Scripting News

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 00:09:45 GMT

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 01:48:36 GMT

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:33:51 GMT

NY Times: "The Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 4.5 percent, breaking sharply below its post-Sept 11 closing low. Before it bounced back slightly at the end, the Dow flirted with closing below the 8,000 level for the first time since 1998. Today's sell-off dealt the Dow its eighth weekly loss in nine weeks."

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:47:49 GMT

Mark Pilgrim concludes his 30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog series of posts. What an excellent resource this will be in the future. Thanks Mark.

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:29:30 GMT

Jon Udell reviews Traction, which, according to Jon, is "best described as an enterprise Weblog system."

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:10:02 GMT

Tim Jarrett did AppleScript glue for the Amazon web services using SOAP.

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:25:24 GMT

Steve MacLaughlin hits the funny bone with his MasterCard treatment of the disaster at AOL-Time-Warner.

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:52:30 GMT

NY Times: "Meanwhile, where is Steve Case?"

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:31:19 GMT

Two years ago on this day. "The problem is two-fold. Evan has a brain, and integrity."

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:33:07 GMT

Guardian Unlimited is "launching the first competition to find the best British weblog. The winner will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and five runners-up will receive £100 each." I'd nominate Nick Denton, but he's living in NYC. What about Ben Hammersley. Hmm. Edd Dumbill. Paul Andrews, who's not a Brit, suggests that other newspapers should do the same in their geographies.

Thanks

Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:26:09 GMT

Thanks to Rogers Cadenhead for the supportive comment in the thread at Queso. There's been a bunch of the usual mindless stuff, as if this environment were sixth grade, or maybe kindergarten. The thread began with a question about proper credit for the invention of the weblog, and it wandered into the usual humiliation and abuse one commonly sees on open discussion groups.

Yesterday I was interviewed about weblogs, maybe for the 800th time, and I said again that the diff betw weblogs and mail lists (and Usenet) is that anyone can have the last word any day on a weblog. Five hundred people can have the last word. The stop energy is much lower. But the greed and intellectual dishonesty in the weblog world is something I'm thinking about a lot while I'm on sabbatical. I'm not allowed to develop software until I've recovered from my surgery. I'm wondering whether I should continue after I've recovered.

Without cigarettes to numb me out, it might hurt too much. UserLand will continue, if I have anything to say about it; although the software business is tough. But the question is, will Dave, at age 47, with a body that's already shown serious signs of wear and tear, risk going back into the fray. It's going to be a tough decision. I still have some more ideas about networks of writers and stuff like that, but the cost at a personal level can be so high.