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Thu, 01 Feb 2001 01:14:06 GMT

Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:10:12 GMT

Andrew Wooldridge: "Betty I could kiss you!"

Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:09:03 GMT

Industry Standard: Napster to Launch Fee-Based Service in Mid-2001. Sarfeld said a survey of 20,000 Napster users conducted in December by Webnoize showed that a large majority are willing to pay up to $15 a month for the music download service. However, Sarfeld cautioned, this is no indication for what the fee will be. "We are not talking figures yet," he said.

Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:02:00 GMT

Kevin Drennan started a Grateful Dead Weblog. Hey it's cool, he even has a directory. A Frontier 7 feature.

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:36:46 GMT

News.Com: Radio stations sue to overturn Webcasting fees.

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:04:11 GMT

The Other One, live instrumental, One From The Vault. Very rhythmic very spacy, you can listen to it many times, and enjoy something new every time.

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:04:12 GMT

JavaScript and Forms. Learn how small scriptlets can do big things for your site. Access forms, validate data, and even create little applications all with JavaScript. By Mark Young. 0126

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:48:08 GMT

MS details Jump-off point for Windows Java dev. But its Not There yet, as we used to say about something else...

Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:24:30 GMT

Microsoft: Silence of the Flaks. Microsoft has built a reputation for dominating the software and Internet markets, but it also has an equally strong reputation for not being forthcoming when calamity strikes. Such was the case this week with its website failures. By Michelle Delio.

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:36:27 GMT

This is a test of a change I just made. Still diggin..

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:16:18 GMT

The HTML rendering almost validates. Close. Hey I wonder if anyone has ever published a style guide for ALT attributes on images? What are you supposed to say in the ALT attribute? I sure don't know. If you're blind send me an email if u cn rd ths.

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:06:54 GMT

Franklin's Tower, a live version from One From The Vault.

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:25:48 GMT

For Mac Fans, The Fervor Has Died, But The Devotion Remains : Although it's likely that few among the faithful at the Expo would have disagreed, the intensity of feeling had palpably diminished from the halcyon days. (Los Angeles Times)

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:24:45 GMT

The National Archives has the four Clinton websites archived.

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:10:56 GMT

Moshe Weitzman says Shakedown Street is what I'm lookin for for tonight. I'm listening right now. It's one of my favorites. "Don't tell me this town ain't got no heart." Too bright. I like the jazziness of Weather Report Suite. Dreamy and soft. How about The Other One? "Spanish lady come to me.."

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:06:49 GMT

Wired: "Just when Microsoft thought its Web server woes were resolved, they returned."

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:06:28 GMT

A peek behind the scenes at how news is manufactured.

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 14:51:54 GMT

This document almost validates.

Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:19:17 GMT

Apple iTunes : Even if Apple charged for iTunes, it would be worth buying. As a free download, it's a downright steal. While it's not perfect, iTunes still has a feature set that's head and shoulders above the Mac edition of MusicMatch. Download a copy and give it a whirl. (CNET)

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:35:31 GMT

MS Failure: Geeks Lose Their Site. It wasn't quite hell that broke loose when Microsoft's main website went down, but some developers were at a loss for answers when they couldn't access the MS Knowledge Base. By Farhad Manjoo.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:53:33 GMT

Tonight's song is a real rocker. "Lotta poor man got to walk the line just to pay his union dues." (I chose the live version from Europe 72.)

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:29:08 GMT

VeriSign Blows Away Forecasts. The company topped earnings estimates by 10 cents per share and pointed to a diversified business as the reason.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:27:54 GMT

News.Com: SDMI antipiracy effort loses leader. The group will look for another director to serve as Chiariglione's replacement as he phases out responsibilities over the next few months, a representative said. That could add another delay to a group criticized by many for being too slow.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:20:47 GMT

Assets of Pseudo.com Are Sold to New York Internet Company. The remnants of Pseudo.com, the online television network that filed for bankruptcy protection after investors refused to give it more cash, were acquired today by INTV, a New York Internet company, for $2 million. By JAYSON BLAIR; NYT UPDATE, 4:18 P.M. ET.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:20:28 GMT

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 20:00:40 GMT

Shut Windows Leave Geeks Blind. It wasn't quite hell that broke loose when Microsoft's main website went down, but some developers were at a loss for answers when they couldn't access the MS Knowledge Base. By Farhad Manjoo.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:14:21 GMT

David Singer wants a WDSL description of the Manila-RPC interface. I don't begin to know how to create one, but I'd like to see it too, if anyone is up for it.

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:26 GMT

Paul Andrews: "What a wimpy way to end the Java lawsuit."

Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:10:19 GMT

It doesn't take long to find the gotcha in the redesign at News.Com. There's a big huge ad in the middle of almost every story. News.Com, like every other dotcom, is radically altering its formula, wanting to be one of the survivors. If this proves economic (that is if people continue to read the stories wrapped around the flashing TV-size ads) then you can truly see the cost of being an eyeball. Judge for yourself if the editorial that surrounds the ads is worth the distraction. I've found lately, even before the redesign, that I'm visiting News.Com less. Fast-flowing news, once the exclusive domain of News.Com, is now commonplace. So the quality of the reporting and analysis becomes the issue and the distraction cost of the ads.

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:56:25 GMT

The news is out, all over town..

You've been seen, out runnin round.

The lyrics are here, short and sweet.

You win again!

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:14:45 GMT

4S4C SOAP services for COM updated. Simon Fell has released version 1.3 of 4S4C, his SOAP library for COM integration, now including a WSDL generator.

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:52:23 GMT

This is a test.

Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:14:41 GMT

WebReference: Hiermenus Go Forth. "What seemed stable and solid several weeks ago, now looks more like a beta than anything else. Thanks to the largest Quality Assurance department in the world (you) we have discovered and fixed quite a few problems."

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:03:28 GMT

Atomz.Com: "The key to the Atomz Publish system is its patent-pending templating system, which allows Web designers to clearly separate Web content from site design, and then give access to non-technical users of the Web site so that they can edit the content themselves." It must be a joke.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:57:48 GMT

Weather Report Suite: "Winter rain, now tell me why, summers fade, and roses die? The answer came. The wind and rain. Golden hills, now veiled in grey, summer leaves have blown away. Now what remains? The wind and rain."

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:29:58 GMT

John Gilmore: What's Wrong With Copy Protection. Copy protection pretends that the law and some fancy footwork with industrial cartels can maintain our current economic structures, in the face of a hurricane of positive technological change that is picking them up and sending them whirling like so many autumn leaves.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:28:47 GMT

Can The Doghouse Help Save Webvan?. Fledgling online grocery story bets diversity is the answer to financial stability as it joins forces with PETsMART.com to launch a pet store on Webvan's site.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 17:02:58 GMT

Jeff Barr started a Manila site to highlight XML newsfeeds he discovers. Jeff has the best collection. This is the biggest problem-opportunity in RSS space. Discovery can be overwhelming. Too many channels, too hard to find the good ones. We need curators and critics -- people who appreciate a good channel. Let's also learn what makes a channel good. What's your favorite and why? As the tools get better we'll be asking these kinds of questions.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:29:55 GMT

ZopeNewbies: It looks like the big boys are starting to use XMLRPC. Last night I installed RedHat 7. This morning, while mucking about the config files, I came across the one for RedHat's new auto-update tool. It queries a server at RedHat for a list of new updates available for your box, and you choose whether or not to install the updates. Anyway, it looks like that new service relies upon XMLRPC.

Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:09:32 GMT

Dark Star crashes, pouring its light into ashes.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:01:35 GMT

Eric Kidd: XML-RPC Howto. "It includes sample clients and servers in Perl, Python, C, C++, Java and PHP. It shows you how to implement an XML-RPC server as a CGI, using either Perl or C." A tour-de-force.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:00:46 GMT

DaveNet: The U.S. Blues.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:00:45 GMT

Yesterday I did a feature for Radio called Magic Folders. A router for folders. Now if you plop a file into the images folder it goes into the images folder (via FTP) on My Blog. I think stories are going to work the same way. Just a little bit of glue to create a workgroup. They're magic because there's almost nothing there, like any good router it's just a glue-bit. "When you see one of these, do this."

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:00:58 GMT

Still listening to the US Blues. "Wave that flag, wave it wide and high.." Mistake made in the 60s. We gave our country to the assholes. Ah ah. Let's take it back. Hey I'm still a hippie. "You could call this song The United States Blues."

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:00:12 GMT

In celebration of today's inauguration, after hearing all those great patriotic songs, America the Beautiful, even The Star Spangled Banner made my eyes mist up. It made my choice of Grateful Dead song of the night realllly easy. Here are the lyrics. Click on the audio icon to the left to give it a listen. "Red and white, blue suede shoes, I'm Uncle Sam, how do you do?" It's a different kind of patriotic music, but man I love my country and I love Jerry and the band. I truly do!

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:01:19 GMT

Thinking Revolution, Talking Evolution At Apple : Sure, Apple did not think of this idea first, he acknowledged. But he said Apple's system would be far simpler and more integrated than rivals in the chaotic world of the Windows-Intel PC market. The reason, he said, is that "Apple controls the entire hardware and software world of the Macintosh." (The New York Times)

Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:00:59 GMT

The New York Times: Five Years on the Web. The New York Times on the Web has changed quite a bit since 1996. Martin Nisenholtz, chief executive officer of New York Times Digital, and Bernard Gwertzman, editor of NYTimes.com, sat down to discuss their five years on the Web. NYTIMES.COM, 12:00 P.M. ET.

Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:00:52 GMT

XML Powers QuickTime's Media Skins : In version five, QuickTime has provided content creators with a new tool: Media Skins. These enable artists to control not only the content of their presentations, but the appearance of the player itself. (WebReview)

Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:00:38 GMT

Grateful Dead: "Tennessee, Tennessee, ain't no place I'd rather be."

Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:00:23 GMT

Adam keeps plopping cool stuff into my enclosures folder. This morning I watched a short movie called The Battle of the Sexes. A guy is wanting to take a sexy babe home with him. She smiles innocently and excuses herself. "I'm going to the ladies room," she coos. He smiles. She smiles. The camera follows her into the bathroom, where all hell breaks loose.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:14:05 GMT

Wired News: MS Profits Meet Forecasts. Microsoft reports quarterly earnings that are pretty much in line with Wall Street's lowered expectations. But the company is cautious about the near future.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:01:36 GMT

A Dot-Bomb Postmortem. Many died, but what's the fate of dot-coms that survive the current shakeout?

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:00:27 GMT

NY Times: Web Sites Begin to Self Organize. The Vines is an example of an emerging class of what are called self-organizing Web sites. Such sites are demonstrating that with a dab or two of well-written code and a bit of careful planning, a site can take a random collection of links or posts and turn them into a sophisticated, adaptive system.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:00:01 GMT

Vignette to Cut Jobs in the Face of A Cooling Economy. The software maker cuts jobs in preparation for the cooling economy.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:01:48 GMT

Dave Warner: XML-RPC: It Works Both Ways.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 13:01:48 GMT

I looked for "plotz" in several online dictionaries, and it's not there. It's such a big word. Let me try to define it. Plotz is a verb meaning "to faint in surprise or disbelief." There's an element of hysteria in there. When I was a kid if I got straight A's on my report card (never happened) my mother would have plotzed. Like all Yiddish words, it's overdone, with humor. We often feign plotzing, and everyone has a good laugh.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:05:03 GMT

NY Times: Apple Results Beat Lowered Expectations. Apple Computer reported its first loss in three years on Wednesday, beating previously lowered targets for its first fiscal quarter. By REUTERS, 4:42 P.M. ET.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:00:49 GMT

Dori Smith reviews Late Night's Script Debugger.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:00:08 GMT

MacWEEK: Apple loss: $247 million.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:01:00 GMT

Joel on Microsoft non-competes. "I signed such a contract at Microsoft without paying too much attention. When I left, I realized that because Microsoft has a finger in everything related to software, technically I could not work in my field at all for 12 months after leaving Microsoft."

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:01:00 GMT

Paul Kulchenko: SOAP::Lite 0.45.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:00:12 GMT

Macromedia president talks Mac OS X

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:01:09 GMT

HTTP for HTML Authors, Part I. Find out what happens behind the scenes when you put up a Web page as we explore HTTP, the protocol responsible for transporting your wonderful creations from the server to the browser. By Stephanos Piperoglou. 0117

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:00:56 GMT

Home Sweet Home : "Home studios have liberated people's creativity. If you have the means of your own production, and distribution on the Net, you can produce your own work and find an audience yourself. It's never been possible to do this before." (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:48:39 GMT

Ed Cone: "Had a nice Deadhead experience with my wife, who never was one but gets the vibe and knows and likes a lot of the music. Somehow she made it to the age of 40 without ever hearing Wharf Rat. We drove to Jersey and back over Christmas with the live album commonly known as Skull and Roses in the CD player much of the way, and it was cool to see her discover one the band's finest moments. That song is unique and underappreciated. Fun to hear that disc again after a few years off -- you get Jerry as blues-guitar hero on Big Railroad Blues and a nice version of Bertha."

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:44 GMT

Ken Dow is doing three Manila classes in San Jose, CA at the end of February. Highly recommended. Ken knows Manila as well as anyone and he's a great teacher and really nice guy. If you've been fumbling around the edges of Manila wanting to become an expert, Ken is the guy who can get you there.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:01:36 GMT

Morphon XMLEditor 1.0 arrives. Morphon has announced the release of version 1.0 of XMLEditor, offering a powerful set of features, but falling short on performance.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:00:23 GMT

Update: Here's the archived audio in RealAudio or Windows Media Player format. They're good for 24 hours. The interview starts a little less than 7 minutes in.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:05:03 GMT

Fast Company: She Reads Customers' Minds. That's Alissa Kozuh's job at Nordstrom.com. Kozuh, 28, who formerly worked on search-related projects for Microsoft, is now the editor of Nordstrom.com, where her most important role is to analyze the words that people put into the site's search engine every month. All 45,000 of them.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:01:13 GMT

Business 2.0: The Invisible Internet. Clay Shirky. Internet World is more than a trade show; it's the industry's collective unconscious, its zeitgeist check, if you will. And the fall 2000 event said something loud and clear: The days of the Internet as its own business sector are winding down.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:01:44 GMT

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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:00:03 GMT

Jeff Barr: Headline Viewer 0.95.

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:19:42 GMT

Tonight's Song: "If I get home before daylight I just might get some sleep tonight."

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:01:05 GMT

MacWEEK: "Macworld Expo keynotes are always events to behold, as we wonder how hard Steve Jobs will work his reality distortion field. In truth, he didn't have to. Apple introduced solid products, and no RDF mojo was needed to sell them."

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 18:05:08 GMT

TV News Websites: The Myth of Convergence. Online Journalism Review: TV News Websites: The Myth of Convergence. Unlike struggling dot-coms forced to lavish millions on advertising to establish a Web presence, smiling TV anchors could simply invite viewers to "check out our Web site" for further information. But those who did check it out found few reasons to come back.

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:46:22 GMT

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:00:42 GMT

Chris Melville: "Is there any automated way to take the IDL files I already have for the server (still written in C, IDL processed by Microsoft's MIDL.EXE) and generate XML-RPC definitions. I've got hundreds of interfaces in dozens of IDL files."

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:00:45 GMT

I just got this screen shot from Adam, indicating that he is now getting The Dead over RSS. These bootstraps require patience. An event that happens once every 24 hours can be painful to debug. But we're now in blade-popping mode on this little project. As Adam says "It worked!"

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 01:00:18 GMT

Sean Elfstrom has Radio glue for Apple's new iTunes music player app. He says "I 'borrowed' a lot of it from the original driver for Sound Jam (since they are built on the same codebase), but the scripting support is pretty broken."

Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:00:34 GMT

I forgot that Bob Denver played Maynard G Krebbs, the good-natured teenage beatnik on Dobie Gillis before he was Gilligan. (His picture is to the right.) Dwayne Hickman, who played Dobie, has a website, of course. "I have been in show business since I was six years old but my true love has been art and architecture."

Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:23:04 GMT

Tonight's song: "Come hear Uncle John's Band by the river side. Got some things to talk about here beside the rising tide."

Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:00:09 GMT

Wired: Jobs Tells It Like It Is. The Apple CEO pulls no punches in a profanity-laced meeting with sales people about the company's recent activities. Also: Ogling the new PowerBooks, shiny happy Mac lovers, and more, as Leander Kahney reports from Macworld in San Francisco.

Sat, 13 Jan 2001 06:18:42 GMT

PC World: Play MP3s on Your Stereo. Using radio frequency, PC World reports on a new device for playing MP3s remotely. The device uses a send and receive wireless module, as well as a universal remote.

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:00:11 GMT

Internet.Com: Customers Last To Know of PSN.net Closure. EXCLUSIVE: With its Web site closed down and a no one answering the phones, the defunct national ISP is keeping its customers in the dark and without service.

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:33:40 GMT

Me and My Uncle: "I loved my uncle, God rest his soul, taught me good, Lord, taught me all I know. Taught me so well, I grabbed that gold and I left his dead ass there by the side of the road."

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:00:55 GMT

There's a big debate on the XML-DEV list about a Sun patent interfering with the W3C Xpointer activity. A famous pundit, the W3C, a major platform vendor, and a browser feature that (as far as I know) no major browser implements. Possible prior art. A disruption in the flow of new ideas. (xmlhack has been covering the story.)

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:00:15 GMT

The PC Is Dead! Long Live Apple!: Why do I continue to drink Jobs' Kool-Aid? It is his reference to the "digital hub," a device that will connect the growing array of new devices like PDAs and digital cameras that show double-digit market growth. (Business 2.0)

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:00:02 GMT

Looking for the next Web phenom? You just found it.

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:00:02 GMT

Sometimes things work just like you wanted them to.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:01:05 GMT

Salon: Finishing last in the dotcom race. "Actually, there have been better times than now to raise VC money for dot-com start-ups -- during the crusades, for instance, or during those torrid years when dinosaurs walked the earth."

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:00:47 GMT

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:58:33 GMT

Truckin, like the doo-dah man, once told me gotta play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay em down.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:05:07 GMT

MacWEEK: Macromedia offers glimpse of OS X products.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:00:24 GMT

MacWEEK: Macworld Expo Special Report.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:00:28 GMT

Two-Way-Web: Payloads for RSS. "When I started talking with Adam late last year, he wanted me to think about high quality video on the Internet, and I totally didn't want to hear about it."

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:00:11 GMT

PyXML 0.6.3 available. Martin von Loewis has announced version 0.6.3 of PyXML, a toolkit for Python comprising several XML parsers, a SAX interface, and DOM interfaces.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:00:08 GMT

Bug fixes for MS SOAP Toolkit 2.0 Beta 1. Roger Wolter from Microsoft announced a refresh of Microsoft's SOAP Toolkit 2.0 beta 1, with fixes to "few of the more vexing bugs that have been reported thus far."

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 05:03:40 GMT

Inside.Com on the Future of Music Summit and Senator Hatch, with a touch of John Perry Barlow.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:00:55 GMT

Reuters: Hatch speaks up for Napster.

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 01:00:55 GMT

Organizine closes after one week. "I just don't want to be responsible for hundreds of users' content, and supporting and maintaining a web application. It's too much responsibility that I don't want."

Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:00:40 GMT

Greg Pierce, working on Free-Conversant, is rendering RSS boxes.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:00:32 GMT

Business Week: Bad Omens And High Stakes At Macworld. With plummeting sales and stacks of unsold Cubes, Jobs & Co. needs a hit at this year's Apple confab. A titanium PowerBook could be it.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 21:00:32 GMT

TheStreet.Com: Jobs Decides Music Is Apple Of PC Maker's Eye. If you can't beat products like digital cameras and mp3 players, you may as well join them. And observers say that if any PC company is poised to make computing's recent trend away from the desktop work for them, it's Apple.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:00:47 GMT

Motley Fool: How Amazon Won the War. Amazon may have won the e-tailing war, but can it survive? Brian Lund examines the preliminary holiday results.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:00:01 GMT

Macworld magazine presents Eddy Awards.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:00:01 GMT

Pfieffer Report: "In a funny way, we are back to where publishing was before DTP came around: content creation and management is once again the playground of larger players, and requires heavy investment, just as publishing technology did before XPress arrived." Amen.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:00:45 GMT

Industry Braces for Yahoo!, DoubleClick. The two giants in ad-supported content and ad delivery Wednesday and Thursday will give earnings -- and an idea of how the industry will fare in coming months.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:01:38 GMT

John Robb: The 2X Internet. "The Internet is undergoing a transformation to a new system that scales better, costs less, and provides better end-user performance than the Web."

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:01:38 GMT

XML.Com is helping spread the news about OPML and XSLT.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:00:22 GMT

MacWEEK: OS X software on display at Macworld.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:35:47 GMT

A touch of gray, kinda suits you anyway..

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:00:08 GMT

Eric Kidd released XML-RPC for C/C++.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:00:54 GMT

Wired: Mac Lovers of the World, United. In the real world, Apple is in the throes of another slump. At Macworld, its fans are in rapture, where life is beautiful all the time. Farhad Manjoo reports from San Francisco.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:00:54 GMT

Wired: Politicians Try to Hear the Music. Musicians, technologists and politicos ... oh my. Representatives from all areas of the music industry gather in the nation's capital to hash out the problems that plagued the sector last year. Brad King reports from Washington, D.C.

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 05:01:09 GMT

Has 'Desktop' Metaphor Outlived Its Usefulness? : Some computer scientists and interface experts think that the desktop metaphor has lived long past its usefulness and that this year we may have an ideal opportunity to make a leap as significant as the Mac interface was in 1984 - or we could pass that up. (Los Angeles Time Syndicate)

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:01:09 GMT

Inside.Com: "Jobs is quoted as saying: ''If enough people see the machine you won't have to convince them to architect cities around it. It'll just happen.'''

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Tue, 09 Jan 2001 23:12:46 GMT

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 22:01:10 GMT

News.Com: Priceline, Expedia settle patent infringement suit. Under the settlement, Expedia, an Internet travel-booking service controlled by Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, will continue to operate its Price Matcher services and will pay undisclosed royalties to Priceline. Priceline, based here, is an Internet-based seller of services using a name-your-own price format.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:00:39 GMT

Wired: It's a Mac, Mac, Mac, Macworld. The annual pilgrimage to Macworld San Francisco begins in the dark as hundreds line up beginning at 4:30 a.m. to hear Steve Jobs' keynote. Sure, there were glitches, but Apple fans rejoice in their element. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:00:30 GMT

Industry Standard: Hollywood Prepares to Fight File-Swappers. In show business lingo, 2001 opened strong: Holiday moviegoers spent near-record amounts at the box office. But the new year's good cheer masks nagging fears among Hollywood executives about a threat to the bottom line that they can neither see nor touch - or even know for certain exists.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:00:23 GMT

Wired: Hello Macworld, Hello Fast Macs. Macworld San Francisco opens with the word from Steve Jobs: four new fast Macs, a release date for OS X, and a new motto: 'Power to Burn.' By Michelle Delio.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 15:00:11 GMT

MacWEEK: Apple's Expo announcements. "Apple will bundle OS X as the default OS on systems beginning this July."

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:01:05 GMT

SlashDot: MathML 2.0 Becomes W3C Proposed Recommendation.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 12:00:59 GMT

Motley Fool: Apple. What you should know about looking at a company's books.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 12:00:10 GMT

NY Times: Time to Publish Magazine About Web. "Our magazine itself is completely independent, and we will write about the world in any way we want to. I have complete editorial independence."

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:01:09 GMT

First Monday: The expansion of the patent system.

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:00:15 GMT

Amazon's Elusive Billion-Dollar Quarter. Amazon.com had a solid fourth quarter. Was it solid enough?

Tue, 09 Jan 2001 11:00:02 GMT

Internet News: The Dot-com Bubble-Burst and Disintermediation. "Amazon.com itself doesn't really cut out the middleman: it is the middleman. It stands between the author and the reader, the musician and the listener. It's just another super-store, just one with a lower cost of overheads."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:27:30 GMT

Brent: "Oh yeah, right, I forgot, it's because I'm a total freakin' geek. I'll try to remember."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:00:29 GMT

South Coast Today: It's Sony vs. Sony in Web battle. As both an electronics company and a top record label, Sony wants to capitalize on any musical revolution online, making the latest in listening gadgets for it. But the Japanese giant has also had to referee a potential conflict with its own music label which fears losing out to illegal copying.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:00:15 GMT

Java: Slow, ugly and irrelevant. The programming language once hailed as a revolutionary breakthrough is no substitute for simply training good programmers.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:00:06 GMT

WebReference interviews Jeff Veen on his new book.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:00:05 GMT

Examples of RSS files with <cloud> elements.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:41:42 GMT

SF Chronicle: "More and more, our own government has proven itself willing to hand big corporations like Cisco this kind of financial home court advantage -- for a fee. It comes in the form of U.S. Patent Law."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:05:04 GMT

Stewart Alsop:Why This Fan May Say Sayonara to Sony.
Can you imagine Sony product managers sitting around a conference room, planning to make a product more frustrating to use?

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:00:42 GMT

O'Reilly: Creating Audio CDs with Linux. "This article follows the process of recording the material to the hard disk, editing and filtering it with signal processing software, and finally creating an audio CD from the results, complete with custom covers for the jewel case."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:00:37 GMT

KCAP 2.0B1. Web-based administration tools for Beowulf clusters.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:00:34 GMT

Today's Bionic Page: XML News. Recursing!

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:00:34 GMT

Very interesting. Check out the XML behind Blogger.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:00:25 GMT

Entrepreneur in residence: Pursuing venture capital. Though entrepreneurs worried that raising venture capital would be more difficult after the 2000 market drop, VC investments still reached record highs in the third quarter. As in any market there were good ideas, smart management teams, and market niches that VCs wanted to invest in.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:26:06 GMT

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:04:45 GMT

MSNBC: Sony's Digital Dilemma. But now Sony has become the first top-tier consumer electronics company to make mainstream devices that play MP3s. It's an about-face as abrupt as record label BMG's recent embrace of Napster. When asked to describe Sony Music's reaction, one person at Sony Electronics said sheepishly, "They were pissed."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:00:01 GMT

TREX: a language to describe XML document structure. James Clark has announced Tree Regular Expressions for XML (TREX) a new simple and flexible schema language focusing on the structure of XML documents.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:00:49 GMT

NY Times: More People Went Online to Talk and Send Greetings Than Shop. They found that noncommercial activities -- getting information about the holidays, seeking tips and ideas for celebrating and using e-mail and e- greetings to make contact with family and friends -- drowned out the buy, buy, buy drumbeat of online companies.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 13:01:08 GMT

AOL Launches Mail Alerts. New service allows members to immediately know when they have e-mail and is next step in AOL Anywhere strategy

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:00:59 GMT

Legal Battle Escalates Between Top Free ISPs. The federal courts awarded NetZero a temporary restraining order against Juno Monday over its ad banner technology. Juno says the technology is theirs and NetZero is the one infringing on its technology.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:00:52 GMT

Marc Andreessen: "It's a classic bubble thing. The bubble only bursts when there's no more people left to convert into being true believers, which is what happened in March."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:00:51 GMT

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:01:07 GMT

MacWEEK: Will new fare from Apple do the trick?

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:01:25 GMT

MacWEEK: Adobe announces InDesign update.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:01:07 GMT

Wired: Dot-Coms Punt in Super Bowl. Dot-coms that went on a spending spree to advertise during last year's big game didn't necessarily do themselves any favors -- many no longer exist. Bet on the dot-com presence not dominating Super Bowl XXXV. By Jeffrey Terraciano.

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 07:00:21 GMT

OS X Software Folder Added To iDisk : So is this addition to the iDisk an extra goodie for those test driving the Mac OS X Public Beta or an indication of something more? This week should tell the tale. (MacCentral)

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 02:01:25 GMT

Glenn Fleishman: "[Mac OS X] is like leaving the food on your plate untouched while replacing the table with a solid granite block, the tablecloth with a fancy embroidered tapestry, and the place settings with modern Danish shiny stuff. The food still tastes the same - but the surroundings are suddenly oddly unfamiliar."

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:00:10 GMT

Dan Gillmor: "Apple still matters, just not as much. Once, its future preoccupied the industry and Silicon Valley. That era has faded into the haze of the old millennium."

Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:33:23 GMT

A group of developers including Jonathan Borden and Tim Bray are discussing a new format called RDDL to give meaning to URIs that identify XML namespaces. Bray says: "Namespaces have names, and the names are URIs, which usually means URLs. What does the URL point at? So far, nothing in particular. RDDL is an attempt to imagine something useful to have a namespace name point at. It's mostly a human-readable discussion, with labeled links built in, pointing at... well anything that might be helpful with that namespace. Like a stylesheet, or some useful code, or some copyright notices."

Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:00:02 GMT

DaveNet: What if technologists had integrity?

Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:06:29 GMT

1/6/01: The prefs page got a major update tonight. Lots of new options. To get the update, bring MyUserLand.Root to the front and choose the Update command from the Tools menu. See y'all tomorrow! Dave

Sun, 07 Jan 2001 01:01:00 GMT

Inside.Com: Layoffs Expected Monday At The Industry Standard, As Deteriorating Market Conditions Force Strategic Retreat. Internet economy magazine's ambitious parent company had bulked up to 400 employees amid explosive ad page growth; only latest boom-time business book to trim staff.

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:29:40 GMT

BigBandNet: Content Router The routing engine achieves broadcast, narrowcast or unicast across media forms, including IP and MPEG, with node-level granularity. The processing engine applies selected functionality to particular sessions, or combinations of sessions, such as delivery synchronization, bandwidth adaptation, protocol conversion, and flow control according to the particular needs of a media form, service, subscriber, or the access device being used. Sounds coool!

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:08:43 GMT

New Internet browser for Mac due at MWSF

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 19:00:50 GMT

Nando Times: China Planning Own Internet. China is moving ahead with plans to build its "very own information superhighway," a second-generation Internet-like network designed for China's government and industry, the government's Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. New software and hardware are already being developed for the system...

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 16:00:47 GMT

Fast Company: The New Lure of Internet Marketing. The new marketing tools of choice are affiliate programs, and pay-for-performance deals such as revenue sharing and bounty systems. Welcome to the Kickback Economy: Merchants and media sites are forming alliances that refer customers back and forth -- and are sharing in the spoils.

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 16:00:03 GMT

Advogato: Getting Over Bad Habits. "So, you've been through Dilbert hell. But now you've made it, right? You've got more character and more experience. You escaped with your will intact, and no battle scars. Hah, right. You've got plenty of ingrained bad habits from your years in hell, and you'd better start figuring out what they are and cutting them out of your life."

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 15:01:04 GMT

MacNN: Roundup: Mac OS 9.1 GM, Illustrator 9.02.

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 14:00:16 GMT

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 13:00:58 GMT

Technology: China Planning Own Internet. 12:44 ET - AP

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 12:00:16 GMT

Two-Way-Web: SOAP meets RSS.

Sat, 06 Jan 2001 07:05:07 GMT

inessential.com: Radio UserLand 7.0b34 is out. Among the bug fixes is one that has annoyed me for a long time -- on Windows 2000, when you click the Edit With Radio button, Radio actually comes to the front now rather than just flashing in the taskbar. AFT.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:00:41 GMT

Vaporware? Ha! Linux 2.4 Arrives. The much-anticipated Linux 2.4 kernel, a year late and a prominent addition to Wired News' year-end Vaporware list, is finally released, and not without a sense of humor. By Andy Patrizio.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:00:25 GMT

VCs weather the perfect storm. The crash in Internet stocks and the uncertain economy have venture capitalists sailing against the wind in choppy seas. Most claim they are not worried. But the truth of the matter is that for the past three years VCs have invested for the short term.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:00:12 GMT

Wired: Apple Widens Mac OS X Code. In an effort to appease open source developers, Apple has changed the terms of its open source licensing agreement for Darwin, the heart of OS X. No group cheers, but many are pleased. By Michelle Delio.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:00:02 GMT

Paul Andrews: Was 'free' such a good idea?

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:01:14 GMT

Marketing Computers: Conflicts of Interest. Michael Schrage. However, the imperatives of venture capitalists are not the imperatives of brand builders and marketers. A dispassionate analysis of dot-com turbulence and Net-hysteria can only conclude that conflicts of interest have played a starring role in raising the market up and crashing the market down.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:01:17 GMT

MacWEEK: Countdown to Macworld Expo.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:00:07 GMT

Dylan Tweney: Infrastructure is big in 2001. "If you've got a website, chances are you'll be spending significantly more this year than you did last year to beef up your site's capacity to handle traffic, customers, and content. Sites that don't invest in these improvements will find themselves falling behind, as the number of Web users mushrooms and puts a heavier strain on their servers."

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:00:15 GMT

WSJ: Apple seeks new role of maker of Killer Apps.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 08:00:35 GMT

Wired: MP3.com Looks Home for Harmony. This time last year, MP3.com was on the verge of a legal war with the recording industry. On Thursday, the company moved out of the courtroom and into the living room when it unveiled its new business strategy. By Brad King.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 08:00:35 GMT

Wired: Music Makers Go Silent. Think you're safe because the company survived through 2000? Think again. The carnage continues with Musicmaker.... Napster goes back to court.... Intel offers a new player.... and Epitonic lives on as Brad King spins this week's digital music news.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 02:00:29 GMT

Time: A Hopeful Spin On Apple's Fire Sale : Look past the backlog, maybe the company is finally ready with some new laptops.

Fri, 05 Jan 2001 01:00:36 GMT

What is Brazil?

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:01:36 GMT

Inktomi Hurt By Spending Slowdown. The Internet infrastructure company is down nearly 25% today after issuing a sales and profit warning.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:00:42 GMT

phpSyndication 0.0.3. Syndication PHP class.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:00:58 GMT

Karl Peterson lists the ways VB.Net is not VB.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:01:01 GMT

Joshua Allen: OPML and XSLT. "OPML is a great balance between the wide open freedom of raw XML and the feeling of security of a formal vocabulary. You should be able to read and understand the very small specification in just a few minutes."

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 15:00:19 GMT

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 15:00:19 GMT

What is FileFunnel?

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:00:49 GMT

AtNewYork: 210 Dot-coms Closed in 2000, E-commerce Hardest Hit. "In a year when $87 billion was spent on M&A transactions in the dot-com industry, some 210 Internet companies were forced to shutter operations in 2000, including 20 in New York."

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:00:29 GMT

MacWorld: "So what surprises does Apple have in store for us this year? Beats us--Steve Jobs screens our phone calls. But we tracked down a group of experts and asked them to predict what's in store for Mac users over the next 12 months. Their thoughts? It's going to be a bumpy--and entertaining--ride."

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:00:25 GMT

MacWEEK: One OS or two? "With the final version of Mac OS X looming on the horizon, some Mac developers are saying--publicly and privately--that Apple should change, at least temporarily, its 'one operating system' strategy and continue revising Mac OS 9."

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:00:05 GMT

Thte SOAP weblog gets XMLized.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:00:07 GMT

Yahoo! Bows to Reality. New policies are instated as Big Purple faces bottom-line and public-relations challenges.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:00:56 GMT

Cisco Systems. What's your strategy in 2001?

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:00:52 GMT

Screen shot: My UserLand On The Desktop gets a new text editor. We're getting close to releasing it, it's getting nice and solid.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:00:52 GMT

Last night talking with Brent about the scaling wall that Pyra is climbing I said they should do "Blogger On The Desktop." Then everyone using Blogger could add their computer to the mix. Decentralization and P2P. I've got to write an essay about this. Maybe in a few minutes. Desktop websites. It's the cure for Dotcom Disease, which we've all got a bad case of.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:00:52 GMT

Hey I guess we won't be seeing any more "We're the Dot in Dot-Com" television ads. Something to be thankful for.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:00:57 GMT

BMC's Raising Expectations. Business software company BMC Software says its Q3 will be better than expected.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 08:00:39 GMT

Dot-Com Begs for Bucks. Pyra.com can't get the necessary cash to upgrade its free weblog service from Internet investors burned by Wall Street, so the company asks users to send them a few dollars to buy new hardware. By Leander Kahney.

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 01:00:22 GMT

World: Mexican lawmakers quibble over Tabasco appointment. 23:37 ET - Nando

Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:01:17 GMT

Advogato: Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel.

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 22:00:46 GMT

PHP-Content-Management-System 1.0.8. A content management system that provides dynamic menus and templates.

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:01:11 GMT

MacWEEK: New Macs in the pipeline? "Apple Computer will unveil faster, single-processor G4 towers and redesigned G4-equipped PowerBooks at Macworld Expo next Tuesday, according to a report by Cnet. Sources contacted by MacCentral confirmed the main facts in the report, calling it 'right on the money.'"

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:00:39 GMT

David Coursey: Do Apple's megahertz matter?. "Of all the reasons to buy or not to buy a Mac, the difference between a 500 MHz G4 and a 750 MHz Pentium should be well down the list."

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 21:00:14 GMT

Adobe release second beta of SVG Viewer 2.0. Michael Bierman has announced the release of the second public beta of Adobe SVG Viewer 2.0, adding more support for the SVG Candidate Recommendation spec.

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 20:01:02 GMT

Dale Dougherty: "Low bandwidth and poor quality continue to limit the successful distribution of audio and video on the Web. There may be a better way, however, to distribute multimedia content online, by scheduling downloads of high-quality content for appointment viewing or listening." Yes.

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 17:01:16 GMT

Apple shares up 10% on rate cut

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 17:00:43 GMT

What is Consilient?

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:00:19 GMT

Apple Reaction: Bring Back Woz?. Apple's decision to slash prices on many of its computers created predictable, disgruntled reactions from Mac supporters and critics. Some grumblers are even calling for a return of the old guard. By Michelle Delio.

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 16:00:17 GMT

Robert Scoble: "I'm playing with Whistler at home."

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:01:16 GMT

Is The U.S. No Longer The Choice For Freedom?

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:00:57 GMT

MacNN: Holiday season hits Apple hard. "While retail PC sales in December fell by 24 percent from the year-ago period, according to PC Data, sales of Macs suffered far worse than the industry average, falling by nearly 40 percent."

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 13:01:18 GMT

MacWEEK: Improved inventory picture?. "Despite holiday Mac sales some 15 percent lower than those of Windows-based PCs, Apple's after-Christmas product inventory is between six to seven weeks--much less than the 11.5 weeks reported at the first of December, a leading market research firm reported. If the projection holds true, it would be a good sign that Apple is slowly hacking away at an inventory problem that has plagued the Mac-maker since October."

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 13:00:07 GMT

Internet News: Microsoft Updates Web Services Tools. The software powerhouse improves two tools for Web developers.

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:01:05 GMT

Bård Farstad: Communicating with XML-RPC. "This is an implementation of the XML-RPC spesification written in object oriented PHP."

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 04:00:24 GMT

Khosla talks money, tech, and modesty. Vinod Khosla gets introspective about his role mentoring companies to the top. He prefers to think of himself as a coach, despising the take-the-money-and-run approach of many of his fellow VCs. Relationships with companies are nearly as important to him as his relationship with his family, we found.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:59:59 GMT

Help Make Blogger Faster

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 20:00:06 GMT

What is Organizine?

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 18:00:19 GMT

Update to viewRssBox macro, now if you specify a width of infinity, you get a RSS box without the box.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:00:37 GMT

MacWEEK's year in review.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:20:18 GMT

MacWEEK: Apple slashes hardware prices.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:20:18 GMT

MacWEEK: 'Twas the night before Macworld.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:00:04 GMT

Distributed XML storage with Mnesia. Nat Makarevitch writes with news of IDX XMnesia, an Erlang library allowing storage of XML data in an Mnesia database.

Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:00:34 GMT

Geoworks Settles Patent Claim. Volkswagon and wireless technology-enabler Telelogic bring drivers next generation radios. Also in this week's Unwired News: A prominent patent lawsuit is settled ... pagers aren't old school ... and Samsung's new PDA phone. By Elisa Batista.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:34:01 GMT

I just added a new feature that allows you to create new items that are "local", they don't come from an RSS feed, you create them using MUOTD, but they flow out through the RSS files as if they did. In fact I'm using the feature to write this note and I'm going to add it to the new My UserLand On The Desktop channel. Things are starting to hummm.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:08:06 GMT

You are requesting too often.. Please wait 10 minutes between requests to this RSS page. Questions? Mail feedback@newsblip.com.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:00:27 GMT

Jim Flanagan has an interesting idea. He says it should be 2W4 because the last W in Two-Way-Web is an abbreviation for World Wide Web. He expanded the macro.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:05:02 GMT

EMP Artillery Shells "Military.com has this story about artillery shells "that can put out such a powerful burst of radio-frequency energy it will destroy or disable electrical and electronic systems for miles around without killing anyone.Nice.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:00:44 GMT

Survey: Choose an acronym for The Two-Way-Web.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:00:12 GMT

DW: mySubscriptions.opml contains the RSS channels I'm tuned into.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:00:12 GMT

I keep seeing that headline from Salon everywhere I go. I like the idea. Makes me want to go to Amsterdam.

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 14:00:23 GMT

Dutch partygoers die in New Year fire. At least eight people died and 130 were injured when a fire ripped through a cafe in the Netherlands last night.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:24:42 GMT

This is a test.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:13:25 GMT

This is a test.

Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:10:37 GMT

Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:01:33 GMT

Grateful Dead: "Tennessee, Tennessee, ain't no place I'd rather be."

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:10:03 GMT

Spoke with Bryan this morning. He's going to do a new wrapper for the MUOTD website, it's going to be derived straight from the Radio UserLand site, but the cactus is going to be on a coffee cup in front of the Alps. The coffee cup is the clue that you're on the desktop, not on the Radio UserLand site on our server. Bryan is also going to do a nice default set of templates for Radio Blogs.

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:26:45 GMT

Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:13:28 GMT

Now I'm testing logging of blog publishing, or myUserLandData.prefs.flLogBlogPublish. Say that five times fast!

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:53:51 GMT

I did some more fiddling with file paths.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:06:44 GMT

This is a test of some fiddling I did with file paths.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:31:55 GMT

You should now see My Radio Blog on the UserLand updates page.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:49:03 GMT

Cringely: "Steve wants to suck another $129 in almost pure profit from the very customers who will already be saving his and Apple's butts." I doubt it. The reason Apple is delaying the release of Mac OS X, purely based on tea-leave reading, is that it is not ready for users yet. The March release will certainly slip. Steve will say "There's no real reason to ship it to stores, people can download it over the Internet." And the July date will slip. It would be suicidal for Apple to put OS X in real users faces before it's exactly a clone of Mac OS 9, with a few minor improvements that aren't in your way. Unless they're stupid or very fast (it'll never happen) Mac OS X can not be pre-installed on anything other than servers for another couple of years. Software takes time. You can't hurry love. Look at the features they're bringing online now. Core stuff. (Until a couple of weeks ago the Apple logo was in the middle of the screen for crying out loud.) It might be a management technique. Keep the engineering team in 24-by-7 death-march mode. But that's probably already been going on for a couple of years. That was how Copland died, btw. Remember Copland?

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:43:42 GMT

New feature: A successful post always gets me fresh edit box.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:33:34 GMT

What if there's an error on Publish? Want to stay on the same post, and show error message in red.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:19:01 GMT

Tennesse. Tennessee. There ain't no place I'd rather be.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:14:58 GMT

OK, this time I got it.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:12:29 GMT

This is a new post that contains a bad enclosure.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:05:57 GMT

This is an old post that contains a bad enclosure.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:03:39 GMT

This is a new post with Tennessee Jed enclosed, but I don't expect it to work. Let's see. Holy guacamole. It worked!

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:30:38 GMT

This post has Tennesse Jed enclosed.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:24:59 GMT

OK, I got stuck on enclosures, I'll finish them tomorrow. Need a fresh start.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:02:06 GMT

Ooops, I also want to tweak up the templates.

Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:01:20 GMT

There's now a user interface for entering FTP information. Next thing to do -- enclosures, and then I think I'm ready to do a review and check in the first release.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:36:30 GMT

FTPing works. This blog is also in the cloud, but now when I click on Post & Publish, it FTPs it up to scripting.com.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:16:05 GMT

Posted on the FoRK list, a WSJ story about Crossgain, the company founded by Tod Nielsen and Adam Bosworth, both of whom I knew when they were at Microsoft. They were working on a project in the SOAP space, which I have been briefed on, on background. Now they've been forced to quit under heavy pressure from Microsoft. I can't believe Microsoft is playing hardball here. There's so much room in this new space, we need all the smart technologists working diligently to explore all the new territory. Not just at Microsoft of course.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:13:56 GMT

Ken Dow is doing three Manila courses in San Jose, CA at the end of February. Highly recommended. Ken knows Manila as well as anyone and he's a great teacher and really nice guy. If you've been fumbling around the edges of Manila wanting to become an expert, Ken is the guy who can get you there.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:03:21 GMT

Just checkin in..

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:20:21 GMT

This afternoon we got the NY Times RSS files working, based on the XMLization that the Times already does. They put them on a public server. They had to have done that for a reason. We're pushing links to their stories around our little network. Let's hope they want more flow for their stories.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:58:04 GMT

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:53:42 GMT

One more test.

Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:21:02 GMT

This is my first Tuesday post.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:05:34 GMT

Another test Post & Publish..

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:04:34 GMT

I can now post from the My Blog page. Nice.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:15:40 GMT

Last night Adam (I think) plopped a preview for a movie called The Bachelor into my enclosures folder. I was surprised to find how captivating it was. Movie previews tell a story with a little sex, and something outrageous. They give away the plot in two minutes. I think they push some of their most expensive scenes out this way. You wouldn't want to wait for it to download unless you had a T3 line, it took 580 seconds..

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:43:33 GMT

Do you know the way to San Jose?

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:43:14 GMT

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:02:12 GMT

I am testing this code today. It's working pretty darned well.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:19:15 GMT

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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:18:28 GMT

This will actually appear in my blog.

Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:15:16 GMT

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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:14:39 GMT

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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:14:27 GMT

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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:14:25 GMT

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Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:14:23 GMT

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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 14:14:21 GMT

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Sat, 13 Jan 2001 14:13:46 GMT

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