http://www.scripting.com/ It's even worse than it appears. en-us Copyright 1997-2005 Dave Winer Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:00:00 GMT Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:24:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss UserLand Frontier v9.0.1 dwiner@cyber.law.harvard.edu dwiner@cyber.law.harvard.edu <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/12/read_most_of_or.html">Steve Rubel discovers</a> how to read O'Reilly books, in full, for free, thanks to Google Books. Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:17:22 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:11:17:22PM <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2005/nf20051227_3765_db039.htm">BusinessWeek</a>: "When Loic Le Meur, one of the country's most widely read bloggers, proposed doing a podcast interview with Sarkozy, the answer was mais, oui." Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:14:17 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:11:14:17PM <a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2005/12/27#vegasCesAccommodations">Doc Searls</a> is looking for a hotel room in <a href="http://scripting.wordpress.com/2005/12/27/ces-2006/">Las Vegas for CES</a>, January 5-8. There <i>are</i> hotels available on Expedia, but the rates are unbelievable. Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:32:45 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:9:32:45PM Movies seen recently: Aristocrats, Constant Gardener, Shopgirl, Syriana, Wedding Crashers, Munich, Crash. To name just a few. They were all good. The best joke was in the Aristocrats (in fact it's all one big joke). Movie I'd most like to see again: Syriana. Least: Munich (although it was good). Funniest and sweetest: Wedding Crashers. Wed, 28 Dec 2005 02:22:53 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:9:22:53PM <a href="http://www.publicradio.org/columns/futuretense/2005/12/27.shtml">Future Tense</a>: "After a fruitless search for free audio books online, Hugh McGuire started Librivox, a project of amateur readers who record public domain books and poems." Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:37:48 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:3:37:48PM <a href="http://librivox.org/librivox-catalogue/">LibriVox</a> volunteers "record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net." Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:47:28 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:3:47:28PM <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1849815,00.asp">PC Mag</a>: "We're so impressed with the DAH-1500i that while we were testing it, our iPod shuffle started whining and giving us puppy-dog eyes." Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:32:14 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:1:32:14PM <a href="http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=473">Jim Erlandson</a> says bloggers played a role in uncovering the faked stem cell cloning story. Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:25:00 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:1:25:00PM <a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/12/25/wholesale-blog-plagiarism-alert/">More</a> on blog plagiarism from Om Malik. Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:04:25 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:1:04:25PM <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2314">David Berlind</a> writes about DRM. Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:42:33 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:9:42:33AM <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9CDC2CF9%2D0E42%2D4696%2D909C%2D3C9A4E326A87%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw">MarketWatch article</a> on the state of New Orleans. "It's even worse a mile or so outside the central city, where the New Orleans economy is comatose. Its neighborhoods uninhabitable, retailers are simply unnecessary." Tue, 27 Dec 2005 07:49:54 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2005/12/27.html#When:2:49:54AM