Scripting NewsDave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.John McCain's RSS feed- June 26, 2008 I forget how I stumbled across John McCain's RSS feed, but I've been reading it regularly for some time. Occasionally they have a post written in the candidate's name, but usually the stories are written by staffers. I was hoping, when I found it, that I could learn more about the candidate, but mostly they use the feed to take shots at Barack Obama. A lot of it is very embarassing stuff, not for Obama, but for McCain. How could a candidate of his stoop to sarcasm bordering on bitterness. It...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/26/johnMccainsRssFeed.html Silicon Valley as second grade- June 26, 2008 Posting a link to Shel Israel's piece here yesterday accelerated the discussion, of course. Most of the discussion that I've participated in has been on FriendFeed. I also talked for about 45 minutes last night with Mike Arrington. It was a surprisingly friendly conversation, I had forgotten how much I like and respect him. After sleeping on it, I've had a chance to distill my own thinking. Here's some of it. First, when I became aware of how the videos were hurting Shel, I stopped watching....http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/26/siliconValleyAsSecondGrade.html California weather- June 26, 2008 Just a few days ago we were sweltering with near-100 degree heat, and today, it's so cold out we have the furnace on. I'll take the cold weather any day, but it would be nice to settle into a summer weather pattern at some point.http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/25/californiaWeather.html Arrington, Feldman & Israel- June 26, 2008 I'm forwarding this link to my readers, without comment, at this time. Please read it and give it your consideration. Shel Israel: About Loren Feldman & Michael Arrington. Thanks, Davehttp://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/25/arringtonFeldmanAmpIsrael.html Can Twitter become ubiquitous- June 24, 2008 First today's news: Twitter announced investments from Spark and Bezos. Bijan Sabet will become a Twitter board member. They haven't announced a business model, their approach is to get big and stable and figure it out later. Unlike some, I don't see any problem with this approach. Lots of companies have made their investors very happy (and users) with such an approach. Disclaimer: I have two friends on Twitter's board -- Sabet and Fred Wilson. Yet, I say exactly what I think about the...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/24/canTwitterBecomeUbiquitous.html Getting NewsJunk through IM- June 24, 2008 I haven't tried it, but this comes recommended... http:www.imfeeds.com Since there's a NewsJunk RSS feed, it should work. I'm going to try it now. Please let me know if it works for you. Update 1: It was pretty easy to join. Update 2: I signed up to follow the NewsJunk RSS feed. It took a while but a new item showed up. And like FriendFeed, they ignore the RSS <description element, which is a mistake, I think. Here's a screen shot. Okay, there was a short description that went with that..http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/24/gettingNewsjunkThroughIm.html How to push stories to NewsJunk using del.icio.us- June 24, 2008 Underneath its simple user interface there's a lot of RSS that goes into NewsJunk. It's like flour to cake or ice to hockey. The product is more than RSS, but without it, it wouldn't be happening. As you know I've been re-exploring del.icio.us, yesterday I asked if it could do what FriendFeed does, keep a feed synched with its internal structure, and found out that the only way to do this was to write a script. I decided not to do that, at this time, but I did write a script that made our...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/06/24/howToPushStoriesToNewsjunk.html |