Scripting News

Fri, 28 May 2004 18:24:15 GMT

Frontline interview with rock star David Crosby.

Fri, 28 May 2004 23:58:12 GMT

Rory Kaplan: "I've been in the music industry for 30 years."

Fri, 28 May 2004 15:42:04 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "Bill Gates chose carefully his first public comments on RSS and the tectonic shift it's rending across the technology landscape."

Fri, 28 May 2004 13:45:10 GMT

Engadget: A $50 iPod from Microsoft?

Fri, 28 May 2004 16:45:52 GMT

Michael Gartenberg: "There is no $50 iPod from Microsoft."

Fri, 28 May 2004 18:38:22 GMT

Still cleaning up. The next thing is to figure out how to get rid of popups that are watching where I go, and popping up ads that are related. I've run Ad-aware several times, asked it to remove everything it finds, but somehow it's not catching this demon.

Fri, 28 May 2004 16:05:29 GMT

Four years ago, twenty-two pictures from Venezia.

Fri, 28 May 2004 16:11:26 GMT

Five years ago today, Scott Rosenberg, writing in Salon, wrote a milestone piece about the then-nascent world of weblogs.

Fri, 28 May 2004 16:13:48 GMT

In response to Scott's essay: "Salon (justifiably) brags that they've matured to the point where they could send a reporter to Yugoslavia. But the web was already there. People on the ground all over the world. Some of them are great writers and have passion for the truth and aren't serving the same masters that the bigtimes at WSJ, NYT and CNN. And most of them don't have websites, yet, largely because it is too complicated and expensive to have one. When this bubble bursts we'll get a new burst of diversity in thought and vision on the web."

Fri, 28 May 2004 12:37:30 GMT

BBC: "Californian senators have approved a bill that limits Google's plans to scan messages and include ads based on what it finds."

Fri, 28 May 2004 15:48:15 GMT

Political Wire: "Kerry is expanding the use of biographical ads to introduce himself, while President Bush is running negative ads to try to define his opponent first."

Fri, 28 May 2004 11:56:23 GMT

Still working on the clean-up. Last night before the Berkman meeting I mentioned what happened to John Palfrey, he said he had a Kazaa computer, one he never boots. Come on it can't be that bad... Maybe it can. Here's a screen shot of the Windows Task Manager. Note that the window is gone. No menus. No tabs. Just a list of processes. Something is hosed. And the computer goes into limbo periodically. Doesn't respond to mouse clicks or keystrokes. Lasts a few seconds, then unsticks. Very hard to work with. My machine has done both things before, without Kazaa. Hey to make amends I bought a couple of $20 music CDs yesterday. Maybe I should pray to the RIAA.

Fri, 28 May 2004 13:38:28 GMT

Postscript: Several people wrote to say that the apparently-broken task manager can be fixed by double-clicking in the gray border of the window. Sure enough, it worked. Thanks!!