Scripting News: 12/6/2007

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A new way to get in Club140

Bonjour mes amis!

If you post a twit with my name in it following an at-sign that is exactly 140 characters in length, my little script will pick it up and add you Le Club 140. (Practicing my French!)

For example...

@davewiner, you are a very nice person and I enjoy sending you replies. I have actually nothing to say, but when has that stopped me before?

If you posted that, your name would appear here...

http://club140.org/

Of course you will be more original, won't you?

Meanwhile, in other news, Club 140 has caused at least one person to swear off Twitter forever. Too bad so sad! :-(

I found the watch!

Normal life can now resume.

Last update: Thursday, December 06, 2007 at 12:11 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."