Scripting News

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:13:45 GMT

I did my first audio Morning Coffee Notes this morning.

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:22:21 GMT

Links from today's talk: The Gillmor Gang, Tom Can Cook, etymology, Steve Rubel, Polderbits, Andrew Grumet.

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:59:59 GMT

The users control RSS, always have.

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:26:33 GMT

The Skelecosm: Why I Chose RSS 2.0. "Which standard is easy enough to implement in Notepad, and guaranteed to work everywhere?"

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 00:17:43 GMT

Doc Searls: "RSS is opt-in authenticated email."

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:05:04 GMT

Cringely: "I give credit to Dave Winer of Userland Software for inventing web logging, and I think the idea then was to publish, to share your thoughts with everyone else. But most people's thoughts aren't really worth sharing. Most web logs are little more than lists of annotated bookmarks and the value of those bookmarks can probably be best derived through a web aggregator, in which case people would be writing not to be read but to be counted, which isn't nearly as much fun."

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:43:28 GMT

Rome is a set of "Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats."

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:17:44 GMT

Andrew is playing with his new Gateway DVD player.

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:25:48 GMT

Slate: "He accidentally zapped himself with spyware, then spent days documenting his attempts to get rid of it."

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:32:15 GMT

Don Park: "Why is Korean cuisine so spoon-centric?"

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:42:33 GMT

I went out for Chinese dinner in Waltham last night after seeing both Kill Bills on Wednesday. Now Asian women seem like Kung Fu godesses, I expect them to say something clever or to swing around Japanese steel. One of the stars of Kill Bill is a Chinese-Japanese-American living in Tokyo, but there are lots of other shrewd, powerful and sometimes demented and cruel Asian women in the movie.

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:21:24 GMT

US Army War College: "What if you were given a tool that would monitor the flow of new information on your favorite web sites and let you know what is new on each site?"