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What TypePad wants

Someone has been indexing many (all?) TypePad sites. Here's his listing of hello. It's got a few bugs, but it's still useful and fun You can also search across his entire index (New York (82 posts), Snow (271), Bjork (0??), Sex (155), Fugazi (0??), Election (56)). I want Atom, RSS 1.0 feeds of this! Schadenfreude: Google shoes 1,270 matches for Bjork site:typepad.com.

Kucinich Feeds

Dennis Kucinich Weblog and RSS 1.0 Feeds. He gets the RSS right, I like him. UPDATE: They're not really 'right,' because there's no content, only links. This is totally annoying.

Loving New York

Anil recently wrote about why he loves New York City. Did you know Anil is such a romantic? He writes a mean weblog, but he's a big softy.

Calling out Dean's Tech People

The more I think about The Dean campaign's dismissal of Clark's new technology (below) the angrier I get. The Dean campaign sells itself as being the epitome of Democracy, amplifying the voices of the silent majority and turning that voice into frank talk on the issues. But if that's the case, shouldn't the Dean campaign not only be looking at Clark and Cam's new web site, but they should all be talking about building a web site to integrate all the feeds - Clark's Grassroots Page, DeanSpace and the Clark Community Network. Dave Winer's been writing a lot about this, as has Lord Lessig. It's still about beating Bush, right?

A friend pointed me to this old News of the Weird Headline, and a blog entry where met cnn guy Now, while it may never be quite as inane as that, sometimes it hovers on the surreal. Our main attempt is to bring more information to the viewer. The extra text and graphics we provide are meant to enhance what the viewer may want to know, in addition to what the anchor is saying or the video is showing. cnn about graphics PWP

Sheed

But there is no ambivalence, no question about how he feels, in the strong language he uses to criticize the NBA and how it treats black players. In a league where all but one team owner and a vast majority of the decision-makers are white, a league where an estimated 80 percent of the players are black, race is always an issue just below the surface but one rarely discussed. Rasheed Wallace has been my favorite player since the time I lived in Portland. I'm shocked but pleased to see an even-handed interview with him in the Oregonian. There's a thread over at Sportsfilter, where I talk a little more about my experience with Rasheed in Portland.

News Standards

We've been developing a lot of software and scripts to syndicate our content at work, Howard Dean has a team of people doing it (or more likely Dean has a team that has a team that has a team doing it), and today USA Today wrote about the things Cam Barret is doing for Wesley Clark's handlers. I attended the News Standards Summit (part of the XML Conference) on Monday, and despite the cultural differences between the RDF/ATOM/RSS2/ICE/NEWSML/NITP camps, I noticed that everyone is working on more or less the same problem, which is making it simpler to read and write with a larger audience. So this quote grabbed me:

But Internet politics is still finding its legs, and one blogging celebrity may not impress everyone. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, who founded DraftClark.com and now heads Dean's tech team, said he's never heard of Barrett, although he acknowledges that Clark's blog network joins Dean's "miles ahead of the other candidate's."

Ridiculous! At this moment syndicating news may be a competitive advantage, but next year it won't be. Do you think of having an email address as a competitive advantage? Of course not. These tecnologies have subtle differences, but the end result is that many more people are creative in creative ways (like Anil said). In the next five years, all of these standards and software are going to change in leaps and bounds. Atom is not quite done, but I expect that soon it will be the most popular format supported by the advanced application. I also expect that in the two years after that, something else will replace it. We still cut and paste text into a textarea window, just like we did over at pitas and blogger. Social software doesn't solve problems, it just helps us think about them (examples: who's at short, Scrabble inconsistencies, war, Death.)

JerseyGirl

There's been a lot of talk about Curt Schilling signing with the Red Sox after the fans over at Sons of Sam Horn convinced him they were the best fans in all of baseball. This has caused a flurry of attention towards baseball-focused web sites. With all due respect to the Boston Dirt Dogs, SportsFilter's own JerseyGirl has consistently provided the best Red Sox/A-rod coverage on the In-TAR-net.

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Overheard This Evening

Coldplay sucks, right? You know he must be thinking long term!

Did you mean Beatroot?

No, I meant Ben Trott, damnit! Although we did enjoy Beatroot. Anyway, btrott has released XML::Atom .03, for your hacking/upgrading/syndicating pleasure.

New Photo Albums

Typepad's photo album support is superior to the other weblog services, but that doesn't mean it's perfect; it has been difficult to edit or upload more than one photo at a time. No longer! Using Typepad's new bulk upload feature, I created galleries of our week in London, and our pictorial how-to for good pasta sauce. These folders had been sitting on my iPod for months, waiting for a home. My Mom was teaching in England this Summer, and she was able to get free rooms for the family. Highlights of the trip involved eating and the Chelsea Physic Garden. Notice hello, pasta begins and ends with the garden - the fresh ingredients are the key!

"It Relaxes the Muscles"

I'm fiending with anticipation for the upcoming Hot Chocolate 15K, which was my favorite run last year. But Adriana is already worried about whether or not there will be alcohol at the 25th Annual New Year's Run in Central Park. "If I'm going to catch hypothermia and be cold, I might as well be numb." I guess that makes sense.

Let it Snow

Did you see NYC's first snow of the winter this morning? It was crazy.

World's First Gigapixel Image

This picture of Bryce Point in Utah is possibly the closest image has ever come to reality. From the author's description: Here's another way to think about it. Given that the resolving power of the human eye (under ideal conditions at the center of the retina) is about 1 arcminute (1/60th of one degree), this image captures considerably more detail than I (or any other normal sighted human) was able to see with my eye when standing on the overlook at Bryce Point. Assuming one pixel per arcminute, an image with dimensions of 3780 x 2485 would suffice to capture the amount of detail that the naked eye could resolve. This image has more than 100 times this detail. Looking at the full sized digital image, one is able to see things that might have been difficult or impossible to spot, even when using binoculars. He's looking for suggestions on printing...

Thanks, AOL

The instant message you received was sent to notify you that your screen name is currently signed into the AOL Instant Messaging Network more than once. This can occur if you log onto AIM and AOL on the same PC. This message is sent to help you manage your instant messaging sessions across PC-based and wireless clients. I've wanted AIM to work this way for years.

The Real Moneyball

"The War Between the Street and the Floor" is an article about the reinvention of Goldman Sachs through technology and talent re-evaluation. It reads like the finance version of everyone's favorite bizdevporn MoneyBall: A cadre of technology-obsessed executives who have presided over Goldman's booming bond business have assumed a tight grip on the company. Led by Lloyd C. Blankfein, a former commodities trader who heads the fixed-income, currency and commodities division, the bond traders have taken advantage of electronic trading platforms to make their business a major profit center. ... OVER the past year, Mr. Blankfein and his colleagues have taken a knife to Goldman's comparatively bloated equities division, which, like the N.Y.S.E., relies on people - in this case, research analysts and an equity sales force - to eke out profits from a commission stream that continues to shrivel. Goldman is embracing technology to gain advantages over their competitiors, and cutting out the high-price "power hitter" analysts who are no longer able to generate the profits they used to.

MobileWhack

MobileWhack is the 3650 hacks site I've wanted to do myself, but haven't had the time for. One less item on the todo list (thanks Rael!) Two highlights - unlocking your Nokia and MobileRSS.net. I have some perl code that allows you to duplicate the MobileRSS service pretty trivially, which I'll publish soon.

Link and Think 2003

Today hello.typepad is participating in Link and Think 2003, along with librarian.net, hchamp.com, YMDi.org and hundreds more.

Iraq War Body Count

Now I realize it's not as if thousands of deaths are being hidden, but it is still extremely fucked up that many media sources are reporting the U.S. death toll at roughly 1/3 its actual number. Depending on your news source, the figure can vary from 130 to 398. Zagg counts up the sources counting different casualty numbers. It's amazing anyone can make a decision these days, since it's so difficult to find the truth, or something resembling the truth.