Scripting News

Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:47:05 GMT

Lisa Williams: Some blogging principles.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:30:40 GMT

Computerworld: "Microsoft executives introduced The SCO Group Inc. to the BayStar Capital investment fund, which then provided SCO with a $50 million investment last October, a spokesman for the fund confirmed."

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:37:00 GMT

Dave Pollard: What's This 'RSS' All About?

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:32:44 GMT

Stephen VanDyke: How News Travels on the Internet.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:42:21 GMT

Reuters: "A letter purporting to come from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network claimed responsibility for the train bombings in Spain."

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:29:36 GMT

CNN is reporting that Arab language tapes were found in connection with the Madrid bombings.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:31:50 GMT

On Feb 24 I asked for visions of the future of weblog software from Scripting News readers, and got a huge response. At last Thursday's meeting at Berkman, I asked three people, Lisa Williams, Shimon Rura and Jay McCarthy to read each of the posts, collate them, group and summarize so we could make sense of what people were asking for. Lisa's summary is available for review now.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:44:56 GMT

Andy Rhinehart: "Please, take RSS 2.0 and just build upon it. Because you've got a lot better chance of getting your local and favorite national newspapers to support one spec than multiple specs."

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:03:38 GMT

I got a nice email from Howard Dean about his meeting with John Kerry.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:01:20 GMT

David Weinberger asks questions of people who are opposed to same-sex marriage. It's an especially hot issue in Mass today, with demonstrations in Boston and a constitutional amendment in process.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:51:34 GMT

Mark Nottingham posted a draft spec for RSS 2.0 in IETF format.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:38:50 GMT

Brian Jepson is hosting a southern New England geek dinner at a food court in Providence, RI, tomorrow night. It's Scoble-inspired, he says. Now you don't have too far west to get Scobleized?

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:39:40 GMT

Russell Beattie on the Madrid bombings.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:09:15 GMT

How to submit a bug report.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:25:16 GMT

Rick Klau reviews Big Fish.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:19:14 GMT

Two years ago: "Aggregation: Is goodness. Think of it as a way of upping the bandwidth of people whose minds are sponges and want to learn as much as possible. In time of crisis think of it as the Web's Emergency Broadcast System."

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:05:58 GMT

Wired: "Salon.com will open a bureau in Washington, DC, and expand some of its operations."

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:09:37 GMT

BBC: "Pop star George Michael abandons the music business in order to release his songs online for free instead."

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:10:58 GMT

Boston Globe: "Greater Boston is on the brink of becoming one of the first US metropolitan areas where a majority of consumers are using high-speed broadband Internet connections instead of conventional dial-up services."