31 Mar
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American power
Shelley Powers: “To the Chinese, freedom is a threat. To the right wingers, criticism of the Catholic Church was a threat. To some folks in Missouri, the fact that I continually bring up issues related to Johnson’s shut-ins is a threat. Exactly how do we define [...]
30 Mar
Today’s links
David Brown has a theory about a way I might get XP to install on my MacBook. Don’t you love DRM. It turns paying customers into hackers.
Rex: When everyone blogs, all sides of a story can be aired.
Keep blogging, you’re going to be on the A-list.
Parallels
My second of two PC laptops [...]
29 Mar
A decade in a download
Yes Virginia, no fooling, April 1 is the birth date of this weblog, and this April 1 (Sunday) is the 10th birthday.
In the spririt of item #2 below, I’m going to offer the full archive of Scripting News, a full decade, downloadable in a single archive, free, no charge — let’s [...]
28 Mar
Today’s links
Is Apple un-hacking user-enhanced AppleTVs?
If I’m not mistaken that’s Mike Arrington, Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble in the latest JibJab.
Good question from The Dude Abides.
CBS5-TV report on Twitter with Scoble.
News.com: “Apparently, Facebook wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard before he had a chance to take any history classes.”
How basic is Twitter?
Like so [...]
27 Mar
Russo & Hale: How to settle the lawsuit
As I’ve written previously, the issues around UserLand’s future are tied up in litigation by the company’s former attorneys. I know the readers of Scripting News don’t know the details of UserLand’s corporate structure, even so, I want to outline what I think a reasonable deal would be [...]
26 Mar
Today’s links
Colorful Berkeley living room on a rainy day.
AP: Bush impeachment on the table, Hagel says.
60 Minutes podcast, useful format, broken into segments.
The future of UserLand
It pains me to watch the traffic on the UserLand support lists, because it looks like there’s no one but Lawrence at the company these days. The person we [...]
25 Mar
The Do It Yourself country
Another thought before calling it a night.
I am not a lawyer.
I am not a judge.
But I have done jury duty.
And in doing so I became an amateur judge.
The noblest kind of judge there is.
It was a wonderful experience, and while, like everyone else, I felt inconvenienced at first to be dragged [...]
24 Mar
Berkeley CyberSalon tomorrow
Tomorrow’s Cybersalon, at the Hillside Club, 5-7PM, $10, is entitled “Life After TV.” Moderated by Andrew Keen, whose upcoming book is an embarassment to Berkeley, and panelists Mary Hodder, Evan Berg, and Joe Savage.
I’ll be in the the back dressed as a bird, and twittering away on my MacBook Pro, devising new [...]
23 Mar
Today’s links
Harvard’s Manila server is down.
Frank Barnako: Rocketboom may charge for shows.
Andrew Baron: “Rocketboom will remain freely available.”
Dan Gillmor takes off the gloves.
Russo & Hale, our law firm, sues us
On March 12, I wrote a cautionary tale, part of the history of UserLand. The story was written in a general way, and raised a [...]
22 Mar
Today’s links
Randy Morin: SEOing Dave. Heh.
Steve Rubel: Twitter may face huge SMS bills.
Michael Gartenberg reviews and positions Apple TV.
Marc Canter nails it. As long as war is incredibly profitable, the US will continue to “solve” every problem with war.
Personal Democracy Forum
I spoke with Micah Sifry this afternoon and we agreed that I would do a [...]
