http://www.scripting.com/ It's even worse than it appears. en-us Copyright 1997-2006 Dave Winer Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:51:15 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss OPML Editor version 0.64 dave@scripting.com dave@scripting.com <a href="http://wiki.mashupcamp.com/index.php/Main_Page">Mashup Camp</a> this weekend in Santa Clara. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:29:04 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:8:29:04PM <a href="http://wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71366-0.html">Wired</a>: "Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Cond&#233; Nast Publications for $25 million." Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:50:31 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:8:50:31PM <img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/07/11/charlie.gif" width="85" height="115" border="0" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" alt="A picture named charlie.gif">Rafat Ali posted <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13736953@N00/187645720/">three</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13736953@N00/187645758/in/photostream/">screen</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13736953@N00/187645776/in/photostream/">shots</a> of <i>My Times Beta</i> which appears to be yet another me-too clone of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20001109020200/http://my.netscape.com/">My.Netscape</a>, 1999. It was a low leverage approach to news back then, and it hasn't gotten any better in the last seven years. Here's what <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000815062859/my.userland.com/default$04">My.UserLand</a> looked like in the same period. You can see it was River of News, and it worked. It's a lost practice. I found it hard to explain to <a href="http://www.joehewitt.com/blog/">Joe Hewitt</a>, a super-bright Firefox guy. He should know all about this approach. Maybe it's time to have a one-day seminar for UI designers on how to do RSS readers. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:05:32 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:8:05:32PM Staci Kramer <a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/nytimess-personalized-service-my-times-debuts-in-limited-beta">reviews</a> My Times Beta. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:45:48 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:8:45:48PM <a href="http://www.techlifeweb.com/2006/07/audio-from-gnomedex-dave-reads-rss.html">A podcast</a> of the reading of the <a href="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/07/01/proclamationRssDays.gif">proclamation</a> of RSS Days, by yours truly. Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:05:42 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:6:05:42PM <a href="http://falkayn.blogspot.com/2006/07/death-by-wikipedia.html">Angus McDonald</a>: "The ephemeral nature of Wikipedia edits is one of the main problems that I have with trusting it for anything other than fun research on hobby topics." Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:30:32 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:5:30:32PM <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/07/11/some-friendly-advice-from-dell/">Jeff Jarvis</a> got an outrageous comment from someone who says he works for Dell. Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:46:39 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:4:46:39PM <a href="http://www.rocketboom.com/"><img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2006/07/11/boom.jpg" width="300" height="181" border="0" alt="A picture named boom.jpg"></a> Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:49:31 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:1:49:31PM <a href="http://www.rexblog.com/2006/07/11#a10763">Rex Hammock</a>: "The old baseball catcher wheeling across the screen with car crash sound effects gag is always good for a laugh." Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:31:58 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:3:31:58PM <a href="http://www.scripting.com/2002/07/11.html#When:7:18:51AM">Four years ago</a>: "Tomorrow it will be four weeks of no smoking." Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:22:12 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:2:22:12PM <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/portal/Tour+de+France/tools/opml">Zimbio has</a> an interesting OPML feature. Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:38:43 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:12:38:43AM While you're waiting for the new Rocketboom, get the <a href="http://www.mininova.org/tor/299121">Best of Rocketboom</a>, via BitTorrent. Tue, 11 Jul 2006 04:39:02 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#When:12:39:02AM http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#pubdatesInTheFuture <p>About pubDates, the RSS 2.0 spec says: "Its value is a date, indicating when the item was published. If it's a date in the future, aggregators may choose to not display the item until that date."</p> <p>A couple of real-world use-cases might help you understand why a pubDate in the future makes sense. </p> <p>My parents receive the NY Times via home delivery. The Sunday magazine sometimes arrives with the Friday paper. Its publication date is Sunday.</p> <p>Visit a news stand and look at the publication dates of the magazines. Most of them are in the future, some <i>way</i> in the future.</p> Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:52:33 GMT http://www.scripting.com/2006/07/11.html#pubdatesInTheFuture