Month: July 2002

BTW.  If you like Franka Potente in The Bourne Identitiy rent Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, and Blow.  She is great in all three. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Microsoft, NNTP, and the mismanagement of knowledge management. Robert Scoble has a theory about why Outlook doesn't include a newsreader: … [Jon's Radio]

Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page “Jake Savin [jake@userland.com] posted in his comments pointers to: a macro: Drop listCategoriesForPost.txt into your Macros folder. the code for your Item template that calls it:   <%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.[“<%paddedItemNum%>”]); listCategoriesForPost (adrpost)%> Thanks, Jake! A better way than mine: logic pushed from the template to… Continue reading Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page

Bing! The first full lawfirm I've seen that totally grasps how the web will work for their business, which is ofcourse, information: “We try to undercut our tendency to self importance by making fun of ourselves. This website is one example, as is our earlier Bitches From Hell Reporter and our various firm announcements and… Continue reading lawfirm

Inside Yahoo's Personals.  Robert Scoble:  The next-door neighbor across the hall (I'll keep him anonymous for now so he doesn't get in trouble for talking to me) from me runs Yahoo's Personals section. (Tagline: “Where millions of singles meet!”) We talked yesterday a lot more about what's going on there. Turns out personals is one… Continue reading Inside Yahoo's Personals

MovableType updates to 2.2. There's a new rev of MovableType available, and their site has gotten a redesign. Besides the rest of the changes, the TrackBack stuff looks really cool, not to mention the MySQL support. Time to upgrade…… [In My Experience]

A new installment from Paul Andrews, in which he takes apart Martha Stewart (yes it matters if she cheats) and stands up for patriotism (that's what weblogs are about, exercising the free speech guaranteed by the Constitution, use it or lose it)  [Scripting News]

O'Reilly Network: The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors [Jun. 28, 2002]. Quote: “I'd like to see more serious debate about public policy regarding software. Like most members of the industry, I believe that less government intervention is better, but once the government does get involved, and companies with full time lobbyists (like… Continue reading O'Reilly Network: The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors [Jun. 28, 2002]

For more than four years now I've been asking “why doesn't Outlook have a newsreader?” Microsoft almost never answers this question on the record. But, when you get their product managers off in a personal conversation over beers, they admit “it's cause our corporate clients don't want their employees to be off in newsgroups while… Continue reading Scobleizer Radio Weblog

Happy July 4th! “WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in GENERAL CONGRESS, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and… Continue reading Happy July 4th