The practical benefits of literary forms- (Found June 24, 2008 ) As blogspace evolves all around us, new forms of writing appear. I mean forms in a technical sense -- literary forms, or patterns of writing. One of the most interesting of these is David McCusker's. Recently he explained why and how he writes in stanzas, with five fixed-length lines per stanza. "This obviously isn't poetry," writes David. "So you might wonder, why do I do it" His answers resonated very much with my own sense of writing as an art which, like software, is...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/04/23.html#a206 (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/01/22.html#a30 Messages addressed to spaces- (Found June 24, 2008 ) ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/01/23.html#a35 (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/01/24.html#a41 Mr. Beller's neighborhood- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Today's Publishing: Better by the Book or by the Web. Thomas Beller, a New York novelist and editor, presents nearly 200 real-life accounts of Sept. 11 on his Web site. He has also self-published a book of the material. The New York Times: Technology ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/02/04.html#a51 Are we ready to address messages to spaces- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Are we ready to take the next step, continued ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/03/06.html#a111 (Untitled)- (Found June 24, 2008 ) We demand privacy! Yeah, right. ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/03/08.html#a119 Messages to spaces is publishsubscribe- (Found June 24, 2008 ) RickLeaders.net: ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/03/15.html#a143 Bill Sietz on sending links-and-blurbs vs. sending whole items- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Bill Seitz writes: ...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/03/19.html#a151 Jeffrey P Shell, Zope's lizard brain, and loosely-coupled messaging- (Found June 24, 2008 ) I had a nice response to a recent column on Zope from Jeffrey P Shell, a longtime Zopista and former Digital Creations guy who has decamped to the skiiing life in Utah. Jeffrey wrote one of the first BYTE columns on Python, longer ago than the web seems to remember. Anyway, in my column I talked about scripting Zope from the outside, using the RESTian approach of reverse-engineering its HTML management forms and calling them as URLs. I knew that XML-RPC was another way to do this....http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/categories/messaging/2002/04/18.html#a197 |