Scripting NewsDave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.Announcing Tech.NewsJunk.Com- July 4, 2008 There's a new site on the net today: http:tech.newsjunk.com It's the counterpart to the political NewsJunk, which is focused on news of the 2008 presidential campaign. The Tech site is focused on technology product news. I created the site because I wasn't getting enough news about products. It's that simple. I'm interested in the other stuff too, the finance, trends, parties, puppets -- but that's adequately covered on TechMeme. What wasn't getting through is the stuff I, as a product...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/04/announcingTechnewsjunkcom.html Independence Day- July 4, 2008 It's the day when we say we're not dependent on Great Britain. Of course that part of the holiday long ago lost its meaning. But maybe the whole thing, maybe the concept of America has lost its meaning. Matthew Yglesias, a surprisingly young blogger with a lot of influence yesterday wondered if the US really had more integrity in 1974 when our outrage forced Richard Nixon from office. Not just Democratic outrage, but Republican outrage too. I was alive then, Yglesias says he was not, and I...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/04/independenceDay.html XMPP and Twitter, coming back on- July 4, 2008 This post on the Twitter status blog, gives hope to developers wanting to hook into the full Twitter flow, the same flow that now only Summize has access to. Here's what they said: "We're hopeful that once we've improved the stability of the service we can bring back IM. It remains the highest priority feature we&213;re working to restore." OK. That sounds hopeful.http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/03/xmppAndTwitterComingBackOn.html Federating identi.ca- July 3, 2008 I note that a number of programmers I respect are trying to launch instances of the software behind identi.ca. If they're successful, and if there is a decent way to connect them into a federation (meaning we can communicate even if we're using different hosts), then we're getting somewhere. Is there some place where someone is monitoring the status A wiki A discussion thread I'm not planning on running one until the trail has been well blazed, maybe not even then, but I don't mind helping...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/03/federatingIdentica.html RMack on Internet freedoms- July 3, 2008 I was catching up with On The Media earlier this week, and who comes on but my friend and former Berkman colleague Rebecca MacKinnon. I love those kinds of surprises, it lets me catch up, in a multimedia sort of way (it's better than reading an essay or blog post). A former CNN correspondent in China and Korea and founder of the Global Voices blogging network along with Ethan Zuckerman, now she's a prof at the University of Hong Kong. I got a really funny picture of her at the end of a movie in.http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/03/rmackOnInternetFreedoms.html Oh happy day!- July 2, 2008 A Twitter clone that's all-the-way open Did Christmas come early this year http:identi.cadocfaq Marshall has a writeup. I am dave over there. Follow me! First thing -- looking for an API. It supports the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, which I had not heard about until now. evan appears to be the author of the software, or at least the authority on it. From the FAQ, it will support the Twitter API, but doesn't yet. There is RSS here, but I haven't found it yet. Here's the RSS....http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/02/ohHappyDay.html Social cameras, on the way- July 2, 2008 Bijan got a preview of the iPhone 2.0 software, which adds location to the camera. It's a piece of the social camera puzzle. When you come back from vacation where there are lots of other people taking pictures, go to Flickr 4.0 and enter the location and the time, and voila, vacation pictures and you're in all of them. :-) It's bad news for people cheating on their spouses. Now it'll be easier to follow your trail and who you were with. (I had a preview of this, when I was on a date, walking...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/02/socialCamerasOnTheWay.html How to stop chasing the news- July 2, 2008 My Internet writing is so distributed these days, there are five main places I write, and a host of others where I write peripherally. Here are the five: 1. Scripting News (and its RSS feed). 2. The comments here (managed by Disqus). 3. Twitter (used to be a lot, now much less). 4. FriendFeed (links, comments). 5. The OPML Editor (for software dev work mostly). My writing style differs in all the places, it depends on its newness, who's there, what the tools let me do, what I'm doing...http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/07/02/howToStopChasingTheNews.html |