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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021113/column_livewire_1.html&quot;&gt;Reuters&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Grass-roots publishing tools are putting the power of authorship in the hands of millions.&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://icann.blog.us/2002/11/14.html#a872&quot;&gt;Bret Fausett&lt;/a&gt;, who runs the ICANN weblog, is an enthusiastic supporter of the dot-blog top-level domain. He observes \&quot;a majority of those participating in the Scripting News &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/results/dave@userland.com/whatAboutDotblog&quot;&gt;poll&lt;/a&gt; seemed to share that sentiment. What a poll can't do though is explain why people think it's a good or bad idea.\&quot; I asked Bret to gather reasons pro and con, so if you have a strong opinion either way, please let him know. Thanks." created="Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:39:46 GMT"/>
		<outline text="I'm doing an interesting project to backup a Radio installation into the cloud. Eventually this will allow people to synchronize work between office and home, a common feature request. In the process, I found a new use for RSS, as an interchange format for weblog software. Almost everything we store about a weblog post is now suppored by RSS, and for those bits that aren't, we can &lt;a href=&quot;http://backend.userland.com/radioWeblogPostModule&quot;&gt;define&lt;/a&gt; a namespace. I feel this in some way ratifies the work we did with RSS 2.0. If it can handle all that a reasonably mature blogging tool can throw at it, it's getting pretty mature itself." created="Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:20:48 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/11/14/jackson.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/11/14/jacksonsmall.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;Click here to see what Michael Jackson looks like today. Thanks to Ed Cone for the link.&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've been mostly staying out of the brewing storm over the inadequacies of RDF, having staked out a clear preference in Y2K, when offered the opportunity to convert all my software to RDF, to please a few random people, I declined to do so, and have never regretted the decision. If you're sitting on the fence and thinking about committing your entire existence to RDF, please, &lt;a href=&quot;http://bitworking.org/Nov2002.html#X631728215834883232&quot;&gt;read Tim Bray's narrative&lt;/a&gt; as told by Joe Gregorio. Some great soundbites. &quot;Ahh... the RDF tax strikes again. I want to do something that is obvious and straightforward and implicit in the resource/representation relationship, and using RDF is going to cost me oceans of arcane totally human-opaque syntax.&quot;" created="Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:28:35 GMT"/>
		<outline text="William Safire: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html?ex=1037854800&amp;en=de6ef13babec3dbb&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;You are a suspect&lt;/a&gt;." created="Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:56:57 GMT"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/09/politics/09COMP.html?ex=1037509200&amp;en=873ff5626a3c666e&amp;ei=5062&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;Here's&lt;/a&gt; the Markoff article Safire referenced. &quot;The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe -- including the United States.&quot;" created="Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:07:57 GMT"/>
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