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| URL : | http://www.scripting.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology / Internet | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3688 | |
| Posts / Week: | 13.8 | |
| Archived Since: | April 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Scripting News: Google is the new MSM.
Last night watching the NBA on TNT, new commercials for the YouTube comedy fest. The production was distinctly not YouTube. It was professional in every way. Nothing amateur about it. Google is now MSM. All that talk about Burning Man is sleight of hand. Show More Summary
Scripting News: What's new (or broken) with the Twitter API?
My linkblogging tool, Radio2, has a connection with Twitter. You can establish a link between your feed and Twitter so that every item in your feed is also posted to Twitter. Here's a screen shot. To create the connection you click on the blue bird. Show More Summary
Scripting News: We need a curator for the Apple river.
I did a house-cleaning on my river server on May 9. At that time some of the rivers stopped updating. Mostly the ones that no longer have tabs in the user interface because either I personally didn't have enough interest in the subject and not many other people were reading them. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Should the Community Feed be an RSS feed in addition to being an OPML feed?
This question came up in the Community Feed, which you can read in Fargo, by choosing the Community Feed command from the Docs menu. Or you can read it in the Small Picture Reader if you don't use Fargo. I wrote my answer there, but thought it would be interesting to also post it here. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Blogging 2.0.
I wrote a piece in August 2012 which I posted on Medium entitled We Could Make History, in which I proposed that we get together and create a new API to connect authoring tools to publishing environments. At the time I thought it was a long shot, but worth putting it out there in case anyone was listening at Medium, or elsewhere. Show More Summary
Video: Demo of new Community Feed feature in Fargo 0.59.
More about Fargo 0.59.
Scripting News: Levy on BigCo innovation.
Levy: "To really think big, you can't be at a big company." I was amazed that these words came from Steven Levy, former Newsweek tech reporter, and late of Wired. He's spent a career supporting the myth not just that big ideas can come...Show More Summary
Scripting News: Q&A with Brent Simmons re River of News.
Palatino On April 11, Brent Simmons sent an email, included below. My words are indented beneath his in italic. rue none italic I like the river of news style of feed reading, despite having once written an RSS reader that doesn't use that style. But I'm not actually 100% sure what the technical definition is. Show More Summary
Scripting News: 11th hour for news nets.
Michael Wolff comments on the job ad that Twitter is running, looking for a manager of news. He suggests existing news execs, and that's probably the kind of person Twitter is looking for for this job. It's a head-fake. This guy is a figure-head. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Markdown and outliners.
I've had Markdown on my to-do list for a few months, and the other day, with a bit of blank space in my worklist, I decided to give it a shot. It was amazingly easy to integrate into our JavaScript app. I just downloaded the source for Pagedown, the Markdown interpreter used by Stack Overflow. Show More Summary
Scripting News: The Knicks as a metaphor.
A number of Knicks players did something extremely stupid when they dressed in black for last night's game, saying they were dressing for the Celtics' funeral. These guys may be talented athletes, but they don't understand sports. Amazingly. Show More Summary
Scripting News: The Fargo-WordPress connection.
My outliner is an authoring tool. I think of it as the hub of a wheel with lots of spokes. At the end of each spoke is a way to communicate. Some of the spokes lead to private places, for example, the worknotes I share with my programming partner. Show More Summary
Scripting News: A song I sing to users.
When users ask when a feature will be available, this is what I say. Software takes time. Good software takes even more time. We know that so we don't make promises about when software is coming. It'll be here when it's ready.
Scripting News: Google Glass is not a trivial product.
Watching this Chris Dixon interview this morning helped me appreciate that Google Glass has real-world non-trivial applications. Examples: 1. A teacher giving a lecture while drawing a diagram on whiteboard. 2. As a teleprompter for a person giving a speech. 3. Show More Summary
Sunday morning thoughts on outliners and word processors.
I was writing a comment in response to a comment from Hanan Cohen, and decided to make it a post. It was getting so long, and said stuff that I wanted to say more prominently. Hanan said that Word had outlining in the late 80s, and they never took it out. Show More Summary
Scripting News: The message of Boston.
This post was written quickly. It was an interesting week to be in Boston, as in the Chinese proverb about living in interesting times. But not for the reasons people think. I learned this last night, in a big way, at the Berkman Thursday meetup. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Older techies and outliners.
I had a flash yesterday, after doing a series of demos of Fargo here in Boston on this trip and my last one in March. In several cases, the people were close to my own age, and were former users of MORE and ThinkTank. For these people...Show More Summary
Scripting News: A semi-luddite view of Google glasses.
This was written very quickly. Back at the beginning of my blogging career, in 1994, I expressed doubt that PDA's would become general-purpose computers. Randy Battat, then an exec at Motorola, rebutted that people used to say that about personal computers, and that I would come around. Show More Summary
Scripting News: Care to Share Your OPML?
Interesting question last night on Twitter from Daman Bahner. He asked how about rebooting Share Your OPML now that there's renewed interest in RSS. That requires a little explaining for people who are not familiar with the original service with that name. First, OPML is used to exchange subscription lists between RSS aggregators. Show More Summary