Scripting News

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 20:56:45 GMT

Ron Parsons of Yahoo sends a note with news of more feeds, centered around business, stock markets, the economy, earnings etc.

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:05:43 GMT

A piece of data for Americans about Europe and their media. No one here seems to know about the Dean Scream. It's not part of the folklore. Ask an educated European why Dean isn't the nominee of the Democratic Party and they turn the question back at you. There's more to it than the scream and the huge amount of play it got on the networks. Dean raised lots of money because he had support in the northeast and west coast. But the first primaries were in Iowa and New Hampshire.

Sat, 01 May 2004 02:32:58 GMT

Ole Eichorn found a new reason to love the Charles Hotel in Cambridge.

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:24:33 GMT

Wired: "What happens when everyone discovers the power of aggregators? Will the Web be able to handle it? In Internet boom-speak, will it scale?"

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:47:06 GMT

We should get some kind of group of aggregator developers to talk about the issue raised in Wired's article. So many distractions in RSS-space, the concern they raise is real, we should have some kind of roadmap for managing change-percolation in a world where polling is too expensive to do the simple way. Could we come up with something like BitTorrent for aggregators? Sure.

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:27:09 GMT

Michael Gartenberg: "Unless someone can come up with something and order of magnitude better than what Google offers it's likely we're going to see Google increase in importance over time and not decrease."

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:08:42 GMT

Boston Globe: "Google's distinct culture is a great competitive advantage, but its obsession with control and secrecy is not."

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:07:33 GMT

John Robb: "Their quest for money and power is Adam's pain."

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:33:53 GMT

John Battelle: " I can only imagine the eyes rolling at Kleiner Perkins, Morgan Stanley, and the rest of the veterans as the founders insisted on this."

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:37:37 GMT

One year ago today: Citizen bloggers in NH?

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:19:02 GMT

It's looking like I won't get as far as Barcelona. I'm going to stay another day in Geneva. My flight back to Boston is on Tuesday from Amsterdam, that's the basic constraint. But I can fly to Amsterdam if need-be.

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:20:58 GMT

I see indications that people are switching to WordPress. Perhaps it would be better to take the focus off the bad that some people are doing to weblog interchange formats and APIs, and focus on making sure WordPress is doing a good job. Is there a summary page somewhere about the formats and protocols that WordPress supports, and some examples? I found this discussion thread that sheds some light. Their feeds actually look pretty good, from what I've seen so far. I'd like to see the guids be permalinks, if it's at all possible, and would prefer that the full content be included in each item's description. But on the whole, it's quite digestible, and close enough to prior art.

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:08:18 GMT

NY Times: "Google explicitly warns investors not to buy the offering in the hope of making a short-term profit by flipping their shares."

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:13:12 GMT

NY Times: "Google is not an icebreaker for other companies to follow," said John Shoch, a partner at Alloy Ventures. "It's a polka-dotted zebra."