Tuesday, March 16, 1999

Jonathan Hendry sets me straight. Apple *is* open sourcing a bunch of new stuff, HFS, AppleTalk, and Netinfo.

MacInTouch, LinuxWorld, and InfoWorld report on today's Apple press conference.

Preview: News Sites in Frontier 6. More links.

One more time! Let's do the Hamster Dance. Crank it up!

According to Brad Marsh, PHP now supports XML-RPC.

PythonWare: Cutting and Pasting.

wump.com: XML for More Like This.

Jim Hurley: Anchor Text Should be Meaningful in Isolation.

MSNBC: Dow tops 10,000.

Last night I wrote an essay explaining why Netscape's agreement for my.netscape.com information providers is unacceptable. I also got a phone call from Eckart Walther at Netscape. We're going to try to work something out. This is good. I'm sure they'll read this at Netscape. I'd like to show them a tiny portion of a screen shot I took of the netscape.com home page during the web blackout in 1996. Let's not forget our idealism, I don't want attorneys editing this page, yours or mine.

I still display the blue ribbon on every DaveNet piece as a reminder that we could lose our free speech any day.

Steve Forbes announces, on the Internet. Dan Gillmor isn't impressed, with Forbes or with Gore, for his claim that he created the Internet, although Gillmor credits him with having an early vision of the importance of the Internet. But please don't forget that Gore is part of the Clinton Administration, which signed and pushed to enforce the Communications Decency Act.

NY Times: 19 States to Seek Overhaul of Microsoft.