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Josh Lucas says they've fixed the problems with the Advogato XML-RPC interface. I wrote several scripts in Radio to test the connection, and it works as advertised. Nice simple docs, clear, easy to follow. Advogato diaries are simple weblogs. Here's the diary I set up for my tests. Hey I'm a master. Thanks. Nice work. A new weblog API to add to the mix.  [Scripting News]
11:22:10 AM 
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Storage and copyrights. There is little doubt that the current copyright system, and how copyright owners sell their poducts, is in freefall. The reason for this is the rapid growth in storage capacity.
The PC is, and will continue to be, a device that augments an individual's mind. It provides mental leverage. It makes people more productive. The PC also self selects users. People who have a voracious appetite for extending and enhancing their minds use PCs.
In this model, unutilized capacity is an anathema. Spare processor cycles, unused storage space, and unused bandwidth are an invitation to expand a PC users mind. Like an entrepreneur, the mind finds ways to fill or use this excess. This is perhaps why Americans have a love affair with the PC and have resisted using interactive phones. American's are entrepreneurs. To us, a smart phone looks like a child's toy when compared to the PC's power and capacity to extend the mind.
With this in mind, it's easy to see that the real driver behind the attack on digital media copyrights is the rapid expansion of storage space on PCs. It is doubling faster than Moore's law. The standard $2000 PC today sells with 120 Gb of storage space more than twice what was available on the standard PC last year at this time. This unused space asks, no demands, to be filled. What are people filling it with? Music. Movies. Digital media.
The entertainment industries greatest fault is that it isn't finding ways to fill this unused capacity with their products. They want to keep a system in place that slowly dribbles digital media to customers in a tightly managed way, in spite of the fact that customers demand, and can easily absorb, a firehose of digital media. Until the entertainment industry finds a way to open the floodgates they will be the losers in this battle. Personal leverage through the use of technology is the greatest trend of all time. Fighting that is not just stupid, it's insane. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
9:40:06 AM
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Russell Gum points out work he doing to use Radio and SVG to manage farms. Absolutely awesome!
Check out his cropmap and his SVG weblog. >>>Radio is a great tool for creating SVG. The map also has links for each field that lead to more detailed data for each field. This summay inludes a timeline and a graph of water use over time also generated by scripts in SVG form. I will have a demo of the complete farm management system (Farm.Web.$Sys) up on my web site soon. (I am in the final stages of getting the system working for a large triabal farm) The complete system is written in Radio scripts.<<< [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
9:39:09 AM
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Paolo at eVectors wrote up his deployment of the Radio Community Server. Every person at his company uses Radio on the desktop. They publish personal weblogs to the Intranet via an RSS server. They use Radio categories to publish topic specific weblogs. Their Intranet server aggregates RSS feeds from the multiple employee weblogs (both their main weblog and their category specific weblogs). The Intranet server also integrates data from their accounting system (this could be generalized to extend to any source of application specific data that is aggegated centrally via web services), hosts discussion groups, manages task lists, and serves as centralized document store. Their Intranet is a portal to all the information, people, and feeds that are available. Nice. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
9:38:40 AM
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Generating Web Content with Cocoon. Cocoon provides for developers a way to generate content dynamically using XML data. XML expert Michael Classen takes a look at the version 2 release, which, among other things, improves scalability by using SAX instead of the DOM. 0319 [WebReference News]
9:37:14 AM
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Consuming Multiple Web Services. Web service functions needn't be lonely; in fact, they often work best when offered in groups. Find out how to utilize multiple Internet Explorer Web services within the same HTML page with the latest installment of Doc's Web services series. By Yehuda Shiran and Tomer Shiran. 0325 [WebReference News]
9:36:26 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Mark Oeltjenbruns.
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