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		<outline text="DaveNet: &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/05/06/theRoleOfProfessionalJournalists&quot;&gt;The Role of Professional Journalists&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="A note of thanks to Eric Soroos, Jeremy Bowers and DJ Adams, all of whom are partners on my current project, even though they don't know it. I guess now they do. A new architecture is on the way for Frontier and Radio, tcp.im or something like that. It's going to take a few days, I'm doing it carefully of course. " created="Tue, 07 May 2002 02:45:49 GMT"/>
		<outline text="It's interesting watching the &lt;a href=&quot;http://subhonker6.userland.com/rcsPublic/referers?site=0102250&amp;group=radio1&quot;&gt;referers&lt;/a&gt; build for the NY Times &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0102250/&quot;&gt;autoblog&lt;/a&gt;. Also Google is indexing it now. " created="Tue, 07 May 2002 02:51:42 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Netherlands-Politician-Attacked.html?ex=1021348800&amp;en=287958e4805b31ed&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;AP&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Right-wing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, whose anti-immigration party stunned the public with its strong showing in local elections last March, was shot six times and killed Monday as he left a radio interview.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 19:20:10 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/2002/05/06.html&quot;&gt;Adam is blogging&lt;/a&gt; live from Amsterdam. &lt;a href=&quot;http://w3future.com/weblog/2002/05/07.html&quot;&gt;Sjoerd&lt;/a&gt; is where the riots were." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 20:33:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/25166.html&quot;&gt;Register&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;A new media service called Rendezvous automatically discovers other Mac users and drops their shared playlists into iTunes' Source panel.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 22:05:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.outliners.com/stories/storyReader$81&quot;&gt;Radio's Outliner&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I want to do a corner-turn that will link up the Instant Outliner (on Mac OS X and Windows) to AIM using Eric's code.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 22:20:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/06/technology/ebusiness/06CND-AOL.html?ex=1021348800&amp;en=6fb1cbfcfab87739&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;Incoming AOL CEO Richard Parsons&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;We're the No. 1 movie company, the No. 1 online company, the No. 1 premium cable network company, the No. 1 cable network company, No. 2 cable company, No. 2 music company, &quot; he said here in a panel discussion at the cable-television industry's annual convention. &quot;Well, what am I missing?&quot; &lt;i&gt;Developers.&lt;/i&gt;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 21:24:58 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/2002/05/06.html#a219&quot;&gt;Jon Udell&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;In an InfoWorld article published today, I predicted that users of Flash MX would soon find a way to call web services directly, without going through the ColdFusion-based gateway. Jeremy Allaire wrote me to point out that this has already started to happen.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wiredfool.com/ftoc&quot;&gt;Eric Soroos&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Frontier-TOC is a Frontier implementation of the AOL TOC protocol, one of the two that is used for AOL Instant Messaging.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Bing!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 18:45:15 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I have Eric's new tool installed in Radio on Windows. Works great. Testing it out inside UserLand now." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 20:26:55 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0101454/2002/05/06.html&quot;&gt;Gary Robinson&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Over the weekend we sponsored Aaron Swartz to add RSS enclosures support to the Python version of Orchard.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 21:01:42 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I now have a Movable Type &lt;a href=&quot;http://static3.userland.com/mtweblog/&quot;&gt;weblog&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 21:33:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/06.wwdckeynote.php&quot;&gt;MacCentral reports&lt;/a&gt; on Apple's WWDC announcements." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 19:15:04 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Code-named Jaguar, the next major release of Mac OS X will delight you with the innovation, elegance and ease of use you’ve come to expect from Apple.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 19:45:50 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powazek.com/zoom/log/archive/00000409.shtml&quot;&gt;Powazek&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Little pictures and chat bubbles? Yeech. Have we learned nothing since 1997?&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 23:43:13 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Lots of links today on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/05/06.html&quot;&gt;Mac Net Journal&lt;/a&gt;." created="Tue, 07 May 2002 01:32:25 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Mike Chambers: &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0106797/categories/examples/2002/05/05.html#a53&quot;&gt;Integrating Flash and Radio&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 17:22:28 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Apple's &lt;a href=&quot;http://developer.apple.com/wwdc2002/&quot;&gt;World Wide Developer's Conference&lt;/a&gt; starts today." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 14:56:48 GMT"/>
		<outline text="MacInTouch: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.macintouch.com/wwdc2002top.html&quot;&gt;Top Macintosh Development Issues&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 16:24:27 GMT"/>
		<outline text="This is a really &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/howToCapitalize&quot;&gt;annoying question&lt;/a&gt;, but I need an answer or I'll go out of my mind." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 18:06:30 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I just read this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020506.html&quot;&gt;rant&lt;/a&gt; on Joel Spolsky's site and nodded my head and thought &quot;The wiener boys have showed up over at Joel's.&quot; It seems it's just a matter of time. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Tue, 07 May 2002 01:05:20 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/spike/jcying/article.html&quot;&gt;Jadine Ying&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Many people see weblogs as a supplement, chipping in what old media lack in irreverence, personality and interactive flow.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 18:41:27 GMT"/>
		<outline text="One of my &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1998/05/06/yoQuieroScriptingNews&quot;&gt;favorite DaveNets&lt;/a&gt; was written on this day in 1998." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 13:19:23 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Look at how much more &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww1.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?98055.wcmsrally.htm&quot;&gt;readable&lt;/a&gt; InfoWorld was in 1998." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 13:21:31 GMT"/>
		<outline text="The premise of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/68913_niceguy03.shtml&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; is born out in blogland. " created="Mon, 06 May 2002 14:24:34 GMT"/>
		<outline text="On-topic for the day" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 17:13:08 GMT">
			<outline text="This News.Com &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.com.com/2100-1001-899462.html?tag=fd_lede&quot;&gt;piece&lt;/a&gt; is right on-topic for today's DaveNet. The reporter surveys BigCo's to find out if they have anything as concrete as the Google API to offer, and draws a blank. Yet there are two directories &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.soapware.org/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, containing concrete examples of web services, some of which have &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; utility than the current Google API, which is a good &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/04/13/whatsNextAfterTheGoogleApi#aTentativeStep&quot;&gt;tease&lt;/a&gt;, but to be truly interesting, must have follow-through." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 15:18:02 GMT"/>
			<outline text="This is why the pro's argument that they can do deep research is flawed. The News.Com piece is probably the most penetrating feature written so far, by a pro, on web services. With all possible humility, they haven't even caught up with the pieces I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/04/11/googleIsJustTheJuice&quot;&gt;three&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/04/12/whatDoesTheGoogleApiMeanForRegularFolks&quot;&gt;weeks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/04/13/whatsNextAfterTheGoogleApi&quot;&gt;ago&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/04/21/theMindOfGoogle&quot;&gt;about&lt;/a&gt; the Google API. And while I'm doing that, I'm also writing software, fixing outages, and negotiating deals with partners. What's going on here? Why can I do all that? Because I have been researching this area for &lt;i&gt;over 20 years.&lt;/i&gt; I would rather not have to do the writing, btw. I would prefer if the pros did their job, and dug in, and reported the news, so I could focus on doing what I really like to do, writing software. If the individual reporters don't have enough technical depth to do that, they should be replaced by people who do. There are lots of unemployed bloggers. If you run a professional tech news shop, try mining the weblogs for people who can write, and know their stuff, and don't cut corners and quote Giga Research analysts who know bupkis about this stuff. End of rant." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 15:31:44 GMT"/>
			<outline text="BTW, they also quote &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zapthink.com/&quot;&gt;ZapThink&lt;/a&gt;, which mostly &lt;i&gt;does&lt;/i&gt; understand the technology and doesn't cut corners. A rare beast in the world of analysts." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 15:38:28 GMT"/>
			<outline text="One more comment. There's an important thought in the News.Com piece that I shouldn't overlook. &quot;Though most initial uses of Web services are being built by corporations and might solve esoteric problems the public may never know of or care about, Google has taken the Web services concept and made it real for the software development community--an enviable task amid rampant confusion over just what a Web service is supposed to be.&quot; &lt;i&gt;Bing!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 17:13:24 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Except one thing, it's based on a false premise. A more accurate statement would be &quot;Though most initial uses of Web services are being built by &lt;b&gt;companies we are willing to recognize&lt;/b&gt; and might solve esoteric problems the public may never know of or care about..&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 17:16:41 GMT"/>
			<outline text="The web services we've defined, and the ones Blogger defines, are transparently useful, and not esoteric." created="Mon, 06 May 2002 17:18:31 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0101915/2002/05/06.html#a212&quot;&gt;James Snell&lt;/a&gt; works on web services at IBM: &quot;Speaking only about one BigCo, the intention is not to directly provide Web services, yet rather to provide the tooling customers need to implement Web services.&quot;" created="Mon, 06 May 2002 17:34:29 GMT"/>
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