Dave Winer: Two-Way-Web

Fairvue Central: "Welcome to the 2002 Weblog Awards. I'm Nikolai Nolan, and I'll be your host, again."

How I edited the awards outline. "First, I opened up the outliner and created a file called awards.opml."

Adam Curry's mind is going amok about email.

JY: "nothing broken in my house, everything is safe, thanks for asking ;-)"

Dan Gillmor: "The gifted amateurs do more than create art in our world. They are also the true believers in politics and other fields. They do things because they care. We need them, and the Net gives them a megaphone the likes of which they haven't had before."

ZDNet: "The fierce battle between Microsoft's powerful Office team and its fledgling NetDocs challenger is over, with the company's top brass christening Office the winner."

Interview: Dave Winer on Radio Userland. We interview Dave Winer, founder of UserLand Software, about his newest creation, Radio Userland. Thirteen years in the making, Radio Userland puts an industrial strength Web server on your desktop. Designed to be extended by developers, Radio will also appeal to the masses with its news aggregator and weblog features. By Andy King. 0312

KnowNow: "Powering the Two-Way Web."

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.

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)

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!"

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."

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."

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

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.

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."

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

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!

DaveNet: Desktop Websites.

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.

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.

What is Organizine?

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

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

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.

NY Times editorial: The Dot-Com Bubble Bursts. "The current sense of despair in the dot-com universe may be as overdone as last year's euphoria. The Internet, after all, really is a transforming technology that has revolutionized the way we communicate."

ZDNN: Netdocs: Microsoft's .Net poster child? According to sources, Netdocs is a single, integrated application that will include a full suite of functions, including e-mail, personal information management, document-authoring tools, digital-media management, and instant messaging.