Scripting News: 11/9/2007

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Another great picture of Marc Canter, sleeping

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Taken in the summer of 1998, in Trieste.

Here's another, a classic, also in Italy.

My Wii is back

And it works!

I've played tennis, baseball and bowling.

It's great.

My favorite so far is bowling.

Something broke in FlickrLand?

The docs are scarce and the community is scattered, so it's hard to tell what may have changed or why. With that caveat...

This API call used to return a variety of sizes for each picture in my account, including the only one I wanted (for backup purposes) the "original" size.

But all of a sudden, yesterday or the day before, it stopped returning it. I swear I didn't change anything in my code. Hunting through Google I see various bug reports, but nothing that quite looks like this one.

Update: The consensus is that the user has to be authenticated to get the Original size picture. This must be a new policy. I'll be able to test it a little later. In the meantime, my Wii arrived.

Good morning campers!

I'm your Uncle Ernie and

I welcome you to Tommy's Holiday Camp. Puh.

The camp wif the difference.

Never mind the weather.

When you gum to Tommy's.

The holiday's fo'evuh!

Haha!

Last update: Friday, November 09, 2007 at 7:34 PM 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.

One of BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web.

"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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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?

25. Time to shake up conferences?

26. Bloggers working with journalists.

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."