Makezine, PT and today’s bomb scare in Boston
There was a bomb scare in Boston today, the details are still sketchy, but on CNN they just said that the devices they discovered were part of a promotion for the Cartoon Network. And apparently a howto was published on Makezine.
If you work at CNN, Phil Torrone [...]
Archive for January, 2007
31 Jan
Scripting News for 1/31/2007
30 Jan
Scripting News for 1/30/2007
Matt Mullenweg on Snap: “I think this is one feature where what the masses want and what geeks prefer diverges pretty heavily.”
MacNN: Apple pays $700,000 for bloggers’ legal fees.
Fake Steve Jobs: “Well my friggin lawyers are advising me that I will have to shut down this scandalous old blog.”
Freedom to Tinker: “Having long argued that [...]
29 Jan
Scripting News for 1/29/2007
Kampala Monitor: “Ugandan bloggers choose funky, strange names for their blogs.”
Paul Boutin: “Good stories don’t have to be true.”
Scott Rosenberg wrote a lengthy profile of Charles Simonyi in this month’s issue of Technology Review, a magazine edited by Jason Pontin. Pontin has a piece in today’s NY Times that is eerily similar to the Rosenberg [...]
28 Jan
Scripting News for 1/28/2007
There’s a new quote in the right margin, from a 2005 white paper written by Tim O’Reilly. It’s one of the most accurate paragraphs on the origins of RSS, even though the chronology is a little wrong. The term “Really Simple Syndication” didn’t come until 2002, and the confluence came in 1999, not 1997. But [...]
27 Jan
Scripting News for 1/27/2007
Jimmy Carter’s book
I haven’t read Jimmy Carter’s new book yet, but I have heard a few interviews with him on public radio, and I have read a bunch of stuff written about his book by people I respect, and I don’t know what it is about Jews, but when it comes to Israel they lose [...]
26 Jan
Scripting News for 1/26/2007
The HTTP interface for my new receiver. Sure, it’s ugly, but it works! Geek dream realized. Ha!
Observation on my new stereo — it’s the first time in 35 years that I’ve had a stereo that’s good enough to sit and listen to and do nothing else. When I was a teen, I had a great [...]
25 Jan
Scripting News for 1/25/2007
See you at the PaidContent mixer tonight. Maybe I’ll get paid for some content? Heh. Of course not.
Great to see all the cool people honored by Forbes as the most popular people on the net. Scoble, Arrington, Calacanis, Om — the stars of our corner of the galaxy. I knew them when they [...]
24 Jan
Scripting News for 1/24/2007
Friday in SF, the Mobile Identity Workshop led by Doc Searls.
Disclosure
Not sure if this requires disclosure or not, but I decided it’s better to disclose than not.
On Sunday, I added a command to the robots.txt file for scripting.com that tells the TechMeme robot to not read this site. I was told by Gabe [...]
23 Jan
Scripting News for 1/23/2007
NY Times: “Mr. Schwab views the spread of Web logs as more evidence of the changing power equation. He said he might have to rethink guidelines for reporting events, which put many of the sessions off the record.”
I watched tonight’s State of the Union: tepid, weak, more of the same. The Democratic response was powerful, [...]
22 Jan
Scripting News for 1/22/2007
NY Times: “The major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions.”
Marc Canter: “IBM has validated the usage of social networking in business.”
NPR: “January 22 is the most depressing day of the year, according to Wales-based psychologist Cliff Arnall.”
Settop box HTTP server
Buried in yesterday’s piece about layers of [...]
