Scripting News

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 19:45:28 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny who works at Yahoo Finance offers an RSS 0.91 feed for every stock. It's a beta feature. Here's the feed for Microsoft and one for Marimba. Thanks to Jon Udell for the pointer. Nice. Jon also notes that Microsoft doesn't show up too strong in the weblog world and describes a conversation with John Montgomery about this. What a small world. John and I got to know each other when we did the work on SOAP in the late 90s, and weblog software is one of the major reasons we were interested in SOAP. So close, but so far. But it's never too late!

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:59:58 GMT

"rssflowersalignright"I've gotten to know Phil Ringalda over the last few weeks in all the discussions about RSS 2.0, and I like him, and would like to work with him in the future. I don't say that lightly. This evening he posted a note on his weblog that he was giving up trying to get RDF to make sense inside RSS. As I read his essay I could feel two-plus years of exhaustion overwhelm me. I found myself writing a comment after his essay saying, among other things "RSS is not a brilliant format. It is a compromise. It is for syndicating news feeds. That's all it is for, for the 18,000th time." It's time for RDF to pack its bags and leave. RSS deserves some dignity, as does RDF. Emphatically, once and for all, they are not the same thing. Peace be with you RDF. Leave RSS alone. Thank you.

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:11:14 GMT

Ed Cone: "I told my grandmother goodbye."

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:54:52 GMT

Paul Everitt: Interop in the Bazaar.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 22:56:54 GMT

CNN Headline News: To Blog or not to Blog.

1/1/1904; 12:00:00 AM

Phil Wolff: Dave Winer books I'll buy. Sweet!

Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:16:41 GMT

Halley: "When is someone going to create audio fonts for Christ's sake."

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:24:12 GMT

NY Times piece on reporters with weblogs.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:25:14 GMT

Sheila Lennon was interviewed for the Times piece.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:30:51 GMT

Slashdot reports that Amazon still wants to patent the Web.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:27:03 GMT

News.Com: "Amazon.com is hoping to use more than the honor system to protect a payment method it established online last year."

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:19:32 GMT

Shelley Powers raises some interesting questions re whether RDF has a place in syndication. She says that RDF is trying to build a persistent database (aka the Semantic Web) and RSS is trying to flow news that has a short lifespan. I had not heard this point before. It's worth thinking about.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:34:18 GMT

I've been hearing a lot about FOAF, which is an acronym for Friend Of A Friend. It's an RDF-based file format that lets you walk a network of people who are friends. It's a lot like a network of blogrolls.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:19:16 GMT

Google PR sends a message that they have a new News service. Maybe I'm slow this morning, or maybe I'm spoiled, but what's the big deal. I thought they already had this. My personal aggregator is better, it shows me what I'm interested in, it's not one size fits all. Help me figure this out. I'm sure there's something innovative here, I just don't see it.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:47:06 GMT

News.Com: Google search gets newsier.

1/1/1904; 12:00:00 AM

Gold Lake Mountain Resort looks pretty gooood. Man there are a lot of cool relaxing places to stay in Colorado. Keep the suggestions coming.

Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:11:28 GMT

After posting my comment yesterday about next things I want to do, I'm starting to get job offers. Hey I wasn't expecting that. But I like it I like it. Especially in this stinkin economy. On the other hand can you imagine me with a job? ";->"