Dave Winer: Mind Bombs

Test Post for Metaweblog API glue

Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:03:41 GMT

I am working on Frontier/Radio glue for the MetaWeblog API. At first I thought it wasn't needed, but then I got to a place where I wanted the distinction betweeen using the Blogger API and the MetaWeblog API to be minimal, so it was time to build a parallel way of calling the MWA. That's what these glue scripts are for.

Mon, 03 Jun 2002 22:54:49 GMT

Mind-bomb: Weblog Neighborhood Tool.

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:09:44 GMT

Next little bomblet. OPML coffee mugs. It gets worse. Bryan Bell who does our graphics is in Europe, so if there are any good Photoshop hackers out there who can do better, please do. It's going to be an interesting bootstrap. The first feature in a long time that depends on Radio's built-in outliner.

Fri, 08 Mar 2002 01:37:50 GMT

The first step on the cookie crumb trail. It's recursive. It gets worse. Much. ";->"

Thu, 13 Dec 2001 03:53:22 GMT

Radio 7.1's CMS is new in a lot of ways. It's a CMS where the content lives in the file system. Yes, it all flows through the object database on its way onto the public Internet, but that's invisible to the user. (Not to developers, of course.) People who were around in the early CMS days, Frontier 4.2.3, will recognize the new CMS as the continuation of the BBSite suite, which gave BBEdit users a modest CMS in the file system. The difference is a few years. In those years our understanding of content management increased, and (don't overlook this) Moore's Law has been raging, and things that were formerly unthinkable are now fast.

One of the big benefits of doing it all in the file system is that users have total choice of tools. Everything from Notepad to Dreamweaver, you name it, as long as it can produce a text file, an HTML file or an OPML file, we can deal with it. It's been interesting to watch the debate over file extensions rage in Mac-land. We've drunk the Kool Aid. The extensions route the files through the rendering process. Lots of cross-platform cross-tools connections, achieved entirely through architecture, not brute force. It's a clean CMS that people who program in PHP and ASP will instantly grok.

Sat, 17 Nov 2001 02:04:03 GMT

You heard it here first: Jake is my hero! Just did his corner-turn and it worked the first time and the instructions were crystal clear.

Fri, 11 May 2001 19:05:21 GMT

We're in leak-mode on a new version of Frontier for an operating system that more people are starting to use.

Sat, 28 Apr 2001 19:00:26 GMT

Just for fun: Hyakugojyuuichi. Flash. [Scripting News]

Fri, 13 Apr 2001 22:14:54 GMT

James Hong: From Hot Concept to Hot Site in Eight Days.

Fri, 06 Apr 2001 01:10:00 GMT

Open-source firm reverses strategy. CNET Apr 5 2001 7:57PM ET [CNET]

Fri, 06 Apr 2001 01:02:51 GMT

Wired: The Hot New Medium is Paper. Really?

Sat, 10 Mar 2001 01:58:27 GMT

Benjamin Franklin: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worthy reading, or do things worth the writing."

Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:14:28 GMT

A candidate for a new Scripting News motto: "There's no such thing as a winnable war, it's a lie we don't believe anymore."

Sat, 17 Feb 2001 15:48:52 GMT

Dylan Tweney on the P2P conf: "So, what's the business model for this thing? Who knows? Who cares! This is cool!"

Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:33:50 GMT

Josh Allen: "Well, chips are just software that has been compiled into silicon, and strangely, when you compile your code into silicon, you don't have the same crowd yelling at you to GPL it."

Wed, 07 Feb 2001 20:17:29 GMT

Forbes: Linking Like Minds. There is no shortage of people willing to freely give their time to their favorite sites, and certainly, companies are quick to reap the benefits. Mindful of the legal pitfalls, executives are hiring consultants to show them new ways to involve volunteers online without incurring liability.

Tue, 06 Feb 2001 19:50:03 GMT

Reuters: "Pope John Paul is considering naming Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of Internet users and computer programmers, Vatican sources said on Tuesday."

Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:00:02 GMT

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

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:00:01 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 05:01:09 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.'''

Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:04:45 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, 01 Jan 2001 04:00:32 GMT

Fast Company: From June 1996; Ten Commandments for Success on the Net

Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:00:43 GMT

New word: revelationary. Think about it.

Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:00:39 GMT

Radio is the first Web server to do upstreaming, a necessary feature for servers running on users' desktops.

Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:00:02 GMT

DW: Lest I forget to give credit, the seed of the idea for Desktop Websites came from the Cobalt Qube. They showed that the browser is a great way to configure a local server. The difference is that the computers we program have screens and keyboards, so we can view and edit the database on the same machine.

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:00:01 GMT

Earth at Night. Visible global warming?

Mon, 25 Dec 2000 18:00:05 GMT

Listening to an NPR interview with Wolfgang Puck. He's certainly a businessperson, a restauranteur, but he's also a cook and a teacher. It's generally assumed in the software business that you need a CEO who knows little about the product and users to run your company. I've always thought this was wrong. Software is more like a restaurant. Puck serves hamburgers at Spago in Orlando (kids like them). And macaroni and cheese. But it's Puck-style, not mass-produced, with fresh ingredients and a few weird spices.