Friday, March 15, 2002
RFC: MetaWeblog API
In newPost and editPost, content is not a string, it's a struct.
Bite-sized nuggets
Rahul Dave wrote to suggest a simple solution for making items easy to scan in RSS readers: truncate the [description] to a few hundred characters.
What I would like is an option to truncate on the client side.
FCC: Choice is Bad
We are creating choke points for speech itself. Does anyone care?
(May 3, 2002) Too bad the really dumb people at Real Cities broke the link to Dan Gillmor's old columns. Oh well...
In a Seamless Image, the Great and Small
[E]ngineers at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC) are designing a display that would allow computer users to focus on one part of an image without losing the overview. Looking at a city map, for example, the user would be able to get a close-up of an outlet mall and view the mall's location within the larger township at the same time.
Disingenuous Comments from Michael Eisner
Dave Winer
Entertainment and publishing companies need to embrace the future and offer digital products at a reasonable price, using business models that will grow the market for everyone. If Congress bows to their short-sighted fears and mandates strong copy protection and technological barriers that punish legitimate users along with pirates, we will all be poorer as a result.
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Review
Dave Winer
Tom Matrullo reviews David Weinberger's new book.
ICANN in for a Domain Change
Declan McCullagh
It's starting to look as though the most impressive accomplishment of the Internet's governing body will be managing to vex everyone who's been paying attention.
Cal Senator: Hollywood Over Tech
Declan McCullagh
Sen. Dianne Feinstein may come from Northern California but she's siding with Hollywood instead of Silicon Valley.
Longitude clock comes alive
H4, the marine chronometer that the 18th Century engineer John Harrison constructed to solve thelongitude problem, has been wound as part of Science Week in the UK.
Discussion at Slashdot.
Banking Alternatives
What alternatives are there to traditional banks and credit unions?
Coffee coffee coffee I love coffee
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