Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Join my Frappr group. It could be fun!  

Chris Wine: "The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." Hmmm. 

TailRank is a "meme engine," according to Kevin Burton. 

Raines Cohen is also a meme engine. And the official poster child of this blog. Seriously. I've known Raines since he was 11 years old. He moved an apartment with a bed and a dresser from Oakland to Berkeley, on a bike! He's an extremist, an idealist, and an extremely nice person. And he dresses like a nut! 

Scripting News dinner in Washington area, Fri Nov 18? 

Today was a breakthrough day on a project I'm working on around Reading Lists. I wrote one hairy piece of code that I suspect many others will write (and I bet Nick Bradbury has already written). Had to take a nap after doing it. Whew.  

Sounds like an interesting debate at the NY Public Library on Nov 17 about Google's plans to scan copyrighted books into their search engine. Heavyweights from the book publishing industry and Silicon Valley face off in a battle to the death. Just kidding. Will it be webcast? Podcast? It'll be interesting to hear why (if they can explain it) it's opt-out instead of opt-in. And why they don't have to respect copyright. Glad they're having the debate in NYC and not Mountain View. 

ResearchBuzz suggests that perhaps Google will remove some of the limits on the Google API.  

Here's a great idea for your kid's next party. Thanks to Doc Searls for the link. 

Alan Lewis explains RSS support in eBay. There aren't many places left for RSS to fill, but this is one of em. Thanks to Scoble for the link. 

Cory Doctorow: WiFi isn't short for Wireless Fidelity. 

Heather Green suggests that Cory may want to re-read his own post. 

On 12/20/03 a bunch of Berkman-Thursday folk went to New Hampshire to see the campaigns of Wesley Clark and Dick Gephardt. A real West Wing experience. As I was moving stuff onto the hard disk of my new honker Mac, I came across these pics (and a bunch more) and decided they'd make an interesting Flickr set. (It's remarkable how pictures transport you back so well. I miss the time I spent in Cambridge.) 

Here's a funny picture I took for Halley Suitt, who was writing about Alpha Males. (BTW, women don't know bupkis about men, any more than men know about women.) 

Seattle P-I: "The P-I's circulation declined 9 percent over the past six months while The Seattle Times' fell 6 percent."