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22 Nov 2001 Cher Guevara Excellent!
The Infinite Matrix has re-appeared with some sponsorship and acivity, including Bruce Sterling's weblog.
Levitated Daily Source : flash 5 open source modules | computational organisms | science | art | mathematics Totally awesome eye candy.
[ 22-Nov-01 8:19am ] 20 Nov 2001 Dave Winer's Scripting News Weblog : Julian Bond's Celebrity Blogmatch. I'm not sure how it works, but if I say something about weblogs here, I guess it shows up over there. Is it based on RSS? Julian says not yet, but sooon. Can his server handle the flow? Will his page rise to the top of Daypop? What do the opinions of two bloggers matter in this crazy world we live in? And will the wienerboys show up? So many questions. BTW, the correct motto is "It's even worse than it appears
It's not quite like that. Blogmatch is a stand alone system. I had to do this because not every celebrity blogger generates RSS or can create a blog just for the match. I do create RSS from the words that get written. It's a shame, because the bloggers will have to use my tool. But it is a full function blogging environment. Behind it I've now got the administration to control it and setup new blogmatches. I can create a blog match that is in "planning" which is a sandbox for the participants to play in. Just before it goes live we clear it out and begin. Can the server handle the flow? Probably not. Let's see. I fully expect it to crash if it gets slashdotted. Will I get to the top of Daypop? Very possibly. The concept is like this. And that's it. But then Dave's RSS query suggests an alternative way of doing it. Clearly I'm going to have to go away and write version two... CMSWatch: Interview: The Case for Personal Web Publishing : Inside of corporations a weblog can be used in a knowledge management or market intelligence function. Every work group seems to have someone on the team who just sends links around via email to all the other people he or she works with. In an environment like that if you give them a weblog and all the sudden the resources start really working for you. Pretty soon everyone wants a weblog to share a resource they found and to annotate useful ways in which that resource can be used by the team. This is a pretty decent interview with Dave Winer, mostly about the similarities and use of weblog systems as a CMS in corporations. The bit I've pulled out is something I'm convinced of. The combination of Weblogs, Slashdot style community news and RSS new syndication is something that I'm sure has a place in intranets.
[ 20-Nov-01 7:52am ] 19 Nov 2001 Celebrity Blogmatch is almost live. See the demo here.
16 Nov 2001 Slashdot | Web Services - More Secure or Less?. Why are "Web Services" and "Security" so linked together and why do people see this as a problem? We know how to use SSL. We know how to do Authentication across the web. We know how to build VPNs across the internet. Web Services are just something we do once these controls are in place. The moment you write a CGI, you're exposing functionality to the outside world and a potential security risk. Web Services are no different.
[ 16-Nov-01 5:12pm ] This is what we need. Asia Carrera's (who? No lying now, you don't know who this is, right?) Pr0n Star Unreal Tournament skins. Oh yes. It seems that you're favourite pair of silicone implants is actually a Grrrl. Bless.
[ 16-Nov-01 4:50pm ] 15 Nov 2001 The Register : Researchers probe Net's 'dark address space' William Gibson wrote about a mythical Internet subset called the "Walled City" It was a publically accessible group of sites that had no links to the outside world. This could be built with a firewall but now we discover that 5% of the internet address space is inaccessible because no routers link to it. And that some of this is used to launch black hat attacks by hijacking a router, opening a link, doing the attack and then closing the link. This effectively leaves no trace because subsequent investigation leads to a blank wall. There's something slightly scary about this.
[ 15-Nov-01 7:35am ] Microsoft XP adbust in Shoreditch, London "Suddenly everything sucks".
[ 15-Nov-01 7:16am ] 14 Nov 2001 Kevin Werbach: "The killer app for broadband will be......streaming audio to stereo systems, and video to TVs, via home server appliances. That will drive sales of wireless home networks, which will drive broadband demand. You read it here first." Hmmm. [EVHead] Hmmm indeed. Repeat after me. Broadband will take off when it's cheap. That's all there is. It's not lack of content. It's not even lack of marketing (although that's a factor). It's just too damn expensive. And the cable TV companies are getting to a reasonable price point fastest, and they can't install broafdband fast enough to satisfy they're demand. Which leaves the problem fairly and squarely in the Telco's lap who are charging an extortionate proice for a bad service.
Topless Protesters 'Strip-Tease for Trees' : ``The loggers and the cops were absolutely stunned,'' said Nieto, who launched her anti-logging protests last year with demonstrations of what she calls ``Goddess-based, nude Buddhist guerrilla poetry'' to a number of timber and logging sites in and around northern California. Hmmm..??!
[ 14-Nov-01 8:22pm ] Been playing with Opera 6 this morning. It look's pretty good. But the javascript model and support for IE calls is lacking which means that my blog editing controls don't work. hmmm?
Interestingly it's got support for displaying RSS in a sidebar. The display isn't great, and it's not fully supporting XML encoding. but interesting nonetheless. A small test of the weblogs.com system. As an experiment I tried pinging weblogs.com with the URL of my blog RSS feed instead of the home page. It's all pretty obvious really, but it worked fine. Except that users who clicked on it on the weblogs.com won't see what they expect.
Perhaps what's needed is for weblogs.com to have a second interface where both HTML and RSS URLs are sent. Then they could display the RSS feed with the XML icon next to the entry. Ideally the same XML-RPC interface would be used but with a third optional parameter. But I don't think the spec allows for optional params. Dave W has said he'll think about putting RSS support into Weblogs.com. We'll see. Do minds play dice? : Randomness could be a valuable aid to survival in a complex world It seems we have a random number generator hardwired into our brains. That could explain a lot...
[ 14-Nov-01 9:07am ] 13 Nov 2001 Gratuit Family : We're the Gratuit family, we believe in Gratuitous family values. We have long, meaningful discussion about products you commonly see advertised on tv. Yes. Product placement comes to Blogging.
Liquid Computing : Already, his lab has produced a transistor just 10 atoms across. We're seeing the beginnings of the diamond age. People finding ways of creating Buckytubes through chemistry. Now this guy is "growing" wires by using catalysts that are unidimensional. That's wires that are 10 atoms across. It's the bottom up apporach instead of the current silicon manipulators who are working top down.
[ 13-Nov-01 8:15am ] 11 Nov 2001 Every so often I have to go and read alt.fan.rawilson to get some more weirdness input. It occasionally breaks up into endless discussions of the numerology surrounding Heidi Klum and the way it foretells actions by the CluM (Clandestine Luciferian Masons!) which can get a bit boring. But tonight's session turned up a doozy. The Kenning Game: An Introduction : Nomic was invented by Peter Suber, a philosopher of law at Earlham, and changing the rules is itself part of the game which results in a discussion of the "Infinite Game". Well worth a look if you have an idle 20 minutes.
[ 11-Nov-01 7:32pm ] Stuck on a desert island : Imagine you were stranded on a desert island with only a PC and a modem. Could you earn a living? That's the question I need answering; although I'm not going to a desert island, for all the job opportunities in the place [Sumatra, Indonesia] I am planning to go to, it might as well be. Interesting point. How many times have you been corresponding via email (and other online systems) with somebody and they've said, we must meet FTF or talk on the phone to take the project further. Why? That's not to say they're wrong, but why? There are huge numbers of examples of projects and systems that have been built on the Internet where the participants have never met. But it still seems that many people can't function outside the face to face meeting.
[ 11-Nov-01 8:14am ] 10 Nov 2001 Novelist, 60s Icon Ken Kesey Dies. Well that's another old hero gone. Although, I rather lost the faith when he did a UK TV program searching for "Camelot" wearing a "Tommy Hilfiger" tour jacket. We all know Cuckoo's Nest was great, but the one you should really read is "Sometimes a Great Notion" about a logging family in the Northwest. I seem to remember they made a film of it as well which was OK, but not great.
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