Scripting News

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:26:50 GMT

NY Times: "Gene Kranz, the flight director who orchestrated the rescue of astronauts aboard the crippled Apollo 13 in 1970, said that from what he knew about the suspected tile damage, there was probably nothing that could have been done to save the flight. 'The options,' he said in a telephone interview, 'were just nonexistent.'"

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 03:10:59 GMT

Arul: "I've just updated my blog's RSS feed from RSS 0.91 to RSS 2.0." Nicely done.

Wed, 05 Feb 2003 03:41:10 GMT

Don Park is working on a new language that does some of what XML does, but is as simple as can be.

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:17:03 GMT

Richard Bennett: "Maybe what AOL/Time-Warner needs to do is forget about the Internet and broadband, and get themselves some nice Tivo-type property to really make the synergy work."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:36:15 GMT

Nice redesign at Russell Beattie.

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 22:49:44 GMT

Question. When I get Slashdotted we get about 5000 reads. I've noticed that number is about what some Manila and Radio sites have gotten when they were Slashdotted. Now, according to Joel Spolsky he gets about 400,000 reads from a Slashdot link, about 80 times the flow. Now here's the question. Why?

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:21:40 GMT

News.Com: "Groove Networks on Tuesday released a revamped version of its collaboration software that ties the company closer to Microsoft and introduces compliance with Web services."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:27:48 GMT

One year ago: "Congratulations, you've just created a Web Service."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:17:03 GMT

IDG: "The European Commission has presented a draft directive that punishes copyright infringement for commercial purposes, but leaves the home music downloader untouched, infuriating the entertainment industry."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:23:42 GMT

I was kind of hoping that OJR would look at how we covered the Shuttle disaster, but they focus on the "real" journalists, and lump bloggers into an amorphous blob. Maybe it's because there's only one letter diff betw blog and blob. Who knows. Maybe someday we'll get some respec.

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 12:30:32 GMT

Boston Globe: "Amanda created an alternate digital identity for her former boyfriend."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:21:39 GMT

NY Times: "Harvard University said that it will return much of Jane Fonda's $12.5 million donation and give up its plans for a research center on sex and education."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:23:58 GMT

News.Com reports on a new consortium to commercialize the Linux desktop.

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:20:02 GMT

Shifted Librarian: "The Corante crew just doesn't want to give up the RSS feeds, so I don't read a single Corante blog."

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:18:07 GMT

Mother Jones interviews John Perry Barlow.

How warm weather makes my body feel.

Tue, 04 Feb 2003 11:33:49 GMT

Three years ago, How To Make Money on the Internet, written in Amsterdam of all places, my main report from Davos, an ode to the DotCom boom and the Two-Way-Web, in one piece. Quite a juggling act. ";->"