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[via dive into mark] > I don't want to talk about corporate politics. I want to talk about the tilde. (link)

[via dive into mark] > Phil Ringnalda: "Looks like [yet another person] decided to switch to NetNewsWire Lite. Does it come with crack, or what?" (link)

Details here.

Jim had this cool idea to use weblog software to generate an iCal-compatible vCal file for a blog. Then iCal users could subscribe to it. I want to try this out.

Mark Pilgrim has posted a (exhaustive as far as I can tell) history of the battle over RSS.

Mark Pilgrim points to Bruce Schneier's latest article on the entertainment industry. It contains this pithy bit: "They're trying to invent a new crime: interference with a business model."

Mark Pilgrim was looking for a liberal RSS Parser for Python, I'm now looking for a liberal parser for Java. By liberal I mean that it can handle a large number of types of RSS files as input without borking. It does not mean a parser that cannot handle Rush Limbaugh without borking.

Doc Searls writes a longish essay on the state of "Big Entertainment v. the populace".

Doc Searls is blogging the 'Stevent' live.

The box has a dual G4s, fast L2&3 cache, an ASIC Gigabit Ethernet and FireWire sys controller, Big 266 MHz DDR SdRAM Dual Gigabit ports, quad ATA drives, on a 533MB/s bus, buncha other stuff I can't keep up with. "Fastest architecture we've ever built." (He's been describing the maximum configuration.)

Note to Dave - Mark may have said he does not like outliners; however, he DOES understand the power of an outliner:

I like to edit Python code in an IDE (or in Emacs in python-mode), which autoindents for me and allows me to "fold" code blocks (collapse an outline node) that I'm not currently using. He's already got what you're offering him in Radio's outliner (the one Frontier programmers all love)- but without the ability to easily edit that same script in some other text editor.

Mark Pilgrim investigates OPML. He makes some of the same observations that I've made in the past (unfortunately I don't believe I published any of them, so go read his).

I posted yesterday a response to some comments by Doc Searls at SXSW. Jim responded, which prompted me to respond again. I think my response was one of my better explanations of my political leanings, so I've formalized it here. Seth also had some comments worth checking out.

I'd never used MPW, so when I (almost accidentally) opened up one of BBEdit's new Shell Worksheets, I was a bit perplexed as to what I was looking at. It looked like a lot of text - a document - but there were commands in there as well - and the type of document I was looking at suggested that you could do something with them. Indeed, say the instructions - put the cursor at the end of one of the lines containing a shell command, and BBEdit AutoMagically behind the scenes runs the command in a shell, and dumps the output right into your document. OMG. This is... amazing. Hm. Combine this with a command-line xmlrpc client, and strange (and frightening?) things could happen... Muahahaha -)

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