Saturday, May 15, 2004

Which actors play which profs in iLaw, The Movie. 

We're having a special Thursday night meeting at Berkman tonight at 6PM, in the conference room at Baker House for people at the iLaw conference who are interested in weblogs. Rebecca and myself have been getting a lot of questions about blogs, how do you set one up, what if people say things that their school or business doesn't approve of. We thought it would be a good idea to have a special meeting just for this group. As usual, we'll go out to dinner after a 1.5 hour discussion. If you're in the Cambridge area this evening and want to meet some new people, please come.  

A Bloggerside Chat with Feedster’s Devine Feedmaster, Betsy Devine. 

Brad Choate on the new Movable Type pricing.  

Had an idea this morning after a discussion last night on blogging at a Food For Thought dinner, and relates to a discussion led by Jeff Jarvis at BloggerCon II. Now's the time for the users of blogging software to form a union. Get serious, and start working with vendors to get what you want. In doing so, you will set an example for all other trades. This is the future of commerce. Users communicating with users, powerfully, and vendors listening carefully.  

Wired: "Rather than modify the current, failing copyright system to save the entertainment industry, one legal scholar is proposing radical plans for a system that he claims will pay artists fairly and bring more digital media to the people who crave it." 

Scoble: "He tells how he developed Turbo Pascal for the Macintosh on a Sun Microsystems box. Among other historical trivia." 

I sent an email to the "Google blog team," and I got a response. 

MetaWeblog API: "Rather than invent a new vocabulary for the metadata of a weblog post, we use the vocabulary for an item in RSS 2.0. So you can refer to a post's title, link and description; or its author, comments, enclosure, guid, etc using the already-familiar names given to those elements in RSS 2.0." Google doesn't know about this? Hmmm. 

RSS has a publish-subscribe protocol.  

1075 days no smoking.