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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0105258/&quot;&gt;Thanks to Alan Reiter&lt;/a&gt; for spreading the gospel of weblogs at the Wireless conference today. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:34:37 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Major &lt;i&gt;Bing!&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$11985&quot;&gt;Dave Babbit&lt;/a&gt; wrote a format &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/aggregatorDriverArchitecture&quot;&gt;driver&lt;/a&gt; for Radio to read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/resources/macromedia_resources.xml&quot;&gt;feed&lt;/a&gt; from Macromedia. It has the basic elements of RSS, but it isn't RSS. I'm dropping everything to get his format driver working. &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$11985#12003&quot;&gt;Fantastic&lt;/a&gt;." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:36:06 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Later. &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/aggregatorDriverArchitecture#anExample&quot;&gt;It works&lt;/a&gt;. Format drivers prove their value. Yehi." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 19:58:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="But wait there's more. &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$11975#12016&quot;&gt;Bill Humphries&lt;/a&gt; has a format driver for the XML version of his weblog. This was a bona fide good idea. Who knew! &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$12010?mode=day&quot;&gt;Rogers Cadenhead&lt;/a&gt; is working on a format driver for Amazon. I had to make a small fix in xml.rss.compileService to skip over its doctype element to find the catalog. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 23:53:26 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/metaWeblogApi&quot;&gt;Radio 8 support&lt;/a&gt; for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi&quot;&gt;MetaWeblog API&lt;/a&gt; has been released." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:10:09 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100669/2002/03/17.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/03/17/broadway.gif&quot; width=&quot;65&quot; height=&quot;35&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;12&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named broadway.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In this release I also wired up both the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API to Radio's SOAP interface. It would be interesting to see a blogging tool in .Net or other environments that have strong SOAP support. Maybe this is what the SOAP world is waiting for -- something to work on that has clear benefits to users. All the consorting and sparring among the Big's has yielded little utility so far, mostly science projects. Let's see if a great blogging tool is possible in .Net. If not, we'll help you do it." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:03:24 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/print/0,1643,38627,00.html&quot;&gt;Business 2.0&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Web services. The name alone is enough to induce fits of narcolepsy.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Another all-BigCo piece.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:30:24 GMT"/>
		<outline text="The 802.11b &lt;a href=&quot;http://80211b.weblogger.com/&quot;&gt;weblog&lt;/a&gt; is #1 on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;oe=ISO-8859-1&amp;q=802.11b&quot;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; for 802.11b. &lt;i&gt;Cooool.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Mon, 18 Mar 2002 02:04:55 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblogapi.antville.org/&quot;&gt;Hannes Wallnöfer&lt;/a&gt; has a proposal that combines the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:09:19 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=1728&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0&quot;&gt;PostNuke&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;We implemented support for the Blogger API.&quot;" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:04:35 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jerf.org/irights/2002/03/17.html#a2132&quot;&gt;Jeremy Bowers&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Ask your local psychologist whether men and women are different.&quot;" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:41:09 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.protocol7.com/default.asp?date=20020317&quot;&gt;Protocol 7&lt;/a&gt; is working on OPML to SVG. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:52:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2001/03/17&quot;&gt;Last year on this day&lt;/a&gt; you could have bought Salon for $6.1 million. Today, you could buy them for &lt;a href=&quot;http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=SALNC&amp;d=t&quot;&gt;$2 million&lt;/a&gt;. (Tony Bowden points out that they probably have $1.5 million in cash, and prepaid advertising, and other assets, so you actually need just a few thousand to buy them. He says &quot;their share price implies that the markets expect them to just waste the rest of their cash.&quot;)" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:31:57 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Alas my &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=BigCo%27s%20get%20Vague%20Support%20from%20Quote%20Mills&quot;&gt;googlewhack&lt;/a&gt; is not a whack anymore. All good things must pass." created="Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:31:56 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Side-effect of Yahoo Groups being down is that I have to remember to go to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$11975&quot;&gt;recent&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/discuss/msgReader$2198&quot;&gt;hotspots&lt;/a&gt; on our discussion groups to see if there have been new comments. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:55:19 GMT"/>
		<outline text="How much extensibility?" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:31:23 GMT">
			<outline text="A fascinating discussion is developing between &lt;a href=&quot;http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/2002/03/17&quot;&gt;Daniel Berlinger&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0101679/&quot;&gt;Sam Ruby&lt;/a&gt; about extensibility in APIs. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:31:29 GMT"/>
			<outline text="How much is the right amount? You end up chasing your tail. If an API is perfectly extensible then it says &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; about interop. Something has to be nailed down. Always at the cost of extensibility." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:53:12 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Imho, interop and extensibility are two opposing forces, like time and space. If you want your code to run faster, you can always burn memory. If you want your code to be smaller, it's very likely that it will run slower." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:33:18 GMT"/>
			<outline text="So we look for the sweet spot. What are people ready to agree on now? That's why the Blogger API was so important when it came out last summer. It was something the server vendors and the tool makers could use. The proof is in the result. Lots of tools got made. The sacrifice was extensibility. No longer were all our options open. Not all eventualities were forseen. If you had asked me then if I knew this, I would have said yes. But I went for it anyway. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:32:26 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pocketsoap.com/weblog/2002/03/15.html#a322&quot;&gt;Simon Fell&lt;/a&gt; said he prefers SOAP to XML-RPC and RSS 1.0 to RSS 0.92, because they provide more extensibility. Of course I don't agree. XML-RPC is a means of implementing interfaces. The only way to use it is to extend it, without extension it is nothing. But it's got a frozen transport. Yeah you can't change that. That's why we get more interop from XML-RPC than we get from SOAP. I think that's clearly demonstrable." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:35:54 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/03/17/capitalist.gif&quot; width=&quot;73&quot; height=&quot;84&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named capitalist.gif&quot;&gt;Now to RSS. Almost immediately after RSS 0.91 came out, developers independently added elements that were not in the spec that they needed in their applications. Some of them made public statements, and some probably didn't. Key point, it didn't break any of the aggregators. So in any real sense, just because a spec says it's more extensible, doesn't mean that it is. Watching the developer's list for RSS 1.0 since it started, I see the same problems surfacing that were in the way of evolution for the supposedly non-extensible flavor of RSS. But as long as the processors ignore elements they don't understand, there's no real advantage to using the other flavor. They traded off complexity and interop to get no additional extensibility, imho. Not a good deal. Not a sweet spot. Even 0.92, which (to my knowledge) is only supported by Radio, dwarves the installed base of the older 1.0 format. (An irony of the breakage in the community, 0.92 is &lt;i&gt;newer&lt;/i&gt; than 1.0)." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:37:40 GMT"/>
			<outline text="One more example, and then a conclusion. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://greg.turtleprod.com/index/2002/03/14#MSG899&quot;&gt;developers&lt;/a&gt; of Conversant boast that they've gone so far towards extensibility that their interface is all structs, even the name of the procedure that's being called is encoded in a struct so presumably if the way of expressing the name of the procedure requires extension there will be no breakage. But have they actually done anything other than replicate XML-RPC? It appears to me that they've just pushed the stone one step up a staircase, and now have to deal with all the problems all over again." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:40:37 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Now the conclusion. We have to agree on &lt;i&gt;something,&lt;/i&gt; for better or worse, in order to move forward. You can't keep all the options open for all time. This means there will be corner-turns. So far the Weblog API world has been very collegial and has produced real results at a very low cost. I believe we will be able to move forward, and the protocols and formats will evolve in a market-driven way, and when the corners are turned we will look to the tool developers to insulate users from the bumps. As long as we work together, it will work. That's what matters." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:42:21 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="Vive la difference" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:35:05 GMT">
			<outline text="A frequent correspondent, a man, writes: &quot;Do you really believe those myths about men and women being different?&quot; Heh. Tricky question. Yes, I believe what I write. That's &lt;a href=&quot;http://scriptingnews.userland.com/whatIsScriptingNews#integrity&quot;&gt;rule&lt;/a&gt; #2. A less twisty, and more respectful way to say what I think he was actually saying: &quot;I don't believe men and women are different.&quot; Funny thing is, when discussions turn to gender, all reasonableness goes out the window. One of the differences between men and women is that women are right and men are wrong. And a lot of men believe it. A lot of women too. "/>
			<outline text="Last night I went to dinner with Scoble and Son, and Chris and Gretchen Pirillo. We talked a lot for a long time about a lot of things. Patrick, who is now 8 years old, left one of his toys at the first restaurant. Gretchen and Patrick went into the restaurant to look for it. It took a long time to find his toy. When they came out Patrick said &quot;It was right in front of their eyes.&quot; I said often that's the last place people look. " created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:26:53 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;i&gt;Obviously&lt;/i&gt; there are &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/03/17/menwomen.jpg&quot;&gt;differences&lt;/a&gt; between the genders. What's going on when an otherwise intelligent person says it's a myth that there are differences?" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:51:43 GMT"/>
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		<outline text="The beginning of respect" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:55:42 GMT">
			<outline text="Now, I want to go further." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:55:48 GMT"/>
			<outline text="In no case should an individual be limited by generalizations. That makes it safe to theorize and share points of view, and to learn and grow. Understand that there are exceptions. While many men are solitary and prefer to work alone, surely some women are like that too, and not all men are. And one day you may feel different, and we all have the right to change."/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1997/05/07/Programmers&quot;&gt;5/7/97&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Just when you think you know someone, they change.&quot;" created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:04:14 GMT"/>
			<outline text="The door should be open for every person to be unique, because that's also obviously true. But most important, every person, no matter what their gender, should be given the same opportunity to speak. This is where women have been fucking up in a major way, and men have been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=acquiescing&quot;&gt;acquiescing&lt;/a&gt; to it, because it's easier to say nothing, than to say hold on a minute, you're not listening to me." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:57:34 GMT"/>
			<outline text="No doubt the women who are speaking have valid points to make, and experiences with sexism that are real. But that does not justify shutting out an entire gender from the discussion. It's totally unfair and it's not even pragmatic. If you won't listen to others, if you won't even include us in the conversation, you shouldn't expect much in the way of help." created="Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:02:46 GMT"/>
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