Scripting News: 6/2/2007

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When in Rome

Arrived safely in Rome, in the cab on the way to the hotel I saw just the slightest glimpse of the ancient places. Can't wait to see them up close, but first I have to eat, then rest. I got a cold in Copenhagen and I'm all clogged up. Health comes first, excitement second!

Here's the obligatory net performance test, coming through Telecom Italia wifi at 15 Euros per day, 40 per week.

I'm testing it with servers in the U.S. but the results on European servers are suspiciously similar.

Note the asymmetry -- is uploading really faster?

Not sure since I don't upload very huge things that often, but I do download huge things like podcasts.

Flickr: Room service.

Amateur is sexier

NY Times: "Inexpensive digital technology has paved the way for aspiring amateur pornographers."

The Internet disintermediates everything it touches.

It's more interesting because it's real.

Last update: Saturday, June 02, 2007 at 10:10 AM Pacific.

Dave Winer, 52, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

"The protoblogger." - NY Times.

"The father of modern-day content distribution." - PC World.

"Helped popularize blogging, podcasting and RSS." - Time.

"The father of blogging and RSS." - BBC.

"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.

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May Jul

Things to revisit:

1. Microsoft patent acid test.

2. What is a weblog?

3. Advertising R.I.P.

4. How to embrace & extend.

5. Bubble Burst 2.0.

6. This I Believe.

7. Most RSS readers are wrong.

8. Who is Phil Jones?

9. Send them away.

10. Negotiate with users.

11. Preserving ideas.

12. Empire of the Air.

13. NPR speech.

14. Russo & Hale.

15. Trouble at the Chronicle.

15. RSS 2.0.

16. Checkbox News.

17. Spreadsheet calls over the Internet.

18. Twitter as coral reef.

19. Mobs of the blogosphere.

20. Advice for Campaigns.

21. Social Cameras.

22. The Next Big Thing.

23. It's time to open up networking, again.

24. Am I competing?

Teller: "To discover is not merely to encounter, but to comprehend and reveal, to apprehend something new and true and deliver it to the world."