Timothy Appnel: For fun and kicks I banged out a quick script that converts the data from [Macromedia's DevCon] SOAP Web service to an RSS feed every 15 minutes. My feed can be found here. It even validates. Bing! [Sam Ruby]

The beginning of a bootstrap to improve the performance of the RSS network. [Scripting News]

UPDATE: The man responsible for one of the most publicized Internet scams, which promised to cure cancer, settled with the agency Monday. [internetnews.com: Top News]

http://www.physician.info/

This site is an educational service of Physician.info that is free for both consumers and providers. It is intended to provide people with educational links to help them: to find a physician in a particular State (find a doctor in a particular State), including information about physician practice locations and credentials: and to find which physicians are on the medical staff at which hospitals in a particular State. While these resources are available elsewhere on the internet, the goal of Physician.info is to provide them all for each State.

CW360.com [Online Marketing]

Spam Law Foe Reverses Direction. After testifying against anti-spam legislation, Direct Marketing Association now wants help from Washington. [internetnews.com]

Verizon settles a lawsuit against a commercial e-mail company with a permanent injunction and monetary damages. [internetnews.com: Top News]

The effort seeks to woo CPG advertisers with wider distribution of the firm's coupons. [internetnews.com: Internet Advertising Report]

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Getting wired: The blooming of the blog [ComputerWeekly 360] 9/12/2002

Another domain ripe for experimentation is the business blog. One application would be to use weblogs as an alternative to internal e-mail: instead of sending everything to everybody, information would be posted to intranet blogs (intrablogs?), either personal or departmental, and links between them used to flag up facts of wider interest.

A second business use would be weblogs aimed at customers, providing them with an alternative and more informal source of information about a company and its products.

 

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There are signs of life in the online pet supply business. The traditional pet supply companies say their businesses have been helped by the Internet. Yet their praise is often faint. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Business]

Mitch Kapor begins to talk about his design process. Mitch's process is something to behold. And it's hard to imagine it working over the Internet. But it's worth trying. Mitch is the ultimate notetaker, very thoughtful. He talks about having a master outline for his design. Now this is new, I've never heard Mitch say he wanted to use outlines. My ears perked up when I read that. I have a bunch of things to do this morning, but I want to comment on this some more, a little later today.

Here's the October archive for the mail list Mitch talks about. Previously I had mindlessly clicked on the December archive and wondered where all the messages were. It turns out they were in October. Makes sense. Now why there's a December archive in October is another question. ";->"

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Harnessing the power of decentralization doesn't have to mean distributing computing all the way to the desktop. The ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]