Tuesday, May 11, 2004

West Coast States and Climate Policy Getting Warmer . . .. The three West Coast governors - Arnold Shwarzenegger of California, Ted Kulongoski of Oregon, and Gary Locke of Washington--are moving forward with a global warming initiative first initialed by ex-governor Gray Davis of California. And their policy advisors have assembled a first... [Cascadia Scorecard Weblog] 9:55:33 PM

Adam Curry Post Via Cinema Minima Video Blogging Desktop Tool. For creators, videoblogging is still too hard. It requires a lot of futzing around with various programs, HTML code and whatnot. This page lists requirements for a desktop tool that will make it easier. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] [Cinema Minima] 8:44:01 PM

Networld+Interop Networking industry looks ahead. As the NetWorld+Interop show gets under way, MCI's chief talks up the appeal of Internet Protocol. [CNET News.com] 8:38:26 PM

It's the Incompetence, Stupid - Via Mathew Gross The Incompetent Administration. David Corn has the must-read: It's the incompetence, stupid. That should be the battle cry of the forces of anti-Bushism. Sure, the war was a boneheaded policy move and predicated on false claims. But worse, its backers have repeatedly botched... [Mathew Gross] 8:10:37 PM

Paul Miller's Rhythm Science DJ Spooky Book. Paul Miller's (aka DJ Spooky) Rhythm Science book is now out. I don't have a copy yet, but it looks interesting. Here's some text from the book site: The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal... [datacloud] 7:28:26 PM

Re: iTunes Interface Apple wins iTunes interface patent. The Mac maker wins a patent for the interface of its iTunes music software, underscoring the growing importance of the multimedia business for the company. [CNET News.com] 7:24:39 PM

Mediaburn, FireWire 1394, Wireless FireWire Gets Ready to Go Wireless. mindless4210 writes "The 1394 Trade Association has approved a specification for the development of wireless FireWire applications, which will let 1394-enabled devices, both wired and unwired, to connect with each other. The new spec will enable communication between a variety of devices, such as set-top boxes, HDTVs, tuners, and DVD players, all of which will be able to interoperate in home networks. Officials speculated that in the future there could be plug-in cards for set-top boxes enabling wireless connection to DVD players and hard-disk drives. The trade association also said it will work with the WiMedia Alliance to jointly develop collaborative products." [unmediated] 7:11:02 PM

Reuters and RSS Syndication Technology Reuters picks up RSS syndication technology. The format lets Web sites and bloggers receive free feeds of Reuters.com headlines and republish one-line descriptions of stories. [CNET News.com] 6:00:59 PM

From Workbench Feeding New RSS to Movable Type. Last week's discussion of Movable Type's RSS 2.0 template on Workbench prompted e-mail from Anil Dash of the Six Apart Dashes. He wanted feedback on the possibility of adopting Brad Choate's "non-funky" RSS 2.0 template in the upcoming release of Movable Type 3.0. I supported this idea because it's close to what I had in mind. Choate's template differs from my proposal only in two significant ways: the item-level link element is dropped in favor of guid and weblog entry descriptions are provided as excerpts rather than full text. I think it's better to duplicate link and guid even when both contain the same permalink, but some fellow RSS 2.0 geeks think this is unnecessary. Excerpted entries appears to be the preference of Movable Type users, if the comments here are any indication. If you're looking for an RSS 2.0 template for Movable Type, I've dummied up what I think Six Apart will be adopting. As a longtime Radio user, I'm enjoying the chance to cheat on my weblogging software. There are some great features in Movable Type that I'm going to ape in Workbench.root, such as a power-editing mode that makes it possible to edit 20 or more weblog entries on a single Web form. [Workbench] 6:54:29 AM