Archive for June, 2006

Scripting News for 6/30/2006

Steve Gillmor: The Attention Operating System. 
Mike Arrington: “Don’t use my own facts against me.” 
I talked with Jeff Barr at Amazon last night, and he said the bit I posted about supporting XML-RPC on S3 got through and they’re looking at it.  
I’m sitting next to John Furrier at Gnomedex and he says he heard from [...]

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Scripting News for 6/29/2006

Frank Barnako: Why is John Edwards at Gnomedex? 
Melodeo looks good, but isn’t its name too close to Odeo? 
Good afternoon from the Seattle waterfront where the nerds and geeks of the tech blogging world have gathered for Gnomedex 6.0. The opening party is tonight, 7PM-10:30PM. Me, I don’t have anything that I have to do, other [...]

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Scripting News for 6/28/2006

Today was Scoble’s last day at Microsoft.  
Scott Rosenberg: “The absence of ads is one of the key factors behind Craigslist’s phenomenal success.” 
Martin Green: “Haystack is designed to provide a very scalable, reliable and cost effective platform for object storage and delivery to the Internet.” 
According to Joi Ito there are four bloggers at Brainstorm in [...]

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Scripting News for 6/27/2006

For users of the OPML Editor, the software Doc was using at BloggerCon to take live notes. 

Debugging Frontier-based servers 
I met so many interesting people at BloggerCon this week, it’s impossible to tell the story of every one of them. Further, there were combinations of people who would not likely have met otherwise, who I saw [...]

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Scripting News for 6/26/2006

David Berlind asks if RSS is the new Intranet protocol.  
Rex Hammock picture from BloggerCon II.  
People are still downloading the famous Dvorak movie. 
Rex Hammock’s multi-part post-BloggerCon essay. 

Platform politics 
Scanning Greg Reinacker’s latest roadmap for NewsGator, they support SOAP and REST, which I know from lots of experience means I have to work real hard just [...]

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Scripting News for 6/25/2006

Were you at BloggerCon IV? (Either physically or tuned in over the webcast and IRC.) If so, please add yourself to the Frappr map, and let’s see where we all are from.  
The MP3 collection of audio from the conference is complete. Amazing turnaround from the CNET folks.  
On Friday, Jay Rosen asked for a [...]

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Scripting News for 6/24/2006

The room during the Core Values discussion.  
A video of the hands of Doc, blogging the Video blogging discussion at BloggerCon. 
The next conference on the Summer of Love Tour of West Coast Blogging conferences is hosted by Chris Pirillo, seen (making faces) in this movie during the video blogging discussion in the waning hours of [...]

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Scripting News for 6/23/2006

How to tune into BloggerCon. 
I’m linking to the MP3s as they become available (about 20 minutes after each session, thanks to CNET). 
Kevin Marks’ video webcast feed. 
The song: The Hokey Pokey. 
Another famous Marc Canter sleeping photo. 
Movie of the room during Phil Torrone’s session. 
Dan Farber is blogging the conference. 
Phil’s photos for the Tools discussion. 
We’re live at CNET, [...]

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Scripting News for 6/22/2006

BloggerCon party: 6:45PM tonight, Jillian’s, 4th & Howard.  
Don’t forget to sign up for a Friday night dinner.  
Doc Searls movie. It was a looooong hot day, setting up and getting ready for technography and webcasting at BloggerCon.  
This morning’s webcast was great, and got a good WMA file.  
Music courtesy of the Carnival [...]

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Scripting News for 6/21/2006

Sign-up page for Friday night Food for Thought dinners. 
What if your number is greater than 150? 
Technography and OPML at BloggerCon IV. 
Peter Merholz on tech conferences. “Same old people singing the same old song.” 
Kevin Marks has set up an IRC channel for BloggerCon. It’s the same one we’ve used at previous shows. I’ve listed it on [...]

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