Scripting News

Thu, 13 May 2004 22:53:09 GMT

Julie Leung: 13 reasons why Cluetrain made me cry.

Thu, 13 May 2004 21:25:35 GMT

I didn't know that Google removed sites in response to DMCA requests. This came up in Jon Zittrain's talk this afternoon. I was surprised. Here's an example search. Scroll to the bottom of the page. "In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read http://chillingeffects.org/dmca512/notice.cgi?NoticeID=1021">the DMCA complaint for these removed results."

Thu, 13 May 2004 20:17:58 GMT

Kathleen Otter: "I am looking into how to combine the new Imix publishing service on ITunes (which allows you to take a playlist in your ITunes and publish it in the ITunes music store) with RSS feeds."

Thu, 13 May 2004 16:32:20 GMT

The W3C wants Atom. I'm linking to this because an informed person would want to be aware of this. I don't know what to make of it. Disclaimer: I am a former member of the W3C advisory board.

Thu, 13 May 2004 20:22:29 GMT

Danny Ayers: "I wholeheartedly support Atom becoming a W3C-based specification."

Thu, 13 May 2004 22:33:43 GMT

Mark Nottingham has reservations.

Thu, 13 May 2004 18:02:19 GMT

Scoble: "How should Microsoft react to this?"

Thu, 13 May 2004 16:18:19 GMT

Choice in software is what matters, not choice in formats.

Thu, 13 May 2004 19:30:06 GMT

Clamhead: "To request a song for the Dr. Demento Show.."

Thu, 13 May 2004 18:25:31 GMT

Tim Appnel: "Rumor around the MT community is that Six Apart was collecting less then 50 cents for each copy of MT downloaded. That is absurd for a piece of commercial software!"

Thu, 13 May 2004 16:26:34 GMT

Micah Sifry: Thomas Friedman Bombs, Again.

Thu, 13 May 2004 15:54:43 GMT

7/17/03: "When the RSS spec was published by UserLand, the responsibility for answering questions about the document fell to UserLand. Over time as RSS became more popular this became awkward. Since UserLand is also a vendor of tools that build on RSS, was UserLand speaking as guardian of RSS or as a competitor? This concern was raised by vendors in the RSS application space in the last few months; we addressed the concern by setting up an advisory board to support and advocate for RSS."

Thu, 13 May 2004 15:43:34 GMT

Frank Field blogs the Lessig-Zittrain talk.

Thu, 13 May 2004 15:53:01 GMT

Katie Hafner's do-it-yourself home theater.

Thu, 13 May 2004 14:03:13 GMT

Guardian interview with Google's Evan Williams.

Thu, 13 May 2004 13:35:38 GMT

Google can do mail lists now, in competition with Yahoo.

Thu, 13 May 2004 12:53:15 GMT

I'm at the Internet Law conference in Ames Courtroom. Lots of familiar faces. Larry Lessig and Jon Zittrain are up first with a session on pornography. Jay McCarthy is blogging it.

Thu, 13 May 2004 12:56:27 GMT

Prattboy is still waiting for his flood of spam.

Thu, 13 May 2004 08:46:39 GMT

Project Gutenberg has an RSS feed.

Thu, 13 May 2004 11:33:02 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: "I never get a chance to scoop Scripting News, so I'm going to jump the gun with this announcement."

Thu, 13 May 2004 11:07:23 GMT

Wired: Microsoft to Battle Spyware.

Thu, 13 May 2004 08:42:42 GMT

Are there reports from yesterday's blogger dinner in London? Please send pointers.

Thu, 13 May 2004 08:40:38 GMT

Bernhard Seefeld carefully explained (in Nov 2003) how Google could unilaterally end weblog comment spam. A similar technique would kill referer spam too.

Does Rumsfeld read Scripting News?

Thu, 13 May 2004 09:19:22 GMT

Yesterday: "Bush gets a one-way ticket to Falluja, so he can personally clean up the mess he created. He can take his great Defense Secretary with him. "

Today: "Embattled US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld has arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit."

"It's even worse than it appears."