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Mon, 19 Apr 2004 23:20:22 GMT

Howell Raines: The Times's image as a bastion of quality had become even more important as tabloid television, Britain's declining newspaper values, and the unsourced ranting of Internet bloggers polluted the journalistic mainstream of the United States. [The Atlantic].

Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:36:49 GMT

Dave Winer: There are a lot of folk legends about the evolution of RSS - Here's the scoop, the sequence of events in the life of RSS, as told by the designer of most of the formats.

Tue, 06 Apr 2004 16:29:55 GMT

Mikel Maron: Web Services, RIA, Semantic Web, the Blogosphere, are coming together to enable an Internet OS, built on amateur application programming in recombinant growth. We'll all be programming an OS that is everywhere.

Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:22:17 GMT

Jon Udell: In theory a CSS attribute could say: "Don't index this element" - Parsing it would likely be more work than search engines are currently willing or able to do. But it's a competitive market again, and there's going to be a struggle to differentiate premium search from commodity search.

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:11:31 GMT

John Robb: P2P tools should be as invisible as plumbing.

Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:42:32 GMT

Rogers Cadenhead: Creating text date links in Radio.

Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:33:24 GMT

Jon Udell: Ironically, although Microsoft cited competition with Apple's Safari as the reason for killing IE for the Mac, I've abandoned Safari on OS X for the same reason I've abandoned IE on Windows - Firefox does more, it's moving faster, and - here's the kicker - it runs identically on Windows, OS X, and Linux.

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:40:42 GMT

Karen Kwiatkowski: I witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president. Fascinating eye-witness piece published by Salon.com.

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:55:56 GMT

Dave Winer: I'd like to make a constructive offer to the people who are working on Atom. And before stating the offer, let me say that I am open to counter-offers.

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:38:38 GMT

Albert Delgado: I think Userland has the more important job of updating its products, from the kernel on out. Atom support is secondary at this time.

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:35:36 GMT

Philip Miseldine: So, what I'm thinking is, why not provide a stylesheet (XSLT or something else, perhaps) that tells the aggregator how to consume your feed to produce descriptions.

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:57:43 GMT

Davenet: A Bright Future for Syndication. Editor's note: check the publication date, and the file name in the url :-).

Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:10:38 GMT

Amit Singh: Mac OS X is perhaps one of the best examples of how a capable system can result through the direct or indirect efforts of corporations, academic and research communities, the Open Source and Free Software movements, and even individuals.

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:04:13 GMT

Daniel Terdiman: A recent study finds that almost half of US Internet users contribute online content. [Wired]

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:13:34 GMT

Matt Mower: Whatever happened to the Wiki API?

Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:56:23 GMT

Ted Goranson: Much of the idealistic promise of the sixties was transferred to the creative and revolutionary world of the Mac in the eighties and early nineties - Nowhere in that flow of applications was this more obvious than in outliners.

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:09:38 GMT

Aleph One: Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit.

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:34:52 GMT

Paolo Vademarin: Our first step is going to be implementing a tool which will allow to add event-related information to a weblog post.

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:17:31 GMT

Jon Udell: Heads, decks, and leads: revisited.

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:09:14 GMT

Guardian: The political press and the Washington campaign consulting industry recognised that Howard Dean posed a grave danger to their position and they responded with a fierce campaign to undermine and discredit his message.

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:56:32 GMT

Xeni Jardin: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Porn. [Wired News]

Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:41:56 GMT

Technology Review: Our Non-Expeditions to the Moon and Mars.

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:24:05 GMT

Daniel Rubio: Building PHP Web services with PEAR. [Newsforge]

Mon, 16 Feb 2004 15:57:07 GMT

Matt Mower: DIY blogging stats.

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:53:39 GMT

Dave Winer: Atom has a big hill to climb, but through skillful PR it may not look that way. What this does, as others have observed, is put a freeze on development, while we all wait for the dust to settle with Atom. We must not allow this to happen. The most important thing is to keep the ball moving.

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:07:42 GMT

in the New York Times: "All virus-spreading," one virus writer said caustically, "is based on the idiotic behavior of the users."

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:47:16 GMT

Simson Garfinkel: Releasing the source code wouldn't make Windows free. Indeed, it would probably make Windows more secure, by allowing more people to find the bugs faster. [TR weblog]

Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:29:21 GMT

Rael Dornfest: Blogging, because of RSS, has gone from a popularity contest - how many times has my site been pinged? - to discovery of information. [Technology Review]

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:14:03 GMT

Andrew Grumet: RSSTV - Syndication for your PVR. Give customers the ability to push Suggestions into their friends' TiVos. Friends tend to be smarter than AI software... [via Scripting News]

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:39:46 GMT

Ted Nelson: A Publishing and Royalty Model for Networked Documents. [via Curiouser and curiouser!]

Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:21:04 GMT

Peter Seebach: What you need to know to write man pages.

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:04:54 GMT

John Robb: Unfortunately, the feature that should be in the browser (an RSS aggregator) isn't something Dave is going to ask for.