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Rob Fahrni (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Scripting News : "Choose software that's easy to archive. Ideally you should just have to make a copy of a folder to back it up. Most bloggiong software is nowhere near that simple. " - This is yet another reason I LOVE my statically published weblog pages. I've moved my weblog to a few different hosts over the years and I can do exactly what Dave does; I tar up a directory, copy it to the...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A few notes about the propriety of reporters accepting free followers from Twitter. 1. On Friday, in an interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at a TechCrunch conference , Mike Arrington observed that when TechCrunch ran a piece about Twitter Corp they didn't like, they were taken off the Suggested User List . I wrote this up here on Scripting News. Costolo didn't comment, but the issue is clearly...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
This week I set a goal to get my next generation of editorial tools to a level where I could use them for almost everything I do online. Not yet for others to use, this is how I develop stuff. I do more than eat the dog food, think of it this way -- I am the dog. So, while I have been writing very actively online for the last few days, very little of it has been appearing here at scripting.com. Eventually...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
This week I set a goal to get my next generation of editorial tools to a level where I could use them for almost everything I do online. Not yet for others to use, this is how I develop stuff. I do more than eat the dog food, think of it this way -- I am the dog. So, while I have been writing very actively online for the last few days, very little of it has been appearing here at scripting.com. Eventually...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Joseph Scott has a post on the main WordPress site that explains that they are now supporting the two enhancements that were announced here on October 16. What this means: Now any aggregator that wants instant updates of WordPress sites can have it. It was an issue for complex sites like Google Reader, that's why we enhanced our apps, so they could hook into rssCloud and provide instant updates to...
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Scripting News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
First, thanks to Jeff Pulver for a fantastic conference earlier this week and thanks for letting me keynote it. Putting it in L.A., away from the distortion field of Silicon Valley, made it a lot more interesting and less of a festival of wiener-boys. I fell in love at least five times in 24 hours, that's pretty good. First time I spoke at a tech conference since LeWeb in 2007. Technorati rolled out...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
First, thanks to Jeff Pulver for a fantastic conference earlier this week and thanks for letting me keynote it. Putting it in L.A., away from the distortion field of Silicon Valley, made it a lot more interesting and less of a festival of wiener-boys. I fell in love at least five times in 24 hours, that's pretty good. First time I spoke at a tech conference since LeWeb in 2007. Technorati rolled out...
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Scripting News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
So many things to say about where Twitter's lists point, the thing is, I've said them all already, many times over many years. There's a whole architecture already designed and deployed for lists and lists of lists. And they form directories that are much more open than the original Yahoo directory or DMOZ. I know everyone thinks DMOZ is the most open directory possible, but it's not. The list structure...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
So many things to say about where Twitter's lists point, the thing is, I've said them all already, many times over many years. There's a whole architecture already designed and deployed for lists and lists of lists. And they form directories that are much more open than the original Yahoo directory or DMOZ. I know everyone thinks DMOZ is the most open directory possible, but it's not. The list structure...
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hello, typepad (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Anil Dash is now on the list too and has 99K followers, and he's a working man, and I'm sure he can be influenced. I unfollowed Anil when he made a joke about how it feels like being on the...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Good morning. Getting back to work after a half-day at a conference followed by a five-hour baseball game. The conference was at Om Malik's and was the first tech conference I'd been to since the disaster at Gnomedex in 2007. This one was much better. I got to talk with a number of people I'm working with on RSS-related projects, and met a few developers with interesting projects. Om gathers an interesting...
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Earning My Turns (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Once again, future-safe archives : Every time a relative passes this issue comes front and center for me. Most other times it's just lurking in the shadows. [...] We need one or more institutions that can manage electronic trusts over very long periods of time. [...] I've felt that universities would do the best job, since they already need to maintain the work of their professors, possibly in partnership...
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Scripting News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Just writing to say that Scripting News is on a hiatus this week. Not sure when I'll be writing again. But I'm still here, doing the best I can. And thanks to everyone who wrote for the kind wishes.
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Just writing to say that Scripting News is on a hiatus this week. Not sure when I'll be writing again. But I'm still here, doing the best I can. And thanks to everyone who wrote for the kind wishes.
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Scripting News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I spent most of last week in NY, visiting my parents. My father has been gravely ill, and as it turns out this was my last visit to see him. This morning he died. He's had a long decline and plenty of time to prepare for the end. This week we talked honestly and openly about the big things. In June, on his 80th birthday I wrote to him that he was my hero. There was a lot of forgiveness in that statement,...
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