Scripting News

Welcome to another Thursday night at Berkman.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:21:43 GMT

The BloggerCon site has a delightful new look.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 02:54:37 GMT

Scoble signs Hillary Clinton. The deal of the century.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:02:39 GMT

Another celebrity pol for Scoble to sign.

Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:26:30 GMT

Ptypes says "Howard Dean is a body-double of Lee Harvey Oswald."

Michael Feldman is a Harvard blogger. "Every day I try to post one thing that makes me laugh and one thing that makes me think," says Michael.

Tonight's song: "In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed the sea. And he told us of his life, in the land of submarines."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:16:59 GMT

Julie Powell: "I like the idea that eating well is a universal right, and that you can do it in the midst of the daily Hell that most of us live, especially when you live in an outer borough of New York City."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:46:05 GMT

Greenspun: "'Welcome to the West Coast,' said the friendly woman at Travis Air Force Base Approach before handing me off to the Napa airport tower."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:50:11 GMT

Lessig, a lawyer, asks: "Is it impossible to imagine the lawyers ever on the side of innovation?"

Thanks to Mat Wrigley for the pointer to the full Dogma 2000 website. I replaced the link in the blogroll on Scripting News so that search engines will have a better chance of finding it.

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:59:50 GMT

Don Park: "I hope many people get nosebleed from this and the previous post."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 12:42:14 GMT

Halley Suitt is a member of the local host committee for BloggerCon. In the invite I referred to her as author Halley Suitt. Her first post today is a reminder why that is such an accurate description. She should write a book, she's so good.

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 17:24:13 GMT

August 2001: Exploring the Blues.

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:51:09 GMT

NY Times: "Some colleges now let freshmen pick their own roommates in an online roommate-selection system that works on the same principles as computer dating."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:52:34 GMT

BBC: "Microsoft has announced that new versions of its mouse will be fitted with wheels that tilt as well as roll."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:56:49 GMT

Kottke took a look at all the flavors of RSS and figured out what's been going on. This stuff isn't that hard.

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:54:03 GMT

Andrew Orlowski is having another acid flashback, this time about Apple and Sun. Based on his previous track record give it a 10 percent chance of having any substance at all. But it's still an interesting idea, isn't it?

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:41:47 GMT

IdiotDev: "Hey what would a game look like that used RSS as its engine?"

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:26:15 GMT

Google News Alerts "are sent by email when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:25:13 GMT

Microdoc News: "With the implementation of Google News Alerts I am becoming increasingly aware that Google Inc is fast becoming an Internet Services Company with search being an attractive core, but certainly not the main game."

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:50:05 GMT

John Palfrey says Tim Bray missed his point.

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:59:39 GMT

Jeremy Zawodny says Google's PageRank is broken.

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 08:48:18 GMT

Last year on this day: "I still dream of smoking, but even in my dreams I have become an ex-smoker."