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Tuesday, May 27, 1997
	The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems plans to commission an article on the use of Frontier for automating editorial and production processes, and would like to hear from any publishing organization that uses Frontier. Please contact Thad McIlroy, Associate Editor, Seybold Publications, tkmcilroy@aol.com.
Monday, May 26, 1997
	Updated: Nerd's Guide to the DaveNet Website. It would be great if someone who knows Frontier got this job. Brad Schrick: Economics of ISPs.
Sunday, May 25, 1997
	DaveNet: Think Seybold, Dave. Mail Starting 5/25/97. Restarted: UserLand's Frontier-Central List. Leonard Rosenthol on OSA Menu. Craig's Castanet Channels.
Saturday, May 24, 1997
	All kinds of jobs in Help Wanted on the scripting.com Class Ads site. Updated: Outliner Suite. Updated: UserLand's Frontier-Central List.
Friday, May 23, 1997
	The SJ Mercury asks if the browser wars force users to choose between Microsoft's and Netscape's browsers. In today's DaveNet I explain why scripting makes it possible for Microsoft channels to be distributed thru Netscape's browser. A safe way forward for Netscape users, even if there are lots of CDF channels. You can view the source code for the CDF parser or download the software thru a fat page. Question: "Does Netscape provide hooks that allow a script to program its crawler?" Answer: We don't need access to their crawler, we have a crawler suite that works. Mail Starting 5/23/97. Crested Butte in September: Digital Storytelling Festival. Vignette: StoryServer 2.2 Docs. Frontier was Cool Tool of the Day yesterday. Design principles for XML. XML 1.0 spec.
Thursday, May 22, 1997
	Microsoft's push technology white paper. Interesting project: Parsing CDF files in Frontier. Mail Starting 5/22/97. Transcript of the messaging and scripting session at the Be Developer Conference. ListTools, A full-featured ListSTAR management suite. ($25 shareware) DaveNet piece: A change would do you good. KFOG, the Bay Area's #1 radio station. The next piece of the foundation for the upcoming Frontier-based editorial workflow system: Remote Web Page Editing.
Wednesday, May 21, 1997
	News.com: Netscape releases Netcaster beta (Windows only) and Microsoft announces push partnerships. Jango does the Metadata thing. (Windows only.) Philip Greenspun: How to be a Web Whore Just Like Me. I bet this US Senate bill will be popular with Internet users. DaveNet piece: Metadata. Mail Starting 5/21/97. Rick Smolan is looking for ideas for his next project. Here's a sampling of stuff from his previous project. It's only three months past, but it seems longer: Breaking Rules. Tonight in San Francisco: Last Saturdays, the Next 20 Years. Right on! Simson Garfinkle on HotWired.
Tuesday, May 20, 1997
	Check out the Frontier graphic on this page. Isn't it cooool? Yeah! A fresh start for the Classified Ads site. News.com has a report that Apple COO George Scalise is resigning. The BBEdit-Scripting list is now searchable. PC WEEK: Great story on how IBM rebuilt its PC business. A fresh start for the guestbook. If you use Frontier to manage your site, please sign the guestbook and link to your site. Thanks! The final results of the TidBITS search engine shoot off. It's a fascinating piece, Frontier played an important role, and it sounds like it ain't over yet. Check out Ole Saalmann and David Weingart's entry in the competition. They used Frontier, Filemaker and Quid Pro Quo.
Monday, May 19, 1997
	Extra credit: Five points if you can name all three people in this Mac The Knife mug shot. DaveNet piece: Scripting & Gardening. Working with AppleScript. Mail Starting 5/19/97.
Sunday, May 18, 1997
	Fortune: Microsoft's OS strategy. Is there a website for Shoreline? Mail Starting 5/18/97. Thanks to Joshua Allen for a query that displays a list of all future Shoreline concerts. Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury-News says: 'Our entertainment site can do what you want. Click on Music, then Search, enter Shoreline under "Where", click Go and you'll get a list of what's coming up there.' Right on. It works. Here's an even better summary page of what's happening at Shoreline and other Bay Area venues. And, thanks to Dan Sokol, the official Shoreline schedule page from Bill Graham Presents.

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