Scripting News

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:56:43 GMT

A white on orange icon on MSDN. Very cool.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:59:49 GMT

BTW, since we moved the RSS 2.0 spec to Harvard, there's been some confusion about where it is. The search engines are still catching up with the change.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 18:57:21 GMT

Donna Wentworth: "My name is still Donna Wentworth."

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 03:51:23 GMT

This is how Red Sox fans spell torture.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:46:37 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead on ESPN's hiring of Rush Limbaugh.

Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:46:33 GMT

Rayne Today: "My bad, I've been messing around all morning with the silly piece of fluff that AOL thinks is blog software."

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:07:58 GMT

Keola: "Hey Dave, this guy sounds like a prime candidate for a weblog!"

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:35:09 GMT

Greenspun: "People will pay for music but they won't pay $18 for one song that they really want to hear that otherwise could be nicely stored in less than 1 cent of hard drive space."

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:20:22 GMT

Michael Watkins: "That time is rapidly approaching for Bush to ritually sacrifice Rumsfeld to save his presidency."

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:27:44 GMT

Random idea of the day. A friend at a famous company you've all heard of is planning to announce something new and exciting in the next few weeks. I suggested announcing it at BloggerCon on Day 2. Lots of cool people with weblogs will be there. If they say yes it'll be a first: an announcement where bloggers are not only present, but are front and center. I hope they choose to accept the invite. And if you are announcing soon, and would like to use BloggerCon as the venue, please let me know asap.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:19:40 GMT

NY Times: "More and more PC owners are discovering software lurking on their computers that they had no idea was there."

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:57:50 GMT

On the BloggerDev list, an interesting proposal from Chris Snyder that, if we're going to have Yet Another Blogging API, why not base it on something that's been frozen for 18 years. Heh. It's a funny idea, but it's a lot better than ripping up the pavement and starting over just for the heck of it.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:09:45 GMT

BBC: "Music industry officials in the US are considering offering an amnesty deal to people who admit illegally sharing music on the Internet."

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:17:40 GMT

Jon Udell will lead the Day 2 discussion of aggregators.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:18:37 GMT

A debate among librarians about aggregators: Con and Pro.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:37:54 GMT

Mikel Maron discusses My.Yahoo's support for RSS.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:37:36 GMT

On this day last year I floated a trial balloon about namespaces in what was then called RSS 0.94 (it became 2.0). The proposal was that RSS could be extended at will by anyone, to include "elements not defined in the spec, and leave it at that. They can be in namespaces or not, at your pleasure." In the end, the spec was a bit more conservative, requiring extensions to be in namespaces.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:39:18 GMT

BTW, I've seen various recent articles say that the history of RSS is unclear. I don't think it actually is. It would take a half a day at most to piece together the sequence of events from records on the Web. There's a timeline on the RSS 0.91 spec. At least this explains the trail from UserLand's point of view. And the Syndication mail list has an archive, which documents the RDF discussion starting in August 2000. There is a good trail to follow. It would be nice, if someday soon, someone put the time into writing a definitive history, and tries not to spin it one way or the another. ";->"

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:20:14 GMT

JY Stervinou wrote an RSS History Haiku.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:39:52 GMT

Another place to do research -- in the archive of Scripting News. I documented all my work with RSS here, in public.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:05:35 GMT

I decided to have a look and see if I could find the beginning of the XML work on Scripting News. Seems to be in December 1997. My first essay was called Real World XML describing an idea that is still relevant, still hasn't been widely implemented and is long overdue. Dave Sifry even brought it up at a dinner a couple of months ago. Wouldn't it be cool if a CMS could tell a search engine definitively, only these pages have changed since the last time you visited? I've tried to get various search engines to support it at various times, with no luck.

Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:09:25 GMT

Tim Oren: "Now software is smallish section at Office Depot or Best Buy, a pale shadow of the old channel. Today, the music business may have taken its first overt step down that same path."