<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<opml version="1.0">
	<head>
		<title>scriptingNewsOutline</title>
		<dateCreated>Fri, 10 May 2002 00:33:09 GMT</dateCreated>
		<dateModified>Fri, 10 May 2002 00:33:17 GMT</dateModified>
		<ownerName>Webmaster</ownerName>
		<ownerEmail>webmaster@userland.com</ownerEmail>
		<expansionState></expansionState>
		<vertScrollState>1</vertScrollState>
		<windowTop>20</windowTop>
		<windowLeft>191</windowLeft>
		<windowBottom>672</windowBottom>
		<windowRight>910</windowRight>
		</head>
	<body>
		<outline text="Wired: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52380,00.html&quot;&gt;Blogging Goes Corporate&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 14:59:57 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Why is Dave happy this afternoon? We just closed another deal like the &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/04/10/newYorkTimesAndUserland&quot;&gt;one&lt;/a&gt; with the NY Times. Yes we can dance with the BigCo's. Details next week, Murphy-willing. More great content for the Radio aggregator. &lt;i&gt;Yehi!!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Fri, 10 May 2002 00:00:03 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/000159.php#000159&quot;&gt;Burning Bird spills&lt;/a&gt; the beans on O'Reilly's weblogging book, due in September. It's going to have two chapters on Radio, written by &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/&quot;&gt;Scott Johnson&lt;/a&gt;. " created="Fri, 10 May 2002 00:22:03 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benhammersley.com/smallpicturebyline.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/05/09/hammersley.gif&quot; width=&quot;45&quot; height=&quot;56&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named hammersley.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here's some exciting cross-pollination. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benhammersley.com/&quot;&gt;Ben Hammersley&lt;/a&gt;, writing in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,712068,00.html&quot;&gt;Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, explains how Web services are the province of the little guy. Analysts who follow the BigCo's, please read this piece and consider the point of view. Blogger's competitors (including UserLand) have adopted and even &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi&quot;&gt;extended&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/bloggingApis/~1568/services/pyraLabsblogger~&quot;&gt;Blogger API&lt;/a&gt;, so the same tools can be used to create content for the centralized Blogger app, or for Radio running on the desktop. This is the process by which new technology enters our culture, also known as bootstrapping. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 14:41:11 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Hammersley is also &lt;a href=&quot;http://rss.benhammersley.com/&quot;&gt;writing&lt;/a&gt; a book about RSS for O'Reilly. A brave man. Lots of politics in RSS, which is still stuck in a weird place. We're doing what &lt;a href=&quot;#aSmallChange&quot;&gt;we can&lt;/a&gt; to unstick it. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 14:56:45 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Radio 8: &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/multiAuthorWeblogTool&quot;&gt;Multi-Author Weblog Tool&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 17:52:02 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I'm pleased to report that my &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/2002/05/07/howToStartAWeblogforProfessionalJournalists&quot;&gt;last essay&lt;/a&gt; is rising on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.daypop.com/top/&quot;&gt;Daypop Top 40&lt;/a&gt;. Blogging tools don't know or care if they're being used by an amateur or professional; just like word processors or page layout programs. They're just tools. The philosophy of the Web creates a different kind of writing environment. We should all be using it, whether or not we get paid for writing."/>
		<outline text="In the piece I promised to help pros-with-blogs get flow. Here we go. Dan Rosenbaum, who has written for NetGuide and Time Digital, and covered my company for MacUser in the 80s, has a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danrosenbaum.com/ote/&quot;&gt;Radio weblog&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;i&gt;Welcome!&lt;/i&gt;" created="Thu, 09 May 2002 14:25:52 GMT"/>
		<outline text="Platform is Chinese household" created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:19:37 GMT">
			<outline text="Many years ago, in 1994, I started writing for the Web, about developers and platforms. These are just symbols, of course, for me to write about human relations, which is what everyone is writing about all the time every day." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:19:44 GMT"/>
			<outline text="In one of the two seminal DaveNets published in 1994, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://davenet.userland.com/1994/10/29/platformischinesehousehold&quot;&gt;theorized&lt;/a&gt; that a platform is like a Chinese household. I had just read Amy Tan's novels about Chinese culture in the US, and was convinced that she also described developer culture. Even though most developers are men, in relation to platform vendors, we have the needs and wants of Chinese wives. And in the strange world where applications are also platforms, if we're successful, when working with our developers, we are the husband, the provider and protector. The dual roles help us do both jobs better." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:20:19 GMT"/>
			<outline text="UserLand is a developer. We create software for the following platforms: Windows and Macintosh. SOAP and XML-RPC. HTTP, SMTP, and now (in development) AIM, Jabber, ICQ, and other instant messaging transports. We are also a platform vendor, other people develop software that runs in our environment. We hope to see more of that. We also promote platforms that we also develop for. Like OPML, RSS, SOAP and XML-RPC. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:21:48 GMT"/>
			<outline text="A few days ago as Apple was announcing Jaguar, I read a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/05/06.html#a1228&quot;&gt;comment&lt;/a&gt; on Rob McNair-Huff's weblog about the problems it creates for Mac developers who push the envelope in chat clients. I wanted to give Rob and other Mac users some advice then, based on what I've learned about developers and platforms, but waited a few days to let the dust settle. Here's the advice." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:25:24 GMT"/>
			<outline text="First, accept that Apple has the right to bundle a chat client. Even welcome it, if possible, but you &lt;i&gt;must&lt;/i&gt; accept it because it exists. And at the same time, double your support for the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indigofield.com/&quot;&gt;independent&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epicware.com/fire.html&quot;&gt;developers&lt;/a&gt;. Pay the shareware fee. Send them encouraging email, let them know that you appreciate them. Don't make feature requests in these emails. Just say thanks and include a check. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:29:47 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Developers have simple needs. They need to feel appreciated and heard. They also need money to make payroll. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 16:30:58 GMT"/>
			<outline text="And if Apple wanted to build positive energy in the developer community, they would also send a similar message to the developers who created such amazing tools for their users. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 17:01:19 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&quot;Look at these great developers,&quot; Apple would say. &quot;They pour their passion into our platform.&quot;" created="Thu, 09 May 2002 17:01:32 GMT"/>
			</outline>
		<outline text="A small change" created="Thu, 09 May 2002 15:10:51 GMT">
			<outline text="Last night we released a small change to Radio that may have big implications for syndication technology. Here's the scoop. " created="Thu, 09 May 2002 15:10:55 GMT"/>
			<outline text="radio.weblog.writeRssFile is the bottleneck in Radio that writes RSS files. This is the place &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/rss/rss.xml&quot;&gt;Jon Udell&lt;/a&gt; and others experiment with new stuff they'd like to see in the XML version of their weblog." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 15:11:28 GMT"/>
			<outline text="Yesterday we released a change to this core routine that allows the user to completely replace writeRssFile in an update-safe way. Before generating the RSS, we check user.radio.callbacks.writeRssFile. We loop over the table, calling procedures, passing the parameter list we received. The first one that doesn't scriptError gets to speak for us. (If the table is empty, we proceed as we normally would.)" created="Thu, 09 May 2002 15:13:22 GMT"/>
			<outline text="This allows people to experiment with different formats and encoding, and see how those changes interact with aggregators, including the one that's built into Radio. This makes it possible for developers to experiment, learn, and perhaps will allow the formats to evolve. This new hole-blast pairs off nicely with the aggregator driver &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/aggregatorDriverArchitecture&quot;&gt;architecture&lt;/a&gt; released in March." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 15:14:04 GMT"/>
			<outline text="We also added a change that encodes names of categories in the output feed." created="Thu, 09 May 2002 15:14:30 GMT"/>
			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/2002/05/09&quot;&gt;Daniel Berlinger says&lt;/a&gt; this is &quot;More oxygen from Dave.&quot; I guess that's the opposite of cutting off the air supply. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Thu, 09 May 2002 18:59:22 GMT"/>
			</outline>
		</body>
	</opml>