Scripting News

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 02:18:12 GMT

PaidContent reports that AOL is buying Weblogs, Inc.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:42:09 GMT

Rex Hammock: How 1999 2.0 is different from 1999 1.0.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 22:39:31 GMT

Ryan Tate: "I'm still waiting for someone to start a Fuck You newspaper."

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 19:16:10 GMT

Harold Johnson on Alice's Restaurant, a song that proposed to spawn a movement of its own in the 60's. He includes an excerpt.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:41:15 GMT

NerdTV has a podcast feed.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:01:44 GMT

Movie: Driving on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:27:46 GMT

The song is Sunshine Life for Me, performed by Ringo Starr.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:36:50 GMT

A rough design for RSS integration in search engines.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:05:22 GMT

NY Times: "Companies are embracing the potential of networked computing to let workers share their knowledge more efficiently as they nurture new ideas, new products and new ways to digitally automate all sorts of tasks." An oft-repeated theme here on Scripting News, and one you'll hear in the NerdTV interview that's coming out next Tuesday. First we'll get all the information you could ever want, available to you instantly, and then it'll turn out that's the less important thing, because in order to get there, we had to learn how to really work together. The Times even uses "working together" in the headline of this piece. My chin dropped to the floor as I read this piece.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:02:01 GMT

Yahoo announces they've acquired Upcoming.org.

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:14:29 GMT

TagCamp in Palo Alto, October 28 is "an open, welcoming event for geeks to camp out overnight, get wired on Halloween candy and think really fast about tagging, its applications, and implications."

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:13:40 GMT

I thought these pictures were pretty sweet! ";->"