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Scripting News http://www.scripting.com/ Dave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution. en-us Copyright 1997-2008 Dave Winer Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:20:18 GMT http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html OPML Editor v0.73 scriptingnewsmail@gmail.com scriptingnewsmail@gmail.com Podcast: <a href="http://attentiontech.podshow.com/?p=20">OPML meets Attention</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/podcastLtaHrefquothttpatte.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/podcastLtaHrefquothttpatte.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/podcastLtaHrefquothttpatte.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:52:11 GMT Next Flickr photo set --> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/sets/1423394/">Randy Green's car</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/nextFlickrPhotoSetGtLtaHre.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/nextFlickrPhotoSetGtLtaHre.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/nextFlickrPhotoSetGtLtaHre.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:44:02 GMT <a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/11/simple_sharing.html">Niall Kennedy</a>: "I created a Simple Sharing Extensions exporter for NetNewsWire followed links as a proof of concept." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpwwwniallken.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpwwwniallken.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpwwwniallken.html#disqus_thread Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:28:13 GMT <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/22/iiiiiiiiiiiiiii/">Scoble found</a> the ultimate <a href="http://www.iiiiiiii.com/">site</a> on the subject of I. ";->" http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html#disqus_thread Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:55:59 GMT Dmitri Glazkov thought this <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/61801017/">picture</a> of Al Franken at last year's DNC was "classic." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/dmitriGlazkovThoughtThisLt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/dmitriGlazkovThoughtThisLt.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/dmitriGlazkovThoughtThisLt.html#disqus_thread Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:11:55 GMT <a href="http://ponzarelli.com/blog/_archives/2005/11/19/1414147.html">Ponzi reports</a> on her vacation with Chris in Maui. Perhaps I'm enjoying their vacation more than they are. ";->" http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpponzarellic.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpponzarellic.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpponzarellic.html#disqus_thread Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:24:09 GMT I'm heading to NYC for Thanksgiving; to prepare I'm listening to <a href="http://wnyc.org/">WNYC</a> on the Internet, and getting the east coast's weather reports. It's quite a shift in perspective, being here in Berkeley where it's still <a href="http://www.rssweather.com/hw3.php?pands=berkeley%2Cca&config=&forecast=zandh&submit=GO">t-shirt weather</a>. The flowers are in bloom, everything smells so beautiful. They're getting ready for snow back east! Better dress warm. ";->" http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/imHeadingToNycForThanksgiv.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/imHeadingToNycForThanksgiv.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/imHeadingToNycForThanksgiv.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:51:31 GMT <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2005/11/22.html#a939">Scott Rosenberg</a>: "Right now, I am uncomfortable with what Google Base seems to be all about -- piling tons of information into containers owned and operated by a company that is less than fully transparent." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpblogssalonc.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpblogssalonc.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpblogssalonc.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:41:28 GMT Yesterday, I said I'd say what's next here today. A bunch of things, <a href="http://support.opml.org/basicOutlining#linkingAndTheWorldOutlineInclusion">the world outline</a>, a.k.a the <a href="http://davenet.scripting.com/2002/06/02/theGooglishWayToDoDirectories">Googlish way to do directories</a>. Also, an open architecture <a href="http://www.clonethegoogleapi.com/">search engine</a>, so special-purpose search tools have a way of getting to market without being bought by Google. These things would open up the flood gates for creativity and new Internet applications and knowledge-sharing. Also, to get there, we'll need a lightweight identity system that interoperates cross-vendor. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/yesterdayISaidIdSayWhatsNe.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/yesterdayISaidIdSayWhatsNe.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/yesterdayISaidIdSayWhatsNe.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:29:59 GMT Last year on this day: <a href="http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/howToExtendRss">How to extend RSS 2.0</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/lastYearOnThisDayLtaHrefqu.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/lastYearOnThisDayLtaHrefqu.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/lastYearOnThisDayLtaHrefqu.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:51:43 GMT <a href="http://scripting.wordpress.com/2005/11/22/first-thing-on-my-to-do-list/">Does</a> Wordpress.com support the Metaweblog API? http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscriptingwo.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscriptingwo.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscriptingwo.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:28:37 GMT <img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2005/11/22/images.jpg" width="90" height="90" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named images.jpg">I don't see eye-to-eye with this <a href="http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001518.html">analysis</a> of the growth of RSS. Costolo says that in October 2003, RSS was synonymous with blogs, for many. Hard to argue with that, because I don't know what "many" means to him, but I can't imagine anyone thinking they are <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=synonym">synonymous</a> (maybe he could have found a better word). I feel that RSS was always a meeting place between publishing and blogging, a place where both exist and compete on a roughly level playing field. In 1999 when my.netscape and my.userland came online, I'd say published media was way ahead of the blogging world, then we caught up, but they kept pace. I think the big turning point for RSS came on <a href="http://www.scripting.com/2002/03/20.html">March 20, 2002</a>, when the NY Times was published in RSS. But the tech industry generally ignores its users, in this case the publishing industry, and that turned out to be a big mistake. The techies thought 2003 was Year Zero (as Costolo says), but at that time the publishing industry was busily following the Times, deploying RSS 2.0. In any case he's surely right that podcasting is much bigger in 2005 than it was in 2003. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltimgSrcquothttpimagesscri.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltimgSrcquothttpimagesscri.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltimgSrcquothttpimagesscri.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:06:01 GMT <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/22/a-better-permalink-or-is-that-purplelink/">Scoble</a> explains Doug Engelbart's <a href="http://www.bootstrap.org/#2K">purple numbers</a>. In the comments, <a href="http://braintags.com/">Jeroen Sangers</a> says no CMS generates them, but that's not true, the tool I use for Scripting News does. My method works better than Engelbart's, I can insert a new paragraph in the middle, and even move them around without breaking external links. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/22/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:54:40 GMT Mike Arrington: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/21/companies-id-like-to-profile-but-dont-exist/">Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist)</a>. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/mikeArringtonLtaHrefquotht.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/mikeArringtonLtaHrefquotht.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/mikeArringtonLtaHrefquotht.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:46:26 GMT <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2005/11/21.html#a936">Scott Rosenberg</a>: "[Murtha] has sources and connections in the Pentagon, and when he talks about how urgently we need a new plan, you can bet that this is what he is hearing from inside the armed forces." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpblogssalonc.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpblogssalonc.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpblogssalonc.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:53:17 GMT <a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008698.html">Russell Beattie</a>: "I'd like to see them embrace a simple data formatting spec as well, so that arbitrary data (like dates, strings and numbers) could be embedded into an RSS Item and syndicated as well." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpwwwrussellb.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpwwwrussellb.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpwwwrussellb.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:54:35 GMT <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2005/11/21/microsoft-to-standardize-office-formats-jean-paoli-interview/">Jean Paoli (of Microsoft)</a>: "Together with Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, the British Library, Essilor, Intel, NextPage, StatOil and Toshiba, we are co-sponsoring the submission to Ecma, the international standards body, of the Microsoft Office Open XML document formats." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpscobleizerw.html#disqus_thread Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:23:41 GMT Hey I have a <a href="http://scripting.wordpress.com/">Wordpress blog</a> now. It was pretty easy to set up. And the price is right. ";->" http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/heyIHaveALtaHrefquothttpsc.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/heyIHaveALtaHrefquothttpsc.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/heyIHaveALtaHrefquothttpsc.html#disqus_thread Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:01:11 GMT Congrats to <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/">John Palfrey</a>, who was just <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jim/2005/11/20#a1070">appointed</a> as a full professor at Harvard Law School. Such a young man, so many accomplishments, not the least of which is he's my <a href="http://www.scripting.com/2004/07/02.html#adiosAndHappyTrails">former boss</a> (though he doesn't admit it) at Berkman. http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/congratsToLtaHrefquothttpb.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/congratsToLtaHrefquothttpb.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/congratsToLtaHrefquothttpb.html#disqus_thread Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:03:12 GMT <a href="http://darwinianweb.com/archive/2005/1121.html#14:39PM">Adam Green</a>: "Microsoft and Google are being maneuvered into a massive game of chicken. I'll show everyone my Office data if you'll show your search data." http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpdarwinianwe.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpdarwinianwe.html http://www.scripting.com/stories/2005/11/21/ltaHrefquothttpdarwinianwe.html#disqus_thread Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:24:36 GMT