I composed my R.E.M. and Jesus Christ post in OmniOutliner (for which I still need to get a license - outlines of < 20 lines are useless) and it reminded me once again of my love of writing in an outliner. I really would like to have a "compose-in-outline" mode in Sid one day.

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A new Cocoa book, Cocoa Programming, is shipping. Not sure what the deal is with the anemone on the cover though. Authors Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, and Don Yacktman are serious long-time Cocoa hackers, and the aspiring Cocoa jedi would be foolish to ignore their tome.

As several people have already noted, Google has made some major changes in their most recent update. The weblogging community was hit hard... (link)

[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)

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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".