"/>
		<outline text="At the same time, we're back on track with Google on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/02/16#helloGoogle&quot;&gt;XML stuff&lt;/a&gt;. Should be pretty interesting. Can't say more at this time. BTW, in case you wanted to know, Doc is the number two &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=doc&quot;&gt;Doc&lt;/a&gt; on Google. I'm the number two &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=dave&amp;btnG=Google+Search&quot;&gt;Dave&lt;/a&gt;, and try as hard as I can, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=john+doerr&quot;&gt;no longer&lt;/a&gt; own &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2001/02/01/johnDoerrOnABicycle&quot;&gt;John Doerr&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;But I never give up!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:48:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/2002/02/20.html#a976&quot;&gt;DHRB has comments&lt;/a&gt; now, so if you want to flame me there's never been a better time." created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:14:02 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Jean-Louis Gassee &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.liberation.com/chroniques/gassee.html&quot;&gt;tours&lt;/a&gt; the Bay Area, en francais." created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:15:48 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg008614.html&quot;&gt;7/20/99&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Once a long time ago he asked me in his French way if I was a pimp or a whore. I had trouble answering, but when I turned the question back at him, without hesitation he said he was a pimp.&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:01:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/2100-1001-836803.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-sty.0&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/02/20/gates.gif&quot; width=&quot;50&quot; height=&quot;49&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;10&quot; alt=&quot;A picture of Bill Gates at the VS .Net rollout last week.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Yesterday's News.Com &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/2100-1001-839853.html&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; about Microsoft and Web Services raises a lot of questions. Coming one week after the &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/2100-1001-836803.html?tag=dd.ne.dht.nl-sty.0&quot;&gt;rollout&lt;/a&gt; of Visual Studio.Net, after consistent statements by Microsoft execs that .Net is a new beginning for Microsoft, a new development platform, the next thing after Windows, the next thing after the browser, etc. What does MS want developers to do now? Has anything changed? Is interop still a goal for them? If so, what does interop mean? The crucial question is about APIs. Is Microsoft building a new environment, or are they limiting themselves to the widely deployed but not Internet-based Windows APIs? Will .Net go the way of MSIE, integrated with the operating system, inseparable, tied up, bundled, controlled, submitted, just another feature of Windows -- or is there some opportunity, in Microsoft's view, for innovation from developers outside MS and outside the Windows operating system?" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:17:06 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Web Services will surely die a &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/2009-1001-840832.html&quot;&gt;slow death&lt;/a&gt; in the industry trades (it never really had much life there). But there's one light in the doom and gloom -- InfoWorld. Re-read Steve Gillmor's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/18/020218opcurve.xml&quot;&gt;last column&lt;/a&gt; and consider what the world must look like through Microsoft-colored glasses. " created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:08:59 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/paulandrews/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/02/20/andrews.gif&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; height=&quot;53&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named andrews.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Confusion. On one hand Microsoft says now that they don't understand Web Services, but the disconnect is that Microsoft &lt;i&gt;did and does&lt;/i&gt; understand them. Gates &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/02/04/diyWebServices#integratedSoftwareApisNetworking&quot;&gt;got it&lt;/a&gt; 20 years ago, and the people who started SOAP inside MS are still there today. What we're seeing, exposed to the world, is the kind of second-guessing and turf battles that usually happen &lt;i&gt;inside&lt;/i&gt; Microsoft, out of public view. Consider this one more twist in the mazely life of SOAP in the world of the Bigs. It's still the right idea." created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:33:50 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Another company that is raising interesting questions is &lt;a href=&quot;http://avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html&quot;&gt;Avantgo&lt;/a&gt;. I've gotten a few emails with pointers to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://ami.avantgo.com/support/mobile_support/faq/all_faqs4.html#receive&quot;&gt;new policy&lt;/a&gt; of charging information providers to flow content through Avantgo's content management system. To be honest, since I'm not a palmtop user, I'm not sure what Avantgo's system does. We publish a &lt;a href=&quot;http://avantgo.userland.com/&quot;&gt;version&lt;/a&gt; of Scripting News that's suitable for reading on palmtops. It's not economically feasible for us to pay to have it distributed, so if we are presented with a bill we'll probably decline. But that may be up to our readers. Is there economic value in the content we create? Avantgo seems to be betting that there is." created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:33:11 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I can't keep up with &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100059/&quot;&gt;Russ Lipton&lt;/a&gt;, he's writing so much about our software. This morning he has a piece called &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100059/stories/2002/02/19/userlandPhilosophy102InternetcenteredAuthoring.html&quot;&gt;UserLand Philosophy 102&lt;/a&gt;, and of course Russ links to 101 from the top of 102. I think Russ understands our philsophy, if not all the tactics. It would be interesting to write other people's philsophies and see how close you get. "/>
		<outline text="One year ago today, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/stories/storyReader$1265&quot;&gt;Eric Raymond wrote&lt;/a&gt; of XML-RPC: &quot;It's deliberately minimalist but nevertheless quite powerful.&quot;" created="Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:42:49 GMT"/>
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