Monday, March 15, 2004

Wired: "A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls 'big media objects.'" 

CNN: "It is called 'RSS' for 'really simple syndication.'" 

A comprehensive list of all of CNET's RSS feeds.  

I had lunch today with Craig Cline, Steve Gillmor and Alex Cohen. It was a very lively memorable discussion.  

Rebecca MacKinnon points to several reports that China is cracking down on bloggers. 

Chapter two of Dan Gillmor's book is up. He tells his side of a meeting that I remember very well. As we were working on Manila in the spring of 1999, I was keeping Dan briefed step by step, but it didn't really come together until we had a demo at his office at the Merc. He, along with my uncle and Jamis MacNiven at Buck's became our first users that summer. Dan's class at the University of Hong Kong was among the first educational institutions, if not the first, to do weblogs. 

Zylom Games has an interesting RSS 2.0 module. "To allow partners to construct their own pages, while still maintaining the flexibility of the gamelist and realtime player-numbers.." 

Thanks to BoingBoing for the pointer to this very cool application of RSS, which shows the last five entries on the Kerry weblog, adjacent to the last five entries on the Bush blog. 

Congrats to The Accordian Guy for being such a good sport, and super triple congats to BoingBoing for their three huge weblog awards. It must be a great feeling! 

Ed Cone is considering a run against Howard Coble in the North Carolina sixth. I'd endorse Cone over Coble any day of the week. If nothing else it'll be a great moon mission for using the Web to run a local race. 

Ben Hammersley, on behalf of the Guardian newspaper, asks a few questions about the peace proposal I made last week. 

3/15/99: "Scripting News is the first site to support RSS." 

Two years ago today, this is what "working together" looked like. No sarcasm. I've been telling people, and this is proof, that Evan and I used to get along fine, and as far as I'm concerned nothing has changed. He's a good guy, he was a competitor, but now it's really hard to see it that way since I'm not actively involved in UserLand and Blogger is part of Google.  

Congrats to Tim Bray on his new job at Sun.  

NY Daily News: "A cyber-gadfly, hit with a copyright-infringement charge by The New York Times, yesterday stripped his Web site of a Times parody and watched it pop up elsewhere online."