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DaveNet: How to Save the Soul of the Internet. A tutorial! Here's a song to hum while worrying about the things we worry about so much. Tap your toe, grab a partner, dosey doh!  News.Com: Death of the free Web. "The idealistic dream of a digital Camelot where everything is free is giving way to cold fiscal reality. Companies and Web sites are beginning to charge for content and services to survive the New Economy's 2000 crash."Register: Java is not a Hairball. "Of course it will take more than 9 MB of disk space once the installer decompresses it, but disk space is not really a concern these days," writes Welsey Felter. I didn't know that! I just discovered a RSS 0.92 rendering for Metafilter. It's being managed by Mark Paschal, using the Stapler tool for Radio. And because the channel flows through the Radio cloud, it supports notification via SOAP 1.1 and XML-RPC. From Sjoerd via Adam, Microsoft still supports CDF in MSIE (note the date on that article, it's very old). CDF still gets a prominent position in Microsoft's user interface. Back in 1997 I did a CDF file for my site. It still works, even though it's totally not valid XML. Watch our new COO, John Robb, start to put together our business plan. Seattle Times: "The young law clerks and reporters line up at the courthouse each Tuesday and Friday, some hoping the Court of Appeals will hand down the Microsoft antitrust decision and get it over with, others praying the judges will leave them free to use their Oriole tickets." BusinessWeek: "The conventional wisdom is that the court will find the company is guilty of at least one of the three grounds for liability found by Jackson and then remand the case to a lower court for remedy hearings." Wired: "There are more than two and a half million Java developers working in the world today, Zander said, and he predicted that the number would rise to four million by 2003." In Lawrence's about-to-signoff message, he says that Tomalak has had 9400 links, of which 800 were to the NY Times. I haven't been counting my links, but it's probably a similar ratio here. Some days they have two or three articles that are on-topic for Scripting News. As a new news day begins, that's where I head first, to see what's new. BTW, Thad McIlroy from Seybold sent me a book on the history of news. I've only skimmed the first few chapters to find that news is as old as mankind. Before there were printed newspapers we had word of mouth networks, and even then, apparently, people thought the media had too much power and people were too obsessed with news. As a species we have a homing instinct. Home is where the news is. Pictures of Greenland taken last year flying home from the UK. It hasn't changed much in the last year.
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