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1. Write for a reason How to write for a weblog. .< 10:53:20 PM  >Dave Liebreich's Radio Weblog: "Each url above pointing to a complete site, with associated rss feed. Me using Radio to route posts to the sites by selecting categories on the Radio "home page" I also wanted a radio.weblogs.com/..usernum../ site, so I could share my experiences with the world. But I did not want all posts going to the public site." A useful 'how to' on maintaining public and private sites with Radio. .< 10:29:14 PM >A marriage made of music I n the gentle warmth of McGill University's historic Redpath Hall, a room whose rich wood walls, floors and ceiling combine to create an ideal place for chamber music, Montrealers heard the world premiere of a new quartet by R. Murray Schafer." .< 10:25:04 PM >Speaking of Northrop Frye and the Moncton fallacy : "The arts are no longer a luxury -- even if some of our aptly named provincial governments persist in treating them that way. According to a Canada Council newsletter from November, 1999, the cultural sector contributes $29.8-billion to Canada's gross domestic product. And if you want to see evidence of this extraordinary change, you could do worse than to go to Moncton. I'd recommend April 25-28, for the Northrop Frye International Literary Festival." .< 10:22:15 PM >Scholars Who Dig-itize Gutenberg. In an ambitious project, the Library of Congress is digitizing its perfect rendition of the Gutenberg Bible. These high-resolution images could reveal more about Gutenberg's invention of moveable type. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News] .< 10:20:49 PM >LA Times: Mac software better than XP [MacNN] .< 9:21:56 PM >Benjamin Franklin: "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worthy reading, or do things worth the writing." [Scripting News] .< 9:20:23 PM >Mercury News | 03/03/2002 | Google programmer creates Internet buzz with cutesy logo artHwang honored Claude Monet's birthday last year by giving the logo a muted watercolor look, with little lily pads underneath. Now Dave. Aren't you embarassed that you got all in a huff about Google's doodles? I know I blushed for you when I read your posts. I'd like to link to them but the Search engine on the Userland sites doesn't seem to have indexed anything for months. .< 9:11:23 PM >America's new bomb.. As heavy as a Volkswagen, these ``thermobaric'' bombs are designed to suck the oxygen out of a cave or tunnel, killing even earthworms deep underground. Though the blasts are believed capable as well of wrecking sensitive equipment and destroying chemical weapons beyond the reach of conventional bombs, they are designed to leave the subterranean structure intact so it can later be searched. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Shoot first. Ask questions later. .< 9:08:46 PM >Change the Finder's shortcut keys [Mac OS X Hints] I probably won't do the hack but at least I learned that there is a short-cut for the back button in the Finder. It's command-[. Who knew? I'd like to to be the same as the browsers but I'll leave it for now. .< 8:53:42 PM >Quebecers massively on Martins side. Toronto Star Online Mar 4 2002 4:04AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] .< 8:50:28 PM >Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Canadian emissions threaten KyotoCanadians are energy pigs, consuming more energy per capita than any other people on Earth, and while they say they are worried about air pollution, they are driving more gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles than ever. Ouch! .< 8:45:40 PM >Kinder, gentler divorce alternative sweeping Canada. National Post Online Mar 4 2002 8:58AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Duh. How many years did this take? .< 8:44:05 PM >PMA 2002 Final Show Report posted. PMA 2002: I've just put the finishing touches to our full "digital photography" PMA 2002 show report. The report covers no less than 32 manufacturers stands over 7 pages and includes many images of... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] .< 8:39:09 PM >Brent Sleeper: "Trying to write productively in a web browser is like using a knife to turn a loose screw."  [Scripting News]Bingo. Please Dave. Lemme edit in Radio! .< 8:37:25 PM >Recording Honcho Presses Ahead. Music industry executive Hilary Rosen, in a stern response to a congressman, insists that copy-protected CDs must continue to be developed. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington. [Wired News] .< 8:34:36 PM >Toronto Star reporter injured in Afghanistan ambush. CBC Mar 4 2002 1:53PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] .< 8:28:10 PM >The story of Flash as told by its inventor, Jonathan Gay. [Scripting News]A great idea for a site. Let's hope it grows. .< 8:20:09 PM >Apple chief blasts labels The lesson of Napster, which popularised unauthorised music-sharing on the Internet, had more to do with convenience than the fact users could get music free of charge, in Jobs' view. "We believe that over 80percent of people are willing to pay," he says. "But there is no one offering you a choice." Go Steve! Of course it's convenience. Look at the CD. People were taught that the reason to switch from LP to CD was sound quality. Not at all. It was about convenience. .< 8:15:27 PM >"Ambling Into History" by Frank Bruni. A new book says George W. Bush is a pretty nice guy who's matured a lot in the past two years. Maybe so, but is that all we ask for in a president? [Salon.com] .< 1:01:20 PM >John Hiler: Google Time Bomb. [Scripting News]Weblogs, Google, and how to abuse the latter. .< 12:53:41 PM >Antitrust sanctions could kill Windows [MacNN] Ha ha ha ha ha! Those Microsoft guys are funny. What is it that stunted their growth as boys? .< 1:27:01 AM >Rocking against the suits: Embittered by years of 'indentured servitude,' pop stars are uniting to fight the big bad record company. The outcome could change the face of the industry,: "To understand this new expression of rage, it helps to look away from these huge stars, and look at the fine print on the ordinary recording contract -- something that few bands ever do. The major-label contract is unlike any document in the business world:" A good article on what is the mess we call the music industry. .< 1:16:59 AM >Jenny the librarian: "I've come to believe that news aggregation based on RSS feeds of web sites (newspapers, blogs, magazines, etc.) is the future and that the Net Gens will grow up with this as their primary news source." [Scripting News]I believe that news aggreation based on RSS feeds of web sites is the current state of the art. It will soon be corrupted. What's to stop a anyone from dumping ads into their feeds? .< 1:10:13 AM >Lawrence (Larry) Ricci eMVP @ 03/03/2002 11:29 AM. Check it out, this thing WORKS!
Here it is, my first advert received via XML. I'm sure that's what it is. (I've changed the link to xxxx so that I don't spread the virus, er ad.) It was in my rrs feed of comments from YACCS. But I can't find the comment anywhere in my blog so I don't know what the person is 'commenting' on. I was wondering when this was going to happen. People are heralding xml feeds as the new way to communicate. And I really love using them. But it was inevitable that people would start abusing them. .< 1:00:54 AM > Some time in the last couple of years I stopped talking to the music business. When they shut off Napster I stopped caring. A few days before Morpheus shut down last month I downloaded the software and installed it. I had a specific mission in mind. My MP3 collection had almost no Elvis Costello, and, having heard an NPR interview with him, I was interested. So I booted up Morpheus and went looking and found lots of hits, mostly the songs I already had, and downloaded a couple I hadn't, and the quality was so low, I threw them in the trash. My time is worth money and of course I would have happily downloaded a curated and quality-assured package of Elvis songs, with written narrative (he's an interesting guy, very smart, a good story teller) for $39. Charge it to my credit card. I thought I'd mention that, because like others,  I spend $0 on music now, and no that's not a story of Napster screwing things up, it's Eisner and Case that screwed it up. While I was using Napster I was a veritable pump of money into their coffers to make the point to myself and anyone else who cared that it wasn't about money, it was about love of music and wanting it to come to me easily, conveniently and with high quality. For the 18th time, we want to work with the music business. Why can't they hear that. Instead they're lobbying Congress to rape the computer industry so they can get all the money we would supposedly send to them after they did that. Oy. We'd burn their houses, figuratively of course. No money for losers. [Scripting News]Quality. It's difficult to deliver online at this stage. But Dave makes many key points. |
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