Scripting News

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:19:30 GMT

NK News: Random Insult Generator.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:25:56 GMT

Steve Gillmor: "If I have to choose between Dave Winer and Microsoft picking my pocket, I'll go with Dave every time."

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:28:06 GMT

Scoble: "It's so much easier to evangelize things that have a philosophy."

Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:07:39 GMT

Philosophy has played a big role on Scripting News and baseball.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:59:08 GMT

Greenspun: "What is the best way to get podcast items into the car?"

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:52:09 GMT

Something really weird. ipodder.org is redirecting to scripting.com.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:11:44 GMT

That's not what's actually happening. It's framing ipodder.scripting.com, which is where ipodder.org lived when I was running it (and paying for its upkeep and bandwidth, btw, not that they gave me any stock for helping them start up). I redirected ipodder.scripting.com to scripting.com after they moved it to their own servers. I guess somehow ipodder.org has reverted to its original content, it's an error, not a gift (although it occurred to me that Ron & Adam might want to square up, no such luck).

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:02:33 GMT

Roger Strickland: "I'm guessing the Podsafe Music Network is what Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia are really interested in growing." If that's it, then I'd fully support it, as long as they don't replace one set of ripoff deals with artists with another set.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:42:36 GMT

PT reports that NPR is dropping Audible in favor of an all-podcast format.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:47:00 GMT

BTW, I always use the author's name when linking to Make Mag. When I grew up "make" meant something pretty smelly. ";->"

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:00:57 GMT

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:29:27 GMT

What Rex Hammock Said: "Let me tell you about the time in 1996 when I asked a group of 300 business owners to raise their hands if they had their e-mail addresses printed on their business card. Less than ten did. I guess from that research, I could have assumed that e-mail was not catching on with people who run businesses."

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:54:12 GMT

On this day three years ago: "Thanks to the gang at O'Reilly for being such good friends."

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:56:48 GMT

Update: Still walking a consistent 40 minutes a day, still not smoking. Haven't lost all the weight I'm supposed to lose, but I feel reasonably well, and my numbers are decent. Sleeping at high altitude is, as always, pretty strange, the dreams are vivid, it's hard to get to sleep and stay asleep. Today it's a bit overcast and downright cold. Wearing a sweater in the middle of August. Three years later, we're back in a cold war with the O'Reilly people, I'm not sure what changed, but it was still nice to get the get well card and flowers from them, they were the only ones in the software industry that paused that way. I think it's probably because they lost one of their own to heart disease, and wish their guy had survived it, as I did. I still feel gratitude three years later.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:29:48 GMT

RSS Extensions is a wiki for discussing RSS extensions.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:24:38 GMT

Mike O'Connor reads the tea leaves for PodShow.

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 05:07:03 GMT

Jim Moore: "Kleenex may have seemed strange at first."