the happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~ Ernest Dimnet
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This is so cool. I found this site in my referers list. You can see there which books were recently mentioned on weblogs. I think that this kind of automatic gathering interesting news is a cool concept. Need to do that more. [Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog]
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Brent Simmons:
I think I’ve seen the future, or a small part of it, regarding weblogs. Two things:
1. If you’re not syndicating your site as RSS it might as well not exist.
2. If you don’t include a tag in your home page that points to your RSS feed, then you might as well not be syndicating your site, and therefore it might as well not exist. [inessential.com]
[Mac Net Journal]
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Alert: Soon I will stop publishing dws.RadioFAQs on my home page. To continue receiving dws.RadioFAQs you should subscribe to this xml feed.
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Radio Tip: Please read this guide on how to inform others of dws.RadioFAQs
Tell me what you think.
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Tim O'Reilly brings up an interesting idea in his latest article on the O'Reilly Networks site: Mac OS X switcher stories. Are more of the new Mac OS X users coming from Linux and Unix OSes than from Windows? Could be... [Mac Net Journal]
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Peter Chernin, president of News Corp. warns that the Internet's future is threatened by porn, spam and rampant piracy. He condemns the medium's "enormous amount of worthless content."
This guy sounds really hostile in this report. If I were a politician, and my internet experience existed perhaps of only email and an occasional webpage, then I'd be writing stupid bills as well. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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A good clue: When the company press release for a new product refers to the current Mac operating system as "Mac OS XT"... [Mac Net Journal]
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Radio Tip: Paolo has a simple way for OSX IE users to automatically publish their favorite booksmarks using Radio. There is probably a way to do this on Windows too. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Dave: We've been making some assumptions about software that may not fit very well. Thanks to Ernie the Attorney for helping me see this in his post yesterday.
So I read Ernie's remarks the comments on Ernie's remarks.
While Dave rags on Larry about finally blogging and Larry rags on Dave about watching movies while the freedom we built is regulated away and Ernie stirs a brew of programmers about whether software should be protected by Copyright or Patent law (all of which are good questions to discuss); I've been unemployeed most of 2002 while our polititians prepare to file charges against 'file swappers'!
Ok ... here I am. My family will soon be scratching for enough income to keep our house (which has a lower morgage than most of our friends). I love helping people and making a difference. I love motivating voters. I LOVE Larry's notion: identify 2 luddite members of Congress -- one Republican and one Democrat. Organize and defeat them in November. Did I mention I need income.
Please: ... tell me how I can make Larry's notion a reality and get paid for the work. I'm here guys!
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Read Larry & Dave's remarks, not because you care about a spat between Larry & Dave, but because you ~ won't let the freedom we built be regulated away. ~ Please? dws.
Larry Lessig responds to Dave. One correction, if my memory serves, I think I was the person that offered a weblog to Larry late last year, before we launched Radio. I thought it was a shame not to see Larry's mind online. At the time I was dismayed that he didn't start a blog (it tooks six months for him to get one up). I certainly am not mad at him, nor is Dave, for building his own site without UserLand tools (although it would be more functional if he did). The end result is that now Larry has a site. I hope he updates it often. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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Question: I'm now hosting my Radio weblog on radio.weblogs.com, but I hope to move it to my own server shortly. Are there any features of Radio or the community which I need to be hosted on radio.weblogs.com to take advantage of?
Answer: If you move your weblog to another server, you can continue to use the different community features of the UserLand community server like the stats tracking, spam-free mailto links etc.
The only thing you wouldn't be included in is the RSS hotlist rankings, but if you really want to participate here are instructions: [Lawrence]
http://radio.userland.com/stories/storyReader$7003
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Question: I rarely read this Radio-discuss forum. I appreciate the tool a lot, but my main interests are elsewhere. So it is mostly by accident (a mention on one or two other weblogs that I read only rarely) that I learned of the recently-added macros for "previousDayLink" and "nextDayLink". See http://radio.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$17480
for Lawrence's announcement of them.
Have you guys created a "Radio UserLand New Features" weblog/category somewhere that I could subscribe to?
Answer: I recommend my Radio docs list and of course dws.RadioFAQs.
Answer: Lawrence recommends the Radio.root updates RSS feed.
Answer: Al recommends Andy Sylvester's directory of all the new stuff since Radio 8.0.
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Question: I have the html code for creating a link to directly Instant Message my screen name from my Radio page. I need this code changed into XML so I can copy it into my Navigator template. Can someone help me or give me the XML code for it?
Answer: The best thing would be to edit the home page template. You can insert the HTML before or after the <%navigatorLinks%> macro to get it to appear next to it. [Lawrence]
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Question: If I edit a post from earlier today, that change gets re-published to the rss feed and aggregators see it (and everything subsequent to it) again in their next scan. If I edit a post from several days ago, it doesn't. What's the threshhold?
Answer: This is related to the number of days served in your RSS feed. See this discussion for details.
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Wherefore Art Though, Stable Windows?
Well, the comeback is still a bit of a ways off, thanks to Microsoft. Yesterday morning, as I was catching up on news and preparing to start posting again, I realized that restoring all of the original software that came with my PC meant setting it back to Internet Explorer 5.5, Outlook Express 5, and the first version of Windows ME.
Being a security-conscious kind of gal, I decided to install the newest Windows updates and get IE current in terms of security patches. Big mistake, as each installation froze my PC halfway through until it finally just threw up its proverbial hands in despair and again stopped booting up. *sigh*
So I've spent much of yesterday and today restoring all of the original software from the recovery disks yet again and trying to make my PC usable, not to mention stable. So not only have I lost even more blogging time, I'm missing all of the news that's fit to print.
Thanks, Microsoft! Guess where I want to go today....
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~ Connectix Virtual PC on OSX can help you stablize windows. Ask me how. ~ dws.
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RIAA's new brainstorm: Let's sue our customers
In Feb. 2000, I wrote a column about Napster and the future of online music that noted:
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...if the RIAA goes after the entire Napster user base, the music industry will find itself in the awkward position of suing a whole lot of its best customers. Which doesn't sound like smart business. |
Well, it now appears that -- having successfully crippled Napster and several successor outfits -- the RIAA is getting set to do precisely that. As Declan McCullagh reports on News.com, the record companies' trade association is adopting a two-pronged strategy: sue individual file traders and get the federal government to take action against them, too.
And when all the file traders are in jail, who'll be left to buy music? [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment]
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