Scripting News

Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:57:37 GMT

News.Com interviews Blogger's Evan Williams.

Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:00:32 GMT

Williams talks about developing APIs with others in the industry, but we've been told that this is being done in the open, but there's little evidence of any development taking place.

Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:48:53 GMT

Simon Fell: "What is sa.windows.com and why is my XP box talking to it?"

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:38:19 GMT

Rosen: "O'Reilly blows up a lot. He is wired for argument and controversy because he is willing to fight the spin of others with righteous spin of his own."

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:51:45 GMT

Ed Blogger 2003 in SF -- Nov 22-23.

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 05:31:26 GMT

Chris Lydon interviews Meetup founder Scott Heiferman.

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:25:25 GMT

Added to special Lydon RSS feed with enclosures.

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:17:38 GMT

Jeff Jarvis lists ways weblogs can be useful to professional reporters.

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:59:45 GMT

5/7/02: "I can't speak for all amateurs who blog, but I would like to see more pros use the technology."

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 13:03:56 GMT

In October 1998 I had a month-at-a-glance archive page. I'd like to have that feature again. I wonder what happened to it.

Google and DMOZ, day 2

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:07:36 GMT

BTW, about yesterday's Google story -- I got an email from Nate Tyler in Google PR saying he's looking into it. I reviewed the situation as a user would. The pages don't say that Google isn't responsible for the content, in fact they brand the directory pages very clearly as being a Google product. Same thing with the DMOZ results they integrate with the search results. If Google asked my advice (they haven't) I would say it's time to do directories right, break the link with DMOZ, it was never the right answer, let's apply the logic of the Web to directories, and get something that works in place, work with librarians and developers, but unlike Yahoo, don't hire them, any more than you hire bloggers to write Web pages for the search engine. I think in the end we'll find that it's a software bug. But as one correspondent put it so well, "If this were an isolated mistake, okay, mistake, we all make them. But there is a trend here. Google is not a cute little company with great technology any more, they are now a big company with too much power."

TiVO, again

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:07:15 GMT

So I went ahead and gave DirecTV the extra $5 per month so I could use the DVR I had already paid for, and it's great. I can watch the News Hour in ten minutes, skipping not only the commercials, but the parts where the talking heads drone on. I re-subbed to Six Feet Under, the Sopranos, West Wing; and added K Street, which I've heard so much about. I've watched two old movies and one new one. I still have my Netflix subscription, but am wondering if I need it. They're sending me a movie I just saw on HBO. Ooops. I find that I want Netflix to just upload the movies to my DVR. Anyway, net-net, I don't like dealing with the DirecTV company, but I love the product, esp TCM, which I really missed.

Crazy graphic

Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:46:34 GMT

The graphic to the right first appeared on Scripting News in October 1998. It seems to me that it's been making that face continuously, even when we weren't watching, for almost five years. These digital things never wear out. BTW, don't stare at it too long, it can make you crazy. Trust me, I know.