Monday, July 12, 2004

Loosely Coupled: "The fact that Yahoo has bought a browser-based Outlook clone illustrates how big the threat really is to Microsoft's most lucrative products." True. 

There's a blogging conference in Berkeley next week. Should I go? How will I keep myself from saying anything while I'm in this weird anachronism-like thing called an "audience." Do I trust myself? Oh man if I only knew what to do. Maybe I could get up and sing the blogger's theme song?  

La Cie: $2199 1.6TB Firewire external disk. 

NY Times: "Fans can subscribe to the NPG Music Club, which offers music to download and advance notice and discounts on concert tickets. After the Warner contract ended, Prince resumed using his old name. 

Note to Adam: Seems he'd love RSS. Give him a call? 

Friday evening news: Yahoo buys Oddpost. Interesting deal. 

This morning's audio blog post, a summary of the top three items on Scripting News at the time I spoke the post. These items benefit from intonation and more detailed explanation.  

Now I get to say something nice about Movable Type and Joi Ito. I've been asking them to help get a solid coalesced version of RSS 2.0 out there, without much success. Until today. Here's Joi Ito's new feed for his Movable Type-authored site. Very nice clean non-funky simple RSS 2.0. It's very important to observe such good news. Thanks! 

Daniel, if the Republicans ran a candidate who wasn't so un-American, who understood he has to work within the Constitution, not push it aside, who will commit to not start more wars under false pretenses (e.g. the connection betw Iraq and al Quaeda, missing proof of WMDs), someone we can trust with the incredible power of the US, I would consider voting for him. Kerry is not my idea of a great leader for the US, but you got it right, a lot of people will vote for him if Bush is the Republican nominee, solely because we are so scared what the US and world will look like given four more years of Bush. I am one of them. Kerry may turn out to be a disaster for this country, but we already know Bush is. If ever it was time for the lesser of two evils, this is it. 

Steve Gillmor: "When Microsoft abandoned Internet Explorer development to concentrate on fixing the browser's security vulnerabilities, it opened the door to the emerging RSS revolution." 

Bulgarian translation of the XML-RPC spec. 

Great comments in yesterday's discussion about giving Bush the power to postpone the election. Betsy Devine adds a perspective not heard in the thread. "During the War of 1812, the British Army burned Washington and sacked the White House. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln campaigned for re-election and won. We managed to re-elect Franklin D Roosevelt during World War II."