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- Scripting News: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
This quote is really from Ben Thompson's subscriber newsletter but via Dave Winer's blog highlighting this excerpt. Ben Thompson wrote in his Stratechery newsletter: "What is…
- RSS 2.0 Launched 20 Years Ago
RSS 2.0 was launched 20 years ago. I do so much with RSS, and to this day it is the most prevalent way I find and discover content. No algorithms, no ML, no social. Just the…
- Scripting News: They can't see what they can't see
Dave Winer has written for decades at this point about blogging, the web, and journalism. He wrote Sources go direct in 2009! Here he is hitting on a bigger thing. So you get the…
- Scripting News: If I were CEO of the NYT
Interesting perspective from Dave Winer. Not surprising that it’s focused around blogs.
- Scripting News: The Internet is going the wrong way
Dave Winer is a good "North Star" for the open web.
- Should you blog on Facebook or the web? —Scripting News
Dave Winer is often referred to as the father of blogging. The fact that he ever thought it was a good idea to blog on Facebook always surprised me. The desire for audience and…
- The story of RSS-in-JSON —Scripting News
Dave Winer doing some stuff with RSS-in-JSON. Have to say I’m disappointed that he isn't using JSON Feed. Seems stubborn, perhaps prideful and bad for the ecosystem.
- The Central Park of the web
Evan Williams says that the web is about money now, not creativity. He says this follows the pattern of previous technologies. At first there's a wonderful burst of creativity and…
- Software as art
Yesterday I posed this question on Twitter.Are there any developers in Silicon Valley, having made their FU Money
- Why can't we run software that was written 25 years ago?
I would like to write software that people can run 100 years from now. Clearly that's not going to happen. Ward Cunningham tells a story about how he wrote Hypercard apps for his…
- Why blog?
The mission of blogging is to empower all of us to go directly to each other with our expertise. So if you know something as well as anyone else, or you learn something or know…
- Blogging tools should archive in RSS
A friend emailed to ask if it was possible to write a small application that read all of the RSS for back-issues of a specific blog and gathered information about links, number of…
- How to end junk news
News that activates your mind. Gives you new information and perspectives. Causes you to think of solutions. Causes you to feel that there is something you can do to make the…
- Time's hundred most influential
The news didn't warn us about the death of the real estate market that was coming in 2008. And they weren't suspicious about the war in Iraq. They can report on sports, but that…
- Scripting News: The Un-Internet
- Scripting News: This is a Facebook-free Zone
- Google-Plus is about money
We were talking about this real name issue in my last book club meeting. This angle wasn't discussed. Seems a bit out there to me, but maybe not.
- Opting-out of Google Plus
- To the young brilliant minds
- Should we trust Bill Keller?
- Does Assange have an agenda?
Does Julian Assange have an agenda? We've heard the question so many times, usually asked by American media, whose agendas we are intimately familiar with. My answer, on…
- Please see "Inside Job"
- What I mean by "the open web"
- The world is socialist
- Dave Does Podcast!
These days I do a weekly podcast with Jay Rosen called Rebooting the News. Years ago I did my own called Morning Coffee Notes. Today, I did a 1/2 hour podcast in the coffeenotes…
- Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech?
Can we? Not sure.
- Net neutrality is hypocrisy
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. The idea is that the transport layer, operated by telephone companies and cable companies,…
- One great thing about WikiLeaks
Amen.
- How Protoblogger.com works
Every day I push a bunch of links through Twitter. I have this process fairly well streamlined. I click on a bookmarklet, it grabs the headline and URL and shoots it to an app on…
- A feature request for blogging tool vendors
I wrote a bunch of web content management tools in the mid-late 90s and early part of the last decade (we still don't have a name for it!) that turned into what we now think of…
- WikiLeaks on the run
- WinerLinks and outliners
- What should Twitter's vision be?
- New blogging techniques
What I call paragraph-level permalinks have made an appearance in Jay Rosen's blog, thanks to the innovative design work of Lauren Rabaino. Nieman Lab calls out the feature. And…
- Death and Facebook, revisited
- Are Wordpress themes necessarily open source?
- People hosting their own servers
My Scripting2 to-do list is getting small again, but there are still some big items there. One of them is to get an Amazon AMI ready for people to create their own blogging…
- DNS for RSS feeds
Here is a Unix shell command that gets the address of my RSS feed: dig +short davewiner.supercloud.org TXT It makes a DNS call to get the TXT record associated with…
- Tease Tease Tease
This is one of many millions of blogs on wordpress.com. Here is its RSS feed. View source on that. Notice anything interesting? ReadWriteWeb: "All blogs on the WordPress.com…
- Google's Pubsubhubbub
It's got a weird name, and I found the spec somewhat hard to understand. But thanks to Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin from the team at Google that implemented it, I now un...
- Rebooting the RSS cloud
In the early days of RSS, we had the idea that instantaneous updates would be the next step. That was 2001. It took a little longer than we thought, but now with "realtime" as...
- Citi Field
I had the priviledge of going to the new Mets ballpark in NY last night. The Mets won in an uncharacteristically elegant way. Bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, Luis Castillo hits…