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Reuters: "Grass-roots publishing tools are putting the power of authorship in the hands of millions." ![]() Bret Fausett, who runs the ICANN weblog, is an enthusiastic supporter of the dot-blog top-level domain. He observes "a majority of those participating in the Scripting News poll seemed to share that sentiment. What a poll can't do though is explain why people think it's a good or bad idea." I asked Bret to gather reasons pro and con, so if you have a strong opinion either way, please let him know. Thanks. ![]() 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 define 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() William Safire: You are a suspect. ![]() Here's the Markoff article Safire referenced. "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." ![]() |
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