Wednesday, August 14, 2002

A Good Title for Breakups, especially when you see the new gf. That B!t@#!


A picture named joan.gifLast night's movie -- The Women, starring lots of women including (you guessed it) Joan Crawford. Guys, if you think all women are cute and sweet, you gotta see this movie. The women spit, lie, scratch, curse and bite. Not one man in the cast. 1939. Crawford plays The Bitch You Have To Hate (but secretly admire). Rosalind Russell and Paulette Goddard steal the show. Norma Shearer gets top billing, the tiresome goodie-two-shoes who learns that you have hit hard to keep a good man.

Best line: Crawford asks "What does she want with me?" Another woman: "Maybe she's slumming."

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Add This to the Navigator Links: Updated List of Journalists' Weblogs


Nth column 
  Nice list here of Journo blogs.
[Doc Searls Weblog]

Journalists (do columnists count as journalists?) whose weblogs I'd like to read: Jon Carroll (SF Chronicle).

Doc Searls has some sharp rss comments, one small problem:
I am sure there is a reason he groups all of his published posts into one big item, but it makes for a difficult rss-item to quoted-post transformation. I'll figure it out eventually. (Hint hint could someone tell me how to do that? Thanks :))

Hey - I wonder if Philip Roth has a weblog. Forget that - I have more than enough to read. Official non-goal: to find more 'just for fun' weblogs to read.


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Choicemail: Good Candidate for Email-to-Weblog Account?


Todo: check this out. Choicemail email provider could be a candidate for the email-to-weblog configuration.
SF Gate: Not a Moment Too Soon. In essence, ChoiceMail's software turns your e-mail box into the equivalent of your front door. If strangers want to enter, they have to knock and identify themselves first. Anyone who won't do that is automatically turned away without you being bothered.
[Tomalak's Realm]
Todo: ask Tomalak, who I think is a heavy hitter in this weblog community, if he found some rss hook in the backdoor for sfgate. I didn't see a subscription link on their site. Hmm...
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Another RSS Trick to Try: Filtering


Another Radio trick: filtering rss feeds for keywords.

David Davies.  I missed this earlier.  A script that uses Radio's support for Web services to filter RSS feeds for keywords.  Very cool.
[John Robb's Radio Weblog]

(Notes for later) todo: figure out if this script filters, and Poalo's product distills, what happens to your news items when you are ready to read them?

Q. Is the filter a completement of the distiller or an alternative?

Q. Does the filter script operate on feeds you are subscribed to, or is the purpose to help you decide what to subscribe to?

Q. What is distilling, other than making alcohol? Why that word, it must describe something unique about the functionality.

Q. (Both an English question and a rss question): what is the difference between distilling and filtering?

 


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"ThinRSS is a 'Java Web Start enabled RSS browser.'"
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