03 June 2002

Google APIs I need to learn to program with the Google Web APIs service, if only to discover those who read me. By using Google APIs, software developers can query more than 2 bn Web documents directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment - such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET. Sent from Garringreen from Radio TransNote over eircom ISDN. ref: 143

Sighting: Nokia 9290 Sighting: Nokia 9290. Nokia shipped their colour communicator into the States. It combines cellular and PC/PDA functionality, built-in keyboard, and GSM network compatibility. If you use it, take time to back it up. I lost loadsamail several times with its older brother, the Nokia 9210, last year. Sent from Garringreen with Radio TransNote over eircom ISDN. ref: 1334.

Another Corporate Does Weblogs There are weblogs on MSNBC: Eric Alterman, Chris Matthews, Michael Moran, Alan Boyle, Jan Herman. No calendars or permalinks, so they can't really network. The URLs redirect to pages on the MSNBC site, which makes it difficult to point to them or to have them participate in weblogs.com. Are those page numbers permanent or will they change? I wonder how they write these weblogs. Is that really Chris Matthews writing? How many levels of editing does it go through? Looks like they use a home-brewed CMS. I can't see where they have an archive.

Dinosaurs in the Film Industry Jack Valenti, in 1982: "We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright." Valenti is saying the same thing in 2002, to everyone who is listening. Sent from Celbridge, Co Kildare with Radio Transnote over Vodafone HSD. Apologies for broken pages due to broken FTP connections. ref: 125

Patents Damage Innovation Ron Cahill: [op-ed masquerading as news] Ron takes the side of legalists. The reality: Patents do not enable innovation. Creativity enables innovation. Patents enable creative legal exercises. If you trust lawyers to safeguard and nurture creativity, then only lawyers will be able to create. That creates a Net Zero. Sent from Celbridge, Co Kildare, with Radio TransNote and Vodafone HSD. ref: 26121

Is Google Censoring Content? Anita Roddick: "Google's policy of not allowing political advocacy ads is misguided, impossible to administer with any kind of fairness, and a scary step toward restricting the free marketplace of ideas." I don't know about that, but I do feel Google is listening to lawyers. Sent by Radio TransNote over Vodafone HSD in Celbridge, Co Kildare. ref: 26121