Moments: Ancient teachers. "The relationship we establish between ourselves and our work is personal. One person doesn't teach another how to feel. But it seems to me that an individual who feels nothing at all in response to his work--no meaning, no magic, no romance--lives in a sad condition." [That's me in 1996. Thanks Al, for the kind words.] *
RFC: Title and Link API for Radio UserLand. [Dave presumes correctly.] *
"Copyright cartel insanity -- Salon has two articles which are nice to read back to back: one is how the recording industry cartel is pushing for complete control over all distribution to stop people listening to music for free, the other is how that same cartel is moaning about how expensive it's become to bribe radio stations to play music (so people to listen to it for free)." [Go to Zimran's and read the articles. You may need a shower afterward.]
Ranchero: Frontier/Radio Contextual Menu Plugin. "This contextual menu plugin for OS X gives you a Frontier Scripts submenu. You can attach your own scripts and run them from the Finder and other applications that support contextual menus (such as BBEdit, Internet Explorer, and Eudora). It also works with Radio UserLand: Radio users get a Radio Scripts submenu." [See below for how I put this baby to use.]
Book Reviews. "Joel's Programmer's Bookshelf. This is the short list of all the books that I honestly think that every working programmer needs to read, with my own book hidden in there in case you didn't notice because I get about two bucks if you buy it." [I've read a lot of these. Not a bad selection. I'd add a bunch of things to the "architecture" section. Lots of overlap.] *
White Balance. "Photography is all about light! One of the major characteristic of light we depend on in photography to communicate is color, one band or its entire spectrum. In conventional film capture, while most photographers are aware of this basic fact, most take for granted the color temp of the light falling on their subject and how their film might react to and render it. But even more to the point, honest, exact, faithful color rendition has never been a major point of contention for most photographers." [From Moose Peterson. Listen up.] *
Manufactured Serendipity. "There are a number of people out there speculating as to why the blogging phenomenon is occurring. Like most people, I feel that everyone else is missing the point, so I've set out to correct this in my own way." [Isn't this last sentence what blogging is really about?] *
Why I blog by Dave Winer: "But I am a software developer, and my weblog is all about that. Why do I need a weblog? Well, I want to get a true connection between people who use my software and myself. I want to talk directly with them."
Scoble: "Why do I Weblog? Because Dori Smith told me to."
Why I blog *
[Helpless, speechless, breathless. A phrase that means different things to me at different times. It's the name of a song I wrote. Sometimes it's an excited exclamation, other times a declaration of distress.
I spent years thinking about why I enjoyed performing. Winding down afterward, I long ago decided it was mostly because I get to say something to a bunch of folks and discover what they like and enjoy (or not). Blogging does the same thing. It teaches me about other people, other things, other experiences. Hopefully, I give something back to all the folks who keep me helpless with excitement, speechless in awe, and breathless in anticipation.]
Jon's Radio. "The near-realtime pace of development is absolutely exhilarating, and yes, Radio is dramatically better day by day."
Archipelago's New Features *
[Here's a Manila site that has the same content as this one did. Here is a Radio weblog that also has the same content, split into three posts.
Archipelago talks to Manila through its native Manila RPC interface. To Radio it speaks the Blogger API.
It looks like this.
I do this by copying and pasting (or dragging and dropping) between the editing windows, but I could script it (and will when I have more time.) I also have some very helpful scripts and Brent's Frontier/Radio Contextual Menu Plugin that move text and links from just about any source to an Archipelago editing window. It integrates beautifully.]
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