My friend Alyson’s in Boston as part of the California Delegation to the Democratic Party Convention.
She sent this from the floor:
Today was the first official day of the convention and I’ve only been on the floor for about an hour. Imagine a huge arena with vast numbers of people moving all the time. There is [...]
Thanks to Buzz at SciFiHiFi for putting the blogger dinner together.
It was great to meet the developers of SubEthaEdit, VoodooPad, and Anthracite. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the Pope Room at Beppo de Bupa.
This is the 4,000th post to this weblog.
I’m in the Convention Suite on the 6th floor of the Concourse Hotel at WisCon 28, listening to Cynthia telling the story of how one of Lois Bujold’s anthologies (with Miles’ wedding) was originally published in Croatian.
And a shortlist of Science Fiction Romance because that’s what folks are [...]
Woah, Blogger’s all grown up: permalinks, XHTML, and everything. Well done guys, well done.
And Dave, don’t whinge about Atom, just use XSLT. There’s even an XSLT engine that runs in Frontier/Radio.
[ via The Badger ] Edward Tufte meets Dr. Spock, obsessively records an infant’s sleeping, eating, and pooping, then writes a weblog.
The sections devoted to measuring sleep; and the production, storage, and consumption of milk are classics.
Yes! Howard Waldrop, world cultural heritage treasure, trout fisherman, and writer of fantastic tales now blogs on Infinite Matrix!
I’ve been working with Eileen Gunn, Infinite Matrix’s editor, to get an RSS feed going.
Oh my ghu, Spirit’s really gone and anthropomorphized herself.
And Hubble’s getting philosophical about death.
I’m waiting for Mars 3 to slap them upside the head with a dialectical clue.
It looks like people are jumping into Live Journal’s FOaF data and building interesting tools.
The MindMap project is trying to find clusters of Live Journal users. It’s also distributing the processing load across volunteers’ computers.
Mars 3, the silent Soviet lander, has started radioing reports back to Earth. For some strange reason, the transmissions end up on Live Journal.
When I heard about the Nokia ‘Lifeblog” software, I remembered John Barnes’ In the Hall of the Martian King whose McGuffin was the ‘Lifelog’ of the messianic figure responsible for the world of Barnes’ Jak Jinnaka novels:
“A lifelog was a record, maintained by an AI complex running in background on one’s purse, downloaded into a [...]
Live Journal now supports Friend of a Friend feeds. Go to http://www.livejournal.com/users/username/data/foaf for an example.
You’ll get back a list of all the Live Journal accounts that the user has ‘friended’, along with the links to their FoaF and Journals.
You can also get syndication feeds at http://www.livejournal.com/users/username/data/rss and http://www.livejournal.com/users/username/data/atom.
So you have enough to start building an [...]
Jon expresses my frustration at people angry at Google for switching from RSS to Atom:
The fact that we are now going to have a war over formats that are separated by a trivial XML transformation is almost as depressing as February in New England.
Going back to the classic story of George Leroy Tirebiter:
I don’t know [...]
