Saturday, December 03, 2005

WordPress XML-RPC support. Life-saver, wish I had found this sooner. I'm trying to get categories working in the connection between Wordpress and the OPML Editor, but I hit a dead-end. The details are here. 

NY Times: "Jessica Baumgart, a news researcher at Harvard University, wrote that there were librarians voluntarily working behind the scenes to check information on Wikipedia. 'But, honestly,' she added, 'in some ways, we're just as fallible as everyone else in some areas because our own knowledge is limited and we can't possibly fact-check everything.'" 

New header graphic. You've been Scobleized.  

Amyloo thinks out loud about URL-based identity. 

Sylvia Paull: "Driving home, I felt as if I'd just been at the United Nations, not a software company." 

MSNBC: When murder hits the blogosphere. 

New Flickr set: In August 2004, I visited Seattle and took a ferry to and from Bainbridge Island. 

New Flickr set: On 4/26/03 I walked over to WGBH in Boston to watch a live airing of a Chris Lydon radio show. We went out for drinks afterward with the crew & Chris. 

BusinessWeek on the MySpace generation.  

News.com: "Curry is accused of anonymously editing out information in the article that discusses some others' roles in the creation of the technology while at the same time pumping up his own role." 

Rogers changes the subject to the National Review and nude teens. There are some great lines is this piece, esp about Rush Limbaugh. I wanted to add my horror at the thought that women peak at 20. Nothing could be further from the truth, imho -- they don't get interesting until quite a bit later. To verify this, ask a Republican friend about Katherine Harris, and see if you don't get a rise.