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Link archive for scripting.com

Saturday, April 16, 2011

"President Obama did a bad thing by calling cruel nonsense cruel nonsense...". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Could Twitter Get "MySpaced"? markevanstech.com

Twitter could put an end to paywalls. scripting.com

Republicans will make US 'Third World' nation: Obama. news.yahoo.com

Friday, April 15, 2011

President Obama Issues "Signing Statement" Indicating He Won't Abide by Provision in Budget Bill. blogs.abcnews.com

Donald Trump's "Celebrity Politician" Show. cbsnews.com

Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2". baekdal.com

The grief the GOP just brought on itself. salon.com

The High Stakes of Republicans' Budget Vote. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Atlas Winced. theatlantic.com

House Passes G.O.P. Budget Plan With No Democratic Votes. nytimes.com

Republican House votes to end Medicare next year. cnn.com

Let's Build A New Internet In Academia. (My guest post on NYU Local.). nyulocal.com

Book Review - The Long Goodbye - By Meghan O'Rourke. nytimes.com

The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric: Scientific American. scientificamerican.com

The White House leaks on itself. Who will join Bradley Manning in solitary? foxnews.com

NYT profile of Cate Blanchett. tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com

Where does the phrase "Life is like a bowl of cherries" come from? answers.yahoo.com

Obama: GOP tried to "sneak" agenda into budget. cbsnews.com

Would you Buy Uber50, a 50 Cent-Themed Twitter Client? mediabistro.com

These People Sold Twitter For Just $5 Million Back In 2006. businessinsider.com

There's more to the Internet than startups. scripting.com

@hugorodgerbrown @kroc_camen -- if he supports RSS like this http://davelinks.com/ then our visions are compatible, one and the same. davelinks.com

What's the Best Exercise? nytimes.com

Emails expose BP's attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill. guardian.co.uk

Bank of America Quarterly Profit Drops Nearly 36%. dealbook.nytimes.com

Let's build a new Internet in academia. scripting.com

Twitter denies $10bn takeover talks with Google and Facebook. (February of this year.). uk.finance.yahoo.com

So far no denials from either twitter or google of the $10 billion offer. twitter.com

Biz Stone says the Fortune article was a sign of respect. bizstone.com

Rex's theory: Cisco shot the Flip from a grassy knoll. rexblog.com

The lazy, languid, long-distance cycle ride -- the best type? guardian.co.uk

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Pouty Republicans mad at partisan Obama. salon.com

Entrepreneurs Plan To Legalize and Monetize Illegal Music. torrentfreak.com

The Ryan Plan's Political Problem. outsidethebeltway.com

Don't Look Over Here! blog.curry.com

Ukranian meatballs at Veselka. #foodporn. flickr.com

My Rackspace vs EC2 piece spawned a nice long thread on Hacker News. news.ycombinator.com

'Rio,' Animated Comedy With Jesse Eisenberg (opens tomorrow). movies.nytimes.com

Britain Blocks Export of Lethal Injection Drugs to U.S. nytimes.com

Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation. kara.allthingsd.com

Psychologist Who Cleared Inmates for Death Row Is Reprimanded by Board. nytimes.com

Atlas Shrugged opens tomorrow. #whoisjohngalt. google.com

NYU Professor Yelled At By Charlie Sheen Tries To Understand Him. nyulocal.com

Mayor Bloomberg Calls April 16 Foursquare Day. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

I did some experiments today and found that Rackspace beats EC2, by a lot. scripting.com

Second ride of 2011. scripting.com

Helicopter takeoff over Hudson. flickr.com

$10 billion for Twitter. scripting.com

"...not a lot of thinking going on at these tanks.". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

The Tragic Death of the Flip. pogue.blogs.nytimes.com

Taptu For iPad Successfully Taps Into News Junkie Territory. wired.com

Twitter Turned Down A $10 Billion Offer From Google. businessinsider.com

The Real "Next Facebook" is All of Us. blog.windsoc.co

Interesting idea: A URL-shortener that gets a Readability version of the page. readability.com

Hooray for the President! scripting.com

Could Goldman Sachs Fail? (And if they did would we bail them out?). baselinescenario.com

Obama Speech Defends Liberal Principles. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Obama's Speech on Reducing the Budget (Text). nytimes.com

Amazon EC2 vs Rackspace. gasoftwareblog.com

S.F. draws Twitter, Zynga to tax 'council.'. marketwatch.com

Ryan's Budget Gives Obama What He Wants. (Written by a Republican.). frumforum.com

How Twitter Was Founded. businessinsider.com

Daring Fireball: Tweetbot 1.0. daringfireball.net

Angry Republicans 2012. scripting.com

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Apparently you can buy shares in me at "Empire Avenue for Twitter" whatever the fuck that is. :-). empireavenue.com

High Line Green-Up: Preparing the Planting Beds for Spring. thehighline.org

How Obama's seeming passivity has emboldened the right -- and made Republicans reckless. salon.com

Marc Canter: Preamble to the Noah Glass story.... marc.digitalcitymechanics.com

scripting.com running on Linux now. (Attn @gruber.). scripting.com

Scripting News: A call for Frontier jocks. scripting.com

How Twitter Was Founded. (I know Noah Glass from when he worked with Marc Canter. Smart guy.). businessinsider.com

Great news: UberMedia to launch Twitter competitor. scripting.com

Obama's Deficit-Cutting Plan Balances Cuts With Tax Increases. nytimes.com

Bye Flip. We'll Miss You. wired.com

Google URL shortener gets new features. googleblog.blogspot.com

Viagra patent set to expire next year. nytimes.com

Divorce app could help couples decide if their marriage has a future. guardian.co.uk

Joan Walsh likes the President's budget story. salon.com

Lucy and the Economic Football. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Krugman approves of the President's The Budget Speech. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Leading app maker said to be planning Twitter competitor. edition.cnn.com

Twitter's Forgotten Cofounder, Noah Glass. businessinsider.com

Ukranian meatballs at Veselka. flickr.com

EV Grieve: On East Ninth Street, hot plates and hell. evgrieve.com

Cisco: How The iPhone Killed The Flip Camera. (Amazing that Cisco, the networking company, let this happen.). businessinsider.com

The most important new protocol since RSS: AirPlay. scobleizer.com

But You're too Old to do a Startup. jeremyhamel.posterous.com

RIM CEO terminates BBC Click interview. news.bbc.co.uk

NPR's Andy Carvin, tweeting the Middle East. washingtonpost.com

Retirees in Need of Young Workers. economix.blogs.nytimes.com

Do the Companies that Hold Your Data Stand with Users? eff.org

Dave Winer: Twitter is mostly about 'grunting and snorting' but it could be much more. thenextweb.com

Framing and Obama. scripting.com

Obama will call to end Bush-era tax cuts on wealthy. That would be very welcome. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Everyone Has An Ideology. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Cure for that dragging-your-ass feeling! scripting.com

We now have a Chinatown hyperlocal blog that, among other topics, reviews dumplings. ourchinatown.org

Egypt: Mubarak and sons detained amid corruption probe. bbc.co.uk

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The penultimate of pathetic. Someone asks you to look up RTFM for them. lmgtfy.com

@Thecommich lmgtfy.com

Berkeleyside is following the progress of the 4th St Apple store. #underconstruction. berkeleyside.com

48-year-old Twins Arrested After Living With Mother's Corpse for Three Months. gawker.com

Rand Paul says he's considering filibuster of budget agreement. thehill.com

2011: The Year the Check-in Died. readwriteweb.com

In Flushing's Downtown and Waterfront, Developers Dream Big. nytimes.com

Scripting News: An Instapaper idea? scripting.com

Air France crash: Tail section found on Atlantic seabed. bbc.co.uk

Pawlenty: 'I'm running for president'. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Gov. Patrick: Racism in birther movement. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Steve Jobs Hid iPad Development From Eric Schmidt. businessinsider.com

Thank you Farhad for a very insightful piece on the *process* of invention. slate.com

Surefire way to get techmeme to link to you. chrisyeh.blogspot.com

Pot Growing Gobbles Electricity, Study Finds. green.blogs.nytimes.com

AOL is doing layoffs the wrong way. scripting.com

Student Coders Do it Live at HackNY Hackathon. betabeat.com

News needs an anti-virus. scripting.com

Peter Thiel Believes the Future Belongs to College Dropouts. theatlanticwire.com

Space Shuttle to Land in Manhattan. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Rebooting the News #90. rebootnews.com

Cisco kills Flip Video. pocket-lint.com

Vote on Republican Medicare Plan Could Shape 2012 Races. nytimes.com

Space travel then and now: The space-age future that never happened. economist.com

Americans Decry Power of Lobbyists, Corporations, Banks, Feds. gallup.com

Roughly 20 years ago the USSR was falling apart. en.rian.ru

Paul Ceglia Files New Evidence In Claim He Owns 50% Of The Facebook. businessinsider.com

France to require cleartext password storage. boingboing.net

Starting Up: A Generation of Zuckerberg Wannabees. businessweek.com

Japan ups nuke crisis severity to match Chernobyl. sfgate.com

Tumbling Along With the Political Tumbleweed. nytimes.com

Monday, April 11, 2011

Nadie Se Conoce: T.S.P. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

The biggest spending president in the history of the U.S.? George W. Bush. politicalwire.com

Impact of paywall on NYTimes.com. weblogs.hitwise.com

What Googlers Think Of New CEO Larry Page So Far. businessinsider.com

Economic policy of the George W. Bush administration. en.wikipedia.org

Mel Gibson should not be in movies. scripting.com

Jodie Foster on Mel Gibson and new film, 'The Beaver'. youtube.com

Egypt blogger Maikel Nabil jailed by military court. bbc.co.uk

Adolf Eichmann tried to give himself up to West Germany in 1956. guardian.co.uk

What Lucky People Do Different. jonathanfields.com

Most Americans have government-subsidized health care. washingtonpost.com

You can listen to Rebooting the News live at noon Eastern on talkshoe.com. talkshoe.com

The Guardian is hosting "developer drop-ins" during the month of May in their London office. guardian.co.uk

A Useful Look at the Current Wall Street Mindset. theawl.com

An open letter to the brilliant young people who read my blog, about health insurance. scripting.com

Zuckerberg's Taking Facebook Into China, But It'll Be a Baidu Beast. fastcompany.com

Why Medicare matters to you. baselinescenario.com

Chris Dixon on Google's social strategy. cdixon.org

Cantor Sees Current Medicare and Medicaid Programs As A 'Safety Net' For 'People Who Frankly Don't Need One'. thinkprogress.org

Facebook Strikes China Deal With Baidu. businessinsider.com

Sunday, April 10, 2011

14 years on death row for a crime he didn't do. nytimes.com

Obama Is Missing. nytimes.com

Quote For The Day II (from Andrew Sullivan's new home at TDB). andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com

The Suburbs of Manhattan - Living in the West 70s. nytimes.com

Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Dear Vic: here's your Google bonus (you gotta waste time to get it). scobleizer.com

Tweet of the Century. scripting.com

Scripting News: Encoding trouble with Twitter's OAuth. scripting.com

Encoding trouble with Twitter's OAuth. Help much appreciated. scripting.com

Feds want Google to let it monitor its operations. sfgate.com

A semi-complete list of startup accelerator programs. blog.shedd.us

Why doesn't the average digital camera automatically upload to Picasa, Flickr, or similar? blogs.law.harvard.edu

The Proper Place For the Bike? The Bathtub, Of Course. ny.curbed.com

The Heart of Content Management. silencematters.com

Finding out about conferences before they happen. scripting.com

Rebel defences 'failing' as Gaddafi forces move towards Benghazi. guardian.co.uk

Is Tumblr the new WordPress? wpcandy.com

What makes Lucky Charms magically delicious? answers.yahoo.com

Guess business wasn't so good for the Psychic Reader? flickr.com

Recommended: Panic; A Hit Man Struggles To Maintain Normal Life. Pretty weird movie, great cast, acting. movies.nytimes.com

Facebook Said to Have Discussed Entering China With Partners. bloomberg.com

Saturday, April 09, 2011

"Hell's Kitchen". flickr.com

Better Bad News. betterbadnews.com

Russia denies plans to ban Gmail, Skype. news.yahoo.com

Mathematical proof that women are evil. scripting.com

Scripting News: First ride of 2011! scripting.com

Seattle Ponders Replacing a Roadway. nytimes.com

Proposal Suggests Browsers Should Block Users From BitTorrent Sites. torrentfreak.com

Donald Trump is a jackass. Is that news? nytimes.com

A domain for a feed. "It works.". scripting.com

Union Square Ventures Is The Top VC In The World. businessinsider.com

The 10 Most Outrageously Expensive And Decadent Desserts In NYC. businessinsider.com

Major League Managers Differ on Moonlighting Catchers. nytimes.com

2 Protesters Are Killed in Cairo's Tahrir Square. nytimes.com

Why some tech companies have expiration dates. scripting.com

Video Shows Deadly Raid on Cairo's Tahrir Square. thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

Sidney Lumet, Director of American film classics, dies at 86. nytimes.com

Today I'm going to try to map a top-level domain to a feed. scripting.com

Larry Page's first blunder. computerworld.com

How Twitter Extorted a Desperate City. m.gawker.com

Dancing Korean leaders. This animated gif still makes me laugh. scripting.com

Versatile, multi-site blog feeder. stackoverflow.com

House votes to repeal "net neutrality" rules. salon.com

Friday, April 08, 2011

Google: Marissa Mayer Bypassed As Google Appoints New Head Of Local And Commerce. businessinsider.com

Look WTF wordpress.com turned my tech docs site into. What a bunch of BS. flickr.com

Sen. Coburn Says House Republicans Should Drop Contentious Riders. politicalcorrection.org

How Location Sharing Went From Crazy to Compulsory in Just 2 Years. gigaom.com

I Won't Use Flickr Until They Release My Photo Hostages. techcrunch.com

Rep. Louise Slaughter: GOP Freshmen Came to Washington 'To Kill Women'. cnsnews.com

Dear Google: You Can't Threaten People Into Being Social. gigaom.com

The day Fred Wilson dumped AAPL. tech.fortune.cnn.com

MTA Goes After East Village Artist for Painting on the Back of Used Metrocards. blogs.villagevoice.com

11 free hackathon ideas. scripting.com

My Twitter/OAuth code stopped working last night. scripting.com

Thursday, April 07, 2011

It's Not Really About Spending. nytimes.com

Nadie Se Conoce: Another Satisfied Ray's Candy Store Customer. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

Spam, spam, spam: Twitter's arms race. guardian.co.uk

Don't you love it when someone quotes you without actually quoting you? businessinsider.com

New York Times Paywall Cost: More Like $25 Million. paidcontent.org

Medvedev criticizes illegal attack on his blog. reuters.com

NYTimes Real Estate for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store. itunes.apple.com

General: U.S. may consider troops in Libya. cbsnews.com

Now, Chinatown Has Its Own Blog. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Based on a leaked Larry Page memo, there's nothing subtle about Google's plan for "social.". businessinsider.com

Why more and more women are using pornography. guardian.co.uk

How to use Google's AppEngine to host static sites for free. nata2.org

Donald Trump. Seriously? washingtonpost.com

Has The Tunnel uncovered a way around the BitTorrent threat? guardian.co.uk

"_____" will "_____" you. littlegreatideas.com

Close Obama friend arrested in prostitution sting. msnbc.msn.com

Broken fire hydrants sure do cause spectacular fountains. berkeleyside.com

John Boehner Cries Amid Government Shutdown Standoff. blogs.abcnews.com

Big banks have a powerful new opponent. baselinescenario.com

Does anyone know the yFrog RSS feed addresses? stackoverflow.com

Mario Cuomo, Available for Elder Statesman Duty. nytimes.com

I'm one of Nate Silver's doldrums voters. All our reps work for the oligarchs anyway. It's all a play. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

You can map a CNAME onto an Amazon bucket. Very important feature. Apparently very few people know about it. frontiernews.org

NYT Mag article from 2005 on autopsies. nytimes.com

How Facebook photos turn into custom-drawn chipmunks. digitallife.today.com

Why Glenn Beck lost his Fox News show: 4 theories. theweek.com

EV Grieve: The Lady Gaga Easter bonnet perhaps? evgrieve.com

Urban Dictionary: Blork. urbandictionary.com

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%. vanityfair.com

Tribeca Loft With Private Bowling Alley Rents for $14,000 a Month. ny.curbed.com

Shake Shack in Madison Square Park. flickr.com

Real Estate for $450,000. nytimes.com

10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud. networkworld.com

How to Become a Forbes Blogger. blogs.forbes.com

» Hot Dog Vendors Pay Through The Nose For Right To Sell In Central Park. myupperwest.com

San Francisco lawmakers approve Twitter tax break. mercurynews.com

Can Rob Kalin Scale Etsy? inc.com

75 year old killed Georgia, Armenia internet. timeslive.co.za

To the voters in Wisconsin's 1st Congressional District... scripting.com

Wireless Tethering, a Newcomer's Guide. gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Twitter predicts future of stocks. bbc.co.uk

Wisconsin, Obama and the Democrats' future. salon.com

No Winner Yet in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election. nytimes.com

For oil companies, upheaval in Arab World, Japan means a gusher. en.rian.ru

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Outflow of highly radioactive water from Fukushima nuke plant stops. en.rian.ru

Twitter Regresses To Infancy After Upgrade Attempt. gawker.com

wealthymen.com. wealthymen.com

Japanese nuclear engineers plug Fukushima leak. guardian.co.uk

A Weekend At The High Times Medical Cannabis Cup. deadspin.com

More on Ryan and the Repubs from Ezra Klein. washingtonpost.com

Twitter just reverted to the old user interface? flickr.com

GOP unveils plan to eliminate Medicare, press neglects to ask about it. dailykos.com

The Economist calls Ryan's plan for Medicare "immoral" which is accurate. economist.com

Paul Ryan represents Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. People we need to communicate with. en.wikipedia.org

Meet Your President on Facebook. gawker.com

Ecuador Expels U.S. Ambassador Over WikiLeaks Cable. nytimes.com

Paul Ryan's budget in summary. washingtonpost.com

Mozilla Publishes List of the 50 Slowest Firefox Add-Ons. wired.com

What we're learning about NYT paywall as we hit our 20-article per-month limits. scripting.com

Bad influences: JFK, Ike and Obama. salon.com

Why Arianna Huffington is Bill Keller's Somali Pirate. zunguzungu.wordpress.com

The story of the Osborne portable computer. stormdriver.com

Were you affected by Epsilon data breach? news.cnet.com

So, How Many Active Users Does Twitter Really Have? 200 Million? 100 Million? 50 Million? mediabistro.com

Monday, April 04, 2011

Small Airplane Lands in Waves on Beach in Queens. nytimes.com

For Some Entrepreneurs, Moon Is Money. gigaom.com

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies. ssrc.org

NYT paywall on April 4. scripting.com

Maine - U.S. Wants Money Back After Governor Removes Mural. nytimes.com

Andy Warhol monument in Union Square. flickr.com

The end of progressive government? washingtonpost.com

Twitter's Recommended Users Politics List Could Use a Refresh. techpresident.com

Andy Warhol in Union Square. scripting.com

Suspect Killed in Apple Store Burglary in San Diego. sandiego6.com

Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots. wired.com

Letter.ly Abrupt.ly Loses Domain Name As A Result Of The War In Libya. techcrunch.com

Air France plane crash victims found after two-year search. guardian.co.uk

Listen live to the Rebooting the News podcast at Noon Eastern, 20 minutes from now. talkshoe.com

Helping Age Keep Up With Youth on Facebook. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Who's afraid of Arianna Huffington? buzzmachine.com

We have the full story re "Mysterious tools behind Engadget move" in the comments. Involves Kos and community. Good stu... scripting.com

Mysterious tools behind Engadget move? scripting.com

The Rebub nominee will be Romney and he'll lose. politicalwire.com

10 Things That Need To Be In iOS 5. mobilecrunch.com

CRIA Watches Massive Music Piracy Crisis Devastate Unknown Band. torrentfreak.com

At Hacker Dojo, Silicon Valley techies build toward success. news.cnet.com

Afghan protests continue against Qur'an burning. guardian.co.uk

An idea for Mayor Bloomberg. scripting.com

George Will is seen on train. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

When will Microsoft realize that XP was the last version of Windows? geekwire.com

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Prominent Start-Ups in San Francisco Resist a Payroll Tax. nytimes.com

Air France 447 search yields fresh hope with discovery of debris on seabed. guardian.co.uk

More customers exposed as big data breach grows. reuters.com

Idea: Scrobbling my information consumption. danielbachhuber.com

Saudi Airlines Shows Pirated Film to Passengers. torrentfreak.com

Pickens thinks water is the new oil. businessweek.com

Efforts to Plug Japanese Reactor Leak Are Failing. nytimes.com

Microsoft planning an clunky manual sort of version of Dropbox for the next Windows. istartedsomething.com

Assisted dying campaigners split over right to die for those not terminally ill. guardian.co.uk

Wreckage from Air France jet found in Atlantic. bbc.co.uk

Charlie Sheen's 'Violent Torpedo' Tour Flops in Detroit. nytimes.com

Service for Subdomains Resolving to URLs. anthonyeden.com

Doris Day is 89 years old. en.wikipedia.org

Why is Google doodling about ice cream sundaes? news.cnet.com

In the Mountains of Patagonia, a Harbinger of a Rising Ocean. green.blogs.nytimes.com

Times Continues Effort to Demonize Arianna Huffington. nymag.com

East Village is Drunkest Neighborhood in NYC. ny.curbed.com

Attn bike jocks -- How does this pump work?? scripting.com

Wow. I thought it was my fault I couldn't get my new tire pump to work. Frustrating. serfas.com

Amazon's new Cloud Drive rains on everyone's parade. guardian.co.uk

Angry Nerds Shirts from Zazzle.com. zazzle.com

Joseph Stiglitz: The Fate of The Top 1% Is Bound Up With How The Other 99% Live. crooksandliars.com

EV Grieve: City tossing longtime Astor Place newspaper vendor. evgrieve.com

Saturday, April 02, 2011

When It Comes to Marijuana, Willie's Punishment Seems to Vaporize. nytimes.com

Apple's new iPad 2 ad: Technology is not enough. news.cnet.com

McAfee is running a scam. Siteadvisor.com is just a ploy by McAfee to sell $360/year badges to webmasters. reddit.com

PCs Make Americans $500 Billion Richer. blogs.wsj.com

Cashman Says Feliciano Abused by Mets. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

More than 1,000 killed in Ivory Coast town. salon.com

In a Clubby World of San Francisco Mothers, Men Needn't Apply. nytimes.com

Three Chess Players Punished for Cheating. nytimes.com

ComScore: Verizon iPhone was top phone in Feb. news.cnet.com

Malcolm X Biographer Dies on Eve of a Revealing Work. nytimes.com

What happened to James Franco twitter account? m.gawker.com

Japan's Nuclear Crisis Is Seen Clearly From Afar. nytimes.com

Passenger's Twitpics show hole in Southwest plane. news.cnet.com

Ladies with Two Vaginas, No Vagina on TLC Reality Show. gawker.com

Instigator of Quran burning row defiant despite Afghan murders. en.rian.ru

Manhattan: a 90-square-foot micro studio. faircompanies.com

My linkblog merges with my realblog. scripting.com

Radioactive water leaks from crippled Japan plant. salon.com

Terry Jones Demands Retribution for U.N. Deaths. nytimes.com

Nine killed and 81 injured in Kandahar protest against US burning of Qur'an. guardian.co.uk

App store shenanigans. cdixon.org

In Fed Documents, a Bank Run We Knew So Little About. nytimes.com

Chinese govt is going after Google. chovanec.wordpress.com

Russian tourists return to Egyptian resorts. en.rian.ru

Matt McClure, Good Bug Reports are Lab Reports. matthewlmcclure.tumblr.com

HotWired: The fifth iteration of the front door. tawawa.org

Burying Fukishima might not be such a good idea. engineerzero.wordpress.com

Poll: Americans Wrongly Estimate $178 Billion In Fed. Budget Goes To Public Broadcasting. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

This Attack is Different. undispatch.com

Friday, April 01, 2011

What Does New York Smell Like to You? cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

How to approach an alpha product. scripting.com

Writing good bug reports. scripting.com

"This guy either has a birth certificate or he doesn't," he said of President Obama. nytimes.com

Mets Schedule. newyork.mets.mlb.com

Ideas for conferences. scripting.com

Schmidt & Privacy: Google Anyone Other Than Me. searchengineland.com

Why TechCrunch is Over. peteryared.blogspot.com

Cops, firefighters turn on GOP in labor fight. politico.com

A strange Twitter double-fail. blogs.law.harvard.edu

@HiMYSYeD 12/15/97. scripting.com

The more Bill Keller says the worse he gets. m.gawker.com

Snafus forced Twitter data center move: sources. reuters.com

A Queens Home Wallpapered With Memories. nytimes.com

Google: Departing CEO Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Search Team To Hide Political Donation. businessinsider.com

Twitter's display guidelines for developers. dev.twitter.com

Arnold Canell Recalled as Towering Bronx Science Figure. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Pity the poor Tea Party. scripting.com

New Yorker: China has embarked on the most intense crackdown on free expression in years. newyorker.com

Scripting News: Ideas for Evan Williams. scripting.com

Scripting News: Invite-only conferences and open formats. scripting.com

The Local East Village is looking for a new editor. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Could An Obese Goalie Change Hockey? andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Putin test-drives new Russian Yo-mobile to Medvedev's house. en.rian.ru

Shame your non-paying clients in public. vesess.com

Good book, great film. guardian.co.uk

Thursday, March 31, 2011

How Many Users Does Twitter REALLY Have? businessinsider.com

Why the Obamaconomy doesn't bother rich people: we've disinvested in the U.S. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Kathleen Sebelius: Health care in U.S. like a developing country. politico.com

The #dickbar meme continues to inspire great East Coast prose. wired.com

Letter to My Readers: Scripting News Begins Digital Subscriptions. (Sorry it had to come to this but I need the money.) scripting.com

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning. mariovittone.com

In Big Endorsement, AP Embraces Mozilla's 'Do Not Track' Header. wired.com

Toddler Twins: Secret Language or Babble? well.blogs.nytimes.com

Why taking somebody seriously might be the biggest favor you can do for them. editor.blogspot.com

CBS Declares Next Week Is 'Tweet Week'. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Twitter Blog: So a #dickbar walks into an app... blog.twitter.com

The Phillies' Four Aces. nytimes.com

Paul Allen uses memoir to portray Bill Gates as a bully who sought to deprive him of his share in Microsoft fortune guardian.co.uk

Beau of woman stuck to toilet wins lottery. msnbc.msn.com

Google's new phone to double as credit card. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Arizona Democrats Waiting for Giffords. politicalwire.com

500-pound man sat in chair 2 years, dies. upi.com

Apple's boring hardware updates. marco.org

Excellence in coffee. scripting.com

Sure, I Could Join a Google-Based Social Network -- But Why? gigaom.com

Is HTML5 at Risk of Being Sabotaged by its Implementors? streeme.posterous.com

Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP. theonion.com

Newton had shitty handwriting recog. Today's PDAs don't even try. blog.grumet.net

Post anonymously to this Twitter account. lessucettes.com

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Libya: Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa 'defects to UK'. bbc.co.uk

Green stuff in Tompkins Sq Park. Spring coming soooooon. Seems. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

More images released of Mercury, taken by orbiter. news.blogs.cnn.com

Fed to release sensitve lending data on March 31. marketwatch.com

Treasury Bailouts Expected to Produce Nearly $24 Billion Profit. nytimes.com

On Wall Street, it's pretty much business as usual again. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

My tweetstream, here on Scripting News. scripting.com

"Web Intents are the simplest way to make the Tweets you display on your website interactive." dev.twitter.com

Google Chooses Kansas City, Kansas as Broadband Mecca. wired.com

Debunking The Creation Myths Behind 5 Huge Companies. consumerist.com

Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $8 Million. techcrunch.com

When a Girl is Executed...for Being Raped. kristof.blogs.nytimes.com

Vanity Fair has an excerpt from Paul Allen's Microsoft memoir. vanityfair.com

FTC Charges Deceptive Privacy Practices in Google's Rollout of Its Buzz Social Network. ftc.gov

Libya rebels, under fire, beat rapid retreat east. reuters.com

Tablets are not a flash in the pan. smh.com.au

Google buried the lede in this blog post. Skip to the bit about the FTC. That's the story. googleblog.blogspot.com

High quality video of NYC subway in 1986. theawl.com

Do You Know What Makes People Click? Come Work for Fast Company. fastcompany.com

Rebooting the News #88. rebootnews.com

Jon Stewart on Obama's convoluted Libya speech. salon.com

Krugman: The Exceptional Mr. Greenspan. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Rex Hammock's "accidental Apple dongle collection." rexblog.com

Microsoft Co-Founder Hits Out at Gates. online.wsj.com

April 12 is the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. en.rian.ru

Alan Greenspan failed miserably as a regulator. That proves it is futile for regulators to even try. norris.blogs.nytimes.com

"An online library and bookstore on a scale previously seen only in science fiction." wired.com

First Republican Debate Postponed. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

As Obama and Congress fiddle, America liquidates housing sector. blogs.reuters.com

Photo of the surface of Mercury. engadget.com

Struggles Remained for Pit Bulls Saved in Bronx Fire. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Amazon faces backlash over music locker service. reuters.com

Demonstrators March On Twitter HQ. mediabistro.com

Daring Fireball's Impressive Traffic Stats. businessinsider.com

On Senate Call, a Glimpse of Marching Orders. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Square Investor Deletes Tweet: "To Do Two Things At Once Is To Do Neither". businessinsider.com

Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Wants to Make Service More Mainstream. blogs.wsj.com

Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor. guardian.co.uk

HOW TO: Use Amazon Cloud Player With iOS Devices. mashable.com

Outdoor Bike Trips In Every Direction from New York City. theawl.com

Interview: Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Digg developer blog. about.digg.com

Epicenter: Amazon's New 'Cloud Drive': Your Music, Everywhere You Go. wired.com

The New York Times and Twitter. 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com

Amazon Cloud Player: First Impressions. mashable.com

Amazon Cloud Drive. 5GB free forever. amazon.com

Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums. nytimes.com

The Guardian is going large in the States, says Rusbridger. guardian.co.uk

Monday, March 28, 2011

Collins, Snowe, Murkowski and Brown -- four Repubs who voted against family planning. nytimes.com

"We've gotten rid of the rubble of the past bubble." gigaom.com

Trump fails to produce birth certificate. Heh. politico.com

French Spider-Man Climbs World's Tallest Building. gawker.com

Amazon courting Apple's iOS developers to port apps to Kindle. appleinsider.com

Mom ordering from Odessa. (I took this picture with my iPad 2.) flickr.com

Sylvia Paull is going to pay to get through the NYT paywall. whoisylvia.typepad.com

@dannysullivan -- could you try testing this -- nytimesriver.com

Before Libya, White House Must Negotiate With ABC. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Odessa dinner. flickr.com

'Know Your Meme' Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal. news.tubefilter.tv

How To Hack the New York Times Paywall ... With Your Delete Key. mashable.com

Amazon has a tablets store. amazon.com

Two NYT pay fence workarounds. danielbachhuber.com

Entrepreneurs and Inventors Need Each Other. caycon.com

Rebooting the News today at Noon Eastern. scripting.com

The Truth About Twitter: It's The Evening News. businessinsider.com

Are you buying into the Times paywall? scripting.com

When I get a link from Ed Cone, I always get a good idea or two. edcone.typepad.com

BitTorrent Case Judge Is a Former RIAA Lobbyist and Pirate Chaser. torrentfreak.com

The President Is A Lousy Negotiator. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

New York Times paywall: built for the digital future? guardian.co.uk

The Other Side of Qaddafi. nytimes.com

Is lying protected speech? washingtonpost.com

Attempts to Remove Radioactive Water Continue in Japan. nytimes.com

Why Didn't Color Ship at SXSW? petertkane.com

How did the New York Times manage to spend $40 million on its pay wall? blogs.law.harvard.edu

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The first blogs were not personal diaries. Or bastard children. Geez Louise. technologyreview.com

For Schumer, a Bike Lane Too Close for Comment. nytimes.com

Paul Baran, 84, Dies - Helped Pave Way for Internet. nytimes.com

Super Glue inventor dies aged 94. guardian.co.uk

Amazon.com lets you play with an Android virtual machine, try apps before you buy them. #wow engadget.com

Is it a bubble? It matters if we think it is. scripting.com

High-Tech Flirting Turns Explicit, Altering Young Lives. nytimes.com

London Underground getting Wi-Fi hotspot treatment. zdnet.com

Ghost Bike Memorials. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Buffett cautions social-networking investors. news.cnet.com

Facebook and Twitter Valuations May Show a New Tech Bubble. nytimes.com

Gingrich: I'm not a hypocrite. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

San Francisco Jobs Approach Dot Com Peak -- in Less Space. paul.kedrosky.com

Notes from the NYT photography blog about the new subscription plan that starts tomorrow. lens.blogs.nytimes.com

Japanese nuclear firm admits error on radiation reading. guardian.co.uk

Gates: Intel shows Qaddafi planting bodies at attack sites, cbsnews.com

They can buy breakfast for 50 cents. Lunch is a buck and a quarter. Complaining is free. nytimes.com

Barnes Foundation. en.wikipedia.org

MySpace loses millions of users in a few weeks. bbc.co.uk

How the iPad revolution has transformed working lives guardian.co.uk

U.S. develops panic button for democracy activists. reuters.com

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Buzzwords might earn you venture capital, but they won't make a good product. startupproject.org

Photographer Runs Errands While Naked (In The Name Of Art). gawker.com

Scripting News: Fractional horsepower TwitterFeed? Sure, why not. scripting.com

Fractional horsepower TwitterFeed? Sure, why not. scripting.com

Candid photo of Howard Dean campaigning in 2003. scripting.com

Little bits of green in evidence in Tompkins Square Park today. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

High-Tech Flirting Turns Explicit, Altering Young Lives. #sexting nytimes.com

Japan nuclear crisis far from over. reuters.com

This Guy Scuba Dived Into the Tsunami to Rescue His Wife and Mother. good.is

Bus That Hit and Killed Cyclist Is Located. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

The fate that Geraldine Ferraro didn't deserve. salon.com

scoble.jpg scripting.com

Flickr feed: D train flickr.com

Geraldine A. Ferraro, First Woman on Major Party Ticket, Dies at 75. nytimes.com

Overwhelmed, Many Fail to Keep Up With the News From Libya. nytimes.com

Lunch today at Dominick's on Arthur Ave in da Bronx. nymag.com

Scott Knaster's MORE t-shirt, vintage 1987. twitter.com

Flickr feed: Cannoli and coffee flickr.com

Latest update : Oxford English Dictionary. oed.com

Color Founder Bill Nguyen: Why You're All Wrong And This Really IS A $41 Million Idea. businessinsider.com

Friday, March 25, 2011

Obama's Unconstitutional War. foreignpolicy.com

Vigil at site of Triangle fire earlier today. flickr.com

Why are Apple fans so crazy? techvibes.com

Flickr feed: The window flickr.com

Bob Herbert's last NYT column. nytimes.com

Majority Of America Is Now On Facebook. huffingtonpost.com

Copenhagen airport tracks your every move using WiFi signals. engadget.com

How they could possibly have so much fun without you? mercurynews.com

First cherry blossoms blooming at Brooklyn Botanic. newyorkology.com

What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to it's startup roots. slacy.com

I'm trying Feedburner's ability to route a feed to Twitter in Bull Mancuso's account. twitter.com

Ping Pong in the Park. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Did Newt delete his tweets or are reporters not savvy to Twitter? salon.com

1 million flee Ivory Coast in fear of civil war. salon.com

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Sweatshops Today, And Consumer Power. nyulocal.com

Frenzy - The Dropbox powered social network. Very interesting. frenzyapp.com

The average price for NYC studios dropped to $404K in 2010, from a high of $500K in 2008. nytimes.com

The most troubling reports about the Libyan rebels. salon.com

Screen shot of Bush whitehouse.gov in 2005 in MSIE. #sickfeeling scripting.com

A Russian Tech Mogul's $70 Million Silicon Valley Palace. gawker.com

Why Some Apps Work and Some Don't. gigaom.com

Gaddafi's entourage sends out secret peace feelers. reuters.com

Scripting News: An Internet inside an Internet scripting.com

Japan Raises Possibility of Breach in Reactor Vessel. nytimes.com

While everyone is focusing on the war in Libya, the revolution is still playing out in Egypt. nytimes.com

Something odd about the sky in the High Plains. It seems so much closer to the ground. scripting.com

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. allthingsdistributed.com

"For a moment, it felt like spring." nytimes.com

The Real Death Panel: If 'Obamacare' Repealed, Some Patients Can't Go Back. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Whiny cartoon by a pro re bloggers who crashed the Dem Conv in 2004. #�oser. scripting.com

Young William Shatner in his Star Trek uniform. scripting.com

Missing: Newt Gingrich's Tweets Before July 2010. vanityfair.com

The Wire Reimagined as a Victorian Novel. gawker.com

This is the best ad I've ever seen (It's from a movie.) scripting.com

Scripting News: Pics feed scripting.com

Someone leaked the pitch deck for color.com. docs.google.com

If you really want to read a FiveThirtyEight article, there will always be a multitude of ways to do it. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Are social photo apps trapped in a Silicon Valley bubble? guardian.co.uk

Amazon has all of the required pieces in place for a tablet computer. suntimes.com

Scripting News: Dropbox question scripting.com

Scripting News: A mistake I've been making scripting.com

Scripting News: Here comes the "social camera" scripting.com

Here comes the "social camera". scripting.com

June 2007: Social Cameras! (Scripting News). scripting.com

2009: Hire execs who love the product. scripting.com

41,000,006 reasons why I think we're in a bubble. jacquesmattheij.com

Amazingly, MySpace's Decline Is Accelerating. (Twitter future.) techcrunch.com

Ben Edelman says Google favors its own results. sfgate.com

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Color, A Twitter For Photo And Video, Launches With $41 Million. (We don't need more Twitters.) blogs.forbes.com

Views.fm Makes Dropbox Look Sexy. techcrunch.com

A Photo Social Network for the Here and Now. wired.com

Medical Marijuana Stiff Competition For Viagra. huffingtonpost.com

Federated Social Web Summit, Berlin, June 3. d-cent.org

Scripting News: Nasty gmail phish scripting.com

A Reverse Mortgage Can Help Those With No Retirement Savings. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Have we been deprecated by Google? scripting.com

Wondering if we've been deprecated by Google? (This is just a game, not SEO.) google.com

McCain, Lieberman, and Gadhafi Walk Into a Bar ... prospect.org

"You Can Be Right or You Can Be Married" 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com

Betw 2000 to 2010, Detroit lost a quarter of its population. freakonomics.com

It's always interesting to learn about your own software from an intelligent newbie. blogs.tedchoward.com

R.I.P., New-Home Sales. norris.blogs.nytimes.com

The New York Times Playing Whac-a-Loophole Over Paywall? Let Us Count the Ways. fastcompany.com

How the NY Times Paywall Could Turn Out To Be A Success. wired.com

Pictures of Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson. Might as well get used to this. google.com

Senators to Apple: Pull iPhone DUI checkpoint alert apps. Yup this is the problem with centralized systems. computerworld.com

It's snowing right now in NYC, but next week -- everything will be blooming. scripting.com

Please Twitter, just implement normal advertising. startupproject.org

Amazon reinstates API access for Lendle. thenextweb.com

Why you should never ask permission to clean up code. cdevroe.com

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Police Apologize for Central Park Cyclist's Ticket. nytimes.com

Berkeleyside was delisted by Google News. davosnewbies.com

nytimesriver.com

U.S. senators ask Apple to pull police-evasion apps. news.cnet.com

Triangle Fire: Building Survives as Part of N.Y.U. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

I don't want a hustler. (Amen!) andrewacove.posterous.com

New Yorkers Support Bike Lanes, Poll Finds. nyulocal.com

Berkeley: more excellent than expected. berkeleyside.com

On Grid's Birthday, Beautiful Manhattan Maps. blogs.wsj.com

Scripting News: Call for startup: Easy domain editing scripting.com

My favorite new feed is RIA Novosti. Welcoming Russia to my world. :-) en.rian.ru

Michele Bachmann appears to be trying to grab Sarah Palin's crown. nytimes.com

Dumb question: Does the NYT publish its style book? (A project for WikiLeaks?) topics.blogs.nytimes.com

Judge orders Jobs to answer iTunes questions. reuters.com

Sketches of SXSW Archetypes. ontechies.com

Monday, March 21, 2011

Hacking the NYT paywall. niemanlab.org

The Lesson the U.S. Is Teaching the World in Libya: Get nuclear weapons. tinyrevolution.com

AC: "Gotta say, it's a neat little box, but man, windows is a freakin' pain!" blog.curry.com

Restoring Copyright to Public Domain Works. nytimes.com

New York mag on bike lanes. nymag.com

HBO plans Dick Cheney miniseries. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Russia's Zhirinovsky calls to revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize. en.rian.ru

Julian Assange is the Worst Roommate Ever. blogs.villagevoice.com

A spiffy bookmarklet that surfaces a Twitter user's RSS feed. I can verify it works in Firefox. Useful! :-) alexch.github.com

Listen live to RBTN #87 starts in 7 minutes. We're on right now! :-) bbc.co.uk

Syria unrest: Thousands march in Deraa. bbc.co.uk

Top 100 Useful And Detailed CSS3 Tutorials And Techniques. designyourway.net

Host simple websites on Dropbox with DropPages. thenextweb.com

I've been struggling to come up with a business model for my blog, but now have one. :-) thedickbar.com

A Non-Sucky Twitter Business Model. I like it. No ads and lots of apps. 3dna.us

Bu.tt Gets Kicked Off The Internet. techcrunch.com

Scripting News: October 13, 1994 scripting.com

Inside The World's First Billion-Dollar Home. forbes.com

Gassee: The NY Times: Un-Free At Last! mondaynote.com

Sunday, March 20, 2011

.tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic. blog.tommorris.org

Krugman writes Alan Greenspan's epitaph. Brilliant and brutal. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Josh Marshall on US in Libya. "Just a Bad, Bad Idea." talkingpointsmemo.com

The Times's Online Pay Model Was Years in the Making. (The Times covers itself, could be a parody.) nytimes.com

U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigns over WikiLeaks documents. content.usatoday.com

Manhattan's Rectangular Street Grid Turns 200. nytimes.com

WikiLeaks: Americans see relationship with India going nowhere, blame 'Brezhnev-era' bureaucracy. thehindu.com

Rosenberg Co-Conspirator Sobell Reveals More About His Role. nytimes.com

Scripting News: What Twitter and the NYT have in common scripting.com

Scripting News: What Twitter and the NYT have in common. scripting.com

Amazon Android App Store Set to Launch Tuesday. wired.com

"REST is a nice dream. But I'm not personally a fan." blog.movieos.org

Flickr feed: Screen shot flickr.com

The Biggest Flaw in NYT Pay Plan: It's Backward-Looking. gigaom.com

AT&T To Buy T-Mobile USA for $39 Billion. cnbc.com

You don't have to be a "web purist" to see that the Times paywall is feeble. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Peter the Wild Boy's condition revealed 200 years after his death. guardian.co.uk

Source Code Sneak Preview on Tuesday at Lincoln Center. myupperwest.com

Can you seriously travel with no luggage at all? kk.org

5 Killer Ideas Apple Should Steal From Microsoft. cultofmac.com

Does Anne Hathaway News Drive Berkshire Hathaway's Stock? theatlantic.com

The Copyright Monopoly Is a Limitation of Property Rights. torrentfreak.com

Thousands protest in Syrian city for third day. reuters.com

New 2011 MacBook Pro Heating Issue? discussions.apple.com

How not to interact with the media 101 courtesy of Hashable CEO, Mike Yavonditte. spiers.tumblr.com

Saturday, March 19, 2011

EV Grieve: Table tennis now a permanent part of Tompkins Square Park. evgrieve.com

Meanness. inessential.com

Tired of Twitter, or just jealous? postbulletin.com

'Savage City' Relives a Nightmarish Time in New York. nytimes.com

Pure CSS speech bubbles. nicolasgallagher.com

Gym-Free Queens School Sounds Awesome, But Is Not. blogs.villagevoice.com

No Longer for Down and Outs, the Bowery is Up and Coming. nytimes.com

Japan prays for success of Fukushima 50 in fight to save nuclear plant. guardian.co.uk

Warren Christopher, 1925-2011. newyorker.com

Coasting in neutral does not save gas. popularmechanics.com

Ramen is being sent by the truckload to the survivors of the Japanese earthquake. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Question for the NYT scripting.com

Arab world's revolution fever spreads to Syria. bbc.co.uk

Scripting News: We should invest in public broadcasting scripting.com

Ron Paul Mocks GOP Congress For Defunding NPR Instead Of Military. businessinsider.com

Chats.io: On-demand, disposable group chat. thenextweb.com

Hail in Berkeley. berkeleyside.com

Why I Am Never Going to Own a Home Again. jamesaltucher.com

EV Grieve: Today in photos of very large cranes. evgrieve.com

How TV's 'Vast Wasteland' Became a Vast Garden. wired.com

On Twitter, 'What a Party!' Brings an Envious 'Enough, Already!' nytimes.com

The Top Ten Signs the Valley is on Tilt Again. paul.kedrosky.com

Friday, March 18, 2011

NYT editorial on the death penalty in the US. nytimes.com

Many Banks Are Clinging to Billions in Bailout Money. dealbook.nytimes.com

Flickr feed: iPad docs flickr.com

Movie openings this weekend by Gawker. m.gawker.com

Experts knock notion of burying Japanese reactors. salon.com

Scripting News: My iPad arrived scripting.com

Huffington Post: Our Bloggers Like Doing It For Free. blogs.villagevoice.com

Larry Page Wants to Return Google to Its Startup Roots. wired.com

NYT review of HBO mini-series "Mildred Pierce." nytimes.com

Daring Fireball: The Evolution of SXSW Interactive. daringfireball.net

Dane County judge halts collective bargaining law. . jsonline.com

At Least 40 Protesters Are Killed in Yemen. nytimes.com

Frontier News: Setting up a Radio2 server. frontiernews.org

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is collecting fighter jets. techeye.net

First impressions of new iPad -- not good. Lost all my paid-for apps and all settings. Read on.. scripting.com

Dear @gruber -- tell me I'm an idiot. Tell me the iPad "upgrade" doesn't really work like this. scripting.com

Angry Birds developer Rovio plans IPO in New York. reuters.com

Flickr feed: My new iPad has arrived flickr.com

My new iPad has arrived. flickr.com

How to Beat the Salad Bar. nytimes.com

Not Even Kevin Rose Really Uses Digg Anymore. techcrunch.com

Brian Lehrer: Finding Chinks in The New York Times Paywall - at the top of the hour. wnyc.org

Greenwald notes that U.S. press sucks at covering our govt, just like Japan. salon.com

Krugman, briefly, on the NYT paywall. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Japan weighs need to bury nuclear plant. news.yahoo.com

The damage earthquakes inflict has more to do with location than size. economist.com

Nuclear Crisis Prompts Business Executives to Leave Tokyo. nytimes.com

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. awkwardfamilyphotos.com

The Lincoln offer appeared on the NYT site for me, but disappeared before I could click. newsgrange.com

NYT interview with CNN's Elliot Spitzer. The kind of stuff we'll miss come March 28. nytimes.com

Matt Cutts: The Greenspan of Google. businessweek.com

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Felix Salmon: The New York Times Paywall Is ... Weird. wired.com

Yahoo Is About To Sell Delicious For $1-$2 Million. businessinsider.com

Scripting News: s3.scripting.com scripting.com

Louis Scala II, sold pills for $20 each from his ice cream truck on Staten Island. nytimes.com

Washington has lost interest in the unemployed. nytimes.com

Japan quake survivors too shocked to contemplate the future. reuters.com

In 1995 Newsweek profiled 50 people to watch for the future of the net. Mom kept this in her scrapbook. :-) scripting.com

Why the New York Times Paywall Will Backfire. gigaom.com

Comments about changes to the Twitter API terms of service. scripting.com

BBC: New York Times to charge for full internet access. bbc.co.uk

Wired: New York Times Unveils Digital Subscriptions. wired.com

Scripting News: JSONified RSS scripting.com

Twitter boss on application snub. bbc.co.uk

Human-sized hamster wheel makes you work to charge your phone. thenextweb.com

Scripting News: Tweeting about Twitter's Terms scripting.com

Scripting News: Tweeting about Twitter's Terms. scripting.com

Twitter API Terms of Service. dev.twitter.com

How can Michele Bachmann be president if she won't release her birth certificate? salon.com

New York Times Agrees To Apple Terms For Paywall Plans. mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Scripting News: Comments on NYT paywall announcement scripting.com

Comments on NYT paywall announcement. scripting.com

A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions. (This is the NYT paywall announcement.) nytimes.com

My comments on the NYT paywall announcement. scripting.com

Scripting News: Yet another test post scripting.com

"All baking done on premises." flickr.com

White House wants new copyright law crackdown. news.cnet.com

New movie risks it all by launching on BitTorrent and DVD simutaneously. thenextweb.com

Radiation Plume Course Charted by U.N. Agency. In southern California on Friday. nytimes.com

Rumor: Asus To Launch $200 Chrome Netbook. crunchgear.com

Japan May Face 'Irreversible' Blow to Power Capacity. businessweek.com

Helicopters drop water on damaged reactors. msnbc.msn.com

A plea for baked weblogs. inessential.com

The (Unfortunate) Tale Of Two Twitters. davewalters.me

Google Earth's Surreal, 'Melted' Bridges (PICTURES). huffingtonpost.com

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

U.S. Officials Alarmed at Japanese Handling of Nuclear Plants, Urge More Workers for Emergency Operations. abcnews.go.com

Jawbone Grabs $49 Million From Andreessen Horowitz. inquisitr.com

Four NYT journalists go missing in Libya. wlcentral.org

Real Estate for $280,000. nytimes.com

Libyan Spider on .ly domains. libyanspider.com

Summer Camps With a Technology Focus. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Will we see the NY Times paywall soon? scripting.com

1 in 8 New Yorkers is on Oxy. blogs.villagevoice.com

U.S. Calls Radiation 'Extremely High' and Urges Deeper Caution in Japan. nytimes.com

6 beloved scientists who were actually total jerks. blastr.com

Quora engineers accused of vandalizing a clone's website. greyreview.com

NYU's Greenwich Village Superblock Plans Officially Unveiled. ny.curbed.com

Scripting News: Test-post-plus scripting.com

Report: Starbucks and Peet's in Merger Talks. (!) eastbayexpress.com

Interesting discussion of NYT paywall on Hacker News. news.ycombinator.com

As Searchers Inch Along, the Task Ahead Is Huge. nytimes.com

Assange: WikiLeaks Cables Spurred Middle East Uprisings. huffingtonpost.com

Japanese House Boat. dvorak.org

Click to download: podcast nostalgia. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: A new feature of RSS scripting.com

Adam Curry on Japan's 3/11. blog.curry.com

FOMO is a great motivator of human behavior. caterina.net

The decision [Twitter] announced on Friday was both impossible and inevitable. scripting.com

Scripting News: Will we see the NY Times paywall soon? scripting.com

U.S. Urged to Raise Teachers' Status. nytimes.com

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Workers at Fukushima Plant Brave Radiation and Fire. nytimes.com

Bradley Manning's father speaks out over Pentagon's treatment of his son. guardian.co.uk

Google is the Largest Torrent Search Engine, isoHunt Tells Court. torrentfreak.com

Albert Einstein - How I See the World. pbs.org

Julian Assange tells students that the web is the greatest spying machine ever. guardian.co.uk

CNN's Quake Coverage Attracts More Viewers. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Adjix automatically saves your links to your S3 bucket when they are created. Every web service should do this. web.adjix.com

Scripting News: Goodnight Zune. scripting.com

Scripting News: Goodnight Zune scripting.com

Micah Sifry: What the Firing of P.J. Crowley Says About Obama and Open Government. huffingtonpost.com

Apple Accused of Slowing Web Apps to Benefit App Store. wired.com

The Significance of 35 Cooper Square. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Edward L. Glaeser: If the Tea Party Went Downtown. economix.blogs.nytimes.com

The Abuse of Private Manning. nytimes.com

F.D.I.C. Approves 'Too Big to Fail' Rules. dealbook.nytimes.com

Japan's nuclear crisis: A timeline of key events. csmonitor.com

Tax break incentive to keep Twitter in San Francisco up for key vote. sfexaminer.com

Obama "IP czar" wants felony charges for illegal Web streaming. arstechnica.com

What has Twitter become? radar.oreilly.com

Clinton makes first visit to post-Mubarak Egypt. reuters.com

Scripting News: Twitter posts don't have titles. scripting.com

Scripting News: Twitter posts don't have titles scripting.com

Where we're at with Radio2. A status post. scripting.com

Wisconsin State Senator's Wife Joins Recall Effort Against Him. nymag.com

Update on Japan's Nuclear Power Crisis. ucsusa.org

An 8.9 Quake Could Have Irradiated the Entire US. commondreams.org

Internet Explorer 9 Arrives With More Speed, Better Web Standards Support. webmonkey.com

World Nuclear News: Dramatic escalation in Japan. world-nuclear-news.org

Crisis casts doubt on nuke industry P.R. campaign. salon.com

Monday, March 14, 2011

Japan Faces Prospect of Nuclear Catastrophe as Workers Leave Plant. nytimes.com

Thoughts on an open Twitter replacement: Concentrate on what's done poorly. arpitonline.com

Japan Faces Prospect of Nuclear Catastrophe as Workers Leave Plant - NYTimes.com. nytimes.com

When I saw the preview for Mars Needs Moms I said "Never." I wasn't the only one. nytimes.com

Experimental bomb to create huge tidal wave was tested in 1944. independent.co.uk

Anxiety in Japan grows as rescue workers find more bodies. cnn.com

Flickr Flickering As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away. techcrunch.com

Scripting News: Mike hit the jackpot scripting.com

Is Anonymous The New WikiLeaks? blogs.forbes.com

Twitter angers third-party developers with 'no more timelines' urging. guardian.co.uk

Humans' First Use of Fire May Not Be So Long Ago. nytimes.com

Why is there no looting in Japan? blogs.telegraph.co.uk

Japan radiation leaks feared as nuclear experts point to possible cover-up. guardian.co.uk

How many users does Twitter have? networkeffect.allthingsd.com

The NYT Columnist Problem. Agree! Krugman is the best, but his blog makes his column redundant. gawker.com

National Broadband Map. broadbandmap.gov

Flickr feed: Bulletin board art flickr.com

Al Franken: 'They're coming after the Internet'. politico.com

NYU has lots of Macs. flickr.com

Elements Of NPR Gotcha Video Taken Out Of Context. npr.org

A pot-luck pod-cast turned into a conversation betw Dave and his old co-hort Adam Curry. static.reallysimple.org

Scripting News: Today's pot-luck pod-cast scripting.com

How many times have I told you baby that I'd do anything you say... youtube.com

"You should never argue with a crazy man." youtube.com

Twitter Clamps Down On Third-Party Clients. wired.com

If you've ever wanted to be on Rebooting the News, here's your chance! :-) scripting.com

Bring me stuff that's dead, please. sethgodin.typepad.com

LinkedIn Unveils Social News Service. cio.in

Study: Cheery, optimists die younger. upi.com

Social Is Too Important For Google To Screw Up With A Big Launch Circus. (Yup.) techcrunch.com

Tim Pawlenty Tests Republican Presidential Run. nytimes.com

Facebook Will Add Video-Conference Features (via Skype). geekwithlaptop.com

Anonymous BoA Leak (download torrent). thepiratebay.org

Bank Employee Urges Anonymous to Help Other Bank of America Employees Leak Details on Fraud. wlcentral.org

Someone Is Setting 'Hipster Traps' in New York. gawker.com

Owsley Stanley, LSD pioneer, RIP. boingboing.net

A second reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant has exploded. guardian.co.uk

Sunday, March 13, 2011

I agree the iPad is not productivity. I can't even use it to login to apple.com, it keeps "correcting" my username. :-) marco.org

Going Rogue on Ailes Could Leave Palin on Thin Ice. nymag.com

Radioactive Releases at Fukushima Could Last Months. nytimes.com

Partial and Nuclear Meltdowns - What's the Difference? nytimes.com

Japan earthquake: Footage of moment tsunami hit. bbc.co.uk

Long, close-up, striking video of the tsunami. mail.google.com

Blogger Fined $60,000 For Telling The Truth. blogs.villagevoice.com

It's for short-form blogging, the kind of stuff we do in Twitter. r2.reallysimple.org

In Tsunami, Japan's Seawalls Were No Security. nytimes.com

PJ Crowley resigns over Bradley Manning remarks. guardian.co.uk

Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while president, son claims. telegraph.co.uk

Police Look Into Whether Bus Driver Fell Asleep At The Wheel. ny1.com

Residents Near Stricken Plants Felt False Sense of Security. nytimes.com

RSS Lenin's Rope. mondaynote.com

HowTo: Using Radio2. (We're getting close to opening the doors for users.) r2.reallysimple.org

Should I get a Kindle, iPad or MacBook? gravitationalpull.net

Buzzblog: Microsoft apologizes for using Japan disaster to market Bing. networkworld.com

iPad 2 installed in Ford F-150 truck, does FaceTime while you roll over stuff (video). engadget.com

Fear of not shipping. joel.is

SXSW 2011: Jay Rosen on bloggers vs journalists. guardian.co.uk

Up to 100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions. reuters.com

Arab Revolutions Through the WikiLeaks Lens. foreignpolicy.com

Qoph == great scrabble word. merriam-webster.com

Japan earthquake aftermath in photos at Boston.com. boston.com

Japan Earthquake in photos: before and after. abc.net.au

Why Twitter Should Think Twice About Bulldozing the Ecosystem. Read this piece. Very good analysis. gigaom.com

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Japan's fears of nuclear mayhem recede as nuclear reactor starts to cool. guardian.co.uk

LetsLunch.com - Join the Movers & Shakers of Silicon Valley. letslunch.com

Japan on high nuclear alert. english.aljazeera.net

Do new ToS conditions apply to my app? - Twitter Development Talk. groups.google.com

Official: Meltdown may be under way at nuclear reactor in Japan. cnn.com

iPad 2 first impressions: Mel Martin. tuaw.com

How the Internet Tried to Kill Me. nytimes.com

Brent Simmons: Did Twitter just tell client-app developers to stop? inessential.com

Why death row organ donations are not a good thing. nytimes.com

Why Twitter Should Think Twice About Bulldozing the Ecosystem. gigaom.com

Potholes, detours, Do Not Enter signs. That's the road you're on if you're a corporate blogging silo. scripting.com

Scripting News: My developer roadmap scripting.com

Pope John Paul II Joining Facebook. gawker.com

A Shocking Ground-Level View of the Tsunami. gawker.com

The Destructive Power of Tsunami Waves. nytimes.com

Rebooting RSS, revisited. scripting.com

"The crazy, give-a-handgun-to-a-schizophrenic bill." washingtonmonthly.com

Daily Kos: Bank that funded Walker, now Closed. dailykos.com

Will I be alive tomorrow, asks Japanese woman on Internet. reuters.com

Huge blast at Fukushima nuclear plant. bbc.co.uk

Kleiner Perkins Already Selling Its Twitter Stock. businessinsider.com

Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant. stratfor.com

Video of Japanese Nuclear Plant Explosion. thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

Friday, March 11, 2011

FeedForAll allows users to easily create, edit and publish RSS feeds. feedforall.com

Networks based in the US quickly made plans for A-list anchors to travel to Japan. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

The Prosaic, DIY Reality of Software Houses. theatlantic.com

Scripting News: Twitter's new developer roadmap scripting.com

Scripting News: Twitter's new developer roadmap. scripting.com

Bloomberg Looks into the Brains Behind Twitter. wired.com

Twitter's new roadmap for developers. groups.google.com

Tsunami makes its way to Emeryville, CA. flickr.com

88,000 People, a High Speed Bullet Train, and a Cruise Ship Are Missing in Japan. blogs.villagevoice.com

Is Charlie Sheen Twitter's "Lazy Sunday" Moment? mediabistro.com

Spielberg, Abrams film trailer launches on Twitter. news.cnet.com

Twitter, Facebook vital as Japan cell networks jam. news.cnet.com

Why AOL Was So Desperate to Hook Up With Huffington Post. gigaom.com

Tim Lincecum, Little Big Man. tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com

In Tokyo, the Search for Solid Ground. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

Help me find feeds to add to: quake.scripting.com

Yahoo tunnels ABC News tunnels Japanese TV (in Japanese). news.yahoo.com

Doc Searls: Earthquake turns TV networks into print. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Kyodo News photo feed. (Via @dannysullivan.) english.kyodonews.jp

Photos of Biloxi/Gulfport after Katrina. This is what a 25-foot surge leaves behind. Almost nothing. flickr.com

Tokyo earthquake, tsunami puts data centers, cloud services at risk. zdnet.com

Massive Japan Quake: First Photos. life.com

Tsunami warning for Bay Area after 8.9 quake in Japan. berkeleyside.com

So you think you own your Twitter name ? ac31004.blogspot.com

A Quick Tutorial on JavaScript Bookmarklets. mattcutts.com

Ship with 100 people swept away in tsunami: Kyodo. reuters.com

Tsunami warning prompts preparations at BART. bart.gov

Scripting News: Looking for quake feeds scripting.com

Scripting News: Looking for quake feeds. scripting.com

Apple iPad 2 now available online in the US. thenextweb.com

Video of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

U.S. Firm Under Fire For Gadhafi Makeover Contract. npr.org

Have Startups Become a Fetish? (Basically, yes.) gigaom.com

Obama Said to Consider Eric Schmidt for Commerce Secretary. businessweek.com

Residents Face Off Over Brooklyn Bike Lane. nytimes.com

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Scripting News: Blocked from retweeting? scripting.com

Substitutes Sought for Deadly Drug. nytimes.com

"You have been blocked from retweeting this user's tweets at their request." scripting.com

Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied... youtube.com

Gaddafi loyalists mount onslaught. bbc.co.uk

I updated my earlier "Apache plus Dropbox" piece to better-explain the idea. scripting.com

Saudi police open fire on pro-democracy protesters. guardian.co.uk

Why we need to get rid of anonymous comments. (You stink Farhad.) slate.com

Lucky Dog pet store is shut down. berkeleyside.com

Veteran Journos Out as AOL/HuffPo Cut 900 Jobs. wired.com

Marijuana IPOs Provide Investors With Entry to Cannabis Boom. bloomberg.com

Scripting News: Apache plus Dropbox = Hello World scripting.com

Apache plus Dropbox = Hello World. scripting.com

They Brought a Tote Bag to a Knife Fight: The Resignation of NPR's CEO Vivian Schiller. pressthink.org

Scripting News: Can't run Scripting News on Amazon S3 scripting.com

Governor Christie's Talk Is Not Always Straight. nytimes.com

Wi-Fi proven to interfere with aircraft. zdnet.com.au

Don't Use Old-Style Retweets Unless You're A Spammer, Says Twitter (Plus 9 Other Official Tips). twittercism.com

A 'Death Warrant' for British Banks? dealbook.nytimes.com

Is Rovio turning Angry Birds into a social network? Will they be the Baltic's answer to Facebook? techcrunch.com

Somali pirate: I made $2.4 million from ransoms in 2010. reuters.com

Why It Won't Happen in China. nytimes.com

EV Grieve: No one seemingly knows when Tompkins Square Park closes. evgrieve.com

Need Advice on What to Read? Ask the Internet. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Hypertext Style: Cool URIs don't change. w3.org

The Wisconsin Senate succeeded in voting to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public workers. guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

'I Was A Teenage Cyclist,' or How Anti-Bike-Lane Arguments Echo the Tea Party. 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com

Twitter Sucks at Product Management. Cough #dickbar cough. epicfumble.com

"Why leave a city that has six professional sports teams, and the Mets?" bats.blogs.nytimes.com

19-Year-Old Is Charged in Hamster's Death. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Julianne Moore To Play Sarah Palin In HBO Movie About 2008 Presidential Election. deadline.com

Illinois Bans Capital Punishment. nytimes.com

Forgot an Important Phone Number? Just Dial Their Twitter Name. mediabistro.com

iOS 4.3 arrives ahead of schedule. news.cnet.com

David Broder dies; Pulitzer-winning Washington Post political columnist. washingtonpost.com

@Fahrni -- scr.ipting.com

Creators of Steve Jobs Doll Move On to Mark Zuckerberg. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Wow, there are still snow mounds in Brooklyn. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Amazon: "You can now change the instance type of a stopped, EBS-backed EC2 instance." aws.typepad.com

Jeff Jarvis: "more trouble ahead for NPR on a few fronts." buzzmachine.com

Scripting News: Terrified of dying scripting.com

Scripting News: I could run Scripting News from S3 scripting.com

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Facebook Is AOLifying the Internet--and That Sucks. gizmodo.com

Why my friends hate Google Voice. cnet.com

http://bio.io/ is interesting. bio.io

Murder on Blake Street in Berkeley. This what a hyperlocal blog reports on. berkeleyside.com

Krugman on the blogs he reads. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

SXSW 2011 Influencers Guide. socmetrics.com

51 hours left to live. reddit.com

Facebook cited in 20% of US divorces. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: How to use the new host-a-website feature on S3 scripting.com

Where Your Blog Went Wrong. brickmarketing.com

Scripting News: Why I love Adjix scripting.com

Top 5 URL Shorteners according to Mediabistro. My favorite is Adjix, and explain why in a comment to their piece. mediabistro.com

What the NPR exec said about the Tea Party is true. dailycaller.com

Rumor: iOS 4.3 today at 10 AM PT, including WiFi hotspot. tuaw.com

'Moonwalking With Einstein,' by Joshua Foer - Book Review. nytimes.com

Top Student Charged With Fixing Grades for Cash. pcworld.com

Collaborative filtering for books, please! :-) m.paidcontent.org

Arab media says Gaddafi looking for exit deal. uk.reuters.com

Monday, March 07, 2011

Internet start-ups: Another bubble? economist.com

Libya: UK and French no-fly zone plan gathers pace. bbc.co.uk

Add a #dickbar to IOS apps. github.com

Another Snowstorm Pounds Vermont. nytimes.com

http://dickbar.org/ dickbar.org

At a Wisconsin Town Hall, the Mood Turns Against Compromise. theatlantic.com

Excerpts from Ted Nelson's Possiplex. hyperland.com

Uber's Private Cars Are Preparing For A Secret Push Into New York City. techcrunch.com

Rebooting the News #85. (MP3 only) static.reallysimple.org

Want to listen in live to RBTN #85? Try this. talkshoe.com

Scripting News: What makes local sites hum? scripting.com

Should I Let Unused Domain Names Expire? (Mostly, yes.) domainsherpa.com

S.E.C. Severely Understaffed, Review Finds. dealbook.nytimes.com

"Until 1980 or so the United States generally paid its way." krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Guide To Majors At NYU: Philosophy. (NYU Local continues to kick butt even after LQ and JR are gone.) nyulocal.com

A snapshot of the weblogs.com hotlist in Y2K. (Via @silvertje.) replay.waybackmachine.org

Christopher Hitchens jokes about joining 'cancer elite'. guardian.co.uk

EV Grieve: More pages of novels appearing on the East Village streets. evgrieve.com

Facebook and Twitter Opt Not to Sign a Free Speech Pact. nytimes.com

Sunday, March 06, 2011

Flickr feed: Dreary wet Sunday on First Ave flickr.com

Sheen Is a TV Star Surrounded by a Coterie of Enablers. nytimes.com

I am not the only condemned inmate who wants to donate his organs. nytimes.com

Dreary wet Sunday on First Ave. flickr.com

Baghdad Neighborhood Welcomes a Wall's Fall. nytimes.com

Alexander McQueen label denies Kate Middleton wedding dress reports. guardian.co.uk

Someone asked recently if I was aware of a JSONification of RSS. I actually have one. s3.scripting.com

Why I like the Ugliest Painting Ever. jamesaltucher.com

Former French President Chirac to stand trial. news.yahoo.com

Egypt reshuffle removes vestiges of Mubarak era. reuters.com

Cyndi Lauper Sings for Angry Airline Passengers. gawker.com

A $400/month Upper West Side Apartment Exists. gawker.com

Man With Two Days Left to Live Answers Questions On Reddit. blogs.villagevoice.com

Flickr feed: This is what a "dickbar" looks like flickr.com

Get your own #dickbar. encodedrecords.com

MySpaceCondos.com. Good idea. myspacecondos.com

Who says all the good domains are taken? dickbar.org

Scripting News: What is a dickbar? scripting.com

Scripting News: What is a dickbar? scripting.com

Google Search: What is a Dickbar? google.com

A Liberal Is a Villager Who's Been Screwed By a Mortgage Servicer. news.firedoglake.com

Saturday, March 05, 2011

dickbar - Google Search. google.com

The SILO trap. wp.theoblogical.org

SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups. cdixon.org

Egyptians turn anger toward state security agency. news.yahoo.com

As Arabs Rise, Tehran Trembles. nytimes.com

Flickr feed: World War starting? flickr.com

Libya stalemate, but eruption of savage fighting casts civil war shadow. guardian.co.uk

Banksy Bails Out Russian Artists, Is Becoming Modern-Day Folk Hero. blogs.villagevoice.com

World War starting? flickr.com

Dear Apple: You're not "Post-PC" until you cut the cord. sampletheweb.com

3 Interesting Reads on Node.js. readwriteweb.com

Angry Birds Are Flying To Facebook. allfacebook.com

Sex in College: It's a Buyer's Market. bigthink.com

What the Huck? salon.com

Apple's customer unfriendly iPad2 sales plan. theorangeview.net

Hard to believe this blog comment spam really comes from Dish Networks. scripting.com

Saudi Arabia imposes ban on all protests. bbc.co.uk

"A Healthy Financial System Cannot Be Built On The Expectation Of Bailouts" baselinescenario.com

The Foreign Office warns against all travel to Yemen because of increasing violence there. bbc.co.uk

"I didn't even know his name before this brouhaha erupted." politicalwire.com

Charlie Sheen v Muammar Gaddafi: whose line is it anyway? guardian.co.uk

Friday, March 04, 2011

Qaddafi Brutalizes Foes, Armed or Defenseless. nytimes.com

Students are hitting the books less and partying more. nytimes.com

Facebook Comments Are Another 'Good News, Bad News' Proposition. wired.com

Bitcoin P2P Virtual Currency. bitcoin.org

Egypt: Protesters storm Alexandria state security HQ. bbc.co.uk

Apple Hates And Fears Facebook, Says Insider. businessinsider.com

Google To Shut Down Gizmo5 On April 3. techcrunch.com

No Clothes for Soldier Accused of WikiLeaks. nytimes.com

Why the NYT Mag's editor credits are a great idea. niemanlab.org

New music industry plan: halt flow of money to pirate music sites. arstechnica.com

Sneak Peek: The New York Times Magazine's Redesign. spd.org

Berkeleyside co-founder Lance Knobel was a guest on KALX's Soapbox Derby Thursday night. berkeleyside.com

Customer Reviews: Da Bomb The Final Answer Hot Sauce, 2-Ounce Glass Bottle. amazon.com

PhotoAge analysis of Steve Jobs over the years. tuaw.com

Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers. techcrunch.com

Scripting News: Using DNS as the thin ID system scripting.com

Egypt's new PM addresses Tahrir Square crowds. bbc.co.uk

Scripting News: Using DNS as the thin ID system. scripting.com

Why can't there be an "ultimate" programming language? #permathread stackoverflow.com

Libya removes itself from the net. bbc.co.uk

Flickr feed: Rushkoff and friend flickr.com

Still having a prob with EC2 getting a password from a newly launched instance. scripting.com

Two Steves -- Jobs and Spielberg -- top the list of most-clicked links. static.reallysimple.org

How Recent Changes to Twitter's Terms of Service Might Hurt Academic Research. readwriteweb.com

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is a hero in the Middle East, Sen. McCain says. latimesblogs.latimes.com

EV Grieve: The Boozerists. evgrieve.com

Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on truth. tech.fortune.cnn.com

Syria: Why is there no Egypt-style revolution? bbc.co.uk

Apple Gets Cocky About iPad. video.teamcoco.com

Thursday, March 03, 2011

Idea: A website where people can voluntarily donate money to me at regular intervals. baberuth.posterous.com

Clay Shirky: Consulting with Libya in 2007. shirky.com

Krugman: How to Kill a Recovery. nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks Soldier Left Naked in Cell, Lawyer Says nytimes.com

Boehner Pledges to Cut Social Security and Medicare. politicalwire.com

Egyptian Antiquities Official Says He Is Leaving Post. nytimes.com

This is the kind of thing I'd go to SXSW to do. ma.tt

For whatever reason, the avuncular Mike Huckabee gets some of his facts profoundly wrong. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

The New York Times Magazine - The 6th Floor Blog. 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com

A VC: Techmeme vs Hacker News. avc.com

It's Apple's 'post-PC' world -- we're all just living in it. engadget.com

PubNub -- Cloud-Hosted Real-Time Messaging Mobile, Tablet, TV, Web. pubnub.com

Northwestern University defends after-class live sex demonstration. suntimes.com

Unattainable Apartment of the Week. myupperwest.com

Scripting News: Having a big prob with EC2 scripting.com

Qaddafi Said to Accept Venezuelan Offer for Help. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Thin identity -- the missing web service scripting.com

Scripting News: Thin identity -- the missing web service. scripting.com

Scripting News: Why I don't do interviews. (From June last year.) scripting.com

Jack Dorsey Tells David Kirkpatrick How It Felt To Be Ousted From Twitter and Discusses His Big New Idea: Square. vanityfair.com

In May 2008, Vallejo filed for bankruptcy. They're still bankrupt now. nytimes.com

Postal Service says it needs law changes in order to pay bills. edition.cnn.com

Target Quietly Stocks Some Seriously Good Coffee On the Cheap. lifehacker.com

Behind a Rise in Auto Sales, Easier Credit nytimes.com

HBGary Federal CEO Resigns, Hounded by Anonymous. theatlanticwire.com

Brent Simmons: Screen shots taken while working on NetNewsWire Lite 4.0. flickr.com

Huckabee says we all went to boy scout meetings and Rotary Club. Fuck you Huckabee. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

New stuff coming for Radio2 users and sysadmins this morning. changes.scripting.com

Get the money from your customers, not investors. Amen. gigaom.com

Biz Says No IPO Talk At Twitter. Story was "made up." wired.com

Difference Between Mayo and Miracle Whip. differencebetween.net

Antisemitism: the hatred that refuses to go away. guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Joseph Ardizzone, 78, the last remaining resident of Willets Point, in the shadow of Citi Field. nytimes.com

2 Teenagers Are Sentenced for Killing Man Asleep in His Car. nytimes.com

Hey if you want to follow my development project, you can tune into http://changes.scripting.com/. Sorry, no feed. (Intentional.) changes.scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: DreamWorks lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book. guardian.co.uk

How about Justin Bieber to play Young Julian Assange? scripting.com

Chris Dodd shows how Washington works. salon.com

"The baby boomers will be the first generation that will do worse in retirement than their parents." nytimes.com

Sec. of State Hillary Clinton: Al Jazeera is 'Real News', U.S. Losing 'Information War'. blogs.abcnews.com

Wisconsin Voters Launch Recall Campaign Against Eight GOP State Senators. thinkprogress.org

Amazon.com: New York: Ric Burns: Movies & TV. Highly recommended. amazon.com

From the Capitol Dome: Media Malpractice in Madison. theawl.com

Why WikiLeaks Is Raising Money Using MasterCard and PayPal Again. theatlanticwire.com

Real Estate for $310,000. nytimes.com

Scoble likes Techcrunch's new "Facebook comments." scobleizer.com

Apple's Jobs to rivals: You're nerds, we're not. news.cnet.com

The Race to Build a PageRank for the Social Web Continues. gigaom.com

Flickr feed: Not "really simple" but "simply real." flickr.com

Want to back an entrepreneur? Best bet is to go for old. thenational.ae

Apparently there's no way to pre-order an iPad2 online? Wait till March 11? Hmmm. store.apple.com

Apple's iPad product page. apple.com

Scripting News: Who will play Assange in Spielberg's movie? scripting.com

Scripting News: Who will play Assange in Spielberg's WikiLeaks movie? scripting.com

Twitter Targets Small, Medium Businesses with New Ad Platform. mediabistro.com

Not "really simple" but "simply real." flickr.com

John Galliano apologises after sacking by Christian Dior. guardian.co.uk

How to Get Downsized - Susannah Breslin. blogs.forbes.com

Scripting News: Will today's Apple event be webcast? scripting.com

Will today's Apple event be webcast? - Google Search. google.com

Scripting News: Will today's Apple event be webcast? scripting.com

Assange lawyer supposedly provided "misleading info." Can you imagine a lawyer doing that! #shocked #notreally foxnews.com

Prior to the iPad 2 Event, Apple Reveals a New Trademark Symbol. #stylizedspeechbubbles patentlyapple.com

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concludes eastern cougar extinct. fws.gov

Vivian Maier was a Chicago street photographer from the 50s to the 90s. vivianmaier.blogspot.com

Full text RSS feed builder web app. fulltextrssfeed.com

Spielberg lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book. guardian.co.uk

Looney tunes theme song. (Enclosures can be silly!) static.reallysimple.org

Here's a picture from Al Jazeera's live video feed during the revolution in Egypt. (Enclosures can be pictures too.) static.reallysimple.org

Spielberg lines up WikiLeaks film based on Guardian book. (Who will he get to play Assange?) guardian.co.uk

Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman 'to reunite for new film'. guardian.co.uk

EV Grieve: Humans of New York. evgrieve.com

How a 19-Year-Old Earned $5 Million to Revolutionize Search. inc.com

Pictures of people arrested in the Chicago area, with charges. chicagotribune.com

Wal-Mart worker burns self to death in parking lot. archive.chicagobreakingnews.com

Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Mubarak Reported to Have Left Egypt. nytimes.com

Why was James Franco so boring at the Oscar's? news.cnet.com

Tweeting From Outside the Twitter Silo. becomethemedia.org

Fetus Called to Testify in Court. blogs.villagevoice.com

Bank of America online banking down across U.S. news.cnet.com

Huckabee Questions Obama Birth Certificate, Claims He Was Raised in Kenya. #sigh thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Wisconsin closely divided, but against Walker. publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com

These stories seem to belong together. #humor scripting.com

Christopher Dodd Named Chief of Motion Picture Association. nytimes.com

Watch This Malfunctioning Escalator Fling Its Passengers. consumerist.com

Even a Weakened Qaddafi May Be Hard to Dislodge. nytimes.com

Automatic allows you to set up subscriptions for virtually any content linked in RSS feeds. codingcurious.com

Dagny Taggart Wept. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Eight years after the craziness that was the invasion of Iraq... (Click the link, it gets better.) economist.com

John Galliano Fired From Dior. tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com

Bank Of America Admits It Shouldn't Have Put Customer In Default After She Paid Mortgage Off. consumerist.com

Frank Rich To Exit NYT Op-Ed Page For New York Magazine. paidcontent.org

Reports of Facebook being sold to Saudi King are false. #toobad thenextweb.com

Chinese hackers targeted Morgan Stanley in 2009. guardian.co.uk

AOL's Awesome Weekly Drinking Binge. techcrunch.com

Video interview with NYU Comp Sci Professor Evan Korth re HackNY. davidblerner.com

With 'Rango,' ILM wrangles first animated feature. news.cnet.com

Gordon Brown 'blocked knighthood' for Steve Jobs. telegraph.co.uk

70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable. torrentfreak.com

U.S. Government Targets Large BitTorrent Sites And Trackers. torrentfreak.com

Is the TV series "Fringe" worth watching? en.wikipedia.org

Obama: Public employees should not be vilified. jsonline.com

Somali pirates capture Danish family. guardian.co.uk

Bored of your virtual image? Refresh it periodically. With cats. catcatavatar.com

The thoughtful Republican, wanting the pain of cuts to be shared by all, fairly, never mentions oligarchs. nytimes.com

US brands Muammar Gaddafi 'delusional' after interview. bbc.co.uk

Gaddafi tells the media: 'All my people love me. They would die to protect me'. guardian.co.uk

Monday, February 28, 2011

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star Jane Russell dies at 89. guardian.co.uk

Tehran Times: Saudi king to buy Facebook to end the revolt. tehrantimes.com

How Rich Are the Companies of DEMO 2011? readwriteweb.com

Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee support Michelle Obama obesity efforts. salon.com

Republicans recycle an old idea: the foam plastic coffee cup. guardian.co.uk

Adam Curry's Simple Weblog: Hosing the Future. adam.reallysimple.org

Google restores Gmail access to one-third of affected users. engadget.com

The Case for Life on Earth. nytimes.com

How is the GOP planning to create jobs, again? voices.washingtonpost.com

Berkeley filmmaker wins Academy Award for "Inside Job". berkeleyside.com

Rebooting the News #84. rebootnews.com

Karl Rove is not scared of Sarah Palin. salon.com

Apple's Tim Cook Basically Confirms a Cheap iPhone is En Route. fastcompany.com

Scripting News: Rebooting the News today at noon scripting.com

51 Astor Place, the city's first large new speculative office building since 2008. therealdeal.com

Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed. salon.com

Google 'Very Sorry' After The Cloud Eats 150,000 Gmail Accounts. wired.com

Scripting News: Rebooting the News today at noon. scripting.com

Randy Newman, winner of the award for best song last night, sings the classic "Short People." youtube.com

Instant TalkShoe test #2 -- http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/94829 -- call in now everybody! :-) talkshoe.com

Bijan is looking for the Vimeo of photos. bijansabet.com

Facebook's Like button to take over share functions. voices.washingtonpost.com

Religion Plays More Of A Role Than The Tea Party Likes To Admit. nyulocal.com

Gaddafi's sons tried to get Saudi cleric help. reuters.com

"Like," "share," and "recommend": How the warring verbs of social media will influence the news' future. niemanlab.org

Anti-Gaddafi protesters storm Berlin Libyan embassy. reuters.com

Scripting News: Inside Job wins Best Documentary scripting.com

Software stars are the new royalty. scripting.com

Andrew Sullivan Joins The Daily Beast. thedailybeast.com

Today's Winter Gloom Will Feel Like Spring Gloom! theawl.com

No prizes to Oscars hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. guardian.co.uk

Was James Franco stoned when he hosted the Oscars? m.gawker.com

U.S. cables detail Saudi royal welfare program. reuters.com

Tribeca and Sundance Film Festivals Plan Big Growth. nytimes.com

Oscars 2011: Winners List. salon.com

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Qaddafi YouTube Spoof by Israeli Gets Arab Fans. nytimes.com

Clues about how money moves betw Silicon Valley and New York these days. techcrunch.com

Five People Who Have Way Too Much Power. blog.traffick.com

JPMorgan Fund Seeks Minority Stake in Twitter. dealbook.nytimes.com

How to Watch the Oscars Online Anywhere in the World. thenextweb.com

Krugman says cable news isn't covering the demonstrations in Wisconsin. Is that true? krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Gmail accidentally resetting accounts, years of correspondence vanish into the cloud? engadget.com

Live video of union protesters at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. ustream.tv

Naperville man sends $200K to fake online girlfriend. chicagotribune.com

Can you spot the lady in the pink coat? flickr.com

Video: RSS in Plain English. youtube.com

June Cohen talks about TED Conversations, its new social platform. thenextweb.com

The Haves and Have-Nots: The True Story of a Reader Suddenly De-Invited from TED. techcrunch.com

Prop. 19 highlights the authoritarian tendencies of the mainstream press. reason.com

Flickr feed: Pink coat is hot on a cold day flickr.com

The media flunks WikiLeaks 101. bemidjipioneer.com

Libya uprising: Anti-Gaddafi forces take key town. bbc.co.uk

Why some Egyptians wish their revolution had never happened. csmonitor.com

Long Bread Lines and Barricades in Libya's Capital. nytimes.com

On Stage and Afterward, Spotlight on Apple in China. nytimes.com

Apple vanishes Java from Mac OS X Lion. theregister.co.uk

Y Combinator's Paul Graham seeks next startup star. sfgate.com

Discovery docks for last tango with space station. news.cnet.com

It was not a normal Friday in Baghdad. atwar.blogs.nytimes.com

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Obama Issues Harsh Condemnation of Qaddafi. nytimes.com

U.S. tells Gaddafi it is time to go as revolt closes in. reuters.com

Scripting News: Box.net raises $48 million scripting.com

Wisconsin police join up with anti-Walker protesters. salon.com

Taxpayers Actually Contribute Nothing To [Wisconsin] Public Employee Pensions. blogs.forbes.com

In Heavy Snow, Massive Crowd Rallies in Madison. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Joe Torre, Baseball's New Top Cop. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

U.S. closes Libya embassy, readies sanctions. salon.com

news.me sounds like a feed reader. to.me that is. :-) techcrunch.com

How many of the millions of foreclosures in recent years might have been based on questionable accounting.. nytimes.com

Gadhafi's Ukrainian nurse going home. upi.com

Scripting News: My Oscar picks scripting.com

Richards and his co-Stone, Mick Jagger. scripting.com

Chuck Berry sings Roll Over Beethoven. youtube.com

Scripting News: Media observations scripting.com

Scripting News: Twitter is down scripting.com

Mgnet.me: Worlds First BitTorrent Magnet URL Shortener. torrentfreak.com

President Obama Waving Grudgingly. nymag.com

New video provides rare glimpse into John F. Kennedy's final hours. salon.com

Inside President Obama's former Harlem apartment. bestplaces.nydailynews.com

EV Grieve: How the local TV news stations have been scaring the hell out of you. evgrieve.com

http://Isitsnowinginsfyet.com/ isitsnowinginsfyet.com

Snow Falls on San Francisco After a 35-Year Wait. nytimes.com

Baseball Gave Mets Secret $25 Million Loan. nytimes.com

Friday, February 25, 2011

Crush Notifier Blog. blog.crushnotifier.com

Providence Mayor Says Most Teachers Will Keep Jobs. nytimes.com

Qaeda group urges ousting of Saudi ruling family. reuters.com

Al Jazeera English is the only real, old-fashioned TV channel you can get on a pad or a smartphone here in the U.S. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Gaddafi vows to fight as opposition closes in. reuters.com

Robot Submarines Seek a Downed Plane's Secrets. gizmodo.com

San Francisco Gets Way Too Excited About Snow. gawker.com

The threat of a shutdown eased as House Republicans proposed a stop-gap measure that Democrats said could be acceptable. nytimes.com

This Weekend's NYC Rally Round-Up. blogs.villagevoice.com

How Hackers Could Exploit Federal Government Shutdown. fastcompany.com

Apps for the 2011 Academy Awards. tuaw.com

If it's on the Internet, does that make it quotable? (Yes, of course.) news.cnet.com

"We get into the Seattle airport at three in the morning, drunk on Jack Daniels." jessicakroy.com

Freshmen Senators' Goals May Be Shaped by Their Styles. nytimes.com

Bush Backs Out of Event After Learning Assange Invited As Well. politics.blogs.foxnews.com

NYC's late-night museum hours for 2011. newyorkology.com

The Providence school board voted to dismiss every one of the city's 1,926 public school teachers. politicalwire.com

NYU's Sexiest Dorms -- Gramercy Green. nyulocal.com

Scripting News: Radio UserLand serialnum scripting.com

Iraqis rally in Day of Rage, with 10 dead, scores hurt. reuters.com

And the Award for Best Dictator Goes To... fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Name given to a group of "red-blooded" Academy Awards voters who generally favour epic movies. schott.blogs.nytimes.com

Berkeleyside profiles the founder of Noah's Bagels. berkeleyside.com

In the absence of public media funding, the US has outsourced its voice. (Emily Bell) guardian.co.uk

America's future in space, as the shuttle flies its last missions. technologyreview.com

I've never understood what the browsers guys do with RSS. scripting.com

Scripting News: Viewing RSS in a browser is broken, here's the fix scripting.com

Ex-AG sees violations by [Wisconsin governor] Walker in stunt call. host.madison.com

Jeff Jarvis is looking for help with the subtitle of his new book. buzzmachine.com

What life was like before the Web. matt-welsh.blogspot.com

EV Grieve: City issues new work permit for 35 Cooper Square. evgrieve.com

London Stock Exchange hauled offline after major data problem. computerworlduk.com

Libyan: Qaddafi forces shoot hospital patients. cbsnews.com

Would You Mind If Your Parents Blogged About You? learning.blogs.nytimes.com

Mitt Romney: Proud of Massachusetts health care law. politico.com

Kurt Vonnegut: The simple shape of stories. gointothestory.com

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Man Says Motivational Speaker Paid Him to Stage Murder. nytimes.com

WikiLeaks: Muammar Gaddafi close to voluptuous Ukrainian nurse. telegraph.co.uk

What Thunderbolt Means for End Users. gigaom.com

Instagram's realtime API. instagr.am

Libya placed billions of dollars at U.S. banks: WikiLeaks. reuters.com

Records Say Fox News Chief Told Employee to Lie. nytimes.com

Michael Pollan wants your food stories. berkeleyside.com

Conference Program Chair job at TechCrunch. Sounds like Mike's job. crunchboard.com

Churnalism. churnalism.com

U.S. Fears Tripoli May Deploy Gas as Chaos Mounts. online.wsj.com

PayPal Cuts Service to Alleged WikiLeaks Whistle-blower Support Effort. bradleymanning.org

Amazon S3 Webinar on New S3 Features. blog.joemoreno.com

Intel's Thunderbolt -- The Stealth Effort to Take Over Every Wire on Your Desk. fastcompany.com

NounProject. thenounproject.com

Deeper Peril for World's Coral Reefs. green.blogs.nytimes.com

SXSW panel idea: Why panel discussions suck. scripting.com

Lawrence O'Donnell Interviews The Gov. Scott Walker Prank Caller. mediaite.com

WikiLeaks Spinoffs? zunguzungu.wordpress.com

Assange: I'm Influenced by "American libertarianism, market libertarianism." owni.eu

Box.net raises $48M -- the end of the low-cost Web startup? xconomy.com

New MacBook Pro lineup. store.apple.com

Psycho Subway Mugger Still At Large; Cops Release Photo. blogs.villagevoice.com

Marketers Hoping for SXSW Buzz Shell Out Junkets to Bloggers. adage.com

Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden. guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: gigaom.com

Libyans Turn to YouTube to Circumvent Media Blackout: Online Video News. gigaom.com

WikiLeaks feed: US 'frustratingly slow' on Wikileaks (Australia). news.smh.com.au

"There is something astonishing about the ascent of Chris Christie, who is about as slick as sandpaper.." nytimes.com

40 most recent links from @jayrosen_nyu. jay.40twits.com

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

US economics: One big Ponzi scheme. english.aljazeera.net

The Republican-led House seems determined to roll back regulation of products sold to children. nytimes.com

The Many Qaddafis. nytimes.com

A Fully Self-Sustained Blog Running in Amazon S3. allthingsdistributed.com

I'm Uncle Sam. That's who I am. Been hiding out. In a rock and roll band! :-) mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com.s3.amazonaws.com

Apple To Shareholders: North Carolina Data Center For MobileMe, iTunes. inquisitr.com

Life Magazine photo gallery for Steve Jobs. life.com

SEC Decides It Might Be a Good Idea to Investigate How Facebook and Twitter Are Trading Shares. nymag.com

Learned today that if you put "view-source:" in front of a URL, you get the source. Useful. http:

Scott Walker Gets Punked By Journalist Pretending To Be David Koch. (OMG!) huffingtonpost.com

Apple shareholders reject succession proposal. tech.fortune.cnn.com

Why Apple Should Buy Facebook for up to $100 Billion. (Spoiler: Zuck can take over for Jobs.) thestreet.com

If asked "What makes a blog a blog?" show this screen shot. scripting.com

Scripting News: Is the Verizon iPhone a flop? scripting.com

Politifact: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is lying about his campaign. politifact.com

Peres: Google and Facebook will bring Mideast peace. haaretz.com

Qaddafi Loses Control of East As WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Sons' Lavish Spending. nymag.com

I was quoted in a blog column on Der Spiegel today, in German. spiegel.de

'Poisoned' Chinese workers turn to Apple for help. bbc.co.uk

Apple faces shareholder revolt over succession plan. bbc.co.uk

Don't Try To Crowd This Guy Out Of The Bike Lane. civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com

Hundreds back Facebook call for Saudi protest. reuters.com

Nadie Se Conoce: Abandoned on Avenue A. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

New MacBook Pro Specs Leaked. ontechies.com

A Third Judge Validates Health Care Overhaul Law. nytimes.com

However we will need some of the functionality of Radio Community Server. I want this in node.js. rcs.userland.com

If you remember Radio circa 2002, there was xmlStorageSystem, a minimal back-end. Don't need it in 2011. We have S3. :-) soapware.org

Curry is a fcuking wild user. Great to have around when you need your software broken. :-) scripting.com

Michael Arrington's Dreams of a Blog for True Startups. Great story. Must-read. peterc.org

EV Grieve: 'Keep 35 alive' evgrieve.com

Wisconsin Union Leader Minces No Words When Labor Issues Are at Stake. nytimes.com

Apple's Cook: visionary or able lieutenant? blogs.reuters.com

Dodd To Head MPAA. paidcontent.org

Emanuel Wins in Chicago, A.P. Projects. nytimes.com

Thought experiment for conservatives. :-) quinnnorton.com

WikiLeaks feed: Gaddafi family values wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com

Reid proposes 30-day spending deal to avoid government shutdown. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Banksy hits Pacific Coast Highway. laobserved.com

Poor Rick Santorum. His name has become a "frothy mess." Totally NSFW. :-) google.com

What happens after Yahoo acquires you. 37signals.com

Al Jazeera in Talks With Comcast Over U.S. Distribution. wired.com

Judge Rules Against Online TV Service. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Accident at Berkeley Apple store red-tags two businesses. berkeleyside.com

Almost nine years ago I quit smoking. If I can do that I can get myself off Twitter. I plan to do it. scripting.com

Think and Drink! (Portland, OR) zunguzungu.wordpress.com

Muammar el Qaddafi's Finest Fashions. blogs.villagevoice.com

Scripting News: Random Tuesday observations scripting.com

Blogging Is Dead Just Like the Web Is Dead. gigaom.com

BART riders to celebrate grand opening of West Dublin/Pleasanton Station Saturday. bart.gov

In New York's Little Italy, Fewer and Fewer Italians. (Maybe they're becoming bloggers.) nytimes.com

I did all my work on blogging, podcasting and RSS when I was in my 40s. blog.eladgil.com

Flickr feed: Gaddafi on Al Jazeera flickr.com

Berkeley's creeks are running high. berkeleyside.com

Test post please ignore. scripting.com

Test post. Please ignore. Thanks! :-) scripting.com

What the union defenders in Madison have in common with Tea Party activists. slate.com

Defiant Gaddafi refuses to quit amid Libya protests. bbc.co.uk

Bodies of dead protesters litter the streets of Libya. salon.com

Twapper Keeper: Removal of Export and Download, result of Twitter's terms of service. twapperkeeper.wordpress.com

Nokia and the Inexplicable Surrender to Microsoft. woorkup.com

Gaddafi on Al Jazeera this morning. Screen shot. flickr.com

Revenge of the Quiet American. foreignpolicy.com

Apple schedules secret retail employee meeting ahead of possible media event. appleinsider.com

Don't forget my beautiful river. Hacker News, NYT, much much more. daveriver.scripting.com

Amazon gives free movie streaming to Prime members. news.cnet.com

Steve Case, founder of AOL, gets to fly on a custom 747 today. Wonder if they have wifi? twitpic.com

Pittsburgh is the most livable city in the US. patspapers.com

Can Someone Explain How Sponsoring NASCAR Is A Good Use Of Taxpayer Funds, If Funding Sesame Street Is Not? techdirt.com

Monday, February 21, 2011

Koch Brothers' Money Fuels Wisconsin Fight. nytimes.com

iTunes Store RSS. Good use of feeds to help build sales. (Apple) itunes.apple.com

Cap Times: Walker gins up 'crisis' to reward cronies. (Madison) host.madison.com

Solar storms could create $2tn 'global Katrina', warns chief scientist. guardian.co.uk

Snowpocalypse! Blizzaster! We're Buried in Snow-perbole. good.is

What Are the World's Most Livable Cities? gawker.com

Soros: Republicans control the agenda. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

EV Grieve: Today in pop stars walking around the Lower East Side without pants. evgrieve.com

Libya's U.N. Diplomats Break With Qaddafi. nytimes.com

Out of control car causes wrecks, injuries on Solano. berkeleyside.com

"It's OK to publish to twitter, it's just not OK to publish in twitter." Amen. blog.andrewshell.org

Rebooting the News #83 with guest Rex Hammock. rebootnews.com

Amazing timing. On RBTN today @r and I talked about Readability and Apple and also today Rich Ziade wrote this. blog.readability.com

Wisconsin G.O.P. Plans to Work Without Democrats. nytimes.com

The strangest and most uncomfortable meetings in White House history. slate.com

The red arrows point to the read-counts for each post. scripting.com

Alibaba.com executives resign amid fraud probe. news.cnet.com

Venezuela denies Libya's Gaddafi en route. reuters.com

The Economist has a super-tarty site. Surprising for such a staid publication. :-) economist.com

The cake includes a slingshot, of course, and edible birds that can be flung... techcrunch.com

Oscars 2011: James Franco Takes Twitter by Storm. carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com

Egypt requests freeze on Hosni Mubarak's foreign assets. bbc.co.uk

UberTwitter and Twidroyd Are Back Online. mashable.com

Matt Mullenweg says "blogging has legs." And heart. :-) ma.tt

News 2.0: Die Neudefinition der Nachrichtenlandschaft. netzwertig.com

Scripting News: What I mean by "the open web" scripting.com

Scripting News: We're going to try Talkshoe. scripting.com

Scripting News: We're going to try Talkshoe scripting.com

We're going to try Talkshoe for today's RBTN podcast. 10AM Eastern. Guest: @r. Mysterioso! :-) scripting.com

Men suck, says a woman. m.gawker.com

NYU Smoker Almost Burns Down Starbucks? nyulocal.com

Sunday, February 20, 2011

2 West Point Cadets Rescued From Storm King Mountain. nytimes.com

Blogs Wane as the Young Hamsters Drift to Corporate Blogging Silos Like Twitter. nytimes.com

Gaddafi's son Sayf al-Islam addresses Libya in TV address. (Video) bbc.co.uk

Unnamed Triangle Waist Company Victims Identified. nytimes.com

Demise of Blockbuster, Borders and Google? rakkhi.blogspot.com

Most Tourists Take Pictures From the Same Spot. gizmodo.com

The Mother of All iPad 2 Reviews [Video]. thenextweb.com

30 Seconds With Bill Buckner. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

So you still think the internet is free... yuxiyou.net

Madison.com's RSS feeds. host.madison.com

Google Gets Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit. torrentfreak.com

I'm pretty sure Rumsfield was voted out of office, impeached, or died a horrible death in a plane crash. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Daniel Bachhuber will speak about WordPress at CMA NYC in March. danielbachhuber.com

The corporate world sees lucrative opportunities in helping potential targets of Julian Assange's whistleblowing website. guardian.co.uk

Presidential Hopeful Rick Santorum Stymied By Search Problem. :-) searchengineland.com

Lakoff: Democrats help conservatives by accepting the deficit frame and arguing about what to cut. huffingtonpost.com

Stanford University Considers Opening a New York City Campus. online.wsj.com

It's been a rough few months for Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginny. salon.com

Hold on I thought this guy was dead. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Sunday At Borders (Photo Gallery) wired.com

Financial crooks brought down the world's economy -- but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them rollingstone.com

zunguzungu summary of happenings in Wisconsin, with links. zunguzungu.wordpress.com

"You know Pete, there *is* something about an Aqua Velva man." youtube.com

EV Grieve: Candlelight vigil set for Tuesday evening: Save 35 Cooper Square! evgrieve.com

Victoria Coren: "Michael Winner spent most of last week thinking about my breasts." (In public, on Twitter.) guardian.co.uk

Egyptian Names His Firstborn "Facebook." techcrunch.com

The G.O.P.'s Post-Tucson Traumatic Stress Disorder. (Frank Rich) nytimes.com

Is SoundCloud good for *editing* and sharing audio? josschuurmans.com

NYU Local - Don't Be a Douche On The NYU Bus. nyulocal.com

Internet firms' valuations reminiscent of bubbles. sfgate.com

Iranian warships pass through Suez Canal. reuters.com

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Flickr feed: Emergency at 4th and Washington Sq East flickr.com

Scripting News: Tech is ready to redefine news scripting.com

You buy a Bag of Peanuts in this town and they write a song about you... youtube.com

Snow in Berkeley. berkeleyside.com

Battlefield Wisconsin: Visualizing the protest. salon.com

I'm trying out TalkShoe in 8 minutes. Come help test it with me. Not at all sure what I' doing. talkshoe.com

Emergency at 4th and Washington Sq East. A hundred firemen or more. flickr.com

Forbes: "How long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used?" blogs.forbes.com

Why We Need Women in War Zones. nytimes.com

Why you should drop that espresso and bounce a ball instead. online.wsj.com

Scripting News: My Ode to Rackspace scripting.com

Bank of America Is the Bank of Satan. blogs.villagevoice.com

In September of last year I wrote a series of pieces about rebooting RSS. scripting.com

For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Over State Finances Was Long in the Making. nytimes.com

Why does Twitter unplug third party services? Because they can. (Rex Hammock) rexblog.com

East Village Group Tries to Save 1820s House. nytimes.com

"Mind makes a promise that your body can't fill." youtube.com

River of Zee still running strong. zee.newsriver.org

Naked Thief Steals Old Folks' Sausages. gawker.com

2007: MySpace blocks Photobucket. news.cnet.com

Tea Party and breast feeding. guardian.co.uk

The AOL Way claims its first victim: Engadget editor Paul Miller resigns. thenextweb.com

Justin Blanton: Quora's topic-level RSS feeds are useless. justinblanton.com

Bill Daley Made $8.7 Million from JPMorgan Last Year. dealbook.nytimes.com

Friday, February 18, 2011

Scripting News: It's about the users, dummy scripting.com

Just when people were starting to think Twitter could be used for serious stuff, you know -- like news, and revolutions. scripting.com

Notes on exploitability of the recent Windows BROWSER protocol issue. blogs.technet.com

Bill Gross and Twitter PR answer: Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter? (Quora) quora.com

Scripting News: Twitter tests their kill switch scripting.com

Was Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO dreaming of his own kill switch? scripting.com

Flickr feed: Using pubDate in place of title flickr.com

Tech news updated in real-time: River of Zee. :-) zee.newsriver.org

Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients For Privacy And Monetization Violations, Trademark Infringement. #wow techcrunch.com

www is deprecated. no-www.org

If you wish an item had a title but it doesn't, see if it has a pubDate, and if it does, use that in place of the title. scripting.com

Scripting News: Suggestion for Google Reader devs scripting.com

Great Firewall father speaks out. special.globaltimes.cn

Coulter 'insanely jealous' of Sarah Palin. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Sina Weibo took advantage of a social media vacuum to become the top micro-blogging service in China. businessweek.com

Do you know the names of the people at last night's tech dinner? Please comment and retweet. Thx! :-) flickr.com

Photo of tech guys at John Doerr's house having dinner with Pres, incl Steve Jobs. He looks okay, from the back. Skinny. flickr.com

NYU Local - An Interview With (Now Former) NYU Fellow Nir Rosen. nyulocal.com

Apple Stores Are Swarming with Drug Dealers. gawker.com

Nir Rosen explains what was behind the tweets that ruined him. He makes important points for Americans to hear. salon.com

Gorizia. flickr.com

US Justice Department and FTC looking into Apple's new subscription policy. engadget.com

Got the new Amazon S3 website hosting feature to work, but the process (as usual with Amazon) is a mess. As is the URL. s3.scripting.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Confessions of an Apple Store Employee. popularmechanics.com

Hosting Websites on Amazon S3. docs.amazonwebservices.com

FBI Pushes for Surveillance Backdoors in Web 2.0 Tools. wired.com

Breaking News: Man Tweets Without Really Thinking About It First. tweetagewasteland.com

Banksy goes to Hollywood? guardian.co.uk

Twitter: Let us use t.co so we can get rid of short URLs. (Jalada) jalada.co.uk

Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city. reuters.com

What it feels like to be rich. jamesaltucher.com

Having been pushed around by Microsoft many a time, I kind of enjoyed this joke, at their expense. :-) theoatmeal.com

Amazon EC2 Micro Instance and Stolen CPU. gregsramblings.com

Apple's largest store yet coming to Grand Central Terminal. VentureBeat thinks it will be inside the terminal itsel... venturebeat.com

Are Silicon Valley's Engineers Underpaid? fastcompany.com

John Dvorak: Jeopardy match was rigged. Watson can buzz in faster. pcmag.com

If you think they're going to be talking "innovation" I have a bridge to sell you, cheap. #killswitch blogs.abcnews.com

On 'Jeopardy!' Computer Win Is All but Trivial. nytimes.com

It's Not a Bubble, People; It's a Pyramid Scheme. pehub.com

Bus Driver Leads Passengers in Feel-Good Game of Trivia, Sing-Along. blogs.villagevoice.com

Flickr feed: Minimal Blogging Tool screen flickr.com

Scripting News: I'm famous for my teases scripting.com

EV Grieve: An East Village apartment worthy of a diplomat. evgrieve.com

Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution. nytimes.com

How Goldman Killed A.I.G. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I'm still talking about Anderson Cooper. scripting.com

ABC News Reporter Beaten In Bahrain Protest. gawker.com

Amazon.com: The Last Play at Shea: Billy Joel, the Mets and NYC. Great stuff! #tearjerker amazon.com

What we still don't know about Lasik. salon.com

Richard MacManus: Why Twitter Must Expand Beyond 140 Characters. readwriteweb.com

Jeweler on Arthur Avenue Shoots Robbery Suspect. nytimes.com

Fans of hamster cages will *love* TED Conversations! blog.ted.com

Rebecca Wells reportedly "died unnoticed in her cubicle sometime Friday." blogs.villagevoice.com

Steve Jobs Is Receiving Cancer Treatment at a Clinic in Stanford. (New York Mag) nymag.com

Transcript of 9 minutes of Rebooting the News 82 by Jos Schuurmans. josschuurmans.wordpress.com

@sdevore -- have you tried http://ec2.scripting.com/ ? We have a nicel little community forming. New software on the way. ec2.scripting.com

Side-view of 35 Cooper. New camera. Lots of pixels. flickr.com

TechiLeaks: Twitter's Confidential Pitch To Advertisers. businessinsider.com

Iranian Warships to Transit Suez, Israel Says. nytimes.com

Cases Against Thousands of Alleged BitTorrent Pirates Dismissed. torrentfreak.com

Apple's Plans For MobileMe: Think FaceBook, Foursquare & uStream. cultofmac.com

Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Government: Love the Twitter, Hate the Tweet. r2.ly

Mubarak ordered Tiananmen-style massacre of demonstrators, Army refused. r2.ly

TalkShoe Community Call Voice Chat Group Calling Teleconference Calling. r2.ly

How to map a domain to an S3 bucket. r2.ly

N.Y.U. Fellow Resigns After Tweeting About Lara Logan. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Gabrielle Giffords Knows Little About Shooting. cbsnews.com

Twitter's Biz Stone On Starting A Revolution. npr.org

RSS says Techcrunch? Wazzat? google.com

UNLV president plans for 'state of fiscal collapse' lasvegassun.com

Scripting News: Mr Cooper in Tahrir Square during the revolution scripting.com

Scripting News: My rivers and their OPMLs scripting.com

@nakedjen I chose the icon for this story to salute your renewed naked self. scripting.com

DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard). wired.com

Apple Keelhauls Music Streaming Services. techcrunch.com

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Joanne Siegel, the Model for Lois Lane, Dies at 93. nytimes.com

Yahoo Marketing VP Shane Steele Joins Twitter. networkeffect.allthingsd.com

With Demolition, Apple Chief Makes Way for House 2.0. nytimes.com

Apple's visionary leader isn't really a computer guy at all -- he's an old-style media mogul. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: Do you know Eben Moglen? scripting.com

Eben Moglen Is Reshaping Internet With a Freedom Box. nytimes.com

Flickr feed: Offensive and persistent spam from PR person for The Daily flickr.com

Did Twitter Crash Today? No, But Your 3rd-Party Twitter Client Probably Did. blogs.villagevoice.com

Over Half of Republican Primary Voters Are Still Birthers, Poll Finds. blogs.villagevoice.com

Hillary Clinton's speech: Shades of hypocrisy on internet freedom. guardian.co.uk

What Apple's new subscription policy means for news: new rules, new incentives, new complaints. niemanlab.org

The Daily wanted me to tweet about what I thought of their offering. Here you go. flickr.com

Freaky. Hillary Clinton calling for "Global Standards for Internet Use" == hello RIAA-net. :-) online.wsj.com

WikiLeaks feed: Cables show no evidence of Iran's hand in Bahrain unrest guardian.co.uk

Reminder: Educating the journo-programmer. scripting.com

Apple Launches App Store Subscriptions For Digital Content. wired.com

WikiLeaks feed: Alan Dershowitz Joins Team Wikileaks nymag.com

Tuesday the US govt will attempt its first round of legal battles against Wikileaks and they'll do it via Twitter. nymag.com

Scripting News: A fractional horsepower news network. scripting.com

I'm not the only one seeing @anywhere boosh. google.com

Syria - Teenage Blogger Sentenced to 5 Years. nytimes.com

Iran Uses Force Against Protests as Region Erupts. nytimes.com

Facebook Officials Keep Quiet on Its Role in Revolts. nytimes.com

Monday, February 14, 2011

Art is my weapon! flickr.com

Want to know what feeds I subscribe to? Here you go: daveriver.scripting.com

About 86,000 flights from Nov. 1 through Feb. 11 were canceled at the top 200 airports. nytimes.com

Kleiner Perkins Invests In Facebook At $52 Billion Valuation. blogs.wsj.com

Is UberMedia On a Collision Course With Twitter? gigaom.com

Demolition Set for 35 Cooper Square. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: NATO unimpressed by Russia's military forbes.com

Rebooting the News #82. rebootnews.com

Scripting News: Requests for makers of Twitter client apps scripting.com

A few simple requests for developers who make Twitter clients. scripting.com

Looking Inside Boeing's New 747. wired.com

Bill Gross' UberMedia Raises $17.5 Million From Accel, Index and Steve Case. kara.allthingsd.com

Scripting News: Rebooting the News today at noon scripting.com

MP3 of the freshly-recorded Rebooting The News. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Flickr feed: Art is my weapon flickr.com

WikiLeaks feed: Peru newspaper receives 4,000 pages of U.S. embassy cables from Wikileaks livinginperu.com

Scripting News: Rebooting the News today at noon. scripting.com

To Kurtz, when a journalist accurately points out that a powerful leader is lying, that's "taking sides." salon.com

A million *personal* blogging silos instead of one or two huge corporate blogging silos. scripting.com

Bought myself a new toy. It arrives via Local Delivery from Amazon later today. Excited! :-) amazon.com

Berkeley's new Apple store is on its way. Location: 4th St. berkeleyside.com

Anti-government protests spread to Iran. washingtonpost.com

WikiLeaks feed: washingtonpost.com

Scripting News: Corporate blogging silos in the news scripting.com

US ambassador to Cairo gives his opinion on Muhammad Tantawi and number two general, Sami Enan. guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: Egyptian military head is 'old and resistant to change' guardian.co.uk

David Carr at the NYT writes his first "hamster cage" piece. Now let's both of us stop working to make the cagers richer. nytimes.com

EV Grieve: Air Bloomberg. evgrieve.com

Nemerle, Factor, Alice ML, and other programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia. Please help. reddit.com

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Twilio sounds like a ton of fun. Wondering if they really mean "all developers welcome." twilio.com

Be wary of the booming market for pint-sized, roof-mounted windmills. slate.com

Uber All Set To Pick Up New VC Money. gigaom.com

Less than 200 people were tweeting from Cairo. news.cnet.com

I used to have an office at 117 Easy St in Mountain View, CA. maps.google.com

Go to Roberts Market in Woodside and ask for directions to Silicon Valley. They'll tell you to head west on Woodside Rd. quora.com

Narrative of a first-time Quora user.. pogue.blogs.nytimes.com

Barack Obama to unveil $1.1tn cuts in US budget over next decade (Obama is out-Repubbing the Repubs.) guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: Banned UK reporter Luke Harding back in Moscow bbc.co.uk

Tea Partiers would be surprised how little freedom they'd have if we read the Constitution literally. salon.com

For Tunisia, Revolution Was the Easy Part. nytimes.com

@MrAlanCooper -- here's one way you can -- read the piece I wrote today outlining the next steps in news systems. scripting.com

David Larson explains how the "World Under A Roof" thing got attributed to me. Thanks for clearing the air. :-) davidglarson.com

Family Feud: Name something that gets passed around... youtube.com

Scripting News: How I read the news scripting.com

@MarkCooper -- daveriver.scripting.com

By spreading out we're harder to stop. scripting.com

Mitch McConnell is a grinch. politicalwire.com

Is The President of Turkey a Movie Pirate? torrentfreak.com

A chip that links an iPhone to your bank account. newsweek.com

South Carolina May Adopt Own Currency. (Someone tell them the dollar is the world's reserve currency.) talkingpointsmemo.com

Egypt May Have Just Won The Future. prospect.org

Egypt's Military Dissolves Parliament - Calls for Vote. nytimes.com

How I feel about that! flickr.com

Security issues at BofA online banking site? m.jalopnik.com

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Twitter, Facebook shuttered as thousands protest in Algeria. salon.com

@JoeMoreno -- Have you tried http://ec2.scripting.com/? It would be great to have you on our EC2-for-Poets mail list. ec2.scripting.com

I am uploading JSON to S3. static.scripting.com

@hagus @ihouman -- this is where you've seen it -- flickr.com

Let's make sure this guy never speaks for the US again. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune. telegraph.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: Martin Varsavsky: Assange Is Not the Point, WikiLeaks Is huffingtonpost.com

Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets. nytimes.com

Shake Shack. yelp.com

Bob Herbert says American democracy is on the ropes. nytimes.com

MTA Messing With a Lot of Subway Lines This Weekend. blogs.villagevoice.com

WikiLeaks feed: A Campaign to Smear WikiLeaks Supporters truthdig.com

zunguzungu summary of what happened and is happening in the Middle East and North Africa. zunguzungu.wordpress.com

Zagat Gives Terrible Dating Advice. blogs.villagevoice.com

U.S. Manufacturing Decline Raises Concern About Innovation. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Microsoft got in trouble doing what Twitter is doing scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: Palestinian negotiator Erakat quits due to leaks google.com

Scripting News: "Find me stuff I'm interested in" scripting.com

Obama Leads Big Name GOP Rivals. politicalwire.com

10 Web Apps Launch Out of HackHarvard. bostinnovation.com

How The Mubarak Family Made Its Billions. huffingtonpost.com

Trevi Fountain. flickr.com

Back in 2006 when TechCrunch was a blog, a great one. techcrunch.com

NYC Named Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World. blogs.villagevoice.com

Ron Paul slams Patriot Act, backers drown out jeers at conference. thehill.com

Bill Gross' Twitter Ecosystem Empire Just Acquired TweetDeck. techcrunch.com

The Cavaliers beat the Clippers in overtime to end their two-month losing streak at 26 games. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Pages from Computer Lib scripting.com

Foreign Affairs: Mubarakism Without Mubarak. foreignaffairs.com

Oregon: Man Dies Yards From Emergency Room Door. nytimes.com

Friday, February 11, 2011

Flickr feed: A page from Computer Lib flickr.com

What if tweets became the new comments and/or vice versa? scripting.com

"local monetizes better than just about anything else" in terms of advertising. gigaom.com

Digg Removing RSS Option For Publishers. techcrunch.com

Who is John Galt? imdb.com

Atlas Shrugged, The Motion Picture. slate.com

I took pictures of a few consecutive pages of Ted Nelson's influential Computer Lib/Dream Machines. flickr.com

Michele Bachmann Thinks the Rent Is 2 Damn High. m.gawker.com

Palin impersonator stuns CPAC. politico.com

Bowery Beef. newyork.grubstreet.com

Steve Jobs is a Stay-at-Home CEO. (Gawker) gawker.com

Tobacco-Free Hiring in Workplaces. nytimes.com

My personal river of news, that I share with everyone else. daveriver.scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: US diplomat calls African dictator a good guy washingtonpost.com

Can Google ever be a neutral news provider? guardian.co.uk

Susannah Breslin is a pioneering and *literate* blogger -- looking for work. susannahbreslin.blogspot.com

Mubarak leaves Cairo -- Guardian. guardian.co.uk

Error message from wordpress.com: "Something wrong happened." #allyourbasearebelongtome scripting.com

Letters of Note: You have something graceful and tender and feminine. lettersofnote.com

Thursday, February 10, 2011

WikiLeaks feed: Firm targeting WikiLeaks cuts ties with HBGary - apologizes to reporter thetechherald.com

Dear @NYCMayorsOffice, you've gone too far with these disgusting ads on the 6-train. Really. flickr.com

8 Spruce Street by the Architect Frank Gehry. nytimes.com

Is Mayor Bloomberg on Twitter? If so, I hope you get this car on the 6-train on your ride to City Hall. flickr.com

Flickr feed: Disgusting subway ad flickr.com

Twas probably inevitable -- the old Elephant pharmacy in Berkeley is becoming a Walgreen's. berkeleyside.com

Flickr: Disgusting subway ad. flickr.com

Mohammend Elbaradei -- The Next Step for Egypt's Opposition. nytimes.com

Moody's Gives Mets' Citi Field Bonds a Negative Status. nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: US not out to get Assange, ambassador says abc.net.au

To have almost exclusive control of the flow of news for a large portion of the world -- could that be worth $10 billion? scripting.com

The Pharaoh Refuses To Go. kristof.blogs.nytimes.com

#toldyouso twitter.com

Scripting News: Why Twitter is so valuable scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks Defector Defends Site's Crippling wired.com

Please Twitter, Don't Sell to Google or Facebook. gigaom.com

Scripting News: Techmeme moves toward Twitter scripting.com

Techmeme added an interesting feature a few days ago. scripting.com

History about to be made in Cairo. english.aljazeera.net

Many years ago I got stuck in the "It's a Small World" ride at DisneyWorld. Awfule experience. It happened again. blogs.villagevoice.com

Scripting News: Will JSON replace XML in RSS? scripting.com

Yesterday I wrote a piece explaining how wikiriver.org connects (openly) to the back-end via JSONP. scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks cables assess Cuba's recession survival mcclatchydc.com

Cuba welcomes new internet cable link with Venezuela. bbc.co.uk

Hamster-powered miniature Strandbeest proves that sometimes, cute is a gadget. engadget.com

Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Wired and Shrewd, Young Egyptians Guide Revolt. nytimes.com

What Egyptian Repression Looks Like. kristof.blogs.nytimes.com

Hoyer And Boehner Agree Retirement Age Should Be 'On The Table'. Looney tunes. Raise taxes on banker bonuses. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Nudists and swingers at war in France's Naked City. telegraph.co.uk

Twitter has been in takeover talks: report. reuters.com

Twitter as Tech Bubble Barometer. online.wsj.com

Scripting News: A river of news in JSON scripting.com

"Angry nerds.." scripting.com

The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL (Jay Rosen) pressthink.org

Air Force: Reading WikiLeaks is espionage. wikileaks.foreignpolicy.com

Sulia covers the AOL purchase of Huffington Post. sulia.com

I was trying to find out what Asana is from this video, but it takes forever for them to get to the point. asana.com

Egyptian talks near collapse as unions back protests. guardian.co.uk

"Republican leaders were quick to accuse Democrats of trying to make the new majority look foolish." thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: Hosni Mubarak told US not to topple Saddam Hussein telegraph.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: 3 in WikiLeaks case fight Twitter disclosure order washingtonpost.com

Arianna planning huge expansion of citizen journalism for 2012 campaign. voices.washingtonpost.com

Giffords speaks, asking for toast with breakfast. msnbc.msn.com

Iranian web programmer faces execution on porn charges. guardian.co.uk

Why The New York Times Will Lose To HuffPo. wired.com

Bose Videowave is $5349 and sold only through Bose stores. bose.com

Bose's VideoWave TV incorporates extra audio equipment to improve the display's built-in audio capabilities. gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Are you sending automated updates from Foursquare to your Twitter feed 20 times a day? Please stop. twittercism.com

The Revolution will be Tweeted. (Rex Hammock) rexblog.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks May Have Just Confirmed That Peak Oil is Imminent. fastcompany.com

WikiLeaks feed: Govts fear WikiLeaks truths, rally told. heraldsun.com.au

Perhaps the mad hatters are useful for something. my.firedoglake.com

Newspaper publishers warn Apple over iTunes sales. bbc.co.uk

U.S. Struggling to Build Case Against Assange. foxnews.com

Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Apple has begun a super-secret quest for a store in historic Grand Central Terminal. observer.com

And if you're a Javascript dude, here's the JSONP for my river. daveriver.scripting.com

Dave's Beautiful River. daveriver.scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks Cables on Egypt nytimes.com

Some Customers Suck. (Nick Bradbury) nick.typepad.com

My friend Ponzi on her Ducati. (Hot.) twitpic.com

@matt_rasgorshek -- here are all the pieces from february. it's in there. scripting.com

It's time to watch Tootsie again. :-) artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Join your community on the Internet scripting.com

Where do you park your electronic Internet keister? scripting.com

The local view on AOL/HuffPo and Patch. (Lance Knobel of Berkeleyside.) davosnewbies.com

Would someone explain to Mr. Kay the difference betw health insurance and handguns. twitter.com

Wael Ghonim anointed voice of the revolution by Tahrir Square faithful. guardian.co.uk

Laurence Tribe says the new health care law is constitutional, to say otherwise is an insult to integrity of the court. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Why I feel good about staying with RSS scripting.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks reveals anti-counterfeiting back channel talks. en.rsf.org

White House will propose new digital copyright laws. news.cnet.com

Ideas Are Not The Same As Race -- Krugman. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: Greg Mitchell Explains Why The Mainstream Press Is So Threatened By WikiLeaks businessinsider.com

Arianna Huffington, queen of all media. cringely.com

Shocking 'Egypt images' emerge. english.aljazeera.net

A VC: Anatomy Of A Pirate. avc.com

Cables say Israel favours Suleiman. english.aljazeera.net

Possible Exile in Germany: Clinic Near Baden-Baden Considered For Mubarak. spiegel.de

WikiLeaks cables show diplomacy is a madhouse. guardian.co.uk

Monday, February 07, 2011

Dave's Beautiful River. daveriver.scripting.com

Al Jazeera used Twitter to route-around CNN. Heh. media.twitter.com

Ken Olsen, co-founder of DEC, died at 84. He was a big dude in his day. masshightech.com

The newly-endowed-with-WikiLeaks Telegraph has a feed of stories. Added to http://wikiriver.org/. wikiriver.org

Guardian editorial about their Russian expulsion. guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man tipped to replace Mubarak telegraph.co.uk

Guardian's Moscow correspondent expelled from Russia. It's related to Wikileaks. guardian.co.uk

ElBaradei on Democracy's Chances in Egypt: 'We Could Experience an Arab Spring'. spiegel.de

Rebooting the News podcast on Huffpost, Keller vs Assange, Al Jazzera. rebootnews.com

Coming along with the Minimal Blogging Tool. It now has a TwitterFeed icon. It pings TF saying "my feed updated." scripting.com

Will Hosni Mubarak travel to Germany as a patient as part of a graceful exit strategy for the Egyptian president? spiegel.de

Banh Mi Saigon on Grand St in Chinatown. Must try this place. yelp.com

Silly question: Why Can't You Hold Your Breath Until You're Dead? epjournal.net

Banh Mi in America. tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: US sceptical of Egypt VP's peace efforts abc.net.au

Sunday, February 06, 2011

Internet is easy prey for governments. cnn.com

Did you know that Steve Ballmer's evil twin used to play for the Steelers. en.wikipedia.org

Even the VC community agrees -- the Internet is for Revolution. See Techmeme: #a110206p23">http://techmeme.com/ techmeme.com

RSS back from the grave | Beyond The Beyond. wired.com

Nasdaq hackers another blow to investor confidence. reuters.com

I view not-doing-interviews as a healthy thing, the way some people treat eating meat. scripting.com

@rachelsklar @anildash @RachelSterne -- that's why I don't do interviews. scripting.com

Scripting News: The Internet is for revolution scripting.com

We must make it so that a country, if it wants to turn off Internet-enabled revolution, must turn off the Internet itself. scripting.com

Cute little Berkeley house, ideal location, $649K. zillow.com

Why do idiot conspiracy theorists love the world "Caliphate?" examiner.com

EV Grieve: Mostly sunny today with temperatures steady near 39F; 70 percent chance of cargo shorts. evgrieve.com

Julian Assange's battles threaten to overshadow WikiLeaks' work. washingtonpost.com

It's kind of obvious why Facebook doesn't want Egyptians organizing a revolution on Facebook. techeye.net

Saturday, February 05, 2011

A Drug Used in Executions Becomes Very Hard to Get. nytimes.com

Why Facebook Should Do More to Help Egypt's Protesters. gawker.com

WikiLeaks feed: Rape case against the WikiLeaks chief 'weak' telegraph.co.uk

WikiLeaks feed: Clues to a failed US policy (Bangkok Post) bangkokpost.com

@windley -- yes but they're not accounts, they're domains. you have to be running an EC-for-Poets server. ec2phonehome.scripting.com

Where in Ohio is Pittsburgh? nytimes.com

Techno-anthropology: My new political affiliation (Or how the Kickstarter model can replace politics) techno-anthropology.blogspot.com

House GOP to decimate domestic agencies. salon.com

Scripting News: Can I write a Scripting2 blog post here? scripting.com

For them that know the history of podcasting you will find this blog post rather spooky, perhaps. adam.reallysimple.org

Bush Trip Canceled for Security Concerns. The chickens come home. To roost. nytimes.com

BBC: Mubarak must stay -- US envoy. bbc.co.uk

Milosevic listened to Sinatra, read thrillers in jail. rnw.nl

Berkeley exports its cannabis expertise. berkeleyside.com

Scripting News: They zig when they should zag scripting.com

Will Hosni Mubarak regret his poor sense of timing? news.bbc.co.uk

EV Grieve: Daily News brings further shame to the East Village. evgrieve.com

@gruber, here's my news reader -- faster than the Daily, NYT or Flipboard. daveriver.scripting.com

`You Will Be Lynched Today,' Says Egyptian Policeman. bloomberg.com

This is the kind of iced-up snow that's piled up around the city. It should be illegal too. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

Mayor Bloomberg -- yes ban smoking on NY sidewalks. I want to walk in the city with smoking your tobacco. nytimes.com

Friday, February 04, 2011

All the news about WikiLeaks in one place, updated in real time. wikiriver.org

WikiLeaks feed: Assange's Swedish sex crimes file is leaked online. foxnews.com

WikiLeaks feed: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets telegraph.co.uk

One of the cool things about the Egypt revolution is that here in the west, we're cheering for people who pray on Friday. plixi.com

Flickr feed: Why do delivery bikes have plastic bags on seats? flickr.com

WikiLeaks feed: webmonkey.com

Webmonkey: A DIY Data Manifesto. webmonkey.com

WikiLeaks feed: Assange makes Facebook fundraising plea cnn.com

The Best Super Bowl Commercials You'll See on Sunday. gawker.com

New Orleans population falls 30% in 10 years. guardian.co.uk

Huffpost talked with 58 owners of underwater homes, most of whom deliberately chose to default. huffingtonpost.com

A perfect non-Microsoft explanation showing why the new Google are being assholes. Where is Microsoft's explanation? fury.com

Thursday, February 03, 2011

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks cables: MI6 warns of new suicide bomb wave telegraph.co.uk

The new Google is being dickish. MS actually has a good explanation, Matt. And Microsoft you should lay out your case. mattcutts.com

"North Koreans implored the US to get Eric Clapton to play a concert that might loosen up their glorious leader." thenation.com

Scripting News: Following-up on deck.ly scripting.com

deck.ly is an important new part of the Twitter ecosystem, but we don't know very much about it. scripting.com

Twitter adds (then removes) the ‘shorten' button. gizable.com

Watching the video feed of the WikiLeaks symposium at Columbia. livestream.com

Egyptian Mission to the UN. maps.google.com

Egypt Consulate in NYC. egyptnyc.net

Certainly someone in the Times organization knew that Judith Miller was tight with Scooter Libby. scripting.com

Video from yesterday's The Daily press conf explaining how the web interface works. youtube.com

A movie about Assange's socks, based on Keller's smear in the NYT Magazine. thewrap.com

@mathewi @davidfg @waxpancake -- no feeds either. i asked. scripting.com

Suleiman presents the rationale for staying that Nixon would have liked. history.com

Berkeley cannabis collectives slapped with huge tax bills. berkeleyside.com

"The Times, Guardian, Spiegel et al, have been working with WikiLeaks to establish a publishing workflow..." scripting.com

Scripting News: No feeds on The Daily scripting.com

The Fallacy of Facebook Diplomacy. businessweek.com

EV Grieve: Where to go on a first date in the East Village. evgrieve.com

Latest WikiLeak Reveals Google And The State Department Talked To Unblock Egyptian Videos. techcrunch.com

How incongruous that the same NYT can produce a cynical smear of wikileaks as well as this beautiful story of revolution. nytimes.com

Ive started reading Griftopia, pretty good so far.. amazon.com

Wednesday, February 02, 2011

fetid - scrabble word. en.wiktionary.org

Reagan's Solicitor General Charles Fried: 'I Am Quite Sure That The Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional' thinkprogress.org

WikiLeaks feed: Snorre Valen: Why I have nominated Wikileaks for the Nobel Peace Prize snorrevalen.no

Technology means age of dictators over: Ebadi. reuters.com

Baby animals in the snow. salon.com

McCain now calling for Mubarak to step down. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Flickr feed: Friends at the Crooked Knife flickr.com

Unreleased Apple iPad spotted at News Corp event. reuters.com

The U.S. government has been quietly anticipating as well as cultivating Omar Suleiman. wikileaks.ch

Brent Simmons is bowled-over by The Daily. inessential.com

Scripting News: Does Assange have an agenda? scripting.com

Mubarak's Digital Dilemma: Why Egypt's Internet Controls Failed. blogs.forbes.com

Scripting News: CNN falls into the abyss scripting.com

My dear friends. Newt Gingrich is an idiot. Sorry, no other word does his idiocy justice. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

International media does not escape violence unleashed by Mubarak supporters. en.rsf.org

Another good idea for a hyperlocal blog, short movies about local businesses. berkeleyside.com

A Diplomatic Scramble as an Ally Is Pushed to the Exit. nytimes.com

@iaindodsworth -- sent an email yesterday. questions about deck.ly -- http://r2.ly/83fd -- getting ready to write a follow-up. scripting.com

Murdoch's iPad newspaper. Here's the scoop -- it's time for a nap. gawker.com

Just lost my connection to english.aljazeera.net

Edmond Lau's answer to Did Bing intentionally copy Google's search results? on Quora. (Summary: Not guilty.) quora.com

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Inside Job is playing in four theaters in Salt Lake City. google.com

MP3 of the Keller appearance today on Fresh Air. npr.vo.llnwd.net

"I don't really see a blog business," said Nick Denton. "I agree," said Dave Winer. observer.com

Why e-book sellers should stop playing by Apple's rules. slate.com

Oooops looks like Google caught Microsoft cheating in search. googleblog.blogspot.com

Icy Sidewalks Alert. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Anthony Kennedy, a nation turns its angry eyes to you. economist.com

Amazon EC2: "How to create a European fork of a Windows-based AMI?" scripting.com

Apple Just Declared War On Amazon Kindle. businessinsider.com

Did you know that when Ayn Rand was old and sick, she secretly took Medicare and Social Security benefits (aka alms). freemarketmojo.com

Will Publishers Embrace a Payment Model That Strips Out Ads? gigaom.com

Why Julian Assange (Justifiably) Hates 'The New York Times'. huffingtonpost.com

Dan Gillmor thinks that CBS may have been deliberately throwing softballs at Julian Assange in the 60 Minutes interview. salon.com

I own a Kindle and iPad, but prefer to read books on my iPad. That will stop if Apple applies new rules to Amazon. nytimes.com

Dating Site's Top Relationship Deal Breakers. well.blogs.nytimes.com

Does deck.ly spell the beginning of the silo'd fragmentation of the Twitter market? scripting.com

Rebooting the News #80 with guest Doc Searls. rebootnews.com

Health care in a nutshell (Scripting News). scripting.com

Airlines offer free in-flight Facebook. usatoday.com

Yes, but what will Anthony Kennedy say? voices.washingtonpost.com

Francis Ford Coppola: Maybe the Downloaders Are Right. gizmodo.com

Readability: Enjoy Reading. Support Writing.. readability.com

Monday, January 31, 2011

Mom: Class Warfare in Egypt – And in The USA. evespeeves.wordpress.com

The New York Times' Sloppy Defense of WikiLeaks and Its Journalistic Standards. foxnews.com

This asshole at Esquire thinks it's *funny* to call someone an asshole. Happy to help entertain you all! :-) twitter.com

Scripting News: What is deck.ly? scripting.com

Jay is on the road, and I just got back -- but the news keeps on rebooting. rebootnews.com

Flickr feed: This is the cable you need to connect an iPad to a video projectof flickr.com

Here's a boxing profile written by a recent NYU journalism grad. We're talking about how to get flow for his site. boxingdispatch.com

Thank goodness for the hard-working professional press. Without them we would never know that Assange is an "asshole." esquire.com

Esquire has a "scoop" -- a Gawker guy read Keller's NYT rant about Assange and determined that he's an "asshole." esquire.com

Cyclemeter -- which I *love* -- is releasing version 5.0, with a feature just for me (integration with DailyMile). abvio.com

Rebooting the News #80 with Doc Searls on The Sputnik Moment for cable and much much more. rebootnews.com

Doc Searls joins me on Rebooting The News today live at Noon Eastern to talk about the "Sputnik moment" for cable news. blogtalkradio.com

Hip Hop's Founding Father Too Broke to Pay for Surgery. gawker.com

Al Jazeera in Egypt is cable's ‘Sputnik moment'. blogs.law.harvard.edu

AFP: Nobel Peace Prize nomination for WikiLeaks founder? google.com

Sunday, January 30, 2011

2006: Times top editor talks on role as 'political chew toy'. michigandaily.com

Al Jazeera English: Live Stream - Watch Now - Al Jazeera English. Doesnt work on ipad. #thankssteve english.aljazeera.net

Greenpeace protests at Koch brothers' rally. guardian.co.uk

Thousands Converge on Koch Brothers Billionaire's Caucus; 25 Arrested. news.firedoglake.com

Scripting News: Back in NYC scripting.com

100,000 P2P Users Sued in US Mass Lawsuits. torrentfreak.com

Flickr feed: Aljazeera English flickr.com

Back in NYC with FIOS-level Internet finally. Watching english.aljazeera.net

The Twitter Revolution Must Die. blog.ulisesmejias.com

Im sitting next to the mother of the director of Being Elmo, one of this years Sundance winners. sundance.slated.com

Cable companies: Add Al Jazeera English now. Agreed. buzzmachine.com

Saturday, January 29, 2011

For Americans Stranded in Egypt, No Quick Exits. nytimes.com

It's Not Twitter or Facebook, It's the Power of the Network. Can I get an Amen! gigaom.com

How the NYT *loves* Twitter, but it's every bit as much a threat to it as Julian Assange is. nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: Wikileaks Cables Shed Light on Egypt's New VP blogs.abcnews.com

Amazon rolling out Netflix-like unlimited video streaming for Prime subscribers? engadget.com

Why can't we watch Al Jazeera in the US? #landofthefree #homeofthebrave #blahblahblah salon.com

Surprised to see my mom favors slashing Medicaid payments. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Moral of Tunisia and Egypt -- listen to your dissidents. nytimes.com

China Blocks Egypt on Micro-Blogging Service. thenextweb.com

WikiLeaks rebuttal of Bill Keller's story about Assange. wlcentral.org

Cairo falls into near-anarchy; army warns it will treat protesters as criminals. washingtonpost.com

Davos: Two Worlds, Ready Or Not (Simon Johnson). baselinescenario.com

Shabu Shabu baby. flickr.com

Friday, January 28, 2011

Flickr feed: mywristkey.com flickr.com

Flickr feed: The cast of Pariah (great movie) flickr.com

zunguzungu roundup on Egypt. zunguzungu.wordpress.com

Make Instapaper even more useful with RSS subscriptions. Brilliant! thenextweb.com

Tweetdeck busts the 140-character limit with Deck.ly. blogs.ft.com

Egyptian government 'on last legs' says ElBaradei. guardian.co.uk

According to @esther there's little discussion of Egypt at Davos. twitter.com

WikiLeaks cables fuel flames of unrest in Egypt. telegraph.co.uk

Bono's Silicon Valley Soap Opera: Elevation Partners Shake-Up. thedailybeast.com

CJR on Keller's piece on Assange and Wikileaks. cjr.org

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Inside Job will be released on DVD on March 8. Must-see. Please buy it so Ferguson can keep making movies. amazon.com

Attn @twitter -- there's a problem with the @openleaks account. Searcn this page for "twitter" for an explanation --> openleaks.org

WikiLeaks feed: F.B.I. Warrants Into Hacking by WikiLeaks Supporters nytimes.com

WikiLeaks feed: FBI issues Bay Area search warrants in probe of WikiLeaks reprisals sfgate.com

Proposed Arizona law targets "birthright" citizenship. When they're finished revoking citizenship, wonder who will be left news.yahoo.com

Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie. mensjournal.com

Army Was Warned Not to Deploy Bradley Manning to Iraq. wired.com

Egypt braces itself for biggest day of protests yet. guardian.co.uk

Katie Couric Rescues Snowbound Billionaire. gawker.com

WikiLeaks feed: The Background Story Of The NY Times' Relationship With Julian Assange techdirt.com

Snow Day Photos! nyulocal.com

This piece is why I love Les Orchard. decafbad.com

Flickr feed: View from the top if the mountain flickr.com

Flickr feed: Gettin ready for some skiing! flickr.com

My mom out in Queens is snow-bloggin. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Would have been much more impressed if the Times had hacked up Bill Keller's face. nytimes.com

LocalLeaks lets share info with your local news org, anonymously of course. Appears to be a @mterenzio production. localeaks.com

What Stops Female Founders? foundersatwork.com

WikiLeaks feed: pcmag.com

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Why can't Bill Keller speak plainly about Assange. In the first page he disses him repeatedly. Kills his credibility. nytimes.com

I wonder if the CEO of Chase is in Davos, and if one of my computer industry buds could give him a message for me. farm4.static.flickr.com

Google Starts Censoring BitTorrent, RapidShare... torrentfreak.com

@nakedjen was hanging out with the actor who played Ethan on Lost. losttvfans.com

Royals Pitcher Gil Meche Retires, Tossing Away $12 Million Guaranteed. nytimes.com

Flickr feed: My new ski pants are green flickr.com

At lunch today @nakedjen said a friend was "One Toke Over The Line" which is a wonderful song! --> youtube.com

Flickr feed: This is what we were waiting fir flickr.com

Flickr feed: Waiting to get on the waitlist at Sundance flickr.com

Egypt president's son, family flee to Britain. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Watching Egypt (but not on Al Jazeera) | Marc Lynch. lynch.foreignpolicy.com

NYT report on Cairo demonstrations. nytimes.com

Egypt protests: Ban on anti-government demonstrations. bbc.co.uk

Protests return to Cairo streets. guardian.co.uk

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Why No One Will Watch the State of the Union. newsweek.com

Michael Arrington Says Someone Is Ruining His Blog. gawker.com

Harry Reid blasts Obama on earmarks. politico.com

WikiLeaks feed: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Flickr feed: View out my Park City hotel window flickr.com

Another bit of (embarrassing) evidence that Repubs elect people who don't have a clue how the US govt works. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Flickr feed: Exit Strategy is a cool NYC subway iPhone app flickr.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks Cables Help Uncover What Made Tunisians Revolt pbs.org

Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General wired.com

WikiLeaks feed: WikiLeaks seeks more media partners foxnews.com

WikiLeaks feed: Juan Cole: US Case Against Wikileaks' Julian Assange Collapses juancole.com

BBC: Clashes on Egypt's 'day of revolt' bbc.co.uk

Conservatives compare Nazis to liberals and Arianna Huffington to Adolf Hitler -- How does that make sense? salon.com

Scott Beale: Big Fluffy Snow Falling in NYC. laughingsquid.com

Is what happened in Tunisia happening elsewhere in the Arab world, in Egypt? zunguzungu.wordpress.com

Scripting News: Heading west scripting.com

Oscar nominations. carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: EC2 for European Poets? scripting.com

Opinion: ROTC policy on Wikileaks threatens academic freedom. mercurynews.com

Photos from the First (Berkeley) Local Business Forum. Shows one direction hyperlocal blogs can go. berkeleyside.com

Monday, January 24, 2011

Daily Kos: Poll: Cut Social Security benefits or raise payroll cap? Not even close. dailykos.com

Question does anyone care if the Jets are from New Jersey or New York? nytimes.com

Tickets for the Nets game vs the Cavs went for as little as 11 cents. offthedribble.blogs.nytimes.com

First Berkeleyside Local Business Forum. If you rush you can still make it in time. berkeleyside.com

CUNY to Ban Smoking at All Its Colleges. Thank you. Now let's ban smoking on the streets in NYC. nytimes.com

Paul Krugman == Natural Born Blogger. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

A Bonanza of Oscar Predictions. carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com

Palestinians lash out over document leak. foxnews.com

My "journo-programmers" piece ran today on the Nieman Lab site. We did a fair amount of editing, this is "real" version. niemanlab.org

Nieman Journalism Lab: How can universities educate journo-programmers? niemanlab.org

This is how I visualize the west coast tech bloggers. scripting.com

Do you remember "Baby Huey." scripting.com

Scripting News: BitTorrent and RSS sittin in a tree scripting.com

"Eric Schmidt has been looking for a TV job for over a year," said a CNN insider. nypost.com

At Davos, a litany of problems awaits leaders. foxnews.com

@necolas @kroc_camen -- you would be very very welcome in our little community. The place to start is ec2.scripting.com

Where the Obama Administration Intends to Take the Country and How It Plans to Do So -- New York Magazine. nymag.com

I posted an example of one of EZTV's RSS 2.0 feeds to the Hacker News thread on this topic. news.ycombinator.com

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Coming Soon: Jets at Steelers. fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com

Dear Republicans, what if Gabrielle Giffords didn't have good health insurance. nytimes.com

EZTV Introduces BitTorrent RSS Standard, With Magnets. Really glad to see this work continuing. torrentfreak.com

People sometimes ask how I read the news. This is how --> daveriver.scripting.com

Here's a ringing product endorsement. If you're a blogger, you should be using twitterfeed.com

Scripting News: New Yorkers make good villains scripting.com

Scripting News: Leaks software will have broad applications. scripting.com

Only at Ray's on Week End Nights: Amy's Aphrodisiac Brownies. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Scripting News: A new meaning of Too Big To Fail. scripting.com

"You live in New York? You want to slug people every day." carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com

I'm among the most-followed people on Quora, but I never use the service. #anothercorporatebloggingsilo quora.com

I was just referred to as "this woman" in a discussion on Reddit. I can safely say that has never happened before. :-) reddit.com

The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996). news.ycombinator.com

Olbermann's MSNBC Exit Was Weeks in the Making. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Exploding manholes in NYC. Another thing to worry about. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Dear Keith Olbermann. scripting.com

Fatal hit-and-run accident leads to mob beating. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Scripting News: Do you remember how OPML used to work? scripting.com

EV Grieve is tracking local fire departments for their ability to respond. Never seen a newspaper do that. evgrieve.com

I recommend that, if you're teaching journalism these days, the students should maintain their own infrastructure. scripting.com

According to Fred Wilson, a Twitter board member, Twitter recently decided whether or not to be acquired. avc.com

Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats. nytimes.com

Ray's Candy Store - East Village - New York, NY. yelp.com

Friday, January 21, 2011

Toshiba Tablet. thetoshibatablet.com

Olbermann Hosts Last 'Countdown' on MSNBC. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Facebook Fights U.S. Pressure Over WikiLeaks. allfacebook.com

Print is dying, so you should read it more. erehweb.wordpress.com

Yachts, Both New and Used, Are Selling Slowly. nytimes.com

4th graders deliver Dr. King's "Free At Last" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial today. pbs.org

Hellllp. Why all of a sudden is this piece 2000 pixels wide? scripting.com

Google shuffle: why Eric Schmidt had to be pushed from the top. guardian.co.uk

daveriver.scripting.com

Glenn Beck Campaign Leads to Death Threats For New York Professor. blogs.villagevoice.com

Gabrielle Giffords leaves Tucson, arrives in Houston for arduous rehabilitation washingtonpost.com

Outspoken Tucson sheriff faces recall bid washingtontimes.com

Scripting News: The journo-programmer. scripting.com

Assange biopic in works. variety.com

A VC: Greed and Fear. avc.com

@calixte -- don't forget http://wikiriver.org/ :-) wikiriver.org

Exit Strategy is a cool NYC subway iPhone app (screen shot). flickr.com

Nice snow, ain't no Snowpocalypse (video). flickr.com

Banks Want Pieces of Fannie and Freddie's Business. nytimes.com

Thursday, January 20, 2011

FIOS. speedtest.net

Yeah NY sports teams suck. BFD. nytimes.com

Santorum: Obama Should Oppose Abortion Because He Is Black youtube.com

Tweets Hit Techmeme, Bloggers in a Tizzy. wired.com

Dan Gillmor: Google's executive shakeup, or evolution. salon.com

@jim_reedy @jayrosen_nyu -- I might make it available as a tool that runs in EC2 for Poets. ec2.scripting.com

Gabrielle Giffords reading iPad, trying to speak. politico.com

Eric Schmidt Out As Google CEO, Larry Page Takes Over. businessinsider.com

Is it hard to do business in Berkeley? berkeleyside.com

Texting woman falls in fountain, files lawsuit. #really abclocal.go.com

National Penguin Awareness Day. guardian.co.uk

"And all of it will be built around an open format called RSS." scripting.com

BitTorrent Inventor Demos New P2P Live Streaming Protocol. torrentfreak.com

"The goal is to create many places where blogging and journalism can occur. Where we pay for the servers ourselves..." scripting.com

RIAA Threatening ICANN About .music; Claiming It Will Be Used To Infringe. Obnoxious. techdirt.com

Apple to fight Facebook with iOS 5 and Media Stream? 9to5mac.com

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

To the Repubs, this is when you guys went into the abyss. We're waiting for you to come out of it. twitter.com

"Tea Party zealots started disrupting Democrats' town halls over healthcare reform and carrying guns to Obama rallies" salon.com

Gotta wonder why Jerry York leaked to Fortune. What was in it for him. cjr.org

Wikileaks: US sought data on Israeli coded messages. jpost.com

Google Voice now lets you port your own phone number. Gotta thing about this one. engadget.com

EV Grieve reports on fancy cars parked on East Village streets. Blogging at it's best. evgrieve.com

Oh those Repubs. Doing the people's business, having time-killing votes about health care. Symbolism. That'll show em! guardian.co.uk

House Republicans Explain Why They Won't Give Up Their Own Government-Sponsored Health Care. thinkprogress.org

Truth that the Republicans use propoganda techniques perfected by the Nazis. Fact. Not in dispute. blogs.abcnews.com

If you had to map the Twitter "What's happening?" box onto a feed. Would it be the title or the description? changes.scripting.com

Rackspace CEO On The Future Of Cloud, WikiLeaks. blogs.wsj.com

Scripting News: Brockman's science. scripting.com

"Barney's Version" got mixed reviews, but I think I'm going to see it anyway. google.com

Did the fax machine cause the Tunisian uprising? rasmuskleisnielsen.net

Obama's SEC hires Goldman Sachs asset manager to regulate asset managers. washingtonexaminer.com

Playboy Magazine coming to iPad. As big a non-event as the Beatles in iTunes. engadget.com

NYT on $1 pizza. nytimes.com

Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America? esquire.com

The Death of "Job Killing." blogs.abcnews.com

I was surprised to see the economy reacting so quickly to Jobs' leave from Apple. But wait... economix.blogs.nytimes.com

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Scripting News: 4 more free ideas for your next hackathon. #4ideas scripting.com

Hey it's also playing on Shattuck in beautiful downtown Berkeley! It starts at 9:20PM. google.com

For my Bay Area friends -- "Inside Job" is playing at the Bridge theater on Geary St. google.com

Proving that it's possible to be nostalgic for Joe Lieberman... voices.washingtonpost.com

US officials privately say WikiLeaks damage limited. reuters.com

Sheezsh the new HTML 5 logo is kind of hard to look at. #justsayin w3.org

The White House looms as the Democrats' last line of defense against a renewed Republican monopoly in Washington. salon.com

Is It Time to Say Bill Belichick and Tom Brady Are Overrated? blogs.villagevoice.com

"That's not old-fashioned free market goodness, that's new-age cocaine-inspired depravity." scripting.com

Obama's Bogus Explanation For Troubles: Too Much Regulation. huffingtonpost.com

Scripting News: EC2 for Poets, viewed at 50,000 feet. scripting.com

Krugman liked "Inside Job" too. Read the last paragraph of his piece. --> krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

New Frontline tonight on PBS. pbs.org

Scripting News: Please see "Inside Job". scripting.com

NYT: Who Maimed the Economy, and How. movies.nytimes.com

wired.com

Mailbox with attitude. flickr.com

@evgrieve -- I have good tools -- east-village.org

EV Grieve: A post about bicycles and sidewalks. evgrieve.com

German satellite boss sacked after revelation. dw-world.de

The New York Times Fails To Deliver Stuxnet's Creators. blogs.forbes.com

Street Artist Banksy to Be Unmasked Via eBay Auction. mashable.com

Palin: ‘I am not going to shut up.' #ohjoy politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Monday, January 17, 2011

No Pants Subway Ride 2011. improveverywhere.com

Scripting News: 2 Brothers Pizza on St Marks. scripting.com

Scripting News: Memolane is sweet. scripting.com

"If Jobs is looking to go out on a high note, this would be a pretty good time to do it." slate.com

If someone saw this mailbox in Calif they'd get all agitated. flickr.com

I was at the press conference at Apple the day Steve Jobs came back. I even took a date with me. :-) techcrunch.com

"Total nighttime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible" forecast.weather.gov

Watch IBM's Jeopardy-Playing Computer Obliterate Humanity's Champions. gizmodo.com

The WSJ interviewed a cancer doctor. online.wsj.com

What was I doing in the Bronx? Checking out the old high school. Not much changed. flickr.com

I saw a Meetup ad on D train today at 205th St in the Bronx. flickr.com

NYC-style "mailbox with attitude." flickr.com

Influential Programming Languages, Part 1: ALGOL > Goto Considered Harmful. informit.com

EC2 for Poets: Become a master of cloud computing in 1/2 hour. ec2.scripting.com

NYT: Apple Says Steve Jobs Is Taking a New Medical Leave. nytimes.com

STEVE JOBS GOES ON MEDICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE. businessinsider.com

Man sets himself on fire in Cairo protest. bbc.co.uk

Sunday, January 16, 2011

68th Golden Globe Awards on wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org

Wonder if the cops arrested this guy for making death threats (of course not). newsjunkiepost.com

Pretty outrageous the images the Republicans were using. Makes you wonder where they get the nerve to play innocent. google.com

Yeah the Repubs were playing with Hitler and Nazi imagery. google.com

U.S. Blues artsites.ucsc.edu

If you're going to live-blog a game, please say: 1. When it starts and 2. What network it's on. fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com

NY Daily News: Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy blames WikiLeaks, ambassadors for uprising in Tunisia. nydailynews.com

After Tucson Shooting, a Race to Save Lives. nytimes.com

Scripting News: EC2 for Poets, v2. scripting.com

What I had for breakfast. Yummy! flickr.com

'Pained' Libyan Dictator Blames Wikileaks for Tunisia Uprising. (Are .ly domains in jeopardy?) gawker.com

Web-controlled guns are illegal. chronicle.augusta.com

Three hyperlocals I read: EVGrieve, Berkeleyside and LEV. scripting.com

New Miss America spurns WikiLeaks. wlcentral.org

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Republican intellectual analysis based on Obama hair style. He dyes his hair -- we win! #neener #neener althouse.blogspot.com

Scripting News: Three hyperlocals. scripting.com

Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks guardian.co.uk

Man Shot in Tucson Rampage Is Arrested at TV Taping. nytimes.com

How to handle non unique item GUIDs/IDs in an RSS feed? - Stack Overflow. stackoverflow.com

"[Palin] should be incarcerated for treason for advocating assassinating public officials" -- shooting survivor. sify.com

Drug experiment in Portugal boston.com

Frank Rich: No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords nytimes.com

My answer to "the question" for 2011. edge.org

Loughner's last night: Posed with glock, g-string. salon.com

Discredited Republicans for $100, Alex! flickr.com

Who Organized Tunisia's Revolution? techpresident.com

Interesting discussion on Firefox and the RSS icon on Hacker News. news.ycombinator.com

Tom DeLay sentenced to three years in prison for money laundering nytimes.com

@mitchellbaker -- please let's keep the RSS icon in Firefox. scripting.com

Guess we know which prison gang Tom DeLay will be trying out for! #justsayin flickr.com

"I really depend on the RSS icon in the address bar." scripting.com

"It matters little whether my exposes embarrass Washington, London or New Delhi, as long as I am dealing with the truth." hindustantimes.com

Scripting News: Dear Firefox, please keep the RSS icon. scripting.com

The CIA factbook on Tunisia. cia.gov

I was wondering where Tunisia is. Turns out it's not far from Italia. maps.google.com

And gooooooooood morning to the parody of Sarah Palin! flickr.com

Joy as Tunisian President Flees Offers Lesson to Arab Leaders. nytimes.com

Friday, January 14, 2011

NFL Playoff Schedule 2011: Times And Announcers For This Weekend's Playoff Games. arrowheadpride.com

Sarah Palin, trying out some new makeup, and wondering what we think? (This is a parody!) flickr.com

Ethan Zuckerman: The Internet can take some credit for toppling Tunisia's government, but not all of it. foreignpolicy.com

Vancouver Sun: The Bowery goes upscale. vancouversun.com

Sarah Palin, out on Halloween this year, caught in a candid pose! flickr.com

Tunisia's President Flees After Riots Fanned by WikiLeaks aolnews.com

This is a parody of Sarah Palin, and a crude one at that. She's just so versatile! :-) flickr.com

Tucson Shooting Survivor: "It Looks Like Palin, Beck, Sharron Angle and the Rest Got Their First Target". democracynow.org

Elizabeth Hughes, 8 years old, National Anthem, Norfolk Admirals Game, Scope Arena. youtube.com

If you're an American Jew you should watch this carefully and think about it. msnbc.msn.com

Realists vs Idealists. flickr.com

Wow. The Twitter spammers are hitting hard today. flickr.com

JP Morgan bankers to share $10bn bonus pot after profits leap. Disgusting. That's our money too. guardian.co.uk

A very rational piece about the philosophy of RSS. camendesign.com

Newt Gingrich will appear to be wise and pithy. #whenmarijuanaislegalized politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Angry Man Screaming 'Jew' at Congressman Is Not a Great Face for Tea Party. gawker.com

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Girl's Death in Tucson Hits Home for Obama nytimes.com

Ezra Klein, a journo, says US politics would work a lot better if journos did their jobs better (paraphrasing). voices.washingtonpost.com

What if Flickr fails? blogs.law.harvard.edu

I don't get how the Republicans are going to "reform" Social Security. That's our money, not theirs. Are they socialists? nytimes.com

Fifty-Six Years Later, Giants Bringing Trophy to New York. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

I bought two funny domains for the next time there's a meltdown of some sort: http://pocalypse.org/ and http://mageddon.org/. :-) pocalypse.org

Bucket-sharing prefs page in my.reallysimple.org. May not look like much but it's a revolution in cloud computing. :-) flickr.com

John Boehner turns down Air Force One ride to Tucson. #nosmokingonairforce1 #justsaying. politico.com

Task force cries East Village plan will draw ‘drunk hooligans'. thevillager.com

A wordpress.com user who wasn't aware they were putting ads on her site. wewillnot.wordpress.com

Scripting News: Why bucket-sharing is important scripting.com

Obama and Palin, a Tale of Two Speeches. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

East Village bike riders are still tailgating pedestrians on sidewalks. flickr.com

Treasury Urged To Take Action Against WikiLeaks techdailydose.nationaljournal.com

All the news about WikiLeaks in one place, updated in real time. wikiriver.org

My name is Glenn Beck. I voted for the violence. Before I voted against the violence. I am the Flip-Flopper-In-Chief. scripting.com

My name is Glenn Beck. May I show you my penis substitute. I am against senseless violence. scripting.com

Columbia University's iconic library with fresh snow! flickr.com

In Tucson's sprawling suburbs, recession has dimmed the American dream. washingtonpost.com

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Gawker reviews Obama's speech, wishes it had ended with him shooting a basket gawker.com

Glenn Beck is for the violence and he is against the violence, at the same time. huffingtonpost.com

In Tucson, Obama Urges Americans to Overlook Differences nytimes.com

Gail Collins: What Passes for Progress in Congress nytimes.com

At Obama Speech, Students Lift Low Spirits thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Jim and Sarah Brady sound optimistic on Giffords – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

ScienceOnline2011 | The fifth annual North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. scienceonline2011.com

Alan Dershowitz . biggovernment.com

Joan Walsh writes the political obit for the pit bull with lipstick.. salon.com

'Blood Libel' in the Pages of History thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Sarah Palin was a mistake. blogs.villagevoice.com

Snowy Washington Square Park flickr.com

Snowy Columbia library flickr.com

Can you believe Sarah Palin is playing the victim. Is there any limit to how obnoxious she's willing to be. guardian.co.uk

Nearly Half of Americans Think Their Pets Are Psychic blogs.villagevoice.com

Digital eraser software aims to increase privacy dw-world.de

Scripting News: Silo-free everything. scripting.com

Bargain Skiing? Yes, It's Possible frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com

Bam! Instagram Blocks Followgram. (Obviously we need to create a silo-less version of Instagram. Totally do-able.) techcrunch.com

We now know how to share a bucket on S3. This is important for silo-free blog hosting. scripting.com

Smirking and creepy, with hollow eyes ablaze with unknowable thoughts... washingtonpost.com

Sweden 'buying US time' in Assange case abc.net.au

Snow Poop A Lypse video. Not such a big deal for the first "big" storm of 2011. flickr.com

Snowfall Blankets Region and Snarls Flights. nytimes.com

A VC: When They Are Throwing Money At You. Wise advice. Makes me wish i had something investible. avc.com

Alcohol poisoning, not avian flu, killed Romanian birds. (They had been drinking hic.) bbc.co.uk

Illinois Legislators Approve 66 Percent Tax Hike. nytimes.com

New York City Schools Are Open. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Arizona Shootings. bloomberg.com

Twitter Updates Mac App, Gets Rid Of Secret Backdoor Feature, Avoids Apple's Wrath. businessinsider.com

Why people love Stieg Larsson's novels. newyorker.com

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

BREAKING... Rush Limbaugh is a retard. salon.com

Scripting News: No more guns at political events scripting.com

Chris Matthews Grills Tea Party Leader: Why Would Someone Bring A Gun To A Political Rally? tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

NYT releases their version of "WinerLinks" as open source open.blogs.nytimes.com

Jared Loughner, Gabrielle Giffords, and the Tea Party slate.com

For One Tuscon Shooting Victim, Recovery Means Coping With Young Neighbor's Death nytimes.com

New York City Declares Weather Emergency nytimes.com

Knock wood you can now pretty much subscribe to all my Twitter links via this feed. static.reallysimple.org

We're Arizona shooting victims too, says Tea Party co-founder guardian.co.uk

There is no place for just shitting all over other people's work 37signals.com

Scripting News: Kroc Camen proves RSS is very much alive scripting.com

Scripting News: How to share a bucket on S3 scripting.com

AT&T iPhone 4 vs. Verizon iPhone 4: what's changed? engadget.com

Scripting News: Verizon/Apple deals for existing users? scripting.com

Verizon Will Offer the iPhone Next Month nytimes.com

Ailes to Fox Anchors, 'Tone it Down' thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks: Julian Assange 'faces execution or Guant�namo detention'. guardian.co.uk

American Health Care. Is it Un-American? blog.joemoreno.com

Monday, January 10, 2011

Shooting Suspect Was Calm in Taxi to Supermarket, Driver Says nytimes.com

Twitter's Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena Should Be the Industry Standard wired.com

Scripting News: Words with Friends scripting.com

Scripting News: Connecting reallysimple.org to Twitter scripting.com

DOJ subpoeans Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteers salon.com

HackerNewsFirehose static.scripting.com

Everything is dead scripting.com

Carrey Plays the Dancing Fool carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com

goo.gl Opens API Access blog.arpitnext.com

Rebooting the News #79, recorded earlier today. rebootnews.com

Maybe there's one Republican who will read this, and be shamed into cleaning house. shakespearessister.blogspot.com

The World from Berlin: 'Political Radicalization in US Unworthy of a Democratic State' spiegel.de

Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial. foxnews.com

Krugman: "So will the Arizona massacre make our discourse less toxic? It's really up to G.O.P. leaders." Yes. nytimes.com

Hal Rager: Why do "unhinged" gunmen always seem to "unhinge" in the direction of Democrats? facebook.com

I read the Guardian regularly and no one paid me to say that. guardian.co.uk

Max Klein: If you're a successful bootstrapper, don't get stuck managing your server. maxkle.in

Scripting News: NYT on future-safe archives. scripting.com

Let's play these "rush to judge" woods back next time the Repubs try to drag us into another idiotic 20-year war in Asia. online.wsj.com

Sunday, January 09, 2011

Facebook and Google under pressure over WikiLeaks. independent.co.uk

Cyberspace When You're Dead. nytimes.com

Palin Staffer Insists Crosshair Graphic Wasn't About Guns. politicalwire.com

I've spent the last few days getting my.reallysimple.org ready for external development. scripting.com

Hard to refute @sarahpalinusa saw it as a "bullseye" not a surveyor's mark. flickr.com

The�awesome stupidity of the calls to tamp down political speech in the wake of the Giffords shooting. slate.com

The story of Google employee #13. googler13.blogspot.com

Watched a few bits of tonight's news broadcast be taped from the CBS News control room. GeekCenter par excellence. flickr.com

In WikiLeaks fight, U.S. journalists take the Fifth. mcclatchydc.com

US subpoenas Twitter, seeking information on WikiLeaks' 635,561 followers. rawstory.com

@waltmossberg -- scripting.com

I'm doing the CBS Evening News. (In a manner of speaking.) flickr.com

Hard-to-refute evidence that Palin thought of them as bullseye's not surveyor's marks. flickr.com

Scripting News: Republican sins. scripting.com

Interesting Times: It Doesn't Matter Why He Did It. newyorker.com

Yesterday I wrote a piece about the importance of "You can get anything you want..." scripting.com

The End of Palin's "Don't Retreat, Reload". cbsnews.com

Saturday, January 08, 2011

Twitter isn't the new Cronkite – it needs the new Cronkite(s). thenextweb.com

Arizona's 8th Congressional District & Map. govtrack.us

Tweetov: Markov chain tweets. jaspervdj.be

Carrying Guns to Political Rallies: It's a Right, but is it right? tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

Krugman on the assassination attempt in Arizona and its obvious connection to Republicans. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

News at the speed of death. blogs.law.harvard.edu

No GPL Apps for Apple's App Store. zdnet.com

Scripting News: You can get anything you want.... scripting.com

My personal river got the beautification too. daveriver.scripting.com

This guy quit Facebook for the right reasons. dailybreeze.com

Krugman on the lack of integrity of (some) NYT reporters. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

PDF of court order. salon.com

Glenn Greenwald on the Twitter subpoena, including a PDF of the (confidential) subpoena, dated 12/14/10. salon.com

Friday, January 07, 2011

Surprising the US govt wants to call attention to the Iraq helicopter video of the murder of the Reuters crew. bbc.co.uk

Internet Identity System Said Readied by Obama Administration. businessweek.com

People of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA -- yes that was an earthquake. earthquake.usgs.gov

I want to give the user a button to logout using a basic auth site. Turns out you can't? Huh. httpd.apache.org

Douglas Rushkoff: Facebook hype will fade. cnn.com

Iraq: Wikileaks video of US military killing journalists. boingboing.net

Feds Subpoena Twitter Seeking Information on Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer. wired.com

Ginormous Astor Place and Cooper Square Transformation Revealed. ny.curbed.com

RSS keeps me alive and kickin'. And sticks and stones! andrewspittle.net

Amsterdam Billiards. flickr.com

Gawker: Village Voice Caught in Jayson Blair-Style Fabrication Scandal. gawker.com

I think of street art as a mashup with the city and whatever materials present themselves to the artist. flickr.com

I love that: 1. Street art happens spontaneously in NYC. 2. There are plenty of blogs to cover it. myupperwest.com

On this Chinese search engine the number one hit for "hamster" is my "Welcome to Your Hamster Cage" piece. cafeblog.search.naver.com

Top 100 women: nominate now. guardian.co.uk

Thursday, January 06, 2011

Ex-CIA officer charged with leak to Times reporter. news.yahoo.com

I saw this bear wedged against a wall in a small parking lot on Cosby St betw Houston and Bleecker. flickr.com

reallysimple.org will work with the APIs of the blogging platforms, but on its way there the content passes thru RSS. onethingwell.org

Mac App Store receipt checking enables rampant piracy. Here's why.. thenextweb.com

In Defense of Dating in New York City. blogs.villagevoice.com

Yup trade shows are 20th century technology. slate.com

Goldman customers get Facebook financials. reuters.com

Two Lawmakers Vote Without Being Sworn In. politicalwire.com

375,000 Facebook Users May Die This Year. What Do We Do With Their Stuff? theatlantic.com

Dumb cartoon show billboard. Very colorful! :-) flickr.com

Scripting News: Why you got blocked. scripting.com

Eye-Fi's Direct Mode hands-on: from camera to tablet in seconds. engadget.com

Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies of 2010. tarantino.info

The NYT Mag piece about future-safe archives extensively quotes my writing on the subject. Nice to get the respect. :-) nytimes.com

Everyone said I didn't "get it" when I said that IOS apps would be a big part of the Mac app store. Heh. Told you so. scripting.com

Vanity Fair: The Man Who Spilled the Secrets. vanityfair.com

Cyberspace When You're Dead. nytimes.com

Mysterious bird deaths hit Sweden. bbc.co.uk

Pretty obvious there are two biggies in the pipe at Apple: 1. Verizon iPhone. 2. iPad 2 with the Retina-plus. appleinsider.com

Snow forecast in NYC for Friday. Not Snowpocalypse 2.0, however. forecast.weather.gov

WikiLeaks' Assange Threatened Lawsuit Over Leaked Diplomatic Cables. wired.com

Douglas Rushkoff, the "nice" non-chronically caustic version of me, suggests we fork the Internet, a useful concept. shareable.net

My mom, who I got the blogging gene from, gave a talk about the life of Buckminster Fuller. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys. youtube.com

"This is scary, but I'm beginning to become numb to the concept of RSS being dead." scripting.com

Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search. marco.org

Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Low-flying helicopters in the East Village. #conspiracy evgrieve.com

"Introducing the Mac App Store." apple.com

Bug Labs gets cozier with Verizon, announces LTE module for speedy DIY devices. engadget.com

It's possible that @rww hasn't seen the new beautiful wikiriver.org

@ejwcom -- what do you think of this -- wikiriver.org

An experiment writing with QuietWrite. quietwrite.com

RWW piece on my new minimal approach to blogging tools with one unfortunate paragraph. Really inappropriately personal. readwriteweb.com

In NYC they're digging up the streets to lay new pipes to carry water. Believe it or not people still drink water. flickr.com

@hrheingold scripting.com

Have you ever noticed how certain questions come up again and again on Stack Overflow sites? blog.stackoverflow.com

WikiLeaks Document Reportedly Shows Israel Wants Gaza to Function at 'Lowest Level'. foxnews.com

The Worst Butt Dialing Fiasco Ever. gawker.com

Jay proudly showing his new iPad during RBTN #78. flickr.com

News is episodic. Each story has small value. It's the rush of news. No story is an institution. scripting.com

Scripting News: A really good analogy. scripting.com

American Media's True Ideology? Avoiding One (starring @jayrosen_nyu). npr.org

David Dayen of Firedoglake: "I still use RSS almost exclusively." For a newsjunkie, RSS is mother's milk, life-blood. news.firedoglake.com

Scripting News: Upcoming: The minimal blogging tool. scripting.com

Another relevant, hard-hitting non-cheap-shot from tech crunch. techcrunch.com

Why American journalists have failed to support WikiLeaks. Two more reasons: 1. Ignorance. 2. Cowardice. guardian.co.uk

If You Didn't Blog It, It Didn't Happen. dashes.com

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Theater Audience Boos Tea Party Billionaire David Koch. thinkprogress.org

http://links.scripting.com/ has every link I posted to Twitter since April 2009. I don't think anyone else bothers to archive their links. links.scripting.com

GigaOm gets the @davewiner seal of approval. gigaom.com

Here's How Twitter Is Laying The Foundation For Its Own Photo Sharing Service. businessinsider.com

@CreativesMarket @lizstrauss -- the piece she's talking about -- scripting.com

9. RSS can't give you the warm feeling of having a billionaire as a BFF. scripting.com

LIRR station. flickr.com

Garbagegeddon. flickr.com

Garbagepocalypse. flickr.com

What remains after (one of) last night's East Village fire(s). flickr.com

3. RSS can't pull strings to get you into Davos. scripting.com

Schumer: Health care foes should forgo coverage. politico.com

"My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act. Here's Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange". huffingtonpost.com

Scripting News: Things RSS can't (and can) do. :-) scripting.com

Ray McGovern: Obama Should Read WikiLeaks Docs. truth-out.org

Seth's Blog: In defense of RSS. sethgodin.typepad.com

Automating JSLint Validation. af-design.com

@rsarver -- here's another good roundup. scripting.com

Scripting News: Where today's flow comes from. I'm publishing my numbers for today. scripting.com

http://evgrieve.com/ has all the details on last night's East Village fires. evgrieve.com

2 Early Morning Fires Strike East Village. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

The new beautiful http://wikiriver.org/ is a perfect example of why it's in all our interest to keep RSS strong. wikiriver.org

Scripting News: The beautification of wikiriver.org. scripting.com

"to the extent you're locked in, that's the extent you are not on the open web" scripting.com

Fireworks may have caused Arkansas bird deaths. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: What I mean by "the open web". scripting.com

@gregbanbury -- http://scripting.com/ my bio is in the right margin scripting.com

Huge hacker news thread on rss. news.ycombinator.com

Coding Horror: Trouble In the House of Google. codinghorror.com

Do This Yourself: Chalkboard Wall. stuffthatsneat.com

Monday, January 03, 2011

Here's the new version of wikiriver.org we're getting ready to deploy. http://wikiriver.org/testing/ How does it look in your browser? wikiriver.org

Exploding NYC Manhole Goes Up in Flames. blogs.villagevoice.com

This is why the President calls the Repubs terrorists, and he's right.. thehill.com

Alan Grayson, Leaving Congress, Criticizes Republicans and Democrats. nytimes.com

Watch a Dude Ski Down Park Avenue at 40 Mph. nymag.com

php - Convert RSS pubDate to a timestamp - Stack Overflow. stackoverflow.com

Oaks Theater in Berkeley closes. berkeleyside.com

"All the news about WikiLeaks in one place, updated in real time." wikiriver.org

Rebooting the News #78. rebootnews.com

"Twitter is a wonderful solution to many of the problems we had with RSS..." scripting.com

Rebooting the News starts live in 24 minutes. blogtalkradio.com

Gotta check this out: unhosted.org

Scripting News: What will become of Twitter? scripting.com

Politco obtained a list of hearing topics planned by Rep. Darrell Issa. (Maybe Issa will want to throw Politico in jail.) politicalwire.com

Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, revisited. scripting.com

Is it wise spending our time writing for *other* sites? thoughts.adamlasnik.net

No Pants Subway Ride 2011 Details for New York. improveverywhere.com

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Are there more people alive today than have ever lived before? (No.) bjkeefe.blogspot.com

Garbage breaks suicide jumper's fall. (It's that very special time of year in NYC.) nypost.com

Don't Worry About Those 1,000 Dead Birds that Fell From the Sky. gawker.com

In Boeing-Airbus Rivalry, Hidden Hand of Government (A WikiLeaks story). nytimes.com

"It is difficult to write usefully about a complex problem in a hundred and forty characters." francescaelston.wordpress.com

Obama Administration Not Prosecuting Wikileaks Fast Enough for Republicans. gawker.com

Reining in freedom on the Web. sfgate.com

Why EL PAIS chose to publish the leaks. elpais.com

Saturday, January 01, 2011

Detroit in ruins. Breath-taking photos. guardian.co.uk

@lenedgerly -- this is what I use -- cord.sourceforge.net

In the early days of DaveNet, I'd save a good piece for January 1. This year, the tradition continues. scripting.com

Daniel Bachhuber read @ev's interview with @om and came to a 3-word conclusion. Worth reading and thinking about. danielbachhuber.com

Why EL PAIS chose to publish the leaks. (I wish the editor of the NY Times was this clear.) wlcentral.org

"tell the people who take us to war and destroy countries and kill hundreds of thousands, for profit -- no more secrets" scripting.com

Friday, December 31, 2010

What remains of snowpoc/snowmag on 14th St. #notprettysight flickr.com

CBS News lists all that we've learned so far from WikiLeaks. cbsnews.com

Scripting News: America's Tiananmen and BOTY 2010. scripting.com

Guardian: Ministers must 'wise up not clam up' after WikiLeaks disclosures. Good advice for American pols too. guardian.co.uk

Tommy Williams: "In some states (like Washington, where I live), it's legal to ride on the sidewalks." flickr.com

Scripting News: Dave Does Podcast! scripting.com

Many Arab officials have close CIA links: Assange. thepeninsulaqatar.com

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Photo: Fedex was delivering. flickr.com

Here's a bike I'd like to bury in a snow bank. flickr.com

Henry Norr got NPR to retract its WikiLeaks nonsense. I know Henry Norr, he was EIC at MacWEEK. Great, non-random, guy. npr.org

A new kind of NYC street art -- bikes encased in snowdrifts. flickr.com

Photo: Samsung is positioning its tablet as an "evolution" of the laptop. flickr.com

WikiLeaks: Iran blocks secondary news sites reporting on released cables. wlcentral.org

The evanescence of Twitter debates. blogs.reuters.com

I've always said they should make the filibusters actually filibust. No more saying you're going to do it. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Guardian: Wired journalists deny cover-up over WikiLeaks boss and accused US soldier. guardian.co.uk

Just Weeks After Cutting Off Wikileaks, Amazon Brags About How US Federal Gov't Is One Of Its Biggest AWS Customers? techdirt.com

Amazon: Lending of Kindle Books. forums.digitaltextplatform.com

"recent WikiLeaks releases reveal that Iran obtained a cache of advanced missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads" foxnews.com

Two bikes that got lost in #snowpocalypse. flickr.com

I just learned that WordPress was created in 2001 by Michel Valdrighi. codex.wordpress.org

Scripting News: Will my iPhone become old next week? scripting.com

Karen Alloy is funny like "I Love Lucy" plus Woody Allen. Not many comedians make me LOL, but she does. youtube.com

Tom Meltzer's WikiLeaks glossary. guardian.co.uk

Why Can't Europe Avoid Another Crisis? Why Can't the U.S.? baselinescenario.com

Wired.com: Lamo/Manning Wikileaks chat logs contain no unpublished references to Assange or private servers. boingboing.net

The Poorhouse: Aunt Winnie, Glenn Beck, And The Politics Of The New Deal. huffingtonpost.com

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

If @NPR followed http://wikiriver.org/ they wouldn't have screwed up the story. wikiriver.org

Should This Gorgeous New York Snowpocalypse Video Win an Oscar? gawker.com

Scripting News: Bike-rider tailgates pedestrians. scripting.com

Get off the bike when you're on the sidewalk, which is the *only* place people can walk. flickr.com

Photo: Bike-rider tailgates pedestrians, on sidewalk. flickr.com

Photo: It was a lot easier walking around the city today. flickr.com

NPR Fesses Up to WikiLeaks' Coverage Blunder, Now It's Everyone Else's Turn. r2.ly

Michael Musto Sure Knows How to Work a Meat Dress. gawker.com

Amazon Web Services, WikiLeaks and the Elephant in the Room. readwriteweb.com

I didn't have the patience to carefully explain why Floyd Abrams is ignorant beyond belief, but I'm glad Jack Shafer did. slate.com

Rex Hammock's predictions for the year 2011 (next week). rexblog.com

@zunguzungu -- btw -- gigaom.com

UC Santa Cruz economist launches website to preserve data 'forever'. santacruzsentinel.com

"Saddam had decided to execute the whole legislature." scripting.com

An amazing photo. @jeffclavier is snowed in at Tahoe. Good thing they have groceries. instagr.am

Floyd Abrams: Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers. Based on the oft-repeated lie that there has been a dump. online.wsj.com

Must-read interview with Evan Williams, esp re who owns virtual land on the Internet. (Hint: he's an owner, you're not.) gigaom.com

Thanks to the Guardian for consistently being open to story ideas from this humble blogger. :-) guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: A note to @ggreenwald and @evanatwired. (Also @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis.) scripting.com

Scripting News: Humans are crazy. scripting.com

I love Wired, but come on -- a user-written wiki with those awful popup ads? There ought to be a law. howto.wired.com

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Job Market Booming Overseas For Many American Companies. huffingtonpost.com

Wired: Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs. wired.com

"This shoveled-out space is mine until the snow melts. Occupy it at your own risk." nytimes.com

The Real Reason Amazon Dropped WikiLeaks? Taxpayer Money. (Good headline, I wasn't ready to go that far.) criminaljustice.change.org

At least the High Line is clear. Not so sure about Lafayette St though. :-) thehighline.org

"I think it's fairly obvious why Amazon cut [WikiLeaks] off. It's the 800 pound gorilla in the room." scripting.com

War for Tech Talent Hits ‘White Hot' New York Startup Scene. wired.com

It's still really hard getting round the city. This picture illustrates. flickr.com

Quotes about math and computer science. rjlipton.wordpress.com

Scripting News: Simple thoughts about political correctness. scripting.com

The Guardian tries to re-ignite a shite storm that never really ignited in the first place. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: US govt a big user of Amazon web services. scripting.com

Glenn Greenwald: The merger of journalists and government officials. salon.com

Monday, December 27, 2010

I had never heard of nasal douching. en.vidivodo.com

A nice piece in the NY Times about Manhattan doormen. nytimes.com

Another good movie you might not have heard about is Frequency. movies.nytimes.com

Great movie for tonight -- Enemy at the Gates, a simple action movie with a love story. Great acting. en.wikipedia.org

Aftermath of Snowpocalypse 2010 v1. flickr.com

EV Grieve: Walking along St. Mark's Place and Astor Place today.... evgrieve.com

Facebook Disconnect - Google Chrome extension gallery. chrome.google.com

My pedicab snowpocalypse video was played on WNBC last night. flickr.com

Glenn Greenwald: The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired. salon.com

EV Grieve: A post-blizzard walk around Tompkins Square Park. evgrieve.com

How a planned highway can change a city, even if it never gets built. slate.com

EV Grieve: Avenue A now an M14 graveyard. evgrieve.com

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Heroic bike riding Snowpocalypse delivery guy video. This one is a must-see. flickr.com

All kinds of delivery guys ride in the #snowpocalypse, but this guy was driving a bike/cab. Video. flickr.com

Android billboard visible to drivers on the Manhattan Bridge. flickr.com

German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'. spiegel.de

Leon Redbone And Dr John sing "Frosty The Snowman." youtube.com

@berzerkeley -- this song is for you youtube.com

NYC webcams operated by the DOT. nyctmc.org

Latest NYC Snowpocalypse pic. flickr.com

Who We Are - Archiveteam. archiveteam.org

Snow is starting to stick in Manhattan. flickr.com

EV Grieve is covering the STORM OF THE CENTURY (with hysteria). evgrieve.com

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Scripting News: Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech? Same issue the NYT raised for banking applies to tech. scripting.com

I didn't know that Wired has a How-To Wiki. howto.wired.com

2008 NYT Mag piece on the real estate bust in Maricopa, AZ. nytimes.com

Snow Heads North After Dusting South. nytimes.com

Blizzard warning for NYC, tomorrow through Monday. forecast.weather.gov

Finally, the NYT takes an editorial stand on attempts to shut down WikiLeaks. nytimes.com

Friday, December 24, 2010

Bianca Jagger on the Swedish rape charges and the Guardian's coverage. wlcentral.org

Christmas Eve horse-drawn cab ride on 59th St. flickr.com

Vivienne Gucwa on photographing the East Village at night. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Le Monde names WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Man of the Year. wlcentral.org

TorrentFreak: Music Is Better Off On BitTorrent, Than With Apple or Big Music. torrentfreak.com

The Illusionist opens tomorrow in NY and LA. google.com

Hacker News: Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech? The discussion is worth checking out. news.ycombinator.com

Steve Jobs kicks WikiLeaks out of the iTunes App Store. edibleapple.com

I took a new headshot for the Atlantic version of my latest piece. flickr.com

Can We Use Amazon's Cloud for Free Speech? - Dave Winer - Technology - The Atlantic. theatlantic.com

Scripting News: Can we use S3 and EC2 to host free speech? scripting.com

Sarah Palin Uses Info Gleaned From 'Treasonous' WikiLeaks To Pen Op-Ed On Dangers Of Iran. huffingtonpost.com

What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010. salon.com

Thursday, December 23, 2010

"Hello. My name is James Mason and I speak like I have marbles in my mouth." mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

"On Christmas Day you go to a lot of movies." scripting.com

Mark Levine: If WikiLeaks Is Too Dangerous for iTunes, Then So Am I. huffingtonpost.com

Julian Assange: my fate will rest in Cameron's hands if US charges me. guardian.co.uk

Interesting concept -- "structured blogging." twitter.com

Lineup for the NakedJen Film Festival 2010/NYC. Black Swan, True Grit, Tron, King's Speech, Somewhere, Rabbit Hole. scripting.com

Wikileaks donations still flowing, but not to Assange legal fund. m.thelocal.de

Norway's top diplomat finds WikiLeaks fascinating. reuters.com

This is a small piece of a photo I took from the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. flickr.com

Facebook Appears To Be Blocking All (Bit.ly Operated) j.mp Links. techcrunch.com

Don't kid yourself: The Senate's still broken. salon.com

Cunard's 3 queens to rendezvous Jan. 13 in NY Harbor. newyorkology.com

I love the pics the Canon EOS 5D takes. This one taken in the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday is esp nice. flickr.com

Beyond Twitter: What's Next for Designers in 2011. runway.blogs.nytimes.com

Facebook VS Odnoklassniki. owni.eu

If someone says they don't like RSS (or worse), show them wikiriver.org

Scripting News: I need a node.js module that does JSONP. scripting.com

Scripting News: A node.js module that does JSONP. scripting.com

Billboard on the FDR Drive: If you store your stuff outside the city, it may come back Republican. flickr.com

Amazon is selling all five seasons of The Wire on DVD for $75. amazon.com

Cables and wires and the cool Gehry apt building by City Hall. flickr.com

It was cold and blustery yesterday on the Brooklyn Bridge. But what a view! flickr.com

Google Buys Giant New York Building for $1.9 Billion. wired.com

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

@mathewi -- check this out -- webecologyproject.org

Scripting News: Walking the bridges. scripting.com

Om: Editing the Playlist of My Life. gigaom.com

Took the new camera on a walk over the East River bridges today. flickr.com

MasterCard is willing to stop processing transactions from sites trafficking in pirated music. news.cnet.com

To unload their unwanted stuff, a Texas couple hired an estate sale company rather than conduct it themselves. nytimes.com

Norway's largest newspaper has the full collection of cables, and got them without a deal with WikiLeaks. wlcentral.org

"Somewhere" from Sofia Coppola is a sure-thing for this year's #NJFF. movies.nytimes.com

There's now a BerkeleySide iPhone app. berkeleyside.com

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to become member of Australian journalists' union. news.com.au

15 Ice Skating Rinks in New York. aaany.com

Wikiriver: One Stop Shop For All Wikileaks Coverage. readwriteweb.com

Proof, via Wikileaks, that the MPAA and RIAA own the US government. In black and white. No wonder they want to stop it. arstechnica.com

How Wikileaks killed Spain's anti-P2P law. arstechnica.com

"If you want to find the cause of something, it's never as simple as one gender doing it to the other." scripting.com

Scripting News: Buchheit on why Google will never catch Facebook. scripting.com

RSS never goes down. r2.ly

How Obama can stop a GOP redistricting bonanza. r2.ly

Great. Skype is Down. thenextweb.com

CIA launches "WikiLeaks Task Force Launched" or W.T.F. :-) huffingtonpost.com

WikiLeaks cables: US intervened in Michael Moore NZ screening. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: Assange's rape charges (grabbing the third rail). scripting.com

@scobleizer, there's no way around the largeness. Come to NYC. We have small impromptu meetups all the time. scobleizer.com

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving. hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Obama administration readies indefinite detention order for Guantanamo detainees. washingtonpost.com

Does the GOP want the economy to fail? tnr.com

Hot street food on a cold day. flickr.com

Something new: "Eleven Republicans broke with their party." salon.com

Robotic Surgery Makes Progress, Causes Controversy. fastcompany.com

Someone's home. flickr.com

Roll Your Own Human Powered Botnet with Pawnfarm. webecologyproject.org

Scripting News: Google Maps now show subway routes. scripting.com

Why Apple Removed WikiLeaks App From Its Store. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks' Assange fires back at The Guardian to competitor. news.yahoo.com

Scripting News: Users creating products for users. scripting.com

Raising money for a hackable, open hardware-based USB protocol analyzer. boingboing.net

Scripting News: New camera, new eyes. scripting.com

Our breakfast came with a EULA. :-) flickr.com

Breakfast this morning was at the beautiful Noho Star. flickr.com

Along with a great new camera, you get new eyes. Look at the detail in this picture. Whew. flickr.com

$2tn debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities. guardian.co.uk

Apple pulls WikiLeaks app from App Store. metro.co.uk

Net Neutrality For Poets. blog.joemoreno.com

Monday, December 20, 2010

Heathrow before they gave up last Saturday morning. flickr.com

New Yorkers conversing over lunch. flickr.com

I agree with @gruber, it's time to clean up the titles of web pages, esp titles of stories people are likely to share. daringfireball.net

How one upper bracketeer will spend his windfall from the extension of the Bush tax cuts. nytimes.com

If you're confused about WikiLeaks, read http://wikiriver.org/ once a day for three days and the confusion will go away. wikiriver.org

Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators. dealbook.nytimes.com

My net neutrality/hypocrisy piece is running on Huffington. huffingtonpost.com

The camera is a Canon EOS 5D. One of my father's cameras. So it's like we're taking the pics together. flickr.com

Grant Lets ‘Frontline' Expand PBS Programming. Good news, Frontline is great television. nytimes.com

Dylan Brody: Julian Assange is a Sideshow; the Documents Should Take Center Stage. huffingtonpost.com

WikiLeaks cables, day 20: summary of today's key points. guardian.co.uk

One of the first pics taken with my hot new camera. flickr.com

Doc Searls was our guest on today's podcast. flickr.com

MP3 of today's Rebooting the News. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

"We urge all governments to respect freedom of the press, whether the news originates online or offline." techwithoutborders.org

Github repo for managing translations of http://techwithoutborders.org/. techwithoutborders.org

hippieleaks.org

Scripting News: How to follow the WikiLeaks story. scripting.com

German Interior Minister: "WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat." spiegel.de

FoxNews.com - WikiLeaks: Yemen nuclear material was unsecured. foxnews.com

Internet porn block 'not possible' say ISPs. bbc.co.uk

Reporters Sans Frontieres - Open letter to President Obama and General Attorney Holder. en.rsf.org

techwithoutborders.org

U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011. state.gov

New Whistleblowing Sites. wlcentral.org

So Long To Ya, 2010 by JibJab. sendables.jibjab.com

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. scripting.com

Sunday, December 19, 2010

What We Learn From WikiLeaks: Media paint flattering picture of U.S. diplomacy. fair.org

How Twitter and del.icio.us are alike. scripting.com

Les Orchard worked on Delicious at Yahoo, and has some ideas about the future of bookmarking. decafbad.com

Andrew Kreig: Rove Suspected In Swedish-U.S. Political Prosecution of WikiLeaks. huffingtonpost.com

WikiLeaks cables: How US 'second line of defence' tackles nuclear threat. guardian.co.uk

"Net neutrality" -- now that would be a good idea.. memex.naughtons.org

People get happier as they get older. economist.com

Joe Biden is a modern-day coward, says this tweeter. guardian.co.uk

Apparently it's now possible to give money to WikiLeaks online if you're in Europe. payments.datacell.com

Scripting News: Net neutrality is hypocrisy. scripting.com

The High Line's next 10-block section is due to open in the spring. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

@scobleizer, this looks like a good lens to start wtih? bhphotovideo.com

Welcome to the Stalinist version of the United States of America. foxnews.com

@scobleizer, since you're going to Davos this year, maybe you can influence Dr Schwab to change his mind about Assange. swissinfo.ch

Of course Assange isn't welcome at Davos. It's for the rich and their PR people. swissinfo.ch

BitTorrent Domain Exodus Continues As Torrentz Dumps .COM. torrentfreak.com

Swedish Police Report Details Case Against Assange. nytimes.com

BitTorrent Domain Exodus Continues As Torrentz Dumps .COM. torrentfreak.com

Saturday, December 18, 2010

A woman who cannot feel afraid because of a missing structure in her brain. bbc.co.uk

Violinist is one of six Americans to be able to recall details from almost every day in their lives. myupperwest.com

WikiLeaks cables: UN offered Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement overseas. guardian.co.uk

Downtown Flushing. flickr.com

The Words of the Year, 2010. nytimes.com

Betsy Devine on being a Mom. betsydevine.com

Weekend Nor'easter is a No Go. weather.com

This is the "benevolent dictatorship" of Silicon Valley that @rmack was talking about. Get out of the way of evolution. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Microsoft says Kinect sex games will not pass certification. That's so ridiculous. It's totally safe sex. Crazy. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Scripting News: Question for JSON gurus. scripting.com

Nor'easter Ahead? weather.com

Rebecca MacKinnon (2008): Silicon Valley's benevolent dictatorship. rconversation.blogs.com

10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange. guardian.co.uk

Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks. salon.com

Friday, December 17, 2010

Bank of America Refuses to Process Transactions That May be Destined for WikiLeaks. wlcentral.org

The House Judiciary Committee on Wikileaks. wlcentral.org

Friday's bookmarks. protoblogger.com

Twitter is my del.icio.us. scripting.com

Bookmark this, Yahoo! rexblog.com

1R7: A tasty clone of Delicious, built in 24 hours.. thenextweb.com

Lunch today: http://www.yelp.com/biz/trattoria-toscana-new-york (Very nice.) yelp.com

UN chief says WikiLeaks makes diplomacy difficult. foxnews.com

The most reliable (and unreliable) blogging services on the Web. royal.pingdom.com

China is Changing Public Telephone Booths into Wifi hotspots. mobinode.com

OpenLeaks has a Facebook fan page. facebook.com

Pentagon denies mistreating WikiLeaks suspect. foxnews.com

WikiLeaks cables: Sudanese president 'stashed $9bn in UK banks'. guardian.co.uk

WikiLeaks applied for Knight News Challenge grant of $532,000 two years ago. techpresident.com

WikiLeaks: Peru's president has 'colossal ego'. foxnews.com

WikiLeaks cables: India revelations spark political row. guardian.co.uk

TagWalk is interesting. tagwalk.com

How Arab governments tried to silence WikiLeaks. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: How Twitter and del.icio.us are alike. scripting.com

WikiLeaks' lesson on Haiti. guardian.co.uk

All WikiLeaks news: wikiriver.org

Spiegel: US Seems 'Helpless' in the Fight against Assange. spiegel.de

Infoworld article from 1987 about my company, with a picture of my brother and myself. It's about SmallTechCo strategy. books.google.ca

WikiLeaks chief says he fears US ready to indict. foxnews.com

WikiLeaks cables: You ask, we search. guardian.co.uk

Satellite Images Of The Ghost Cities Of China. businessinsider.com

WikiLeaks broke no Australian laws. abc.net.au

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Republican senators say they'll vote against their own earmarks. washingtonpost.com

Delicious's Data Policy is Like Setting a Museum on Fire. readwriteweb.com

Scripting News: Saving del.icio.us. scripting.com

@eklawer -- try this wikiriver.org

Congress Hears WikiLeaks is ‘Fundamentally Different' From Media. wired.com

WikiRiver iPhone app (in progress). flickr.com

My hand-curated feed of WikiLeaks links. ou.rs

Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? techcrunch.com

Scripting News: wikiriver.org is flowing nicely. scripting.com

Video of Julian Assange Statement After His Release on Bail. thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

Christmas Day: The Nakedjen Film Festival. I'm going to be doing the NJFF in NY this year. Would you like to join me? nakedjen.com

Quote of the Day: Nader Warns of a Wikileaks-Inspired Internet Crackdown. techpresident.com

Attn online news orgs. Do you have a WikiLeaks news feed? If so, it should be in this subscription list: wikiriver.org

All 251,286 US Embassy cable, listed with date, location and tags. But no text. google.com

Jonathan Stray: Does journalism work? jonathanstray.com

Nieman Foundation Conference: From Watergate to WikiLeaks: Journalism and Secrecy in the New Media Age. wlcentral.org

Jonathan Stray: In 2011, news orgs will finally start to move past the borders of their own content. niemanlab.org

@necolas @martimedia -- wikiriver.org

WikiLeaks cables: Fidel Castro almost died in 2006. guardian.co.uk

@necolas -- wikiriver.org

Neener neener neener. m.youtube.com

EV Grieve: An intersection that hasn't really remained nearly the same. evgrieve.com

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder. nytimes.com

A very nice JSON-based rendering of wikiriver.org items. A bootstrap that's working. crashbang.co.nz

Better every day: wikiriver.org

WikiLeaks: BP Azerbaijan Blowout Similar To Deepwater Horizon 18 Months Later. huffingtonpost.com

"Twitter costs me a lot more than I get from it." blog.wekeroad.com

Scripting News: New WikiLeaks documentary. All four segments on one page. scripting.com

First part of a four-part documentary on WikiLeaks. Eye-opening. youtube.com

WikiLeaks cables: Chevron discussed oil project with Tehran, claims Iraqi PM. guardian.co.uk

I have a copy of Radio UserLand running on one of my servers. Haven't looked at it in a long time. scripting.com

"Around Washington Boehner is known as a chain-smoking, Merlot-swilling, golf-loving conservative hardliner." opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

My submission for Tweet-Of-Most-Gravitas-2010. twitter.com

"There's an unsurprising tension between corporations and perpetuity." george08.blogspot.com

Julian Assange in Berkeley. zunguzungu.wordpress.com

Thomas is right. Flickr, if Yahoo isn't interested, could be spun off. It's a great product. I use it all the time. thomashawk.com

Scripting News: How to set up Apache on Windows. scripting.com

WikiLeaks Contender ‘Promising', Analysts Say. wired.com

China has launched "Red" Twitter. Its messages are designed to promote revolutionary spirit. telegraph.co.uk

Cable: Cubans say Jamaica lax on fighting drugs. foxnews.com

Scene from Woody Allen's "The Front," about blacklisting of writers during the McCarthy Era in the US. youtube.com

Dave Winer: There's no good place for a new Maginot Line for the news. niemanlab.org

My hand-curated feed of WikiLeaks links. Fills in the gaps until the news orgs get more feeds going. static.newsriver.org

MPAA Shuts Down 29 BitTorrent and NZB Sites. torrentfreak.com

Ooooh the project to render rivers more beautifully is making nice progress. tubejumper.com

A sad day for the US if the Espionage Act is used against WikiLeaks. guardian.co.uk

In NY, we call this "chutzpah." thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

In any case, instead of "couch potato" (which is subtle but I stand by) I probably should have said "hamster cage." scripting.com

Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME. time.com

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Holbrooke's Last Words: "You've Got to Stop this War in Afghanistan." cbsnews.com

US Air Force blocks NYT, Guardian over WikiLeaks. itnews.com.au

US Army wants to equip all soldiers with an Apple iPhone or Android phone. appleinsider.com

Lennon, asked if Starr was the best drummer in the world, replied, "He's not even the best drummer in The Beatles!" en.wikipedia.org

Scripting News: Attn people using my JSON. scripting.com

Officially, Let It Be (1970) was the last Beatles album, but Ringo (1973) was totally a Beatles album. Esp good one imho. en.wikipedia.org

Amazon, WikiLeaks and the Need for an Open Cloud. Great to see this idea showing up in the tech press. gigaom.com

twitterleaks.net

martimedia: River of News, consuming a JSONP data feed. martimedia.blogspot.com

Scripting News: One great thing about WikiLeaks. scripting.com

Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange. dailykos.com

Last night I asked for help finding WikiLeaks-related feeds. This morning, we have http://wikiriver.org/ a river of WikiLeaks news. Thanks! wikiriver.org

"I do not understand why so much ire is directed at Assange and so little at the New York Times." Amen. voices.washingtonpost.com

Al Ries does a little Re-positioning of his iPhone prediction. rexblog.com

Amazon's WikiLeaks Response Threatens Cloud Computing. blogs.wsj.com

Monday, December 13, 2010

Salon has a WikiLeaks topic page -- great! -- but they don't appear to have a corresponding feed. salon.com

ELPA�S is one of the pubs getting feeds directly from WikiLeaks, but they don't seem to have an RSS feed for WL news. elpais.com

Scripting News: Request for feeds: News orgs with WikiLeaks feeds. scripting.com

Espionage Act makes felons of us all. blogs.computerworld.com

Walkin in My Winter Underwear. youtube.com

Music Blogs Caught Up in Labels' Online Piracy Fight. nytimes.com

John Boehner, sensitive Republican hero. salon.com

January 24: The first Berkeleyside Local Business Forum. berkeleyside.com

Virginia judge rules parts of health care reform unconstitutional. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

MP3 of today's just-recorded Rebooting the News. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Scripting News: A Web Trust to publish and store our creative work. scripting.com

Back-of-the-envelope scribbles about a Web Trust to publish and store our creative work. scripting.com

Rebooting the News coming up live at 12 noon Eastern, 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

This is the song we're going to open Rebooting the News with in about 1/2 hour from now. youtube.com

Twitter Spam Attack Tied to Gawker Security Breach. readwriteweb.com

Wikileaks.org domain comes back online, helped by new DNS providers. thenextweb.com

2010-12-13: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cablegate coverage | WL Central. wlcentral.org

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Ron Paul, G.O.P. Loner, Comes In From Cold. nytimes.com

Defenders of WikiLeaks Swarmed the Wrong Target. nytimes.com

Amazon hit by web service failure. bbc.co.uk

Video of Metrodome Collapsing. fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks CableGate: Weekend Updates. cbsnews.com

Scripting News: The Paywall may be journalism's Maginot Line. scripting.com

Scripting News: How to tame a Linux server? scripting.com

Scripting News: How to set up Apache on Windows. scripting.com

Brooklyn's Williamsburg becomes new front line of the gentrification battle. guardian.co.uk

Abandoned on Everest. godheadv.blogspot.com

Webcam view of the snow falling in Madison, WI. unionsouth1.doit.wisc.edu

Moustache. Heheeehehehheeehh. twitter.com

40 Linux Shell Commands for Beginners. fortystones.com

Saturday, December 11, 2010

EV Grieve thanks all the drunk Santas who visited the East Village today. evgrieve.com

Gawker Media is compromised. The responsible parties reach out to TNW.. thenextweb.com

It's true, there were #drunksantas all over Manhattan today! walkingoffthebigapple.com

Hacker News | Wondering if you are getting a CR-48? Look for your zipcode here.. news.ycombinator.com

So if Wikipedia is the web's encyclopedia, where is the web's user's manual? scripting.com

Scripting News: Moon missions. scripting.com

Airbus A380 engine failure a big setback for automated airliners. blogs.law.harvard.edu

WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy. guardian.co.uk

When someone filibusters, they actually fill the room with their bust. nytimes.com

Jay Rosen and the Watchdog Web. blogs.law.harvard.edu

WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers. guardian.co.uk

Word of the day: Peppy. google.com

Richard Nixon's Racist Tapes: Blacks Will Help America in "500 Years," Only If They're "Inbred". blogs.villagevoice.com

Arianna at #pdfleaks (video). flickr.com

The view from the panel at #pdfleaks. flickr.com

Incompetent BitTorrent Researchers Strike Again. torrentfreak.com

The New York subway-map wars, continued. capitalnewyork.com

2010-12-11: WikiLeaks in today's media: Cablegate coverage | WL Central. wlcentral.org

WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy. guardian.co.uk

Friday, December 10, 2010

This is amazing: http://riverofnews.glowdart.com/ -- it's my personal river, flowing through the glowdart engine, thanks to JSONP. :-) riverofnews.glowdart.com

Warner Bros. Finally Realizes That 'Pirates' Are Underserved Customers. techdirt.com

WikiLeaks fans should think before they botnet. news.cnet.com

C-SPAN2 Live Stream. c-span.org

NYT: Mr. Sanders Goes to C-SPAN. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Bernie is still up there. flickr.com

Ben Trask's entry in the "River of News" freestyle competition. bentrask.com

Nick Bradbury: Why I Decided to Charge for FeedDemon Again. nick.typepad.com

Chrome OS Doesn't Trust Apps Or Users. tech.slashdot.org

Want To Know Why Visa and Mastercard Cut Off Wikileaks? Because Its Latest Leak Was About Them. techdirt.com

Jennifer 8. Lee: Preparing For "The Colbert Report". huffingtonpost.com

On CSPAN2 Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont filibusters the tax bill, the old fashioned way by speaking. flickr.com

Senate Republicans Filibuster 9/11 Health Bill. nyulocal.com

Putin leads backlash over WikiLeaks boss detention. smh.com.au

Are the American people obsolete? salon.com

ReadWriteWeb's ChromeOS Review: It's Cheap, Fast, Disposable and Frustrating. readwriteweb.com

Anonymous Wikileaks supporters mull change in tactics. bbc.co.uk

Angry Birds have something to say today at 9AM Eastern (I think, if I did the math correctly.) elisa.com

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Scripting News: My JSONP River of News. scripting.com

Scripting News: JSONP questions. scripting.com

The TED Commandments. swiss-miss.com

"Our press has never come to terms with the ways in which it got itself on the wrong side of secrecy after September 11th" pressthink.org

They're having an *excellent* discussion of my last piece on Ed Cone's blog. edcone.typepad.com

How to remain calm, despite what's about to happen to your Chrome notebook. youtube.com

Berkeley Blog: Wikileaks Is Boring; U.S. Gov. Should Hire Them Hackers. whoisylvia.typepad.com

Dutch Arrest Teen for Pro-Wikileaks Attack on Visa and Mastercard Websites. wired.com

Larry Dignan: My Google Chromebook has arrived: First impressions after an hour. zdnet.com

As an EasyDNS user I read this email with some interest and fear. scripting.com and opml.org are based there. blog.easydns.org

Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps. techcrunch.com

Verizon 4G network zips, but all that data will cost you. usatoday.com

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Scripting News: Are we starting a full-out war on the Internet? scripting.com

Stuxnet: It's the real thing, baby. ricks.foreignpolicy.com

Scripting News: WikiLeaks flash conference in NYC on Saturday. scripting.com

Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked. searchengineland.com

PayPal Releases Funds to WikiLeaks. emoney.allthingsd.com

Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback' blogs.abcnews.com

Anonymous Ousted from Twitter and Facebook. readwriteweb.com

If you want Web privacy, stop being such a freeloader. Pay for it. slate.com

WikiLeaks: Who are the hackers behind Operation Payback? guardian.co.uk

Truly Decentralized BitTorrent Downloading Has Finally Arrived. torrentfreak.com

BTW, at least some WikiLeaks content is available through Google. google.com

Free weekend skating at Central Park's Wollman Rink. newyorkology.com

Must-listen-to Glenn Greenwald on the Brian Lehrer show about Wikileaks. salon.com

Symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom on Saturday in NYC. us1.campaign-archive.com

Scripting News: How Protoblogger.com works. scripting.com

Gowalla Set to Check In at Sundance Film Festival. wired.com

True to its word, WikiLeaks releases more cables despite founder's arrest. timesofindia.indiatimes.com

How Wikileaks has woken up journalism. emilybellwether.wordpress.com

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Wikileaks Cable Shows US Involvement in Swedish Anti-Piracy Efforts. torrentfreak.com

Protoblogger. A small step toward my independence from Twitter. protoblogger.com

Jay did a kickass summary of RBTN #75 re the myriad confusing implications of the emerging WikiLeaks story. rebootnews.com

Elizabeth Edwards Dies of Cancer at 61. nytimes.com

WikiLeaks cables: Lockerbie bomber freed after Gaddafi's 'thuggish' threat. guardian.co.uk

Users can now read full Kindle books online. arstechnica.com

WikiLeaks: US Senator Joe Lieberman suggests New York Times could be investigated. guardian.co.uk

Gabe must be on a plane to Paris or something. :-) scripting.com

I just applied to be in the "pilot program" for Chrome OS. Actually I *groveled* to be in the pilot program. :-) google.com

Guys Never Stop Wanting Sex. theawl.com

Matt Terenzio says it's impossible to use Amazon web services for journalism. He has a point. scripting.com

There Are No Deficit Hawks In Congress. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Clay Shirky Joins Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU. (That's where I'm a visiting scholar.) journalism.nyu.edu

JavaScript developers, this is what you should build a reader for. It updates at least once every 10 minutes with news. daveriver.scripting.com

Interesting that Pete Cashmore is up for Times POTY, but Julian Assange isn't. What. Say what. time.com

A search for "wikileaks" doesn't turn up very many hits, however. twitter.com

Scripting News: My JSON River of News. (Something of a breakthrough.) scripting.com

Amazon proves that REST doesn't matter for Cloud APIs. stage.vambenepe.com

Monday, December 06, 2010

Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday. computerworld.com

If This Is Working Together, I'll Take Gridlock. capitalgainsandgames.com

Wikileaks Now Mirrored at 500 Sites Around Globe. theatlantic.com

ESPN will suffer as cable declines. Easy fix: Offer the same service, unbundled, via the net. gigaom.com

Scripting News: My JSON River of News. scripting.com

Why a Day of Tumblr Down Time Matters to the Entire Web and World. readwriteweb.com

It's true -- it's harder to be middle class in America these days. google.com

April 2009: We. Are. What. They. Are. Going. To. Sell. scripting.com

Google Books fail page is a play on Twitter's fail whale. books.google.com

The song for today's Rebooting The News (goes with the cold snowy weather we're having in NYC). youtube.com

Pre-show notes for today's Rebooting the News, starting in 21 minutes. rebootnews.com

Scripting News: Boycott Amazon? Not doing it. scripting.com

Scripting News: A feature request for blogging tool vendors. scripting.com

Have You Seen The Video Of All The Old TV Stars Lip-Syncing "Let It Be?". theawl.com

Rebooting the News podcast at noon Eastern today. blogtalkradio.com

Announcing Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS. aws.amazon.com

Uruguay says the President should look into mcconnel's eyes and tell him (paraphrasing) to fuck off. nytimes.com

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Questions About Why Wikileaks Hasn't Trended On Twitter. studentactivism.net

Berkeley Apple Store designs show building changes. berkeleyside.com

"Wikileaks is unstoppable. But so is human stupidity." scripting.com

Preview: River of News in JSON. news.ycombinator.com

Sunny Washington Square Park with snow. "Coming soon." flickr.com

Chicago Tribune profile of Groupon founder. chicagotribune.com

Why Twitter Singled Out TwitterSearch.com. domainnamewire.com

McConnell's Reality Distortion Field on Tax Cuts. cbsnews.com

"See the problem isn't that WikiLeaks is lying, the problem is that they're telling the truth" reddit.com

Scripting News: President Mitch McConnell. scripting.com

Scripting News: The origin of podcasting. scripting.com

Twitter Goes After Twittersearch.com. techcrunch.com

The "invention" of podcasting took place in NYC in October 2000. Almost exactly 10 years ago. scripting.com

Saturday, December 04, 2010

WikiLeaks serves the global community by keeping governments in check. tech.mit.edu

Like It or Not, WikiLeaks is a Media Entity. gigaom.com

WikiLeaks site's Swiss host dismisses pressure to take it offline. guardian.co.uk

With Domain Name Seizures Increasing, It's Time For A Decentralized DNS System. techdirt.com

"Obama has seemingly surrendered his once-considerable abilities to act, decide or think." nytimes.com

My pet hamster is pretty cute. flickr.com

My friend @berzerkeley has a toy duck. Photographic evidence. --> twitpic.com

WikiLeaks "cablegate" archive in BitTorrent form. torrents.thepiratebay.org

WikiLeaks - Mass Mirroring our website. 46.59.1.2

However, if you're ever in Whitestone, this place has *wonderful* bagels. Have yet to find a great bagel in Manhattan. yelp.com

Went with Ess-A-Bagel, and -- not such a good bagel. Not as good as the long-gone neighborhood place in Bay Terrace. yelp.com

Serious Eats Finds New York's Best Bagel. newyork.seriouseats.com

Scripting News: Web server nerdvana. scripting.com

Best bagel in East Village? chowhound.chow.com

Hacker News thread on yesterday's WikiLeaks piece. Great discussion from lots of angles. news.ycombinator.com

Did I miss the NYT editorial saying the govt should keep its hands off WikiLeaks? topics.nytimes.com

Wikileaks news feed. wlcentral.org

Scripting News: A perfect Wikileaks storm for Berkman. scripting.com

Medical Marijuana Is Closer to Market in New Jersey. nytimes.com

John F. Kennedy On Why WikiLeaks Matters. themoderatevoice.com

Ron Paul stands up for Julian Assange, for the right reasons. politico.com

PayPal Cuts WikiLeaks' Access to Funds. businessweek.com

Why the Library of Congress Is Blocking Wikileaks. blogs.loc.gov

Friday, December 03, 2010

Does the World Need a Data Haven for WikiLeaks Info? gigaom.com

Here's a question for the people who run newspapers. Why didn't you guys create Groupon? Wasn't that your business model? groupon.com

CBS News Poll: Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan. cbsnews.com

Leaked Cables Stir Resentment and Shrugs. nytimes.com

July 30: WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance' File. wired.com

Scripting News: WikiLeaks on the run. scripting.com

Wikileaks Mirrors. wikileaks.info

WikiLeaks vanishes from web as US company removes DNS support. guardian.co.uk

Google to Buy New York Office Building. online.wsj.com

Meet Cloud Picker, Google's Stealthy New Storage Product. techcrunch.com

Thursday, December 02, 2010

"Readers are invited to help us sift through the cables." thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

WikiLeaks Cables Describe Scale of Afghan Corruption as Overwhelming. Good. Now maybe we can start dealing with reality. atwar.blogs.nytimes.com

Spoke with a Bahsten accent: "It's a lark, a spark, and a walk in the park." movies.nytimes.com

EV Grieve: What a $25 rental from 100 years ago should cost today. evgrieve.com

Union Square the hub of the known universe. flickr.com

Tallest building in NYC. flickr.com

Crazy sidewalk street scene. One of the best pictures I've taken in NYC. Look at all that's going on. flickr.com

Scripting News: Union Square, the hub of the known universe. scripting.com

Scripting News: Walking in Manhattan. scripting.com

BREAKING: House passes tax cut extension. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

McCain is the kid who shoots spitballs and cackles under his breath. He's the Beavis and Butthead of the Senate.. salon.com

Scripting News: Dan deletes his Twitter account. scripting.com

Wikileaks Fallout in Pakistan. atwar.blogs.nytimes.com

Offering A Sublet For The Holidays. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

The New York Times Introduces The Evolution of the Hyperlink. thenextweb.com

@marshallk -- I've been fixing up stuff on my site, and of course http://badhair.us/ was broken, but it's working again. :-) scripting.com

BloggerCon Unconference Format. This is where the idea originated. bloggercon.org

For Flipboard, Future is RSS. gigaom.com

WikiLeaks slams Amazon over dumping. neowin.net

LastPass Buys Xmarks. kara.allthingsd.com

In the last RBTN, @jayrosen_nyu wondered if Google would do anything about the nasty eyeglass guy in Brooklyn. They did. googleblog.blogspot.com

The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics. salon.com

The Dickishness Of The GOP. Amen. They must be destroyed and deleted. Enough. They're worse than the Taliban. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Scripting News: A server for testing FeedHose apps. scripting.com

Senator Lieberman protects America from information, silly new hopes for filibuster reform, and pirate news. salon.com

Ethan Zuckerman: If Amazon has silenced Wikileaks... ethanzuckerman.com

The Hyperlink Grows Up: The Times Releases New Linking Features. theatlantic.com

Amazon Bows To US Censorship Pressure: Refuses To Host Wikileaks. techdirt.com

Fine, but Gawker isn't a blog, it's a professionally edited news site. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Senate GOP letter calls for blocking most bills. washingtonpost.com

Use open formats and protocols, avoid corporate APIs. open.blogs.nytimes.com

Verizon to launch new high-speed service on Sunday. reuters.com

Solving peanut brittle WinerLinks, part one. (WordPress questions) danielbachhuber.com

Scripting News: Suggestion for Amazon S3 and static sites. scripting.com

Do we really own Wikipedia? scripting.com

Seth's Blog: Who owns Wikipedia? sethgodin.typepad.com

Oxygen atmosphere found on Saturn's moon Rhea. sciencedaily.com

EV Grieve: Why East Village residents should still fear NYU's expansion plans. evgrieve.com

A new picture appears every 15 seconds. afp.scripting.com

10 Beautiful Web UI libraries. woork.blogspot.com

In December 2000 I wrote the foreword for Joel Spolsky's first book. scripting.com

Wordpress.com puts ads on a site that we pay them to host. That's just plain wrong. rebootnews.com

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Eyes Wide Open � AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com 11/29/2010. awkwardfamilyphotos.com

10 years ago today: Bootstrapping. scripting.com

Latkes and shiksas. scripting.com

Winamp for Android Offers Wireless Sync, Streaming and More. readwriteweb.com

Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog. lifehacker.com

BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures. Oh man. This is going to be useful!! torrentfreak.com

Scripting News: WinerLinks and outliners. scripting.com

Scripting News: I'd love to buy a podcast player. scripting.com

Digging into the finances of the Wikimedia Foundation -- please read and comment --> scripting.com

"I hope the White House is not taking any comfort from this support from beltway gasbags" digbysblog.blogspot.com

Scripting News: The Times does "WinerLinks." scripting.com

Hands-on With Facebook Alternative Diaspora [PICS]. mashable.com

Monday, November 29, 2010

Scripting News: Jimmy Wales Day on the Internet? scripting.com

Scripting News: The Times does WinerLinks. scripting.com

Scripting News: Conclusion: Dropbox and Apache don't mix. scripting.com

Supreme Court Won't Hear RIAA File Sharing Case. wired.com

Foursquare is testing a new API, but have the same vague business model as Twitter. Who would invest w/o clarity? techcrunch.com

Wikileaks Moves to Amazon Web Services. readwriteweb.com

What's wrong with OpenID? - Quora. quora.com

The Hampster Dance (via archive.org). web.archive.org

Rebooting the News #74. rebootnews.com

Why does Firefox let those bad actors install plug-ins without confirming with the user? weblogs.mozillazine.org

Can't log onto my @dwcodeupdates account, and it stopped updating on Nov 6. Crackdown of some kind? Hmmm. twitter.com

60 Minutes interview with retiring Supreme Court Justice Stevens. cbsnews.com

Guess business wasn't so good for the Psychic Reader? flickr.com

The ten-year anniversary of Bush v. Gore. newyorker.com

Let's REALLY reinvent newsreading. msim2011.posterous.com

Sunday, November 28, 2010

At the dawn of W3b 2.0 was the remarkably prescient Hampster Dance site. web.archive.org

That's not a real human being lying on the mail boxes. flickr.com

New Gehry Tower Prepares for Renters. nytimes.com

I would love to live on a top floor of this huge Frank Gehry apartment house overlooking the Brooklyn Brdige. flickr.com

@r -- for you --> Nicole Kidman Renting Out West Village Condo. nytimes.com

Photos from an early winter walk in the city. flickr.com

Generating static HTML pages from WP posts. wordpress.org

How 250,000 US embassy cables were leaked. guardian.co.uk

NYT has the next Wikileaks leak. nytimes.com

Thanksgiving is a good time to remember the important things. rob.crabapples.net

I want to see the "Inside Job" movie. google.com

People need to learn how to use Google. lmgtfy.com

@corewarrior lmgtfy.com

@thekarachikid lmgtfy.com

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Berkeleyside gets a new design. berkeleyside.com

Why does Dropbox download so slowly? 5K/sec. I have no bandwidth constraints in the prefs. See the screen shot: flickr.com

"Selective Synch" in the new Dropbox is going to be very useful. scripting.com

"Tehran needs to know that the world is running out of patience." As does the G.O.P. nytimes.com

When I was a kid, after Thanksgiving dinner, my grandfather took us down to the beach and we'd build a huge bonfire. maps.google.com

The Unemployed Held Hostage, Again. nytimes.com

Dropbox CTO checks in. New version on the way. Links here.. scripting.com

"Twitter has been kneecapped due to vision poverty." technbiz.blogspot.com

SOCIAL NETWORKING IS PROHIBITED. yfrog.com

"The mistake I made in the last half of 2010 is that I got too Dropbox-happy." scripting.com

The unbearable lameness of web 2.0. blog.koehntopp.de

OpenDNS: We're Being Blocked By Verizon Wireless. dslreports.com

Scripting News: What are you learning about Dropbox? scripting.com

I'm going to do a JSON version of a my river of firehoses and see what ahppens. daveriver.scripting.com

Ben Morris: Eliminate the Computer Science major. (Not really what the post says, but I see the same thing he sees.) bendmorris.com

Lugar is the kind of Republican I could support. nytimes.com

New Wikileaks Leak Will Likely be Released Tomorrow Afternoon. gawker.com

Walked by the Apple store on 14th today, saw the Beatles on a billboard atop the building. A huge Beatles poster inside. flickr.com

Friday, November 26, 2010

What the HTTP is CouchApp? couchapp.org

Street art progresses. flickr.com

Watching TV on my iPad (using Slingplayer, video). flickr.com

People say Lombardi Pizza is the best in NYC. Haven't tried it yet myself. flickr.com

Slingbox for the iPad: Something To See Here. wired.com

Scripting News: What should Twitter's vision be? scripting.com

Twitter lacks ‘clear long term vision' admits new CEO - Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk

Lighted Boat Parade returns to NY Harbor. newyorkology.com

Dave Winer's personal river of firehoses. daveriver.scripting.com

Why do tall buildings have such silly names? bbc.co.uk

Motorino - East Village - New York, NY. yelp.com

How do I install Arc to get a Hacker News clone website? - Stack Overflow. stackoverflow.com

This website is hosted on an alarm clock. kwf.dyndns.org:5821

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Macy Parade Is for Public, but Not on 61st Street. nytimes.com

EV Grieve: FDNY Twitter account pulled after Post article? evgrieve.com

App Shopper: Burp and Fart Piano (Music). appshopper.com

Nice to see Flickr adding social networking features. You know, they could give th'other guys a run for the money. flickr.com

Apparently the artist I captured while walking around today is Kenny Scharf. flickr.com

Street artist working on Houston near Bowery. flickr.com

My Thanksgiving piece, a scripting.com tradition, is about being thankful for being dead! Seriously. :-) scripting.com

Lance Knobel's things to be thankful for about Berkeley. berkeleyside.com

Scripting News: Thanks for the memories. scripting.com

Electric bikes and motor assisted bicycles by Sanyo, Ecobike and eZeebike. nycewheels.com

Dropbox is a Y Combinator company. Here's their very revealing initial business plan. files.dropbox.com

Scripting News: Static HTTP storage in FIOS router? scripting.com

Thanks For The Memories. youtube.com

Janet Maslin's Top 10 books. nytimes.com

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Twitter Already Is a News Network. gigaom.com

Salon's #1 press douchebag. salon.com

TechCrunch helps Twitter walk back the idea that they might do unto news orgs what they've done with app devs. techcrunch.com

Salon just named Thomas Friedman the 3rd most useless pundit on the planet. Couldn't agree more. salon.com

Sarah Palin: "We Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies" #ohyoubetcha mediaite.com

Twitter co-founder hopes to create news network. It's been pretty obvious for a while this is where they're going. reuters.com

Cafe Mogador is supposed to be a very fine place for breakfast. Haven't been there yet. flickr.com

Salesforce names JP Rangaswami chief scientist. Congrats to @jobsworth! :-) zdnet.com

Krugman: "Heterodoxy is working a whole lot better than orthodoxy." krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Birth of baby captured on Google Street View. telegraph.co.uk

Last greenery in Central Park for 2010. flickr.com

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

North Korea's Very Risky Game. nytimes.com

Newsweek Joins Publishers' Move to Lower Manhattan. nytimes.com

Great Jones Cafe. nymag.com

Erruh in duh Noo Yawk Times. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Is anyone in PodcastLand happy with their CMS? scripting.com

"even the smartest investors have no idea what lies ahead" cdixon.posterous.com

U.S. Home Sales Fell Sharply in October. nytimes.com

Berkeley cannabis dispensary looking to expand. berkeleyside.com

Scripting News: Note to RBTN subscribers. scripting.com

Hey Apple, Let's Get The Screen Lock Back To The iPad Switch. gizmodo.com.au

Blacks, Jews most likely victim of US hate crimes. news.yahoo.com

What are some blogs a new startup should send press releases to. Write your own blog post and send link to Hacker News.. quora.com

Monday, November 22, 2010

How did the world end? A man named Jimmy Wales got a nuclear weapon. techcrunch.com

Israel Uses Facebook to Nab 1,000 Draft Dodgers. observer.com

Scripting News: How picture-sharing works today. scripting.com

NYC weather: Cooler By Thanksgiving. gothamist.com

"presidents who are elected tend to get reelected" talkingpointsmemo.com

Why we switched from Google App Engine to EC2. tophatmonocle.com

Scripting News: Please fix WordPress for podcast feeds. (This is a post from March, but wordpress.com is broken again.) scripting.com

East Village Experiment. jordancooper.wordpress.com

The last couple of days I've been taking a friend from Calif around NYC seeing sights. Brought the "good camera" with. flickr.com

W Union Square on a cloudless autum afternoon. flickr.com

Rebooting the News #73. rebootnews.com

The Ones That Didn't Make It: Windows' Failed Rivals. technologizer.com

Rebooting the News later today at noon Eastern. blogtalkradio.com

The Times reports that the new version of the iPad software is available now, but according to my iTunes, it's not. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

People listening to music on steps in Central Park. flickr.com

YouTube - Quick Nodejitsu Pitch for TechStars. youtube.com

"[One party] has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it's doing the governing." nytimes.com

New York State Begins Planning for Sea Level Rise: Scientific American. scientificamerican.com

Passenger strips to avoid 'naked scanner'. news.com.au

The Rich Get Richer: Verizon Ups FiOS to 150 Mbps. gigaom.com

The Rebirth of the Electric Bicycle. solarfeeds.com

John Lennon memorial in Central Park. flickr.com

Buffett Tells ABC Rich Americans Should Be Paying `A Lot' More in Taxes. bloomberg.com

Sunday, November 21, 2010

A seltzer bottle between @arikia and the camera. Alex looks on. :-) flickr.com

Newlyweds pose at fountain in Central Park earlier today. flickr.com

Why It's So Hard For NYC Startups To Hire Developers. businessinsider.com

The top of the Empire State Building viewed from the 86th Floor observation deck. flickr.com

Could She Reach the Top in 2012? You Betcha. nytimes.com

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Bryant Park ice skaters viewed from the top of the ESB. flickr.com

NYers ice skating in Bryant Park. flickr.com

The top of the Empire State Building, viewed from near the top. flickr.com

We. Are. What. They. Are. Going. To. Sell. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Scripting News: Using S3 to store a complete site. It didnt work. :-( scripting.com

How I Host My Site Using Only S3, CloudFront, and a Few Small Tools. Wish Amazon would make this easy. blog.andrewvc.com

Nicole Kidman Renting Out West Village Condo. nytimes.com

Nadie Se Conoce: Manhattan from a Window in Queens. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

Friday, November 19, 2010

"All my attitudes are Indianapolis. My adenoids are Indianapolis." nytimes.com

Incoming Speaker Takes Commercial Flight, but Skips the Pat Down. nytimes.com

Senator: Web censorship bill a "bunker-busting cluster bomb". arstechnica.com

I wonder how much Google will pay *me* not to go to Facebook? businessinsider.com

Google Engineer Gets $6 Million For Not Going To Facebook. businessinsider.com

"We're like the bacteria that make beer or yogurt." scripting.com

Mark Twain's Autobiography Is Flying Off the Shelves. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Welcome to your hamster cage! scripting.com

EV Grieve: City doesn't give a shit about these historic East Village townhouses. evgrieve.com

The New Museum. flickr.com

Scripting News: Tumblr's $25-plus miillon round. scripting.com

Joe Scarborough Suspended For Two Days For Political Donations. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Tumblr Raises Huge $25-30 M Round at $135 M Valuation. observer.com

Foursquare's New Partnership With PepsiCo Takes Focus Off of Places. fastcompany.com

Scripting News: XML-RPC keeps chuggin along. scripting.com

Palin Adviser Wanted Execution Without Trial For Convicted Terrorist Ahmed Ghailani. thinkprogress.org

Debt Collectors Stalking, Publicly Shaming People Through Facebook. alternet.org

Fox's "Nazi" rhetoric comes straight from the top. mediamatters.org

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Realtors ask Jindal to step in to address N.O. mortgage computer crisis. wwltv.com

Jessica Roy is kicking butt at -- living. jessicakroy.com

This testimonial from Ed Cone is like winning an award. :-) edcone.typepad.com

Nadie Se Conoce: NYU : Worlds Ugliest Campus Architecture. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

Cheese-eating VAT-payers. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Internet Censorship One Step Closer to Law. readwriteweb.com

N.Y.U. Abandons Plan for Tower at University Village. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Glympse looks really really cool. glympse.com

China sentences woman to labor camp for Twitter post. edition.cnn.com

Scripting News: XML-RPC keeps chuggin along. scripting.com

"We keep gettin richer but we can't get our pitcher on the cover of the Rolling Stone." youtube.com

Just heard NYC is thinking of extending the 7 train into New Jersey, and now I hear they're rethinking it. Shucks! gothamist.com

When they say the tech industry is stable and there's no room for startups, that means the bottom is about to drop out. mercurynews.com

Open ID Is A Nightmare. blog.wekeroad.com

Wired store on Bway in NYC. flickr.com

Steve Wozniak: Android will be the dominant smartphone platform -- Engadget. engadget.com

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Scripting News: What if Wes Anderson did the Zuckerberg movie? scripting.com

Real Soon Now: Video Evidence of SlingBox for iPad. wired.com

Symantec to Congress: Stuxnet is 'wake-up call'. news.cnet.com

Jay Rosen and his NYU class are looking for reporters, bloggers and news orgs who are good at explaining things. pressthink.org

Pelosi elected minority leader. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Now Over 200 Million Users A Month, Disqus Gets A New Look, Premium Add-Ons, New API. techcrunch.com

Little Green Footballs - Eric Cantor to Netanyahu: The GOP Majority Will Be a 'Check on the Obama Administration'. littlegreenfootballs.com

@AnnaTarkov -- btw, Little Green Footballs, a blog I don't usually cite, seems to agree with me on this. littlegreenfootballs.com

A reporter becomes a Berkeley realtor and blogs about Berkeley real estate. #sourcesgodirect bayareahomegirl.com

Call me anything you like, but Eric cantor is a putz for undermining his president with the leader of a foreign country. legalinsurrection.blogspot.com

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Bed bugs hitching a ride on the R train? gothamist.com

Six must-have WordPress plugins for newsrooms. 10000words.net

Calindrome Jones: Writing An Ocean, And What It Means When The World Takes Notice. npr.org

What's the best way to display a River of News in a browser? scripting.com

Very interesting: glowdart.com

Lindsey Graham and Michele Bachmann agree: No more earmarks, except for their earmarks. salon.com

Design challenge: River of News in HTML. scripting.com

Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan. gigaom.com

Great photos of destroyed Apple products. 66.196.80.202

How to Find a Bathroom When There Are No Public Bathrooms. thehairpin.com

Incoming GOP congressman wants his free government healthcare now! Republicans -- you voted for this guy!! Unreal. salon.com

GOP frosh: Where's my health care? ROTFL. politico.com

If I donate to Wikimedia, where does my money go? wikimediafoundation.org

Are the books of the Wikimedia Foundation open? Are they a non-profit? Where does the money go? Pointers much appreciated. wikimediafoundation.org

Are you a Wikipedia user who hates looking at Jimmy Wales? patrickgibson.com

TSA to investigate body scan resister. signonsandiego.com

Krugman calls on conservative economists to denounce Republican economic campaigning. Must-read. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Notorious Berkeley drug house sold. berkeleyside.com

Scripting News: Earmarks, deficits, pfui! scripting.com

There are 2 Googles: Lucy Google and Pigpen Google. rexblog.com

Monday, November 15, 2010

Dear Steve I Rip My Beatles CDs Every Two Years. techdrawl.com

Code Overtones: Why secure airports when it's planes that fly? jyro.blogspot.com

My "The Tech Industry Is a Virus" piece is going viral. Now it's on Valleywag (a publication I used to despiser). gawker.com

Scripting News: Wild speculation on iTunes announcement. scripting.com

Rebooting the News #72. rebootnews.com

Fortune.com ran this morning's "tech as virus" piece. tech.fortune.cnn.com

Rebooting the News at the top of the hour. blogtalkradio.com

"Exciting announcement from iTunes" tomorrow morning on apple.com. scripting.com

What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common. bothsidesofthetable.com

Scripting News: The tech industry is a virus. scripting.com

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Since Dubya is all mellow and shit maybe he could have a talk with Eric Cantor and tell him to STFU a little. politico.com

Code Monkeyism: Scala is Unfit for Serious Development. codemonkeyism.com

This is what an old fashioned server farm looks like in lower Manhattan. flickr.com

MG Siegler is dead, but he occasionally writes an interesting article. :-) techcrunch.com

Budget Puzzle: You Fix the Budget - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com. nytimes.com

EV Grieve: A Sunday morning. evgrieve.com

Scripting News: Barriers to entry eventually break. scripting.com

Scripting News: After fragmentation, consolidation. scripting.com

They make a wide variety of colorful and fun cages for hamsters. scripting.com

Apple Wants to Keep You Out, MacBook Teardown Shows. wired.com

Who Will Stand Up to the Superrich? nytimes.com

Scripting News: Welcome to your hamster cage! scripting.com

I usually dispute "xxx is dead" themes, esp when it's from TechCrunch, but this time I agree. techcrunch.com

Queensboro Cyclist Attack: "His Face Was Shattered" gothamist.com

a massively multiplayer twitter client. littlecosm.com

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Who are the 17 greatest innovators of the Web? - Quora. quora.com

Everyone forward this link to your moms. techcrunch.com

Thanks to TwitterFeed you can subscribe to the Hacker News firehose feed on Twitter. twitter.com

Lots of interesting comments on Hacker News about the Hacker News firehose feed. news.ycombinator.com

Is Eric Cantor a traitor? salon.com

In the Grip of the Internet Monopolists. online.wsj.com

The Hacker News firehose feed is pretty more or less fully functional. news.ycombinator.com

Amazon.com: Best of 2010: Books. amazon.com

Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance. salon.com

Friday, November 12, 2010

Pictures from a 2003 tech party in SF. crimson1.scripting.com

Aol To Unveil New Aol Mail On Sunday. techcrunch.com

@donpark -- this page has a bunch of pics of you from 2004. crimson1.scripting.com

Scott Berkun: How I almost invented RSS. scottberkun.com

Life Releases Never Before Published Photos of John F. Kennedy. pbs.org

Why Facebook Probably Isn't Launching an Email Service. fastcompany.com

Does the Wikimedia Foundation disclose what it pays its officers? wikimediafoundation.org

Drew Kime had a really good idea -- an elevated bike path. scripting.com

Interesting service: readon.ly

Scripting News: New York observations. scripting.com

"With billions of feeds updating all the time, it's pretty much like Facebook, without all the money." :-) scripting.com

Scripting News: How's the reboot of RSS going? scripting.com

Map showing where the never-built Lower Manhattan Expressway would have gone. flickr.com

Bram Cohen on the Future of BitTorrent: Video �. gigaom.com

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Here is one of Bazell's reports. msnbc.msn.com

Google Offers Staff Engineer $3.5 Million To Turn Down Facebook Offer. techcrunch.com

At NYU listening to Robert Bazell -- talk about doing science news at NBC. en.wikipedia.org

Dvorak is absolutely right about how Google screwed up image search, but he calls it "imagine" search for some reason! pcmag.com

My partner prefers emails to sex. guardian.co.uk

Porpoises rescue Dick Van Dyke. guardian.co.uk

I was walking uptown on Broadway and came across the Veterans Day parade on 5th Ave. flickr.com

The Facebook-Google spat over who controls your data. slate.com

Apple Teams With Twitter, Gives Huge Boost to iTunes, Ping. fastcompany.com

Steve Jobs calls frustrated developer after Apple rejects iPad app. appleinsider.com

Scripting News: Did you invent RSS? scripting.com

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Join the first Berkeley photowalk. berkeleyside.com

Can't believe Amazon is selling this book. amazon.com

New York City As You've Never Seen It Before. gawker.com

Beware the Garden of Steven. valleywag.gawker.com

3 lessons from Skyfire's botched iPhone launch. reviews.cnet.com

Why you're a pawn in Facebook vs. Google. news.cnet.com

Cargo plane bomb 'timed to detonate over US'. guardian.co.uk

All 58 NYT Blogs Go Dark; For Last 12 Hours, Readers Stumbling In Darkness Looking For Krugman, Pogue, Motherlode.. nytpick.com

Scripting News: Back yards vs city parks. scripting.com

Scripting News: 7 free project ideas for an academic hackathon. scripting.com

Tiny Home image - Living large in Tiny Houses (photos). news.cnet.com

Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Twinkie Dieter Loses 27 Lbs, Rush Limbaugh Approves. gothamist.com

How NYU Plans To Expand In The Village and Why Residents Are So Mad. nyulocal.com

Nadie Se Conoce: Sundown on Avenue A. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

NYU Carter Journalism Institute Accepting Applications for "The Reporting Award" Interest. nyu.edu

Really nice to have Twitter back, after it took the afternoon off. For hours it was telling me that http://twitter.com/ does not exist! :-) twitter.com

Kindle version of new Stephen King anthology costs more than hardcover version. amazon.com

@randomdeanna @minorjive -- those are called "OPML Reading Lists" -- scripting.com

Monday, November 08, 2010

Amazon Opens The Door For An Apple Newspaper Store. businessinsider.com

Is Rand Paul Already Selling Out? nationalreview.com

Bill Campbell on Coaching RockMelt and Google v. Apple. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: My Hacker News firehose. scripting.com

LimeWire Resurrected By Secret Dev Team. torrentfreak.com

banana pancakes, veselka. flickr.com

Scripting News: Unbundle our archaic cable TV system. scripting.com

Freaking colllld out there. Brrrrr. forecast.weather.gov

Rebooting the News #71. ONA, White House blogger, View From Nowhere, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Madow, Rock Melt. rebootnews.com

Rebooting the News #71 starts in 8 minutes. blogtalkradio.com

First impressions using Rockmelt in Facebook. It's a browser with a few extras. facebook.com

What It's Like to Work at Apple. jobs.aol.com

Full Hacker News database for download (posts, comments, points, date, username). news.ycombinator.com

Sunday, November 07, 2010

Scripting News: Twitter Places? Hello. Is this new?? scripting.com

First Look at RockMelt, a Browser Built For Facebook Freaks. webmonkey.com

Scripting News: Watch a billion dollars come online overnight. scripting.com

Looking for a "firehose" feed from Hacker News. news.ycombinator.com

RockMelt Unveils a Web Browser for the Facebook Era. nytimes.com

Film shoot on Bowery this Wednesday. #eastvillage flickr.com

Tea Party voters remember that we live in a banana republic, next time you vote to make the rich even richer. nytimes.com

G.O.P. Plans to Use Purse Strings to Fight Health Law. nytimes.com

Timing your startup. cdixon.org

Scripting News: Whitehouse.gov should be a hyperlocal blog. scripting.com

Very true: "We don't want complexity, but don't know how to value simplicity." techcrunch.com

5 Torrent Files That Broke Mind Boggling Records. torrentfreak.com

Saturday, November 06, 2010

New York City Marathon course map. ingnycmarathon.org

Dvorak: "Dead links are the one thing about cloud services that I have not yet complained about." pcmag.com

@gruber -- scripting.com

Scripting News: How Obama could have avoided the shellacking. scripting.com

Settled: this was the best [Berkeley] sunset ever. berkeleyside.com

Before YouTube, QuickTime ruled. Maybe that's why Apple is trying to crush Flash. scripting.com

What are those hashtags at the end of paragraphs? rexblog.com

Scripting News: Andrew Baron on QuickTime vs Flash. scripting.com

Friday, November 05, 2010

It's okay that Tom Brokaw doesn't get Twitter. rexblog.com

Olbermann's Replacement? blogs.wsj.com

The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You're Not Using. lifehacker.com

Dan Gillmor's report on the meeting at the Library of Congress re archiving our blogs. salon.com

NBC suspends Olbermann indefinitely. Unfrrrrreaking believable. salon.com

"And the patches make the goodbye harder still." youtube.com

Berkeley High freshman dies after shooting. Tragic story, great reporting. berkeleyside.com

How WeedMaps turned marijuana reviews into big business. slate.com

How good is Sprint 4G in NYC? Lots of comments, now a pretty complete story. scripting.com

Inside Job (2010) - IMDb. imdb.com

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Movie Listings for Nov. 5-11. nytimes.com

The best source of East Village news: east-village.org

No, *you're* weird. flickr.com

Scripting News: How good is Sprint 4G in NYC? (with a few interesting comments so far) scripting.com

How good is Sprint 4G in NYC? - Quora. quora.com

Scripting News: Scripting blocked by McAfee. scripting.com

Why McAfee doesn't like scripting.com. flickr.com

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

US Capitol earlier today. flickr.com

Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Ageism, out in the open, from someone who probably wouldn't say the same about women or blacks, for example. twitter.com

Blue Dog Coalition Crushed By GOP Wave Election. huffingtonpost.com

Scripting News: My notes for today's meeting at the Library of Congress. scripting.com

They Really Are Giants. nytimes.com

Daring Fireball: Regarding the Idea of iPad Apps Running on Mac OS X. daringfireball.net

Prop. 19 headed to defeat, exit polls show. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Tuesday, November 02, 2010

iOS 4.2 Beta: Indicator of a Future All-Cloud Apple? gigaom.com

George W Bush had 'sickening feeling' over WMD lack. bbc.co.uk

Scripting News: The CNN idiots are relaxing. scripting.com

Will Netflix destroy the Internet? slate.com

FiveThirtyEight's hour-by-hour, district-by-district guide for watching the election returns. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: IOS on Macintosh, Day 2. scripting.com

Outside at Think Coffee. flickr.com

@gruber -- here's a story for you -- scripting.com

Plot of a chick flick in which Sarah Palin become President. scripting.com

It's election night: Here's what some news orgs (old and new) have planned. niemanlab.org

Ryan understands why Apple will bring IOS apps to Mac. Increase the market size, better pitch for devs. twitter.com

Scripting News: I love reading Paul Krugman's blog posts. scripting.com

New MP3 for RBTN #70. rebootnews.com

Beautiful piece by Krugman about math-inspired rage. Sometimes I think I must be related to Krugman, maybe second cousins. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Paris cafe awning saves baby in seven-storey fall. reuters.com

Pretty sure we'll be running iPad apps on Macs, soon. scripting.com

Why Joan Walsh didn't boo Bush at the World Series. salon.com

Monday, November 01, 2010

Low tonight in NYC near freezing. forecast.weather.gov

Hacker News | Angry Birds on MacBook Air. news.ycombinator.com

Apple turning the Macintosh into an iPhone dock. blogs.law.harvard.edu

I thought Twitter specifically said ads would NOT appear in streams. Must have misunderstood. techcrunch.com

Scripting News: Angry Birds on MacBook Air. scripting.com

I think Steve played a little sleight of hand with us the other day when they announced the Back to the Mac business. scripting.com

Scripting News: Can you feel the morph? scripting.com

Instapaper Founder Marco Arment's Journey From Bagel Jockey to Publishing Pioneer. fastcompany.com

Apple's responsibility as a superpower. 37signals.com

Sincere Moment Steals The Show At Satirical "Rally To Restore Sanity". nyulocal.com

Junior's Cheesecake marks 60th with 60-cent slices. newyorkology.com

Why labels like "left" and "right" don't tell you anything about people, and if you use them it labels you as an "idiot." scripting.com

Legalized Pot's Unlikely Supporters: Moms And Cops. npr.org

Why conservatives should favor legalizing marijuana. cnn.com

Sunday, October 31, 2010

"Getting Things Done" sounds like "Using An Outliner." en.wikipedia.org

5 Reasons Republicans Could Do Even Better Than Expected. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

blekko | user profile for dave-winer. blekko.com

Twitter Users Take Upper Hand in Product Development. adage.com

Transsexual Scrabble player crowned as British national champion. guardian.co.uk

Welcoming Thomas Nicholas Mele to his life. flickr.com

I'm just kidding around when i call @r my Republican friend. scripting.com

Are You A Pirate? techcrunch.com

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Lisa Williams and Jay Rosen sharing ideas at #ona10. flickr.com

Just passed through Wilmington Delaware. Next stop Philadelphia. maps.google.com

MP3 for today's special RBTN podcast is available for download. Great show, lots of fun with the live group. rebootnews.com

Scripting News: Why the MacBook Air (11-inch version) is a win. scripting.com

Scripting News: Watch the ONA10 session live here. scripting.com

Notes for Rebooting the News #70: Special Live Edition at Online News Association. rebootnews.com

Baratunde was sitting cross from me so I took his pic. flickr.com

This is the room we're going to do our podcast in at 12:45PM (about an hour from now). flickr.com

I hate that we bailed out the banks and car companies. Does that make me a conservative or a liberal? scripting.com

Amtrak's free wifi not too bad. Not bad at all. speedtest.net

Scripting News: How using labels like liberal or lefty labels *you*. scripting.com

A special Rebooting The News today from the Online News Assoc in Washington at 12:45PM. Will be on BTR, Murphy-willing. blogtalkradio.com

In Senate Races, New Republican Blood Is Mostly Old. nytimes.com

"The confidence U.S. policy makers had that the country could avoid the economic fate of Japan is now waning." nytimes.com

Friday, October 29, 2010

Scripting News: Yes on Prop 19. scripting.com

Is Proposition 19 Going Up in Smoke? fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

@kim bigassmessage.com

Too Stoned To Figure Out Prop 19, Please Help? sfappeal.com

Florida bans jurors from tweeting, blogging. news.cnet.com

An important message. bigassmessage.com

Twitter should buy this website for $10 million. bigassmessage.com

Think Coffee locations, via NYU Local. nyulocal.com

If we want bike lanes to work, more bikes have to use them. scripting.com

Scripting News: First post from AiryBook. scripting.com

The only way bike lanes in NYC are going to work is if a lot more people use them for biking (in the right direction, btw) scripting.com

My first report on the 11-inch Airbook. Summary: Apple is cheap and expensive, at the same time. scripting.com

Krugman on what to expect after the election. nytimes.com

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Scripting News: First few hours with the new AiryBook. scripting.com

Scripting News: New York as a bike-riding Amsterdam. scripting.com

Scripting News: My East Side ride. scripting.com

Here's Our Mark Zuckerberg Halloween Mask. gawker.com

Williamsburg Bridge. flickr.com

@Zee -- http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/winerlinks/ -- but be careful not to insert or delete paragraphs after publishing wordpress.org

Scripting News: It's a wrap. scripting.com

Chris Gulker dies, and it's covered on his personal blog, by his wife. He died at 7:30PM "with the Giants in the lead.." gulker.com

Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating. blog.okcupid.com

Scripting News: My airy book. scripting.com

23Video takes the fight to Brightcove and Ooyala, with a Wordpress for enterprise video. eu.techcrunch.com

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Karl Rove questions Sarah Palin's suitability for president. telegraph.co.uk

Doc Searls Weblog: "In two months there will be frozen slush on the ground" blogs.law.harvard.edu

Google to buy $2 billion Manhattan city block? tech.fortune.cnn.com

Wimax modem. flickr.com

Had to take a look at the new Airy MacBook. (Apple store on Prince St.) flickr.com

Union Square farmers market on a rainy day. flickr.com

Nadie Se Conoce. nadieseconoce.blogspot.com

The Creepiest TV Moments of Google's CEO. gawker.com

The Giants would be lovable even with Barry Bonds. salon.com

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Ever wonder why many buildings in NYC have water tanks on top of them. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Chinese democracy protestors. flickr.com

Why Democrats Aren't Overachieving in the Senate. Nate Silver is master of common sense. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

Envisioning Marijuana as Just Another Consumer Product. laughingsquid.com

Listening to Jay Rosen on NPR talking about Juan Williams. onpointradio.org

The East Village's Best Running Trails. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Post-eye-surgery bike ride. scripting.com

First post-eye-surgery bike ride. maps.google.com

Sony shares rise on speculation of Apple interest. reuters.com

BitTorrent Still Dominates Global Internet Traffic. torrentfreak.com

EV Grieve: A New Yorker of the week. evgrieve.com

Arikia got a Nexus One from a friend (me) but the wifi isn't working and she needs advice on which mobile company to use. millikandaily.com

Now Anyone at Your Caf� Can Hijack Your Facebook Account. gawker.com

Monday, October 25, 2010

Google CEO: 'Just Move' If You Don't Like Us Photographing Your House. gawker.com

"No, you're not disturbing me, Herb. I'm up with the chickens this morning." nytimes.com

Saigon Grill is a good place for a blogger meetup. yelp.com

Digg should have gone directly after Twitter years ago. And btw, Pownce was not "going directly after Twitter." techcrunch.com

To me, today's RBTN had a weird feel. Could it be Talking Chuck? YMMV. rebootnews.com

Scripting News: Master narratives of Rebooting the News. scripting.com

Chuck Shotton has a question about escaping Javascript syntax. shotton.com

EV Grieve: At the Seventh Street crime scene. evgrieve.com

Rebooting the News podcast live at noon Eastern. blogtalkradio.com

How Sarah Palin Could End Up As President in 2012. nymag.com

LEV: Police Investigate Stabbing on 7th St. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

The Gamer With Kids didn't like Talking Chuck Boy. Honestly I don't see what's so bad about masturbating. thegamerwithkids.com

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Chuck masturbates on my iPhone. flickr.com

Make Chuck Masturbate In This iPhone App For 9 Year Olds. techcrunch.com

Frontier News: Updates to JSON parser and serializer. frontiernews.org

The 2010 election: "A blurry contest between the party of big corporations and the party of business as usual." nytimes.com

Frank Rich on why we don't believe in Obama's change we can believe in: "Too-big-to-fail banks have grown bigger." nytimes.com

Easy Village fire fighter looking for water leak. flickr.com

How UberCab works. ubercab.com

Next question: Where to get a SIM to pop into the Nexus One? I already have an AT&T plan for my own iPhone. scripting.com

If I were Microsoft's Chief Software Architect... scripting.com

I have a Nexus One and an iPhone 3G in the drawer, both ready to be adopted, or so I thought... scripting.com

Melinda Gates: No Apple products in my house. Hard-core. news.cnet.com

You need to use social services to understand them. cdixon.org

Giants Beat Phillies to Reach World Series. nytimes.com

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Halloween dog parade in New York. guardian.co.uk

Possible album cover for Scripting News. scripting.com

Bride and groom (posing for photographers, including me). flickr.com

It was a perfectly gorgeous day for a walk. People and music everywhere. flickr.com

I took a walk in Central Park today. Thanks to Cyclemeter, I have a map of the route I took. maps.google.com

Gosling blows lid off Jobs Java nonsense. theregister.co.uk

Scripting News: Amazingly, a killer app of OSes is possible. scripting.com

@dens -- jr.com

@jeffjarvis @Penenberg -- apoplectic -- "Overcome with anger; extremely indignant." google.com

According to Google Trends, Twitter and Facebook get same amount of press, but Facebook dwarfs Twitter in search. google.com

Friday, October 22, 2010

Halloween dog parade on Saturday in Tompkins Sq Park. flickr.com

@mediatwit scripting.com

Scripting News: Rule 1 of local blogs. scripting.com

Scripting News: King nails it. scripting.com

The Guardian's list of best movies of all time. Chinatown is #1. guardian.co.uk

Dropbox hides its API behind toolkits. I want to write apps, don't want to use their toolkits. Any pointers? dropbox.com

Wouldn't it be cool if NPR issued a mea culpa re Juan Williams, and invited him back. It would be eye-opening, futuristic. scripting.com

ASUS Eee PC 1015PN gets official, will do 1080p. $429. engadget.com

Scripting News: The Juan Williams controversy. scripting.com

Mediagazer thought my piece on new features for blogging was worth a link. Apparently the world isn't totally fucked up. mediagazer.com

@fahimakhter -- editor.opml.org

http://evgrieve.com/ is clearly the best East Village blog. One of the best community blogs in existence right now. evgrieve.com

The Guardian's Top 25 horror films (the biggest horror is how they present these lists, how about just a list with links). guardian.co.uk

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Apple redefining stuff again, and this time it's serious for Microsoft. techflash.com

Television broadcasters block Google TV. reuters.com

Scripting News: New blogging techniques. scripting.com

danielbachhuber's WinerLinks at 0.1 - GitHub. github.com

The redesign of Jay Rosen's blog is analyzed at Nieman. Love the paragraph-level permalinks. niemanlab.org

Scripting News: Will the Mac remain an open platform? scripting.com

Apple issues review guidelines for Mac App Store. appleinsider.com

Jay Rosen: The 100 Percent Solution. pressthink.org

The Guardian's science fiction and fantasy 25. guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

President Obama should grow a black beard like Brian Wilson's and threaten to not cut if off if the Repulivecans win. sports.yahoo.com

Scripting News: Writing during a crazy week. scripting.com

G.O.P. Odds of House Majority Now 3-in-4. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com

The Facebook News Feed: How it Works,10 Biggest Secrets. thedailybeast.com

Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11. foxnews.com

Download page for FaceTime for Mac. apple.com

NYU Local: Avoiding the Oldest Sidewalk Scams in the City. nyulocal.com

Belgian skydiver convicted of murdering love rival. bbc.co.uk

Maker of "Angry Birds" Acquired for $20 Million by Electronic Arts. mashable.com

Rebooting the News #68. rebootnews.com

Washington Post Tells Reporters To Stop Engaging Readers On Twitter. techdirt.com

I'm looking for a good apartment cleaning service in NYC. quora.com

I'm looking for a good apartment cleaning service in NYC. quora.com

Rebooting the News #68 -- live at noon today with Jay and me. blogtalkradio.com

Apple To Livestream Today's Event To Apple Devices Only. crunchgear.com

"The future of technology is in the hands of people who live with its limits." scripting.com

Unlike Fred Wilson, I don't believe in the "set top box" approach -- GoogleTV, AppleTV or Boxee. I believe in convergence. avc.com

The Guardian's drama and arthouse 25. guardian.co.uk

Philip Greenspun's pup helped him figure out the wisdom of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

I've been trying to get on Verizon's FIOS network for a couple of years.. scripting.com

The arrival of Sister Morphine. gulker.com

The Guardian's action and war 25 best movies of all time. guardian.co.uk

I still use my Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. Works great, esp in conjunction with Dropbox. documentsnap.com

TweetDeck CEO: You're wrong, Steve Jobs. news.cnet.com

Scripting News: Random afternoon notes. scripting.com

I've gotten a few recommendations for Elgato EyeTV HD DVR for HD cable and satellite. amazon.com

I want to connect my Verizon set top box to my Mac Mini through EyeTV.. flickr.com

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. awkwardfamilyphotos.com

NYU Local: Podcasts Worth Subscribing To, Then Actually Listening To. nyulocal.com

Crazy "Rent Is Too Damn High" Candidate Steals the Show at NY Gov. Debate. tv.gawker.com

A good thought exercise: What If Google's Social Layer Is Chrome? What If Facebook Builds A Browser? techcrunch.com

Republican ad tells Latinos not to vote. Literally. talkingpointsmemo.com

Monday, October 18, 2010

Scripting News: Steve Jobs reads a speech about Android. (But it's just as much about once and for all burying Microsoft.) scripting.com

CARL Book Beacon: Twitter can do WHAT with your photos? comarmsblog.com

Security guards for an Alaska Senate candidate "arrested" a blogger. One of the oddest stories ever. adn.com

When people compare tech NYC vs the Bay Area, they should factor in that it's possible to get FIOS here. scripting.com

Scripting News: FIOS. scripting.com

Scripting News: Readings from news execs. scripting.com

If you've created too complex a world, the next generation will just create a new one that's simpler. scripting.com

@mamaier262 -- lmgtfy.com

@mamaier262 -- google.com

Someone tagged qwitter.us in Instapaper. Loses some of its visual impact. :-) instapaper.com

The Guardian's top 25 comedy movies. Annie Hall is #1. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: Marc Canter was right. scripting.com

Evil Bob Is Here. evilbobishere.com

A PayPal nightmare. jacquesmattheij.com

Proof that I have too much time on my hands. :-) qwitter.us

@anjali28 @lloyddavis -- http://www.google.com/search?q=tuttle -- which one? google.com

Scripting News: A blogger's store in NYC? scripting.com

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). aws.amazon.com

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Scripting News: The enemy of progress is complexity. scripting.com

Scripting News: The enemy of progress is complexity. scripting.com

Saturday, October 16, 2010

I buy headphones the way some people buy shoes. amazon.com

The greatest films of all time: Romance. guardian.co.uk

I'm learning how to Bucky! youtube.com

Gothamist: Anti-Bike Lane Protest Small, Full of Hot Air. gothamist.com

Scripting News: There are many possible social graphs. scripting.com

Scripting News: From your East Village reporter. scripting.com

For as long as I can remember, the Starbucks on Astor Place had scaffolding all around it. Well, the scaffolding is gone! flickr.com

Mud Truck coffee on Cooper Square. flickr.com

Riding back to manhattan @ MTA Subway - Queensboro Plaza (N/Q/7) instagr.am

Fred Wilson is bullish on Android. avc.com

Krugman: The Boehnerization of Barack Obama. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

EV Grieve: Bright bike (on St. Marks Place near Ave A). evgrieve.com

Friday, October 15, 2010

@kim rebootnews.com

I want to see Hereafter. movies.nytimes.com

AppleInsider: New MacBook Air 'certain' to be 11.6-inches, may have flash-based instant-wake ability. engadget.com

Ever Wish You Were Dating Yourself? techcrunch.com

The Blogging Scholarship. collegescholarships.org

Scripting News: Today is moving day. scripting.com

Scripting News: Our civilization doesn't scale. scripting.com

5 Things Instagram Got Right that Others Before it Couldn't. blog.appboy.com

Emerging rivals threaten Facebook's dominance. bbc.co.uk

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Why don't the markets care about the foreclosure crisis? voices.washingtonpost.com

Remembering how good The West Wing was. youtube.com

Apple store set to open on Berkeley's Fourth Street. berkeleyside.com

Scripting News: People who say "government is never the answer". scripting.com

@AnnaTarkov -- scripting.com

Unregulated health insurance sounds nice, if you plan on never getting sick. twitter.com

Scripting News: Eric Kidd's feedhose client, lots more news, faster! scripting.com

Boehner a rubber stamp for Pelosi? thehill.com

Why do people vote against their own interests? news.bbc.co.uk

Tumblr Allows Sharing Online With More Than 140 Characters. nytimes.com

Newid byd y cwangos? news.bbc.co.uk

Should we pull the plug on Manhattan bike lanes? evgrieve.com

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Calling all designers: Can you make this page beautiful? feedhose.randomhacks.net

Scripting News: Perfect 10 for Microsoft ad. scripting.com

Well Microsoft scores a perfect 10 for their new phone ad. RIght up there with the best. youtube.com

Scripting News: "I am not the fastest biker on the trail, I am the safest." scripting.com

Can you imagine the shock when goldberg discovered the president has a big ego. articles.latimes.com

Does investing in print help the bottom line? Discouraging evidence from the San Francisco Chronicle. niemanlab.org

Scripting News: Eric Kidd's feedhose client in Javascript. scripting.com

@noahr -- i'm working at NYU now, about 5 blocks from where you are. maps.google.com

"Just leave this page open in the background, and watch the news scroll by." feedhose.randomhacks.net

Clinton Heckled in Blue New York, Says Half of Republicans Need Psychiatric Help. theblaze.com

D.I.Y. Space Program - Weather Balloon Takes a Trek to the Stratosphere. nytimes.com

Doc Searls Weblog � KCET's brave move. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Scripting News: A hackathon I'd like to be part of. scripting.com

HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest. digitaldaily.allthingsd.com

Dramatic light in NYC this evening. flickr.com

Hacker News: Debriefing Diaspora; where did flexibility go? news.ycombinator.com

Scripting News: ATNTFTP. scripting.com

Downtown Berkeley in 1962. berkeleyside.com

The Mp3 Experiment Seven. improveverywhere.com

Windows Phone 7 Shows Why RIM, Nokia Need a Fresh Start. gigaom.com

Scripting News: All the news that's fit to print. scripting.com

Monday, October 11, 2010

@silencematters -- youtube.com

The enclosure element in RSS 2.0 can be used to transmit pictures. stackoverflow.com

Walking the High Line's (hoped-for) Phase III. newyorkology.com

EV Grieve: What the Marble Cemetery looks like when the bomb squad isn't around. evgrieve.com

Explosive Device Found in East Village Cemetery. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Saul Hansell, our guest on Rebooting the News. flickr.com

Scripting News: Hackathons shouldn't just be corporate affairs. scripting.com

Rebooting the News podcast at 12 noon today (Eastern) with our guest Saul Hansell of AOL's seed.com. blogtalkradio.com

The Zombie Network: Beware 'Free Public WiFi' npr.org

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Karl Rove: Obama has an 'enemies list' (and @karlrove, sorry, you're not on it) politico.com

On one of my server's Dropbox's cache was using over 27GB. Could be a problem. forums.dropbox.com

Twitter, After Number of Users Surges, Turns to Ads. nytimes.com

Boomers Spend Most on Tech. adage.com

Virgin Galactic's spaceship makes solo flight. bbc.co.uk

Scripting News: Stuck in Twitter, like the frog in boiling water. scripting.com

Scripting News: I cheered for Bob Woodward when I read this. scripting.com

Why Woodward is a registered Democrat…and doesn't Tweet? politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Map of Online Communities 2.0. xkcd.com

Stella enjoys a nice dip in the ocean. flickr.com

Frank Rich: Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends. nytimes.com

Scripting News: The big 10/10/10 ride. scripting.com

Getting ready for my morning bike ride, wondering what kind of shirt I should wear. Thermal shock! :-) flickr.com

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Snapped: Art cars in Berkeley. berkeleyside.com

Soup and a beatiful salad for dinner, and a bike ride this aft. I almost feel healthy, after feeling broken last 2 weeks. scripting.com

M.T.A. promises faster M15 buses by next September. downtownexpress.com

Okay Google has self-driving cars. And this is legal? thenextweb.com

Scripting News: 15 days between rides. scripting.com

Scripting News: RSS data in JSON format. scripting.com

"Now that the Tea Party has stolen much of her thunder, Ann Coulter is taking some new positions." feeds.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Next steps in the FeedHose project. scripting.com

SparkleShare appears to be an open source Dropbox clone. sparkleshare.org

Friday, October 08, 2010

Open Web Foo Campers - OpenWebFoo10. openwebfoo10.wiki.oreilly.com

Where TechCrunch's lack of technical expertise shows. Huge story. They can't write about it cause they don't get it. scripting.com

Sandy Wilbourn my college buddy from Tulane and UW-Madison. flickr.com

Maggie from Hudson Urban Bikes. flickr.com

Scripting News: May resume biking soooon. scripting.com

Scripting News: I have no idea what Ev is talking about. scripting.com

Evan Williams on Decentralized Social Networks. readwriteweb.com

Scripting News: 4 more free ideas for your next hackathon. scripting.com

EV Grieve: And now, visual confirmation of the orange Lamborghini. evgrieve.com

U.S. Lost 95,000 Jobs in September, Far More Than Expected. nytimes.com

Scripting News: 7 free project ideas for an academic hackathon. scripting.com

Thursday, October 07, 2010

Downed light pole on St. Mark's Place. evgrieve.com

'Americans seemed to think a perpetually improving lifestyle was written into the Constitution." nytimes.com

Hereafter looks like it could be a great movie]. youtube.com

Xmarks "has multiple offers" to take over the service, nearly 30,000 user pledges. thenextweb.com

Another use for pay phones. flickr.com

Twitter did something nice. They looked thru my shortened URL, found a Flickr pic, and rendered it. twitter.com

Huge Commonwealth Games cover-up leads to condoms blocking drains. guardian.co.uk

Facebook Groups: Privacy Blunder or Twitter Replacement? gigaom.com

Does one dare to actually watch The Human Centipede. en.wikipedia.org

Statue in Washington Square Park. I'm monitoring clicks, and when they come, for a real-time experiment. --> flickr.com

Furniture for sale on West Houston on a cool autumn day. flickr.com

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Keanu Reeves photographed shooting a movie today in the East Village. flickr.com

clp.ly Becomes Curate.Us. curate.us

Post Co. Discloses Newsweek's Price Tag: $1. nytimes.com

What did Facebook really just announce? news.cnet.com

Mitt Romney Drops Libyan URL Shortener. gawker.com

Clinton-Biden Swap: Denial, Speculation. feeds.nytimes.com

The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe. benmetcalfe.com

Facebook Allows Users to Download All of Their Information. This is potentially a huge deal. news.ycombinator.com

Scripting News: What if Wes Anderson did the Zuckerberg movie? scripting.com

Scripting News: How to blow up a server in one mouse click. scripting.com

What if Wes Anderson had done the Facebook movie? youtube.com

Greenspun on the Facebook movie. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Grease Trap Cleaning. flickr.com

Apple Trying To Hire a Blogger? gawker.com

ABC News Chooses Status.net Over Twitter. thenextweb.com

Scripting News: Dropbox is down. scripting.com

status.dropbox.com

Scripting News: Panasonic's new camera is a phone! scripting.com

An example of where Amazon excels: Kindle for the Web. rexblog.com

When the "Grease Trap Cleaning" guy comes to the restaurant you're eating at, it's time to get teh fcuk outta there. flickr.com

Scripting News: Sammy's Roumanian Steak House. scripting.com

An East Village map from 1966. evgrieve.com

wordpress.com is making it easy for users to leave. Wish more companies understood this is good for business. ma.tt

Monday, October 04, 2010

Hamster cages for the new Twitter elite. scripting.com

Paul Graham's guide to what to see in Silicon Valley. As someone who lived there 25 years, he's got a good list. paulgraham.com

Scripting News: Cages for the ages. scripting.com

For sale: Dennis Hopper's house. guardian.co.uk

Why can't the CEO be focused on product strategy? Seems to work for Apple. daringfireball.net

Which TechCrunch writer will be the first to leave AOL, slamming the door on the way out? When will it happen? parislemon.com

Rebooting the News #66. rebootnews.com

Ryan Tate is our guest on Rebooting the News which we're recording right now in real time. flickr.com

Scripting News: The Zuckerberg movie is good for Zuckerberg. scripting.com

Reminder: "The Social Network" Victim Eduardo Saverin Is A Billionaire. businessinsider.com

Where do you find the Facebook Masthead? answers.yahoo.com

Today's guest on Rebooting The News is Ryan Tate, reporter from Gawker. blogtalkradio.com

Scripting News: Maybe NYU should be a startup? scripting.com

Scripting News: I'm (still) looking for NYU's feeds. scripting.com

Sunday, October 03, 2010

Aerial Footage: Portrait of a Housing Bust. ritholtz.com

Panasonic Makes Mysterious "Lumix Phone" Pre-Announcement. mobilecrunch.com

Scripting News: I'm looking for NYU's feeds. scripting.com

NYU has a tutorial on podcasting. nyu.edu

Why Facebook should love The Social Network. news.cnet.com

Seagate is selling a 3TB external hard drive. $199. amazon.com

DInner at Sammy's with the Canters. flickr.com

Scripting News: Let's do more computer science. scripting.com

Scripting News: Rebooting Computer Lib/Dream Machines. scripting.com

Scripting News: Writing good bug reports. scripting.com

Saturday, October 02, 2010

Sammy's Roumanian Steak House. nymag.com

Psst. Sprint 4G is Lit up in San Francisco. jkontherun.com

deathwish piano movers. deathwishpiano.com

Brad McCarty says Qwiki will succeed, because Microsoft will buy it. thenextweb.com

Hackers Hacking at Hackathing. flickr.com

"What I want is a beautiful river, without giving up the simplicity." scripting.com

Scripting News: How hackathons work, part 2. scripting.com

Brian Dear thinks @qwiki will fail. brianstorms.com

Mp3 Experiment Seven. improveverywhere.com

This feminist review of "The Social Network" is so wrong. Even the character that portrays Zuck isn't as bad as they say. womenandhollywood.com

Would You Wear a Camcorder on Your Ear? gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Microsoft's Secret Acquisition Spree. paidcontent.org

Shocking: Apple Approves BitTorrent App For App Store. torrentfreak.com

I released the Frontier source code for the tool that implements the FeedHose protocol. frontiernews.org

Friday, October 01, 2010

My review of the Facebook movie. Pretty mediocre, not the masterpiece so many say it is. Won't age well. scripting.com

This song is to honor the memory of my Jamaican uncle, who would have been 65 years old today. youtube.com

Are NYC bike lanes worth using? Maybe not. youtube.com

Per @brookekroeger's request, we're now tracking Twitter references to "eastvillage" on east-village.org

Where Are Facebook's Employees? At the Movies, of Course. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Amazon has a funny idea of "good news)" :-). scripting.com

If you're poor thinking the rich folk feel secure, they don't. scripting.com

Scripting News: Review of The Social Network. scripting.com

Scripting News: Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds. scripting.com

How many inches of rain has fallen, cumulatively, in the current NYC rainstorm? quora.com

Thursday, September 30, 2010

At midnight tonight you don't need to be anyone special to see the Mark Zuckerberg movie. google.com

Rahm Emanuel's White House replacement expected to be Peter Rouse. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: Feedhose -- a firehose for feeds. scripting.com

A Rivalry Writ in Curry. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

The history of blogging marches on. rexblog.com

Google's 'goo.gl' URL shortener open to the public. No API yet. news.cnet.com

Angry Birds gets new levels, Retina support, more. reviews.cnet.com

Endless corporate activities of the company that acquired you seem terribly off-topic, almost to the point of irrelevance. techcrunch.com

Apple shuts flagship Beijing store as iPhone 4 scalpers run amok. 9to5mac.com

Jure Robic, Long-Distance Bicyclist, Dies at 45. nytimes.com

An update from XMarks. They might not shut down after all. blog.xmarks.com

I started my first Silicon Valley company in the early 80s with angel money. scripting.com

Scripting News: Angelgate takes on a whole new meaning. scripting.com

12 years after a big cashout, I wrote this piece about the value of money. scripting.com

Thank You for Not Hating N.Y.U. capitalnewyork.com

EV Grieve: Meet the woman selling NYU to the East Village. evgrieve.com

NYT obit for Tony Curtis. nytimes.com

Breaking News: Actor Tony Curtis Has Passed Away. etonline.com

Scripting News: Connecting the LEV with the East Village. scripting.com

Studio Behind Facebook Movie Woos Techies. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Long Jail Term for Iran's 'Blogfather' thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Michael Arrington's Road To Millions. gigaom.com

google.com

Here's Why Google Needs To Buy Twitter Immediately. businessinsider.com

The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only Happen Within the First Hour. readwriteweb.com

Look at the incredible response I got to the NYC moving question. There's *my* business model for Twitter. scripting.com

What's a good moving company in NYC? quora.com

Amazon Introduces Kindle for the Web. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Arikia and her Haitian sister. twitpic.com

Engadget's Founder on TechCrunch Under AOL. theatlantic.com

Every link I've pushed through Twitter since April 2009. All on one page. Perfect for searching with browser Find command. links.scripting.com

I scored 12/15 on the @pewforum Religious Knowledge Quiz http://pewrsr.ch/b2yOSN features.pewforum.org

Went to see "The American" today. This NYT review explains. It's a painting of a movie. I liked it. Not much happens. movies.nytimes.com

Sally Menke, Film Editor for Tarantino, Dies at 56. nytimes.com

The Plans For Steve Jobs' New House. gizmodo.com

Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News). scripting.com

AOL buys Brizzly. | paidContent. paidcontent.org

Scripting News: Congrats to TechCrunch and Mike. scripting.com

Scripting News: How to use open formats. "If it hurts when you do it, stop doing it." scripting.com

NYC tech events for the week of October 4. nyctechevents.com

I'm on the mend. About half the pain is gone! Woo hoo!! scripting.com

Xmarks Blog: End of the Road for Xmarks. blog.xmarks.com

Monday, September 27, 2010

XMarks to Shut Down. Ouch! I love XMarks. Why don't they charge us a fee to use it? Merge with Dropbox? gigaom.com

I'm watching TechCrunch Disrupt. flickr.com

MSN Spaces Closing, becomes WP.com. ma.tt

Want Twitter to Help You Find More Followers? Pay Up For a "Promoted Account" mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Rebooting the News #65. rebootnews.com

Scripting News: How to use open formats. scripting.com

The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street. nymag.com

Rebooting the News live at noon Eastern today rain or shine. blogtalkradio.com

Scripting News: The reporter tech toolkit? scripting.com

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. newyorker.com

Segway boss Jimi Heselden dies in scooter cliff fall. guardian.co.uk

Segway Inc. owner rides over cliff to his death. engadget.com

My Atom vs RSS piece all of a sudden is getting a bunch of comments. All thoughtful. No links that I can find. Cool. scripting.com

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Crybabies are annoying. thisamericanlife.org

British Library Posts Greek Manuscripts to Web. nytimes.com

What I brought to Denver to cover the Democratic Convention in 2008. scripting.com

UN to appoint Earth contact for aliens. news.com.au

Let us now praise Ping 1.0.01. tech.fortune.cnn.com

Scripting News: The ultimate reporter tech toolkit? scripting.com

Modern Journalists Technology Toolkit To Cover Live Events. I try to go a lot lighter. An Asus Eee PC and iPhone. bhatt.id.au

Job Loss Looms as Part of Stimulus Act Expires. nytimes.com

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Jen's friend W has the "make-up gene and she really knows what she's doing." nakedjen.com

You can't ping The Beatles cause they're not in the iTunes store. scripting.com

Scripting News: Ping: It's better than it (last) appeared. scripting.com

Ping Now Works With Your Actual iTunes Library. This Is A Thousand Times Better. Agreed. techcrunch.com

Jerry Garcia's Former Residence. sothebysrealty.com

Hey Twitter: Give us our Tweets. zachholman.com

After a good night's sleep I feel much better today. Wish I could go for a ride though. :-) #totalbikingaddict. scripting.com

Friday, September 24, 2010

Scripting News: Today's ride: BANG! scripting.com

First Look: ‘Angry Birds,' The Plush Toy. techcrunch.com

Why Are People Still Creating RSS Feeds? stackoverflow.com

Scripting News: Angelgate in a Nutshell. scripting.com

The Guardian's list of the 100 most influential people in film. guardian.co.uk

I now have a Quora account. quora.com

Two Bay Area parties for Ted Nelson's soon-to-be-published autobiography. archive.org

Thursday, September 23, 2010

As close as I got to Pete Hamill tonight. flickr.com

I tweet since 06 Aug 2006. My #first5 followers were @Ross @chrisbrogan @enochchoi @drewdomkus and @lisawilliams. firstfivefollowers.com

Here's a synthetic feed for Google New. Not sure how they're doing it, but it seems to work. feed43.com

Can we trust Michael Arrington? (AngelGate) derekandersen.me

Leaving Tumblr for Instapaper. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Aaron Sorkin, Jessie Eisenberg To Attend "The Social Network" Advanced Screening At NYU Cantor Tonight. nyulocal.com

Scripting News: Google New is great, but... scripting.com

Scripting News: My first piece on "net neutrality". scripting.com

Invites from the Local East Village. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Two Invitations from The Local East Village Blog. xl-mall.blogspot.com

Scripting News (late night): Farewell to the phone. scripting.com

The Origins of Angry Birds. gamepro.com

Buyers in New York Purchasing iPhones That Are Resold in China. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Farewell to the phone. scripting.com

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Asus' latest Netbook packs in higher tech. news.cnet.com

Is the Web heading toward redirect hell? royal.pingdom.com

One of the first HDR pictures that's really worth it. The Hudson River at 100th St in the afternoon heat. flickr.com

Okay Google New is a good idea. But come on where's the feed? google.com

Scripting News: One of the last summer-like rides? scripting.com

Severe Thunderstorm Watch for all of NYC through 11PM tonight. forecast.weather.gov

Howard Weaver: ‘Objectivity' vs POV: Sorry, it's more complicated than you think. editor.blogspot.com

Jesse Eisenberg doesn't just play Mark Zuckerberg in 'The Social Network' -- he's like him in real life. nypost.com

Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, interlude. scripting.com

Jon Udell on rebooting RSS. radar.oreilly.com

Paul Krugman on being chopped liver. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: What kind of news system...? scripting.com

Why would somebody buy baby formula at midnight? npr.org

Why would somebody buy baby formula at midnight? npr.org

Apple sues HyperMac battery maker for using patented MagSafe and iPod connectors without approval. engadget.com

The Director Jean-Luc Godard Defends an Accused Internet Pirate. nytimes.com

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Here's what HDR does with something that's moving. flickr.com

Scripting News: Today's ride: Real HDR pictures. scripting.com

Larry Summers, Obama's Key Economic Advisor To Leave by End of Year. cnbc.com

Breaking News: Six Apart Acquired by Video Egg. thenextweb.com

Who You Gonna Believe? krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

The Twitter hack: how it started and how it worked. guardian.co.uk

"Should I buy an iPad or should I buy a Kindle?" txfx.net

Tumblr's Lead Developer Stepping Aside For "Independent" Projects. thenextweb.com

Open Hardware Summit, this Thursday in Flushing. openhardwaresummit.org

Open Video Conference: October 1-2, 2010. NYC. openvideoconference.org

Jailed blogger, Hossein Derakhshan ("Hoder") may face death penalty. advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org

VLC for the iPad makes a huge diff. Now you can play AVI and MKV files on the iPad. itunes.apple.com

"Here comes the equinox." betsydevine.com

Monday, September 20, 2010

Magnolia Bakery buzzin. flickr.com

Scripting News: The studio we use for Rebooting the News. scripting.com

Cheese cake. flickr.com

Would you move to Chatanooga for Internet speed? blogs.law.harvard.edu

There was a problem with the MP3 on this week's Rebooting the News. Should be fixed now. Sorry. :-( rebootnews.com

VLC for iPad Available. macstories.net

Now Boats Are Blocking Bike Lanes, Too. gothamist.com

I'm going to see "The Social Network" movie tonight. imdb.com

Rebooting the News #64. rebootnews.com

Every link @jayrosen_nyu has posted to Twitter since April 2009 all on one page. links.scripting.com

Watching them watch me watch them. :-) eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Start Your Week Right with Tornado Video Autotune Remix. gothamist.com

Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, short names for feeds. scripting.com

Rebooting the News at 9AM Pacific today. It's show number 64, which every programmer knows is a power of 2. blogtalkradio.com

An aggregation of East Village blogs. east-village.org

BizTechDay 2010 New York -- this Friday. eventbrite.com

New Amazon EC2 Features: Resource Tagging, Idempotency, Filtering, Bring Your Own Keys. aws.typepad.com

For the Unemployed Over 50, Fears of Never Working Again. nytimes.com

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Feast of San Gennaro is going on now in Little Italy. sangennaro.org

This Is How Angry Birds Would Look On a BlackBerry. gizmodo.com

First clue that this author is an idiot and an asshole. He calls the Democratic Party the Democrat Party. Idiot. Asshole. newsflavor.com

Doc Searls Weblog � Let's kill Interruptive ads. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Scripting News: How the Facebook "phone" can be easier than an iPhone. scripting.com

For a major Internet utility, doing a mobile device is like a major word processor doing printer drivers in the 80s. scripting.com

Scripting News: Facebook's phone as obvious as nose on your face. scripting.com

http://east-village.org/ is updating once again. :-) east-village.org

Scripting News: east-village.org. scripting.com

http://east-village.org/ is updating once again. :-) east-village.org

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand. bloomberg.com

Why exercise won't make you thin. Must-read (it's true). guardian.co.uk

A picture taken today with my iPhone 4 and their new "HDR" feature. flickr.com

Scripting News: Saturday after Labor Day bike ride. scripting.com

@JoeMoreno scripting.com

As Apple relaxes App Store rules, C64 emulator for iOS gets BASIC again. engadget.com

Scripting News: Rebooting RSS, pulling it together. scripting.com

Dave as grad student. flickr.com

The NYT has an OPML file of all their feeds. Nice! :-) nytimes.com

Scripting News: OTOH, Flash can reallllly suck. scripting.com

Scripting News: Yes, Virginia, there are two ways to read RSS. scripting.com

5 billion pics on Flickr. flickr.com

Elizabeth Warren, Chosen to Take On Wall Street, Isn't Worried About Making Enemies. abcnews.go.com

'Super-Earths' inspire hopes for alien life. sfgate.com

Friday, September 17, 2010

Steve Jobs In Email Pissing Match with College Journalism Student. gawker.com

Look at the sky!! flickr.com

There's at least one actor who played roles in The Wire and Breaking Bad. Do you know who it is?? scripting.com

When will the first Earth-like planet be discovered? kottke.org

Filmmaker Premieres Movie In Theaters and on The Pirate Bay. torrentfreak.com

Every link I've pushed to Twitter since April 2009, all on one page. links.scripting.com

NYT review of the movie Hackers (1995). movies.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Today's ride: Fall is coming. scripting.com

Why We're Teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard. hks.harvard.edu

Marco.org - Why does Twitter work better for news than Google. Always interesting to see what bits people quote. marco.org

Scripting News: My fifth time through The Wire. scripting.com

Scripting News: Why the netbook category is fading. scripting.com

Images by New York Times readers of a violent storm on September 16 and its aftermath in New York City and the region. nytimes.com

Thursday, September 16, 2010

I went to the party for Nick Bilton's new book tonight in lower Manhattan. flickr.com

A Major Storm in Flushing. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Big storm over lower Manhattan. (Video.) flickr.com

A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme. nytimes.com

Where did "Chinese Wall" come from? blogs.law.harvard.edu

Hackers (the movie) 15th Anniversary Party on Oct 2nd by Fred Benenson -- Kickstarter. kickstarter.com

UWS Unattainable Apartment of the Week. myupperwest.com

Oh how Twitter has lost its way. They used to have a wide open news platform, now they're talking "content partnerships." scripting.com

Good piece. Alex is a smart guy with a good heart. al3x.net

John Lennon's 70th Birthday to be Celebrated at the Beacon. myupperwest.com

Scripting News: The Architecture of RSS. scripting.com

Twitter vs. the Crazy Uncles. rexblog.com

BBC: Facebook alternative Diaspora rolls out first code. bbc.co.uk

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Walking Off the Big Apple: From the East Village to Chelsea Market: A Zigzag Walk by Intersections. walkingoffthebigapple.com

oEmbed. oembed.com

Apple to announce subscription plan for newspapers. mercurynews.com

NYU Local • Beyond the Village: Flushing. nyulocal.com

Scripting News: Does Twitter understand Twitter? scripting.com

You're a Media Company Now, Twitter -- Good Luck. gigaom.com

Scripting News: 16 media partners. scripting.com

Scripting News: I don't expect to see any compelling Twitter apps from here-out. scripting.com

How the New Twitter.com Gives Your Favorite App a Run for Its Money. fastcompany.com

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Click on "Reply" and a small modal dialog pops up. Nice improvement. scripting.com

Click the enclosure image, if your tweet has one, to see the picture or movie in the right margin. flickr.com

Meet the new Twitter.com. twitter.com

Here's how Twitter becomes Foursquare. In the right margin, other recent tweeters who are near me. One is 1/2 block away. scripting.com

Here's a Flickr pic. Let's see if they do anything different. flickr.com

Guess I got the new version. scripting.com

Scoble has video from twitter's announcement. ustream.tv

Inline Pictures And Video Are A Part Of What Twitter Is Announcing Tonight. techcrunch.com

What is Kommons? kommons.com

Meet the New Wired Science All-Star Bloggers. wired.com

Scripting News: Tuesday ride. scripting.com

Artists Make More Money in File-Sharing Age Than Before It. torrentfreak.com

Monday, September 13, 2010

PressThink: The Virtual Assignment Desk and The Launch of the Local East Village. journalism.nyu.edu

Google Says Google Reader Is Doing Just Fine. paidcontent.org

Burn Any Web-Hosted File into a Torrent With Burnbit. torrentfreak.com

Which blogs should everyone in the east village be reading? eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

Welcome to The Local East Village. (The inaugural post, which went up a minute ago.) eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com

"The Social Network" Movie is Hard on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. mediamemo.allthingsd.com

New Kindle Pool Ad. youtube.com

Rebooting the News #63. rebootnews.com

Praise muprhy but it seems as if http://scripting.com is back on the air! :-)

Scripting News: How to reboot RSS. scripting.com

Americans Spending More Time Following the News. people-press.org

NYU Local, a student-run independent news site, on the NYT/NYU joint venture for East Village news. nyulocal.com

Remember that joint venture betw the NYT and NYU to do a local blog for the East Village? It launches today. journalism.nyu.edu

What is a 'River of News' style aggregator? reallysimplesyndication.com

Want to know what a River of News is? (A lot of people are confused.) Here's the NY Times in river format. scripting.com

Rebooting the News with @jayrosen_nyu and myself at noon Eastern today, live from New York! blogtalkradio.com

"Whether Avis actually tried harder was not particularly relevant to their success." quickmba.com

Yippie tie yie yay. youtube.com

I've been willing to share my location, at least sometimes, on Facebook. scripting.com

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Scripting News: Facebook is developing a great places database. scripting.com

Scripting News: Trying out TonidoPlug. scripting.com

Scientists Find Thick Layer Of Oil On Seafloor. npr.org

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Do OAuth apps first need to be approved by Twitter? scripting.com

Scripting News: What people don't understand about OAuth. scripting.com

Scripting News: Trying out TonidoPlug. scripting.com

Sofia Coppola wins Venice Golden Lion for Somewhere. bbc.co.uk

Saying RSS is dead is like saying water is dead because we use a new kind of faucet. It's an ignorant statement. dembot.com

Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves. huffingtonpost.com

Why is Google so condescending? itworld.com

A friend asked for some good hotels in NYC. I sent him this map. kayak.com

West Berkeley farmer seeks home for oil press. berkeleyside.com

Will they be able to find their ass with both hands after our generation is dead and gone? blogs.law.harvard.edu

9/11/01: A select list of materials available at the New York Public Library. nypl.org

The slow death of Dopplr. guardian.co.uk

Muslim Prayer Room Was Part of Life at Twin Towers. nytimes.com

Netflix's Missed Connection. gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Friday, September 10, 2010

The Andy Griffith Show theme song. youtube.com

WordPress.com Launches Blog Subscriptions. thenextweb.com

I've been getting calls in Spanish on my cell phone. Apparently I've won $150 million. Too bad I don't speak Spanish! 800notes.com

This is known as a 'phone booth'. flickr.com

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Introducing Seesmic Desktop 2. No RSS? blog.seesmic.com

Who Is Harry Nilsson? (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) movies.nytimes.com

They're talking about things like UIALogger which is like a foreign language to me. developer.apple.com

Never Mind the Valley: Here's Madison. readwriteweb.com

NYT about a secret NYT service quoting a NYT exec declining to comment developed by a company the NYT invested in. #incest bits.blogs.nytimes.com

The boys at Hacker News don't like our hash function. news.ycombinator.com

The Clover? Brewing System. I'm having one now. Pretty good, but I'm not really blown away. starbucks.com

Here's what a card looks like. flickr.com

Scripting News: Does your script environment have a debugger? scripting.com

Like It or Not, Twitter Has Become a News Platform. gigaom.com

Adobe Stock Soars As Apple Caves On Flash Rules. businessinsider.com

Scripting News: Old-style search engine. scripting.com

Much to my surprise they do have card catalogs at the Seattle Public Library. flickr.com

New Twitter Spam Tactic? windley.com

Apple Blinks. Flash Tools Now Allowed. whydoeseverythingsuck.com

Scripting News: Seattle public library. Also includes an explanation of yesterday's paradox piece. scripting.com

Apple to Allow Other iPhone Development Tools, Publishes App Review Guidelines. gizmodo.com

Craigslist faces new wave of political attacks. news.cnet.com

Low Interest Rates Help Companies at the Expense of Savers. nytimes.com

Weird geometries at the Seattle public library. flickr.com

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Jeff Cheney: "I'm back, World!" ican.editthispage.com

Musicians playing outside Starbucks #1. flickr.com

Who's a journalist? Does that matter? salon.com

Your pants are lying to you. kottke.org

Scripting News: Paradoxes bother me, a lot! scripting.com

Reddit co-founders reunite at Hipmunk. news.cnet.com

I could see 20 people I knew who had checked in earlier today at Seattle. scripting.com

Awkward Office Photo Contest. awkwardfamilyphotos.com

Do People Want 'Amateur Hour' on Their TVs? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Checking in with Facebook. scripting.com

I'm in Seattle to continue development on our "Narrate Your Work" tech with my old UserLand team mate, Brent Simmons. scripting.com

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Back in the Saddle Again. youtube.com

Another semester of Rebooting The News to begin shortly. "Back in the saddle again." blogtalkradio.com

Noam Chomsky To Speak At NYU Tonight. nyulocal.com

Things Chris Dixon would do if he ran a big VC firm. cdixon.posterous.com

Master your RSS feeds. macworld.com

Rebooting the News live at noon eastern with @jayrosen_nyu and yours truly. blogtalkradio.com

Heading to Seattle later today where the high temp will be lower than the low temp in NYC. forecast.weather.gov

Monday, September 06, 2010

1938 in 2010. nytimes.com

The goal: to walk from the Empire State Building to Rockefeller Center without ever setting foot on 5th or 6th Ave. newyorker.com

Scripting News: Morning ride -- no collisions. scripting.com

Scripting News: Sunset bike ride, with minor collision. scripting.com

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Sunset bike ride. maps.google.com

MotoGP crash where racer Shoya Tomizawa sustains fatal injuries. youtube.com

Anti-Piracy Outfit Threatens To DoS Uncooperative Torrent Sites. torrentfreak.com

Saturday, September 04, 2010

AirDropper lets people put files into your Dropbox ... without signing up for Dropbox. downloadsquad.com

Pier Fire Destroys Sanitation Department Trailer. ny1.com

My mother is a Mah Jongg player. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Apple's Ping is a big pile of steaming dung. swizec.com

Steve Jobs: iTunes 10 Icon Does Not ‘Suck' but it does look like the Merrie Melodies logo. wired.com

Friday, September 03, 2010

Why Howard Stern's next act is Internet radio. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Ping Is Neither Social, Nor Is It a Network. Discuss. gigaom.com

I was sitting down by the Battery today when a Water Taxi came tooling across my field of vision. So I did a video. flickr.com

Beautiful NYC light at sunset thanks to Hurricane Earl. flickr.com

Salade Nicoise. flickr.com

How To Start a Blog, From The New York Times. silencematters.com

There's now a feed for FriendsOfDave, and it's hooked into Twitter via twitterfeed.com scripting.com

Twitter: 300,000 apps, but none of them matter. social.venturebeat.com

It's not that they're ill-intentioned, they're just ill-prepared. scripting.com

Scripting News: Apple is green. scripting.com

An example of the casual kind of ageism we just take for granted. What if the best icon designer is over 50? twitter.com

Scripting News: Pre-Earl bike ride. scripting.com

Scripting News: Instant Outlining update. scripting.com

Apple's Ping dinged by spam. news.cnet.com

I got busy there with my own life and just remembered to check in at Chris Gulker's blog. gulker.com

Did anyone go to the TimesOpen event last night? If so, how was it? open.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Twitter + OAuth update. scripting.com

East Coast Braces for Hurricane Earl. nytimes.com

Compromising Twitter's OAuth security system. arstechnica.com

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Scripting News: They're dead now. scripting.com

Track Hurricane Earl. stormpulse.com

Atlantic Hurricane Earl. noaawatch.gov

Why Flipboard and Twitter for iPad are profoundly significant. One word answer: Payloads. Add them to the UI already. steveobd.blogspot.com

Hacker News thread on: It's even worse than it appeared. news.ycombinator.com

Scripting News: Mid-day heat-wave ride. scripting.com

Scripting News: scripting.com: It's even worse than it appears. scripting.com

Scripting News: Ping: It's even worse than it appeared. scripting.com

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Amazingly there's no easy way to "like" the song that's playing in iTunes. What? No way. Yes! scripting.com

One thing I don't like about Ping is that it isn't in my web browser. scripting.com

Scripting News: Ping first use. scripting.com

Hurricane EARL Public Advisory. LARGE AND DANGEROUS HURRICANE THREATENING THE U.S. MID-ATLANTIC COAST. nhc.noaa.gov

Scripting News: OAuthcalypse didn't kill my apps. scripting.com

Kevin Spencer is a last.fm user who wishes Apple had bought it instead of CBS. scripting.com

Hurricane EARL Public Advisory. nhc.noaa.gov

Ping: Social Network for Music. (Apple's website for Ping.) apple.com

Developers -- important question -- does Ping have an API? (Also, they'll never register it as a trademark.) scripting.com

Why the Berkeley mountain lion was not tranquillized. berkeleyside.com

It's already a scorcha! flickr.com

Scripting News: Are you tuned into Apple TV? scripting.com

Scripting News: What's produced at hackathons? scripting.com

Scripting News: First ride of the new month -- it's a scorcha! scripting.com

It's Official -- This Is New York's Hottest Summer. nytimes.com

NYC forecast includes hint of the approaching hurricane. forecast.weather.gov

Hey it's September. Time for some Christmas cheer? :-( youtube.com

Cougar killed near Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto. sfgate.com

Obama was too cautious in fearful times. ft.com

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Apple's New TV Device Said To Have Netflix Access. techcrunch.com

All of August's links on links.scripting.com

Apple to livestream its fall event. How much you want to bet it's about streaming. engadget.com

Clash of the Blogosphere Titans. Gee I thought this would be about me and @gruber. :-) thenextweb.com

Another NYT tech event I find out about too late to get into. open.blogs.nytimes.com

Hurricane EARL Forecast/Advisory. "INTERESTS FROM VIRGINIA NORTHWARD TO NEW ENGLAND SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF EARL." nhc.noaa.gov

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com. awkwardfamilyphotos.com

Obviously Diaspora needs to reset expectations to be a bit more achievable. telegraph.co.uk

This Week Is a Coming-Out Party for Android Tablets. gigaom.com

Scripting News: Connecting DailyMile with CycleMeter. scripting.com

Less than 1/2 hour to the dreaded Oauthcalypse. Bring out your dead. :-) scripting.com

I've signed up with dailymile.com. dailymile.com

Scripting News: Early morning pre-heatwave bike ride. scripting.com

Scripting News: Hey Gruber, what about the users? scripting.com

A Fond Farewell: Five Reasons Gnomedex Will Be Missed. revenews.com

Monday, August 30, 2010

NYC Century Bike Tour: September 12th 2010. nycbikemaps.com

Hurricane EARL Forecast Discussion. nhc.noaa.gov

National Weather Service RSS feed for Hurricane Earl. nhc.noaa.gov

Wait, what does your startup do? itsthisforthat.com

The Final Jeopardy answer is.... scripting.com

Scripting News: The coming Oauthcalypse. scripting.com

Twitter Blog: Twitter Applications and OAuth. blog.twitter.com

BigLog Discuss. biglog-discuss.blogspot.com

Author declares finally, Techcrunch isn't dead. Millions cheer! :-) techcrunch.com

Bigot starts ground zero church: Where's the outrage? salon.com

Realtime search for "oauthcalypse" which is now less than 24 hours away. google.com

The last scenes of the season finale of Breaking Bad are as good as the best Hitchcock. Yes it really is that good. ou.rs

Slashdot: Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age. developers.slashdot.org

Rebooting the News #61. rebootnews.com

Rebooting the News live in 20 minutes. blogtalkradio.com

Last week I asked to be able to opt-out of Twitter's suggestions. So far, no response from the company. scripting.com

Why does CNN run stories that question whether the President is a US citizen? politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Chatroulette is back, but the joke's worn off. thenextweb.com

Fred Wilson shares advice he got from a veteran VC when he was starting out, 25 years ago. avc.com

The Web 2.0 Summit Points of Control Map. A sick view of an open medium. map.web2summit.com

Just posted a comment in the Hacker News thread on ageism. news.ycombinator.com

Scripting News: Dear Apple, re your boycott of Flash. scripting.com

Scripting News: The Final Jeopardy answer is. scripting.com

Sunday, August 29, 2010

The commenters at Hacker News are being ageist in their comments about ageism. news.ycombinator.com

"Gruber's snark would have been appropriate if his 'in short' was within several miles of truth regarding the decision." whydoeseverythingsuck.com

CrunchPad Denial of Preliminary Injunction. daringfireball.net

For 10 points, what's the story behind this song? ou.rs

So Far This August, NYT Has Published 76 Obituaries -- 70 Men And 6 Women. nytpick.com

Still a virgin? flickr.com

Setting expectations for Diaspora. scripting.com

Scripting News: What they say about age is true. scripting.com

All the links I've pushed to Twitter since April 2009. links.scripting.com

Dropbox Uploader Allows Anyone to Upload Files to Your Dropbox Account. lifehacker.com

Scripting News: Breaking Bad -- Oh So Good! scripting.com

TeaBlogger -- For the love of tea! and tea cups, and tea pots, and tea kettles, and…. teablogger.com

T-blobbing the Glenn Beck rally in DC. millikandaily.com

Scripting News: Sunday pre-breakfast ride. scripting.com

Minimally invasive cardiac bypass surgery. bypasstheordinary.com

Thinking about getting an iPhone 4 bike mount. amazon.com

Widespread Fear Freezes Housing Market. nytimes.com

Krugman: "Comments should be comments -- not long diatribes." krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Henry Scott, on his cross-country bike trip, has made it to New York State. hpscott.wordpress.com

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Scripting News: What they say about age is true. scripting.com

Scripting News: Today's ride -- Can't get no respec! scripting.com

Frontier News: How to write a #objectNotFoundHandler. frontiernews.org

We Don't Hate You. wedonthateyou.org

"You have been the victims of a terrible swindle..." samefacts.com

Silicon Valley's Dark Secret: It's All About Age. techcrunch.com

Cash and coffee. flickr.com

Building a Nation of Know-Nothings. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

Deltacloud. Many Clouds. One API. No Problem. incubator.apache.org

Wow. If You Think Quitting Booze Freaks People Out, Wait ‘Til You Quit Twitter. techcrunch.com

Friday, August 27, 2010

Fidel Castro claims Osama bin Laden is a US spy. guardian.co.uk

Conde Nast, I'm publicly offering to buy Reddit. benhuh.com

Steve Jobs, Circa 1997, Reintroducing Apple. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

In protest, Reddit rolls its own pot ads. news.cnet.com

Velveteen Rabbi: Passing the virtual hat for prayer rug cleaning. velveteenrabbi.blogs.com

Exactly how far can you build a mosque from Ground Zero? dailycaller.com

Welcome to the user's desktop where complicated technology very often doesn't work. scripting.com

If you're in NY today, get outside. It's one of the 10 nicest-weather days of the year, for sure. flickr.com

Google Buys Angstro As It Furthers Social Strategy. Congrats to Rohit. techcrunch.com

Scripting News: Today's ride -- piece of cake. scripting.com

Scripting News: A note about Diaspora. scripting.com

Scripting News: Playing with Pogoplug. Haven't had any luck accessing it from my Mac. scripting.com

In case you need more intensity in your workouts. youtube.com

Scripting News: Mashups of the Mona Lisa. scripting.com

Scripting News: links.scripting.com update. Now updates shortly after each link and has an RSS feed to subscribe to. scripting.com

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Unwelcome Neighbor for Empire State Building. nytimes.com

TweetDeck's Underground Project: Allowing TweetDecks To Talk To Nearby TweetDecks. techcrunch.com

Only Burning Man Stands Between Diaspora, the Open Source Facebook, and Its Public Launch. readwriteweb.com

Photographing the people photographing the Mona Lisa. mika.yukidoke.org

Digg Redesign Met With a Thumbs Down. gigaom.com

http://links.scripting.com/ now updates shortly after I publish a new link to Twitter, not just once a day. links.scripting.com

Taliban Primp, Sing, Snipe U.S. Troops In Rare Video. wired.com

Google Realtime. google.com

Unattainable Apartment of the Week. myupperwest.com

Scripting News: Another boring ride (but that's exciting). scripting.com

Islamophobia: the new antisemitism. guardian.co.uk

NYU's Wise And Courageous Partnership With The "Ground Zero" Mosque. nyulocal.com

More escapism? Thinking of playing hooky with the Expendables. movies.nytimes.com

Do Big Cats Like Catnip? nthmost.com

Scripting News: Twitter let me opt-out of your suggestions. scripting.com

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

100 Movie Character Icons: Can You Guess Them All? animalnewyork.com

Beautiful Cooper Square Hotel in (but of course) Cooper Square, taken from a nearby rooftop. flickr.com

You could write a program to create comments like this one. Get a bunch of these every day, no matter what I write about. scripting.com

Why Google Has No Game. gigaom.com

Scripting News: How I do the hand-drawn diagrams. scripting.com

I'm using Dropbox to connect my servers together in new ways. scripting.com

Yaaaaay I just got the free phone calls thing turned on in GMail. Finally something new in GMail that isn't lame. scripting.com

Astronomers have discovered a new solar system 127 light years away that is tantalisingly similar to our own. guardian.co.uk

VRM + CRM 2010 - Tomorrow and Friday at Harvard. vrmcrm2010.eventbrite.com

Sales of new homes hit slowest pace record. msnbc.msn.com

Hipmunk: Better Flight Search. hipmunk.com

When an Arab Enclave Thrived Downtown. nytimes.com

Scoble interviews Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator. youtube.com

Took advantage of the cold, wet weather to go to the movies yesterday. scripting.com

Economy Caught in Depression, Not Recession. cnbc.com

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

@mathewi -- you overstated this -- I merely made a proposal to start a discussion. I don't have a plan. muckrack.com

Scripting News: Eat Pray Love. scripting.com

Windows 95, which is 15 this week, was the peak of Microsoft's power. technologizer.com

Power Twitter for Chrome. chrome.google.com

How strange to wish for another heat wave. Makes for much better bike riding, imho. forecast.weather.gov

Why I have comments: the hope that I might learn something new from the people who read the blog. scripting.com

Scripting News: There is Toyota and there is BMW. scripting.com

A tech autopsy of Google's failed communication platform. slate.com

The New Yorker Festival has a blog and a feed. Oct 3 in NY of course. newyorker.com

Scripting News: Why I like comments. scripting.com

My favorite stretch of the Hudson River Greenway bike path. You're over water, totally level, smooth pavement. flickr.com

Rain or shine there are always people gawking at the puppies at the Puppy Store. flickr.com

Scripting News: Dennis, learn and practice Positioning. scripting.com

Scripting News: New site: links.scripting.com. scripting.com

Monday, August 23, 2010

Everything I've linked to on Twitter since April 2009 all on one page. links.scripting.com

Greenpeace mobilises as firm strikes oil in Arctic. guardian.co.uk

Is it big news that the US has killed more innocent people than al Qaeda? Where have you guys been? Geez. atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

Rebooting the News #60 with @boraz and @arikia is up. rebootnews.com

Google Buzz bug spotlights tepid usage. news.cnet.com

Scripting News: Where is the iPhone 4 spacebar? (Answer is already in the comments, but I wanted to share the question.) scripting.com

Welcome to the iMac Touch. patentlyapple.com

Online comments need an overhaul, but what exactly should be done? annatarkov.com

Why trust Facebook with the future's past? wordyard.com

Scripting News: How long does it take for alcohol to reach your brain? scripting.com

Following Henry Scott on his cross country cycling trip. hpscott.wordpress.com

Bike jousting? Naked rides? There's a cycling niche for everyone. guardian.co.uk

Rebooting the News at a special time today -- 10AM Eastern -- with guests @boraz and @arikia discuss Science Blogging. blogtalkradio.com

See NYC Subway Cars Get Buried in the Sea.. animalnewyork.com

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity. techcrunch.com

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Mail Pages. scripting.com

Bestseller Seth Godin to No Longer Publish Books Traditionally. mediabistro.com

The Most Popular Torrent Sites Of The Last Five Years. torrentfreak.com

"Socially Generated Newspaper for Geeks, Designers and Venture Capitalists." tputh.com

Scripting News: With a happy refrain, I'm biking in the rain! scripting.com

I have one of the coolest domain names -- http://ou.rs/ -- still haven't figured out what to do with it. :-( ou.rs

Scripting News: Proposal: A new kind of blog comment system. scripting.com

Yay Leo loves his blog and we love Leo. leoville.com

Len Edgerly can only stand so much perfect weather. lenedgerly.com

Patent Office Back To Approving Pretty Much Anything. techdirt.com

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Apple eyes kill switch for jailbroken iPhones. theregister.co.uk

Scripting News: Who was lining up at the Apple store today? scripting.com

If you look in the right margin of http://scripting.com/ you'll see an item called "Warning!" Expand it to be notified that the web is dead. scripting.com

Bravo to Brian Stelter who has lost 60 pounds in public. Wowowowowow. That is super impressive. nytimes.com

I just used Facebook the check in at a restaurant. facebook.com

BBC News - Swedish rape warrant for Wikileaks' Assange cancelled. bbc.co.uk

Scripting News: For crying out loud, this is the United States, not your country club. scripting.com

Scripting News: I saw lots of Muslims on today's bike ride. scripting.com

People are still lining up outside the Apple Store on 5th Ave to buy iPhones. flickr.com

Scripting News: Let's deport Karen Hughes. scripting.com

Scripting News: When my Windows servers reboot.... scripting.com

Deport Karen Hughes: A sign of courtesy, unity and American 'good sense.' washingtonpost.com

BBC News - Wikileaks founder Julian Assange accused of rape. bbc.co.uk

Friday, August 20, 2010

Facebook Feeling Unfriendly Toward ‘Social Network'. nytimes.com

@CathleenRitt -- But it sounds like a good movie! movies.nytimes.com

A developer I know applied to get access to Twitter's OAuth interface and was turned down. So Twitter is doing an Apple? scripting.com

Scripting News: Need help logging on to SMCD3GN cable modem for Time-Warner DOCSIS. scripting.com

Our Muslim Miss USA Thinks 'Ground Zero Mosque' Should Move! well that's the end of that. gawker.com

Please, no one take this personally! flickr.com

Flickr my background: Put your latest Flickr image in your Twitter background. Great idea!! sawhorsemedia.com

Scripting News: Twitter's Oauthcalypse -- No Country For Old Software. scripting.com

Having owned Berkeley real estate I keep up on what comes on the market. This house looks great. If I were shopping... zillow.com

We had a birthday lunch today for my mom, who turned (redacted) today. flickr.com

Scripting News: Do you use a Pogoplug? scripting.com

Burger at the Union Square Cafe. flickr.com

Scripting News: Bike riding/swimming vacation? scripting.com

Scripting News: Computers say the darndest things! scripting.com

"Sometimes there is a right and a wrong, and Twitter is just plain wrong about this Oauthcalypse nonsense." scripting.com

Free bike rental on Governors island every Friday thru October. newyorkology.com

Recumbent bicycle. en.wikipedia.org

Bikes on a plane? Easier said than done. guardian.co.uk

Scripting News: There will be breakage. scripting.com

DaveNet : On Beauty in Women. scripting.com

Open Hardware Summit. openhardwaresummit.org

Pickin up a random butt. flickr.com

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Scripting News: The Big GWB! (And the lure of a tailwind.) scripting.com

My bike and I made it to the GWB today. Milestone! :-) flickr.com

Much love to all my buds, esp the Twitter Babes, at today's sf.140conf.com

How To Disable Facebook Places Tagging. billcammack.com

My date with the world's tallest man Sultan Kosen. mirror.co.uk

Kurt Vonnegut memorial library to open in Indianapolis. guardian.co.uk

Wired would like to give you a free bag because "The Web is Dead." Not kidding, it's right there --> magazine.wired.com

Hacker News comments re "I love netbooks but Asus is blowing it." news.ycombinator.com

"Maybe my mind is not aging at the same rate as my body." blog.nordquist.org

Howard Dean: "Mosque" should move. Ugh. salon.com

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

"Zuckerberg was a rerun." scripting.com

Scripting News: The Big C vs the Big Zzzz. scripting.com

15 Penn Plaza threatens Empire State Building. therealdeal.com

NYU Has Highest Total Student Debt in the Nation. nyulocal.com

Apple's 'Freedom From Porn' Enforcer Drawn To Porn Stars and Escorts on Twitter. gawker.com

The Tragic Death of Practically Everything. technologizer.com

Scripting News: I love netbooks but Asus is blowing it. scripting.com

Google launching a Chrome OS tablet on Verizon, goes on sale November 26. Where do I sign up for one? :-) downloadsquad.com

Scripting News: Shorter ride, tireder Dave. scripting.com

Plastic Surgeon Was Texting in Car Before Fatal Crash. people.com

nyblogs.org

NYT article on sriracha sauce. nytimes.com

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Sriracha chili sauce galore!! flickr.com

Vietnam's bid to tame the internet boom. bbc.co.uk

Scripting News: Followup on Apache/Dropbox/Windows. scripting.com

Wired Says 'The Web is Dead' -- On Its Increasingly Profitable Website. gawker.com

Obviously, the President came out in favor of religious freedom as a way of throwing a bone to progressives. politico.com

Scripting News: Nice things about the web. scripting.com

Wired: The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet. wired.com

Manton Reece: Deprecation mentality. manton.org

Scripting News: A good weekday ride, reached 125th St. scripting.com

Next question: Apache and Windows shortcut files -- any hope of them getting along? :-) scripting.com

Help requested: An Apache/Dropbox problem. scripting.com

Monday, August 16, 2010

Verizon demos 1Gbps Fios connection. news.cnet.com

Should CNN anchors be required be expected to have an appreciation of civics of a beauty pageant contestant? salon.com

A CNN anchor expresses the crux of "mosque" opposition. salon.com

The 'Ground Zero Mosque' Is Not a Mosque (or at Ground Zero). politics.usnews.com

Scripting News: Hallowed ground, heh. scripting.com

A few photos of stuff the same distance from the World Trade Center as the "Ground Zero Mosque." (via @howardweaver) daryllang.com

Scripting News: Proposal: Fat Tweets Week on Twitter. scripting.com

Watching the Aspen institute meetup thinking they need some fresh blood or stimulants. Wonder if Craig'll zing this time. iphone.livestream.com

Andrew Lih wants to wikify fact-checking. niemanlab.org

A Classic Vietnamese Sandwich Absorbs Local Flavors. Kielbasa Banh Mi! nytimes.com

How much can you really make developing mobile apps? loiclemeur.com

Overheating iPod delays rush-hour train in Tokyo. engadget.com

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Huy Fong Sriracha Chili Sauce. amazon.com

Scripting News: Proposal: Fat Tweets Week on Twitter!? scripting.com

Scripting News: A compromise re fat tweets? scripting.com

Scripting News: Sunday bike cruise with Cyclemeter. scripting.com

For today's bike trip I'm taking Cyclemeter with me. abvio.com

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Now that "fat" tweets are history, here's a screen shot to remind of what one looked like. :-) flickr.com

The Real Reason for Ousting H.P.'s Chief. nytimes.com

I whipped up a little web app to show how "fat tweets" work. io.scripting.com

Scripting News: How "fat tweets" work (for now). scripting.com

t.co

Obama Defense of "Ground Zero Mosque" Less Risky Than it Seems. fivethirtyeight.com

Life in the big city: "Sex in a tiny kitchen -- with crutches." youtube.com

Scripting News: Saturday 2-hour Tour de NY. scripting.com

After 40 years, ferries thriving on S.F. Bay. sfgate.com

Obama defends "Ground Zero mosque." salon.com

Journalism Warning Labels. tomscott.com

Friday, August 13, 2010

Yup my mom is a Natural-Born Blogger. evespeeves.wordpress.com

My Bike at 110th St and Hudson Greenway. flickr.com

Baoguette: Great Vietnamese Sandwiches. There's one of these in my neighborhood. Ate there today. It's wonderful! newyork.staging-seriouseats.com

Vietnamese sandwich yummmm! :-) flickr.com

Scripting News: Friday uptown bike trip. scripting.com

ASUS prices 10-inch Android Eee Pad under $399, 8-inch Eee Tablet at $300, other tablets too. engadget.com

How Starbucks Plans to Capitalize on Free Wi-Fi. mashable.com

Scripting News: Voice America Talk Radio Network. scripting.com

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Google Street View captures girl's 'body' lying on pavement. dailymail.co.uk

Axon Logic Hackintosh Tablet May Just Out-iPad The iPad. techcrunch.com

Transportation Alternatives. transalt.org

Some pretty interesting comments showing up under the WTF-Afghanistan piece. scripting.com

The Mystery of Steve Jobs' Plateless Benz. gizmodo.com

Scripting News: WTF is with Afghanistan? (Roundup of tweeted responses.) scripting.com

Scripting News: Today's bike trip: Under 3 bridges, round the Battery. scripting.com

Why Won't "Fiscal Hawks" Discuss The Real Issues? baselinescenario.com

Scripting News: Programming followups. scripting.com

Apple Pulls Camera+ From The App Store After Its Developers Reveal A Contraband Feature. techcrunch.com

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Reflections on Trusting Trust. en.wikipedia.org

I bought these Sennheiser wireless headphones for movie watching and love them. Makes it easier to hear dialog. amazon.com

Another bike ride and an encounter with the USS Intrepid. scripting.com

Twitter Adopts Deceased Policy. mediapost.com

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Oops. Wrong Cookie? fortunecookiechronicles.com

Robert Gibbs attacks the fringe losers of the left. Doing a bad imitation of Fox News. They ought to sue em for copyright. salon.com

Russian Fires Approach Nuclear Plants. wired.com

New federal antipiracy regulations await returning students. arstechnica.com

Humanity is a bootstrap -- can't make a human without a human (two in fact). scripting.com

My buddy Andrew Baron's Rocketboom is growing. dembot.com

"Tea-leaves are what are left in the bottom of a cup after the tea is gone." davenet.scripting.com

I don't need no wah-wah! :-) youtube.com

F140 Documentation. Chuck accepted my challenge to get off our butts and federate already, dammit! :-) shotton.com

Speakers: Picnic. picnicnetwork.org

Gee but it's great to be back home! youtube.com

Checking in from Bryant Park in NYC. flickr.com

All-American cheeseburger & fries. flickr.com

South Station, Boston. flickr.com

Scripting News: Let's bootstrap a federated 140-char loose-copulation. scripting.com

Fed to Meet, With Concerns on Deflation Rising. nytimes.com

Twitter please tweak the recommendation algorithm. What's the point suggesting user who hasn't tweeted since Oct 9. twitter.com

YouTube - The Band - Where Do We Go From Here? -- Can't get this song out of my head. youtube.com

It's so cool that @nicco is blogging again. :-) nicco.tumblr.com

Monday, August 09, 2010

Ellison lashes out at HP board over Hurd exit. news.cnet.com

An API is coming for Twitter suggested users feature. scripting.com

Scripting News: Follow-up re Twitter suggested users feature. scripting.com

Sylvia is right -- there's no way the Hurd scandal at HP is about a minor expense account impropriety. whoisylvia.typepad.com

DEVONthink. devon-technologies.com

Sotheby uses Flash for images of real estate listings. Can't see it on my iPad. sothebysrealty.com

Why the NYT Book Review should be making huge money, but isn't. Come on print guys, listen. scripting.com

An interesting easy-to-understand theory on what's cookin betw Google and Verizon. nytimes.com

Ted Olson To Chris Wallace On Marriage Equality: ‘Would You Like Fox's Right To Free Press Put Up To A Vote?'. thinkprogress.org

Sunday, August 08, 2010

The iPhone 4 Antenna Issue Won't Die -- Because Apple Won't Let It. techcrunch.com

The formulation, in English of the P vs NP problem. claymath.org

YouTube - the swimming song by loudon wainwright iii. youtube.com

Scripting News: Craigslist under fire in MSM. scripting.com

My bike made it up to 94th St today! flickr.com

Scripting News: Finally, Twitter suggestions that make sense. scripting.com

"Book reviews should be free, because the books they sell make lots of money." scripting.com

Scripting News: Forgiveness. scripting.com

Scripting News: Bike trip #5. With a map created by my iPhone and GPS. Pictures. scripting.com

@jessas -- yeah i knew that. it was a joke. :-) en.wikipedia.org

Scripting News: Rebooting the NYT Book Review. scripting.com

Saturday, August 07, 2010

Four days of intense (for me) bike riding has given me the first hint of Superman Legs. :-) scripting.com

Watching you watch us watch them watch us watch you watch them. scripting.com

Scripting News: Borgs or blogs? You decide! scripting.com

I wish the ADL had given me a medal so I could return it too. huffingtonpost.com

Scripting News: Bike trip #4. scripting.com

Scripting News: Improving discourse on Scripting News. scripting.com

Ugh. Religious fundamentalist spam. twitter.com

Scripting News: Followup on "S3's missing feature". scripting.com

Fake Social Media Vintage Ads. inquisitr.com

Scripting News: Visualizing failure, day 2. scripting.com

Friday, August 06, 2010

iPhone 4 bumper arrived today from Apple. flickr.com

The only way to succeed is if you cannot visualize failure. scripting.com

Hot tiara babe nerdy tweeters in NY. flickr.com

Scripting News: Embracing failure is a good way to fail. scripting.com

All of a sudden Lindsey Graham is a mensch? I don't get it. cnsnews.com

What collapsing empire looks like. salon.com

Scripting News: Is Apple's freeze-out of Flash working? scripting.com

US job losses are double what was expected. guardian.co.uk

uTorrent Wants Torrent Sites to Adopt Torrent Tweet. torrentfreak.com

Scripting News: Scripting News needs a curator or curators. scripting.com

Scripting News: S3 is missing one feature for web hosting. scripting.com

Why did no one object to the "Pentagon mosque"? Republicans strangely silent. salon.com

kewlchops: CS404. george08.blogspot.com

Despite Apple's efforts to kill it, important new sites still come online that require Flash. transbaycenter.org

Thursday, August 05, 2010

An Apple App Patent That Looks Like an Actual App Selling on the App Store. gigaom.com

"All the iconography in our churches replaced with images of whales and cute blue birds." scripting.com

Why Google Wave Crashed and Burned. theatlanticwire.com

Scripting News: OMG Twitter is down arrrgh helllp whimper sob. scripting.com

Scripting News: Lunch with NakedJen. scripting.com

Scripting News: Daily bike ride 3.0. scripting.com

Scripting News: Better recommendations from Twitter. scripting.com

Scripting News: How to boot a federated social network, now. scripting.com

What we can learn from Google Wave. scripting.com

Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Scripting News: Why didn't Google Wave boot up? scripting.com

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Kelly Sutton chose NY over SF. kellysutton.tumblr.com

The birth of the deja-app. rexblog.com

Okay we're waving goodbye to Google Wave. techcrunch.com

FYI, this is the kind of comment that gets you blocked. If you don't want to listen, unfollow. Selfish in the extreme. twitter.com

Redesigning the NYC subway map. kottke.org

Chuck Shotton just told me about "Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park." It's a long bike trail! en.wikipedia.org

This is the song I'd like y'all to sing when I pass on to my final reward. well.com

Scripting News: Daily bike ride 2.0. scripting.com

"Google is fighting everywhere, just in case it turns out that's where the true enemy is hiding." scripting.com

Today's bike trip was northbound to 64th and the Hudson River Greenway. Great ride, legs feel happy. :-) flickr.com

Scripting News: Google vs iPhone and Facebook. scripting.com

Free Ferry Service Goes to Yankees and Mets Games. nytimes.com

Where's the oil? It's oozing out of the Louisiana ground. news.yahoo.com

Laurent Eschenauer. eschnou.com

BP says 'static kill' has successfully plugged oil well. guardian.co.uk

OpenClipArt. openclipart.org

"Get Low" is good movie. Go see. newyorker.com

I wish more people could read Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines. amazon.com

Michael Bloomberg delivers stirring defense of mosque. salon.com

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Lower Manhattan Expressway. en.wikipedia.org

Scripting News: The first outing on my new bike. scripting.com

Should I pay $1.99 to buy a copy of my own freakin "book" on Amazon so I can read it on the Kindle? amazon.com

Cond� Nast to Move to Skyscraper at Ground Zero. Like clicking the "I Feel Lucky" button on Google. nytimes.com

I'm trying an experiment with the home page of scripting.com to see what people do. :-) scripting.com

CJR: Dear Sidney Harman… cjr.org

What I Read: Jay Rosen. theatlanticwire.com

The first outing on my new bike. Took me to the southern tip of Manhattan and back. 40 minutes roundtrip. Feels great!! flickr.com

How we look vs who we are (Scripting News -- Feb 2009). scripting.com

Scripting News: A revelation: What I think matters. scripting.com

Poor Doc is caught in Boston airport hell. blogs.law.harvard.edu

New Samsung camera has built-in wifi. google.com

... the odds are so stacked against a recovery, your chances are so slim, that it's better to give up on the miracle cure. scripting.com

Monday, August 02, 2010

No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Joho the Blog � The flatfooted learning society. hyperorg.com

Twitter to Require Password Reset for Those Who Bought Followers. They should reset everyone's follower count to zero. readwriteweb.com

What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity. blog.nielsen.com

The Washington Post Company Agrees to Sell NEWSWEEK to Sidney Harman. newsweek.com

Someone from Time-Warner got in touch via email. Totally beats going in through voicemail. scripting.com

Scripting News: Time-Warner wideband upgrade verdict is in. scripting.com

The #140conf Roadtrip: Aug 22-28 2010. Jeff Pulver is the hardest working guy in TwitterLand. maps.google.com

Where are all the Starbucks Clover stores? starbucksmelody.com

Scripting News: Moving on for the last time. scripting.com

Sunday, August 01, 2010

It'd be kind of interesting to run my spammers list through @flipboard. twitter.com

Paul Krugman explains his labor of love -- his blog. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Why 'Mad Men' Has So Little to Do With Advertising. It loses a lot of money. adage.com

What was imperfect was not the machine, but my understanding of the machine." scripting.com

New bike! flickr.com

Scripting News: Debugging 101. scripting.com

Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn't get the iPad. arstechnica.com

I've got seven days to decide if I'm going to keep http://loose.ly/ or give it up. $125 is a lot of money for something I'm not using. loose.ly

Apple Pulls Attenuation Videos From Its Site. thenextweb.com

Dwindling Retirement Savings 'Undiscussed Explosive Bomb' Of Recession. huffingtonpost.com

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Scripting News: Hey I'm (almost) a Kindle author. scripting.com

"Tumblr lets people go on and on -- but they don't." scripting.com

Scripting News: Virginia Heffernan and the science bloggers. scripting.com

AdAge: Why Flipboard Won't Help Publishing's Smoldering Model. adage.com

Back of Mom's TV. I was hoping for VGA, but it has DVI. She'll be getting a Mac Mini soon, to go with her FIOS. flickr.com

How to get out of The Matrix quickly. flickr.com

Jewish Group Opposes Muslim Center Near Ground Zero. nytimes.com

DNC press pass (front and back). flickr.com

Friday, July 30, 2010

"My favorite people to follow on Twitter are not the big names in show biz, sports or tech." scripting.com

There's a hackish way to opt-out of the Twitter suggested people to follow feature. Here's how --> scripting.com

Or @rww or @ev. scripting.com

Thanks for the suggestion Twitter, but I don't want to follow Yeah I really want to follow @algore or @whitehouse. scripting.com

Rex Hammock on Flipboard: "The product is great, the hyperbole is grating." As usual reality comes from users, not hype. rexblog.com

Scripting News: OMG, Twitter is suggesting people to follow?! scripting.com

Wonder if I'm going to have to pay $1.99 to see what my stuff looks like on a Kindle? That would totally suck. scripting.com

Why Do You Need a Computer to Use an iPad? theappleblog.com

Remembering Ricochet. blogs.law.harvard.edu

New York City Subway Platforms to Go Wireless. bloomberg.com

Watching the Social Currency CrunchUp in Palo Alto. techcrunch.com

Scripting News: On my way to publishing a Kindle book. scripting.com

@bytebot -- it's Rver2. newsriver.org

Obama should give Warren a recess appointment. boston.com

Thursday, July 29, 2010

science.newsriver.org

The New Yorker: Hospice medical care for dying patients. newyorker.com

Scripting News: Got me some DOCSIS 3. scripting.com

The Time-Warner installer got here on time, the installation is done. I now have DOCSIS 3. What they call "wideband." speedtest.net

Krugman: The Work Of Depressions. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

@BoraZ -- I've subscribed to all of them. science.newsriver.org

Scripting News: DO YOU THINK BEFORE YOU COMMENT? scripting.com

Interesting comments on Hacker News re today's Kindle piece. news.ycombinator.com

How to Let Go of a Grudge. psychologytoday.com

Scripting News: science.newsriver.org. scripting.com

Photo of my Kindle DX taken with my iPhone 4. flickr.com

Scripting News: Ole and Lena ride again. scripting.com

Scripting News: Kindle is OK. scripting.com

Scripting News: We'd probably survive a 500-character limit. scripting.com

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Krugman: "I think I hear a faint chant of Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter! in the background." krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Develop the Next Junior's Cheesecake Flavor Contest. juniorscheesecake.com

New Amazon Kindle announced: $139 WiFi-only version and $189 3G model available August 27th in the US and UK. engadget.com

Hottest Decade on Record. green.blogs.nytimes.com

How HBO has pushed back the boundaries of modern television. guardian.co.uk

Of course I just bought a nice new Kindle a week before they make a new one. Frack me!! crunchgear.com

Shorter url: science.newsriver.org

Computer Lib. en.wikipedia.org

A river of news of a bunch of science blogs. It'll have a shorter URL tomorrow. :-) dl.dropbox.com

Time has been unable to get Apple to let it sell and manage subscriptions for its iPad apps. mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Britain's oldest Tweeter has died. bbc.co.uk

Science Blogging Networks: What, Why and How. blog.coturnix.org

In Study, 2 Economists Say Intervention Helped Avert a 2nd Depression. nytimes.com

iPad-optimized page from ABC News. flickr.com

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

iMac or Mac Pro? marco.org

Doc says: "Bring back the old Google Image search." I'm inclined to agree. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Engadget: Apple Magic Trackpad first hands-on. engadget.com

Scripting News: Starbucks' free wifi is the deciding factor. scripting.com

Scripting News: What's the point of the magic trackpad? scripting.com

Apparently there's a new Mac Mini (though it's not clear at first glance what's new). store.apple.com

Magic Trackpad. $69. store.apple.com

Ma! He's Looking At Me Funny! krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Apple Store goes down, get your credit cards ready. engadget.com

The best films of the '00s. avclub.com

Spoiler-laden synopsis of season opener of Mad Men. hitfix.com

WikiLeaks Sought to Raise Its Profile. online.wsj.com

Google gets patent on blog search. patft.uspto.gov

Monday, July 26, 2010

Scripting News: Will the 140-char limit drop next? scripting.com

Twitter to Show Photos and Videos in the Stream. mashable.com

New gov't rules allow unapproved iPhone apps. news.yahoo.com

WikiLeaks war logs show unreported plight of contractors. salon.com

How about a hybrid of Google Calendar, Foursquare and Flickr. scripting.com

Just the ability to hide one tweet. Please. scripting.com

Scripting News: Add this to Twitter's to-do list. scripting.com

The MP3 for Rebooting the News #59 is ready to download. Topics: Wikileaks, Antennagate, Flipboard, Shirley Sherrod. rebootnews.com

5 Holes That Twitter Needs To Fill (And Soon). twittercism.com

Martha & The Vandellas: "Dancing in the Streets." youtube.com

Scripting News: Inception is to The Matrix as.... scripting.com

Rebooting the News at noon Eastern. blogtalkradio.com

BBC has video of the Wikileaks press conference. bbc.co.uk

Jay Rosen: The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization. journalism.nyu.edu

Glenn Greenwald on the Wikileaks Afghanistan leak. salon.com

Watching the Wikileaks press conference live. Fascinating. guardian.co.uk

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Video: How to read the Afghanistan war logs guardian.co.uk

"the White House has 14 operators, and fields about 4,000 calls a day" nytimes.com

Wikileaks releases massive set of Afghan war files. news.cnet.com

"Zero-tolerance for mindless Apple advocacy." scripting.com

Scripting News: A demo for Apple fans. scripting.com

Mimicking Apple an imperative for PC makers. news.cnet.com

Scripting News: Apple's Flash policy is a breach of Postel's Law. scripting.com

ETAOIN SHRDLU. en.wikipedia.org

Scripting News: In Washington it's all public relations. scripting.com

Days after Obama signed a fake bill to "regulate" the banking industry, Forbes calls him anti-business. Heh. Head-fake. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

The song I was looking for is Life Story sung by Lynne Wintersteller from the play Closer Than Ever. google.com

Using the Congress API With Spreadsheets. open.blogs.nytimes.com

Liverpool named its airport after John Lennon. liverpoolairport.com

Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Now Target Private Tracker. torrentfreak.com

Heard a great (and moving) song on the Jonathan Schwartz show on WNYC yesterday. Was driving so I couldn't write. wnyc.org

CNN anchors attack the scourge of anonymity. salon.com

Saturday, July 24, 2010

iPad owner? PC user? AlwaysOnPC lets you access your PC from your iPad.. thenextweb.com

If Apple wants to be a major player it needs to start behaving like one. guardian.co.uk

"leftist media" is like "he has cooties." gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

Facebook Is to the Power Company as... nytimes.com

Bifteki. flickr.com

Use of cameras strictly prohibited. flickr.com

Scripting News: Apple as Captain Queeg. scripting.com

Apple - Smartphone Antenna Performance - Motorola Droid X. youtube.com

Friday, July 23, 2010

Experience: I was with my friend when she took her own life. guardian.co.uk

They served us coffee on the drawing. flickr.com

The picture I drew for Doc at lunch today showing how content rendering will work over the coming years. flickr.com

Flipboard Wades Into Murky Copyright Waters Where Google Lives. gigaom.com

Summary of the invite only open web summit. status.net

Doc Searls, bloggin. flickr.com

Samsung handing out free mobiles to Twitter users. I'd like one! :-) guardian.co.uk

Daniel Schorr, Journalist, Dies at 93. nytimes.com

Is Flipboard Legal? gizmodo.com

Thursday, July 22, 2010

NYT review of "Salt." movies.nytimes.com

Nicco Mele at his Harvard office. flickr.com

Greetings from Copley Square (earlier today, around lunchtime). flickr.com

Charles Hotel yard. flickr.com

We thirst for instantaneous real-time news. scripting.com

With no disrespect, Flipboard is a scraper. scripting.com

Scripting News: About Flipboard and reading surfaces. scripting.com

Congrats to Lane Hartwell who got hitched! :-) flickr.com

Galaxy Phones From Samsung Are Worthy iPhone Rivals. ptech.allthingsd.com

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The Top Idea in Your Mind. paulgraham.com

The Web Means the End of Forgetting. nytimes.com

Scripting News: How to do open developent work, Rules 1 & 2. scripting.com

Twitter's tech problems take a toll on developers. computerworld.com

Would you rent a friend? guardian.co.uk

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Apple's Net Rises 78% on Strong Sales of Computers and Mobile Devices. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Apple's Black Friday. scripting.com

Another Stadium to Fall (move it to Ground Zero!). ny.curbed.com

Scripting News: A mosque at Ground Zero. scripting.com

I keep a list of spammers on Twitter. Most of them are still spamming even though I reported them all. twitter.com

Blog shut down over terrorist material posted on site. bbc.co.uk

Large pot farms on verge of approval in Oakland. sfgate.com

Monday, July 19, 2010

Palin's "Refudiate" Tweet on Mosque Near Ground Zero Draws Fire. cbsnews.com

London Times Sees 66% Traffic Drop, Post-Paywall. editorandpublisher.com

Traded by Knicks, David Lee Was Still a Team Player. nytimes.com

A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem. scienceblogs.com

Scripting News: Death and Facebook, revisited. scripting.com

Where the Bloggers Are. nytimes.com

Nokia, RIM, HTC, Samsung and Motorola: Shut Up, Apple. digitaldaily.allthingsd.com

The Taiwanese News Animates the iPhone 4 Antenna Saga (With Very Special Bonus). gizmodo.com

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Intel needs to build its own iPad. news.cnet.com

KickPost. Looks like TechMeme is going to get some competition. It'll be good for everyone. I like how they're linking. kickpost.com

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning. mariovittone.com

FederatedSocialWeb. Just found out about it. Invite only. Feh. federatedsocialweb.net

adliterate: It really is this easy. adliterate.com

Example of a company that disclaims hubris, in their motto and positioning. google.com

Scripting News: It's just a phone. scripting.com

Krugman: "This passage makes me want to stick a pencil in my eye." krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Questions about the new Digg. scripting.com

The Stupidity and Hypocrisy of the Austerity Movement. fivethirtyeight.com

Programming for journalists/Journalism for programmers. poynter.org

Why is Newsweek at http://newswek.org/?? newswek.org

I write like Stephen King. Proof: iwl.me

Among Celebrities, Mystery's Not Fashionable. nytimes.com

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Apple is so arrogant that it still won't admit the obvious truth--that the design of the phone itself is the problem. newswek.org

Apple's condescending iPhone 4 press conference. slate.com

"Facebook suggested that Courtney Purvin get in touch with a friend who had died in April." nytimes.com

I'm now trying the New Digg: new.digg.com

The 10 Most Caffeinated Diet Drinks. diet-blog.com

Another guy who blames "the media" for Apple's antenna woes. I don't. I think they were as surpsised as Apple was. scraplab.net

Mississippi public radio drops 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross' for sex talk. philly.com

Louis C.K. Causes NPR's 'Fresh Air' Cancellation in Mississippi. popeater.com

What I would have said yesterday if I was Steve Jobs (and I'm not, and I know it). scripting.com

Europe Without Hotels. travel.nytimes.com

Scripting News: Does Steve Jobs really love his customers? scripting.com

Four Business Tips From Apple & Steve Jobs. gigaom.com

iPhone4G Press Conference Parody. willvideoforfood.com

OAuth and OpenID Authentication Vulnerable To "Timing Attack". thenextweb.com

Personal computers pre-configured with SSD drives? blogs.law.harvard.edu

Friday, July 16, 2010

Thesis and the GPL. andrewnacin.com

NakedJen shares what she learned at the Oregon State Fair. nakedjen.com

I was walking behind these two guys both wearing Wright jerseys (he plays on the Mets). flickr.com

A very interesting, almost scholarly discussion is happening under today's Wordpress themes post. scripting.com

As you can see in this screen shot I've now been working/writing in Scripting2 for quite some time! flickr.com

iPhone Deaf: Apple Needs to Answer PR Call. alexgpr.com

If Apple wanted to impress us with their sense of humor, they would have played this video at their presser. scripting.com

If the Pentium FDIV recall of 1994 is a guide, Apple has not yet put the iPhone 4 antenna problems behind them. scripting.com

Scripting News: Inception is disappointing. scripting.com

Did Apple really play this "satirical" song at their press conference? Nothing funny about it. Pretty sad actually. tuaw.com

Scripting News: Are Wordpress themes necessarily open source? scripting.com

Is It in Apple's DNA to Say: "I'm Sorry?" cbsnews.com

Is a wordpress theme necessarily open source?. drewblas.com

U.S. Authorities Shut Down Host With 73,000 Blogs. torrentfreak.com

Bike guy in E Village with huge ghetto blaster playing Bee Gees hit. This brief video doesn't do this guy justice. flickr.com

Old Spice goes viral. futuretense.publicradio.org

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Texas Remains Stoic as Spill Hits Its Shores. nytimes.com

Four square is a popular playground game. en.wikipedia.org

"Welcome to Phone Mart. How may I help you?" scripting.com

Oil leak stopped for first time since April. washingtonpost.com

My piece with the funny title is running on Gizmodo! gizmodo.com

New Kindle. flickr.com

Download iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. redmondpie.com

Scripting News: Great tech recalls of the 20th Century. scripting.com

Why it's completely legit to take Apple to task for every bone-headed design decision. news.ycombinator.com

Turn your iPad into a second monitor. reviews.cnet.com

NYT review of Inception. movies.nytimes.com

I cringe when people call Steve Wozniak "The Woz." He's called Woz. There's no "the" in there. techcrunch.com

At breakfast this morning with Jeremy Zilar, when a lightbulb truck pulled up behind him creating an excellent photo-op. flickr.com

Gawker: The Trouble at Twitter Inc. gawker.com

Salon's reviewer didn't like Inception. I'm going to see it tomorrow anyway. "I don't care." salon.com

Foursquare Founders Take Home $4.6 Million From Series B Round. businessinsider.com

Just rebooted http://scripting.com/ and this time it came back. Fingers crossed, with Plan B ready to go. scripting.com

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Scripting News: Why didn't Mossberg and Pogue catch the iPhone 4 problems? scripting.com

With Google as Partner, Verizon May Not Need iPhone. nytimes.com

http://scripting.com/ is back. scripting.com

Oy. I've tried rebooting three times, no luck. It's still not coming up. scripting.com

I'm sure this is something I'm doing wrong, but I can't get through to http://scripting.com/ on EC2 or through the web. scripting.com

Scripting News: Apple's brewing shitstorm. scripting.com

Nevada Senate candidate has a "no interviews" policy. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Doc Searls rates the various Verizon FIOS plans in Boston. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Scripting News: $38.5 million for Squarespace. scripting.com

Can Consumer Reports Hurt the iPhone? gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com

Repositionable Wall Graphics by Yiying Lu. laughingsquid.com

Scripting News: Unwanted Google ads on wordpress.com blogs. scripting.com

"Programmers work was less than clerical. The priesthood then were the suits!" scripting.com

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Squarespace is a NYC company. In fact I walked by their building today and was so struck by it I took a pic. squarespace.com

Squarespace Gets $38M to Compete With WordPress and Six Apart. gigaom.com

Andrew is a sucker for a good pun. blog.grumet.net

Scripting News: Random Tuesday evening notes. Programming priesthood, Kindle DX, air conditioning and space heaters. scripting.com

As Campaign Ends, Was Calling Out "Dying Platforms" Good for Posterous? readwriteweb.com

Cyberian Muse: The robots are catching up. blogs.scripting2.com

The Puck Building. flickr.com

I had lunch today at Gawker. Here's a video of their newsroom. It's so quiet, like a library! flickr.com

Hey Apple: Forget About the Recall, Just Hand Out Free iPhone 4 Cases. (Kind of obvious. PR 101. Should've done it Day 1.) gigaom.com

Hangin out on the 7th Floor of 20 Cooper Sq. flickr.com

Right-wing machine attacks Michelle for focusing on childhood obesity. dailykos.com

"Could it work better?" scripting.com

PR Experts: iPhone 4 Hardware Recall Is "Inevitable". cultofmac.com

I've never heard of this guy who says RSS is a failure. Does that mean he's a failure too? :-) tomloverro.com

Newsweek's Excellent Tumblr Editor Is Leaving For ... Tumblr! businessinsider.com

Monday, July 12, 2010

Rudolf Ammann tells the story of how Frontier News became Scripting News. tawawa.org

Joan Walsh: Is LeBron James a "runaway slave"? salon.com

Free New York Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony Concert. centralpark.com

Marco takes Apple down on two iPhone 4 issues. marco.org

Consumer Reports Says iPhone 4 Has Design Flaw. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Cleveland Comic Book Writer Harvey Pekar Dead at Age 70. clevelandleader.com

"The problem is the sales pitch, not the software." scripting.com

The Quark of programming? buzzmachine.com

Rebooting the News live at noon Eastern. blogtalkradio.com

Scripting News: An end-user app development tool. scripting.com

Sunday, July 11, 2010

RT @andrewbaron: Free Jimmy Cliff concert today in Central Park centralpark.com

According to @atrios it's "not fine" to say soccer is boring. I almost did something not fine. Thanks for saving me. twitter.com

Germans Embrace Socializing Online Despite Government Efforts to Protect Them. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Guy would have enjoyed this. scripting.com

McCain says Phoenix is the second kidnapping capital in the world. politifact.com

Leon Botha, a Human Alien. (via @palafo). izismile.com

Scripting News: The value of working together. scripting.com

Facebook is still asking that I "keep in touch" with a friend who happens to have died. scripting.com

I've been reading about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1950s. en.wikipedia.org

If you should survive to be 105, look at all you'll derive from being alive. youtube.com

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Nobel Laureates go to see junk American movies too. All is right with the world. :-) krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

They're having panel discussions in Second Life too. Surprise, they're not all dorks. :-) sl.nmc.org

Show me one where the caption "what a dork!" doesn't fit. :-) google.com

Google image search for "panel discussion." Love the ones where panelists outnumber the audience. google.com

Seriously, should I propose doing a Why Panels Suck panel at SXSW? Would you vote for it? scripting.com

Doug Kaye on Why Panels Suck. blogarithms.com

Mark Zuckerberg Got Served--but Why? gawker.com

Synthetic Marijuana Spurs Bans in Many States. nytimes.com

It was a joke. The SXSW guys would never let this panel happen. Maybe if someone else proposed it. scripting.com

I had the killer idea for a SXSW panel, less than 24 hours after teh July 9 deadlin. Damn! scripting.com

reddit needs help. blog.reddit.com

Mark Twain's Unexpurgated Autobiography. nytimes.com

Metallic businessman. flickr.com

No one's suing Big Media for libel anymore. Why? onthemedia.org

David Weinberger explains a feeling every developer knows well. I'm sure there's a way to contribute though. hyperorg.com

Cheers Greet James in Miami as Criticism Rises. nytimes.com

Friday, July 09, 2010

Here's a short url to a Google Maps query for restaurants in the West Village. maps.google.com

Google Maps gets native URL shortening.. thenextweb.com

Scripting News: Quick review of Despicable Me in 3D. scripting.com

Google, Apple, Others Sued for Email Patent Infringement. gigaom.com

Scripting News: In-browser OPML editing. scripting.com

Doc is in Paris and wishes Google would speak to him in English, not French. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Krugman: "I'd like to say something uplifting here; but right now I'm feeling pretty bleak." krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Did LeBron James Just Cost Himself $150 Million? fivethirtyeight.com

Guardian piece about music podcasts. guardian.co.uk

Thursday, July 08, 2010

BTW, there are two corporations on my "Corporate Shit List" and American Airlines is one of them. twitter.com

Let's Teach American Airlines How to Share. dlewis.net

Reminder: Your friends could be worth 10,000 mile. So says American Airlines. flickr.com

How The Truth About Motorcycle Helmets Got A Journalist Fired. jalopnik.com

Scripting News: Fire in lower Manhattan. scripting.com

Google Maps. Looks like it's this building at Ave A and Houston that's on fire. maps.google.com

Google Maps. Looks like it's this building at Ave A and Houston that's on fire. maps.google.com

OMFG this is insane. Never seen anything like this. twitpic.com

Fire in the East Village. flickr.com

Salad nicoise. flickr.com

Steak frites! flickr.com

User-Generated-Content business models are a lot like hamster cages. Fun for the hamster, but still a cage. google.com

Failing the Pepsi Challenge. scienceblogs.com

I finally have the http://scripting.com/ home page looking more or less exactly as I want it to, CSS-wise. Thanks for all the help! :-) scripting.com

The problem with Michael Steele saying Afghanistan is "War of Obama's Choosing" etc is that he was mostly right. cbsnews.com

Scripting News: Science goes direct. scripting.com

PepsiCo's science blogging PR disaster. latticeqcd.blogspot.com

My goal is to make it as turnkey as possible to set up your own server. scripting.com

No. 1 Free-Agent Drama, Featuring LeBron James, Is About to Unfold. nytimes.com

Microsoft Rank And File Felt "Embarrassment All Over Campus" From Kin Failure. businessinsider.com

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Twitter should just cut to the chase and start charging for its API. thenextweb.com

Marco.org: The Grandparents Camera. marco.org

Oh, Pepsi, What Hast Thou Wrought? blogs.discovermagazine.com

Exclusive: Newly Published Mark Twain Essay, 'Concerning the Interview.' pbs.org

3 ways to make a successful Kickstarter project (from people who did it). johnpavlus.wordpress.com

Yikes -- ScienceBlogs sells out. scienceblogs.com

The New Digg Is More Social But Less Unique. gigaom.com

Bosh to Join Wade, Shifting N.B.A. Power to Miami. nytimes.com

Heatpocalypse Etiquette: Let The Delivery Guys Into The Lobby! guestofaguest.com

Michael Sippey: Zines, News Pages and Weblogs. tawawa.org

With Scripting2 I'm aiming for the high end of web writing tools. scripting.com

Latest dispatch from the land of CSS. Things are *starting* to work. scripting.com

Stowe Boyd needs a pretty simple bookmarklet. Help him out if you can. stoweboyd.com

I have a question about Firebug, help would be much appreciated. scripting.com

Scripting News: The Nikon camera of blogging tools? scripting.com

Scripting Bugs: My &amp;quot;Hello World&amp;quot; post. scripting.com

Every apartment in NY, and there are a lot of them, has room service. scripting.com

Building a product for yourself or for someone else. bijansabet.com

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Scripting News: Room service for a city. scripting.com

A Record 103� in New York City Tests Con Edison. nytimes.com

People were reporting problems browsing N-level hierarchy posts in Chrome and other browser. Seems to work now? scripting.com

How the Heat Wave Is Taxing Our Power Grid. ht.ly

Digg v4 hands-on: A better Digg, but is it enough? news.cnet.com

Old fashioned cell phone. flickr.com

Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale -- You Now Owe Us $17.50. techcrunch.com

Send Us Your Photos of the New York Heat Wave. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: What's so hard about a mea culpa. scripting.com

I come from a profession, software development, where we actively seek out our mistakes. scripting.com

Yup. I thought Bill Keller's use of the phrase "political correctness" was weasel-like. Better to do a mea culpa and STFU. prospect.org

This is what a pure river of news looks like. scripting.com

@maheshcr -- they're opposite approaches. Here's a river. scripting.com

SF Chron interview with Joe Montana. sfgate.com

Free Outdoor Movies Around NYC. blog.freshairflicks.com

The #140conf in Tel Aviv is live-streaming. afeka.ac.il

Knicks Get a Marquee Free Agent - Stoudemire. nytimes.com

Thanks to CSS-ninja Daniel Kurejwowski, N-level hierarchy now works in Sripting2. Yaha! :-) scripting.com

Monday, July 05, 2010

(Still needing) help with CSS-based outlines. scripting.com

Inception Early Review: Nolan Delivers Kubrickian Masterpiece with Heart. blogs.indiewire.com

Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern: Charts. (Maybe they'll start listening to Krugman soon.) cnbc.com

Andrew Baron on the next phase of TV. dembot.com

Hurt Locker Lawsuit Doesn't Affect BitTorrent Downloads. torrentfreak.com

The Band - Life is a Carnival. Might be the perfect song. (Ignore the picture.) youtube.com

Scripting News: Need help with CSS-based outlines. scripting.com

Apple's app store, filled with "App farms" being used to steal. [Examples]. thenextweb.com

Russian and Turkish Baths in the East Village. flickr.com

Om says: "No! Foursquare Isn't Buying Brizzly." I posted a comment. gigaom.com

Amazon.com: Gigabyte T1000P 10.1 inch Multi-Touch Tablet PC - N470 1.83Ghz / 1366x768 / 1G SDRAM / 250GB HDD / 6 Cell /…. amazon.com

Brizzly CEO Shoots Down Foursquare Acq-Hire Speculation. businessinsider.com

On The Economist's Cover, Only a Part of the Picture. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Did bicycle web site contribute to cyclist's death? berkeleyside.com

Scripting News: The joy of a new computer. scripting.com

My new favorite soft drink. flickr.com

Acquisition Speculation: Is Foursquare Looking at Brizzly? blog.louisgray.com

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Pardon us, Twitter, but why are @replies missing? thenextweb.com

RIAA Warns 1 Million Copyright Infringers a Year. torrentfreak.com

App Store, Hacked. (Updated: iTunes Accounts too.). thenextweb.com

Scripting News: Founders of the web. scripting.com

"If I knew the way I would take you home." artsites.ucsc.edu

Scripting News: How to use hierarchy in blog posts? scripting.com

Scripting News: Hastings on Democracy Now. scripting.com

Saturday, July 03, 2010

Gulf oil spill likely to reach Florida Keys, Miami, report says. latimes.com

"Often I get emails that assume that I agree with something that I pointed to. Nothing could be further from the truth." essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

The entire Steve Jobs email story… It's real. boygeniusreport.com

McChrystal - And The Press's Failure. andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

New iMac and old iMac. flickr.com

Bill Keller's self-defense on "torture?" salon.com

Campaign for Iranian woman facing death by stoning. guardian.co.uk

Study of Waterboarding Coverage Prompts a Debate in the Press. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

The Secret To Apple's FaceTime Success Will Be The PC. wired.com

A VC: Raising Money During The Summer Slowdown. avc.com

What's going up at Ground Zero. flickr.com

The Guardian says we can use Twitter to "keep your friends abreast of your latest bowel movements." hence this tweet. guardian.co.uk

How bad 3-D is ruining movies. salon.com

Friday, July 02, 2010

iPhone4 vs HTC-EVO video creator likely to lose job at Best Buy. blogs.scripting2.com

Berkeley's Biggest Estate, Mansion up for Sale – Home Girl. bayareahomegirl.com

I think everyone, republicans included can agree the RNC chairman is off his rocker. thehill.com

Scripting News: Writing good bug reports. scripting.com

Andrew "Rocketboom" Baron at lunch today. flickr.com

A few hours ago, in an existential crisis, Twitter reported that Twitter doesn't exist. The Semantic Web at work? scripting.com

David Weinberger programs OPML (!) hyperorg.com

Frack me now. Martha Stewart is doing "really simple" too. It's fracking every where. realsimple.com

Holy sit Starbuck is into Really Simple too... flickr.com

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Holy sit Starbuck is into Really Simple too. flickr.com

Checking out the free wifi at Starbucks. This is the page you start on. starbucks.com

What is Pinyadda? pinyadda.com

Scripting2 change notes viewed in the "optimal" browser. Very nice! :-) optimalbrowser.com

This cartoon explains, very concisely, why the news system needs to be rebooted. Desperately. harpers.org

Lap dog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org

Steve Jobs To Furious Customer: 'It's Just a Phone'. gawker.com

City at first light. flickr.com

Can you imagine Pogue or Mossberg taking on Apple the way the gadget blogs are. boygeniusreport.com

"What kind of coward says stuff like that behind someone's back and expects to have his back covered?" scripting.com

Scripting News: Lots of progress in Rebooting the News. scripting.com

Hold on. You mean it's illegal to act like a "crazed sex poodle?" guardian.co.uk

Programmer's note: I love it when shit works the first time! Fuck-a-doodle-doo. scripting.com

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Great light and clouds. flickr.com

New study documents media's servitude to government. salon.com

10 Most Loathed Names in Tech. thestreet.com

Researchers find evidence of oil spill in Gulf's food chain. blog.gulflive.com

Don't Forget, Free Starbucks WiFi Starts Tomorrow In Canada And The US. thenextweb.com

Prediction -- eventually google will offer a river view of news without all the structure. It will be a huge hit. searchengineland.com

An open newsroom in New Jersey. poynter.org

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as an "extractor" who can participate in and shape the dreams of others. nytimes.com

Scripting News: Writing good bug reports. scripting.com

Cisco will sell an Android based tablet in 2011. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court, Jews, Chinese Restaurants, and Christmas. fortunecookiechronicles.com

The Boy No One Would Hug. open.salon.com

Hacker News discussion on Canon's non-existent communicating low-end cameras. news.ycombinator.com

CJR says I said things I actually disagree with. cjr.org

NY Hotels Upset Over More Efficient 'Home' Competition; Gets Politicians To Try To Outlaw Such Things. techdirt.com

Michelle Bachmann is Emily Litella reincarnated. "Never mind." thinkprogress.org

http://reallysimple.org/ == love reallysimple.org

According to the National Weather Service, the NY heat wave breaks *tonight* -- with a low of 64. Sweater weather. forecast.weather.gov

Gotta say the new iPhone 4 sure takes a nice picture, and it knows how to communicate. flickr.com

Lily Q Talks Hoes. lilyqtalksclothes.com

Scripting News: Welcome to reallysimple.org. scripting.com

"Someday the iPhone will be seen for what it is and is not. It is not a phone." scripting.com

Scripting News: Dear Canon: Time to add communications to your low-end cameras. scripting.com

Monday, June 28, 2010

iPhone4 vs HTC Evo. (This is so funny it hurts.) youtube.com

Bleecker St. flickr.com

What I learned at FOO Camp ‘10. scottberkun.com

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You. catswhothrowupgrass.com

International Space Station sex ban. (Yeah sure.) telegraph.co.uk

Scripting News: It's no longer just my baby. scripting.com

Yahoo! Style Guide. styleguide.yahoo.com

The war between journalists and bloggers at the Washington Post. wordyard.com

Growing pains afflict HTML5 standardization. news.cnet.com

Rebooting the News #57 goes live at Noon Eastern. I'm in the studio now, cooling off and getting ready for teh show. blogtalkradio.com

When grandma plays the banjo she sure do play it hot. When grandma plays the banjo she gives it all she got. mudcat.org

Scripting News: Why I sometimes work openly. scripting.com

Scripting News: Next feature: Live-blogging in Scripting2. scripting.com

Scripting News: New York seems to work. scripting.com

Sunday, June 27, 2010

YouTube - U3-X Personal Mobility Prototype. youtube.com

iPhone 4 Teardown Telegraphs Future iPad Gyro. informationweek.com

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. nstic.ideascale.com

Scripting News: How to approach an alpha product. scripting.com

Across the street from the 14th Street Apple store there's an ESPN soccer truck with food. flickr.com

36 Hours That Shook Washington. nytimes.com

Welcome to Social Whale. (Looks interesting.) socialwhale.com

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Over on Facebook Bret Fausett suggests we might want to invade Ghana. Makes a lot of sense to me. Just sayin. facebook.com

"Why I don't do interviews" gets a reprise as reporters discover and link to it. scripting.com

Obama and Roberts Will Cast Shadows Over Kagan Hearings. nytimes.com

Competition Is Overrated: Stop Worrying About It And Just Build A Better Product. (Big thumbs up.) businessinsider.com

HowTo: EC2 for Poets. howto.opml.org

Traditional Media Is Having A Field Day On Tumblr. businessinsider.com

Call a toll free number to test Facetime with your new iphone 4. braincraft.com

Friday, June 25, 2010

Three years later, I'm still waiting for a "Social Camera." scripting.com

Did Disguising the iPhone 4 Mask a Temperamental Antenna? (Cool that the NYT posts speculative work-in-progress pieces.) bits.blogs.nytimes.com

My crappy beat up old Droid photographed by my slick and beautiful iPhone 4. flickr.com

Scripting News: I'm becoming a hot weather dude. scripting.com

Scripting News: A prayer to the programming fertility gods. scripting.com

Facebook Uses BitTorrent, and They Love It. torrentfreak.com

Hope everyone enjoys their trip to Foo Camp this year! :-) twitter.com

Coke ad on Twitter gets 86 million impressions, click-thru of 6 percent. Really really really hard to believe. uk.finance.yahoo.com

A VC: Why I Don't Like Stock Buybacks. avc.com

Walter Shorenstein dead at 95. sfgate.com

Apple issues advice to avoid iPhone flaw. news.bbc.co.uk

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Odessa Restaurant on Avenue A. flickr.com

Sm�agol got his iPhone 4 too. gawker.com

Obama to Medvedev: Throw away red phones for Twitter. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Scripting News: Apple gets "free publicity" from the line-ups. scripting.com

Scripting News: What does the FTC think of the Fail Whale? scripting.com

iPhone Mayhem: Robbery, Heat Exhaustion, Shattered Faith. gawker.com

A few seconds of iPhone 4 video. flickr.com

Dropbox Adds Ability to Create a Shareable Link to Any File in Your Account. webworkerdaily.com

High Line 2 Sneak Peek: Lounging Lawn, Flyovers, and the "Chelsea Thicket". fastcompany.com

For Obama, Decision to Remove General Came Quickly. nytimes.com

Gulf oil spill: Boat captain, despondent over spill, commits suicide. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Scripting News: "Apple ought to figure out how to eliminate the need for this exercise." scripting.com

The old and new iPhones side-by-side. flickr.com

A very familiar page greeted me when I booted up the iPhone 4 web browser. :-) flickr.com

Tim Geithner and Larry Summers Need Paul Krugman To Replace Peter Orszag. baselinescenario.com

Picture taken with new iPhone 4. flickr.com

This is what the line looked like at roughly 6:15AM. flickr.com

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Scripting News: What good is the realtime web.... scripting.com

Scripting News: Time-Warner DOCSIS 3 in NYC? scripting.com

Supposedly Time-Warner is offering "offering a 50 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream for $99.95 per month." I want. dslreports.com

Apple approves erectile dysfunction app. news.cnet.com

Long an Upstart, Apple Plays New Role - Goliath. nytimes.com

Scripting News: How Edit This Page works in Scripting2. scripting.com

Flickr does a modest redesign. flickr.com

@carlacasilli -- it runs in http://editor.opml.org/. But.. the first users are going to be in NYC. I want face-to-face users editor.opml.org

Why Twitter still has to get its game on--fast. news.cnet.com

NYU Local • NYC Tip: Brooklyn Bridge Park (Piers 1 and 6). nyulocal.com

Scripting News: Improving paragraph-level permalinks. scripting.com

A Sailor, a Nurse, a Legendary Kiss. life.com

Virgin America Offers Free Flights to Twitter Influencers. mashable.com

Scripting News: How to start over with Google Voice? scripting.com

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

These days, my policy re interviews is: 1. I don't do them. scripting.com

Maybe you shouldn't cancel that gulf coast beach trip, after all. rexblog.com

I would like to delete my Google Voice account and start over. Any clues how to? google.com

Facebook won't let you inform them of the death of a user unless you know their birth date, etc. images.scripting.com

Facebook: Report a Deceased Person's Profile. facebook.com

Video from the Sources Go Direct panel on the 9th. ustream.tv

Why did President Truman dismiss General MacArthur? trumanlibrary.org

Obama Has to Fire McChrystal. theatlantic.com

Scripting News: Why I don't do interviews. scripting.com

McChrystal should resign in disgrace to show a teeny bit of respect after the fact for our form of govt. rollingstone.com

Biden to file sharers: 'Piracy is theft' news.cnet.com

Scripting News: Should I be at the Apple store at 7AM on Thursday? scripting.com

Marco rambles about Verizon. marco.org

"no amount of FUD from bigger companies should stop [Twitter] from exercising their eminent domain" scripting.com

Scripting News: How naming will work with Twitter Annotations. scripting.com

BTW, that was one of the conclusions from yesterday's RBTN. What we're doing here on Twitter is blogging. rebootnews.com

Monday, June 21, 2010

Podcasting viewed through Scripting News. flickr.com

iPhone 4 arriving one day early on June 23rd, says Apple email. engadget.com

Oil in the Gulf, two months later - The Big Picture - Boston.com. boston.com

Why Amazon's Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars. gigaom.com

Angry Birds receives major update. download.cnet.com

Picture taken with iPhone updated to 4.0. flickr.com

Reality TV has brought birth, dating, marriage, divorce, drinking, dieting, hiring, firing and old age. And now, death. nytimes.com

Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users' precise locations. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Angry Birds' Publisher Refusing Offers From Microsoft, Google. appadvice.com

Rebooting the News #56 with Brendan Greeley of The Economist leading the discussion. rebootnews.com

It's 2010. Where's My Internet Dashboard? blog.davidpensato.com

A Big, Programmable Event Loop in the Cloud. windley.com

Google's Newspass: Is the King of Free About to Help News Providers Get Paid? mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Scripting News: An epiphany about Twitter. scripting.com

Meet the team that knows who is REALLY influential on Twitter (Klout). networkedblogs.com

Sunday, June 20, 2010

NYC neighborhoods with FIOS (official list) - dslreports.com. justbroadband.org

Scripting News: A fatherless Father's Day. scripting.com

Twitter Annotations Are Coming and Google is spreading fear. Wish they'd kick back and give it a chance. Sheesh. gigaom.com

I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am. I've been hiding out. In a rock and roll band! artsites.ucsc.edu

Our guest this week on Rebooting The News, tomorrow, will be Brendan Greeley, tech reporter for The Economist. blogtalkradio.com

Scripting News: Getting back to New York. scripting.com

A closer look at iPhone 4's coolest tech. news.cnet.com

Readability will change the way you read online. gregfalken.com

"Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes.." youtube.com

Winer's sub-text: A stumble in the right direction. farces.com

First-hand account of the rabbi who interviewed Helen Thomas. washingtonpost.com

iPhone 4 pre-orders now shipping. engadget.com

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Cori. flickr.com

Burger. flickr.com

Looks Like Amazon Just Patented Facebook. thenextweb.com

After this move just a few boxes go into storage, photos, stuff from my grandparents, floppy disks. Really slimmed down. flickr.com

'Going Direct' - the Netizens in former Yugoslavia. scienceblogs.com

Donations Create a Tricky Balance for Oil-State Politicians. nytimes.com

Friday, June 18, 2010

Apple Tells FCC: There's more to the iPhone than the Public Knows. patentlyapple.com

Blowfish Sushi. flickr.com

Marijuana home test. flickr.com

Nigerian village rues the day the oil men came. reuters.com

Real what? flickr.com

Scripting News: Why Angry Birds is so much fun. scripting.com

Scripting News: Yvonne and the fish-head guy. scripting.com

Dale Peterson Cuts The Best Political Endorsement Ad Ever Made (VIDEO). huffingtonpost.com

Philip Greenspun: Gulf oil spill will make us more or less environmentally conscious? blogs.law.harvard.edu

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Panel Recommends Approval of After-Sex Pill to Prevent Pregnancy. nytimes.com

Yvonne and the fish-head guy. flickr.com

Apple fanboy breakfast. flickr.com

Scripting News: My last trip to Calif as a Californian. scripting.com

LOVERS SHOOT EACH OTHER. query.nytimes.com

nytimes.com sitemap. spiderbites.nytimes.com

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Demanding Buyers Hinder the Housing Market. nytimes.com

Law enforcement has apparently become an arm of AT&T and Apple. whydoeseverythingsuck.com

Knight Foundation Announces Winners of 2010 News Challenge. newschallenge.org

Study: Fat women starved of sex. salon.com

Scripting News: Bootstrapping a federated Twitwork with annotations? scripting.com

NYU Local • NYU News Roundup. nyulocal.com

LEGO Reenactment of the USA vs. England World Cup Match. laughingsquid.com

Yes, Comments Can Get Noisy, But We Like Them Anyway. Great piece. I like that they found one of my best pieces to cite. salon.com

Greetings from United 642 en route to SFO. adjix.com

Scripting News: How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Written in late April, being cited widely now.) scripting.com

Twitter at a crossroads once again. news.cnet.com

Brazil's ‘Cala Boca Galvao' Drive Is for the Birds. Retweet this, some say, to help save an endangered bird in Brazil. nytimes.com

From time to time people ask how I do the hand-drawn posts. scripting.com

Exclusive: Motorola Droid X preview -- Engadget. engadget.com

"Obama failed to act like a chief executive tonight." theleftcoaster.com

Apple Store on 5th Ave on a perfect day. flickr.com

Scripting News: How I do the Hand-drawn Posts. scripting.com

AFP: New York City launches its own Media Lab. google.com

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

"All classes of service are equipped with inflight power which requires no adapter." Okay, I'm bringing the MacBook Pro. seatguru.com

Apple iPhone 4 pre-orders now sold out? engadget.com

Twitter.org? ethanzuckerman.com

Better headline: "No good deed goes unpunished." (Looks like CNET is owned by AT&T and they are nasty fucks.) news.cnet.com

Scripting News: How an "Emergency Broadcast System" for Twitter could work. scripting.com

Twitter's official statement on recent outages. blog.twitter.com

Does the World Need More Than One Twitter? gigaom.com

"links are the currency of the web" - Google Search. google.com

@steveivy -- looks like it was Adam Curry. scripting.com

Scripting News: A bug in the OPML validator? scripting.com

Seeing people walk down the stairs at the Apple Store reminded me of Apple's Lemmings commercial about IBM users. flickr.com

Apple iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering Is a Total Disaster. gizmodo.com

What Twitter Places Means for the Geosocial Startups. thenextweb.com

I got myself one of these new-fangled Apple mice while I was at their store today. Couldn't resist. I buy all their stuff. flickr.com

There was a time, not too long ago, that a FIOS truck would get excite me. Now it seems like a lost dream. flickr.com

Library card. flickr.com

Scripting News: You *can* reserve an iPhone at an Apple Store. scripting.com

Couldn't order the new iPhone on the Apple Store on the web, so I thought to try the store on 5th Ave. Same deal. Arrgh. flickr.com

"Just as a program has source code, so does the writing on this blog." scripting.com

Rex Hammock: Twitter is getting too big to fail, and that's a whale of a problem for all of us. rexblog.com

$84 netbook runs Android. china-mobile-phone.com

Twitter Places – Tag Your Tweets With Your Location. twittercism.com

Mac mini updated with HDMI, aluminum unibody, and SD card reader. engadget.com

Monday, June 14, 2010

Scripting News: RSS to the left of me, OPML to the right. scripting.com

Today's RBTN podcast is getting rave reviews. I'll add one. It's the best most important one we've done. Don't miss it. scripting.com

Moby-Dick, the Online Annotation -- Chapter 3. powermobydick.com

Notes for Rebooting the News #55 (the MP3 is linked into this post, the whole show was about Readability and Apple). rebootnews.com

We're about to go live with RBTN with Rich Ziade of Readability. blogtalkradio.com

Scripting News: People don't read. What I'm doing about it. scripting.com

Scripting News: What a week! scripting.com

U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan. nytimes.com

Sunday, June 13, 2010

"it's UK pensioners versus American workers and property owners" salon.com

I'm trying out the new Reader function in Safari 5.0. scripting.com

Mea Vita (My Life): Handling CNAME Web Requests. blog.joemoreno.com

Scripting News: Next CSS question. Problem with IE8. scripting.com

Letter to Mom from college -- 1974. flickr.com

Scripting News: Who's disk is it, Day 2. scripting.com

Coming soon: an open source Dropbox alternative with collaboration. downloadsquad.com

TechCrunch moves to San Francisco. (New uses of sub-text in this piece.) r2.ly

Scripting News: TechCrunch moves to San Francisco. scripting.com

Saturday, June 12, 2010

scripting2.com placeholder site is up. scripting2.com

Apple wants to lead publishers into the iPad environment. scripting.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Apple fears the killer app. whydoeseverythingsuck.com

Naked bicyclists in the Mission. mkapor.posterous.com

Americans: Let's stop investing in our kids. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Apple Owns Your Harddrive. Amen to everything he says. pathdependent.com

Scripting News: The "Reader" function in Safari 5. scripting.com

Richard Ziade of Arc90, the people who make the Readability plug-in, will be our guest on Monday's RBTN. blogtalkradio.com

Scripting News: Another CSS question. scripting.com

Another odd thing about the Jobs video is that he talks about developers the way parents talk about children. scripting.com

Scripting News: Gotta wonder if Steve knows. Seems to me Jobs is either clueless or a hypocrite. scripting.com

Scripting News: Work on Scripting2 continues. scripting.com

Forever Storage. journal.paul.querna.org

Friday, June 11, 2010

Anti-mosque paranoia spreads in New York. salon.com

I added a screen shot of the editor to the sub-text blog post. scripting.com

Just added a bunch of stuff to the sub-text post, including a ref to Rich Ziade and Nick Carr's Delinkification post. scripting.com

It's another kind of linking. An in-line footnote. Who knows what else it is. But I reallllly like it. scripting.com

Webmonkey: Design for Readability First. webmonkey.com

Google Maps Catches Children Making Out Behind Bushes. gawker.com

This clip of Steve Jobs being "pissed off" makes me pissed off. His company sells your hard drives to refurbishers. d8.allthingsd.com

New feature: Blog post sub-text! scripting.com

I need some help from CSS geeks --> scripting.com

A Steve Rubel piece on Google Wave from 2009. Interesting to see, in hindsight, how the future actually turned out. steverubel.com

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Big tasty Mojito! flickr.com

WWDC Keynote WiFi woes may have been due to iPhone 4 drivers. arstechnica.com

Steve Jobs Bragged About Privacy--Days Ago. gawker.com

Scripting News: Why he built Readability. scripting.com

Why We Built Readability. blog.arc90.com

Why I'd rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service. theoatmeal.com

'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet.' That is good news, no sarcasm. Stop falling for Silicon Valley hype. theawl.com

The one gadget I don't have and might actually consider is a pico projector. Not sure I'd have use for it though. engadget.com

As long as I was there, I tried searching for "dave" to see if I was still in the first page. I was. At least for me. google.com

@bump -- they fired me as a customer. I documented the whole affair on scripting.com. google.com

box.net announces a service that sounds exactly like Dropbox. Wonder what the differences are. box.net

Scripting News: My Scripting2 to-do. scripting.com

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Lomo camera flickr.com

What Happens To Blogging When Twitter Goes Down. thenextweb.com

Twitter Status - Site availability issues. status.twitter.com

You can watch our live stream from Sources Go Direct, it's live now (we start officially in about 25 minutes). ustream.tv

AOL to Hire 'Hundreds' of Journalists for Content Division. adage.com

IP-Addresses of First Hurt Locker Victims Revealed. torrentfreak.com

@CrankyPuebloan idioms.thefreedictionary.com

In the old days an idea had to run a gauntlet of middlemen and profiteers before it could reach "targets." flickr.com

WSJ: Steering Grads to Start-Ups. online.wsj.com

Scripting News: How ideas flowed in the old days. scripting.com

The new Scripting News. scripting.com

Last night the new version of http://scripting.com/ went live. All the features and more, yet a minimal super clean design. All-new code. scripting.com

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Tests Confirm Spreading Oil Plumes in the Gulf. nytimes.com

I have no idea what they're saying but it has something to do with URL shortening. blog.twitter.com

Gawker: How Apple Tricks You. gawker.com

YouTube - "Lawyers in Love" by Jackson Browne. youtube.com

Times Company Objects to News-Reader App. Oy! bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Apple fans love to overpay for Apple products. The challenge of the NYT is to get us to feel that way about news. flickr.com

Staci Kramer: Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes? paidcontent.org

Rafat Ali: Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked From iTunes? paidcontent.org

"If the Times is depending on stopping those two kids for its future, then the Times has no future" scripting.com

Pretty sure there's nothing pre-mediated about the NYT trying to shut down the $5 Pulse aggregator. scripting.com

Richard Cohen - What Helen Thomas missed. washingtonpost.com

Find an airplane to jump out of. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Berkman Center Announces 2010-2011 Fellows. cyber.law.harvard.edu

What happened with Pulse? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Apple killed Pulse, an RSS aggregator for iPad, after the Times complained. Oy. So many twists, what a looney-tunes world. kara.allthingsd.com

Our hard-core, adversarial press corps - Glenn Greenwald. salon.com

Roy Greenslade: Why did US speaking agency dump Helen Thomas? guardian.co.uk

The new Safari scrapes ads. (Scripting News). scripting.com

This is the stage that will host our panel discussion on Wednesday. flickr.com

Monday, June 07, 2010

NYU Local: There's A New Set of Twins on Campus. nyulocal.com

Maybe we can forgive Helen Thomas. thehill.com

Rate of Oil Leak, Still Not Clear, Puts Doubt on BP. nytimes.com

Nick Denton, the publisher of Gizmodo, is one of three panelists at our NYU event on Wednesday. go.hypercamp.org

Poetic justice. Bloggers using Mifi brought down Jobs's demo today at WWDC. gigaom.com

Theory: FaceTime will be successful because you don't need an account. sachin.posterous.com

The Wire - McNulty and Bunk, the famous crime scene. Definitely NSFW. youtube.com

Gartenberg's first look at the new iPhone. gartenblog.net

Rebooting the News #54. rebootnews.com

5 minutes till what will be a fantastic and wonderful Rebooting the News podcast, whcih you can listen to live. blogtalkradio.com

Over the weekend plans firmed for our NYU panel for InternetWeek. If you're coming, grab a ticket now. It will sell out! go.hypercamp.org

Dangers lie in reaching the top, even for Apple. news.cnet.com

How to export your River2 subscription list. river2.org

Apple's Magic Trackpad revealed? engadget.com

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Mom using her new iPhone. flickr.com

Cori is what I call a "Natural-born blogger." She tells the story of her own life. embracingtheabsurd.blogspot.com

When you think you know it all. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Iran Revolutionary Guards ready to escort Gaza ships. [No matter what this is trouble.] alertnet.org

Jobs, Ballmer, and Zuckerberg: Three Fixated Leaders at D8. As usual JLG gives good read. mondaynote.com

Rush Limbaugh marries gal pal Kathryn Rogers in lavish Palm Beach ceremony. nydailynews.com

The New York Times Fights Back against Foursquare and Yelp. thenextweb.com

How a group of Dumpster-diving, currency-scorning, society-rejecting outcasts came to embrace homeownership in Buffalo. nytimes.com

The Twitter Effect: Mashable vs TechCrunch vs BoingBoing. twittercism.com

NYU Journalism "Primary Sources". primarysources.journalism.nyu.edu

A VC: Gold vs Real Assets. avc.com

Lost Decade, Here We Come. Self-proclaimed "deficit hawks" could learn a lot playing a few hours of SimCity. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Saturday, June 05, 2010

FWIW, I *do* know what it would have been like if we had social media during and after 9/11. scripting.com

If social media had been widespread on 9/11. salon.com

WWDC 2010 banners focus on iPhone OS 4 features, App Store success. appleinsider.com

Readability Updated: An End To The Yank Of The Hyperlink. blog.arc90.com

Summer Rituals - House Share - On the Jersey Shore, Surf, Drink, Repeat. nytimes.com

Lots more info about our "Sources Go Direct" panel at NYU on Wednesday, including my position on Gizmodo v Apple. scripting.com

So far of all the recommendations I've gotten for easy-to-read blogs, this one is (for me) the easiest: cloudhead.io

Obama Briefed in April by Carol Browner On How Bad BP Spill Was. thedailybeast.com

Berkeley/Albany man arrested for attack on bicyclists. berkeleyside.com

""There aren't many environments as proletarian as the NYC subway." scripting.com

Shining examples of easy-to-read blogs? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Bijan is looking for Android app recommendations. bijansabet.com

"All baking done on premises" flickr.com

At breakfast yesterday my buddy Nicco got news that his kid-on-the-way is a boy. scripting.com

Friday, June 04, 2010

Airlines Work to Catch Up to the Digital Age. nytimes.com

What is seduction? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Coordinates for Wednesday's InternetWeek panel. #sourcesgodirect scripting.com

St Vincent's closed. flickr.com

Nicco Mele got some big news. (It's a boy!) scripting.com

Nicco Mele got some big news. (Scripting News). scripting.com

We both had Feuille de Brique, a pastry filled with ham and cheese and topped with a poached egg and ratatouille. flickr.com

I had breakfast this morning at A.O.C. with my friend Nicco. flickr.com

Fred Wilson, our second panelist. (Scripting News). scripting.com

ASUS EPad: like the EeePad, but with less ecstasy. engadget.com

Two lost puppies showed up in Bijan's back yard in Boston. bijansabet.com

Another Torrent BP Works to Stem - Its C.E.O. nytimes.com

Hit-run driver leaves a trail of terror in S.F.. sfgate.com

Thursday, June 03, 2010

AT&T: No iPhone-iPad tethering. techflash.com

Apple's supply of Mac minis dwindle ahead of new models. appleinsider.com

Amazon.com: The Wire: The Complete Series -- $90. amazon.com

Almost-Perfect Pitcher Lauded as Debate Persists. nytimes.com

tweet2txt? tweet2dns? ok, why not…. blog.easydns.org

The New York Times To Host Political Polling Site FiveThirtyEight. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

"Life is too short to waste time waiting for a tiger to shed its stripes or for the church to name a non-Catholic Pope." scripting.com

Setting the record straight about corporate platforms. (Scripting News). scripting.com

It seemed to me, in 2006, that if RSS was going to become easy, subscription lists needed to be centralized and shareable. scripting.wordpress.com

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Galarraga Loses Perfect Game on Questionable Call. nytimes.com

On the Alabama Coast, a New Sense of Urgency. nytimes.com

CoGeneration Plant Takes Over West 4th and Mercer. nyulocal.com

Inexpensive Wi-Fi That Travels With You. nytimes.com

Neanderthals walked into frozen Britain 40,000 years earlier than first thought, evidence shows. sciencedaily.com

Steve Jobs, Net TV UI and Boxee. blog.grumet.net

File:Pyramid of Capitalist System. en.wikipedia.org

How long can a human live unprotected in space? kottke.org

OExchange Quick Start Guide. oexchange.org

@ryrivard -- this tweet was in reference to you. twitter.com

Why the Lumix ad ticks me off. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Nick Denton is our first "Sources Go Direct" panelist (the contrarian). scripting.com

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

"If it has a ringtone, it's not a camera." Balderdash! scripting.com

The dumbest ad ever. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Build Your Own New York. buildyourownnewyork.com

John McCain, spawn of the devil? You decide. (An oldie but goodie.) scripting.com

Awww shucks no live stream of Uncle Steve at D8. twitter.com

Anyone know if there will be live video of the Steve Jobs interview at the D8 conference? allthingsd.com

Is Twitter's Ev Williams The New John Sculley? businessinsider.com

Ben Franklin would have understood the plight of Twitter clients. (Scripting News). scripting.com

BitTorrent Site Admin Hit With $262K ‘Bill' By Anti-Piracy Group. torrentfreak.com

A Waiting Game on the Louisiana Water. nytimes.com

How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit. daggle.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Al and Tipper Gore separating after 40 years of marriage. content.usatoday.com

American troops held a ceremony to mark their withdrawal from their last Green Zone checkpoints. atwar.blogs.nytimes.com

Corporations and Hypocrisy: Inconvenient truths about Google. counternotions.com

We're putting together an NYU panel for Internet Week -- need your ideas! :-) scripting.com

"There's no money in poetry, but then again, there's no poetry in money either." caterina.net

The tech industry looks at the web and sees User Generated Content. The publishing industry sees Crowd Sourcing. scripting.com

Looking for eloquent NY-based Sources who Go Direct for an NYU InternetWeek panel. scripting.com

Pigeons | The Humane Society of the United States. hsus.org

Monday, May 31, 2010

Took mom for a hike today across the Brooklyn Bridge. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Anatomist Gunther von Hagens sells off dead bodies a slice at a time. guardian.co.uk

TechCrunch says iPad RSS reader is "must-have." Funny -- weren't they saying something about RSS being (ahem) dead? techcrunch.com

Grimaldi's pizza pie. flickr.com

Grimaldi's. flickr.com

Mini-Microsoft: Thoughts on Wrapping Up Microsoft's FY10. minimsft.blogspot.com

ASUS Eee Tablet: a notepad with incredible 2450 dpi touchscreen. engadget.com

Gas prices have fallen about 6% in the last 22 days. money.cnn.com

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope. mondaynote.com

What Twitter Must Learn From Techcrunch in Order to Thrive. adage.com

Apple: Steve Jobs Is Your Mommy, Daddy and Personal Savior. adage.com

Thoughts about 'writing for the web'. editor.blogspot.com

Amazing Archival Footage Of A Soviet Nuke Plugging A Leaking Gas Well. businessinsider.com

BP admits oil could leak for months. guardian.co.uk

China Rips Off The iPad With The iPed. kotaku.com

Saturday, May 29, 2010

‘Top Kill' Fails to Plug Leak - BP Readies Next Approach. nytimes.com

Dennis Hopper, an ‘Easy Rider' Misfit, Dies at 74 - Obituary. nytimes.com

The Twitter Engineering Blog: Annotations Hackfest, May 29-30. engineering.twitter.com

FTC protects journalism's past. buzzmachine.com

Movie: Pouring a bit of Cream Soda into a glass with ice. flickr.com

What you find in Cream Soda varies from place to place. flickr.com

NY Times podcast with the cast of LOST, three days before the finale aired. podcasts.nytimes.com

BP's new logo. holykaw.alltop.com

Video: Angel Investor Chris Dixon on Startups & Why the VC Model Is Broken. gigaom.com

Top 10 Travel Gadgets Under $50. frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com

I found a grocery that sells Peets! Yummmm. :-) flickr.com

Friday, May 28, 2010

Is the new Digg the Twitter of News? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Digg Wants to Be the Twitter of News. gigaom.com

When I post a picture of my computer people try to figure out what apps I'm running. Here's a screen shot of my dock. flickr.com

Apple iPad Ad-Busting am Rosenthaler Platz. blog.rebellen.info

Photo of my newly organized desktop. flickr.com

Gary Coleman, Actor and Former Child Star, Dies. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

The Lost Podcast with Jorge Garcia. jayandjack.com

Zuck gave money to the Diaspora project. wired.com

I don't like wires but I do like ports. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Grocery shopping with the iPad. kottke.org

I don't get what the problem is with the White House trying to influence the outcome of a Senate race. Is this news? thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Dropbox now with selective sync. thenextweb.com

The "top kill" technique has stopped the flow of oil and gas from a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico. nytimes.com

Thursday, May 27, 2010

I'm thinking about Gainesville BBQ tonight. google.com

#CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike. twitter.com

Facebook says I should share "the latest news" with Guy Kewney. Okay. You're dead. images.scripting.com

Kielbasa. flickr.com

My top tweets in a JavaScript include. (Scripting News). scripting.com

LOST In 3 Minutes. youtube.com

Oil Spill Crisis Map Using Ushahidi. silencematters.com

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New King of Technology - Apple Overtakes Microsoft. nytimes.com

Carville: Obama needs to tell BP ‘I'm your daddy'. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Apple passes Microsoft to be biggest tech company. news.bbc.co.uk

Fred Wilson. twitpic.com

Firefox Losing Early Adopters to Chrome - Will Mainstream Users Follow? readwriteweb.com

Wired Coming to Apple's iPad -- With Adobe. blogs.wsj.com

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jack's death bed (spoiler). flickr.com

@Gartenberg -- flickr.com

Cori: "I'm still not divorced and Sunday was my eleven year wedding anniversary." embracingtheabsurd.blogspot.com

MP3 for yesterday's Rebooting The News podcast. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

New York Awarded 2014 Super Bowl. nytimes.com

Had lunch today at WaWa Canteen. yelp.com

Fred WIlson responded to my instant review of Twitter's new business plan. (Scripting News). scripting.com

AT&T Building a Wi-Fi Hotzone in Times Square. gigaom.com

My instant review of Twitter's new business plan. (Scripting News). scripting.com

This picture of the White House makes excellent wallpaper for a second monitor. flickr.com

Said it before and i'll say it again. To publishers, twitter is not the web and is not your friend. mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Monday, May 24, 2010

Take care of your island. Save it if it needs saving. scripting.com

Why BP Isn't Fretting Over its Twitter Impostor. adage.com

5a. Consider the possibility that this is heaven. scripting.com

My instant review of the LOST finale. (Scripting News). scripting.com

China's Flood of iPad Flankers. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

inessential.com: Apps that work together -- on iPad. inessential.com

"Verizon sucks, too." marco.org

"On July 4th all of our 18 daily newspapers will publish, both online and in print, using only free web-based tools." jxpaton.wordpress.com

Twitter Blog: The Twitter Platform. blog.twitter.com

Today's Rebooting the News podcast will happen 1 hour later, at 10AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all. independent.co.uk

Sunday, May 23, 2010

My First Bite Of Froyo Is Tasty. jkontherun.com

Yankees ban iPad. news.cnet.com

Steve Case. flickr.com

Ted Leonsis. flickr.com

White House. flickr.com

Fact-checking the death of the open web. (Scripting News). scripting.com

25 years of AOL. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Tomorrow is the netbook summit in SF. I'm a big netbook fan. netbooksummit.com

Making stories beautiful, day 2. (Scripting News). scripting.com

OTOH, my Mac forgot how to talk to its printer yesterday and my iPad can't remember a password. IOW: All computers suck. marco.org

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Here are the step-by-step instructions to install FroYo on a Nexus One. I'm doing the install now. Excited!! :-) droid-life.com

Musings of an Irate Commuter. bitchcakescommutes.blogspot.com

I've been working on a new template for Scripting News that looks good on a smartphone, desktop, and an iPad. scripting.com

"The best finales? Well, number two was, imho, The West Wing." scripting.com

Oy. Another "death of" piece. This time it's in the NY Times and the thing that's supposedly dead is "the open web." nytimes.com

I have my Nexus One standing by in case Google decides to update it to FroYo (version 2.2 of Android). techcrunch.com

An East Village Blogger Hangs Up His Mouse. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

An East Village Blogger Hangs Up His Mouse. newsriver.org

Tragedy in Detroit, With a Reality TV Crew in Tow. nytimes.com

Explaining the Rand Paul Disaster. theatlantic.com

"Lost has (it seems) been deliberately trying to lose us." scripting.com

Finales over the years. (Scripting News). scripting.com

This guy just got FIOS in his apt building at 15th and 3rd. scripting.com

Friday, May 21, 2010

It's actually very easy to de-register a Kindle. flickr.com

How Google's music-streaming venture will change the gadget and entertainment worlds forever. slate.com

"Since we started monitoring on May 24, 2008, Twitter has been up 87.95250507 percent of the time." twitter.scripting.com

How Does The Cloud Affect Podcasting? readwriteweb.com

Florida beach thunderstorm (taken in 2005, the year of the godcast). flickr.com

Spent some time trying to get Scripting News stories to look good on iPad and desktop. Not quite there yet. scripting.com

Internet Week New York. nyiw.org

Lost Decade Looming? nytimes.com

News: Angry Birds Success Leading possible Company Expansion. gameonmac.com

Thursday, May 20, 2010

John's Pizza on Bleecker St. flickr.com

ScienceBlogs. scienceblogs.com

The scoop on Google TV. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Just had an awesome slice at Pizza Mercato on Waverly and Mercer. Yummm. nymag.com

Self. flickr.com

iPads To Outsell Macs As 20% Of US Consumers Plan To Buy The Tablet. thenextweb.com

In search of "Internet freedom". rconversation.blogs.com

NYT: Synthetic Bacterial Genome Takes Over Cell. nytimes.com

Craig Venter creates synthetic life form. guardian.co.uk

Ben Franklin would have understood the plight of Twitter clients. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Testing Cinch on my iPad . cdn.cinchcentral.com

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Investor Dave McClure: ‘Open is for losers'. mobile.venturebeat.com

Instead of integrating with Google Buzz, the Twitter clients should be independent and connect with each other via RSS. techcrunch.com

Talk of Too Young as 13-Year-Old Takes On Everest. nytimes.com

Who woulda thunk it: Fact-checking is popular! voices.washingtonpost.com

Non-Crew Voices Recorded in Cockpit of Doomed Polish Plane. nytimes.com

The havoc the XML purists wrought. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007. gizmodo.com

Chefs Using Marijuana Create a New Kitchen Culture. nytimes.com

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Hypercamp in SF this weekend. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So. techcrunch.com

What if Skype had an API? (Scripting News). scripting.com

What makes a movie good? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Read/write APIs redefine content. news.cnet.com

The relationship betw the OPML Editor and Frontier. frontiernews.org

Monday, May 17, 2010

Zilar behind the mike. flickr.com

Sometimes the Droid takes a beautiful picture. flickr.com

Just got an ILLEGAL spam call on my cell phone from John A. Russo who is running for Oakland city attorney. Ironic. en.wikipedia.org

Rebooting the News #52. rebootnews.com

Young Boozer is the Republican candidate for State Treasurer in Alabama. My brother was called "boozer" when we were kids. youngboozerfortreasurer.com

Jeremy Zilar on RBTN today. Should be interesting. Got questions for the blogging support guy at the NY Times? rebootnews.com

Today's Rebooting the News podcast guest is Jeremy Zilar of the NY Times. blogtalkradio.com

World's Largest Social Network - The Open Web. nytimes.com

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Wikipedia founder gives up control of site after Fox News kiddie-porn scandal. venturebeat.com

@WilliamLohse -- @docsearls wrote the Steve Jobs roadmap in 1997. It's all you need to know about Mr. Steve. scripting.com

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Steve Jobs Offers World 'Freedom From Porn.' gawker.com

Giant Plumes of Oil Found Under Gulf of Mexico. nytimes.com

Is Your Startup Too Geeky? readwriteweb.com

I went to Williamsburg, where my grandparents lived when they emigrated to the US. Reminds a little of Christiania. en.wikipedia.org

Look at this fucking hipster. latfh.com

Steve Jobs replies to another email, but this time it's personsl. (PS: No problem getting porn on my iPad.) thenextweb.com

What if Zuck invented the web? (Scripting News). scripting.com

If Mark Zuckerberg invented the Web. A lot of this is right -- but the idea that we have a say in HTML is not. hyperorg.com

We need to get Stephen Spielberg and Jay Rosen in a room together. blogs.discovermagazine.com

The MPAA is fighting a war of its own in the Middle East, one against copyright infringing soldiers. torrentfreak.com

Asus netbook will have a takeaway phone. theinquirer.net

Friday, May 14, 2010

In Search of Adorable, as Hello Kitty Starts to Fade. nytimes.com

Twitter Kills Off Justin Bieber. twittercism.com

First NYC Hacks/Hackers meetup. meetupnyc.hackshackers.com

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Why did the Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles? uk.answers.yahoo.com

This guy brought his piano to Washington Square Park. He was "playing real good for free," like all the other musicians. flickr.com

Two weeks of travel, Ten iPad lessons. slashgear.com

New Social Networking Darling Diaspora* Has An Idea Problem. thenextweb.com

Firefighters battling two house fires in Berkeley Hills. abclocal.go.com

Diaspora is to Facebook as Chandler is to Outlook. (What is Chandler? Click the link.) techdirt.com

Diaspora about to hit $100,000 in donations. news.cnet.com

Is There Life After Facebook? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Pretty sure Adobe didn't care about "open markets" until they got locked out of one. adobe.com

On Ycombinator: "Sounds like Chandler all over again. 'Hey gang! Let's build an Outlook killer!'" news.ycombinator.com

Larry Ellison On Sun Ex-CEO: Blogging Was Silly Diversion. informationweek.com

Android 2.2 will be a wifi hotspot? � DROIDIE. droidie.com

Google To Add Tethering, Wifi Hotspot To Android 2.2. techcrunch.com

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

5 reasons why Apple should start accepting the Hackintosh.. thenextweb.com

Code as photo-op. (Scripting News). scripting.com

So much for disruption. Speakers at CrunchConf are as mainstream ye olde skoole as you get. techcrunch.com

Apple Building Facebook Into iPhone OS. businessinsider.com

Google IO is going to be like Angry Birds. Facebook and Apple will be the egg-eating pigs. rovio.com

Doc wishes to know if he should kill a rude and offensive message in his space about the Supreme Court nominee. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Confronting the next taboo: Single. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Elena Kagan's friends: She's not gay. politico.com

From Hopes and Dreams to The Real Thing. avc.com

The NYU nerds calling themselves "Diaspora" are now a writeup in the NY Times. Have they written any code? (Hope so :-) nytimes.com

Hurt Locker Makers To Sue Thousands of BitTorrent Users. torrentfreak.com

Last of the Ziegfeld Girls Dies at 106. nytimes.com

"The past has to willingly give way to the future." scripting.com

Insightful Arrington piece about Digg bowing to the mob. I have similar stories about the early days of blogging. techcrunch.com

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Google/Verizon Tablet: A Quick Wish List. technologizer.com

Protect Yourself Against Facebook's New Hacker Path. gawker.com

Elena Kagan introducing the Berkman-at-10 conference, talking about our accomplishments with podcasting at Harvard. flickr.com

Wonder if @jason will buy me a ticket too? :-) techcrunch.com

David Cameron new British PM. guardian.co.uk

A few hours later, the hole is covered and traffic resumes. A night of drunken revelry on Bleecker St awaits. flickr.com

Bleecker Street is a mess right now. flickr.com

Lessons from the demise of Newsweek. (Scripting News). scripting.com

"Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business." Rest in peace. theatlantic.com

"Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business." A reporter wrote that line! theatlantic.com

"Everyone knows that Google is killing the news business." Hello world. theatlantic.com

A 140ish limit. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, May 10, 2010

Lena Horne, Sultry Singer and Actress, Dies at 92. nytimes.com

Kagan Nomination Leaves Longing on the Left. nytimes.com

Is She Gay? andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Elena Kagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org

"How Do I Delete My Facebook Account?" A Fast Growing Query. readwriteweb.com

Iron Man 2 review. Not even great special effect. Pheh. Skippable. scripting.com

Afternoon sellout notes. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Zuckerberg Meets With Foursquare In New York. businessinsider.com

Rebooting the News podcast live at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

"Tell me hon, what you done, with the gun?" youtube.com

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Jailbroken iPad works with Bluetooth mouse. redmondpie.com

James Kwak of Baseline Scenario is turning off Facebook. baselinescenario.com

Last week while Times Sq was being evacuated the three cable news networks covered a press dinner in DC. nytimes.com

Obama: iPod, iPad don't empower. news.cnet.com

Sorry, But the iPad is Not 'Killing' Netbook Sales . community.winsupersite.com

A new kind of Twitter spammer. Mention "ip address" in a tweet and he sends you an ad for his IP address blocker. twitter.com

This guy's desk looks like one of the green pig forts in Angry Birds. :-) thintz.com

A theory why the NYT isn't on the iPad -- their reader is an Adobe AIR app. Ooops. (Steve has no right to be pissed.) timesreader.nytimes.com

Craig's pool party, with lifeguard. cnewmark.com

A pen for an iPad? (Scripting News). scripting.com

The benefits of having your disaster snubbed by the national media. rexblog.com

Help! We're trapped by "Lost"! salon.com

Jeff Cheney said Village Pizza is better than Ray's -- so I tried a slice. It's good, but it's not Ray's. The cheese.. flickr.com

Flickr Photo Download: Dawn's early light. flickr.com

Saturday, May 08, 2010

How Early Adopters Help the Rest of Us Save Money. nytimes.com

Problem sorting RSS feed by date using XSL - Stack Overflow. stackoverflow.com

The Ever-Widening World of Tiny Projectors. nytimes.com

Village Pizza on 8th Ave and 13th St. flickr.com

Eric Woodward says OAuth isn't to protect the Twitter user, rather to make it easy for Twitter to shut off any app. scripting.com

A poor man's OAuth? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Favorite Angry Birds scenario (so far). flickr.com

I Dream Of Pizza: A New York City Pizza Blog. idreamofpizza.com

Hey I got a bookmarklet working on my iPad. amazon.com

Facebook's Gone Rogue; It's Time for an Open Alternative. wired.com

Friday, May 07, 2010

Zynga may launch social-games network. news.cnet.com

Apple developing Flash alternative named Gianduia. appleinsider.com

Virtuoso Operatic Balafoniste Under 14th Street. jla3.com

I can't tell you how much time I've been wasting with "Angry Birds." youtube.com

Eventually someone it's a good idea to break apps and guess what -- the apps start breaking! scripting.com

New background image, a picture of Niagara Falls taken from a 40th-story hotel room on the Canadian side. twitter.com

Bit.ly's New Redesign: Search, Sharing And Stats. newcommbiz.com

Moving target APIs. (Scripting News). scripting.com

On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence. blogs.hbr.org

Using Google Reader to Generate an OPML File. blog.nyblogs.org

McDonald's is doing a location deal with Facebook. How many people are aware that a lot of McD's have (free) wifi. mediamemo.allthingsd.com

Marco finds spam in Apple's app store. marco.org

Thursday, May 06, 2010

Google Latitude Has 3 Million Active Users, Check-Ins Likely On The Way. techcrunch.com

Brooklyn Blogfest 2010. brooklynblogfest.com

Ray's Pizza makes me happy (with an essay, on Flickr). flickr.com

The graph that shows what's happening to the stock market today (updated). flickr.com

What iPads Did To My Family. chucksblog.emc.com

WSJ: Dow Falls in High-Speed Drop. online.wsj.com

UWS Unattainable Apartment of the Week. myupperwest.com

The graph that shows what's happening to the stock market today. flickr.com

Markets Tumble Almost 4% on Greek Worries. nytimes.com

iPad is no subs for a netbook. It's fun 1.0 product, novelty, glimpse of the future prhps, not a tool to rely on. tech.fortune.cnn.com

Meanwhile in NY: Frites N Meats Lashes Out At Schnitzel Truck Over Parking Spot. midtownlunch.com

Mitch Kapor's proposed Berkeley home has become a coral reef for Berkeley conspiracy theorists. berkeleyside.com

ClamCase turns the iPad into a laptop. news.cnet.com

@stoweboyd -- No problem. in.gr

Is NYC the next tech mecca? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Wednesday, May 05, 2010

This might be my favorite Scripting News graphic of all time. It's called "disneyPad." images.scripting.com

Is BP's remedy for the spill only making it worse? salon.com

Lost or stolen Kindle? Amazon says you're out of luck. arstechnica.com

Diaspora Project: Building the Anti-Facebook. readwriteweb.com

MTA Unconference for Developers. mta.info

Apple scolds Ellen for joke iPhone ad. news.cnet.com

What I had for breakfast this morning: Feuilles de Brique at A.O.C. flickr.com

Tim Windsor comments on my position on the Gizmodo story. rebootnews.com

A new feature in River2 combines JavaScript, CSS and Dropbox to make it easy to include your river in any website. river2.org

Did Faisal Shahzad Nearly Get Away? cbsnews.com

Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Review! zedomax.com

Tuesday, May 04, 2010

The Wikipedia page for tonight's Lost. Spoilers are already there, so beware. en.wikipedia.org

Amazon.com: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2 TB Desktop External Hard Drive. amazon.com

Guerilla NYC Subway Etiquette. jla3.com

Twitter Launches The Blackbird Pie Tweet Embedder (And Man, Is It Ugly). twittercism.com

Greek protesters storm the Acropolis. guardian.co.uk

Simon Johnson: Europe Risks Another Global Depression. baselinescenario.com

iPad 3G's Unlimited Data Plan Truly Is Unlimited – Blogger Downloads 30 Gigabytes In Two Days. thenextweb.com

Laura Bush Opens Up About Crash. nytimes.com

Dr Brown's too sweet to be true. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Ahhhhhhh cooool air. flickr.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

How JavaScript includes work. river2.org

1.0 logic from a 2.0 guy. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Rebooting the News #50 with show notes by Jay. rebootnews.com

Monday, May 03, 2010

People with "2.0" in their company names can indulge in "1.0" hype. Here's an example --> twitter.com

"When you awake you will remember everything. You will be hanging on a string, from your..." youtube.com

What made me think of it was this *great* old Band song. youtube.com

Whilst I was eating at Odessa's, there was an old couple bickering at each other. "Hope they don't have kids." flickr.com

Response to Matt's important post about the Twitter API. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Actress Lynn Redgrave dead at 67. salon.com

Rex Hammock's picture of Nashville flood aftermath. flickr.com

Pierogen. flickr.com

This street sign marks the location of the old Fillmore East. flickr.com

MP3 of today's RBTN podcast. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Jay just posted a request for topics for our 50th Rebooting the News podcast which we're recording at noon today. rebootnews.com

Hello everbuddha -- at 9AM Pacific we'll record the 50th episode of Rebooting the News. You'd think it'd reboot alreddy. blogtalkradio.com

Sunday, May 02, 2010

Pitting the Web's Users Against Its Gatekeepers. nytimes.com

Twitter Suspends Accounts of Torrent Sites. torrentfreak.com

Welcome to the Williamsburg Bridge. flickr.com

"If there's any lock-in at all it doesn't matter if you call it open." scripting.com

"I never knew a city could be this quiet," she said. nytimes.com

I don't write a birthday essay every year, but this year I did... scripting.com

Saturday, May 01, 2010

"Trusting the universe is something a disrupter does. It's why Android has a shot vs the iPhone." scripting.com

Police Evacuate Part of Times Square. nytimes.com

"A digital journalist probably doesn't accrue vacation time, sick leave, or a pension." whoisylvia.typepad.com

Warren Buffett as the Bankster. globalguerrillas.typepad.com

"A sense of doom settled over the American coastline from Louisiana to Florida on Saturday " palmbeachpost.com

"Robert Downey Jr gives a stunning performance in the Iron Man sequel, a movie with a message about modern America." guardian.co.uk

Great movie: Howl's Moving Castle. en.wikipedia.org

Immigration Rally in Union Sq on Flickr. flickr.com

Booting up Hypercamp in NYC. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Isn't this the usual tech industry bluster? I mean really -- where's the beef? youtube.com

Facebook hasn't delivered or gotten uptake on the hard stuff and weren't there already "like" buttons all over the place? scobleizer.com

Brooklyn Bridge viewed from Manhattan Bridge. flickr.com

Friday, April 30, 2010

First look at Twitter for Android in screen shots. scripting.com

How Twitter for Android uses animation (movie). flickr.com

This is a picture I took with the Twitter android apparently. Note that it chose twitpic not me. twitpic.com

Walking the Brooklyn Bridge on a perfectly beautiful sunny warm day. facebook.com

Walking the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges - a set on Flickr. flickr.com

Here's an OPML reading list of my favorite podcasts. dl.dropbox.com

How Twitter can save itself from Doom. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Reading lists, River2 and Dropbox. blog.nyblogs.org

On May 19, Google will rock the ScobleSphere with a press release and watch (my friend) Scoble proclaim a new reality. scobleizer.com

Scoble, what exactly has Facebook shipped? Where's the beef. scobleizer.com

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Diamondbacks Face Backlash Over Immigration Law. nytimes.com

Neighborhoodr : Your Neighborhood Blog. neighborhoodr.com

Abstract City Blog. niemann.blogs.nytimes.com

Institute for War & Peace Reporting. iwpr.net

A friend got an HTC Incredible and was raving about the quality of the camera. So I asked for a picture. flickr.com

"Picture Matt sitting on the beach sipping a Mai Tai." scripting.com

Eric Raymond. flickr.com

I'm live-blogging the Disruptive Innovation awards at the Tribeca Film Festival. scripting.com

What's missing in realtime. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Just booked my train and hotel for http://roflcon.org/ tomorrow and Saturday at MIT. roflcon.org

Appholes. news.cnet.com

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Vanity Fair Columnist Takes His App Rejection Personally. wired.com

Not Even Death Can Stop Him From Riding. blog.motorcycle.com

David was embalmed and mounted on his Honda. braincraft.com

Google Trends: RSS vs PSHB. google.com

Google Trends: Google vs Facebook. google.com

New York Harbor on a windy cold spring day. flickr.com

Palm And HP To Build webOS Tablet? (I think that's pretty obviously the angle.) thenextweb.com

A podcast about loops. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Why does #Twitter shorten links when a tweet is still less than 140 chars? dropsafe.crypticide.com

What To Do When You've Been Insulted. menwithpens.ca

Do Aliens Exist? newsmaths.com

Searching for an honest Pierogi. blog.nyblogs.org

New York's Best Pierogi. gridskipper.com

"The Mac users are all grouped around power outlets. The netbook users are spread out everywhere else." scripting.com

Greece Cut to Junk at S&P as Contagion Spreads. bloomberg.com

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Garibaldi on the Move in Washington Square Park. ny.curbed.com

I, Standards Body. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Free Jason Chen's Computers! freejasonchenscomputers.com

All of a sudden I broke out in a chorus of Jesus Christ Superstar. I have no idea why. youtube.com

My New Verizon MiFi. flickr.com

Yesterday's Rebooting The News podcast, recorded in the NYU radio studio. And a damned good show, imho. :-) rebootnews.com

Our TV studio at NYU. We're going to have to do something in there. :-) flickr.com

The subscription lists for nyblogs.org. nyblogs.org

Marco: "Apple's feeling threatened by Android, as they should be." marco.org

"I am a blogger, not a reviewer." scripting.com

Google's Andy Rubin on Everything Android. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit. $29. store.apple.com

Bright veggies on a rainy day. flickr.com

Kind of an inbetween day in NYC -- both sunny and cloudy. flickr.com

Netbooks are still a great deal. (Scripting News). scripting.com

The tech industry still predicts the end of netbooks, but they're still the best deal around. #wishfulthinking news.cnet.com

When it should be easy to speak to a human. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, April 26, 2010

Interesting thin and light notebook computer. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Rainy Monday afternoon at the movies with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" a really nice movie, not exactly Mary Poppins. movies.nytimes.com

Reef Offers Model for Conservation. nytimes.com

MP3 of today's RBTN. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

NYC Tip: Getting to Ikea For Free. nyulocal.com

Rebooting the News podcast live at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

The toxic coral reef. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Google's answer will come on May 19 and tech pundits will say it's all over, Google wins, game changer, game over. Zzzz. code.google.com

"Facebook is hot now, but history has shown that being a hotbed doesn't scale." scripting.com

How To Tell If You've Been Blocked On Twitter. twittercism.com

"We have the Union of Soviet Social Graph Vendors." blogs.law.harvard.edu

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Apple Allows NewsToons, Bending Rules for Editorial Cartoon. nytimes.com

NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. prh.noaa.gov

Users are supreme. scripting.com

Stephen Hawking: Aliens might hate us. news.cnet.com

Reservoir Dogs In 5 Seconds. youtube.com

Seen at a supermarket checkout on 6th Ave. flickr.com

What if: A standards body that obeyed Asmiov's three laws of robotics. scripting.com

Pictures Of New York City. ny-pictures.com

Saturday, April 24, 2010

The Sickening Abuse Of Power At The Heart of Wall Street. baselinescenario.com

Dave Winer on the terminology of RSS. annehelmond.nl

I quickly threw together this app to show headers of the request that called it. Click to see what Twitter sends. h.scripting.com

"Eventually there comes a day when you're standing there holding an empty bag wondering WTF just happened." scripting.com

Columbia Prof. Teaches Media Pros Facebook and Twitter. nyconvergence.com

Apple //t – bootable Twitter floppy with old-school tweets. adafruit.com

How BigTechCo's work inside. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Thanks for all the suggestions for Sunday breakfast west side 23rd, the only one that works is Empire Diner, but... blog.nyblogs.org

phillip torrone calls himself a "citizen engineer." makes perfect sense. braincraft.com

Twitter Processes One Billion SMS Tweets Per Month (And This Is Why We Can't Have Proper Hyperlinks). twittercism.com

Friday, April 23, 2010

This is the premiere I went to tonight. topics.abcnews.go.com

Blag Hag: A quick clarification about Boobquake. blaghag.com

Facebook Sees Major Outage -- Takes Out Partner Site Plugins, Too. gigaom.com

Lost iPhone prototype spurs police probe. news.cnet.com

NYConvergence: Crowley Discusses Music Industry and Foursquare. nyconvergence.com

Caterpillar Cowboy: How Facebook will win the Internet and why that scares the shit out of me. caterpillarcowboy.com

Asustek Eee Pad to hit channel in July. digitimes.com

Does this loop ever end? (Scripting News). scripting.com

The advantages of programming on a small netbook. ianso.blogspot.com

How LOST ends... holykaw.alltop.com

Does your computer have an on/off switch? (Scripting News). scripting.com

How to turn off a Mac screen, day 2. (Victory!) scripting.com

Gosh I'd expect to be invited to speak at a conference like this. Must be slipping. images.scripting.com

Exploring iGoogle and pictures. (Scripting News). scripting.com

How to Opt Out of Facebook's Instant Personalization. eff.org

New Ways to Read Feeds in iGoogle. googlesystem.blogspot.com

iGoogle adds pictures from RSS feeds. Sounds interesting. I'm going to try it out with some photo feeds. igoogledeveloper.blogspot.com

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn. onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.com

Kill Bill in 5 seconds. youtube.com

How Facebook Could Organize The Internet. theatlantic.com

OpenLike is a protocol for sharing the things you like on the web. openlike.org

Shrek Opens Tribeca Film Festival. guestofaguest.com

Yeah it really tied the room together. youtube.com

"Facebook is trying to be more than the identity system for the web." scripting.com

Compromising with Facebook. (Scripting News). scripting.com

How to (really) turn off Mac screen? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Linux on the iPhone: Android running on iPhone! linuxoniphone.blogspot.com

Hitler `Downfall' parodies removed from YouTube. google.com

To Facebook the answer must be no. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube. youtube.com

Google Acquires Another Piece of the Tablet Puzzle. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Scoble is live-streaming the Facebook press conference. ustream.tv

graph.facebook.com

Sometimes we want our algorithms to be aware of where we're going. scripting.com

Is Apple Booting iAd's Competition from the iPhone? readwriteweb.com

Doc Searls on Gizmodo and the next-gen iPhone. blogs.law.harvard.edu

1 Billion Pageviews. avc.com

Vector-awareness, day 2. (Scripting News). scripting.com

The True Story Of How April 20 Became 'Weed Day'. huffingtonpost.com

Oy. We're caught in the middle Facebook's obsession with Google and Twitter's obsession with Facebook. gigaom.com

Deal Reached Averting Doorman Strike in New York. nytimes.com

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Miss America from backstage at #140conf. flickr.com

Relaxing at Turtle Pond in Central Park. flickr.com

Ann Curry speaking today at #140conf. flickr.com

dave winer 140 conf sketchnotes. flickr.com

Hitler in the news. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Hitler learns that Gizmodo has the new iPhone! mingramjr.com

This is What a Tweet Looks Like. (For those who believe there's a 140-char limit behind the curtain.) readwriteweb.com

Hitler "Downfall Meme" gets taken down. (Which theoretically should spawn its own Hitler video, no?) openvideoalliance.org

Apple Didn't Leak the iPhone -- and Why That Matters. gizmodo.com

In Event of a Strike, How to Open the Doors. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

MP3 of yesterday's Rebooting The News podcast which begins with Jay's unrehearsed first-use of an iPad, live. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Berkeley is number one for Internet speed. berkeleyside.com

90% of Content on Google Buzz is Bots, Report Finds. readwriteweb.com

News query for "doorman strike." google.com

What comes after location? (Scripting News). scripting.com

"...chihuahuas and captains of industry. None of them get out of it alive. What's it all about? Who knows? No one." scripting.com

"Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists." Oy. wired.com

Vonnegut's memoir. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, April 19, 2010

Mac & the iPad, History Repeats Itself. asktog.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal. nytimes.com

@davidhfe -- scripting.com

Living Donor Registry would be 1st in nation. sfgate.com

Union Square was gorgeous and green today, if a little overcast. flickr.com

Hello New York! (Scripting News). scripting.com

"Eat me I'm organic" in Union Square today. flickr.com

The leaked iPhone 4G: How did this happen? news.cnet.com

Michael Gartenberg on the the Droid Incredible. slashgear.com

Gizmodo: This Is Apple's Next iPhone. marco.org

"On the way down, with the ground rushing up to meet you, you're going to have to learn how to fly." scripting.com

iPhone OS 4.0 Adding Deep Facebook Integration? thenextweb.com

Rebooting the News podcast live from NY at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

"The media industry must embrace the change the way a Silicon Valley startup with nothing to lose embraces change." scripting.com

Magnolia Bakery. en.wikipedia.org

XAuth: The Open Web Fires a Shot Against Facebook Connect. A boring attack on something that's boring. readwriteweb.com

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Soon it will be time to start over, again (Scripting News). scripting.com

David Gregory: "No, I won't fact check my guests and you guys can't make me..." A time line. jayrosen.posterous.com

New Yorkers Brace for Doorman Strike. nytimes.com

My mom blogs about her wire messes. evespeeves.wordpress.com

I will be at #140conf on Tuesday and Wednesday. Topic of my talk: "Hello New York!" I will try to remember to smile! :-) nyc.140conf.com

And two of the three women in this sorority are out-of-their-minds crazy. (And Republican.) nytimes.com

Wire messes. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Here's the route I took from Berkeley to NY on my cross-country road trip. scripting.com

Question about Apache/Windows. (Scripting News). scripting.com

An idea for Rackspace. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Postscript on the scripting.com outage. (Bottom-line: The outage was my fault.) scripting.com

Then I had Shanghai Beef Noodle at this place. Dan had rice cakes. Yummm. flickr.com

I had some great dumplings at this place with Dan Farber earlier today. flickr.com

Few Signs of Relief as Air Travel Crisis Enters a Fourth Day. nytimes.com

Second of two new photos that make a good desktop background. flickr.com

One of two new photos that make a good desktop background. flickr.com

Saturday, April 17, 2010

"And so it is then, to me, anyway, that Tweet Annotations can and should be completely ignored." ejw.com

Are you stupid? scripting.com

Are you nuts? marco.org

Pulitzer Winner Gets Apple's Reconsideration for iPhone. nytimes.com

Don't know if you'll feel the same, but I think this LIRR platform is particularly beautiful today. Must be the lighting. flickr.com

"Gee but it's great to be back home. I've been on the road so long..." youtube.com

Tumblr: We're pretty opposed to advertising. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Buddha in Canada. flickr.com

New Jersey. flickr.com

Friday, April 16, 2010

What about non-Pulitzer-winning political cartoonists? nytimes.com

The view from my room. flickr.com

Niagara Falls blog post. scripting.com

My hotel has a "thought pad" -- no kidding, that's what they call it. flickr.com

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Homeless ex-reporter opted for Berkeley streets. sfgate.com

Buddha crossing the Mississippi River, earlier today. flickr.com

OMG the cat can play the iPad. youtube.com

Apple as Hal in 2001. i.imgur.com

Be sure to listen to the latest Rebooting The News podcast. rebootnews.com

Greetings from Des Moines! (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Today I covered 677 miles. maps.google.com

rebootnews.com

Nebraska. flickr.com

"Maybe they aren't trying to kill the web after all. But.." scripting.com

Road thinking. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Weather forecast for Nebraska. weather.gov

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Here's the MP3 of yesterday's Rebooting The News podcast. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Dramatic weather just west of Salt Lake City. flickr.com

Greetings from Elko. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, April 12, 2010

Eric Schmidt is an asshole. gawker.com

The dashboard Buddha used to go on roadtrips with me. I sold the car he was stuck to, but now he's back on board. flickr.com

The topic of my talk at the #140conf next week: "Hello New York." :-) nyc2010.140conf.com

This is what the road looked like today, after getting over the snow in the Sierra. flickr.com

Greetings from Elko, NV. Almost 500 miles today, including a 1-hour podcast and a huge storm in the Sierra. maps.google.com

As St. Vincent's Closes, Other Hospitals Get Busier. nytimes.com

The Adobe - Apple Flame War. mondaynote.com

Do Manhattanites Get Their Money's Worth? fivethirtyeight.com

Good morning sports fans! (Scripting News). scripting.com

After iPad, Rivals Offer Hybrid Variations. nytimes.com

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Patrick Laforge's first week review of the iPad. I agree with all his points. Good review. palafo.com

Guy Kawasaki on the pros and cons of Twitter buying Tweetie. holykaw.alltop.com

Chains required on I-80. Rain in the Bay Area, lots ==> snow in the Sierra, lots. Arrrgh. Stuck. dot.ca.gov

How Twitter can kill the Twitter-killers. scripting.com

NYT: Tensions Rise for Twitter and Outside App Developers. (I'm quoted, with a link, and my server is working.) nytimes.com

How Twitter client vendors can navigate now that Twitter Corp is openly competing. scripting.com

Scoble: Is 2011 like 1994 for Apple, Twitter, Facebook, and the Web? scobleizer.com

@scobleizer -- here's the Joe Hewitt piece about the iPad when it was announced. joehewitt.com

Tomorrow at 9AM Pacific, we'll do a live Rebooting The News podcast. I'll be calling in from Interstate 80, in the snow! blogtalkradio.com

Looks like the latest scripting.com outage is mostly cleared. Knock wood. scripting.com

Developers In Denial: The Seesmic Case Study. techcrunch.com

Saturday, April 10, 2010

http://scripting.com/ is mostly back. By tomorrow it will be fully back, if everything goes well. scripting.com

I've been able to mount the http://scripting.com/ volume on an EC2 instance. Am copying it to my Dropbox folder after upgrading to 50GB. scripting.com

Twitter Week for client developers (wordpress.com version). unberkeley.com

Microsoft rejection letter, 1987. (Scripting News). scripting.com

The next in the series of posts about platforms and developers. This one for Twitter client devs, after the Tweetie deal. scripting.com

Don't forget there is a browser on that iPad. bijansabet.com

Two pictures of me taken by a pro, and an early Frontier screen shot. flickr.com

Friday, April 09, 2010

How Twitter can kill the Twitter-killers. (More relevant with today's announcement). scripting.com

Twitter announces they've acquired Tweetie. blog.twitter.com

First page of my 1979 contract with Personal Software to publish "VisiText" (which became ThinkTank). flickr.com

Cover of the first issue of PC Magazine. I have the whole issue, in good condition. flickr.com

Aryeh Canter (Marc's boy) and Dave Jacobs, many years ago. flickr.com

Bernie and Rockie DeKoven, my brother with babies. flickr.com

My brother and sister-in-law on their wedding day, my old cat Nurse, sleeping. flickr.com

Stewart Alsop, Nanette Buckhout. flickr.com

Dave, with and without mask (1994). flickr.com

Guy Kawasaki and Stewart Alsop in the early 90s. flickr.com

NYT: Evan Williams's Message to Twitter Developers. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Publicity picture of me demoing Frontier, probably in 1992 (wearing a tie). flickr.com

There are lots of things Twitter Corp can do to create more opportunities for developers... scripting.com

How Twitter can kill the Twitter-killers. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Apple and Twitter are examples of "Platform is Chinese Household," a theme I started writing about in 1994. google.com

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to retire. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Thursday, April 08, 2010

Mockups of Frontier ads in 1992. flickr.com

A Change at Apple Causes Trouble for Adobe. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Out by the pool at my Woodside house with Dan Ruby and my mom. flickr.com

Apple's John Sculley with 1993 MacUser Eddy award winners. flickr.com

WSJ article about UserLand and Apple working together on system-level scripting platform (1992). flickr.com

New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone Compiler. daringfireball.net

In the last few days Google changed its look? Did I miss the reports on this? Seems like a fairly substantial change. flickr.com

Three Ways the iPad Breaks Apple's Brand. industry.bnet.com

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Platform vendors in love. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Apple rejected iPad app for using pinch to expand gesture. appleinsider.com

In 1970, when I was a student at Bronx Science, with a few friends I started a "newspaper." Found a copy and scanned it... flickr.com

Holy Cow Did Twitter's Top Investor Drop A Bombshell On Twitter App-Makers Today. businessinsider.com

iPad as a one-to-one presenter. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Fred Wilson: The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point. avc.com

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan to Close. nytimes.com

"Not everyone is a voter, but we have an interest in making it easy for people to vote." scripting.com

Must-read: iBooks and private APIs. marco.org

Comcast Can Block BitTorrent Again, Court Rules. torrentfreak.com

iPhone users will find this view of iPad browser windows interesting. flickr.com

Is iPad a game-changer? (A mirror of the piece on scripting.com for people having trouble getting through.) unberkeley.com

scripting.com is back up. In the meantime I need to get in touch with someone at Amazon to find out what's going on w/EC2. scripting.com

Observations after three days of iPad usage including a cross-country plane trip. scripting.com

Game-Changers Are Usually Imperfect. technologizer.com

Monday, April 05, 2010

Das iPad ist da! bild.de

I'm back in Berkeley. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Microsoft's mystery event revealed. news.cnet.com

Microsoft plans April 12 mystery event. news.cnet.com

An iPad Won't Make You Better At Twitter (Or Anything Else That Requires Work And Engagement). twittercism.com

NYT on iPad -- all the news that's fit... about (ahem) iPad. flickr.com

Sunday, April 04, 2010

NY blogs aggregator http://nyblogs.org/ with some *excellent* stufffff. :-) nyblogs.org

The iPad could learn from Droid. droidie.com

If you're running River2 you might want to do a manual update, or leave it running overnight. Here's why... river2.org

A real-world iPad review by Adam Kmiec. Fan-boys won't like it, but it's the kind of stuff software designers ache for. thekmiecs.com

Magnitude 6.9 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO. earthquake.usgs.gov

iPad Has Risen: Steve Jobs Makes Easter Eve Appearance. blogs.sfweekly.com

Glorious spring NYC. (Scripting News). scripting.com

The glory of spring in NYC. flickr.com

The fanboys are all hailing a naked emperor. This thing is about as useful as the PC jr. en.wikipedia.org

Ryan Tate comments: "The paper's deal with Amazon for their Kindle edition ties their hands on the iPad." scripting.com

Officials Fear Ship Breaking on Reef. nytimes.com

http://scripting.com/ is back up. scripting.com

Saturday, April 03, 2010

My verdict after one day of using the iPad. scripting.com

Engadget: "The iPad may do many things better than a netbook, but multitasking is not one of them." engadget.com

Sand art in Washington square park. flickr.com

Ethicist weighs in on ethical piracy. nytimes.com

Wow http://scripting.com/rivers/nytimes/ looks weird on the iPad scripting.com

Twitter website on the iPad looks nice! (screen shot) flickr.com

How To: Set Up Your iPad. (They're wrong about one thing, it appears to have GPS.) gizmodo.com

More iPad pictures. Still can't figure out how to watch an AVI file on the damn thing. flickr.com

First conclusion: I love the way Maps work. This is the way it's supposed to be. Better than phone, better than netbook. scripting.com

Notes on my iPad installation in a blog post. scripting.com

iPad is here. Unboxing it now. flickr.com

I was puzzled by this Good Friday procession in the Village last night. (Video.) flickr.com

Guan, also with an iPad destined for NYC, thinks his is on this flight. (mine left at 3:57AM) flightaware.com

In New York, Digerati Flock to Tom and Jerry's. nytimes.com

Deforestation in Haiti: A major problem. haitirewired.wired.com

Friday, April 02, 2010

Arikia writes for Wired and works for Nate Silver. flickr.com

They're all listening attentively to Evan Korth (see next picture. flickr.com

http://hook.io/ is like Yahoo Pipes except @maraksquires calls it "Crack pipes.: Heh. :-) hook.io

try.mongodb.org

Ex-Googler Falls Prey to Wonderful Privacy Flaw of Google Buzz. googlewatch.eweek.com

Doc Searls on iPad. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Liveblogging from the Hackathon. (Scripting News). scripting.com

The crowd at the NYC Hackathon. flickr.com

Quick bit about Gruber and Doctorow. (Scripting News). scripting.com

No one waiting at the Apple Store on 14th St and 9th Ave. But they have barricades ready to go. flickr.com

My spammers list is still a lot of fun (also -- even though I've reported them, their accounts are still active). twitter.com

Why hasn't America been attacked since 9/11? slate.com

Picture of @scobleizer camped out in front of Palo Alto Apple Store. He will be there ALL NIGHT mruphy-willing. img532.yfrog.com

Shorewalkers. 5/1/10. shorewalkers.org

Does Apple want to be the exclusive distributor of books for the iPad? scripting.com

Radical Walking Tours of New York City. sevenstories.com

Happy Easter weekend from the house the Weathermen blew up. vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com

I wonder about the Kindle. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Something you don't see on the west coast. NYT news screens at the checkout in deli's and quick food places. flickr.com

Davos Newbies: Not my style of journalism experiment. davosnewbies.com

FIOS trucks spied in SOHO last night. flickr.com

My iPad, according to UPS, is still in China. GUANGZHOU to be exact. Better get a move on -- o future iPad o' mine. maps.google.com

Obama: "I Can Go to My Right, but I Prefer My Left" cbsnews.com

First NYC iPad line sitter also camped for first iPhone. engadget.com

Intellectual wagering? Bring it on, and bring your wallet. boston.com

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Earlier today on 14th St near Union Sq (movie). flickr.com

The FIOS trucks are out in force tonight. Re-wiring the matrix while you sleep. flickr.com

Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future. crave.cnet.co.uk

Truly gorgeous spring day in NYC. My kiester is parked by the Hudson on one of the piers watching the river go by. facebook.com

Grrrr. Gartenberg has an iPad too. twitter.com

Which Business Class seat to grab? (Scripting News). scripting.com

@dumbmac en.wikipedia.org

Apple's preference toward MSM is another thing I don't like about Apple. ptech.allthingsd.com

PC Magazine iPad review. pcmag.com

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Let me know when someone serious gets an iPad review unit. nytimes.com

This just in!! Frank Zappa to play the halftime show at the 2011 Super Bowl, following in the footsteps of Pete Townsend. youtube.com

Even Microsoft is getting in on the April Foolishness. Everyone have fun today! arstechnica.com

Hey what do you know the NY Times is running April Fools jokes too. nytimes.com

H&H Bagels on 46th St and 12th Ave. flickr.com

Yet another original famous Ray's pizza. flickr.com

"last night's episode moved Lost forward without too much of the usual stalling and bullshit." thelmagazine.com

"You can see it at conferences. The Mac users are all grouped around power outlets. The netbook users are spread out." scripting.com

iPad as coral reef. (Scripting News). scripting.com

What's cool is that the iPad is quickly becoming a coral reef. google.com

ASUS's Jonney Shih confirms two tablets, one for Googlites, one for Microsofties. engadget.com

LL Cool J upset with Palin, Fox. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

NYC Hackathon at NYU, Apr 2-3. (Scripting News). scripting.com

It was raining in the subway station last night. flickr.com

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Asus: iPad Rivals On The Way. forbes.com

Springtime almost here in Manhattan. flickr.com

NYC Hackathon at NYU, April 2-3. hackny.org

If you like toddler movies, this one is a dandy (that's my buddy Nicco asking where they're going). flickr.com

In biblical Apple, Shenzhen is the equivalent of the Garden of Eden, and UPS is Noah. en.wikipedia.org

Monday, March 29, 2010

Guy taking a cigarette break with his dumb buddy on West 8th St. flickr.com

While we're all obsessing over our iPads that are on the way, here's a refresher on why we're all freaking idiots. youtube.com

James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change. guardian.co.uk

CNET River. news.cnet.com

Lawmakers Ask for FTC Investigation of Google Buzz. pcworld.com

Rebooting the News #46. rebootnews.com

nyblogs.org

Not sure what to make of stickybits.com

Schedule for the "140 Character Conference" on April 20 in NYC. nyc.140conf.com

Warner Bros. Recruits Students to Spy on Pirates. torrentfreak.com

Guy Kewney is dying of cancer, and blogging it. Some of his entries have been hard reading, but today's is easy. hunkymouse.livejournal.com

MP3 of today's Rebooting The News podcast. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

What torture advocate John Woo really thinks of Berkeley. berkeleyside.com

Notes and scraps for Reboot #46. rebootnews.com

Rebooting the News live podcast at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

This is how my iPad is going to connect to the Internet when I'm out and about. flickr.com

A perhaps surprising price for an iPad newspaper: $0. scripting.com

Doc Searls reviewed iPad -- in 1997! scripting.com

Pelosi basks in health care victory in S.F. sfgate.com

Good thoughts about calendar UIs from Marco. marco.org

Sunday, March 28, 2010

An early "live-blogging" of a press conference. Was it the first? Looks like it probably was. scripting.com

Learn from quarterbacks. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Metaphors: horse carriages and a really dumb quarterback. nbergus.com

@ryantate -- I think the first liveblog was here -- http://scripting.com/1998/11/24.html -- unfortunately the live notes are missing scripting.com

"When competitors make public and personal accusations, how are you going to respond, when customers are watching?" scripting.com

Obama makes surprise trip to Afghanistan. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by." scripting.com

Getting location info from a Frontier script � Frontier News. frontiernews.org

Was Scripting News really born on April 1? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Obama Bypasses Senate Process, Filling 15 Posts. nytimes.com

A New Tradition at the White House - the Seder. nytimes.com

A preview of what I'm working on. (Scripting News). scripting.com

A Map of New York's Startups. nyconvergence.com

Judge Orders Blocking of Torrent Sites in Spain. torrentfreak.com

In the 70s when the "tea party" of the day told the hippies to Love It Or Leave It, the Dead called their bluff. youtube.com

Thursday -- April 1 -- is the 13th anniversary of the longest continuously running weblog on the Internet. scripting.com

Friday, March 26, 2010

There Are Jobs In Journalism? nyulocal.com

Before I report someone for spamming I add them to my spammers list. Makes for interesting "conversation." twitter.com

"People like to interact with one another more than they like to engage with static information." wordyard.com

It's all acting I tell you. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Suspected Twitter Infiltrator - 'I'm a Nice Hacker'. nytimes.com

Eric Cantor fires blanks on gunshot. guardian.co.uk

Problem for the GOP --> People like Frum would probably help you get a more independent votes. politico.com

http://nyblogs.org/ has a new logo. :-) nyblogs.org

"We need to have two reasonable, rational parties in this country. And right now we don't." Amen. nytimes.com

Thursday, March 25, 2010

This pic of guys hanging out on a beam of a skyscraper under construction in Manhattan in the 30s always freaks me out. flickr.com

David Frum was fired. f capitalgainsandgames.com

"In the future, everyone has perfect manners and there is no crime..." nyulocal.com

Congressman Cantor, complains that his office in Virginia was shot at, but says the Dems are exploiting threats. Hello! foxnews.com

My Upper West: Unattainable Apartment of the Week. myupperwest.com

Philip Greenspun: Can I buy last-minute health insurance? blogs.law.harvard.edu

NYT: How to Get on the City Room Blogroll. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

The story of nyblogs.org. scripting.com

Three ways of looking at Delancey Street. ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Can you see the Comcast truck lurking behind the tree? flickr.com

@jcunwired -- I was thinking it might be Comcast. flickr.com

Mr. Mopps', Berkeley's beloved toy store, is closing. berkeleyside.com

Here are the 8729 Times titles and descriptions that were used for the nugget-size study. static.scripting.com

Clothing To Wear In Honor of #MileyDay. trueslant.com

There are some really sensible things in this Ruffini piece, but the part that makes NO sense is the right-left stuff. thenextright.com

Here's the demo of my river on Dropbox with Instapaper support (I had a configuration error earlier, sorry!). dl.dropbox.com

What Do People REALLY Think Of Twitter? (Note to @andrewbaron -- this is something like the idea I keep pitching you.) businessinsider.com

Instapaper + Dropbox + River2 = Coolness. river2.org

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

"In a nutshell, Google is sharing me to death." itworld.com

If you're voting for ONA 2010 sessions, please vote for our live "Rebooting The News" podcast in realspace! conference.journalists.org

The most listed Tweeters on 405 lists about New York City. twitter.com

The Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner finally arrived from Amazon. Here's a first look with a pic and a movie. scripting.com

To all the bitter and upset opposers, as a Republican leader once famously said: "Elections have consequences." google.com

Health insurance reform isn't about most of us. blog.jayparkinsonmd.com

Was the "will of the electorate" breached? fivethirtyeight.com

Do you have FIOS in Manhattan? (Comments reveal that some homes do have FIOS in Manhattan.). scripting.com

N.Y.U. Plans an Expansion of 40 Percent. nytimes.com

Monday, March 22, 2010

Do you have FIOS in Manhattan? (If you do please post a comment. And please reteweet). scripting.com

Eric the Amazonian. blogs.incite.com

The Dropbox Android App!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) blog.dropbox.com

Rebooting the News #45 with the great Jonathan Glick of TLists. rebootnews.com

Brad Pitt looking a little beatnikish. flickrfan.files.wordpress.com

The scanner I ordered from Amazon, overnight, to arrive on Thurs still has not arrived. scripting.com

Obama Plans to Sign Health Overhaul Bill on Tuesday. nytimes.com

MP3 of today's Rebooting the News with Jonathan Glick of Tlists. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Twitter / @tlists/Health Care Reform. twitter.com

TLists - Search. Curate. Join. tlists.com

Rebooting the News live podcast at 9AM Pacific with guest Jonathan Glick. (Jay is out today). blogtalkradio.com

Instapaper in River2. river2.org

Are you scared of stairs? Ladders? Escalators? scripting.com

Design - Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem. nytimes.com

tr.im is no longer accepting URL shortening requests via its website. tr.im

Infinite USB plug is a big idea for small conveniences. engadget.com

Sunday, March 21, 2010

"Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s." frumforum.com

Celebrate health care refom with Arlo Guthrie playing Alice's Restaurant. youtube.com

Angry Repubican with a great tan. i2.cdn.turner.com

Frontier Kernel mail list. tech.groups.yahoo.com

In Health Reform, Boons for Hospitals and Drug Makers. 32 million new customers. nytimes.com

NYT is live-blogging the House vote. prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com

What does Google really know about advertising? news.cnet.com

Empire State Building. flickr.com

After doing Instapaper support in River2, I thought I'd go for delicious. Their API is much more complex. No-go. delicious.com

Who will buy Palm?. mondaynote.com

Evan Prodromou Speaks on the Future of StatusNet. ostatic.com

Meg Whitman Avatar Ad. youtube.com

Democrats Predict Slim Margin in Health Vote Sunday. nytimes.com

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Tactics, Luck and Perseverance Kept Health Bill Alive. nytimes.com

CNN: Protesters hurl slurs and spit at Democrats. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

I'm going to pick up an Adesso wireless keyboard tomorrow at B&H. bhphotovideo.com

"Blogs don't make money. But people with blogs can." scripting.com

$1 Million Question - Will Math God Accept Prize? nytimes.com

Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store. kotaku.com

Early podcasts, second try. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Marry Him! theatlantic.com

All of a sudden my MacBook Pro 13-inch is stuck: "the application finder can't be opened -10810." I'm not the only one. google.com

Friday, March 19, 2010

"Palm is essentially an accelerating death spiral." money.cnn.com

Nutty musicians in Washington Square. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Crutchfield shredded Amazon. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Scared of stairs? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Backstage at the Gillmor Gang recording session. echovar.posterous.com

Watching "vendor sports" on "Gillmor Gang." building43.com

Speakers | TEDxBerkeley. tedxberkeley.org

Fred Zelders' River2 in Dropbox. dl.dropbox.com

River2 connects to the public web through Dropbox. tech.groups.yahoo.com

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Watching people leave the Astor Place subway station. flickr.com

Nutty singers in Washington Square Park on a gore-juice spring afternoooon! flickr.com

Google, Twitter, Facebook: Die Netz-Hippies werden selbstgerecht. spiegel.de

Your river in a box! (Scripting News). scripting.com

Sylvia got busted by Google Bicycle Maps. whoisylvia.typepad.com

If I were Steve Jobs I'd say it was "magical," but I'm not. river2.org

Using Dropbox to publish your river. Amazingly useful but simple idea. river2.org

Okay I really got it working at qik.

Allright, here's my Qik page. But I can't find my live stream. qik.com

I'm trying to figure out Ustream so next time I'm at a parade it works. You can watch live. Heh. ustream.tv

Apple's Working on a New Social Location App Called iGroups. thenextweb.com

Venture Capitalist Doerr To Step Down From Amazon's Board. online.wsj.com

East Village Newbies. (Scripting News). scripting.com

RandomDorm: Chatroulette for the College Set. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

The NYC Subway System. avc.com

For Twitter, "doing good" would mean decentralizing, not making every tweet flow through their servers. scripting.com

if Repubs really thought that HCR was going to be bad for Dems, would they be protesting so much right now? swampland.blogs.time.com

east-village.org

Kindle for Mac now finally available. engadget.com

Amazon has threatened to stop directly selling books of publishers unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions. nytimes.com

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What is an unconference? scripting.wordpress.com

"The East Village blogosphere went ballistic after NYT and NYU announced they would collaborate on a hyperlocal site." thevillager.com

When Couples Fight on Facebook, Everyone Knows the Score. nytimes.com

One of the few holidays green-haired people get to participate in. (They stay indoors for Thanksgiving, Easter, etc.) flickr.com

I wasn't there for the Evan Williams interview at SXSW, but -- the people whose principles matter are Twitter's users. blogs.hbr.org

Could a scanner really be that good? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Had a nice salad and spaghetti lunch at Trattoria Spaghetto. Simple, well-prepared, friendly service, moderate price. yelp.com

Cops playing bagpipe in St Patrick's Parade. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Help identify North Berkeley robbery suspect. berkeleyside.com

Fujitsu scanner sounds fantastic. I might buy one just to see what a well-designed scanner can do. $249. amazon.com

Google Buzz Exemplifies Privacy Problems, FTC Commissioner Says. blogs.wsj.com

upstream.tv

Headed uptown to see the St Patrick's Day parade in NYC (first time ever). maps.google.com

The history of Avatars. blog.broadbandmechanics.com

"You don't hold your customers by force, you hold them with the love they feel for you." scripting.com

Chrome doesn't understand short URLs. img.labnol.org

Silicon Valley company to replace every window in the Empire State Building. mercurynews.com

"CNN ought to be ashamed of itself." washingtonmonthly.com

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

"Less than 0.2 percent of people who use Twitter wind up going to news and media sites from the social-networking site," gigaom.com

What if you don't work for a Big and don't want to? scripting.com

People sunning on the Highline. flickr.com

I took a walk on the Highline today. flickr.com

Tumblr Makes Video Sharing "Crazy Simple." podcastingnews.com

Health care foes 11 votes shy of defeating bill. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

New York's Ten Worst Landlords, Part 1. villagevoice.com

My ideal home entertainment system (Bijan's key component -- 20/20 FIOS). bijansabet.com

House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it. washingtonpost.com

Hoyer Defends Controversial House Procedure. prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com

Meet the Generation That Will Save and/or Destroy the New York Times. gawker.com

SXSW has never been about developers. I never felt I missed anything, and they never tried to get me involved. jolieodell.wordpress.com

What should LittleCo's do? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Big Tech Companies enjoy a weird kind of megalomania, when viewed from outside. scripting.com

F.C.C. Calls Adoption of New Broadband Plan Vital. nytimes.com

Twitter Traffic Down -9.63% For February, Facebook -4.32%, LinkedIn -8.30%, Friendfeed +71.79%. twittercism.com

To add bells and whistles to a flawed architecture is irresponsible. scripting.com

Uh Oh. Not Another "Don't Be Evil" Company. (Arrington as a Force For Good, or, am I missing the competitive angle?) techcrunch.com

Just bought a new Sony TV that's so new Amazon is only taking pre-orders. (Crutchfield says it's in stock.) crutchfield.com

Ev should thank Umair for wrecking his keynote because @anywhere sounds @truly_hideous. euansemple.posterous.com

Monday, March 15, 2010

Nausica� of the Valley of the Wind -- beautiful animation of a princess fighting evil and environmental suicide. en.wikipedia.org

Taking email messages from a POP server and putting each into its own file? blogs.law.harvard.edu

As Iraq war enters final act, US readies for exodus of men and machines. guardian.co.uk

Which technology mavens would you like to see interviewed by the Bits blog for its 'One on One' series of Q&A's? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Fighting the Pain of Lung Cancer, and Preparing to Say Goodbye. nytimes.com

"Doing good would mean decentralizing, not making every tweet flow through their servers." scripting.com

Twitter as a force for good? (Scripting News). scripting.com

If Twitter wants to be a force for good, they should decentralize their network so we're not dependent on one company. scripting.com

MP3 of today's podcast -- reboot10Mar15.mp3. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Jean-Louis Gassee: Euthanazing the paper? Not yet. mondaynote.com

People coming out of Astor Place subway station. flickr.com

The Future of Context. futureofcontext.com

New York Shitty Video Du Jour: St. Mark's Place Fashion Watch. newyorkshitty.com

When Twitter Becomes Too Big To Fail (Even For A Few Hours). twittercism.com

Tribeca Film Festival Adds Movies From Gibney, Winterbottom, Burns and Turlington Burns. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

A public execution in the East Village, 1824. ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

Rebooting The News live today at 11:30AM Pacific. Jay is calling in from SXSW, I'm calling in from NYU. blogtalkradio.com

Don Box wrote "A Brief History of SOAP" in 2001. xml.com

I'm in a good mood. Must be because I bought a new desk. http://r2.ly/2nxz -- and dresser. flickr.com

Rielle Hunter speaks for the first time in GQ interview about John and Elizabeth Edwards and the big-money donors. voices.washingtonpost.com

Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job. news.cnet.com

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Choosing a dog or cat based on camera's capabilities. blogs.law.harvard.edu

I just installed the OPML "universal" app on two Mac servers. It appears to refresh web pages faster. frontiernews.org

I'm still waiting for my HTTP-scanner. scripting.com

This is going to drive netbook-haters totally batshit. The scanner that failed on my Macs, works great on my Asus. :-) scripting.com

In NY or SF these couches would smell of urine within 24 hours, or less. freshome.com

"Every few years I almost get snookered into making a major furniture purchase at Ikea. Then I come to my senses." scripting.com

New York Cabs Gouged Riders Out of Millions. nytimes.com

iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only. pcworld.com

Saturday, March 13, 2010

The streets are a dead umbrella graveyard! eastvillage.neighborhoodr.com

Jane Fonda has a blog. janefonda.com

The NYT liked The Ghost Writer because it was well acted and directed. It was. movies.nytimes.com

NYU student drowns in Florida on Spring Break. nyulocal.com

Saw "The Ghost Writer" movie -- highly rated -- wondered why. Not much of a plot I'm afraid. guardian.co.uk

Mom's first blog post with a picture in it. evespeeves.wordpress.com

NYU classroom where we do our Thursday evening meetups. flickr.com

An aggregator of local blogs in NYC and especially the East Village. east-village.org

Six Delusions of Google's Arrogant Leaders. gawker.com

Hidden-away homes on New York City rooftops. ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com

He may be the world's finest speechmaker, but the finger wagger in chief has one small weakness. salon.com

Friday, March 12, 2010

NYT interview with Andrey Ternovskiy, Creator of Chatroulette. Wonderful. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Why don't honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News? washingtonpost.com

OPML Universal app available for testing (Frontier News). frontiernews.org

Anyone with experience installing Snow Leopard on a headless Mac Mini? Help! scripting.com

5 Alternatives to the iPad. jkontherun.com

A rainy afternoon in the West Village. flickr.com

Me and iPad: Not now. (Scripting News). scripting.com

@dadeb -- en.wikipedia.org

"I'd like to set up a torrent tracker. How?" vrypan.net

Thursday, March 11, 2010

We had a great Thurs eve meetup today at 20 Cooper Sq at NYU. Lots of interesting people, many new friends. unberkeley.com

If the premise of the article is true, Google should pay community builders. The more people engage w/you, the more $$$. readwriteweb.com

Why Google Releases New Apps: They're Desperate for Content. (Fascinating. Must-read.) readwriteweb.com

I am "scriptingnews" on lifestream.aol.com

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been. techcrunch.com

President Obama Discusses Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law. torrentfreak.com

Wish Rush Limbaugh A Bon Voyage. nyulocal.com

Dutch nurses launch campaign against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it's part of standard care. reuters.com

JetBlue said it had 1000 free tickets to give away to NYers who showed up at a location broadcasted via Twitter. news.cnet.com

Interesting. Just noticed that Twitter figured out I'm in the West Village. Must be via IP address. images.scripting.com

Haunting DeepLeap "commercial" from 2000. youtube.com

Someday I want to have a conference of people who write blog posts like Greenspun or Marco Arment, or myself. blogs.law.harvard.edu

I like abbreviated RSS feeds. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Still waiting for my HTTP-scanner. (Scripting News). scripting.com

CNN: Facebook and not Fox News is our biggest competitor. (Finally someone in media gets it. NYT please take note.) guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Ratner's, The Fillmore, Delancey St, shiksas, Grateful Dead, Beach Boys, CSN&Y, Incredible String Band, dirty hippies. scripting.com

Location-based content. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Here's a picture of 2nd Ave near 6th St back in the day. You can see exactly where the Fillmore East was. geetarz.org

Is this where the Fillmore East used to be? maps.google.com

Neighbors Oppose Green Label for the Software Mogul Mitch Kapor's Big House. nytimes.com

Twitter Turns on "Tweet Your Location". thenextweb.com

It's Time to Declare War Against Apple's Censorship. gizmodo.com

Whatever you give a woman she will multiply. (Don't blame me for this, I got it from Google Reader's new "Play" function.) icanread.tumblr.com

http://club140.org/ is a site that tracks tweets by people I follow who post "perfect" tweets --- ones that are exactly 140 characters long! club140.org

@unclespeedo -- I still do -- club140.org

NYU Local: A Useful Guide To Making Your NYU Email Awesome. nyulocal.com

Posterous implements a "podcast by email" feature, which isn't what I need, but it seems it might be useful to some. blog.posterous.com

A slice of early podcasting in a torrent. Adam Curry, Dawn & Drew, Tony Kahn, Dave Slusher and much more. scripting.com

140 tech experts to follow on Twitter, updated for 2010. blogs.zdnet.com

Please fix WordPress for podcast feeds. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Fidel Castro TV series charts 638 assassination attempts. guardian.co.uk

Why do we ignore 'real-time' results from Google search? guardian.co.uk

Alice in Wonderland's box-office triumph masks a grim portent. guardian.co.uk

YouTube - The Xerox Alto History. youtube.com

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Eric J. Massa Says He Tickled House Staff Member. nytimes.com

Marco is one of the most rational people on the planet. marco.org

Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade over Super Bowl spot. news.cnet.com

This is a test to see if Twitter will still generate a bit.ly url. scripting.com

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal (I prefer "Only steal from the best.") jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com

Noticing more Twt.li links? Twitter's got your back. thenextweb.com

Twitter Blog: Trust And Safety. Interesting, Twitter now has its own URL shortener. blog.twitter.com

A nice boost for rssCloud. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Apple's HTC lawsuit pays off: Rival roadmaps disrupted. blogs.zdnet.com

Jessica Roy: Dear San Francisco Employers: Please Hire Me. (She's co-editor of NYU Local.) jessicakroy.com

Jay Rosen: Help Me Explain Twitter to Eggheads. journalism.nyu.edu

Soldier tells how he threw back Taliban grenade. reuters.com

18 interesting firsts. (Scripting News). scripting.com

18 interesting firsts on the Internet. Interesting idea, we should work on this. Who had the first blog post? budiputra.com

SnapGroups, Status.Net and rssCloud, Marshall's missive about competition. scripting.com

Matt Mullenweg switched back to Firefox, from Chrome. ma.tt

Monday, March 08, 2010

Another really good 2009 movie that didn't get recognition from the Oscars -- Brothers. en.wikipedia.org

EFF analysis of Apple's iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. eff.org

Great photo of Jobs at Oscars. (Scripting News). scripting.com

I am the mayor of SXSW on #SnapGroups. snapgroups.com

I just started the fun Snap Group. Join me! #SnapGroups snp.gp

Steve Jobs at the 2010 Oscars on Flickr. flickr.com

Colorado asks feds to halt medical marijuana raids. salon.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Good vibes and best wishes to Howard Rheingold who is fighting cancer (I just found out). howardsbutt.tumblr.com

"The Hurt Locker is the lowest-grossing movie ever to win best picture" carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com

MP3 of today's Rebooting The News. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

"With the health care debate in the home stretch, the main action is now in the House." prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com

Live from NYU -- It's Rebooting The News #43 with Jay and Dave. 9AM Pacific on Blogtalkradio. blogtalkradio.com

"30 Rock" Filming Today On Mercer and Washington. nyulocal.com

Sunday, March 07, 2010

George Clooney: Nicest Guy at the Oscars 2010. offonatangent.blogspot.com

First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars. engadget.com

Steve Jobs spotted at the Oscars. news.cnet.com

Apple's New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter' Apps: Add More Features Or Perish. techcrunch.com

National Enquirer's Coverage of Edwards Earns Recognition. nytimes.com

NextWeb: "All traces of the Foursquare app have now disappeared from the iTunes app store." thenextweb.com

AP webcast of the red carpet is great. livestream.com

Mom just got back from a trip to Mexico with a story about a passenger who tried to bribe his way into First Class. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Our friend Steve Garfield is live streaming from the Oscar red carpet. It's fun! ustream.tv

The Berkeley Daily Planet: A Personal Obituary. eastbayexpress.com

Gartenberg: Time to cut the cable once and for all? gartenblog.net

Steve Garfield is broadcasting live on Ustream from the red carpet outside the Oscars. ustream.tv

Now not playing at the Prince Charles Theater in London. twitpic.com

Algebra in Wonderland. nytimes.com

Just heard about ROFLCon but registration is closed. Oy. roflcon.org

TorrentFreak ranks the Oscar-nominated movies by number of downloads. Avatar is #2. torrentfreak.com

Saturday, March 06, 2010

How Jerry Brown Became ‘Governor Moonbeam'. nytimes.com

My choice for Best Picture. http://r2.ly/xujy Do you agree? Have a different choice? scripting.com

New York Isn't Silicon Valley, and That's Why They Like It. nytimes.com

Techmeme now has a share button. news.techmeme.com

Jeff Jarvis and BloggerCon. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Has business press lost touch with the tech industry? news.cnet.com

Conan O'Brien's First Twitter Friend Sarah Killen Speaks To MTV News! newsroom.mtv.com

@andrewbaron this is right in your neighborhood tedxnyed.com

"Come on, Apple: Let your engineers fight the tech battles, not lawyers." slate.com

Steve Jobs emails Swede that the iPad won't tether to the iPhone. 9to5mac.com

Based on the reviews, this Polk soundbar with subwoofer sounds wonderful. amazon.com

Topeka 'renames' itself 'Google, Kansas.' (Like @scobleizer naming his kid RSS.) cnn.com

Oscars face unusual problem – lack of stars. guardian.co.uk

Friday, March 05, 2010

Be wary of Google patents. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Nutri-grain: Feel Great. Maybe the best commercial of all time. youtube.com

Addendum to my Alice in Wonderland review, about the essential ingredient of Burton movies -- depravity. scripting.com

Pictures from this year's Edge dinner at TED. Lots of celebs. edge.org

I went to the 11AM showing of Alice in Wonderland. Here's my review, but I wouldn't read it if you haven't seen it. scripting.com

Real-time search. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Gary, if you're watching this.... youtube.com

Who wants milky minutes anyway. youtube.com

Study shows people are ignoring "real time" search results. For good reason. 140 chars conveys almost no info. kara.allthingsd.com

China's Twitter Clones. readwriteweb.com

Thursday, March 04, 2010

Second hardware installation of the night -- A Canon LiDE 700F scanner. Simple, straightforward scanner. Works. amazon.com

I've watched the first two installments of "This Emotional Life." Highly recommended. pbs.org

New printer arrived. Easy to set up except wireless. Jams if sits on floor, so it gets (scarce) desk space. Nice. Cheap. amazon.com

I've been informed Google wants to support RSS someday because it wants to support "every content type." #clueless scripting.com

@buddhaverse -- scripting.com

TiVo Prevails in Patent Rights Case Against Dish. nytimes.com

@Jason you might want to share this piece. scripting.com

Who are the actual "crazy" people in American politics? salon.com

Perfect Storm Nearly Killed Health Reform; Another Storm May Save It. theatlantic.com

The Fix's list of the best political movies ever. voices.washingtonpost.com

Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes. theregister.co.uk

Renewed Evangelism: BloggerCon Format. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Question: Has NY been indoctrinated in the art of LobbyCon? articles.sfgate.com

Suppose I want to crash TEDxNYED on Saturday... tedxnyed.com

Prior art as a design method. If Google copies Apple then users only have to learn one way to do something. essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

If you're going to ONA2010 - vote for a live Rebooting The News with Jay and myself. It'll be a lot of fun! conference.journalists.org

Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal. youtube.com

Google and RSS. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Last night's SoHo party. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

The Doubly-Linked List Appears to Have Been Patented. Your computer has billions of doubly-linked lists. feld.com

One Flight Attendant's Answer to the Carry-On Crunch. intransit.blogs.nytimes.com

Brown Shoes Don't Make It. youtube.com

Random photo at Nick's party. flickr.com

John Gruber on software patents and Apple vs HTC. daringfireball.net

"There's almost no FIOS in Manhattan." scripting.com

Where is the money in local blogging? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Why your typing sucks on Android, and how to fix it. thenextweb.com

sull: i died, sort of. vocal.ly

"If she were my daughter I'd..." (What would you do daddy, what would you do). lyrics007.com

Yet another NYT promo piece for Twitter. This seems really inappropriate, it's a product with competitors. nytimes.com

A New Round in Apple and Amazon Music Fight. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Doc Searls: Slo-Mo Winter Hurricanes. blogs.law.harvard.edu

The Republicans used "reconcilliation" to pass two multi-trillion dollar tax cuts during the Bush II Presidency. huffingtonpost.com

You Say NPR, But On Twitter We Say n.pr. npr.org

PuSHPress: A PubSubHubbub Plugin For WordPress. josephscott.org

What is Apple up to? (Scripting News). scripting.com

"Basically, they want to eliminate the hard drive," the source said. news.cnet.com

Can Jerry Brown shed 'Gov. Moonbeam' label? sfgate.com

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

NY Tech Meetup: On the first Tuesday of every month at 7PM. meetup.com

Sen. Bunning's one-man filibuster is over. content.usatoday.com

TiVo to Offer Boxes Beyond the Recorder. nytimes.com

NASA finds up to 1.3 trillion pounds of lunar ice. news.cnet.com

Paul Krugman says policy makers have failed to engineer a recovery. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Wash. man electrocuted by urinating on power line. sfgate.com

New, arbitrary App Store rejection reason: "Minimum User Functionality". crunchgear.com

Monday, March 01, 2010

For the Internet, New Connections With Peering. nytimes.com

"The main runway at JFK will be closed for four months starting March 1. Millions of travelers will experience delays." wcbstv.com

Cody Brown: NYC Needs a Tech Startup Blog. Let's Build it.. codybrown.tumblr.com

Will the iPad Save the Magazine Biz? jkontherun.com

Apple rumored to be readying Mac mini with HDM. Put me down for two. engadget.com

Berkeley is the star of new NBC drama "Parenthood". berkeleyside.com

Medvedev Fumes After Russian Team Disappoints. nytimes.com

Can't our brains just all get along. (Esp read last paragraph.) rexblog.com

A surprising request from Ze Frank. zefrank.com

The Case of the Hotsy Totsy Club. keslercommunications.wordpress.com

The backlash against Canada is already starting. Have we no shame? youtube.com

Sunday, February 28, 2010

For Canada's Faithful, a Gold That Means Most. nytimes.com

11 hours since I got an update from Twitter. scripting.com

Trouble at Twitter? (Scripting News). scripting.com

A movie about chatroulette. mag.ma

Open Wi-Fi 'outlawed' in Digital Economy Bill. news.zdnet.co.uk

Saturday, February 27, 2010

I predict that this tweet will make the Twitter developer community freak out. twitter.com

From the archive: Learning doesn't stop at 22. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Face It: NYC Is Not The Best Place For A Startup. businessinsider.com

TEDxNYED will be held on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at Collegiate School in New York City. tedxnyed.com

CBS has the best view. ustream.tv

Here's the graph CNN was showing. ndbc.noaa.gov

AP: Developing: Chile earthquake one of the strongest ever recorded. facebook.com

I started a photo feed that tracks "tsunami" -- there are already 3 pics in the feed. static.newsriver.org

Citizen coverage of Hawaii tsunami? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Biloxi/Gulfport were hit by a 25-foot surge in Katrina. The pictures show that the coastside communities were leveled. flickr.com

"the Original Generation X is a lost generation" hilobrow.com

Underwater Plate Cuts 400-Mile Gash. nytimes.com

"Isn't it my job to ask whether a politician is right, as opposed to how he comes across?" krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Lots of reports: news.google.com

California under tsunami advisory after massive earthquake strikes off Chile's coast. latimes.com

UStream has a Honolulu TV station on preparation for tsunami. ustream.tv

8.8-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Central Chile. nytimes.com

Just watched Finding Neverland. Wonderful comfort food. en.wikipedia.org

Friday, February 26, 2010

Gruber let's talk some time about Apple's long-term goals and how Flash can't fit into them. Small issue actually. daringfireball.net

AP plans to sell news on Apple's iPad via subscription service. appleinsider.com

Two wild and crazy guys at the fox gallery. youtube.com

"A disgusted Teemu Selanne said afterward that the Finns might as well have been curling." nytimes.com

Verizon Nexus One Hits FCC? jkontherun.com

From the archive: I like my sex (and scifi) with mystery! (Scripting News). scripting.com

Esther Dyson, Health Tech Investor and Space Tourist. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

A Dropbox gallery of AFP "snow" pics. dropbox.com

Twitter is holding a developer meetup in SF on Monday. Limited to 150. groups.google.com

When It Comes to Content, Amazon's Kindle Won't Be Undersold. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Paterson Withdraws From NY Governors Race. nyulocal.com

Caprica and repurposed virtualities. (Scripting News). scripting.com

"This is the best residential internet connection money can buy in Park Slope, Brooklyn." (Not so hot.) marco.org

Snowcam: Lexington @ 86 St. nyctmc.org

NYCDOT - Real Time Traffic Cameras. nyctmc.org

I'm sure some people will wonder if I'm the "David" in this story. But I'm not saying. :-). guardian.co.uk

New York Cancels Classes as Blizzard Hammers Northeast. nytimes.com

Helena Bonham Carter plays the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland. guardian.co.uk

Think about how you're treated by airlines. That's the relationship you have with Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook. scripting.com

Ink Lake: Saving The Pieces Of The World's Fair. inklake.typepad.com

Krugman: What We Learned From the Health Care Summit. nytimes.com

@gruber -- maybe someday Apple will say Safari isn't good enough for the iPad. daringfireball.net

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Big change in the tech world. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Nextweb analysis of Facebook feed patent. thenextweb.com

Controlling a Power Play in Hockey - For Dummies. dummies.com

Another thing that "just works" is Dropbox. It's such a great product. scripting.com

Facebook Patents The Feed. allfacebook.com

Dropbox, AFP and the Olympics. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Man Killed by Falling Tree in Central Park. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com

Tim O'Reilly's follower count is drifting slowly downward in the aftermath of the Suggested Users List. twittercounter.com

My Droid died and Verizon gave me a new one. My report... droidie.com

Sprint promises 'many' new 4G markets in 2010; New York, SF included. engadget.com

Ask Ira Glass what he thinks of fat people. "I hate them." Is that some kind of joke? freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com

Another Republican steps up to be put down by the President. It's like the Gong Show, with the Repoobs as the boobs. whitehouse.gov

A nice thing about having C-SPAN broadcast the Health Care Summit is you can watch the President tell McC to STFU. c-span.org

"If your bank doesn't like your startup's blog, they may freeze your funds." markmaunder.com

I heard the Times has 7 editors for every reporter. So why do David Pogue's columns read like an idiot edited? nytimes.com

Was Jimi Hendrix's ambidexterity the key to his virtuosity? guardian.co.uk

Why Journalism Organizations Should Reconsider Their Crush on Apple's iPad. mediactive.com

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

"Forget all that over-hyped chatter and annoying buzz, Yammer is releasing the next wave in Enterprise Microblogging." yammer.webex.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Apple iTunes: 10 billion songs later. brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com

Cisco & Google: Enemies Now & Forever. gigaom.com

Everyone Will See Live Hockey On Friday, NBC Says. deadspin.com

Our waitress at breakfast this morning plays the ukulele, and dresses accordingly. flickr.com

JoeTrippi Twitter stats.Note the precipitous drop when the SUL was curtailed. twittercounter.com

Jack Dorsey (jack) Twitter stats over last 3 months. twittercounter.com

I scored 73 on the How Millenial Are You test, which makes me *almost* but not quite millenial. pewresearch.org

An old fashioned cold remedy, often works for loosening phlegm.. youtube.com

"Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product." businessinsider.com

Why are people producing iPhone apps for websites like Engadget. What's wrong with the web? itunes.apple.com

Stephie Sue plays the ukelele. flickr.com

A nice thing about netbooks is that no one can tell you what you can't use it for. marco.org

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

EV Grieve: After helping ruin the East Village, NYU turns its attention to covering it. evgrieve.com

Will the Republicans Post Their Health Plan… and When? whitehouse.gov

Don't forget that big pieces of our culture already flow through Apple's servers. scripting.com

"Hooters" is a "trusted brand" and so is not offensive to women, according to Apple, I suppose, though they haven't said. techflash.com

TC is right, Safari lets porn into the iPhone. That's a hole Apple will close for sure. techcrunch.com

Google's CEO Demanded His Mistress Take Down Her Blog: Source. valleywag.gawker.com

Twitter Ad Platform 'Imminent.' mediapost.com

In Queens, Repairs to No. 7 Subway Ignite War of Whirrs. nytimes.com

NYT piece on Apple purging sexual imagery from the iPhone. At least they still have the web. nytimes.com

Monday, February 22, 2010

"Open is the new evil." scripting.com

NYT and NYU partner on East Village site. (Scripting News). scripting.com

When to be worried: When big pieces of our culture flow through one company's servers. scripting.com

NYTimes.com to Collaborate with New York University for 'Local' East Village Community Site. phx.corporate-ir.net

MP3 of this weeks RBTN. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

World Wide Web For Dummies, Not Us. drawar.com

Studio where we record RBTN podcast. flickr.com

When to be worried. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Headlines like this scare the bejesus out of me. If companies get this kind of power, it's time to break them up. newteevee.com

Rebooting the News #42 -- live -- at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

Everyone knows where they were when the US beat the Russians. I was on the beach in Negril smoking ganja with my uncle. rexblog.com

"attempting to hire a truck driver and finding out that 90 percent of the job applicants can't find the gas pedal" codinghorror.com

coffee near 20 Cooper Square. maps.google.com

Every would-be entrepreneur should read this piece by Fred Wilson on Corporate Entities. avc.com

Forcing Real Senate Filibusters Could End Bills Deadlock. Amen. time.com

TEDxBerkeley. tedxberkeley.org

Google Buzz and Kids – Parental Control Nightmare. altimetergroup.com

A George Polk Award was given to an anonymous man for a video of the violent death of Neda Agha-Soltan. nytimes.com

SF Chron: Privacy, complexity seen as Google blind spots. sfgate.com

Getting rid of Google Buzz is much harder than I thought. Even though I disabled it, it didn't go away. #hello #google news.cnet.com

The truth about "overdraft protection." baselinescenario.com

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Marco on the eno of Joel Spolsky's blog. marco.org

Felix Salmon: The NYT's blogs are set to be paywalled. blogs.reuters.com

PressThink: The Quest for Innocence and the Loss of Reality in Political Journalism. journalism.nyu.edu

Bode Miller Finally Wins Olympic Gold Medal. nytimes.com

Franklin St station. flickr.com

"Dogs welcome, motorbikes too." flickr.com

Touch devices don't have the concept of mouseover? They could, if finger is hovering over a spot but not touching screen. roughlydrafted.com

Saturday, February 20, 2010

We ate Manchurian food in Flushing, the largest Chinatown outside of China. flickr.com

The Surreal World of Chatroulette. nytimes.com

The Story the New York Times Won't Touch. thebigmoney.com

Reid: Dems will use 50-vote tactic to finish healthcare in 60 days. thehill.com

President Obama: "The status quo, while good for the insurance industry, is bad for the American people". whitehouse.gov

A brief essay on the bewildering complexity of the tools we use. scripting.com

Frustrated Owner Bulldozes Home Ahead Of Foreclosure. wlwt.com

This is what's under the streets of NYC. flickr.com

Friday, February 19, 2010

Gavin Newsom is on the SUL so he's better than Bloomberg, who is not -- so says the NYT. So random, so stupid. bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

This guy is right. There's no way Google didn't know *exactly* what privacy issues it was walking into with Buzz. counternotions.com

Eve Winer: Blogging as Therapy. evespeeves.wordpress.com

This is what's under the streets in NYC. flickr.com

Does it matter who you get news from? (Scripting News). scripting.com

AOL and Hyper-Local -- Good Luck With That. gigaom.com

Big topic in NYC -- neighborhoods turning into suburban shopping malls. vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com

Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot still alive. guardian.co.uk

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Matt has perfect CEO pitch. Understand the problem from the user's point of view. Take responsibility. Explain action. en.blog.wordpress.com

Private user data was exposed. Maybe it was result of confusion. The Exxon Valdez oil spill was result of confusion too. guardian.co.uk

Google boss says 'nobody was harmed' by Buzz debacle. guardian.co.uk

Rebooting the Thursday night meetups. (Scripting News). scripting.com

This is what my Manhattan network looks like. flickr.com

This guy would have done really well in Stalinist Russia, writing propoganda for the commisars. blog.louisgray.com

Philip Greenspun reviews "Highest Duty" by Captain Sully. philip.greenspun.com

Dear Eric: The Proper Response Is "I'm Sorry" gigaom.com

March 1 deadline for Canwest Visiting Professorship, UBC Graduate School of Journalism. journalism.ubc.ca

MSI Wind U160 With 15 Hour Battery Life Pre-Order Begin. jkontherun.com

Why doesn't Google use the FriendFeed API for Buzz? friendfeed.com

Of course David Pogue slams anyone (but himself, presumably) who criticizes a tech company. nytimes.com

My Time-Warner Internet service is installed. 28.75 megabits down, 0.49 megabits up. Can you say "asymmetric?" speedtest.net

Airlines grapple with fat flier issue. cnn.com

Fight Club - Memorable quotes. imdb.com

Newsweek: "Google is reeling from the disastrous launch of Buzz." blog.newsweek.com

What Would Tyler Durden Do? wwtdd.com

Are you using Google Buzz? Have you had any good discussions? scripting.com

Amazon.com: Philip Greenspun's review of Microserfs. amazon.com

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Stuy Town Covered in Ice Thanks to Chain-Smoking, Feces Hurling "Thugs" stuytownluxliving.com

New York News - Fwix. fwix.com

East Village news aggregator: east-village.org

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Buzz by Rebecca MacKinnon from Buzz. google.com

A "po boy" is the Louisiana equiv of a hero or submarine sandwich. en.wikipedia.org

A week of Buzzing. Whatcha think? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Smelly passenger removed from plane. cbc.ca

Squirrel banned from riding rollercoaster. telegraph.co.uk

Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace. (Amazingly, Google makes Microsoft look smart.) blogs.msdn.com

Yesterday I visited the Computer Science Dept at NYU and got a demo of the Makerbot 3D printer (among other things). flickr.com

Kommons looks to challenge Twitter for trustworthy news in real-time. nyc30.com

"You can turn into a smoke monster, but winning a popularity contest is so much harder, apparently." nyulocal.com

The Day Google Became Just Another Company (Notable because it was written by an economist, not a tech blog). baselinescenario.com

"It's one thing when companies spill your data by accident. But what about when they do it on purpose?" baselinemag.com

Tumblr now allows people you follow to comment on your posts. staff.tumblr.com

Rebooting the News #41. rebootnews.com

Free wifi in Berkeley. clog.dailycal.org

Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad? gawker.com

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Viewing the Mouse Tracks You Leave Behind. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Scoble: Google Buzz copied FriendFeed's worst features, why? scobleizer.com

MP3 of today's RBTN podcast. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

A few prep notes for Rebooting the News #41 (starts in two minutes). rebootnews.com

At 9AM Pacific, Live from NYU, it's RBTN! blogtalkradio.com

GigaOM says the "privacy experts" weren't "placated" by Google's non-apology. I guess they aren't experts at GigaOM. gigaom.com

Path.io is a list-making and sharing tool. Hope they have good APIs. I have a great list-making tool. readwriteweb.com

More snow in the Big City. flickr.com

The BBC, like the NYT, refuses to take on Google. Buzz "raised privacy concerns," when in fact it "exposed users' data." news.bbc.co.uk

"If you're speaking on the opposite side of the continent early Monday morning, fly out Saturday, not Sunday." zeldman.com

Monday, February 15, 2010

Had lunch today with Lenn Pryor of Nokia (via Skype and Microsoft). flickr.com

Google Buzz Should Have Begun Its Life in Gmail Labs. thenextweb.com

Fried chicken at Momofuku Noodle Bar. flickr.com

Bank branch office where the 2nd Ave Deli used to be. flickr.com

Where was the government when the matzoh ball soup and pastrami needed bailing out? scripting.com

Too precious. Joe the Plumber is just now figuring out that McCain was using him. Oh. My. God. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Glenn Greenwald is speaking at NYU Law School, a week from Thurs. app.e2ma.net

I have a rule, formed by many years of experience, that I wait for 20 minutes, then I leave. scripting.com

Sunday, February 14, 2010

What about average-size people who won't keep their #%^$#* elbows in their own space. Could we eject them too. southwest.com

NYT calls Google non-apology an apology and says, in headline, it's because of "anger." nytimes.com

Google blacklists CNet reporters for publishing Eric Schmidt's personal info. hackinthebox.org

Winter sunset on the Empire State Building. flickr.com

Gwen Thompkins speaks with Dr. John about the music behind Mardi Gras. npr.org

FInally people are getting that the unread count on feed readers is a deadly concept. katec.posterous.com

For once the Hacker News guys aren't trashing me. :-) news.ycombinator.com

Amazing what you can do these days with servers. Brain transplant complete. http://scripting.com/ is haunting the Internet once again! :-) scripting.com

The 20-minute rule. (Scripting News). scripting.com

This is a great piece by Mike Arrington, but ironically, he's as intolerant of criticism as Anderson is. techcrunch.com

Google did something seriously wrong. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Some Interesting Facts About Chatroulette. avc.com

51-year-old Ohio man gives 7,777 hugs in 24 hours for new world record. salon.com

Saturday, February 13, 2010

The Times isn't shy to say the IOC is callous. No weasel-words in this piece about the death of the luger. nytimes.com

Google is sorry for "concern they caused" instead of being sorry for publishing info about who you email with most. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

The open source world goes skiing. news.cnet.com

Looking for a Date? A Site Says Check the Data. nytimes.com

Chatroulette's Creator, 17, Introduces Himself. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Google Buzz's split personality problem. "What's cool right now" vs "What's happening right here" thenextweb.com

Explicit vs Implicit Social Nets. avc.com

rssCloud by the Numbers. en.blog.wordpress.com

Friday, February 12, 2010

"Interstate government phallus waving.." marco.org

I walked the length of the (unfinished) Highline today. flickr.com

Slashdot: Google Considered Too Big To Fail. tech.slashdot.org

Proof that you can tell a story and include a moral ending in less than 140 characters. --> twitter.com

"Come June, a bunch of my remaining [Twitter] apps will die." scripting.com

Morning coffee notes. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose 'journalism haven'. news.bbc.co.uk

Wrong kind of buzz around Google Buzz. The privacy issue as it relates to China and Iran. neteffect.foreignpolicy.com

The Listening Engine. tbray.org

Facebook working on a Gmail competitor. downloadsquad.com

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Wi-Fi Turns Arizona Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall. nytimes.com

Howard Weaver: Why is a Facebook beer worth more than your news story? editor.blogspot.com

The studio where we've been recording our podcast. flickr.com

East Village aggregator. (Scripting News). scripting.com

My East Village news aggregator: east-village.org

Sunny Washington Square Park with snow. flickr.com

As you read this great essay by Doc Searls, ask yourself if Google has become "too big to fail." linuxjournal.com

Hard to believe "teabaggers" are objecting to being called (sit down for this) "teabaggers." bighollywood.breitbart.com

Washington Square Park in the snow last night. flickr.com

Sunpocalypse 2010. flickr.com

Google shuts down music blogs without warning. The 'Google Butt' team strikes again. guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Yahoo is ready to do battle with 'Google Butt.' internetnews.com

NYC snow pics here: neithermorenorless.blogspot.com

"It really tied the room together." youtube.com

Snowpocalypse Now! (Scripting News). scripting.com

Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw. And it's not even slightly subtle. businessinsider.com

Iran Shuts Down Gmail, Announces National E-Mail Service. foxnews.com

How to Create and Seed a Torrent Download on Amazon S3. carltonbale.com

I took this picture of a snowy East Village street from the 7th floor of 20 Cooper Sq. flickr.com

NYU Local – Google Buzz Invades Your Gmail. nyulocal.com

"There is one foolproof way to know the future of everything: Wait." #heh! :-) scripting.com

Snowy street scene (movie). flickr.com

Construction project in the snow (movie). flickr.com

I had to walk cross-town in the snow. It's a blizzard now. Picture --> flickr.com

Joe Trippi steals RWW content to try to monetize his placement on the Suggested User List. This shit is so freaking sad. joetrippi.com

A note about comments on Scripting News. In the last few days there have been an unusual number offensive comments. scripting.com

Opera Mini for iPhone. Intriguing. jkontherun.com

Your new ISP? Google launches 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home trial. arstechnica.com

Steve Rubel: Google Buzz is Google Wave Light, a Non-Starter. steverubel.com

Google Buzz reaction from the web is more of a 'bzzt' at best. guardian.co.uk

Phil Jones says Facebook nailed it in their latest transition and Google is frightened. platformwars.blogspot.com

NYC Resistor: Electronics, Hacking, Classes, and Workspace. nycresistor.com

Amazing. I'm actually starting to like Valleywag. valleywag.gawker.com

Perfect example of a tweet that translates to "Dave, would you please block me." twitter.com

What's going on in NY? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Keep your enemies closer. (Scripting News). scripting.com

On this day in 2001, the Times asked me to stop reading their XML feeds and republishing them as RSS. backend.userland.com

Fred Wilson's NYC snow update. flickr.com

Snowy rooftops. It's finally started snowing for real. flickr.com

5 Reasons Why Google Buzz Will Fail. tremendousnews.com

Poor schnook, outside "covering" the non-existent snow storm in Central Park. It's not snowing, it's raining. Oy. images.scripting.com

Berkeley Afoot: Rambling The Northeastern Hills. urbnwokker.wordpress.com

It's possible that Google knew that Buzz would not go over well with Gmail users... scripting.com

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

What's wrong with Google Buzz. (Scripting News). scripting.com

East Coast Braces for Another Snowstorm. nytimes.com

inessential.com: On the benefits of thin-server RSS syncing. (It's good to see Brent take a leadership role in RSS.) inessential.com

Is Manhattan exempt from snowstorms? scripting.com

I had lunch today with Josh Young of Huffpost to talk about a regular Berkman-like weekly meetup in NYC. flickr.com

There's a command to turn off Buzz at the bottom of the Gmail page. images.scripting.com

Google Buzz? Pfffft. (Scripting News). scripting.com

My first Buzz tweet. Not sure if you'll be able to read this. Let me know. google.com

Hitler is #1 on "40 most recent links from @davewiner." dave.40twits.com

Real time can't be limited to one company's pipes and 140 characters. rexblog.com

Got on the NYU net at the main library. 5.48 megabits down, 7.07 megabits up. Not bad. maps.google.com

Is Manhattan exempt from snowstorms? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter-killing follow-up. (Scripting News). scripting.com

East Coast Braces for Another Storm. nytimes.com

5 Hopes for a More Social Gmail. pcworld.com

5 Hopes for a More Social Gmail - PCWorld. pcworld.com

New York University: Library Locations and Maps. library.nyu.edu

5 Droid Apps to Keep Your Kids Busy. droidie.com

inessential.com: Idea for alternative RSS syncing system. inessential.com

Lost City: Welcome to Bloomberg's New York. lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com

Monday, February 08, 2010

The Magic of 140#. tbreak.tumblr.com

Rebooting the News #40. rebootnews.com

Scoble: The social failings of Google. scobleizer.com

The "Walt Mossberg" puppet interviews the "Steve Jobs" puppet. ROTFL. Must-watch. youtube.com

"The average American is expected to spend nearly $1,000 on services like cable, Internet and online video games." nytimes.com

Doc Searls on baseball, football, the Saints and love. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Two reader updates to "Must-have features for Twitter-killing," which already is one of my most-read pieces ever. scripting.com

"URL-shorteners are at best a temporary workaround for a limit Twitter shouldn't have" scripting.com

Seeing past Twitter's limits (Scripting News). scripting.com

Techmeme: Google Launching Twitter-Killer For Gmail. techmeme.com

reboot10Feb08.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object). mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Ordered Time-Warner "high speed" Internet for $35 per month for 12 months. FIOS should be here before then. :-) timewarnercableoffers.com

Live from New York! It's Rebooting The News! At 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

goo.gl URL Shortener extension for Chrome. chrome.google.com

Good morning sunshine! flickr.com

How Your Social Graph Will Influence News Distribution. nextlevelofnews.com

Sunday, February 07, 2010

My blog post honoring tonight's victory of the Saints and the city of New Orleans. #whodat scripting.com

"In other cities, the places you drive to are places you walk to in Manhattan." scripting.com

Wikipedia page on the West 4th Street subway station. en.wikipedia.org

NYT story on tonight's fantastic Saints win. This will go down as one of the big moments of sports history, imho. nytimes.com

Street vendor selling iPod accessories outside the 14th St Apple store. flickr.com

My first full day in NYC. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Its where our alien master race resides. flickr.com

Hypercamp, revisited. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Huge windowless AT&T building in lower Manhattan. flickr.com

My adventure for the morning is to walk down to J&R Electronics to buy a mouse pad and some other goodies. :-) maps.google.com

Snow storm strikes Washington DC (photos). guardian.co.uk

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Landrieu Takes Mayoral Seat in New Orleans. nytimes.com

David Weinberger: "So, what do we replace press conferences with?" I think it's time to talk about Hypercamp again. hyperorg.com

"10. You never know what Hitler is going to say next!" scripting.com

Flickr: Messy Desk Contest. flickr.com

Just about to pass over Sal Lake City. Waving to Naked Jen and Phil Windley and JodiM. flightstats.com

Why it's the perfect tweet. scripting.com

Track Flight Status for United Airlines 10. flightstats.com

That's some serious legroom! flickr.com

EV Grieve: "Please send help. I'm in Room 548 at the Cooper Square Hotel. I can't get through to room service." evgrieve.com

Might be the perfect tweet for all time. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Friday, February 05, 2010

RT @Ileane: http://twitpic.com/11mkwr - @davewiner here is a snow pic for you from Philly. twitpic.com

My write-up on Bit.ly Pro. scripting.com

White House Prepares for Possibility of Two Supreme Court Vacancies. abcnews.go.com

Top 20 Twitter commentators on the future of the news. caitlinkealey.com

How to fix URL-shorteners. scripting.com

Reading about Bitly Pro. One thing I'm not clear on -- can I move off their service without breaking links? bitly.pro

Snow stories? scripting.com

Networking Experiment: NYU Computer Science. scripting.com

The Senate Becomes A Polish Joke. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Dear Dave Winer: I'm Not Ageist, Just a Native. (This is why the "digital native" thing is so bad. It excuses ageism.) nyulocal.com

Google is searching you while you search it. thestar.com

I've been enjoying nyulocal, but this piece is openly ageist. If you can't see it, substitute "old" with "Jew" or "Asian." nyulocal.com

Hey I thought Republicans were against earmarks. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

Steve Rubel: "Facebook Could Eat the Web." steverubel.com

AOL's Robo-Reporters Will Swarm You Like Locust. gawker.com

Thursday, February 04, 2010

A Guide to Facebook's Home Page. facebook.com

Mid-Atlantic Braces for Another Winter Storm. nytimes.com

How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall - Plane Crash Survival Guide - Popular Mechanics. popularmechanics.com

NewYorkShitty: Meet Annie, Oliver & Nicole. newyorkshitty.com

The 10-Nominee Gamble Pleases Oscar Promoters. nytimes.com

I'm starting to read East Village blogs, like this one. evgrieve.com

Steve Jobs in Secret New York Meeting With Top Times Execs. nymag.com

'Store Views' coming soon to Google Maps 'Street Views'? itworld.com

NFL vs. Who-dat T-Shirt People. sfgate.com

It's rarely up and to the right. bijansabet.com

New Fail Whale? flickr.com

Wishful thinking from a pro-journo who dreams of turning the clock back 25 years. niemanlab.org

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only thing you can truly call your own. :-) youtube.com

Favorite tweets reveal self-obsessed celebrities. thenextweb.com

AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV Over 3G. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Dick Brass, a former Microsoft VP, explains how Microsoft destroyes its own creativity. nytimes.com

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Friendly geek. flickr.com

Messy desk top. flickr.com

YouTube - They All Ask'd For You. youtube.com

Dear Google: Yes, I meant "they all aksed for you." google.com

How many iPads do you think will sell in 2010? marco.org

An iPhone app that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn. news.bbc.co.uk

"I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" blogs.creativeloafing.com

Why does everyone say I "helped" develop the things I developed. Who did I supposedly help. #peoplearewimps. forbes.com

There's a staggering glut of empty space around the country right now. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

Amazon acquires touch technology for Kindle? --> Not scared of Apple. Good news. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

http://nytimesriver.com/ is flowing again. Works great on mobile devices. scripting.com

Blogging declines among teens, young adults. news.cnet.com

Without fanfare, Google has unveiled one of the most significant & far-reaching features in its core search product. scripting.com

Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday defended the Supreme Court's recent campaign finance decision. nytimes.com

Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress. Can't wait to hear what the Supreme Court says about that! :-) economix.blogs.nytimes.com

Google's two-way search is good for the web. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Mexico to ban Twitter? (To cut down on crime.) thenextweb.com

LOST SEASONS 1-5 RECAP IN "8 MINUTES 15 SECONDS". youtube.com

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

The Internet vs. Obama. opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

Using Wordpress for Android. unberkeley.com

"Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update." googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com

NY bagels in Berkeley? flickr.com

If you think you have it bad... (Scripting News). scripting.com

RCN gets fairly trashed bu customers on Yelp. yelp.com

Looks like Time-Warner has DOCSIS 3.0 in the West Village. multichannel.com

"Better to have 50 followers hanging on your every word than 50,000 who couldn't pick your avatar out of a lineup." twittercism.com

Oscar nominations announced. oscar-watch.ew.com

Social Media Week Invades New York. nyulocal.com

What If You Could Wear Your Smartphone Like a Bracelet? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Did you know that Lawrence Fishburn was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee's Playhouse. youtube.com

How Google Can (and Must) Fix the Android Market Experience. livedigitally.com

Monday, February 01, 2010

New Orleans Reveres the Mannings, Even if One Son Is a Colt. nytimes.com

H�agen-Dazs Pistachio. haagen-dazs.com

Magnum's Photo Archives Make Move to University of Texas. nytimes.com

Now atsa shortened URL! to.

Rebooting the News #39. rebootnews.com

I don't trust platforms that shut out the creativity of the people who use them or pundits that advocate them. zeldman.com

How You Know You're Dead. ymburgess.wordpress.com

Jeff Jarvis: The Disrupted of Davos. huffingtonpost.com

NYC Tip: Actually Using the Bus. nyulocal.com

MP3 of today's Rebooting the News podcast. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Social Media Camp today in San Francisco. socialmediacamp.org

Case study in extending RSS. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Good point from Dr. Weinberger. The Republicans did a better job of questioning the President than the press did. hyperorg.com

Rebooting the News live podcast coming up at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

The NYC tech scene is exploding. cdixon.org

8.9-inch ExoPC Slate has iPad looks, netbook internals, Windows 7 soul. engadget.com

Accused grandmother-pirate sees Web service suspended. news.cnet.com

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Forenski: iPad Is an iDRM Storefront For Apple Ambitions To Dominate All Digital Media Sales. siliconvalleywatcher.com

If you haven't watched Obama with the Republicans, you owe it to yourself to check it out. He's great. youtube.com

Chuck nails the real reason Apple is blocking Flash. You can build apps in Flash that aren't delivered through the store. scripting.com

Power of open standards... "it all works exactly the same if I fly Virgin America or Air Egypt" scripting.com

What if Flash were an open standard? (Scripting News). scripting.com

RT @NYT CNN Names Candy Crowley New Sunday Anchor. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

http://nyulocal.com/ looks great!! nyulocal.com

20 Greatest Extended Takes In Movie History. geekweek.com

Dinner last night at Joe's Shanghai Restaurant was fantastic. joeshanghairestaurants.com

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Happy nerdy geek. twitgoo.com

The iPad may not have a camera, but it sure thinks it does. crunchgear.com

Harkin: Health deal was reached days before Brown's victory. (Why don't they pass it and make the Repubs filibuster.) thehill.com

‘Lost' Creators Promise Answers in Last Season. nytimes.com

iPad looks rushed. scripting.com

More iPad thoughts. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Pee-wee Herman Shows Off His New iPad. laughingsquid.com

Friday, January 29, 2010

"Okay, Chairman-fucking-Mao." scripting.com

Mr. Obama gave long, confident and informed answers and felt free to interrupt questioners. nytimes.com

Charlie Brooker on how broadcast journalism works. blogs.journalism.co.uk

After the iPad, what unicorns are there for Apple to unleash? guardian.co.uk

The story of Davos. davosnewbies.com

For the morning crew: Should we trust iPad? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Is it possible to create an iPad-like platform that has none of the drawbacks of Apple's offerings? If not, why not? scripting.com

@jeffjarvis -- here's the business model for online news: http://r2.ly/zmyc -- Retail advertising. Tell the folks at Davos. rebootnews.com

Attn Joe: Should we trust iPad? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Joe Hewitt on the iPad. Lots of food for thought. joehewitt.com

Krugman on the iPad. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

I'm the last person to say someone else's mom is wrong, but my netbook doesn't have a mouse. inessential.com

American Airlines is the inaugural member of my "Corporate Shit List. " twitter.com

MSI plans to launch an US$500 tablet PC in 2H10. digitimes.com

Apple iPad: bashed by bloggers around the web. guardian.co.uk

OPML Generator for Twitter List Members. opml.perfectspace.com

Hitler on iPad. youtube.com

unberkeley.com

Manhattan snow movie. flickr.com

Initial thoughts on iPad. Summary: Not good. scripting.com

All that remains of Apple's brilliance is the arrogance. scripting.com

8-plus reason iPad is an unmitigated disaster, and you're crazy if you don't think netbooks are comps, they are. gizmodo.com

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A 16-year-old's view of Apple's iPad: iFail. (Significant cause Patrick is a total Apple fanboy.) scobleizer.com

The iPad's Name Makes Some Women Cringe. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Bijan likes the iPad. bijansabet.com

iPad: Did it live up to the hype? (no.) news.cnet.com

Kara blames iPad jokes on men. Even more clueless -- and sexist. kara.allthingsd.com

Embracing the Absurd: Paste an iPad in Your Panties. embracingtheabsurd.blogspot.com

Three Reasons Why the iPad WON'T Kill Amazon's Kindle. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Another thing Apple got wrong is the price. Netbooks have ports, SD drives and keyboards and cost $350. Kara is clueless. kara.allthingsd.com

Could No Camera Be an iPad Killer?. readwriteweb.com

We need to fix the Senate. Otherwise, we're headed for full banana-republic status. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Apple must learn to be Google and Google must learn to be Apple, though neither ever will. scripting.com

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

After Three Months, Only 35 Subscriptions for Newsday's Web Site. observer.com

Chief of Davos Security Found Dead in Apparent Suicide. dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

"Steve loves to uncork constipated categories with the world's slickest laxative." scripting.com

Will Normal Folks Ever Use Twitter? livedigitally.com

Steve will say Google is a valued partner of Apple's. The body language will indicate otherwise. scripting.com

Looking for contrition in Davos. blogs.reuters.com

Apple will unveil a new cloud that connects all its devices together. scripting.com

Democrats Put Stop on Health Overhau. nytimes.com

Reading tea leaves in advance of Apple's announcements. (Scripting News). scripting.com

NY Public Library. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Random NY notes. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Krugman: Obama Liquidates Himself. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Barack Herbert Hoover Obama? delong.typepad.com

Apple believes in a "handled press," not free press. rexblog.com

Report: Attackers sent Google workers IMs from friends. news.cnet.com

Is the president panicking? salon.com

Monday, January 25, 2010

Rebooting the News #38. rebootnews.com

Rocketboom set. unberkeley.com

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Evidence of Apple tablet tests show up in Flurry data. venturebeat.com

Flurry Notices Cupertino-based Users Testing Apps on Apple Tablet. mobilecrunch.com

The president is no longer seen a savior but as captive of the interests who ginned up the mess and still profit from it nytimes.com

Religious art. unberkeley.com

If only most journalists were so competent as this blogger says they are. modite.com

Bin Laden Vows More Attacks on U.S. nytimes.com

phone numbers should be as necessary for day2day comms as IP addresses. bijansabet.com

AT&T Insiders Report iPhone Exclusivity Going Away On Wednesday . hothardware.com

Tomorrow at 2:30PM Pacific we'll do the first Rebooting the News podcast of 2010. Time to get back to work. rebootnews.com

We went for brunch to a Ukranian restaurant on 2nd Ave called Veselka. unberkeley.com

Twitter should reset @techcrunch's follower count to zero. techcrunch.com

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Democrats wasted a year squabbling over health insurance legislation. nytimes.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Vanilla sex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org

Just discovered Archer -- love it love it love it. fxnetworks.com

subway platform. twitgoo.com

Leslie Harpold's archive. (Scripting News). scripting.com

"Ev said that Twitter Lists meant the end of the SUL." scripting.com

Friday, January 22, 2010

Ursula Le Guin leads revolt against Google digital book settlement. guardian.co.uk

First blogger at Davos. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Why Leslie Harpold's Sites Disappeared. workbench.cadenhead.org

Remember what the Dude said: "This aggression will not stand." youtube.com

Learning there's another catastrophe waiting for New Orleans, when the Mississippi River jumps into the Atchafalaya. en.wikipedia.org

"it was big news when Twitter was offline for 90 minutes Wednesday morning" edition.cnn.com

Why doesn't Twitter do a deal with a developer doing algorithmic recommendations, and kill the SUL once and for all. scripting.com

Too fat to fly? Photo showing overweight passenger raises questions of airline safety, sensitivity. nydailynews.com

Huge $70M Settlement In TV Writers Age Discrimination Lawsuit. deadline.com

Here's the text of the email requesting I be removed from the SUL. scripting.com

Thursday, January 21, 2010

A business model for the NY Times that doesn't kill it and could make tons of money. Even so, almost no one has read it. rebootnews.com

If you don't buy this magazine we'll kill this dog. flickr.com

I would pay $1000 for a spot near the next cockamamie piece David Carr writes about the "realities" of the news biz. rebootnews.com

Here's the solution to the economic problems of news orgs and it's not a joke. rebootnews.com

"Twitter could easily ID check your account by matching up your bank account or credit card with your profile." twittercism.com

Twitter is SMS 2.0. scripting.com

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Andy's Blog - Dave Winer needs a botnet. jarodrussell.livejournal.com

"House Democrats need to be told to pass the Senate bill, which isn't what they wanted but is vastly better than nothing" krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Opening the newsroom, Step 1 (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter is SMS 2.0. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Snuck out to see the Book of Eli -- really liked it. movies.nytimes.com

"the notion of a great liberal realignment seems as retro as Friendster." nytimes.com

"John McPhee is the best nonfiction writer alive." blogs.law.harvard.edu

Microblogging Needs to Be Decentralized and Reliable. huffingtonpost.com

John Gruber is running for President of the open source email project. If I had a vote, I couldn't go for a Yankee fan. lists.ranchero.com

What the Times is going to have to do is refactor. The paywall is an attempt to avoid doing that. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

If Your Kids Are Awake, They're Probably Online. (But they won't be reading the NY Times.) nytimes.com

The (safe) future of Radio and Manila. (Scripting News). scripting.com

How to be Cruel to Old Guys. :-) businesspundit.com

New York Times to Charge Frequent Readers of Web Site. nytimes.com

Conjecture: Tweetdeck to allow users to communicate even when Twitter is down? thenextweb.com

A new store opens on Solano Ave in Berkeley. Economic optimism? flickr.com

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

RMack: How not to save the Internet.... rconversation.blogs.com

This Edward Hopper-style pic of Ray's Pizza in NYC might be one of my best. flickr.com

It took about an hour to get Manila to work in the OPML Editor. Talk about a walk down memory lane. Yikes! frontiernews.org

"There are fewer paid reporters in Journalism 0.0 than there were in the past." scripting.com

Math and the new journalism. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Think of all the money that flows through Google's servers, and that gives you an idea of what the hackers are after. nytimes.com

Watching a live webcast on the politics of platforms at Berkman. cyber.law.harvard.edu

Amazing hummingbird-cam. cnewmark.com

Storms just a warm-up; major rain, wind ahead. sfgate.com

Monday, January 18, 2010

Android app killer app is a killer app (and multi-level pun). flickr.com

I've only rarely been paid to write yet I always felt there was a reason to "bother." divinipotent.blogspot.com

Can we have some first sources, please? blogs.law.harvard.edu

What If Conan Said, ‘Bye, NBC. Hello, Internet'? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Does Pres Obama knows his State of the Union is on the same day Steve Jobs announces his new "creation." Advisable? thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

US Military BitTorrent Users Targeted By MPAA/RIAA. torrentfreak.com

Rainy days are good for little tweaks that make things run smmmmooooother. frontiernews.org

I was hoping to get an invite to the DLD conf this year in Munich, but it didn't happen. Seems like a fun event. dld-conference.com

We need diversity of opinion, not a mass of slurry that's formed into corporate frankfurter meat. scripting.com

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Oscar Race Begins at Golden Globes. nytimes.com

"Corporate media is the problem" on YCombinator hacker news. news.ycombinator.com

Where can I get some no-frills hosting? (Scripting News). scripting.com

"Industry conferences won't discuss your independence..." scripting.com

Any news on this service? "Cloud Servers for Windows Beta coming in Early 2010!" rackspacecloud.com

Corporate media is the problem. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Open source project to develop a new mail client desktop app for Mac? lists.ranchero.com

New toy: Cavalry Dual HDD Dock. flickr.com

How to quit an app on the Droid. droidie.wordpress.com

Net-net: Still, as always, a fluid situation. avc.com

McDonald's starts dishing out free WiFi at most of its U.S. restaurants. engadget.com

Friday, January 15, 2010

Scoble sure is dressing funny these days. friendfeed-media.com

Facebook Releases Their Version Of Retweets As Twitterfication Continues. allfacebook.com

It seems to me NBC is keeping the wrong Tonight Show host, and letting the star go. nytimes.com

Torn Between Two Phones: Nexus One vs. iPhone. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Dinner tonight at Gather in downtown Berkeley. gatherrestaurant.com

Fantastic Mr. Fox trivia. imdb.com

Iain Dodsworth of Tweetdeck comments on my bit about Tweetdeck. (It's true sometimes blog posts are coral reefs too.) thenextweb.com

Rise of the Journalist-Programmer. gawker.com

Tensions Mount in Devastated Capital as Aid Starts to Reach Haiti. nytimes.com

Marco, the 20-something lead dev at Tumblr, is bewildered watching documentaries about the Vietnam War. marco.org

Almost ten years ago, in Feb 2000, I blogged these photos of a protest in Davos. essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

Thursday, January 14, 2010

How did the crane get to the top of that tower? flickr.com

You might think that I, as one of the originators of blogging, would disagree with Jaron Lanier's mission, but I agree. nytimes.com

Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she's a ‘bigot' with ‘tampons in her ears.' thinkprogress.org

Apple Cofounder Confesses: He Loves the Google Phone. nbcbayarea.com

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. journalism.nyu.edu

Channeling Dale Bumpers: When they say Twitter isn't about follower counts... it's about follower counts. blog.socialtoo.com

It was the kind of gorgeous mid-winter day in Berkeley that makes you pine for Calif. Wait I'm still here! :-) unberkeley.com

Berkeley news, we find out what's opening next door to Peet's on Solano Ave. A natural fast food restaurant. berkeleyside.com

2010 is Year Zero for journalism the way 1970 was the dawn of modern computer science. scripting.com

Tuesday's age piece is getting a tone of comments on YCombinator. news.ycombinator.com

Learning doesn't stop at 22. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Why I'm going to NYU. scripting.com

Jay Rosen's post about my work at NYU. rebootnews.com

16 Things I Like about the Google Nexus One (and 8 I don't). jkontherun.com

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Static hosting should be cheap and easy. unberkeley.com

Mark Anderson: What is China? tapsns.com

Retweet v. Retweet. Good summary of the two forms of RT. nambu.com

Democrats Fight to Hold Crucial Seat - Kennedy's. nytimes.com

D-Link's adorable myPocket 3G router gets FCC approval. engadget.com

Setting up Filezilla on EC2/Windows. unberkeley.wordpress.com

Four possible explanations for Google's big China move. ethanzuckerman.com

Static hosting should be cheap and easy. unberkeley.wordpress.com

Doug Leone was 50 in 2008. forbes.com

"There is no new revenue model for journalism." I disagree. ojr.org

And this is what we're up against, VCs like this who think it's "paranoid" to think VCs intentions might not be pure. twitter.com

AARP should file a class action suit against Sequoia and make them prove what Leone said. mercurynews.com

Imagine if Doug Leone said "Sequoia focuses on white entrepreneurs because blacks and Hispanics aren't creative." mercurynews.com

Imagine if Doug Leone said "Sequoia focuses on male entrepreneurs because women aren't creative." mercurynews.com

Here's a VC who says it's "paranoid" to think VCs screw entrepreneurs. Hah! Welcome to never-never land. twitter.com

Another theory says VCs like young entrepreneurs because it's easier to screw them. twitter.com

Community-powered support for Plancast. getsatisfaction.com

"Sequoia focuses on younger entrepreneurs because people over 30 aren't innovative." mercurynews.com

An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes. developer.com

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

One more note re ageism. It takes a number of years, even decades, to learn to seduce, with feeling. scripting.com

Pet peeve: Google's motto is "Don't be evil," not "do no evil." Not the same thing. en.wikipedia.org

@shacker -- scripting.com

RSS is the universal language of realtime. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Longer NYT piece on Google threat to pull out, available in near-realtime, thanks to the brute force hack. :-) nytimes.com

BTW, I hacked up a realtime version of the main NYT feed. The Times doesn't do realtime (yet!) so I did it for them. :-) static.newsriver.org

First NYT bit on Google's threat to pull out of China. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Google does something that's worthy of our pride, as Americans. googleblog.blogspot.com

Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? alan.blog-city.com

Just signed up for Plancast, where my name is davew. Looking for its API, it has RSS, which I hooked into River2. plancast.com

David Weinberger will be on "On Point" tomorrow opposite Jaron Lanier. hyperorg.com

@susanbeebe -- watch this -- youtube.com

In yesterday's piece I explained how news orgs will reform themselves to create cash-rich, high-integrity ventures. scripting.com

"Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it's always been that way." mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

Mexican Known for Stewing Victims Arrested. An amazing story, but not for the squeamish. nytimes.com

Columbia has raised $15 million to launch 'Digital Journalism Center.' mediabistro.com

Updated my Curriculum Vitae, which is the academic term for resume. It's been a long time since I had a job. Hmmmm. dave.scripting.com

Android photo backup app reveals burglars' identities, stupidity. engadget.com

Does Comcast Fear To Win Too Much? wetmachine.com

Design fantasies for obsolete Bay Bridge span. sfgate.com

McGwire didn't exactly come clean. sfgate.com

Oh, Snap! Streamy Runs Out Of Steam, Looking For A Buyer. techcrunch.com

Monday, January 11, 2010

Once you get into your 50s it gets really hard to get a job. It's not your imagination. scripting.com

Happy birthday to one of my favorite 26 year-olds: Matt Mullenweg. ma.tt

Google Plans to Upgrade Old Billboards in Street View. readwriteweb.com

Ageism is becoming an issue for me. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Apparently I do not have the Constitutional right to use the word "nigger" in any context, according to this person. twitter.com

I am a "white folk" apparently offending someone who is presumably not. twitter.com

This guy thinks he has caught me in an ageist conundrum. twitter.com

6/3/09: Older people get to me too. scripting.com

Thank you SO much for sharing this opinion. twitter.com

Picture of my mom, 77, using her new netbook. unberkeley.com

Kevin Whalen is a "proud daddy and IT consultant." twitter.com

Interesting perspective. twitter.com

This one is right up there with saying Obama doesn't speak like a Negro. twitter.com

What's a "polite" way to respond to someone who calls you an "old fucker." To me that sounds like "poor nigger." FYI. twitter.com

This is the segment. Listen to the interview with Keli Goff. She and NPR should retract and apologize for what was said. npr.org

Isn't he cute. He says not everyone is ageist and then says something ageist. Precious little fellow. twitter.com

Putting a smiley on an ageist insult doesn't make you less of an ageist. twitter.com

In Europe, if you're rich, you can get a $290K speeding ticket. nytimes.com

New York Times is looking for a design technologist. authenticjobs.com

Why newspapers should host blogs. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter isn't an application of SMS, it's what SMS is growing up to become -- an n-way publishing medium. scripting.com

Verizon, Android and the tethering conundrum. Use PDANet, perfectly reliable and affordable. blogs.zdnet.com

Complaints greet Google Nexus One phone. news.bbc.co.uk

I just read that if you're not "on" the iPhone you don't exist. That's worth two oys. Oy oy. inessential.com

Sunday, January 10, 2010

SMS 2.0. (Scripting News). scripting.com

What's going on with OAuth? radar.oreilly.com

My most retweeted post ever. Of course it's complete total utter bullshit. twitter.com

A Google only your nightmares could love. inquisitr.com

The last library typewriter in Tampa. tampabay.com

If God didn't agree with and love you, why would would He pour down good weather and sunshine on Berkeley most every day? blogs.law.harvard.edu

A Democracy of Netbooks. codinghorror.com

BREIN Shuts Down 393 Torrent Sites, No One Notices. torrentfreak.com

Renewed appeal for clip art. (Scripting News). scripting.com

SMS 2.0. (Scripting News). scripting.com

The magical chip that delivers Nexus One's call quality. mobile.venturebeat.com

I kept waiting for the Times to explain the other side, which is obvious. Bad jounalism. nytimes.com

Saturday, January 09, 2010

Like Tina Turner isn't as nice as (for example) Paul Simon. But rough and not nice is good for some things some times. youtube.com

Very true -- iPhone is nicer than Android. But it's a jail cell. Nice jail cells sucks. daggle.com

Jacques Binet could have read this.. can you? unberkeley.com

The foursquare feeds system allows you to subscribe to RSS, KML and iCal feeds of your data. foursquare.com

Universal Reporters Versus Specialist Bloggers. proof-reading.org

Someday you will tell your grandchildren about bookstore shelves and they will stare at you in confusion and disbelief. unberkeley.com

I'm testing wordpress.com's post via email for pictures. Works really well, exactly as you think it should. unberkeley.com

Friday, January 08, 2010

Anyone know how to mount a Nexus One as a disk on a netbook. droidie.com

Health food store in Bayside. twitgoo.com

I have a question for ABC. Why didn't your turn of Giuliani's mike and go to commercial? What's your oblication to truth? politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

The thought process that could lead to silo'd Twitter clients. unberkeley.com

Dave Winer: "I'm a mystic about What It All Means.". delbourg-delphis.com

SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED. forecast.weather.gov

Why FIOS is such a rare thing in Manhattan -- huge apt bldgs -- the copper has to be upgraded to fiber. broadbandreports.com

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Ray's Pizza. flickr.com

Of the people, by the people, for the people. unberkeley.com

Twitter clients silos coming soon? unberkeley.wordpress.com

Macros for cell phones. droidie.wordpress.com

Katz's matzoh ball soup. img70.yfrog.com

One Reason The Nexus One Will Succeed. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Walking in the West Village this eve I spied a bunch of sex and bong shops. Felt like Amsterdam. flickr.com

How did the crane operator get in there? flickr.com

Another Nexus One photo taken in a coffee shop on 72nd near Amsterdam Ave. flickr.com

Last night at dinner with my agent, I said for sure Doc would flip my mother-of-all-business models piece. Yup. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Here's the first picture I took with the Nexus One. droidie.com

Playing with my Nexus One. droidie.wordpress.com

Ahhh Scoble sees Google expanding its coral reef today. It's a very useful metaphor. scobleizer.com

Fred Wilson got his Nexus One in mid-December. avc.com

Engadget's Nexus One review. Leaves me uncertain how I'll use it since I have no T-Mobile plan. engadget.com

Cori: It's Not the Universe; It's the Machine. embracingtheabsurd.blogspot.com

Monday, January 04, 2010

Beating the drum for Realtime RSS. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Google Nexus One support page goes live, quickly dies again. engadget.com

How much extra do I have to pay to get it *without* the satellite radio? scripting.com

Very very interesting deal by Seesmic acquiring ping.fm. This almost moves them into competition with Twitter.+1. readwriteweb.com

Just got an email from Google saying they just shipped a new phone to arrive at my hotel in NYC tomorrow. droidie.com

Sunday, January 03, 2010

"I probably had more technology in my pocket than he has in his whole friggin house." scripting.com

Apple pulls iPhone app that upset Hollywood. news.cnet.com

Jay Rosen's "Simple Fix for the Messed Up Sunday Shows." jayrosen.posterous.com

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Joining the drum line for Realtime RSS by Colin Devroe. cdevroe.com

The movie on the flight is one of my favorites of 2009 -- a truly funny movie. en.wikipedia.org

Well I'm in the air on my way to NYC just had a Bloody Mary and am feeling no pain. :-) flightstats.com

The mother of all business models. (Scripting News). scripting.com

An early DaveNet reduced to 138. (Scripting News). scripting.com

BTW, here's a full essay about technology politics in less than 140 chars. twitter.com

This is what is wrong with the old style retweets. I said "significantly" and he changed it to "much." Big diff and unfair twitter.com

45 days later this post about the Droid battery cover still gets long passionate detailed comments from ex-iPhone users. droidie.com

My spammers list is pretty interesting. Each of the robots is trying to convince the others that they're real. twitter.com

Looking at Obama's face you can see that the job is hard. flickrfan.files.wordpress.com

Interesting that Loic doesn't see Seesmic as a Twitter client. Good for him. Break out of the box. blog.seesmic.com

"we are confident that applications for the iSlate will be limited to those approved by Apple" theregister.co.uk

Urban Dictionary: Yenta. urbandictionary.com

Classic tech standards discussion, BigCo vs Developer, developed in the comments under yesterday's piece about OAuth. scripting.com

Friday, January 01, 2010

Picture of Cori's pink Droid. droidie.com

"Andrew Grande choked to death on a bag of marijuana." newsherald.com

This is how people in Duluth welcome in the New Year. img390.yfrog.com

define keister - Google Search. google.com

"OAuth is completely usable as is." True dat. That's why I fixed the bug in my implementation today. scripting.com

Arriving in NYC on Sat night, where the expected low is 18 degrees F with a 30% chance of snow. Will dress warmly. :-) forecast.weather.gov

No U.S. combat-related deaths in Iraq in December. cnn.com

Frontier News: Updated OAuth support to work with Twitter. frontiernews.wordpress.com

OAuth is becoming a cautionary tale. (Scripting News). scripting.com

WRAP, and the Demise of the OAuth Community. hueniverse.com

A Decade In History of Online Video. dembot.com

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Indiana Holmes. (Scripting News). scripting.com

An amazing story at userland.com. frontiernews.wordpress.com

Five 2010 Predictions About Tech Companies. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Can Someone Translate This Twitter Dude's Speak? pixelbits.wordpress.com

Searching my Flickr photostream for "Patrick." flickr.com

BART this morning. flickr.com

Patrick Scoble at 15. flickr.com

Bijan put together a skating rink for the kids in the backyard a few days ago. bijansabet.com

Not on my wrist! flickr.com

What is seduction? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Coming sooon: The Bluetooth Watch. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Person of the Decade?! scripting.com

Shopping list. flickr.com

Russia 'plans to stop asteroid'. news.bbc.co.uk

Manila: About the recent outages. manila.userland.com

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

After Sonny is killed, Don Corleone calls a meeting of the heads of the families to make peace. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Matterhorn by Moonlight. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Report Says Limbaugh Is Taken to Hospital. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

No-fly list: how it works. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Top ten most influential people on the web. merinews.com

Person of the Decade?! (Scripting News) scripting.com

Feds Subpoena Bloggers For Posting TSA Security Memo. tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com

No Dick, it's not a "War on Terror" -- we're at war with you. War On Cheney. Has a nice ring to it. :-) politico.com

My Handsome Radio Blog is still there. According to UserLand it's supposed to go poof at the end of the year, ie tomorrow. radio.weblogs.com

New core Frontier feature: S3 Prefs. scripting.com

Slate's Culture Gabfest: Remarkably I was named "Person Of The Decade" and I don't think it was a joke. Around minute 26. slate.com

Twitter stunned Kim Kardashian earns $10k a tweet. examiner.com

My tweeting-in-the-river project has yielded a stream. scripting.com

Webmonkey: Twitter API Is Becoming Far More than Just an API for Twitter. webmonkey.com

Frontier News: New preferences for Amazon S3. frontiernews.wordpress.com

Berkeley Blog: Sudden Mind Death Syndrome. whoisylvia.typepad.com

Good idea to break up the big banks and reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act. dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com

How do you know rssCloud is working? blog.rsscloud.org

People always get tripped up on what I had to do with RSS. One thing I did a lot of, for sure, is beat the drum. scripting.com

Cori, a Droid newbie, writes: My Droid is Pink. A woman's perspective on what's thought to be a macho thing. :-) droidie.com

Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now. realtimerss.org

2 pounds Peet's French Roast and complimentary cup. flickr.com

Bay Bridge steel set to be shipped from China. sfgate.com

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

My Droid is Pink. droidie.com

Anil Dash, tear down that wall. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Anil Dash, an upper-caste Twitterer, explains to low-life scum like you and I, what it's like up there. :-) dashes.com

Doc: Skiing is believing. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Why it's smart to publish Realtime RSS now. realtimerss.org

Is The Nexus One Bringing A New Android Backup Service With It? techcrunch.com

The Big Lebowski and Its Dude Get the Academic Treatment. nytimes.com

Google Nexus One docs get leaked: $530 unsubsidized, $180 with plan. boygeniusreport.com

Denver Ski Train's Run Is Ended by Legal Dispute. nytimes.com

With Nexus One, Is Google Eating Its Own Dogfood Or Its Own Children? techcrunch.com

I've got the user interface for the tweeting-in-a-river function working. images.scripting.com

My once and for all review of Eye-Fi. scripting.com

Is Google's Nexus One Phone Landing Next Week? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Nice Tech Startups piece on rssCloud. They got it right, it's all non-corporate. Nothing up my sleeve! :-) techstartups.com

A status report, with lots of links, explaining my end-of-year work on the CloudPipe protocol. blog.rsscloud.org

I now have a public server developers can test CloudPipe clients with. rsscloud.org

What if you took the text box from Twitter and put it at the top of the River? scripting.com

64 of the 100 Top Kindle Store Bestsellers Are Free. mediabistro.com

Couple stranded 3 days after GPS leads them astray. usatoday.com

Lifehacker: Access Facebook Updates from a Feed Reader. lifehacker.com

Monday, December 28, 2009

My first follower was @evansegerman. I just returned the favor. :-) firstfollower.com

If Bloggers Had No Ethics Blogging Would Have Failed, But it Didn't. So Let's Get a Clue journalism.nyu.edu

The title of this pic is supposed to be "Shitty picture of gorgeous sunset." flickr.com

Dear Santa: Please, a new Facebook API. realtimerss.org

BaconBits, A BitTorrent Tracker for Redditors Only. torrentfreak.com

Fox is pushing Time Warner Cable to pay about $1 for each subscriber. nytimes.com

Restart of the "Frontier News" blog, a thread that started on CompuServe in the early 90s, predates Scripting News. frontiernews.org

Sony's new $419 camera has wifi. It's a little expensive for me to buy just to try it. If they have blogger review units. sonystyle.com

"In The Loop" -- totally demented, hilarious, and yeah it's how the world runs. Must-see. Probably Best Picture 2009. movies.nytimes.com

You're Only Human" was written for the express purpose of teenage suicide prevention. en.wikipedia.org

BTW, the appeal of a "Twitter camera" points to a greater need -- personal devices that are open platforms. A la Bug Labs. scripting.com

Maude was a 70s sitcom starring Bea Arthur who died in April. youtube.com

Really pisses me off when someone I consider a friend has 1.2 million followers. Royalty. A caste system. Uck. twitter.com

The start of an Iranian intifada. pbs.org

Pundits keep predicting the demise of netbooks but their reasons make no sense (and they're wrong). news.bbc.co.uk

Cameras will be able to communicate. Until today I didn't realize they would be hard-wired into social networks. scripting.com

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Coming soon: A Twitter camera. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Google's contextual ads on YouTube are getting eerily relevant. flickr.com

"Cloud Pipe" now has a spec. rsscloud.org

CloudPipe changes for today. (Scripting News). scripting.com

New Restrictions Quickly Added for Air Passengers. nytimes.com

Saturday, December 26, 2009

The 50 Best Movies of 200. insidemovies.moviefone.com

Hey I got a thanks from a producer at ABC News for connecting them with @xenijardi. Cooooool! It's working. :-) twitter.com

@rogerjenn en.wikipedia.org

You can eavesdrop on my realtime long-poll cloudpipe fatping stream, here: static.newsriver.org

Trinity: "A d�j� vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something." imdb.com

States that have already broadened health care coverage say that the Senate overhaul bill unfairly penalizes them. nytimes.com

An exemplar of supposedly unnecessary quotation marks. flickr.com

Update on CloudPipe work. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Enough Waiting -- It's Time for Amazon to Buy Netflix. gigaom.com

For Pelosi, Many Paths to 218. fivethirtyeight.com

NYTimes misuses Kindle Review stats to attack the Kindle. ireaderreview.com

Looking at the World from Berkeley's Indian Rock. bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

Friday, December 25, 2009

Dear Santa: Please, a new Facebook API. realtimerss.org

Dear Santa: This is what I want --> A new Facebook API. realtimerss.org

In English: "If Tim Berners-Lee weren't alive he'd be rolling over in his grave." scripting.com

"Si no fuera porque Tim Berners-Lee est� vivo, estar�a revolvi�ndose en su tumba." microsiervos.com

I'm reading Russell Baker's autobiography. His mother's big issue with him was a lack of "gumption." amazon.com

Heres a map of the hike @andrewbaron took today. maps.google.com

Passenger tried to blow up US plan - Google News. news.google.com

NatureBright SunTouch Plus Light and Ion Therapy Lamp. amazon.com

Dean's Health Care Spat With Obama Shows Party Divisions. nytimes.com

RWW called rssCloud, correctly, "a way to create a decentralized Twitter experience." Thanks for noticing that. readwriteweb.com

Pic of a NYC crosswalk taken on my last trip east. flickr.com

New Android phone? Start with these free apps. download.cnet.com

Thursday, December 24, 2009

It was a gorgeous day at Cesar Chavez Park, near the Berkeley Marina. flickr.com

The film "It's Complicated" received an R rating for a scene in which two stars share a joint. nytimes.com

Bernie Madoff Assaulted in Prison? abcnews.go.com

Bradley Whitford on Playing Rahm Emanuel. nymag.com

If it were up to you, which yuletide songs would you like to see put away for good, never to be heard again? artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Krugman celebrates the Senate passage of Health Care Reform. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

All the apples at a local supermarket. Another test picture of my new Cannon SD940, to see how it does color. flickr.com

Is Our Data Too Vulnerable in the Cloud? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

@jenny8lee -- Highly recommend a "mifi" card. I have one, it's the most rational way to get online from laptop. mobile.engadget.com

isoHunt Loses US Lawsuit Against Movie Studios. torrentfreak.com

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Pakistan: A Legal Victory for Eunuchs. nytimes.com

Apple to host event in January. blogs.ft.com

Death by Microsoft? flickr.com

The Death Of Social Media. "Sponsored by Microsoft." forbes.com

My guess is the new WordPress "trash" feature is a defense against hackers, not against indecisive users. edrants.com

A Berkeley real estate blog I follow. It's the kind of local blog every home owner would likely find interesting. bayareahomegirl.com

How I develop formats and protocols. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Jamie Cullum Admits to Being an Ethical Music Pirate. torrentfreak.com

The Mile High Book Club: '09's Best Airplane Reads. npr.org

Google Nexus One Hands On. gizmodo.com

Some dread, some cheer wireless BART tube. sfgate.com

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Flight from Miami crashes in Jamaica - Breaking News. miamiherald.com

The Christmas Day lineup at the Metreon in SF. google.com

Oy! When I setup Google Voice I asked for a Google Number. I want to use my non-Google number. Am I completely fcuked? google.com

What's a Mind Bomb? An idea that's so strange or powerful that it explodes in your mind. And that's a good thing! scripting.com

If Google does what Microsoft did, and unleashes all their destructive power, they will destroy the market. scripting.com

Microsoft loses its appeal in $200-million-plus Custom XML patent infringement case. blogs.zdnet.com

Flickr Photo Download: San Francisco from Indian Rock. flickr.com

Someone doesn't like this truck. flickr.com

It's a gore-juice day today in the Bay Area. flickr.com

Made a lot of progress on Cloud Pipe today. Got the basic packet structure implemented. One of my holiday projects. rsscloud.org

Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims. telegraph.co.uk

My new Cannon SD940 arrived. flickr.com

The readers of Scripting News gave Google an award in 2002, and I wrote glowing praise about them. Wasn't so long ago. scripting.com

Vaporware 2009: Inhale the Fail. wired.com

I keep a list of people I report as spammers and see that others are doing it too. twitter.com

"WordPress and Tumblr implemented the Twitter API, thereby putting the defacto ball in play. The BigCo's don't like it.." scripting.com

Friday movie sched for Berkeley and Emeryville. google.com

Open is in the eye of the beholder. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Don's Amazing Puzzle (Scripting News). scripting.com

Comcast buys NBC. CBS & ABC hop in bed with Apple. appleinsider.com

BigCo's often think "open" means "subject to processes we control." googleblog.blogspot.com

WordPress has problems publishing podcast feeds. Seems easily fixed. unberkeley.com

Monday, December 21, 2009

Trinity. images.scripting.com

The Matrix might be the best movie ever. netflix.com

Obama to Name Chief of Cybersecurity. nytimes.com

O for crying out loud. farturl.com

Yet another URL shortener -- youtu.be. Si.gh. youtube-global.blogspot.com

The $20K question -- is Twitter on board for OAuth WRAP. bret.appspot.com

Bought a new camera today. I love the tiny Canon. Figure they've made some improvements in the last couple of years.. amazon.com

Just heard about OAuth WRAP. I implemented OAuth earlier this year, and it's already broken. Now it'll break even worse? bret.appspot.com

When an order is canceled by Amazon, the history of the order is erased on the Amazon website. blogs.law.harvard.edu

The Essentials of Micro-Fiction. pifmagazine.com

This year's NakedJen Film Festival will take place in Berkeley, with (get this) the original NakedJen, who is flying in! scripting.com

I'm installing the Seesmic Twitter app on my Droid. thenextweb.com

JY's blog: Global usernames for decentralized microblogs. jy.typepad.com

Why today's Twitter is like Napster in Y2K. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Is it Ballmer's fault? news.cnet.com

@Nixie -- newsriver.org

"Google Reader is Wrong" is running as a guest post on The Next Web. :-) thenextweb.com

RSS Readers Are Fine, But They Are Niche Products. regulargeek.com

Google Reader is wrong. realtimerss.org

@steverubel -- of course I do! newsriver.org

RSS Reader Market in Disarray, Continues to Decline. True. And Google does what dominators always do. Stagnate. readwriteweb.com

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Boucher: Let's Shoot For 50/20 Mbps For 80% By 2015. dslreports.com

Sequels and 3-D Movies Help Hollywood Post a Strong Year. nytimes.com

Google Taps StackOverflow as Official Android Dev Support for Noobs, Q&A. readwriteweb.com

NYT Book Review Podcast. nytimes.com

NYT letters to the editor on the death penalty. nytimes.com

Why We All Need to Calm Down About the Google Phone. gizmodo.com

Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of 2009. torrentfreak.com

Brittany Murphy - Google Search. google.com

Poor iPhone reception graduates to SNL 'Weekend Update' joke statu. engadget.com

O the weather outside is frightful.. nyctmc.org

"1 million urls and you'd be able to cram 45,000,000,000 domains in the oceans". scripting.com

Anil Dash sees the humor in storing Twitter URLs in earth's oceans. scripting.com

Saturday, December 19, 2009

If you wrote the words you own the copyright. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Store Twitter URLs in earth's oceans? (Scripting News). scripting.com

How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets. (Scripting News). scripting.com

"This is CHUM.LY, a micro-blogging service that breaks the 140 barrier and connects you to your social network world." chum.ly

It's storming heavy on the 59th St bridge. nyctmc.org

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll plaza is a winter wonderland. nyctmc.org

Well there's definitely some snow now at 6th Ave and 34th. nyctmc.org

Avatar *is* the iPhone of movies. droidie.wordpress.com

Avatar Is Like The iPhone Of Movies. techcrunch.com

Thursday, December 17, 2009

DaveNet : Demoing Software for Fun & Profit. davenet.scripting.com

Mom updates Twitter as 2-year-old son is dying. news.cnet.com

How I explained Twitter in July 2007. scripting.com

3 in Family Are Killed in New York; Suspect Falls to His Death. nytimes.com

@chrisbrogan -- I just highlighted that point in italics in my post. scripting.com

Rebooting the News #37. Explains what it means to implement an API. rebootnews.com

Just bought tickets to see Avatar tomorrow at 5:15PM at the AMC in Emeryville. friendfeed.com

Tumblr implementing the Twitter API is huge. I sent an email to people at Facebook saying it's time for them to jump on. scripting.com

Health reform politics in 106 chars. (Scripting News) scripting.com

How open standards are created. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Democrats point to "Smoking Tweet" in GOP stalling health care. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Tumblr implements that Twitter API and it takes another (major) step toward becoming an open standard. scripting.com

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

LaCie's Phone-Sized USB Drive Holds 640 GB. jkontherun.com

River2 now catches pics from Flickr. river2blog.wordpress.com

RSS readers reviewed, including a review of my own River2. beatblogging.org

Coors Light football coach commercials are still the funniest. youtube.com

President Lieberman's bitter pill. salon.com

A new Bay Area business that (probably) won't sell to Google. berkeleyside.com

Finally after six months, a review of River2 (and it's not from a tech blog). beatblogging.org

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Brent Simmons thinks perhaps Lieberman is getting ready to be John McCain's running mate in 2012. inessential.com

YouTube - When Legos are Alone II. (Starring the @berzerkeley kids.) youtube.com

RT @Gartenberg My take on the Nexus One and why a Google Phone could be the death of Android. Latest @Engadget column cgi.ebay.com

In the wild world of URL shorteners, Libya is king. latimesblogs.latimes.com

About to go live: Rebooting the News, with Jay and Dave. blogtalkradio.com

Started coding my prototype implementation of "Cloud Pipe" this morning. It's ridiculous how much fun this is. :-) rsscloud.org

Rebooting the News live podcast at 12:30PM Pacific today, with Jay and Dave. blogtalkradio.com

A new Internet Law, named after Bill Gates. (Scripting News) scripting.com

"New York has become much more interesting in the tech world." scripting.com

Build to flip? (Scripting News) scripting.com

I just heard about Operation Chokehold: A Plan to Destroy AT&T This Friday. gizmodo.com

"There are no docs that I can see that inform a user about the most basic things about the Droid." droidie.com

"Not everyone was born to blog, but some people were." scripting.com

I liked "The Blind Side" -- like a milk shake -- a tiny bit of nutrient and a lot of sugar. Comfort food movie. movies.nytimes.com

Monday, December 14, 2009

Bit.ly Just Got Fu.kd. techcrunch.com

Google now has their own URL shortener. googleblog.blogspot.com

Flickr Photo: AA departure board at JFK. flickr.com

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Developing Its Own Phone, Google Is Taking On Apple. nytimes.com

Jay Rosen's mock-up for a news site: explainthis.org. jayrosen.tumblr.com

NY pizza from NY. flickr.com

Gruber says Stross is full of you know what. daringfireball.net

Mike posted some weekend bitchmeme linkbait that's all. blogs.law.harvard.edu

8 arrested in vandalism of UC chancellor's home. sfgate.com

Pawnee is not a tourist Mecca, but this fact has made it a somewhat desirable location. pawneeindiana.com

Matzoh ball soup is yummy. flickr.com

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Slashdot: WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API. tech.slashdot.org

AT&T Takes the Fall for the iPhone's Glitches. nytimes.com

Let's all turn off our iPhones for a day? (Luckily I still have mine so I can turn it off.) prjx.net

Some of the interesting questions raised by the WordPress implementation of the Twitter API. unberkeley.com

So the Google Phone Is Real. gigaom.com

My initial blog post: "Wordpress.com implements the Twitter API." unberkeley.wordpress.com

Holy Embrace and Extend Batman! Wordpress.com implements the Twitter API. This is so deliciously insidious. en.blog.wordpress.com

Friday, December 11, 2009

Underground New York. flickr.com

Tumblr office in NYC. flickr.com

Uncle Arno's books found a home. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Twitter Traffic Falls -2.43% For November. Facebook -0.47%, LinkedIn -6.93%, Friendfeed -20.95%. twittercism.com

Tweetdeck builds on lists, in useful and interesting ways. blog.tweetdeck.com

If you have something really new the people Scoble says you should pitch to won't listen so don't waste your time. scobleizer.com

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Photo: What they're building at Ground Zero. flickr.com

Photo: NY Times cafeteria. flickr.com

Photo: East River from the 45th floor. flickr.com

Inbound 7 train. twitpic.com

Nieman: What we'll be fighting about in 2010. niemanlab.org

I forgot to change my clock, so the last piece wasn't "published" yet. It should be there now. Sorry! :-( rebootnews.wordpress.com

Stowe Boyd says the Times has to open up in other ways. stoweboyd.com

If I owned the NY Times. rebootnews.wordpress.com

Netvibes launches Wasabi. thenextweb.com

The daunting reality facing newspapers. newsosaur.blogspot.com

Feedoor Enables Real-Time Feeds Management to Any Website or Blog. arabcrunch.com

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

After raining like a mofo the sun broke out and people partied in Union Square Park. flickr.com

Penn Station departure board. flickr.com

I'm going to be at this meetup in NY tomorrow at 7:30PM in NYC. realtimeboozenyc.eventbrite.com

Sunny Union Square. twitpic.com

The Droid Has Been Rooted -- Now What? wired.com

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Streaming will never stop downloading. guardian.co.uk

Should your holiday gift be a charitable donation? blogs.consumerreports.org

The old world was destroyed when a man named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead. en.wikipedia.org

This is the last major piece of the rssCloud architecture, the only piece not specified in 2001. rsscloud.org

US Transportation Security Administration: Screening Procedures Standard Operating Procedures, 1 May 2008 - Wikileaks. wikileaks.org

The Gawker Guide to Getting Past Airport Security This Holiday Travel Season. gawker.com

Heard it snowed in Berkeley. Anyone have a realtime feed with photos?? google.com

Cloud Pipe brings realtime to desktop and mobile clients. blog.rsscloud.org

What's your problem with the internet? A crib sheet for news exec speeches. onlinejournalismblog.com

After hearing about my mother's blog post on Twitter, CitiBank got in touch. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Monday, December 07, 2009

Links to all my posts are on the Protoblogger site. protoblogger.com

Verizon Promises LTE Speeds of 5-12 Mbps. gigaom.com

My traveling geek kit: iPhone GS, Sprint MiFi, Verizon Droid, Asus Eee PC 1005HA. droidie.wordpress.com

Wondering what th e"Social Media Club House" is? Cathy Brooks explains.. socialmediaclubhouse.com

Fix for loose Droid battery cover. droidie.wordpress.com

BBC: Google includes real-time data in search results. news.bbc.co.uk

EZTV's RSS gets guid, comments and category elements. unberkeley.wordpress.com

Rebooting the News live podcast at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

Guardian:Top 10 key films of the noughties. guardian.co.uk

Sunday, December 06, 2009

no-www.org

Torrent Sites Get Feedback from RSS Inventor. torrentfreak.com

Cross-platform issue in Frontier kernel. unberkeley.com

Buddycast3. tribler.org

All Hail The iPod Touch. gigaom.com

Sam's Log Cabin -- great breakfast place in Berkeley area. yelp.com

Droid basics: How to uninstall an app? droidie.wordpress.com

I'm trying to help the BitTorrent community get their RSS working better. Thinking about writing some apps. torrentfreak.com

TorrentFreak: Torrent Sites Get Feedback from RSS Inventor. torrentfreak.com

@askciti -- Citibank Screwup Continues. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Is Droid the perfect podcatcher? droidie.wordpress.com

Anil Dash called me using AT&T in SF, sounded like he's using an iPhone but he wasn't. My mistake, sorry. protoblogger.com

A friend recommended that I listen to this podcast of Michael Specter talking about his book Denialism. kqed.org

Scoble found a Seesmic user in Paris who asked him to deliver a message to Loic. flickr.com

Tarantino's cheerily crazy Japanese cell phone ad. news.cnet.com

Eve's Peeve: Citibank Screwup Continues. evespeeves.wordpress.com

Protoblogger: Doing something big vs enriching yourself. protoblogger.com

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Doing something big vs enriching yourself. protoblogger.wordpress.com

"Carol Bartz as CEO/Chair and Zuckerberg as Chief Nebbish." stoweboyd.com

EtherPad Blog: EtherPad is Back Online Until Open Sourced. etherpad.com

Memories of a paywall pioneer. guardian.co.uk

Scoble is on United Airlines 914 to Paris. flightstats.com

2008: "Scalable apps are quickly becoming commodities." scripting.com

We need: a programmable Twitter client. (Seems to have influenced a lot of developers, which is very cool.) blog.rsscloud.org

I've succesfully bundled and launched one of the new Amazon EC2 images. howto.opml.org

App Store Is a Game Changer for Apple and Cellphone Industry. nytimes.com

@calindrome droidie.com

Answers to a reporter's questions about River2, in a 7-minute MP3. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Lest you think Apple ads don't dis the competiton (wonderfully) -- apple.com

A commenter explains why the Droid ads are not offensive to the people Kara says should be offended. kara.allthingsd.com

I realllly like the new Droid ads. droidie.com

Kara Swisher is offended by the new Droid ads. kara.allthingsd.com

Friday, December 04, 2009

A series of wintry storms is bearing down on Northern California. sfgate.com

Thought I'd have a beer instead. flickr.com

Do you like red wine? flickr.com

Come on @marshallk, play fair and drop the parens. images.scripting.com

rssCloud Blog: EC2 gets more rational, EC2-based rivers. blog.rsscloud.org

If Droid keeps running ads like this we can overlook a few rebate scams and a battery cover that keeps falling off. droidie.wordpress.com

Droidie: It's not a princess. It's a robot! droidie.wordpress.com

Remarkably ballsy piece by Marshall about the "Silicon Valley Soap Opera." readwriteweb.com

Verizon kicks iPhone in the teeth, again, and Davey likes. :-) youtube.com

EtherPad screenshot. etherpad.com

Edit This Page, written in May 1999, was my anthem of the blogging movement, my Cathedral & The Bazaar. davenet.scripting.com

NYT Book Review: The 10 Best Books of 2009. nytimes.com

The Updates page on ETP was the beginning of weblogs.com and the whole realtime thing. :-) web.archive.org

Top 100 Most Visited Sites on EditThisPage.com in 2000. These are some real blogging pioneers. web.archive.org

The earliest archive of EditThisPage.com from March 2000. web.archive.org

10 years ago today EditThisPage.com came online. A major milestone. scripting.com

Playing with the new EC2. Taking notes as I go. Definitely going to use this for EC2-based rivers. Good timing Amazon! :-) howto.opml.org

@bograma #thereOughtToBeALaw">http://www.scripting.com/2006/05.html scripting.com

Just read the docs for: "EC2 Instances Now Can Boot from Amazon EBS." Very nice. aws.amazon.com

@hotwire #thereOughtToBeALaw">http://www.scripting.com/2006/05.html scripting.com

Thursday, December 03, 2009

"the Frank Zappa of the RSS user community" --> mobilebytes.wordpress.com

http://wi.nr/ -- huh? wi.nr

Twitter's new mobile site goes live. thenextweb.com

Ideas for a BitTorrent namespace. unberkeley.wordpress.com

Picture of yours truly taken near Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley Hills the day after Thanksgiving. flickr.com

define:produce. google.com

Kind of sad that only companies qualify to be a WEF "technology pioneer." techcrunch.com

The Asus isn't compatible. flickr.com

I'm sorry but we need government. protoblogger.wordpress.com

Smart. Quirky. Curious. twitter.com

For 10 points what is this a picture of? flickrfan.files.wordpress.com

Neener neener! I just got called a commie. Heh. Fuck you. twitter.com

Have you tried Google's DNS? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Wasn't finished jumping through Verizon's hoops. For $100. All companies have one thing in common. Your time is worth $0. droidie.com

Shame they don't have a Crunchie for "Best Open Technology." Might encourage more people to do open tech. crunchies2009.techcrunch.com

Picture of my $100 Verizon rebate debit card. flickr.com

Got my Droid rebate, but... droidie.wordpress.com

"A Comcast-NBC combination is brazenly anti-competitve and anti-democratic." mediactive.com

Google is getting into DNS. code.google.com

What does the J-school of the Future look like? rebootnews.com

Romanian President hits a boy in the face. MSNBC anchor finds it hilarious and actually says so. thedailyshow.com

BBC Trials BitTorrent Powered HD Video Streaming. torrentfreak.com

$48 to get a new power adapter for my 1005HA. The old one just burned out in the middle of the night. amazon.com

asus 1005ha power adapter near 94707RT @jeffsonderman What went wrong at the Detroit Daily Press, newspaper startup lasted one week

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Scientists at the University of Montreal launched a search for men who had never looked at porn - but couldn't find any. telegraph.co.uk

We found a home for Uncle Arno's books, http://r2.ly/x5mk, at Portland State University http://www.pdx.edu/. The power of the blog. :-) newsriver.org

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

The Frontline report on credit and debit cards. It might save you hundreds of dollars, it's that good. pbs.org

Is Tiger Woods' sexuality news? rebootnews.wordpress.com

Journalists use RSS to track rivals, news, tweets & other info. beatblogging.org

Do you use Hotwire for NY travel? unberkeley.wordpress.com

Please explain what's going on in this picture. flickrfan.files.wordpress.com

Reviewing BitTorrent RSS feeds. unberkeley.com

Why is technology important? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Great (funny, irony-filled) picture of Murdoch as Harry Truman and Google as Dewey. mediaite.com

What does the J-school of the Future look like? rebootnews.wordpress.com

Watching @jobsworth on the Supernova live stream. ustream.tv

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Zittrain: Beware the Rise of Closed Platforms. gigaom.com

Amazing that TechMeme still doesn't have the Google News story. They must be all taking a nap over there. rebootnews.com

Commenter sees an "Excellent opportunity for Twitter" in the Google/News deal. Interesting perspective! rebootnews.com

Tech 'incubators' moving to Chronicle building. sfgate.com

@jayrosen_nyu -- don't miss this. rebootnews.wordpress.com

Amazing deal between Google and News corps. Interested in your theories, observations. rebootnews.wordpress.com

Full text of Obama speech on Afghanistan. latimesblogs.latimes.com

BBC: Google to limit free news access. Must-read. news.bbc.co.uk

Consumer Reports rates cell phone service in U.S. (best to worst): Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T. droidie.wordpress.com

Consumer Reports rates cell phone service in the US. droidie.wordpress.com

"We live in a time of pseudo news." scripting.com

Consumer Reports Cell phone service Ratings. (AT&T ranked worst.) consumerreports.org

Is Topicfire version 2.0 of TechMeme? topicfire.com

522,056 followers. Follows 4. 57 updates. twitter.com

Is Laughter just a Human Thing? wnyc.org

Homes selling over list price at Berkeley's top end. (Good news for real estate investors, like yours truly.) bayareahomegirl.com

Teen tweeter cashes-in on SUL placement. (Scripting News) scripting.com

We need: An open source Twitter shell. blog.rsscloud.org

Little Green Footballs: "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff". littlegreenfootballs.com

Monday, November 30, 2009

"Right now most cell phone codecs use 8-12kbps. What should we be using? Try 48-64kbps." droidie.com

Zealotry sucks, and so does the Droid. droidie.com

An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore. michaelmoore.com

Was Roger Avery moved from a prison work furlough program to jail because he tweeted about it? nytimes.com

Tweeting from a submarine in the South Atlantic Ocean. Chilllllly. :-) twitpic.com

The Google Phone "Is a Certainty." gizmodo.com

The CrunchPad disappears in a puff of vapor. engadget.com

Zealotry sucks, and so does the Droid. droidie.wordpress.com

Glenn Fleishman on the demise of CrunchPad. friendfeed.com

Twidroid 3.0 Launches with Plugin Support. readwriteweb.com

MP3 for Rebooting the News #35. rebootnews.com

They've made some nice improvements in BuddyPress. testbp.org

What's right with Wikipedia? blogs.law.harvard.edu

Making money with ads? Not much longer. scripting.com

Bijan decided to return his Droid. Of course now I wonder if I should too. bijansabet.com

Prep notes for today's podcast. Note we're starting to use the blog instead of FriendFeed. rebootnews.com

25 minutes to Rebooting the News #35 live with Jay and Dave on BlogTalkRadio. blogtalkradio.com

Programmable Twitter client, day 2. blog.rsscloud.org

What if there were a relatively simple and low-power programming language built into a Twitter client. blog.rsscloud.org

Stewart Alsop concludes the Droid is not ready for prime time. alsop-louie.com

William Vambenepe expands on "twitter with a brain." stage.vambenepe.com

"To make Twitter better for me, I started writing a twitter proxy..." displacedaussie.net

Sunday, November 29, 2009

What Chris said. That Twitter would cut off FF's access to the firehose was inevitable. blog.areyoupayingattention.com

Saw Fantastic Mr. Fox. Very nice Wes Anderson movie. Similar to Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore or Royal Tenenbaums. en.wikipedia.org

Chuck Shotton: Twitter with a Brain. Yes! shotton.com

Yes, @DevHawk --I sure did, and I have one -- newsriver.org

Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News) scripting.com

How to find all my writing. post.ly

4 Police Officers Shot Dead in Wash. nytimes.com

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Senate report: Bin Laden was 'within our grasp.' news.yahoo.com

What if there were a relatively simple and low-power programming language built into a Twitter client. blog.rsscloud.org

Reviewing the RSS generated by BitTorrent sites. unberkeley.com

Micro-blogging vs Mega-blogging. ma.tt

Journos as Ski Patrol. dw.posterous.com

A programmable Twitter client would let you choose avatars for others, like custom ringtones. blog.rsscloud.org

Added a review of RSS produced by torrentzap.com. unberkeley.com

rssCloud Blog - We need: A programmable Twitter client. blog.rsscloud.org

Review of kickasstorrent's RSS feeds. They point the way toward a BT-specific namespace. unberkeley.com

My initial critique of BitTorrent RSS feeds, with comments from the developer of isohunt.com, a leading BT site. unberkeley.com

For breakfast: eggs over easy, toast and hot sausage. Coffee and bottled water. pcmag.com

Is The Daily Planet anti-Semitic? The New York Times takes a look. berkeleyside.com

Sweden woman's 'murder' committed by elk not husband. news.bbc.co.uk

"I can always find my Cuban skies in Rosalinda's Eyes." youtube.com

Doc Searls: WGBH and public radio's future. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Friday, November 27, 2009

I started reviewing the RSS produced by BitTorrent sites, starting with ezrss.it and isohunt.com. unberkeley.com

Rupert has balls (for better or worse). buzzmachine.com

Phil Windley got a new truck. windley.posterous.com

Sometimes I wonder if the Times realizes that Twitter is a commercial site. nytimes.com

When White House gatecrasher Michaele Salahi met Barack Obama. guardian.co.uk

Visiting Bernal Heights and Glen Canyon in San Francisco. travel.nytimes.com

Do you Tweet from Berkeley? unberkeley.com

Dell provides custom Google Chrome OS image for Mini 10V users. liliputing.com

Should Start-Ups Pay to Pitch? boss.blogs.nytimes.com

Barack Obama's foreign policy: The quiet American. economist.com

Why PC Makers Will Make Android King. gigaom.com

Dan Gillmor: Journalism's Slow, Sad Suicide. mediactive.com

Shea Stadium Rules. (Scripting News). scripting.com

PBS and BBC could boost BitTorrent. (Scripting News). scripting.com

IsoHunt Asks Court to Legalize Its Operations. torrentfreak.com

rssCloud Blog: Fake popularity stats for real-time feeds. blog.rsscloud.org

Thursday, November 26, 2009

How to Record a Phone Interview. roninmarketeer.com

Happy Thanksgiving everybody! (Scripting News) scripting.com

This has been a pretty good week for getting things to work together. scripting.com

Does Twitter Need An Ombudsman? twittercism.com

Mininova's blog post explaining the shutdown. mnstat.com

Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes 'Legal.' torrentfreak.com

Shouldn't the architecture of tweets be open to any kind of data that anyone thinks of? scripting.com

Netbooks, e-book readers, and other Black Friday bargains to avoid. slate.com

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Tonight's movie: Porco Rosso! Fantastico. images.google.com

Running the OPML Editor on HP MediaSmart server running Windows Home Server. editor.opml.org

"Instead of beating your breast about how great you are, try saying how great someone else is." scripting.com

SuperNova in SF, December 1-3. supernovahub.com

How (slowly) we add metadata to tweets. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Every good idea people come up with for Twitter involves latching a new piece of metadata to a tweet. scripting.com

Doc sez we're Pompeians, Krakatoans, Montserratans, building cities and tilling farms on the slopes of active volcanoes. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Try flipping this around and see how you feel. Change "men" to women and asshole to bitch. twitter.com

Packing up the BusinessWeek office. This is what I call real blogging. businessweek.com

Houston, the Eagle has landed. (Lifeliner works with Posterous.) images.scripting.com

What's so sacred about 140? (Scripting News) scripting.com

My Long Bet, in 2002, with Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times. longbets.org

A better design for Twitter retweets. bitcurrent.com

Tumblr and Posterous. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Berkeley Homes Find Buyers. bayareahomegirl.com

David Karp reports: "Tumblr just broke into the Top 100!" staff.tumblr.com

The Internet abhors a funnel. (Scripting News) scripting.com

The 140-characters Netscape. yaniv.golan.name

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users. gigaom.com

Who gets their news from Google? rebootnews.com

The Droid battery cover problem. droidie.com

Just got groups working in Tumblr. lifeliner.tumblr.com

HE'BREW The Chosen Beer. shmaltz.com

Hebrew Beer. flickr.com

"It's time to do a prime number of handstands." inessential.com

"We Are All Prisoners," Iranian Blogger Says. thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market. technology.timesonline.co.uk

Claire McCaskill asks if it's tacky to tweet from State dinner? (Probably, but who cares!) twitter.com

This is a test post on Tumblr. (Something new is working, happy.) inberkeley.tumblr.com

NBB's vow to quit, but in the end, don't (or can't). scripting.com

Google Reader Embraces Favicons. My Eyes Scream For Mercy. techcrunch.com

Are you a Natural-born Blogger? scripting.com

New self-portrait with my newest toy (the Droid) but taken with the Mac. twitter.com

Yeah that was the word I was looking for to describe Pontin. :-) twitter.com

Oakland Local covers the latest BART incident. oaklandlocal.com

Meso-blogging: or, posting between the poles of micro- and macro-blogging. theplayethic.com

Natural-born blogger. (Scripting News) scripting.com

"Pity the poor NBB who was born before there were blogs." scripting.com

Sachin Agarwal from Posterous says they'll add the feature that will enable desktop editors. Looking for use-cases. scripting.com

Monday, November 23, 2009

New Apple ads to Verizon: Can Droid do this? news.cnet.com

Posterous and Tumblr are next. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Bloggers, as seen by Hollywood at bavatuesdays. bavatuesdays.com

Police and YouTube: Responding to Arrest Videos. bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

They Died, and Lived to Tell All About It. nytimes.com

Kevin Tofel's "Android Ecosystem" weekly report. jkontherun.com

No escalation in Afghanistan. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Rebooting The News #34 podcast, Google Wave, Julie & Julia, Natural Born Bloggers, Patents, Bay Bridge reporting. rebootnews.com

Need a lawyer? New network gives web publishers a line of defense. niemanlab.org

Wikipedia volunteers dropping like flies? dailyfinance.com

At 95, Marion Rosen's Method is Going Strong. Use hands that "listen, rather than manipulate.." berkeleyside.com

How Hollywood portrays bloggers. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Links for tomorrow's Rebooting The News on FriendFeed. friendfeed.com

Twitter Transforms Chuck Todd and Howard Kurtz into Idiots. gawker.com

Tomorrow at 9AM Pacific -- Rebooting the News, a live podcast with myself and Jay Rosen. blogtalkradio.com

How Hollywood portrays bloggers. (Scripting News) scripting.com

The obligatory Chumby looking at Chumby picture. flickr.com

Unboxing my new Chumby One. flickr.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Utah Ski Report. skireport.com

Fort Hood gunman is "is paralysed from the neck down, incontinent and in severe pain, according to his lawyer." guardian.co.uk

Reporters accepting freebies. (Scripting News) scripting.com

One of my test accounts on Twitter was suspended. I lobbied to get it reinstated, and found out why it had been suspended. scripting.com

Help save a BusinessWeek blog. (Scripting News) scripting.com

news-record.com

images.scripting.com

Can Twitter users link out? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Saturday, November 21, 2009

"..our specialists found that your tweets were primarily links to other sites and not personal updates" flickr.com

Friday, November 20, 2009

Here's a screen shot from Jan 14, 2001 that shows that we had it working (podcasting, that is). :-) scripting.com

January 11, 2001: Payloads for RSS. This is the document where I explain how Adam Curry and I worked out podcasting. thetwowayweb.com

The hottest toy this holiday season is not a ticklish red monster. It� a fake hamster. nytimes.com

EFF Looks To Bust Bogus Podcasting Patent; Needs Prior Art. techdirt.com

"I like the Internet because it means I can ignore big companies and still create meaningful software." scripting.com

Students Continue to Protest California Tuition Increases. nytimes.com

Verizon Droids already dropping in price. 9to5mac.com

Android's rapid growth has some developers worried. cnn.com

Droid with battery cover. flickr.com

The Droid battery cover problem. droidie.wordpress.com

My response to Twitter COO Dick Costolo re the role of RSS. scripting.com

BBC: Mussolini's 'brain and blood for sale on internet' news.bbc.co.uk

Video feed for TechCrunch's realtime conference. ustream.tv

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Sunrise. Sunset. Since the beginning it hasn't changed yet. littlefeat.net

CrunchUp Starts Off With A Bang Tomorrow With Twitter COO Dick Costolo (who's he going to bang?) techcrunch.com

How Dylan Parker uses Dropbox. scripting.com

Radish Spirit. flickr.com

Fall tree. flickr.com

YCombinator's thread on the coolest software of the decade. news.ycombinator.com

Coolest software of the decade? (Scripting News) scripting.com

EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent. eff.org

"What's Happenin?" makes me think of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" youtube.com

Twitter changed the question to "What's happening?" from (What are you doing?) images.scripting.com

The new Retweet is cool! (Scripting News) scripting.com

Journalists as ski instructors. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Is Twitter more open than News Corp? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Twitter urges Murdoch to be open. Gag! news.bbc.co.uk

Rebooting The News #33, with notes by Jay, your comments welcome. rebootnews.com

Gruber says there should be more OSes. Good stuff. daringfireball.net

How Belle de Jour's secret ally Googlewhacked the press. guardian.co.uk

The river after which Green River is named. flickr.com

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Now that Twitter lists can have descriptions, listbrowser.org displays them. listbrowser.org

"Mobius is an invitation-only community of the world's most influential technology pundits." mobiussite.com

Johnny Mercer, legendary jazz and pop lyricist, was born 100 years ago today. en.wikipedia.org

Can't wait to see Fantastic Mr. Fox. google.com

Real Time CrunchUp SF. techcrunch.com

Rebooting personal news. rebootnews.com

Might have been mistake ask people participate in http://rebootnews.com. One guy who wont say who he is giving personal "advice." Uch.

(More or less the) same mountains, from 35K feet. flickr.com

Raspberry Honey Mustard Pretzel Dip. Incredibly delicious! Seriously. robertrothschild.com

What Is My IP Address? whatismyipaddress.com

Webmonkey status report on HTML 5. webmonkey.com

A new idea -- "Rebooting The News" essays. This one makes a connection betw a Jay Rosen thesis and personal reporting. rebootnews.com

The case for the open-source Goliath. news.cnet.com

"Don't matter where in the world you go when it comes to lovin it's all the same." littlefeat.net

Traveling with Droidie. droidie.wordpress.com

San Francisco is one of the least welcoming cities in the United States to chain stores. sfgate.com

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Battle for Tweet Dashboard Supremacy: Brizzly versus Br.st. readwriteweb.com

Chance of Great Depression Now 5%. delong.typepad.com

A rounding-error bug in the Droid camera driver's autofocus routine? droidie.com

The new Chumby is hackable. Fascinating article. bunniestudios.com

I'm getting a new updated Chumby tomorrow. store.chumby.com

Update from Kate at cupkatesbakery.com. unberkeley.com

Maybe it's time for personal servers? (Scripting News) scripting.com

TypePad Takes on Tumblr With Free Microblogging Feature. technologizer.com

AT&T says they upgraded their 3G service in the Bay Area. Pfui. It still totally scuks. att.com

Have a nice war, techies. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Rebooting The News #33 is ready for your MP3 listening pleasure. :-) rebootnews.com

The War For the Web. radar.oreilly.com

Times editor James Harding outlines plans for online charging. guardian.co.uk

Monday, November 16, 2009

The Guardian has a blog for The Wire. guardian.co.uk

Berkeley is trying to shut down the @cupkates truck. facebook.com

Twitter SUL is partisan, and probably constitutes a campaign contribution subject to regulation. Too late to undo. hosted.ap.org

Another beautiful Droid picture. A cupcake store in Harvard Square, Cambridge. flickr.com

@Joseph_Palmer -- here's the MP3 -- sorry for the glitch. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Rebooting the News is live at 9AM Pacific. About 1 minute from now. Just Jay and I this week. blogtalkradio.com

Rebooting the News is live at 9AM Pacific. About 8 minutes from now. Just Jay and I this week. blogtalkradio.com

The tech press doesn't like netbooks. I'm using one now. My 13 inch MacBook Pro is at home. Not enough battery life. blogs.techrepublic.com.com

The Droid took this rich autum college picture. It's capable of some great photography. Imho. flickr.com

Twitter Definitely Ditching "Suggested Users List" readwriteweb.com

Rebooting the News is live at 9AM Pacific. Just Jay and I this week. blogtalkradio.com

Autumn walkway. flickr.com

Sarah Palin is a Source that Goes Direct. facebook.com

Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven 'owes its success to cigarettes.' guardian.co.uk

New York's Smoking Ban Is Extending Into Some Apartments. nytimes.com

Sunday, November 15, 2009

YCombinator: Maybe it's time for personal servers? news.ycombinator.com

IGF 2009 event rattled by UN Security Office. news.idg.no

Netbook vs. iPhone: A better comparison. news.cnet.com

Track Flight Status for (FL) AirTran Airways 300. flightstats.com

Maybe it's time for personal servers? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Free wifi on AirTran. flickr.com

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Union Station Denver. End of train trip. Next stop Atlanta. flickr.com

Wonder if Nikon, Canon and Kodak are watching. droidie.com

Wonder if Nikon, Canon and Kodak are watching? droidie.wordpress.com

Wonder if Nikon, Canon and Kodak are watching. droidie.wordpress.com

This is what Fraser Colorado looks like. flickr.com

Fraser CO L: maps.google.com

One of the most beautiful pics I've taken, with the Droid. flickr.com

Coming up on Granby, Colorado. High in the Rockies. maps.google.com

Matt Terenzio says that Rebooting the News #32 was an odd episode, but totally worth it. I agree with both statements. rebootnews.com

Snow pic taken with Droid. flickr.com

Another "fat snow" pic. Taken from the warmth of the observation car on the train. :-) flickr.com

"The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental Divide in north-central Colorado." en.wikipedia.org

Snowy Colorado River outside Glenwood Springs. flickr.com

Can you see the big mountain behind the fog and snow? flickr.com

Another view of the old depot in Grand Junction. flickr.com

For Sale -- Commercial historic train depot. flickr.com

Leg-stretch stop in Grand Junction. flickr.com

Sheep grazing, near Fruita CO. flickr.com

Next town is Grand Junction, where I was in when I learned Sarah Palin would be the Repub VP nominee. scripting.com

The great empty betw Utah and Colorado. flickr.com

"Handset manufacturers are deathly afraid of Google." crunchgear.com

Storm clouds over desert mountains. flickr.com

The Droid GPS works really well and is very useful on a train trip. flickr.com

Green River is pretty shitty little town. flickr.com

Viewing car on California Zephyr in southern Utah approaching Green River. flickr.com

Spirited Away -- Great animated movie from Japan. As good as any Pixar movie. en.wikipedia.org

Hey twitroid can insert a nap link like this L: maps.google.com

wendover, ut maps.google.com

Friday, November 13, 2009

Winnemucca, NV. maps.google.com

Truckee River heading into Reno. flickr.com

Why the collection is important. unberkeley.wordpress.com

Joe Hewitt: On Middle Men. joehewitt.com

Truckee. flickr.com

Snowy peak near Sierra summit. flickr.com

Roseville, CA. flickr.com

Water on Moon, NASA Scientists Say. nytimes.com

Want to know where I am right now? There's an app for that... (coool!) scripting.com

How we'll get news in the future rebootnews.wordpress.com

Photo: The delta, near Fairfield CA. flickr.com

My workstation. flickr.com

Benicia-Martinez Bridge. flickr.com

California Zephyr on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org

A blog post explains what I'm up to (I'll try to keep it updated). scripting.com

Kevin Tofel says I can do some serious 3G testing on this trip. Yes, I plan to do that. I have Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. twitter.com

Kevin Tofel says I can do some serious 3G testing on this trip. Yes, I plan to do that. I have Sprint, AT&T and Verizon. twitter.com

I've always wanted to take a cross-country train trip, and today I'm doing it!! flickr.com

Wikipedia is running its first banner ad. rexblog.com

Scoble misses that what that makes voice stink on the iPhone makes Internet access stink equally. scobleizer.com

Droid Grabs Chunk of U.S. Mobile Internet Usage at Launch. jkontherun.com

"I do more than eat the dog food, think of it this way -- I am the dog." scripting.com

The Happiness Project: Eleven Myths of De-Cluttering. slate.com

Most important films of the decade by A.O. Scott of the NYT. nytimes.com

Thursday, November 12, 2009

"why don't big news organizations open the floodgates and let the sources talk directly to the [readers]" rebootnews.com

Sales Guy vs. Web Dude. techcrunch.com

If you were taking a trip which would you want to pack? flickr.com

Graph of first week of traffic on Droidie blog. flickr.com

Rebooting the News #32, interview with Jennifer Preston, social media editor for the NY Times. rebootnews.com

Coming from the Palm Pre: First impressions on Droid. droidie.com

Features of next gen writing tools: 1. Linkblogging, curating. 2. Publishing in lots of places, not one. scripting.com

Gotweet is a simple command-line Twitter client in Go programming language. codingrobots.org

On the Droidie blog: We want to keep Bijan! droidie.wordpress.com

This is different -- the NYT is looking for someone to cover an event for them. A person! That's what I'm talking about. fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

google.com

ellerdale.com

When a blog beats a NYT story. mathewingram.com

Two more Droid-taken pics. droidie.wordpress.com

9/23/09: "I want to divorce my iPhone." scripting.com

URL shorteners working with Internet Archive for long-term preservation. 301works.org

Lou Dobbs to Depart CNN, still blase about CNN. Replace Anderson Cooper with Aaron Brown, now we're talkin. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

For me the killer app for the Droid is the phone. I got tethering to work. Fast. Love it. (iPhone sucks as a phone.) droidie.com

Bijan is still evaluating the Droid. Interesting list of pros and cons. bijansabet.com

Two bits of movie dialog. (Scripting News) scripting.com

What my new editing environment looks like unberkeley.wordpress.com

Rackspace: Cloud Servers for Windows Beta coming in Early 2010. rackspacecloud.com

The "Droidie" community has the tethering-now-for-nothing story nailed. Blogging at its best! :-) droidie.com

Ooops NewsRiver display bug on Droid. flickr.com

Developers: A real-time Twitter-like feed to test with: static.lifeliner.org

Protoblogger's format changed. I still like the old theme, DePo Masthead, I'm going to find a way to use it. :-) protoblogger.com

No support on Twitter please. (Scripting News) scripting.com

ABC Cooling + Heating Ownz This Sidewalk. "You stay out you!" flickr.com

Something my father said: "Growing old isn't for sissies." scripting.com

Thanks Matt for listening... (Scripting News) scripting.com

Droidie: Google tutorial videos. droidie.wordpress.com

Can Android tether, today, for $0 extra? droidie.wordpress.com

Evan Williams: Why Retweet works the way it does. evhead.com

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

club140.org

Jay Rosen on Paul Carr. twitter.com

Patrick LaForge is proudly experiencing a Fleeting Moment of Fame. Congrats! :-) palafo.posterous.com

"Posterous joins WordPress, Blogger and TypePad among the popular publishing platforms to offer real-time feeds." readwriteweb.com

"Arrington is on a ladder with Pete Cashmore and Om Malik, not me." unberkeley.com

Positioning re: Yammer, Twitter, Dropbox, Droid, Kindle, in terms of ladders, creneaux and Clauswitz. :-) unberkeley.com

Droidie tip: Watch out for the Ringer Volume adjuster. droidie.com

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind is available on Kindle. amazon.com

The word I was searching for earlier is "Cr�neau" not crenache. books.google.com

A new idea in 2007, still not implemented: Social Cameras! (Scripting News) scripting.com

DC sniper case: John Allen Muhammad to be put to death tonight. guardian.co.uk

"great journalists are great at making, and keeping, knowledgeable friends" voices.washingtonpost.com

Twitter for Content. unberkeley.com

Apple rejects MAD artist's iPhone caricature app. news.cnet.com

Ahhh Paul Carr is doing a new version of Andrew Keen. The British do the curmudgeon fear-monger so well. :-) wnyc.org

Finally got around to writing the About page on the Droidie blog. droidie.com

You have to install an SDK to do ann Android screen cap. Oy! :-( droidie.com

Question: How to do an Android screen cap? droidie.com

Motorola Probably Sold 100,000 Droids. bloomberg.com

Wanted: Grateful Dead Archivist. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

Interesting idea: Use RSS and rssCloud to boot up an open Dropbox-like service. vrypan.net

Google's gift: Free wireless Internet in 47 airports. money.cnn.com

Monday, November 09, 2009

If @SarahPalinUSA was on Twitter's suggested users list she'd have a million followers like these guys. listbrowser.org

@daynah -- Hello Daynah. Welcome home. youtube.com

@sull -- if you want to write something for http://droidies.com/ just say the word. droidies.com

ABC Cooling + Heating Ownz This Sidewalk. flickr.com

listbrowser.org: davewiner's "droid-users" list. listbrowser.org

An example of the detail you can get with the Droid camera. Megapixels aren't everything, but they aren't nothing. flickr.com

Of course the best part of Alice Cooper concerts was when he was decapitated. youtube.com

When I see "I Love the Droid" I keep hearing "I Love the Dead" by Alice Cooper, which is a wonderful song. google.com

"In some respects, Skype already is the world� largest social network..." gigaom.com

@EthanZ -- they should leverage what we've done with http://rsscloud.org/walkthrough.html -- been preparing for this. rsscloud.org

A superfast RSS subscribe. (Scripting News). scripting.com

Researchers Explore Growing Ocean Garbage Patches. nytimes.com

Apple Rejects a Caricature App. tomrichmond.com

Me, Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble on our way into San Quentin, to do time for offending the public. :-) flickr.com

Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, a Developer of the Soviet H-Bomb, Dies. nytimes.com

jkOnTheRun: Android Ecosystem. jkontherun.com

Random Droidie tip: Don't forget the icons! droidie.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

jkOnTheRun: "Motorola Droid -- Ongoing Impressions." jkontherun.com

Amazon Web Services Blog: The AWS Blog: The First Five Years. aws.typepad.com

China Executes 9 for Role in Ethnic Riots. nytimes.com

NerdTV interview I did in 2005. @dai_vernon says the last 7 minutes are esp relevant to Droid. pbs.org

Droidie: Press Up to Play? Huh?? Wazzat!? droidie.com

A superfast RSS subscribe. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Possible topics for today's Rebooting The News, which begins in about an hour, starring Jennifer Preston, NYT. friendfeed.com

Times of London: "The 100 Best Films of the Decade." entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Why the iPhone is a better "communicating camera" than the Droid. droidie.com

There's a new HBO/David Simon series shooting now in New Orleans. nola.com

Article in German about my famous inventor/actor relative, Hedy Lamarr. tagesanzeiger.ch

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Illustration: Careful how you hold it! flickr.com

Droidie: The holy grail in communicating cameras. droidie.com

Mondegreen II: Why I PREFER Virtual Keyboards. mondegreen2.blogspot.com

Droid Camera vs. iPhone. flickr.com

Tomorrow's Rebooting The News features Jennifer Preston, social media editor of the NY Times. 9AM Pacific live. blogtalkradio.com

Coolest thing my father did. (Scripting News) scripting.com

What's the coolest thing your father did for you when you were growing up? reddit.com

Paul Carr's piece is rubbish (and disgusting). scripting.com

Internet Archive's S3-like server API. Yes, they really did it. Claims to be a free clone of S3. Dated 8/09. Amazing. archive.org

Scoble: The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone. scobleizer.com

Michael Gartenberg: 5 Things Missing from Droid. (Welcome to the Droidie blog Michael!) droidie.com

TC is a real news org, so much so that it sniffs at amateurs pretending to report news. They're totally in the club. fxshaw.wordpress.com

Josh Turmel: "Android syncs all of your Google contacts by default, let's fix that." droidie.com

A social namespace. (Scripting News) scripting.com

James Gandolfini punches photographer. huffingtonpost.com

archive.org's S3-alike service? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Chris Brogan's review of Droid. chrisbrogan.com

ListBrowser gets a new tool. (Scripting News) scripting.com

BBC: How a blunder finished off the Wall. news.bbc.co.uk

Net-net: I love the Droid. droidie.com

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House. nytimes.com

Scoble on the Droid. droidie.com

@lizasperling google.com

Net-net: I love the Droid. My stake-in-the-ground post and the inaugural post on a new blog. droidie.com

If you're a "droidie" leave a comment with your Twitter username and I'll add you to the list. listbrowser.org

Will @scobleizer soon be on my "Droid Users" list?? :-) twitter.com

listbrowser.org: davewiner's "twitter-execs" list. listbrowser.org

Don Quixote: the Right Role Model for the Wrong Economy. squidoo.com

Doc sent the Comcast sales guy on his way. A story with a happy ending. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010. (Obviously this leak means to blunt impact of Droid rollout.) appleinsider.com

FlickrFan merges with River2. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Friday, November 06, 2009

March 2007: "All the news that's fit to twit." scripting.com

2nd podcast of the day, compares Apple's strategy with Google's. Competition is good! :-) scripting.com

EMI to offer instant concert recordings. #reboot news.cnet.com

My review of the Peek email device. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Jeff Jarvis proposes the "Gadget of the Month Club." He's right. I paid $65 to find out Peek wasn't good enough. Ripoff. buzzmachine.com

Peek was worth a peek, but the texting feature doesn't work. The device is simple, but opting-out is not. Beware. scripting.com

NYC subway system on Google Maps. google-latlong.blogspot.com

After lunch at China Village on Solano, next project is to see how movies work on Droid. flickr.com

I'm listening to music I copied onto my Droid using the Finder. Here's the narrative of how I did it. scripting.com

First impressions of the DROID. Be sure to read the comments and if you have 7 minutes listen to the podcast. scripting.com

Photo: Droid with battery removed. I don't see the SD. flickr.com

Quick podcast review of the Droid, recorded on the Droid. A little baseball philosophy thrown in at no charge. scripting.com

Motorola's spec page for the Droid. I can't find the 16GB SD card. Must be looking right at it. r2.ly

I got a DROID. (Scripting News) r2.ly

Picture taken with Droid. flickr.com

Photo: iPhone and DROID side-by-side. flickr.com

Droid tethering will cost $30 extra, but MiFi from Sprint costs $60 and doesn't work most places. jkontherun.com

Twitter needs a command-line interface. scripting.com

Mike Arrington's love letter to the DROID. @bijan has one too. My local Verizon store opens at 7AM. techcrunch.com

I agree, Twitter needs a command-line interface. scripting.com

According to the Chronicle, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has "gone missing." sfgate.com

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Ft Hood is purty darn close to Waco. maps.google.com

Here are some screen shots of the new Retweet feature. marketingshindig.com

Apparently Twitter has given a small number of users access to the new Retweet. Anyone have it? Demo? blog.twitter.com

New list: nytimes/fort hood shootings. twitter.com

"The TwitterPeek essentially presents a stream of Tweets as if they were the subject lines of emails." engadget.com

Urban Dictionary: teabagger. Hmmm. urbandictionary.com

The Realtime Agenda For The Realtime CrunchUp. techcrunch.com

Sometimes I have to hold my nose while adding someone to my "Innovators" list. :-) listbrowser.org

Jay Rosen's 10 Key Ideas for the Rebooted News System. (Gee this looks like a book outline.) jayrosen.tumblr.com

New http://listbrowser.org/ feature -- click on the list name to jump to the list in Twitter. Screen shot: ==> listbrowser.org

WordPress and rssCloud. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Eating breakfast this morning at a Denny's. Nice change from fancy Berkeley fare. A working class breakfast! :-) maps.google.com

Show notes for this week's Rebooting The News with @codybrown. rebootnews.com

"Instead of changing the world, relax, and let the world change you." scripting.com

Major update to WordPress rssCloud support.These features could enable realtime updates for Google Reader users. en.blog.wordpress.com

YouTube - Justice Denied: Voices from Guantanamo. youtube.com

Buying Twitter followers? businessweek.com

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Gawker gawks: "This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers." (He's on the SUL. That and 50 cents...) gawker.com

Using Marijuana Stores to Market Food. nytimes.com

Interesting how Yahoo uses Twitter. twitter.com

My list of Twitter-using Yankees fans. listbrowser.org

Here is the arrogance of Yankees fans, absolutely perfect demo. twitter.com

The Failure Dude offers his sincere respect to the Yankees. listbrowser.org

NYT editor: "The BreakingNews list is my replacement for Google News." listbrowser.org

The Failure Dude Speaks. listbrowser.org

Reviews: The Men Who Stare at Goats. google.com

YouTube - Twitter Bird Costume. youtube.com

listbrowser.org: LOUISGRAY's "toptechbloggers" list. listbrowser.org

I want to see: The Men Who Stare at Goats. Opening Friday at a theater near you. en.wikipedia.org

Added @palafo and @scobleizer to my list of innovators for the work they're doing on lists. listbrowser.org

listbrowser.org: billhelm's "msp-people" list listbrowser.org

In a comment Patrick LaForge explains his "linkers" list. This is the first time people have been able to explain lists. listbrowser.org

"I've always had a problem with entrepreneurs who say they want to Change The World." scripting.com

A little pre-World Series philosophy... scripting.com

CrunchPad Dead? businessinsider.com

@craignewmark -- this list --> scripting.com

All lists on listbrowser.org now have @disqus comments at the bottom. Including @palafo's "linkers" list --> listbrowser.org

19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now - Dave Winer. inc.com

Suppose you want to suggest a new member of my "innovators" list. Add a comment below the list. (New feature!) listbrowser.org

Protoblogger, my new linkblog, continues to be used and useful. :-) protoblogger.com

What Information Was, a talk by David Weinberger at Berkman Center, next Tuesday. cyber.law.harvard.edu

Twitter has the Fail Whale -- listbrowser.org has the Failure Dude. listbrowser.org

Salt Lake City Linux Users Group is meeting on Nov 11, with a presentation on rssCloud. Cooool! :-) sexysexypenguins.com

The SUL is a cultural statement and should be reviewed as if it were a movie or restaurant, functionally and esthetically. scripting.com

Finding Joe Friend's comments about the #e2conf pretty interesting. twitter.com

If Windows locks up in VMWare and you need to cycle the power, here's how you do it. (It's not at all obvious.) davidmakogon.com

Twitter's SUL as a list. (Scripting News) scripting.com

listbrowser.org: twitter's "team" list. listbrowser.org

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

listbrowser.org: nytimes's lists. listbrowser.org

OPML for @timoreilly's "mindcasters" list. static.listbrowser.org

OPML for Twitter lists. Bing! scripting.com

OPML for @calindrome's "spaceship-co-pilots" list. :-) static.listbrowser.org

OPML rendering of Patrick LaForge's "linkers" list. (Yes Virginia, you can have OPML for any list.) static.listbrowser.org

What if I want a DROID right now? unberkeley.com

I have a plan for the next set of features for listbrowser.org

Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck. theonion.com

listbrowser.org: @usatoday's "usa-today-journalists" list. listbrowser.org

Dots are "distributed objects of thought." dotspots.com

listbrowser.org: @acarvin's "beltway" list. listbrowser.org

Really, Peek? We Need a Dedicated Twitter Device? gigaom.com

"You know the times you impress me most are the times when you don't try." jonimitchell.com

listbrowser.org: @mathewi's "globestaff" list. listbrowser.org

8/9/09: Narrate Your Work. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Legacy Locker: Do websites guarantee your data protection? blog.legacylocker.com

Watching a Berkman live webcast about public media. cyber.law.harvard.edu

"Obama Wore Chinos." laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com

Introducing listbrowser.org. (Scripting News) scripting.com

listbrowser.org: TweetDeck's "team" list. listbrowser.org

GuyKawasaki's "suggested-user-list" list. listbrowser.org

The First Mobile Device Dedicated Exclusively To Twitter. blogs.wsj.com

Monday, November 02, 2009

Seesmic Desktop: First Major Twitter Client With Lists. blog.louisgray.com

My "yankees-fans" list. Boooooooo! listbrowser.org

Patrick LaForge is an editor at the NY Times. This is his "Breaking News" list. listbrowser.org

Is next year "Two Thousand Ten" or "Twenty Ten?" (Before you answer, how do you say 1910?) nytimes.com

This is my idea of a soulful tweet (NSFW). twitter.com

My "curators" list as viewed through listbrowser.org. (Sorry for the Unixy failwhales.) listbrowser.org

I wanted a better way to explore Twitter's lists. This is what I came up with. listbrowser.org

Open those stubborn plastic packages with ease!� myopenx.com

How to Open Rigid Plastic Clamshell Packages Safely: 6 steps (with video). wikihow.com

Why do they ship electronics in plastic that you can't open with your fingers? flickr.com

BART continues longer trains for evening commute because of soaring morning ridership. bart.gov

From @calindrome: How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook (An Only-On-Twitter Story). wired.com

The MP3 of this week's Rebooting The News is available for download from the new site. rebootnews.com

New Netvibes will be a Real-Time Feed Reader. (Marshall says it will be the "biggest" but how does he know). readwriteweb.com

"A new type of news company at the intersection of journalism, massive real time collaboration, and mobile technology." kommons.com

Our guest is @codybrown on Rebooting the News at 9AM Pacific. You can (as always) listen live. blogtalkradio.com

511.org reports that the #baybridge is "expected to re-open by 9AM." 511.org

CBS5 has a webcam on the eastern side of the #baybridge, showing no traffic going onto the bridge at this time. baybridgeblog.com

ABC News says Caltrans is holding a press conference shortly. Sounds like the #baybridge is re-opening. twitter.com

What's the root list of Twitter? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Rebooting the News moves. (Scripting News) scripting.com

How Google got left behind. (Scripting News) scripting.com

#baybridge likely to open Monday AM. baybridgeblog.com

Sunday, November 01, 2009

My "entourage" list rendered as OPML. scripting.com

A quick pitch in baseball is a pitch to home plate before the batter has had a chance to fully ready himself. en.wikipedia.org

I ordered a Peek on Friday -- this guy loves his. peeklove.com

Sunday evening roundup: No #baybridge tomorrow morning. baybridgeblog.com

Columnist Quits After Newsday Starts Charging for Its Web Site. nytimes.com

FeedDemon no longer owned by NewsGator. downloadsquad.com

RssCloud Atom Extension. masonlee.org

In San Jose, Resisting Arrest Is Often the Only Reason For an Arrest. bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

"They're labratory mice, their genes have been spliced!" youtube.com

Stephen Fry today resumed tweeting after threatening to quit Twitter when a fan accused him of being boring. guardian.co.uk

I started a list called "curators" for people I know who are systematically creating Twitter lists that are excellent twitter.com

Saturday, October 31, 2009

My father had a favorite LL Bean jacket that my mother "disliked." leonwiner.com

"..thousands of followers, mostly other social media experts and spam Twitter accounts" bivingsreport.com

YouTube search: What else does the box say? youtube.com

An engineer looks at the #baybridge failure. baybridgeblog.com

OMG my mother is becoming a Republican! :-) evespeeves.wordpress.com

Green Acres Theme Song. televisiontunes.com

@kim -- Don't you like the fresh air and the chores? televisiontunes.com

Something for my dears @kim and @adventuregirl to think about. ;-) nytimes.com

Spider web. flickr.com

Twitter Lists To RSS -- glad to see people getting data out of Twitter and onto the web. twiterlist2rss.appspot.com

"Thanks to Jeff Pulver for a fantastic conference earlier this week!" scripting.com

Draft of List API documentation. groups.google.com

Bay Bridge may be closed through weekend. baybridgeblog.com

Like me, @kirste loves Pentel Sign pens. amazon.com

"Pilots and flight attendants brawled in front of passengers on a plane flying to India from the United Arab Emirates.." nytimes.com

Police Pursue Car Jacking Suspect Across Closed Bay Bridge. foxreno.com

Friday, October 30, 2009

Karen Unland just "chug-a-lugged" three Rebooting the News episodes. Wonder what that's like! :-) twitter.com

"Ambulances, firetrucks, CHP officers ensued." twitter.com

"Protection under the shield law would also be extended to unpaid bloggers engaged in gathering and disseminating news." nytimes.com

Contra Costa Times: "Bay Bridge to be closed through weekend." contracostatimes.com

Watching The Botany of Desire. pbs.org

@alizasherman -- kayak.com

I just ordered a Peek Pronto Mobile Messaging Device. $49, amazon.com

Content drives adoption. (Scripting News) scripting.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

BART to provide overnight service. baybridgeblog.com

Mashable Is On A Tear - Continues To Widen Its Lead Over TechCrunch And Others. siliconvalleywatcher.com

Lists and OPML. (Scripting News) scripting.com

BART customers break ridership record again. baybridgeblog.com

Oil Spill in Bay, West of the Oakland Airport. bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

"ooc is a modern, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level, sexy programming language." ooc-lang.org

Introducing the Bay Bridge Blog. (For the morning squad.) baybridgeblog.com

Club140 tracks "perfect" Twitter posts, ones that are exactly 140 characters long. :-) club140.org

Caltrans: Goal to re-open Bay Bridge late Friday. (Just reported.) baybridgeblog.com

Obvious next steps for Twitter lists (Scripting News). scripting.com

June 2002: The Googlish way to do Directories. scripting.com

Krugman says health reform is going to pass and pundits and pols have to decide where they stand, now. nytimes.com

In World Series, Umpires Find Themselves Back in Center of Dispute. nytimes.com

Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Bay Bridge will not open in time for the Friday morning commute. #baybridge baybridgeblog.com

CNET has a River of News page, and they call it a river. Very gratifying. :-) news.cnet.com

Introducing the Bay Bridge Blog. baybridgeblog.com

Bay Bridge Eye-Bar: A Victim of Harmonic Motion? bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

Cori's Bay Area list. twitter.com

Obvious next steps for Twitter lists. (Scripting News) scripting.com

Deleted my Twitter Babes list. Too controversial. Started a new one, gender-neutral, similar purpose. :-) twitter.com

Michael Arrington Halloween Costume. techcrunch.posterous.com

I'm on 288 lists. Interesting to watch... twitter.com

Twitter is No Threat at All to Facebook, Traffic Analyst Says. readwriteweb.com

Hands-on with Twitter Lists. news.cnet.com

A new OS feature worth upgrading for. (Scripting News) scripting.com

New version of WordPress rssCloud plug-in adds support for the domain parameter in notification requests. josephscott.org

Caltrans Eyes Thurs. PM Bridge Reopening. cbs5.com

My Berkeley list has 167 members. Reply to this if you're here and want to be on it. twitter.com

Politico's Creators Plan Local News Web Site for Washington. nytimes.com

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wind blamed in Bay Bridge break; 'new design' employed for fix. mercurynews.com

According to TechCrunch, Netvibes will support the rssCloud protocol in its new stream service. techcrunch.com

Twitter feeds stray puppies (Scripting News). scripting.com

@abc7newsBayArea has updates on the Bay Bridge outage. twitter.com

Much of Boston Is Willing to Bleed Phillies Blue and Red. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

Imagine the Bay Bridge's Eastern Span as a Park. bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

Live video from Facebook's Developer Garage. Big changes coming? venturebeat.com

I want my Turbo Pascal! (Scripting News) scripting.com

Yahoo's Bartz: We 'somehow got boring.' Probably won't get interesting until you figure out the "somehow" part. :-) news.cnet.com

Scott Rosenberg speaks Nov 4 at the UC J-School. journalism.berkeley.edu

What went wrong on the Bay Bridge yesterday afternoon? bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com

The full at bat of Mookie Wilson in the 10th inning of game 6 of the 1986 world series. youtube.com

Why Hollywood needs to hear more about Twitter. news.cnet.com

IBM docs for using the Metaweblog API with WordPress. ibm.com

Ed Cone's Father's Day essay. I got a great card from Ed when I ran my Father's Day piece. edcone.typepad.com

Lucinda Williams music has a bit of Sheryl Crow and a bit of Bonnie Raitt and is all-around great stuff. en.wikipedia.org

This is where you go to apply for a Nieman Fellowship. Sounds like a deal. Wonder what they would do if I applied? :-) nieman.harvard.edu

How to rank real-time search (Scripting News). scripting.com

Gusty winds delay Bay Bridge repair. marketwatch.com

Twitter feeds stray puppies (Scripting News). scripting.com

Rebooting the News #30 with guest Jeff Jarvis. This cast really clicked. rebootnews.com

How the bridge news flowed. wordyard.com

"We can index real-time info now -- but how do we rank it?" readwriteweb.com

MacBook Pros Have Hard Drive Problems? jkontherun.com

A Silicon Valley Conference About Failing is Big Success. wired.com

How GeoCities invented the modern Internet. slate.com

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Cyrus Farivar is posting Bay Bridge updates on Twitter. Recommended. twitter.com

Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own. arstechnica.com

Caltrans officials said they could not estimate when the bridge would reopen. sfgate.com

Bay Bridge Info on Twitter. twitter.com

Push to Legalize Marijuana Gains Ground in California. nytimes.com

BART scrambling to meet demand as Bay Bridge closes. sfexaminer.com

Cupcakes. flickr.com

YouTube video of my talk this morning at #140conf. youtube.com

Protoblogger is an experiment in linkblogging. protoblogger.com

Twitter investor: 'We didn't need the money.' news.cnet.com

Primatech Paper Company. primatechpaper.com

She may be on the SUL and have 1.3 million followers, but @adventuregirl gives great hugs. :-) twitter.com

Abbreviated version of my speakers notes. flickr.com

My talk is over. Here were my notes, of course I didn't talk about any of it. :-) flickr.com

If you're looking for the speakers lounge at the #140conf it's all the way downstairs with the Devries signs all over. flickr.com

Designer's lawsuit against Courtney Love for libel on Twitter continues. contracostatimes.com

Photo of the Hollywood Hills from my hotel room. flickr.com

My new link blog, protoblogger, is holding up. It must be easier to use it than not. So far so good. :-) protoblogger.com

U.S. Home Prices Continue to Stabilize. nytimes.com

Monday, October 26, 2009

Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service. cloudave.com

Do you Tweet from Berkeley? unberkeley.com

Paul Graham thinks Twitter is a new protocol. readwriteweb.com

Printliminator Quickly, Easily Makes Any Page Printer Friendly. lifehacker.com

"Long before there's a bridge, someone has to make the trip in a bucket hanging from a cable." scripting.com

Thanks to @factoryjoe for the pointer to: Readability. Easy CSS hack for anyone. lab.arc90.com

Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy. BBC4 radio full series. mininova.org

Random travel notes (Scripting News). scripting.com

Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted "Social Circle." searchengineland.com

Is Berkeley the blogging capital of the world? unberkeley.com

Who or what will be the BitTorrent of Realtime? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Pretty sure all the "Twitter stars" CNN is hyping got their million-plus followers by being on the SUL. cnn.com

AppleInsider | Apple to spend $4 million on Chicago subway station renovations. appleinsider.com

I love the design of the blog, it's a standard wordpress theme, created by Derek Powazek. protoblogger.com

The experiment continues. My links now live on a blog, I share them with Twitter. I use an outliner to compose them. protoblogger.wordpress.com

Suddenly, What Ails Them is What Medical Marijuana is Good For. thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

NYT piece says baseball needs a memorable Series. They think the Yankees are just what's needed. Oy. nytimes.com

Schedule for tomorrow's 140 Character Conference. lax.140conf.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

abe vigoda status. abevigoda.com

Do you Tweet from Berkeley? unberkeley.com

Altidore Fined for Tweeting. goal.blogs.nytimes.com

"Web addresses using non-Latin characters" -- yow. I bet a lot of (my) software breaks. :-( news.bbc.co.uk

Twitter Snags Platform Manager Josh Elman From Facebook. blog.louisgray.com

This guy is seriously in love with Cinch. webtopmania.blogspot.com

FriendFeed notes page for the upcoming Rebooting The News. (8:30AM Pacific) friendfeed.com

As an experiment, I'm flowing my Twitter links through a WordPress site. protoblogger.wordpress.com

Sunday, October 25, 2009

This is when I unfollowed him. twitter.com

"Mets fans may hate the Yankees more than the Phillies fans ever will." No doubt. nytimes.com

Why do Cubs fans throw homerun balls back to the field? answers.yahoo.com

Sorry to see @anildash is on the list too. Sad to see us ripped apart like this. For what? twitter.com

Huey Lewis sued the guys who wrote the theme for Ghostbusters cause it sounded like "I want a new drug." It really does! en.wikipedia.org

A little Suggested User List honesty from someone on it. A rare thing, imho. twitter.com

@kimklaver -- thanks but you were already on my list! :-) berkeley.100twt.com

Someday Twitter or something like it will incorporate live-blogging like this NYT feed of tonight's ALCS game.. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

Do you Tweet from Berkeley? unberkeley.com

Rebooting The News #30 tomorrow at 8:30AM Pacific with special guest Jeff Jarvis. blogtalkradio.com

Who or what will be the BitTorrent of Realtime? (Scripting News) scripting.com

PC World review of Facebook home page "river of news" makeover. pcworld.com

Saw the new Coen Brothers film last night -- loved it. movies.nytimes.com

The curious pricing of the 27 inch iMac. marco.org

Rossi celebrates the World Championship. flickr.com

In one way, losing a father is a relief (Scripting News). scripting.com

Good API design at Twitter (Scripting News). scripting.com

Is Berkeley the blogging capital of the world? unberkeley.com

Looking for people who tweet from Berkeley ---> unberkeley.com

What are the people of Berkeley saying on Twitter? Now with twice as many Berkeleyites! berkeley.100twt.com

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Most RSS readers remind the user, all the time, how wrong he or she is. Or inadequate or lazy or behind in their work. scripting.com

The new CNN blog has a realtime rssCloud-enabled feed. rss.cnn.com

Twitter Finally Removing Deleted Tweets From Search Results. techcrunch.com

I just don't feel like working today. youtube.com

What the heck is going on in this picture?? (Angie everywhere!) flickrfan.files.wordpress.com

"Anything good about the new Facebook news feed, I'll credit Dave. Anything bad, I'll blame others." rexblog.com

Testing BuddyPress (Scripting News). scripting.com

Our all-you-can-eat lifestlye (Scripting News). scripting.com

Another conf I wish I knew about in advance. Been looking for an excuse to go to Vancouver. freshmedia.me

First thoughts on our San Quentin field trip. scripting.com

Just booked my travel to @jeffpulver's conference on Tues in LA. lax.140conf.com

#tacd == Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialog. tacd.org

Friday, October 23, 2009

I have the number one hit on Google for "twitter lists." Wonder if I should do something with that. google.com

Just got back from a day at San Quentin prison. It's a completely different world. Hard to explain. I will try, later. flickr.com

This is where San Quentin is. A 15 minute drive from Berkeley. maps.google.com

I'm going to San Quentin -- I'm one of the "other bloggers" going with Guy and Scoble. :-) mediabistro.com

My mom is blogging again, couldn't be more pleased! :-) evespeeves.wordpress.com

Look at all the coooool people going to Jeff's conf next week in LA. lax.140conf.com

Sounds like AOL hired a CEO with a vision of the wave that's washing over the news business. news.cnet.com

Doc Searls points out, correctly, that there was a lot of work done in realtime before it became a fad. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Doc Searls points out, correctly, that there was a lot of work done in realtime before it became a fad. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Soupy Sales, Slapstick Comedian, Dies at 83. nytimes.com

One of my favorite commercials, for Coors Light of all things. youtube.com

Apple's ad shot right to the top of my Top 40 list. dave.40twits.com

Apple's excellent Windows 7 ad. You'll probably laugh. :-) movies.apple.com

Once again Philosophy Rules!! archive.scripting.com

I've started a list of Yankees fans. These are people who we will virtually glare at with disapproval in the coming days. twitter.com

Twitter says they're now offering the lists feature to 5 percent of users. status.twitter.com

That's why I think the podcast I do with Jay Rosen is so important. rebootnews.com

What are the people of Berkeley saying on Twitter? berkeley.100twt.com

"We still have to create a safe harbor for the millions who want to participate in news" scripting.com

django-rsscloud 0.1. pypi.python.org

"Does Twitter have reciprocal rights to any realtime content generated by users of Google's TwitterLand?" scripting.com

Twitter Founder (Almost) Got What He Asked For. bayareahomegirl.com

Is Google/Microsoft/Twitter in the news business? scripting.com

Twitter got Google to do what the AP et al haven't been able to: pay for content. Our content of course, and the NYT's. vint.sogeti.nl

Jeff Pulver wonders how many students would come to #140conf if they had access. twitter.com

What the heck is brown sauce? friendfeed.com

I'm going on a tour of San Quentin tomorrow, with Guy Kawasaki, Ponzi and Scoble and other bloggers. cdcr.ca.gov

Why does Joe Trippi scarf so much of this TechCruch story. Is he really a tech pundit? Isn't he a political consultant? joetrippi.com

"Accumulated stuff takes a terrible toll." scripting.com

"Flickr, which was way ahead of everyone else in the social network thing..." scripting.com

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Dad with a huge cup of coffee and pie, after a long day of hiking with Mom in the Swiss Alps. leonwiner.com

A limerick about doing deals with Bill Gates: "There once was a lady from Niger who smiled as she rode on a tiger..." scripting.com

Twitter must beware of the infamous Embrace & Extend. scripting.com

Syivia Paull heard a NYT editor speak at UC-Berkeley about how the Internet is changing the way he does news. whoisylvia.typepad.com

"Most of the time most of us are not in position to do anything about the mess in our lives." scripting.com

SlingPlayer for iPhone is $30!!? flickr.com

"Suggested Users List is looking dumber than ever." twitter.com

Flickr in hindsight (Scripting News). scripting.com

Live Analysis, N.L.C.S. Game 5: Dodgers at Phillies. bats.blogs.nytimes.com

Flickr! It's made of people! blog.flickr.net

"I am the invisible man of Twitter." ebooktest.wordpress.com

HowTo: Using TopTwits to track your Twitter linkage. docs.40twits.com

Bruce Sterling at Reboot (Scripting News). scripting.com

Looks like Twitter did a deal with Google too. googleblog.blogspot.com

Rebooting the News #29 podcast is ready for download. rebootnews.com

rssNimbus is an implementation of a rssCloud server using Google App Engine. shotton.com

Search Bing/Twitter for "davewiner." bing.com

All of a sudden there's a reason to go to Bing instead of Google (that was the point, of course). bing.com

Microsoft bought "access to the full (public) data feed" from Twitter. techcrunch.com

The League of Women Voters of Maplewood and South Orange is hosting a training class on how to be a government observer. maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com

What if your Twitter client stayed up when Twitter is down? scripting.com

Multiple Bids: Remember Those? They're Back. bayareahomegirl.com

"Our society is changing from consumers to creators." seedmagazine.com

Microsoft will announce separate deals with both Facebook and Twitter. kara.allthingsd.com

Berkeley is the "home of bearded dissidents." berkeleyside.com

Lots of Fail Whales these days. flickr.com

Tweets with a resource fork? scripting.com

BBC: The Podfather. mininova.org

Umpiring Stumbles to the Fore. nytimes.com

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

This is what UNBERKELEY is for. unberkeley.com

Hmmm. I didn't know. kosso.co.uk

Duncan Riley has a point when he says: "For the love of God Paul Buchheit, be a man and put FriendFeed out of its misery." inquisitr.com

One Reporter's Lonely Beat, Witnessing Executions. nytimes.com

Sabathia signed a seven-year, $161 million contract with the New York Yankees. en.wikipedia.org

"it is idiotic to hassle the top power users." scripting.disqus.com

Infield Fly Rule. en.wikipedia.org

Exactly right. All the "care" in the world doesn't change the fact that Comcast hates its customers, aggressively. techcrunch.com

Innovating outside the 140 (Scripting News). scripting.com

I can write just as confusing a mess of prose as Steve can. techcrunchit.com

Apple bores me too. Can't remember the last thing I bought from them. thenextweb.com

Random Tuesday notes (Scripting News). scripting.com

"The picture you take on your iPhone today may be of the next Roosevelt or Lincoln." mediaite.com

Livio NPR Internet Radio -- half a very interesting idea. What if each station were an NPR show. inquisitr.com

James Holderness reports problems with rssCloud in the field. We can do better. xn--8ws00zhy3a.com

Monday, October 19, 2009

The entrance to the lobby of the hotel where the Summit will be held. The BART station is about 1/2 block away . maps.google.com

Thinkin I might do some LobbyCon time at the Web 2.0 Summit in the next few days. web2summit.com

Hey there's more BSG coming this month. Yaha! en.wikipedia.org

For Fish in Coral Reefs, It's Useful to Be Smart. nytimes.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

AP video report on home base stealing. youtube.com

YouTube video of Jackie Robinson stealing home. youtube.com

Apple's Profits Rise 47 Percent on Strong Mac Sales. nytimes.com

Wired: How Users Took Over Twitter. wired.com

Storm brewing on BART. flickr.com

Dave McClure doing what he does best. flickr.com

Picture of my netbook. flickr.com

Badges of today's no-shows. flickr.com

My current favorite cloud-enabled RSS feed. static.newsriver.org

The room has thinned out a bit. flickr.com

Jeff Veen and Doug Bowman talk about user experience on Twitter. flickr.com

The GigaOm meetup is webcast live. gigaom.com

The crowd at Om's meetup. flickr.com

Does anal-retentive have a hyphen. flickr.com

Classic picture of Bret Taylor at Om's meetup. flickr.com

Where is the Apache of rssCloud? rsscloud.org

"There are lots of people documenting their pets' lives." blogs.wsj.com

How I learned to stop worrying and love the Fail Whale. scripting.com

Sunday, October 18, 2009

@superjaberwocky newsriver.org

Obama will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws. nytimes.com

@elasticthreads -- If RWW et al would do their job you'd know what's out there. newsriver.org

Every time I look at this picture it gets better! :-) i.friendfeed.com

Got a cloud-aware feed reader? Here's the NYT most recent headlines as a realtime feed. It works! :-) static.newsriver.org

Lest you think being on the Suggested Users List doesn't fool some people re who's important and who's an "also-ran." recoveringjournalist.typepad.com

This guy works at Yahoo. friendfeed.com

New thread: Where is the Apache of rssCloud? rsscloud.org

Want to know why I love Stowe Boyd? This is why: --> twitter.com

Tomorrow's meetup at GigaOM should be pretty interesting. gigaom.com

I love Louisiana words like "Atchafalaya." twitter.com

My uncle's car was a Nash Healy. flickr.com

"How I learned to stop worrying and love the Fail Whale." scripting.com

I totally want to see the new Coen Brothers movie. google.com

Now that the US govt has its own URL shortener, maybe it's time for Twitter to eliminate the need for them? informationweek.com

Twitter Lists; Limitations, bugs, impact, and brilliance. scobleizer.posterous.com

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Thanks to @labnol who found scripting.com on Technorati. Still no idea who's pointing to me or what my rank is. twitter.com

TechPresident thinks Technorati is authoritative. Ridiculous. techpresident.com

Technorati still hasn't heard of scripting.com. Can you believe anyone takes them seriously? technorati.com

Jay Rosen: "The vapid and entirely un-revealing @davidgregory has 1,317,519 followers on Twitter" friendfeed.com

True, FriendFeed is turning into a ghost town. Nothing has taken its place. techcrunch.com

Sheriff Says Charges Will Be Filed in Balloon Saga. nytimes.com

http://droiddoes.com/ -- great anti-iPhone ad. phones.verizonwireless.com

Dave Winer: "The Small Picture." smays.com

UNBERKELEY. unberkeley.com

Influence: the New Currency of the Web. labs.topsy.com

A Newspaperman's Prayer. blog.grumet.net

The Internet abhors a funnel (Scripting News). scripting.com

My Berkeley list is following 161 people and organizations, all in Berkeley and all on Twitter. twitter.com

For those Twitter users who have lists enabled, I've started a list for people who are at the Play conference. twitter.com

Changes in the rssCloud walkthrough makes it possible for large-scale aggregators like Google Reader to use it. scripting.com

The "Play" conference at UC-Berkeley starts shortly. Just heard about it now. We need better networks. playconference.org

Friday, October 16, 2009

Looks like the Web 2.0 summit is going to be a LobbyCon this year. web2summit.com

I'm being followed by 68 lists. Is that a lot or a little? Don't know. images.scripting.com

Today's changes in the rssCloud walkthrough makes it possible for large-scale aggregators like Google Reader to use it. scripting.com

GigaOM Special Event: What Comes Next for the Web? gigaom.com

I just posted an update to the rss-cloud mail list. tech.groups.yahoo.com

Rebooting the reboot of rssCloud (Scripting News). scripting.com

Seeing past Twitter's limits (Scripting News). scripting.com

My hippie uncle and aunt on their farm near St Augustine in 1979 or so. flickr.com

Twitter adds lists: is it mining users for reputation? guardian.co.uk

Quick review of Twitter's new list feature. scripting.com

"No toilet, no bride," has become a rallying cry for women raising a stink about the lack of a basic amenity. cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Eric Woodward asks about the Lists API on the Twitter development mail list. They say there is one, but I haven't seen it. groups.google.com

Balloon Boy Confesses To Hoax. mag.ma

Twitter, TV, and Content Filters. ianrosenwach.com

Twitter's lists (Scripting News). scripting.com

Dad had a thing for cats. This is a great pic taken in 1979 at a ski lodge. leonwiner.com

Scoble's suggested user list. Interesting. I can see *cough* @arrington *cough* people I've been blocked by. :-) twitter.com

Quick review of Twitter's new lists feature. scripting.com

I started a list of Berkeley people. twitter.com

Twitter Begins Lists Rollout. techcrunch.com

"executive-level goulash." readwriteweb.com

The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit live webcam could be placed some place that's umm more interesting :-) readwriteweb.com

Amazon.com Introduces Same-Day Delivery. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

My family is looking for an American university to adopt Uncle Arno's book collection. scripting.com

Watching a really interesting session at the RWW summit. justin.tv

Watching Marshall give the keynote at his Realtime conference on Justin.tv. justin.tv

Why you should share your childhood pictures with your friends as soon as you can. scripting.com

"People come back to places that send them away." scripting.com

Bruce Sterling's talk at Reboot about what to do when your life is turned upside down. video.reboot.dk

Still nothing in Technorati about Scripting News. Unlike some people who never use it, I still check it every day. technorati.com

Asus is the Southwest Airlines of portable computers. scripting.com

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

407 East Johnson, Madison WI. flickr.com

Mojito at Vanessa's. flickr.com

Once again, future-safe archives (Scripting News). scripting.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Netbooks are for surfing while watching TV or bringing to a friend's house to show family pictures. gigaom.com

Madison computer guy at Unix terminal circa 1978. leonwiner.scripting.com

In the new scheme Technorati rates my blog a 0 on a scale of 1 to 1000. Gulp. technorati.com

Paolo is getting his rssCloud act together. friendfeed.com

Friends see things you don't (Scripting News). scripting.com

An open letter to Om (Scripting News). scripting.com

What's obvious about netbooks (Scripting News). scripting.com

The Value Proposition of Netbooks is Getting Overlooked. jkontherun.com

Nice picture of my mother and grandmother in New Orleans in 1976. I'm the guy in the corny 1970's jacket. leonwiner.scripting.com

The next set of pictures from my father's computer. These were from 1976-78 and include pics of my college graduation. leonwiner.com

Fugitive caught after updating his status on Facebook. guardian.co.uk

How good was Heath Ledger? guardian.co.uk

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Michael Dell hates netbooks. Why? He probably loses money on every one he sells. gigaom.com

"How I learned to stop worrying and loved the fail whale." twitter.com

Thinking about the title of my talk at the 140 Character Conference. It's got to be something controversial. lax.140conf.com

Mark Cuban: Why the NFL Can't Let Rush Limbaugh Be a Team Owner. blogmaverick.com

Next batch of photos from my Dad's computer, 1972-74. leonwiner.com

Me at 17. flickr.com

"Cameron Todd Willingham was almost certainly wrongly executed for arson and murder." obsidianwings.blogs.com

Google Voice Prepares To Go Viral, Gmail Style. techcrunch.com

Jon Stewart takes CNN apart. thedailyshow.com

What I've learned about Hyperlocal (Scripting News). scripting.com

TechCrunch is back on the SUL (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter's unlawful Newsom contribution. iloveyougavinnewsom.com

We're having the first gully washer of the year in Berkeley. wordwebonline.com

Monday, October 12, 2009

Duncan Riley says Wave is "email with some neat collaboration tools added." inquisitr.com

A winter storm is blowing in. forecast.weather.gov

From Twitter to MySpace, social networks are now run by women over 35. technology.timesonline.co.uk

Rebooting The News #28. rebootnews.com

I bet Google buys Dropbox. getdropbox.com

Why do all the analysts mistakenly think netbooks are just cheap notebooks? (Likely answer: They don't use them.) gigaom.com

Today is Marshall's birthday and what does he want? OPML files. He is one weird doood. :-) marshallk.com

My topic list for today's RTN. friendfeed.com

At 9AM an all-new live Dave-and-Jay edition of Rebooting The News. blogtalkradio.com

Google has become a virus. code.google.com

Who Needs Big Banks? baselinescenario.com

Sunday, October 11, 2009

"the hole in your heart will not close." scripting.com

Future-safing our online work is more of a financial problem than a technical one. We pool our money to create longevity. scripting.com

Iceland may be the perfect place to locate a server farm. news.bbc.co.uk

A Twitter Engineer's Epic Diss of 'Disgusting' San Francisco. valleywag.gawker.com

Frank Rich focuses on McCain's idiocy. Feh. I want to know why the Nobel laureate is escalating in Afghanistan. nytimes.com

"Brash on the blog, he's quite affable and engaging in person." npr.org

Saturday, October 10, 2009

T-Mobile: we probably lost all your Sidekick data. One of the few times when the word "fail" is totally appropriate. Whew. engadget.com

Once again, future-safe archives (Scripting News). scripting.com

Craigslist ad seeks suicidal astronaut. news.cnet.com

Once again, future-safe archives (Scripting News). scripting.com

Ronen suggests we treat Google's SideWiki as malware and develop circumventions. iamronen.com

jmanecke has been helping locate the pics I took from the plane yesterday. A topic for Monday's podcast for sure. flickr.com

Berkeley High teens: too close for comfort? inberkeley.com

Obama Not First Surprising Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Seven Controversial Recipients. blog.newsweek.com

What The Associated Press is saying to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. niemanlab.org

TechCrunch is back on the SUL as the graph shows so clearly. FTC take note. twittercounter.com

Friday, October 09, 2009

Let the blogging begin! (Scripting News). scripting.com

@berzerkeley -- bet you've been missing this (I have) -- http://berkeley.100twt.com/ -- it's working again. berkeley.100twt.com

Mountains west of Pueblo CO. flickr.com

Small lake in eastern Colorado. flickr.com

West of Wichita Falls, TX. flickr.com

RNC slams Obama award. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

A river in NY or NJ? flickr.com

rssNimbus, a rssCloud server for Google App Engine, is on the air. shotton.com

I've gotten so many great messages from people who lost parents. I begin to discuss what I'm learning in this blog post. scripting.com

Brooklyn in the foreground, Manhattan in the distance. flickr.com

Belt Parkway, inlet, baseball fields. flickr.com

The "WiFi At Conferences" Problem. joelonsoftware.com

Marshall is getting some good interop with OPML. Makes me happy. :-) marshallk.com

I'm at JFK waiting for American #15. flightstats.com

Cuba bloggers test government limits. news.bbc.co.uk

Thursday, October 08, 2009

Just read that Micki became a "super user" on FourSquare. So do they have a SUL or do users rise by using the system? twitter.com

IPhone Tethering Still Unavailable, AT&T Says. blogs.wsj.com

Autumn leaves. flickr.com

Selling Your Tweets to the Enemy. gawker.com

Chuck Shotton is releasing an rssCloud Server on Google App Engine. tech.groups.yahoo.com

United Airlines launches Wi-Fi on some flights. chicagotribune.com

There's a chance that Flickr is going to do realtime RSS at their hack day tomorrow in NYC. Matt Terenzio is going too. scripting.com

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Capsule review: "FIOS is freakishly fast." flickr.com

We're gettin FIOS! flickr.com

Monday, October 05, 2009

Another URL shortener, cli.gs, is shutting down. blog.cli.gs

MP3 of Jay's solo live Rebooting The News podcast in SF. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Nik at TC says "Twitter Should Decentralize (And Make Money) Via Twitter Server." Good idea, but doesn't go far enough. techcrunch.com

Jorge won the Portugal MotoGP and now the invincible lead held by Rossi is within reach for Lorenzo. telegraph.co.uk

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Is it possible that Ahmadinejad is a member of the tribe? Welcome my brother! :-) telegraph.co.uk

We're just north of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Headed straight for a rendezvous with Chicago. flightstats.com

I did a podcast with my parents on my 50th birthday, four years ago at a diner in Queens. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

"If you think fifty is nifty let me tell you that at seventy-five it's great to be alive." archive.scripting.com

Can you see all the windmills? flickr.com

Live from Virgin America #24 (Scripting News). scripting.com

Somewhere over Nevada. flickr.com

Twitter gave Joe Trippi a huge boost in his political career by putting his ass on the SUL. twitter.com

My web site is my space (Scripting News). scripting.com

Friday, October 02, 2009

@andrewbaron -- it can be highly variable. look at this series of photos I uploaded yesterday. flickr.com

The ‘Twitter Feed, Netflix Faves' Mating Game. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics. news.cnet.com

Thinking about having your head frozen after you die? Maybe you should think again... hosted.ap.org

Jay Rosen's account of Evan Williams' comments about the SUL and Scoble and myself. friendfeed.com

ONA09 has a cloud-enabled feed. twitter.rsscloud.org

Advice on recording tomorrow's podcast? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter experimenting with a labs of its own. news.cnet.com

Why Flickr should do realtime RSS (Scripting News). scripting.com

Grant gives Grateful Dead archive new life online - Santa Cruz Sentinel. santacruzsentinel.com

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Flickr now lets anyone be a gallery curator. rexblog.com

CBS Employee Arrested in Letterman Case. cbsnews.com

M.I.T. Lets Student Bloggers Post Without Censoring. nytimes.com

Why Flickr should do Realtime RSS (Scripting News). scripting.com

The full set of "JFK ==> SFO" pics. flickr.com

I really love the colors in this picture of my plane landing at SFO earlier today. flickr.com

Scoble: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype. scobleizer.com

@n8k99 -- don't know what happened, but if you look at the feed it looks quite normal. scripting.com

Aqueducts. flickr.com

Foothill city (Grass Valley?) flickr.com

Mono Lake. flickr.com

Nevada desert is a void of life. flickr.com

Yahoo! Open Hack Day NYC. Let's get Flickr on the rssCloud bus! :-) guest.cvent.com

I think this is the best picture so far today. flickr.com

Snowy mountaintops poke through Wyoming clouds. flickr.com

How Google Wave could transform journalism. latimesblogs.latimes.com

Kickass Wyoming vista. With real clouds, the puffy white kind. :-) flickr.com

Clouds hugging Wyoming mountaintops. flickr.com

Snow-covered mountains in the middle of Wyoming. flickr.com

Just guessing this is what @photomatt thinks of the new Typepad announcements. :-) twitter.com

Stowe Boyd is switching from SF to NY. Honestly part of me would like to do that too. But finding a place in NY is hard. stoweboyd.com

Reboot the News at ONA09 (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wisconsin town on an Interstate. flickr.com

Sounds like Typepad is getting some new APIs. sixapart.com

Western shore of Lake Michigan (Wisconsin). flickr.com

Eastern shore of Lake Michigan. flickr.com

Michigan? flickr.com

Pretty sure this is Canada and that's a Great Lake in the background. flickr.com

A town in Connecticut. (New Haven? Norwalk?) flickr.com

Jones Beach? flickr.com

Rockaway from the air, after takeoff from JFK. flickr.com

Start of my cross-country trip today at JFK in NYC. flickr.com

Heh. "crash a service for the Church of the Savvy & attempt to reboot the pews" twitter.com

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Twitter feature: Lists. blog.twitter.com

Co-existing with platform vendors (Scripting News). scripting.com

oneforty should have an RSS feed. oneforty.com

LA Times suggests you "Calm down!" as it twists and spins "facts" into true-sounding lies. latimesblogs.latimes.com

InBerkeley: What's up with the helicopters? inberkeley.com

Speakers – UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit. journalism.berkeley.edu

Doc Searls: Whose Side(wiki) Are You On? blogs.law.harvard.edu

Jeremy Felt is having problems with Google's hub. educer.org

Ricoh wants to organize your life in the cloud. news.cnet.com

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Google to Android Developers -- It's Not All Open Source. jkontherun.com

Why no Twitter clients with an API? (Scripting News). scripting.com

An open reboot on Saturday (Scripting News). scripting.com

We'd like to do an open live Rebooting The News podcast on Saturday in SF across from the ONA meeting. Details here --> scripting.com

I've outlined next steps for the two proposed changes to the rssCloud walkthrough. rsscloud.org

Why no Twitter clients with an API? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, September 28, 2009

Happy "5th" Anniversary, Podcasting (well, not actually). rexblog.com

A cloud-enabled podcast feed (Scripting News). scripting.com

Why real-time RSS is a big deal for big payloads, too. thehack.webmasher.com

How Would You Spend Twitter's $100 million? howardlindzon.com

TechCrunch is cloud-enabled! (Scripting News). scripting.com

Where we're at with rssCloud (Scripting News). scripting.com

Sunday, September 27, 2009

William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79. nytimes.com

Dare Obasanjo thinks Twitter's Suggested User List is "brilliant." 25hoursaday.com

Logan Airport has power jacks under the seats in Terminal C at least. Picture --> flickr.com

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Blue Ribbon BBQ - Arlington Center - Arlington, MA. yelp.com

Is Obama a robot or what? spiegelman.tumblr.com

TechCrunch is cloud-enabled! (Scripting News). scripting.com

Friday, September 25, 2009

100 technology experts on Twitter. blogs.techrepublic.com.com

Twitter gets new round of funding, new backers. But when was the last time they shipped a sexy feature? feeds.reuters.com

Where we're at with rssCloud (Scripting News). scripting.com

RSS Grandcentral is an rssCloud implementation running on Google AppEngine. rssgrandcentral.appspot.com

VodPod announces rssCloud support. geekblog.vodpod.com

Charles Arthur doubts the SUL is a tool that's used to control news. scripting.com

Tomorrow is Nicco Mele Day in Boston town. flickr.com

Excuse me sir, but isn't your asshole exposed? gardym.com

My "divorce iPhone" piece has some *excellent* comments. scripting.com

The presidential photo booth. davosnewbies.com

Thursday, September 24, 2009

UC Berkeley J-School, KQED and a rich guy join to fill the news void in the Bay Area. nytimes.com

New headphones which I love. Wearing them now listening to Radio Lab show on relaxation. amazon.com

UC walkout in pictures. inberkeley.com

Mike's brother? flickr.com

I posted a comment on Phil Windley's defense of Google's SideWiki. windley.com

Lance Knobel in Reuters on the Realtime Web & Google. blogs.reuters.com

The pic I took on yesterday's flight was in Ouray County, Colorado, near Telluride. flickr.com

Another thing about Sidewiki -- your competitors are going to love your site. techcrunch.com

Facebook wastes no time putting FriendFeed to work. news.cnet.com

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Yup. These are all good reasons to look forward to Retweet 2.0. Esp the part about not getting mengeled. tremendousnews.com

I listened to "The Ring and I" -- a Radio Lab podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Great story. feeds.wnyc.org

If you were waiting for Ellen... inberkeley.com

DNS problem solved. Sometime in the next few hours http://r2.ly/ should work for you. r2.ly

Kennedy Confidant Is Expected to Take Senate Seat. nytimes.com

A question for DNS gurus out there in InternetLand (Scripting News). scripting.com

GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People. firedoglake.com

'Tweeting' medics expose patients. news.bbc.co.uk

Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One. This is a great idea. Can I buy some stock? techcrunch.com

Clouds over Colorado. flickr.com

OrganIP hopes to make phone numbers a thing of the past. venturebeat.com

Oil Industry Is on a Roll With New Discoveries. nytimes.com

"Long before there's a bridge, someone has to make the trip in a bucket hanging from a cable." scripting.com

Another reason to despise Google's ThirdVoice clone: It's a trojan horse for Google ads on sites they don't own. paidcontent.org

I want to divorce my iPhone (Scripting News). scripting.com

Gadhafi slams Security Council. rss.cnn.com

ThirdVoice comes back, from Google. Guess we'll find out if the hellish nightmare cesspool materializes. (Bet it does.) paidcontent.org

The state of rivers. guardian.co.uk

Bootstraps can't happen without passionate, thoughtful, visionary users. scripting.com

40 most recent links from the River2 community. I already see a missing feature. It can be used for feed discovery. newsriver.org

Sharing links in the River2 community (Scripting News). scripting.com

Colonel Gaddafi's tent falls foul of US building code. news.bbc.co.uk

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Bored? Goby helps you find things to do. news.cnet.com

"What's Yahoo's equivalent of the iPhone?" techcrunch.com

The SUL as a tool to control news? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter Begins Emphasizing SMS Again. feedproxy.google.com

Courier: First details of Microsoft's secret tablet. news.cnet.com

Nice reviews of both my podcasts. Thanks! keithfeighery.com

Report: Tent set up in New York suburb for Gadhafi. I'd like to meet with him about why r2.ly isn't approved yet. cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com

David Pogue: "I Am Not A Reporter!" nytpick.com

What is the real-time web? scripting.com

The SUL as a tool to control news? (Scripting News). scripting.com

What became of Radio's POST button? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Update Twitter & Facebook Fan Pages Automatically via RSS. socialmediarockstar.com

Stuff to do at the Berkeley Public Library. inberkeley.com

Digsby claims it has the Twitter client for 'the mainstream'. news.cnet.com

Why aren't there major tech companies in Berkeley? inberkeley.com

Why many jobs are not coming back. annarbor.com

YouTube - The Best of The Soup Nazi. youtube.com

This is one of the places River2 users' shared links will go: twitter.com

U.S. Home Prices Rose 0.3 Percent In July. npr.org

Intel debuts concept notebook with four displays. (Sorry for all these links, I'm testing a new app.) news.cnet.com

Is This the Killer App for the Real-Time Web? feedproxy.google.com

How to Use Tumblr, Posterous & Other Light Blogging Services. feedproxy.google.com

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." thinkexist.com

I hate to give away secrets like this but what the heck --> libyanspider.com

Do people pay attention to follower counts? They do. It's the primary measure of authority on Twitter. scripting.com

Entourage: The Most Annoying Show on TV. Amen. trueslant.com

The SUL as a tool to control news? (Scripting News). scripting.com

What became of Radio's POST button? (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, September 21, 2009

What became of Radio's POST button? scripting.com

Meet the 2009 Fellows. macfound.org

MacArthur Foundation awards 24 'Genius Grants'. hosted.ap.org

What became of Radio's POST button? (Scripting News). scripting.com

AT&T Calls F.C.C. Neutrality Plan a 'Bait and Switch'. bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Fed judge says grizzlies still threatened. hosted.ap.org

She wants you to go speed dating with her in Denver. Just passing it along as a public service. :-) twitter.com

What would you like to see on InBerkeley? inberkeley.com

@ChrisBugbee -- docs.40twits.com

Rafe says there were protestors at the DEMO conference, protesting one of the speakers. Yow. twitter.com

Rebooting the News #26. rebootnews.com

I told Jay today that I didn't think anyone would use http://docs.40twits.com/, but I was wrong! How about that. docs.40twits.com

I'm one of the characters at Jeff Pulver's 140 Character conf in LA at the Kodak Theater. 3300 seats. Oy! amiando.com

Live now -- it's Rebooting the News with Jay and Dave. blogtalkradio.com

Jay's notes for the podcast which goes live in about 15 minutes. friendfeed.com

Lots of juicy Bush quotes on Huffpost. huffingtonpost.com

Coming up at 9AM it's Rebooting the News live with Jay and Dave. blogtalkradio.com

HowTo: Using TopTwits to track your Twitter linkage. docs.40twits.com

The test worked. I think it's time to offer this tool to brave users. Back in a few moments with a pointer. scripting.com

This is a test of the new "TopTwits" app. dns.rsscloud.org

YWFFTMMR (Scripting News). scripting.com

Sunday, September 20, 2009

45,000 people die each year--approximately one person every 12 minutes--due to lack of health insurance. theepochtimes.com

Hooking the lizard brain up to the cerebral cortex (Scripting News). (Warning: Very deeply techy, but very interesting.) scripting.com

A realtime photo feed for the Emmies. static.newsriver.org

Women -- do you go for men? Or guys? (Apparently there's a diff.) nytimes.com

rsscloud.cloudapp - tracking rsscloud-enabled feeds in real-time. cooooooooool. rsscloud.cloudapp.net

Carville, Matalin share rare tender moment. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

@hamishcampbell -- it must be cloud-enabled. rsscloud.org

JY found me an archive.org feed that I can easily make cloud-aware. It's amazing the flow. And very nicely done! archive.org

Later today, Murphy-willing, I will release the source for the app that maintains http://dave.40twits.com/. Want to do a bit more testing. dave.40twits.com

Common-sense piece on what it's like to be the host of a conference. techcrunch.com

DNS for RSS feeds (Scripting News). "It's not rocket science." scripting.com

HowTo: How to make your feed cloud-aware. rsscloud.org

Curmudgeon 2.0: We're All Larry King and Andy Rooney Now. devonbiere.com

Another rssCloud enabled Feed and Server. draftmedia.net

A few minutes ago a new Scoble was born! Both the baby and the mom are doing well. friendfeed.com

Saturday, September 19, 2009

In this comment I am doing my Mike Arrington imitation. I think I came pretty close. :-) scripting.com

Wow. I want more readers like Austin Burbridge! :-) scripting.com

An OPML reading list of real-time photo feeds. Lots of new stuff working here. :-) newsriver.org

John Edwards is still out there. Living and breathing. nytimes.com

Sequoia Hospital is in Redwood City, CA. maps.google.com

Howard Weaver debugs Paul Graham's snark re news on paper. editor.blogspot.com

If yer in Berkeley the CupkatesTruck is a fun follow. twitter.com

ReverseHttp -- quite interesting. Try the HTTP server written in Javascript running in your browser. reversehttp.net

DNS progress, another wish for a miracle (Scripting News). scripting.com

"I need a miracle every day." A great fucking song written by my friend John Perry Barlow! arts.ucsc.edu

Wise words from Fred Wilson on entrepreneurs accepting what the market says to you. avc.com

Marshall: "I may be a scruffy, untrained blogger..." readwriteweb.com

Friday, September 18, 2009

This is what retweets will look like soon. I like it! :-) a1.twimg.com

Jolie O'Dell profiles LazyFeed on RWW. readwriteweb.com

Interesting narrative of LazyFeed's integration of rssCloud and Pubsubhubbub. blog.lazyfeed.com

"Only steal from the best." essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

Article, RSS gets a real-time injection. hi-techscotland.com

I'm reading the current PSHB spec, and they say they don't deal with RSS. But they promote it as being agnostic. Huh? pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com

An rssCloud case study: Brizzly & Seesmic (Scripting News). scripting.com

The RSS channel-level image (Scripting News). scripting.com

Test tweet posted by Dave. flickr.com

Radio Lab (Scripting News). scripting.com

Google, open communities, patents (Scripting News). scripting.com

Stumbled on this *great* NPR radio show podcast. wnyc.org

Here's Jeremy Felt's aggregator. mystatuscloud.com

Is Your OPML Cloud Enabled? Let's Find Out! (Yikes!!) educer.org

I've written lots of blog posts about River2 (@jesse). google.com

Does this look like a major web aggregator to you?? (It sure does to me.) images.scripting.com

Maybe it was NewsML. I get my AFP stream in NewsML and wrote code that converts it to RSS 2.0 with enclosures. en.wikipedia.org

Lenn Pryor says (according to Scoble) that this is the best sushi place in the US. yelp.com

Driving through the temporary part of the Bay Bridge: flickr.com

Evening light: flickr.com

He has a million followers (Scripting News). scripting.com

"Host Scott Simon has nearly 1 million followers on Twitter." Congrats! npr.org

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Bad Hair Day #12 --Listen live in 5. It's something to do if there's nothing on TV. ---> blogtalkradio.com

Bad Hair Day #12 -- listen live in 40 minutes! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll wonder why! ---> blogtalkradio.com

IRC for Bad Hair. scripting.com

RT @marshallk Special BadHairDay Show tonight at 7pm PST: Five Tangible Benefits of the Real-Time Web. http://badhair.us in 1 hour!

Weird that 11 hours later, there's nothing on TechMeme about Google's reading list patent. scripting.com

RSS has no Fail Whale. scripting.com

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized. radar.oreilly.com

Install Snow Leopard on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required. lifehacker.com

Peruvian students with their laptops. flickrfan.files.wordpress.com

Tom Morris would like to see a Davos session with "social media douchebags" vs "tech bloggers." twitter.com

Jimmy Carter should get a blog. I'd subscribe to it. Maybe we can get him as a guest on Rebooting The News. twitter.com

Per @tommorris's suggestion, I'm now adding an XHTML from my OPML reading lists to the HTML rendering. howto.opml.org

Google gets a patent on reading lists (Scripting News). scripting.com

I need a Domain Name Server with a REST interface (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

In March 2004, Slate already had OPML reading lists, as noted on scripting.com. scripting.com

Here's a bit on scripting.com about reading lists from June 2005. Taegan Goddard had hit on the same idea. archive.scripting.com

A TechCrunch piece from 2005 on reading lists. techcrunch.com

Looks like Google asked for and got a patent on reading lists. So much for not being evil. They didn't invent it, FYI. patft.uspto.gov

Tweets from users you follow may be missing from your timeline. status.twitter.com

"Only steal from the best." essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

River2 in EC2. It's coooool. :-) scripting.com

I need a Domain Name Server with a REST interface (Scripting News). scripting.com

Do you have a cloud-enabled feed? (Scripting News) scripting.com

The 50 best things to eat in the world -- Berkeley has one. inberkeley.com

Why is Scoble so freaked?? flickr.com

With science journalism in retreat, universities try new strategy for informing the public. mercurynews.com

What's wrong with this picture? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Michael Gartenberg reviews the new Zune HD. gartenblog.net

Daylife and Getty Images Launch SmartGalleries. (I'm an investor in Daylife.) blog.daylife.com

"My friend's cousin said there were 4 million people there.." mediamatters.org

bit.ly, a simple url shortener, doesn't like the tr.im blog post about going open source. bit.ly

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Video: Tom Cruise in The Color of Money. Classic scene. youtube.com

"The open source process for tr.im has begun." blog.tr.im

Brad, let's get together (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wasn't that long ago this guy was Leader Of The Free World. mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com

Screen saver in Snow Leopard (Scripting News). scripting.com

Berkeley blogger launches new project. inberkeley.com

What does a link mean? (Written in the early days of Scripting News, when it was primarily a link blog.) essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

@steverubel --

Are Creative People Overly Sensitive? trula.org

Monday, September 14, 2009

At midnight my Kindle will get the new Dan Brown book. amazon.com

Thanks to @dangillmor for being our guest on Rebooting the News #25, recorded earlier today. One of our best, imho. rebootnews.com

I think http://theswop.com/ is actually pretty clever. theswop.com

Real-time publishing from a scholarly point of view. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized. radar.oreilly.com

Monday morning stuffff (Scripting News). scripting.com

Rebooting the News #25 with guest Dan Gillmor. rebootnews.com

TypePad supports Pubsubhubbub. everything.typepad.com

TechCrunch50 live stream. ustream.tv

President Obama controls '60 Minutes' interview. weblogs.baltimoresun.com

Reading the O'Reilly piece about decentralized Twitters reminded me that Tim used to be a big proponent of P2P networks. radar.oreilly.com

Dan Gillmor: Eleven Things I'd Do If I Ran a News Organization. mediactive.com

Our guest for this week's show is pioneering pro news blogger -- Dan Gillmor. 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

Rebooting The News goes live at 9AM Pacific. Don't touch that dial! :-) blogtalkradio.com

2003: Prior art as a design method. essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

O'Reilly: RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized. radar.oreilly.com

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Kanye West Interrupts Obama's Speech. youtube.com

Organizers pull plug on edgy Berkeley parade. "Berkeley's become really kind of an uptight place." sfgate.com

Heh. Arrington says don't blow people off. LOL. techcrunch.com

"Proposed change to the 'Requesting notification using REST' section of the rssCloud walkthrough document." rsscloud.org

The roadmap and philosophy of rssCloud. rsscloud.org

Zee is spelled Zed Eee Eee (Scripting News). scripting.com

Mini review of "True Romance." Great movie. Lots of funny cameos. Esp liked the part where the babe offs Tony Soprano. google.com

Hands-On: iPod Nano vs. Flip SD. newteevee.com

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Amazing beautiful photo of lightning in SF. flickr.com

NYT report from 9/12/01 on the role the web played the day before. nytimes.com

"There's no such thing as a product that doesn't suck." scripting.com

Just watched the Beatle movie "Let It Be" for the first time. Eye-opener. en.wikipedia.org

Tristan Louis says, correctly, that we *did* have social networks on 9/11/01. gigaom.com

Movie: Driving through the temporary part of the Bay Bridge. flickr.com

Just figured something out. Twitter is a network of Andy Rooneys. video.google.com

Golden Gate Bridge in the fog. flickr.com

PKD walkers. flickr.com

Remembering 9/11 -- A Time Before Social Networks. gigaom.com

What would Twitter be like with integrated comments? Facebook Lite offers a clue. --> images.scripting.com

Twitter, meet rssCloud. draftmedia.net

Many of my fellow Berkeleyites are awake and happy/impressed with the first rain in many months. berkeley.100twt.com

Friday, September 11, 2009

I'm walking for PKD tomorrow. I could use a couple of sponsors! :-) pkdcure.org

Dogs don't know it's not bacon! youtube.com

Elgan: Why you'll love Facebook Lite. computerworld.com

Scripting News Archive: September 2001. scripting.com

What Would 9-11 Be Like in the Age of Social Media? blogs.laweekly.com

Tornado (Scripting News). scripting.com

RSS has the potential to be the worlds biggest micro-content social network. ianrosenwach.com

Run a Free BitTorrent Tracker on Google. torrentfreak.com

Thursday, September 10, 2009

40 most recent links from @davewiner dave.40twits.com

Tornado (Scripting News) scripting.com

Bad Hair Day #11 ready for MP3 download. badhair.us

Bad Hair Day starts in 2 minutes. Doug Kaye and Joseph Scott talk rssCloud with IRC. scripting.com

Something new for this Bad Hair Day: IRC. scripting.com

Joseph Scott of Automattic who did the rssCloud plugin for Wordpress will be on Bad Hair Day at 7PM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

Twitter updating terms of use (Scripting News). scripting.com

Facebook Lite Goes Live to Capitalize on International Growth -- and Simplicity. insidefacebook.com

It's Thursday so that means it's Bad Hair Day! Live at 7PM Pacific with guest Doug Kaye, podcast pioneer. blogtalkradio.com

http://lite.facebook.com/ -- Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. lite.facebook.com

CNN has the first real news feed that's cloud-enabled. #1. Congrats and thanks! rss.cnn.com

Joe Wilson's Opponent Brings In Big Money After Outburst. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

River2 fixes/features for 9/10/09. newsriver.org

1151 cloud-enabled feeds. Good for testing rssCloud aggregators. scripting.com

The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server. They're opensourcing it. Nice! bret.appspot.com

Thanks to Fred Wilson for speaking his mind on his blog, that's what blogs are for, imho. avc.com

In Lawmaker's Outburst, a Rare Breach of Protocol. nytimes.com

Apple Fans Give Twitter Indigestion. gigaom.com

How long-lived are shortened URLs? twitter.com

Why wasn't Tim O'Reilly's 2-day Twitter lockout covered by more of the tech press. techcrunch.com

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Iconic clock tower under construction. flickr.com

South Hall. flickr.com

Phil Jones on how things connect (Scripting News). scripting.com

TechCrunch has the story about how the O'Reilly account was suspended. techcrunch.com

Webmonkey on rssCloud. Toward they end they get to the important stuff, how this relates to Twitter clients. webmonkey.com

Ravi Pinjala's Python implementation of rssCloud. rsscloud.org

Explaining Dave Winer. Yup they got my number. pwpwp.blogspot.com

Four hours to the rssCloud meetup in Berserkeley. scripting.com

dave.status.net

The right people read InBerkeley. davosnewbies.com

Chris Saad's LifeStream: "Like Twitter but I own it." Heh. :-) live.areyoupayingattention.com

I asked my old friend Chuck Shotton to take a look at integrating rssCloud and Pubsubhubbub. Here's his post. ==> shotton.com

I started a River2-announce list for River2 users. It's just for announcements, not discussion. tech.groups.yahoo.com

Contraception cheapest way to combat climate change. telegraph.co.uk

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

If you ever thought I was a hypocrite, you'll love the way this piece begins. scripting.com

jkOnTheRun, a great gadget blog, is cloud-enabled. feeds.feedburner.com

My code is a blog (Scripting News). scripting.com

@susiewee -- I am! :-) BTW, I never answered your question. What I'd install first is River2. No doubt. newsriver.org

"The tech world is cyclic. First it's wonderful, then it gets f*cked, then it gets wonderful again" scripting.com

Tweetdeck Keeps Trying to Move Beyond Twitter. We need them in rssCloudLand. gigaom.com

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Is anyone running BuddyPress with the P2 theme? en.blog.wordpress.com

Drew Kime: Teenagers vs. The Internet: Teens Win. drewkime.blogspot.com

Oh man I just had the best Indian food ever. maps.google.com

NPR: The Beatles Remastered, Not Just For Audiophiles. npr.org

2002 != 2009. scripting.com

1923 Berkeley fire films. inberkeley.com

Happy baby is happy! (Scripting News) scripting.com

The Next Web compares rssCloud and Pubsubhubbub. thenextweb.com

SheGeeks: Installing WordPress RSSCloud Plugin. shegeeks.net

Interesting piece on the future of RSS by William Mougayar. eqentia.com

Rebooting the News #24, available for your listening pleasure. rebootnews.com

Krautosphere. :-) gigaom.com

rssCloud meetup at UC Berkeley, tomorrow night. 7PM. scripting.com

What does rssCloud mean to you? (Scripting News) scripting.com

Non-techies who want to understand rssCloud, if you have the time, listen to the RTN podcast in 55 minutes. blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

@charlesarthur -- http://rsscloud.org/ -- and there's a place to post comments. It needs a rewrite now that it's going mainstream. rsscloud.org

Jeremy Felt found two cloud-enabled CNN feeds. A news org with realtime feeds, perfecto. :-) scripting.com

Here's the Bay Bridge cam. With cars on it! How did they know? :-) baybridgeinfo.org

Just got this tweet from the Bay Bridge: "The Bay Bridge is now open!" Amazing. twitter.com

Someone give Om an award (Scripting News). scripting.com

Finally someone said it. You can't tell how realtime Twitter is. You don't know how long ago I typed this. industry.bnet.com

9AM Pacific ==> Listen live to the Rebooting The News podcast with @jayrosen_nyu and myself. blogtalkradio.com

A site dedicated to Bad Hair. http://c.oy.ly/ji6g Thanks! dontjudgemyhair.com

Monday, September 07, 2009

A Jay Rosen modern media puzzler. A real brain-twister! :-) friendfeed.com

"With updates as fast as Twitter, RSS could see a renaissance" mashable.com

Joseph Scott is the author of rssCloud for Wordpress. josephscott.org

To @palafo -- any Wordpress installation can be cloud-enabled by installing this plug-in --> wordpress.org

Andrew Baron - How Twitter Could Lose The Game By Design. dembot.com

BTW, any WordPress blog can be cloud-enabled, not just those on wordpress.com. We have it working on InBerkeley. scripting.com

Something geeky that happened In Berkeley. inberkeley.com

Lazyfeed will integrate RSSCloud and run faster. Awesome!! :-) blog.lazyfeed.com

RSS has no Fail Whale. scripting.com

Gatekeeping is a losing strategy. scripting.com

Matt Mullenweg: RSS in the�Clouds. en.blog.wordpress.com

I updated my earlier post with pointers to RSS specs with the element dating back to January 2001. scripting.com

RWW: WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud. readwriteweb.com

Tease! Tease! Tease! scripting.com

"The September Issue" -- recommended by @brianstelter. youtube.com

This time I really mean it's just a test. Why don't you believe me! :-) scripting.com

"Narrate your work" is all about keeping a record of an ongoing conversation. scripting.com

@berzerkeley -- Here's the list. You'll see "berzerkeley" is there. Click around. http://twitter.opml.org/calendar/ in there. twitter.opml.org

New River2 feature this morning: Sharing your OPML subscription lists. newsriver.org

Twitter "conversations" lack an important element -- a record. bronwenclune.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner, dave.40twits.com

Bay Bridge live web cam. abclocal.go.com

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Why the RSS river of news drowns Facebook and Google Reader. headlinesanddedlines.blogspot.com

Why the RSS river of news drowns Facebook and Google Reader headlinesanddedlines.blogspot.com

@lukehutteman -- cause you never had a good river of news aggregator for rss? newsriver.org

One of his accusers received a comparable gift. images.scripting.com

Much discussed tonight: David Pogue's ethics. No mention of his 935K Twitter followers. A gift from a vendor he covers. images.scripting.com

@jayrosen_nyu -- http://twincities.100twt.com/ is worth keeping an eye on, imho. twincities.100twt.com

An rssCloud case study: Brizzly & Seesmic (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twin City tweeters please read and RT. Thanks! :-) farces.com

What are the people of the Twin Cities saying on Twitter? twincities.100twt.com

Google News search for "crack bay bridge" news.google.com

No word yet on whether Bay Bridge crack can be fixed by Tuesday. mercurynews.com

Remember how I programmed http://newsriver.org/river2 to find the MotoGP/BBC torrent? Just came in. Thank you RSS! :-) newsriver.org

I asked Doc Searls to write a guest post for InBerkeley.com on "The Next Berkeley Fire." It's up now. Great piece. inberkeley.com

John Robb: "the sound of people leaving the middle class." globalguerrillas.typepad.com

And yes, the Suggested User List did kill the fun in the list. The top people are Ev's friends. twitter.scripting.com

Okay, I fixed the spewage report. Sorry for the confusion. I'm using double-precision numbers now. Scoble is #23. twitter.scripting.com

Look what the SUL did to the Twitter spewage report. Anderson Cooper is #1, where Scoble used to be. twitter.scripting.com

An rssCloud case study: Brizzly & Seesmic (Scripting News). scripting.com

Saturday, September 05, 2009

HP's got an unabashedly enthusiastic CTO for client cloud services, and she's on Twitter. twitter.com

KGO's Bay Bridge cam show the new piece is almost in place. abclocal.go.com

Should I apply for a Knight grant for my hyperlocal tweetstream? :-) berkeley.100twt.com

Another benefit of having me follow you -- your tweetstream is backed up. No charge. :-) twitter.opml.org

@susiewee -- here's your feed. twitter.rsscloud.org

Excuse Me. Do You Speak Digital? schoollibraryjournal.com

Dave Martin says @nakedpizza is doing great on Twitter. twitter.com

BTW, this is the "hyperlocal Twitter feed" for Berkeley. Did we just invent something? Hmm. :-) berkeley.100twt.com

The Cupcake Truck business is booming. What other businesses would work this well on Twitter. twitter.com

The XML way to tell if I follow you is: 1. Post something to Twitter. 2. Wait a minute. 3. Look in changes.xml. static.scripting.com

@hardaway twitter.rsscloud.org

Rossi is happy. :-) discuss.flickrfan.org

Pop-Up Stores: shops that open for a few days in a major city or a mall--and then are gone. businessweek.com

Still haven't installed Snow Leopard, but I hear its icons are very lovely --> cultofmac.com

My Friends of Dave Twitter account is an RSS reader. Nothing more nothing less. Pumps links to blog posts thru Twitter. twitter.com

RSS has no Fail Whale (Scripting News). scripting.com

A cupcake truck announces its whereabouts, realtime, on Twitter. twitter.com

Matt Mullenweg: How to Keep WordPress Secure. wordpress.org

I just asked http://newsriver.org/river2 to check every 10 minutes if a #MotoGP torrent is available. Can Twitter do that? newsriver.org

BitTorrent search for "Misano MotoGP." That's how I watch the races. Local coverage in the US not so hot. I like BBC. mininova.org

BBC: Rossi storms to San Marino pole. http://c.oy.ly/jbd4 news.bbc.co.uk

Scoble: "I don't feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things." scobleizer.com

I'm one of the "characters" at Jeff Pulver's conf in LA on Oct 27. lax.140conf.com

They say not much is known about Bill Campbell, but I know him. He's a great guy. Straight shooter, a coach. brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com

RSS has no Fail Whale (Scripting News). scripting.com

KGO has a live webcam of the Bay Bridge construction project, looks like they're halfway done with the rewiring. abclocal.go.com

Friday, September 04, 2009

"if I follow you on Twitter, you now have a cloud-enabled feed" scripting.com

Isn't that a big hole in the Bay Bridge? inberkeley.com

Just coded Atom support for River2. Testing on my own system before releasing. news.google.com

Fox's Twitter TV Experiment Tweets Its Way to Epic Failure. fastcompany.com

Proud to have made @markos list of people to follow. :-) twitter.com

We've been compiling a long list of famous news photos of people dying or dead. friendfeed.com

50 things that are being killed by the internet. Whew you-know-what isn't' on the list. :-) telegraph.co.uk

Mary Hodder's first-person account of the aftermath of the 1991 fire. A great read! inberkeley.com

If the loosely-coupled 140-char network bootstrap works, this development will be a major turning point. scripting.com

AP published a photo of a dying US soldier. Good or bad? (Imho bad.) politico.com

"Curating the News Two Ways" includes speculation about my 40twits app. networkednews.wordpress.com

The Berkeley public library has a weblog. berkeleypubliclibrary.org

1151 cloud-enabled feeds (Scripting News). scripting.com

@TiborP -- no offense taken. RTFM. :-) newsriver.org

A new innovation -- changes.xml for my cloud server. static.scripting.com

A collection of links covering the Bay Bridge closing including links to the live webcams. inberkeley.com

http://j.mp/ -- bit.ly says bullshit. It is possible for URLs to get even shorter, btw. I told them how to do it a year ago. :-) j.mp

Fred Wilson loves RSS. (I'm paraphrasing, hope he doesn't mind.) avc.com

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Huge Los Angeles Fire Was Arson, Officials Say. nytimes.com

Construction Cams on the Bay Bridge, which is now closed. baybridgeinfo.org

Bad Hair Day #10 is ready. This is a good one, and it's got an extra 10 minutes. Shhhh don't tell Marshall! :-) badhair.us

Bad Hair Day #10 coming up at 7PM Pacific live. No guests this week, just @marshallk et moi. blogtalkradio.com

@Gartenberg -- the number is here. http://c.oy.ly/iz7f call in about 10 after 7, and email me the number you'r using so I'll know it's you blogtalkradio.com

Actually an iPhone is pretty close to a podcast player, per this spec --> scripting.com

I want to talk about the perfect podcast player today on Bad Hair Day. One of my favorite topics. friendfeed.com

What tech topics would you like us to talk about on Bad Hair Day? friendfeed.com

What are the people of Berkeley saying on Twitter? berkeley.100twt.com

Bad Hair Day #10 coming up at 7PM Pacific, a bit over 2 hours from now. No guests this week, just @marshallk et moi. blogtalkradio.com

River2 is ready (Scripting News). scripting.com

Les Orchard asks if there's a good standalone, self-hosted web app for comments? twitter.com

A roundup of links about the Bay Bridge closing, which begins at 8PM tonight. Lookin for more pointers. :-) inberkeley.com

Hire execs who love the product (Scripting News). scripting.com

Why I love my Sony Walkman (Scripting News). scripting.com

I love my Walkman, four months after getting it. I have an iPod but I use the Sony. I'll write a blog post explaining. scripting.com

Round up of links re the Bay Bridge closure that starts at 8PM this evening. inberkeley.com

Sony Walkman Outsells IPod. I got a Walkman 6 months ago and never use my iPod. Sony works better. Seriously. bloomberg.com

What are the people of Berkeley saying on Twitter? berkeley.100twt.com

Follows 40. Followed by 650,263. Who is it? Twitter's new COO. twitter.com

Use the right tool for the right job. Twitter is great, but it's not everything. cincomsmalltalk.com

The Republicans are right -- this video is political and creepy and shouldn't be shown in public schools. youtube.com

@DavidSacks -- RSS is a format. scripting.com

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Reuters: Twitter snags former Google exec for COO. reuters.com

Puppies Behind Bars trains inmates to raise puppies. puppiesbehindbars.com

Flickr treads more lightly in copyright matter. news.cnet.com

One week from today: rssCloud meetup at UC Berkeley, Sept 9 (Scripting News). scripting.com

Knight Foundation Now Taking Entries for Annual Knight News Challenge. editorandpublisher.com

"If all the RSS on the planet were all of a sudden to stop updating the news would stop flowing." scripting.com

FeedBurner Is Google's Biggest Screw-Up To Date. businessinsider.com

Sink hole on Forest Lane: flickr.com

Sink hole on Forest Lane: flickr.com

Guess I should be flattered. I'm glad he's doing so well. I don't think his pubs are blogs, though. Whatever. :-) advertising.gawker.com

I love RSS. And I ain't ashamed to say it. Thanks! :-) twitter.com

Should've known Ed Vielmetti was involved in AnnArbor.com's River of News site. He helped get my first site up in 1994. scripting.com

What are the people of Berkeley saying on Twitter? berkeley.100twt.com

Frances Dinkelspiel lost her home in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. inberkeley.com

A sidetracked train of what looks to be various sizes of metal recycling: flickr.com

Congrats to Dick Costolo on his new position as COO of Twitter. gigaom.com

Is River of News enough? (Scripting News) scripting.com

"Help! I've fallen and I can't get up! And also, I'm a puppy!" twitter.com

Sorry I still hate Comcast (Scripting News). scripting.com

InBerkeley: What did we learn from the fire of 1991? inberkeley.com

Funny how few Republicans questioned whether we could afford the Republican boondoggle -- Iraq. informationisbeautiful.net

Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Wow @alancolmes recommends following @me. Surprising. :-) twitter.com

Top 40 recent links I've pushed through Twitter. dave.40twits.com

Wow this ad for the Beatles version of Rock Band is the spookiest thing I've seen in a long time. Brrrr. youtube.com

We're looking for weird or interesting construction projects in Berkeley. inberkeley.com

InBerkeley: A slow-moving river of mud. inberkeley.com

Houses moved, raised: flickr.com

NFL bans tweeting before, during, after games. news.cnet.com

The battle of Berkeley. archpaper.com

Daily Kos: DeMint: "I think health care is a privilege, I wouldn't call it a right" dailykos.com

Reading list support is in River2 and works: flickr.com

Jay Rosen is now converted to Adjix. The new URLs are on his personal domain, jr.ly. jay.40twits.com

Disqus posts a HowTo on moderating in the new version of the software. blog.disqus.net

What does Huffington Post's "social media editor" do? Lots of people are excited by the idea, but I'm clueless. twitter.com

rssCloud meetup 2.0 at UC Berkeley, Sept 9, 7-9PM. scripting.com

What does a link mean? essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

Monday, August 31, 2009

Yahoo Messenger 10 beta: A legitimate Skype rival? download.cnet.com

NYT: EBay Is Said to Have a Deal to Sell Skype. nytimes.com

rssCloud meetup 2.0 at UC Berkeley, Sept 9, 7-9PM. scripting.com

Twitter search: "The Internet is dead." You can see how this little meme is propogating. twitter.com

TweetSaver makes a personal archive of Twitter. news.cnet.com

rssCloud meetup 2.0 at UC Berkeley, Sept 9, 7-9PM. scripting.com

Torrent download of BBC coverage of yesterday's #motogp at Indianapolis. mininova.org

Google Reader is supporting OPML reading lists? Here's Euan Semple's. I'd love to talk with someone on the team. google.com

Scoble: Why Google won't create the next Twitter or Facebook or Posterous. scobleizer.posterous.com

Thomas Hawk: "This is my parents property on fire in Big Tujunga Canyon." friendfeed.com

Topic-based feed readers. webworkerdaily.com

I just wanted to copy a couple of podcasts onto my iPhone, but iTunes offered me this choice. I just unplugged. images.scripting.com

Rebooting the News #23 with guest Doc Searls. rebootnews.com

"Twitter is dead. I don't use Twitter, I use Seesmic." Hehe. :-) twitter.com

I'm flattered & surprised to be on Anil's list of the influential in tech. I'm more of a developer than a pundit, imho. dashes.com

Anil Dash defends the tech punditocracy. Fascinating. dashes.com

Jay's notes for this week's show. friendfeed.com

Rebooting The News starts at 10:30AM Pacific. Our guest this week is Doc Searls, who will talk about the fires in SoCal. blogtalkradio.com

At the innovative Audience conference the audience will be on stage and the speakers hang out in the hallway. audienceconf.com

The Audience conference could be a hall with an audience and no speakers. Zen-like. Shhh. You'll disturb the audience. audienceconf.com

David Carr, who writes for the NYT thinks you get 1 mill Twitter followers by being smart. twitter.com

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Joe Moreno: My Experiences with DNS Hosting. blog.joemoreno.com

NYT: Wikipedia Looks Hard at Its Culture. nytimes.com

"No one goes there any more; it's too crowded." en.wikiquote.org

Bay Bridge closure starts 8 p.m. Thursday. inberkeley.com

Scoble catches the action in today's #motogp race at Indy. Some great pics! Sports photography. flickr.com

A blank campus. gapingvoid.com

RT @stoweboyd: "No need to fix health insurance: only 62% of American bankruptcies caused by medical bills. No problem!" twitter.com

"Silly to proclaim the death of RSS while instead using technologies that rely on RSS." Yeah. outsidethebeltway.com

Scobleizer says Rossi crashed, but we're watching commercials on Fox. Sheez. twitter.com

"DNS Enabler allows Mac users to set up a fully-functional DNS on a plain Mac OS X machine with one click." cutedgesystems.com

Wanted: A simple DNS app for Mac or Windows (Scripting News). scripting.com

Mike Wheeler: How to Fix URL Shorteners. tweete.rs

Saturday, August 29, 2009

My photos and videos from the MotoGP race at Laguna Seca, July 5. scripting.com

Wikipedia answers all my questions about Beatles songs. For example, Yellow Submarine... Just a children's song. en.wikipedia.org

"GigaOm, Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and others, have become online news magazines." blogs.zdnet.com

Great @scobleizer pics from the MotoGP qualifiers at Indy. Pedrosa came in #1, Rossi #2, Lorenzo #3. friendfeed.com

New batting helmit can absorb impact of 100 MPH fastball. nytimes.com

Laconica is now StatusNet. status.net

Why it's easier to *not* smoke than it is to smoke. scripting.com

Yummm that looks dee-lish! :-) twitpic.com

This Twitter look-alike requires 1,400 characters. news.cnet.com

National Weather Service says our heat wave will end at 11PM tonight. I can't wait! I've become a total weather pussy. forecast.weather.gov

Always said Dubya would make a fantastic ex-President. :-) inquisitr.com

Everyone cheer for @evirtus who has been a non-smoker for 1 full week. Hey -- it gets much much easier after a week. twitter.com

Two of my buds Steve Rubel and Robert Scoble are on this panel at SXSW. It would make me happy if you voted 4 them. :-) panelpicker.sxsw.com

@AriT93 twitter.com

Example of an unfair retweet. He takes my words as his own, and says the link came to him "via" me. Not cool. twitter.com

The Future of the Facebook iPhone App, According to the Man Who Made It. readwriteweb.com

My partner in Rebooting the News wants you to vote for his SXSW panel. Happy to help! :-) panelpicker.sxsw.com

@nprscottsimon -- heard your bit about the Columbus paper today. I talk about "my blog" -- http://scripting.com/ -- with pride. scripting.com

Scott Simon on NPR says no one talks about "my blog." I do. http://scripting.com/ is my blog. scripting.com

Friday, August 28, 2009

Women, read this, believe it, and treat yourself to some H�agen-Dazs, you deserve it. :-) joethepeacock.com

This is what a River of News looks like. nytimesriver.com

Howard Weaver isn't at #foocamp. Their loss. Howard is a smart guy who gets you to think. editor.blogspot.com

"There's not much future in being an obstacle." scripting.com

Yikes Snow Leopard broke a bunch of Don Park's apps. Scary. twitter.com

http://dave.40twits.com/ is now running on Adjix as its URL shortener. dave.40twits.com

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet. news.cnet.com

10 years ago today: What is RSS? static.userland.com

Can't you hear me knocking? (No, too much construction noise) inberkeley.com

Can't You Hear Me Knocking? youtube.com

As Internet Booms, the Postal Service Fights Back. nytimes.com

How to beat Amazon's Kindle. slate.com

Berkeley's most influential entrepreneur. inberkeley.com

Health care in a nutshell (Scripting News). scripting.com

Another iPhone developer caught in Apple's gears. This time over an icon that looks like one of Apple's. tapbots.com

To be clear the Facebook app is available for everyone to download from the app store, free, now: flickr.com

You could play RISK a long time and not get a board as nice as this: flickr.com

Mary Karr, Orhan Pamuk, coming to Berkeley Arts & Letters. inberkeley.com

Last night we did a 45-minute "Bad Hair Day" interview with Joe Hewitt, author of Facebook for the iPhone. badhair.us

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Unassisted triple play helps Martinez beat Mets. google.com

Bad Hair Day #9 is ready for download! :-) badhair.us

Bad Hair Day with @joehewitt, author of Facebook for the iPhone, live, starting now! ==> blogtalkradio.com

Patrick O'Dowd wants to know about push notifications and FaceBook/iPhone. Good questions. scripting.com

If you have questions for @joehewitt please post them here... scripting.com

Special guest for tonight's Bad Hair Day is @joehewitt, author of Facebook for the iPhone. Super excited! :-) blogtalkradio.com

A new episode of the Bad Hair Day podcast coming up at 7PM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

To be clear the Facebook app is available for everyone to download from tha app store, free, now: bit.ly

Facebook iPhone screenshot: bit.ly

Why a simplified Facebook kicks Twitter's butt: bit.ly

Why a simplified Facebook kicks Twitter's butt: flickr.com

Facebook iPhone screenshot: flickr.com

My one sentence review of the Facebook iPhone app. scripting.com

Health care in a nutshell (Scripting News). scripting.com

Thanks to Cliff Gerrish for clueing me into to the odd story of the Beatles' Long and Winding Road and Phil Spector. en.wikipedia.org

Bumper to bumper: bit.ly

Breakfast at Saul's: bit.ly

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: bit.ly

Where is Berkeley's patio by the lake? inberkeley.com

Breakfast at Saul's: bit.ly

Cash-for-clunkers was a teeentsy bailout for normal Americans. 1/600th of the bailout for banks. online.wsj.com

BBC: "A youth centre uses The Sound of Music songs to drive away young people reluctant to go home at closing time." news.bbc.co.uk

HowTo: EC2 for Poets. howto.opml.org

It takes a ton of chutzpah for Maureen Dowd to lecture on the morality of anonymity. The irony! nytimes.com

"No wonder Mozilla hastily introduce a Private Browsing mode in Firefox 3.5." pcpro.co.uk

NYT on the Conficker virus. nytimes.com

DeathCrunch on comments. uk.techcrunch.com

Amazon: The Healing of America. T.R. Reid. amazon.com

Gartenberg on Snow Leopard. slashgear.com

FreshAir podcast -- perfect briefing on health care around the world and why ours sucks the most. npr.org

Only InBerkeley -- Mary Hodder speaks on behalf of long-time Berkeleyites re the newbie's hyperlocal blog. inberkeley.com

Doc: Open vs. Fauxpen. linuxjournal.com

What's in the next release of River2 (Scripting News) scripting.com

What is an asshole? tops Le List de 40. dave.40twits.com

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy at Gretchen's house in SF. flickr.com

"You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last." destinationhollywood.com

The Governator at Twitter HQ. bijansabet.com

Next MotoGP races in: San Marino, Portugal, Australia, Malaysia, and finishing in Spain on November 5. motogp.com

"Dave Winer was right about River of News style aggregators." Ta-dahhh! 25hoursaday.com

BBC video of the spectacular MotoGP race in Czech Republic earlier this month. mininova.org

Who @Scobleizer has faved recently. Classy doood. :-) favstar.fm

Jacob and Emma top names for babies born in 2008. nytimes.com

Walt Mossberg reviews Snow Leopard, Apple's new version of the Mac OS. ptech.allthingsd.com

Bumper to bumper: bit.ly

Santa Cruz: bit.ly

Ponzi: bit.ly

Santa Cruz: bit.ly

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: bit.ly

RSS is how the news flows (Scripting News). scripting.com

Marshall Kirkpatrick: If You Think RSS is Dead Then That's Your Loss and It's a Big One. marshallk.com

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now. Lots to say about this. Tomorrow. blogs.zdnet.com

@windley I didn't ask about theory I asked about your nephew who is dying. friendfeed.com

What is an asshole? scripting.com

Behind 10 eyebrow-raising App Store rejections. news.cnet.com

Picture of US President Barack Obama depicted as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a healthcare forum. discuss.flickrfan.org

Passive crowd sourcing: How Google uses data you give them when you're stuck in traffic. rexblog.com

Will Twitter-to-Facebook Publishing Make You Tweet Less? bits.blogs.nytimes.com

"Everything worth doing starts out complicated then you hack at it to simplify it as much as possible." scripting.com

Feingold: We're headed in the direction of absolutely nothing. politico.com

How to fix URL-shorteners, part II (Scripting News). scripting.com

Twitter Wants To Track Your Clicks. Saw this coming. techcrunch.com

Preparing your Mac for Snow Leopard. tuaw.com

Cori: Taking Back the Park. inberkeley.com

Scoble: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first). scobleizer.com

There goes the neighborhood? Ashton Kutcher's on Foursquare. :-) news.cnet.com

Dear Disqus: Can I have the old interface back? scripting.com

Another nutty thing about the Disqus upgrade, they broke the most basic pointer into the site. http://disqus.com/dashboard/ doesn't work. disqus.com

"Who would you consider the most skillful practitioners of the art of blogging?" asks @anildash. twitter.com

Urgently need an Intel build of OPML Editor/Mac (Scripting News). scripting.com

define:coy - Google Search. google.com

How to get Lessig to blog (Scripting News). scripting.com

Monday, August 24, 2009

Joe Hewitt on the Apple review process "Innocent until proven guilty." joehewitt.com

Wired: Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess. wired.com

David Recordon leaves SixApart to join Facebook. daveman692.livejournal.com

A complete response to those who think everyone doesn't need/deserve/is responsible for their health insurance. scripting.com

Rebooting the News #22 ready for download. rebootnews.com

"a 68-year-old male visitor strolled naked through the centre of town during Gallery Walk" telegraph.co.uk

It was Brattleboro, Vermont that had the problem with ugly people walking naked down Main St in the middle of the day. wcax.com

What's in the next release of River2 (Scripting News). scripting.com

Grand Plaza Hotel, Rome. Centrally located for all tourist spots. Highly recommended. http://tr.im/x1d6 (for @tpurves) maps.google.com

"Why doesn't Yahoo buy a major blogging platform?" scripting.com

What's in the next release of River2 (Scripting News). scripting.com

Bored to the core? You're in luck! Reboot the News is live now! blogtalkradio.com

I'm interested in using FriendFeed as a live chatroom during the recording of RTN in about 45 minutes. friendfeed.com

Wow Zach put together an incredible list of topics for this week's show! I get to kick back. Cooooool. friendfeed.com

Reboot The News in 1 hour with Jay, Dave and Zach Seward of Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. Live! ==> blogtalkradio.com

Ooooh the Apple Store is down. @film_girl speculates ==> twitter.com

How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News). scripting.com

Liking Interface by Neal Stephenson. Thanks to @jeffubois for the recommendation. Just what I was looking for! amazon.com

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Diagram for HyperCamp on Flickr. Inexplicably one of my most popular pages. flickr.com

Yahoo embracing Twitter? (Scripting News) scripting.com

"Yahoo should work to be a better place to use Twitter than Twitter.com." Interesting idea. businessinsider.com

Tomorrow on Rebooting The News, 9AM Pacific, we'll have a guest, Zach Seward of Nieman Journalism Lab. niemanlab.org

Courage and cowardice (Scripting News). scripting.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Hurricane Wave Sweeps Spectators Out to Sea. nytimes.com

Krugman: Charles Grassley, coward. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Where's the gang of 2,000 who controls tech hype hanging out today? scobleizer.com

5 Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives. gizmodo.com

Edo Segal: For Twitter, Sharing Data With Google Would Be Suicide. techcrunch.com

How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News). scripting.com

Saturday, August 22, 2009

OPML Edtior C source code. (For extreme geeks only.) static.opml.org

Which of the kids in the Breakfast Club is most like you? en.wikipedia.org

Om is Talkin' Bout a (Blogging) Revolution. There are more reasons coming soooon. :-) gigaom.com

Sources go direct (Scripting News). scripting.com

7 years plus 70 days (Scripting News). scripting.com

Friday, August 21, 2009

Megrahi vows to prove innocence over Lockerbie. reuters.com

I inherited some property in Jamaica, finally got title this month, so I've been thinking about the island. guardian.co.uk

Is the web sticky enough? masonlee.org

Krugman: Obama's Trust Problem. nytimes.com

Guardian looks at US health system. "Dying for affordable healthcare." guardian.co.uk

Ponzi: flickr.com

My #blogpostfriday post (Scripting News). scripting.com

The problem with running your own URL shortener is that it's yet another web app to keep running. Forever. lifehacker.com

This is why it was a mistake to release the Lockerbie bomber. Now what? news.bbc.co.uk

Joe Moreno on his innovative approach to URL shortening. blog.adjix.com

Watching the video feed of Gnomdex, but there's no audio? http://chris.pirillo.com/live/ chris.pirillo.com

@stoweboyd google.com

Another journo bites the dust. Kara Swisher is on the SUL. twitter.com

There are people serving on the Supreme Court who feel it's OK to execute innocent people, if they've had a fair trial. nytimes.com

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Oy Rackspace turned off tr.im today. Here comes another disgusting rant from TechCrunch. blog.tr.im

"Couldn't this whole issue be solved by using hyperlinks?" Yes. scripting.com

Maybe the NY Times could run Lakoff's piece as an op-ed in Sunday's paper? truthout.org

It would be great if people with a million-plus Twitter followers would pass on a link to Lakoffs piece. truthout.org

No Bad Hair Day http://badhair.us/ this week. I'm sick and Marshall's traveling. Next Thurs at 7PM. badhair.us

I wish every Democrat who can hear me would read the latest from George Lakoff. truthout.org

The FCC discovers RSS. Wait till the discover http://rsscloud.org/ -- it's the next big thing! :-) rsscloud.org

scripting.com

Yes yes tr.im is down. Good time to read about fixing URL shorteners! :-) http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/08/19/howToFixUrlshorten ... scripting.com

Kaliya the Identity Woman: flickr.com

Inside the only tunnel in Berkeley: flickr.com

My new diet -- a beer every night -- but only goooooood beer: flickr.com

What happens when you screen share on a computer that's already sharing your screen: flickr.com

whatsInAName?: flickr.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

Lakoff is right, the Repubs are framing -- and it works. The Dems are debating policy. truthout.org

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

Another thing to love about netbooks, they contain all the necessary ingredients for a cool weekend hack. :-) engadget.com

Lakoff is right. The candidate who was all about communication, as President, forgot how to do it. truthout.org

How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News). scripting.com

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

I was a sixth grade communist (Scripting News). scripting.com

Jeremy Felt: A Multi-User rssCloud Implementation. educer.org

"..brought my Asus 10-inch and was much happier because: 1. Much longer battery life. 2. A lot lighter and smaller" scripting.com

Leagues Restrict Access as Fan and Financial Interests Intersect. nytimes.com

Crapbook or netbook, same $279 price? Hmmm. CNET still doesn't have a clue. news.cnet.com

How to fix URL-shorteners (Scripting News). scripting.com

No trademark for Twitter. inquisitr.com

I have the 6th link on Google for @ChuckGrassley. google.com

Joe Moreno has figured out how to fix URL shorteners. It's a breakthrough. Must-read for techies. --> scripting.com

It's time for the Republican Party to die. scripting.com

My first review came from the NY Times in 1983. Then my own industry took notice. nytimes.com

How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped. gawker.com

It took a while to get the DNS transferred, and this URL still might not work for some: http://ou.rs/1 -- but it will eventually. :-) ou.rs

whatsInAName?: flickr.com

The Accidental Billionaires - The Founding of Facebook - BBC Radio Audiobook. mininova.org

The John Peel of podcasting? twitter.com

The Case Against URL Shorteners. profitbaron.com

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

"@cshirky has 25,000 followers and @stevenbjohnson a *million more* than Clay. This makes no sense." friendfeed.com

If you have servers on Rackspace, EC2, or Slicehost, Cloudkick is a FREE & EASY way to manage your infrastructure. cloudkick.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

The first step on the yellow-brick-road: ou.rs

Of course there's a Twitter keiretsu. You'd have to be blind not to see it. news.cnet.com

Here's a video of Richard Pryor on the N word. It was in this spirit that I said what I said about Craig. youtube.com

A podcast for the Aspen Institute meeting. If I were there, this is what I'd say. And an Easter Egg at the end. :-) cinch.blogtalkradio.com

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

Live video from a conference in Aspen about the future of journalism. groundreport.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Monday, August 17, 2009

Archiving All of Your Twitter Followers Tweets via OPML, Google Reader, and Friendfeed. andrew.leahey.org

District 9 is getting great reviews. movies.nytimes.com

VentureBeat's report on today's tr.im announcement. venturebeat.com

"Twitlbl is an experimental service to provide contextual information about a tweet." yottashare.com

@marshallk -- here's a definition of "scoble" --> archive.scripting.com

Ryan Tate thinks "Rupert Murdoch's Bluffing on His Pay-Wall Pledge." valleywag.gawker.com

Eric Woodward on the tr.im announcement. blog.tr.im

For background on the tr.im deal, listen to last week's Bad Hair Day podcast. Eric Woodward of tr.im was a guest. badhair.us

Here's my open source announcement to go with tr.im's, in a Scripting News post. scripting.com

Tr.im to Go Open Source, Community Owned. Just posted a comment there with my own related announcement. readwriteweb.com

Rebooting the News #21 ready to amaze, amuse and amortize. rebootnews.com

Trading one centralized net for another? (Scripting News) scripting.com

But sometimes I think Andrew is the Michael Palin character in "pining for the fjords." youtube.com

We Reboot the News -- *live* -- in 1/2 hour. Tune in here --> blogtalkradio.com

Don Rickles on the Tonight Show with Carson/McMahon. youtube.com

Andrew Keen may be my generation's Don Rickles. bbc.co.uk

"uSocial offers deals like 1,000 new Twitter followers for $87." news.cnet.com

Rebooting the News #21 live at 9AM Pacific. blogtalkradio.com

@bijan -- I have both. I travel with the netbook. scripting.com

A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are "pointless babble." news.bbc.co.uk

This time TC really is off the SUL. friendfeed.com

.tk -- free domains. en.wikipedia.org

Look at this shortened URL: http://9atw7.tk/ -- see what's going on there? A whole TLD? Yikes! davewiner.userland.com

Sunday, August 16, 2009

The "Selected Shorts" podcast is my current favorite. npr.org

What happens when you screen share on a computer that's already sharing your screen. flickr.com

Every week on RTN one of us chooses an inspiration of the week. Tomorrow it's my turn. Looking for ideas! :-) rebootnews.com

Programming wisdom (Scripting News). scripting.com

What happens when you screen share on a computer that's already sharing your screen: flickr.com

BBC: Beer 'may be good for you' news.bbc.co.uk

Gatekeeping is a losing strategy (Scripting News). scripting.com

Saturday, August 15, 2009

My new diet -- a beer every night -- but only goooooood beer: flickr.com

Jew elected to Fatah governing body. english.aljazeera.net

Justice Department defends massive file-swapping fine. news.cnet.com

It's been a big development week in RssCloudLand (Scripting News). scripting.com

Battle lines are drawn for the war of web search dominance. guardian.co.uk

Here's the beta-beta release of the Twitter Subscriptions List app for your desktop. Full source included. rsscloud.org

Howard Weaver: Why are newspaper doomsayers usually so sloppy? editor.blogspot.com

BBC: Rossi takes pole for Czech MotoGP. (Scoble is going to MotoGP in Indianapolis at the end of the month.) news.bbc.co.uk

The $299 Walmart "craptop" (Scripting News). scripting.com

A boy named Sue (Scripting News). scripting.com

Dan Farber, who I have known since the early 80s, is Editor in Chief of CBSNews.com. Proud of him. :-) flickr.com

Eugene, Ithaca, Boulder, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Madison, Berkeley, Austin. friendfeed.com

Lifehacker: Backup and Search Your Friends' Tweets with Google Reader. lifehacker.com

Here's the beta-beta release of the Twitter Subscriptions List app for your desktop. Full source included. --> rsscloud.org

WebFinger proponents -- why not use DNS for identity? If we're to go back to roots, why not go all the way back? :-) rikkles.blogspot.com

"Google Reader is almost a full fledged Twitter client – already" educer.org

The right and wrong way to do tech (Scripting News). scripting.com

In Montana they like their Medicare but want the govt to stay out of health. cnn.com

Friday, August 14, 2009

"There's not much future in being an obstacle." tr.im

Inside the only tunnel in Berkeley: flickr.com

ReadWriteWeb tops the Top 40. dave.40twits.com

Kalia the Identity Woman: flickr.com

People who RWW readers follow on Twitter. scripting.com

Okay the Yahoo Mojo thing is lame -- but I like lame! :-) yahoo.knowyourmojo.com

Misdirected Social Victims of the Antiquated Web. dembot.com

Netscape and RSS (Scripting News). http://tr.im/wqbH #blogpostfriday bonus! :-) scripting.com

Marc, without Netscape we wouldn't have had RSS. Something to think about. blog.broadbandmechanics.com

Anil Dash: The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009. http://tr.im/wpSE dashes.com

This is a mini-podcast response to the TechCrunch piece, a message specifically for John Borthwick and Eric Marcoullier. cinch.blogtalkradio.com

Uhhh TechCrunc, tr.im is working fine. techcrunch.com

Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? readwriteweb.com

Gatekeeping is a losing strategy (Scripting News). http://tr.im/wphk scripting.com

Harry Truman probably would have liked Twitter. http://tr.im/lPpK (But he's dead.) scripting.com

Possible topic for your #blogpostfriday post -- How do you feel about Twitter's plan for RTing? --> marketingpilgrim.com

Every Friday, rain or shine, write a blog post. http://tr.im/wnqf scripting.com

Imagine if a company owned the FTP or HTTP protocol? scripting.com

@markaitken -- interesting thought. Why limit it to URLs. Like a "global glossary." google.com

Riya folds. The "perfect storm" may actually be climate change -- as Web 2.0 hype unwinds. techcrunch.com

How about an app that implements the FriendFeed API and nothing more. friendfeed.com

wordpress.com gets a URL-shortener that will be around as long as wordpress.com is. Good move for the web. en.blog.wordpress.com

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Nice. Send Amazon a hard drive and they'll load up your S3 data to it. Hint: they could sell me the drive too. :-) aws.typepad.com

Bubbleshare, another hosted web community, closes. The "perfect storm" continues. techcrunch.com

Every Friday, rain or shine. Your blog still loves you! :-) scripting.com

Om: The Evolution of Blogging. Thanks for the vote of confidence. :-) gigaom.com

@dai_vernon -- probably would be a good idea to post a link as a comment under the podcast, which I just posted at badhair.us

Bad Hair Day #8, MP3 and show notes. badhair.us

BART strike Sunday. bart.gov

@LargePrint_ -- yes it's on badhair.us

Bad Hair Day #8 live podcast starting now. Come listen! blogtalkradio.com

Bored out of your gourd? We'll take care of that! :-) blogtalkradio.com

Loose.ly coupled 140-char message network. scripting.com

Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel. asert.arbornetworks.com

BTW, the Slate piece quotes me accurately and fairly (and extensively). Good work. slate.com

Slate: "Microblogging has become too important for one company to rule the field." Amen. slate.com

Bad Hair Day #8 live at 7PM Pacific with guests Eric Woodward of tr.im and Brian Hendrickson of rp.ly. blogtalkradio.com

Twitter Blog: Project Retweet: Phase One. tr.im

New Twitter API for retweeting -- looks like FF's "like" command -- which is what I wanted. :-) tr.im

People who RWW readers follow on Twitter. scripting.com

"The silo gets cushier, but it's still a silo." scripting.com

Netscape's Andreesen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser. readwriteweb.com

"It's not like anyone gets out of this alive." scripting.com

Seeing superiority (Scripting News). scripting.com

I'm reading Duma Key by Stephen King and really enjoying it. Been a long time since I've read a SK novel this good. amazon.com

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

It's great that the Top 40 list is working again, now that tr.im is working again. dave.40twits.com

Doc Searls should never be asked by Google if he means "Searles." Obviously. Software acting dumb. blogs.law.harvard.edu

The SF-Napa ferry: flickr.com

Giants vs Dodgers from the nosebleeds: flickr.com

Dan Farber at AT&T: flickr.com

Manny strikes out, the fans go crazy (movie): flickr.com

Fans line up for garlic fries: flickr.com

Learn how to follow Twitter users in Google Reader. scripting.com

All those zombie computers are telling @biz one thing --> decentralize. thedeal.com

My buddy Dave Jacobs, from SF, a Cubs fan, just mailed me a pic from Fenway in Boston. What a world. images.scripting.com

Wired totally botched the story of how podcasting bootstrapped. wired.com

Manny strikes out, the fans go crazy (movie). flickr.com

Giants vs Dodgers from the nosebleeds. flickr.com

Dan Farber at AT&T. flickr.com

Ferry Building. flickr.com

The SF-Napa ferry. flickr.com

Are You a Digital Sharecropper? codinghorror.com

Guardian: What Facebook gains from buying FriendFeed. guardian.co.uk

BTW, with today's change, river2, my feed reader, is now a Twitter client! Talk about paradigm shifts. Whew. newsriver.org

Further, I'd bet that Google Reader will support http://rsscloud.org/. It's a no-brainer for them, perfect match. rsscloud.org

A new cloud-enabled feed. tech.groups.yahoo.com

Spent time tweaking up the Twitter Subscription Lists site. Thanks to RWW, we're getting lots of users. :-) readwriteweb.com

How To: Backup And Search All Your Friends' Tweets In Google Reader. readwriteweb.com

"When I think of businesses that are using Twitter effectively, I realize that they ARE narrating their work." scripting.com

Capturables from Rebooting the News #10. josschuurmans.com

Developing OPML Editor Tools by Andy Sylvester. andysylvester.com

RSS Cloud: Log. rpc.rsscloud.org:5337

@jeffpulver meet @sheamus. One of your cast of 140? twittercism.com

Really liked the bit about George Washingtonn in this post. taylorheffernan.squarespace.com

Longish post proposes filesharing tech to distribute loosely-coupled 140-char net. taylorheffernan.squarespace.com

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

BTW, would someone tell the tr.im guys that bit.ly doesn't do this. So if we want to be competitive, let's go. dave.40twits.com

The Top-40 app, which depends on the tr.im API, is working again. Happy! :-) dave.40twits.com

@ccheath editor.opml.org

Also why is http://tr.im/ so helpless? Okay Twitter bundled bit.ly. So let's compete with Twitter. Let's all work together? Why not?? tr.im

For example, I've been backing up @sheamus since July when I started following him. twitter.opml.org

I don't see why Twitter is responsible for backing up our data. They have an API. Why are users so helpless? twittercism.com

An example of a discussion started from a Twitter post. twdsc.us

5/29/09: Discussions in Twitter. scripting.com

"we, the users, need to own a technology company -- and have it work to serve our interests..." scripting.com

Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? Must-read. readwriteweb.com

Align the interests of: 1. Users and 2. Investors. (Scripting News). scripting.com

TechCrunch let me explain the confusion at tr.im for you. They are humans. Happy to help. techcrunch.com

I wish everyone would listen to this ten-minute podcast on the lessons of this week's outages. cinch.blogtalkradio.com

Glad to hear tr.im is not disappearing after all. :-) blog.tr.im

New BlogTalkRadio voice message: cinch.blogtalkradio.com

Could Wordpress Be the Natural Successor to Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook? siliconangle.com

BTW, to people who say FriendFeed is such a leader in "real-time" -- maybe not so much as you thought... friendfeed.com

Leo calls for Facebook to open source Friendfeed. friendfeed.com

Hitler finds out about FriendFeed's acquisition by Facebook. youtube.com

The "death panels" are already here. salon.com

Doc Searls on Scoble and his blog. scripting.com

Monday, August 10, 2009

Welcome to rp.ly

Bad Hair Day #7.5, special call-in podcast about the FF/FB deal, what it means for users, and tr.im and rp.ly. badhair.us

Scoble, your blog still loves you (Scripting News). scripting.com

Live *open* BadHair podcast in 8 minutes. (347) 843-4661. Call in if you have a comment or question re FB/FF. friendfeed.com

Special BadHair call-in show/podcast at 4PM Pacific to discuss the FriendFeed acquisition. 347-843-4661. friendfeed.com

One thing's for sure, with all the rock and roll, the little guys need an open standard to rally around. rsscloud.org

Rebooting the News #20 ready to download with show notes. rebootnews.com

CSM: Death of tr.im raises cloud concerns. features.csmonitor.com

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request. Ugh. At least they didn't sell out to Twitter. blog.friendfeed.com

Doc: User driven service bingo. blogs.law.harvard.edu

Rebooting the News #20 promises to be action-packed and full of vim.Vigor too. Live now! --> blogtalkradio.com

Rebooting the News #20 promises to be action-packed and full of vim.Vigor too. In 1/2 hour -- Live --> blogtalkradio.com

Twitter's a Mess: First the DDOS, Now Koobface Returns. readwriteweb.com

Enough with shortened URLs (Scripting News). scripting.com

Mashable reports that bit.ly wants to "save" tr.im. I was very much afraid of this and totally opposed to it. mashable.com

Four logicians are having breakfast. Waitress asks -- Will you all be having coffee? friendfeed.com

Four logicians are having breakfast. Waitress asks -- Will you all be having coffee? friendfeed.com

Accumulating links for this week's RTN podcast here: friendfeed.com

Rebooting the News #20 promises to be action-packed and full of controversy. At 9AM Pacific -- Live --> blogtalkradio.com

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Glad someone had the guts to ask this question: "What happens when to all those links when Twitter shuts down?" scripting.com

Four logicians are having breakfast... friendfeed.com

tr.im announces shutdown (Scripting News). scripting.com

http://blog.tr.im/ shutting down immediately. They told me they were going to shut down but we'd have months to transition. Oy. blog.tr.im

Narrate Your Work (Scripting News). scripting.com

Saturday, August 08, 2009

Andy Rooney. en.wikipedia.org

I just realized that Rex Hammock is on track to being my generation's Andy Rooney. twitter.com

I love reading about American road trips almost as much as I love doing them. gapingvoid.com

What if We Win the Healthcare Fight? (A Republican with a mind, who uses it.) newmajority.com

Nine killed in mid-air crash over New York. guardian.co.uk

rssCloud atop the Top 40. (Surprisingly!) dave.40twits.com

I am now the proud owner of http://loose.ly/ -- imho a big word. :-) loose.ly

Helicopter and Small Plane Collide Over Hudson River. nytimes.com

Watch a real news organization at work, the NYT, gathering info about a real-time story, on Twitter. nyt.100twt.com

Accused Spies Offer Apologies at Iran Trial. nytimes.com

What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way. dashes.com

Abbey Road webcam. abbeyroad.co.uk

Tech heroes of the past: Where are they now? nix.web.id

Friday, August 07, 2009

Health Debate Turns Hostile at Town Hall Meetings. nytimes.com

Update from Twitter on the DOS attack, still going on, unabated. groups.google.com

Palin says there will be 'death panels' in the US. news.yahoo.com

What's a Big City Without a Newspaper? nytimes.com

The Julie/Julia Project: "Julia Child was ninety-one years old when she died, late yesterday, in her sleep." blogs.salon.com

NYT: Senator Martinez Resigns Early. Why? thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Julie & Julia opens today. Source of pride -- my software, Radio UserLand, plays a role in the story. google.com

Apple's $1.2 billion tablet computer. brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com

Jay asks a crucial question about vulnerability to DOS attacks. I offer a vague answer. friendfeed.com

O'Brien: Podcasting patent reveals problems in system. mercurynews.com

Trading one centralized net for another? scripting.com

How many RSS updates per second? scripting.com

Fast Company on communicating with developers during an outage. Twitter and Facebook didn't. fastcompany.com

Bad Hair Day #7 podcast -- ready to download. badhair.us

Getting real: The insurance industry is hiring thugs to suppress speech and democracy in the US. tampabay.com

Krugman column: "The Town Hall Mob." nytimes.com

Thursday, August 06, 2009

rssCloud news (Scripting News). scripting.com

40 most recent links from @davewiner. dave.40twits.com

Back In Berkeley: flickr.com

Nothing on TV? Listen to Bad Hair Day live coming up in 0 minutes, here --> blogtalkradio.com

If you ain't got nothin better to do, you can listen to Bad Hair Day live coming up in 35 minutes, here --> blogtalkradio.com

NYT says Twitter outage is an "extension of the conflict between Russia and Georgia." nytimes.com

I fight for every inch of simplicity. scripting.com

Another brick in the cloud (Scripting News). scripting.com

A list of town hall meetings right wingers want to disrupt? cprights.org

Capturables from Bad Hair Day #6. josschuurmans.com

Listening to a "Supernova" panel/radio show about the realtime web.