Friday, March 05, 2004

The Harvard weblog server, blogs.law.harvard.edu, is back up. A 12-hour outage. We were able to restore from a backup with no data loss. The server is taking quite a pounding right now, so it's slow. But it seems to be working. Thanks to Jake Savin at UserLand and Hal Roberts and Jesse Ross at Berkman for their help in getting us back on the air.  

Slate joins the parade with a new RSS feed. They also have an OPML reading list. Jonathan Epstein wrote an RSS tutorial for Slate readers. 

2RSS.Com has a public and free service that converts non-RSS feeds, such as those generated by Blogger, to RSS. Example.  

BBC: "President Bush's team says the use of images from the terror attacks in campaign ads was 'tasteful', despite angry protests." 

This guy wants to marry a tree. Fine with me. No problemmo.  

HP: Blog Epidemic Analyzer FAQ. 

Dick Morris suggests Bush go negative, and has a workaround for McCain-Feingold. 

BBC: "Ms Stewart was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, two counts of making false statements and one count of obstruction of agency proceedings." 

Scott Young: "I have been asked some questions lately having to do with the direction of UserLand and its release plans. Though I have spoken to many of you personally, I thought it would be good to provide an ongoing dialogue through my blog." 

We had another fine Thursday meeting last night, mostly talk about BloggerCon, but some talk about tech stuff. After dinner, walking back to my car, Andrew Grumet told me that he planned to integrate BitTorrent with RSS. A namespace, a couple of Radio callbacks, and it should work. I'm in awe. 

Wired: "The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs." 

Fatty won ton soup. 

"It's even worse than it appears."