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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:33:49 GMT

$377m lifeline saves struggling NY Times. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has agreed to provide the cash-strapped New York Times Company a $US250 million ($377 million) loan to stave off mounting debts, the newspaper company said. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:48:36 GMT

edna's blogging carnival. edna's Blogging Carnival is a monthly aggregation of 'best blog posts' by educators. Each month Blogging Corner participants can submit a chosen post for inclusion in the edna Blogging Carnival. All submissions will be vetted and currently all Carnivals will be hosted on edublogs. The edna Blogging Carnival edublog is designed to support edna's Blogging Corner collaborative group but the Carnival is also open to other interested educators. The first Carnival will be published on Monday 2 February 2009 and submissions close on Wednesday 28 January 2009. [Vocational Education & Training Headlines]

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:44:55 GMT

One year worth of images give some amazing videos.

One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

So far I’ve made two videos of the images I describe in this article. The one here at the top and another two minutes version. Read on to learn how I did this, to see the other video and to download the videos and images in high quality. And if you want to watch this video here at the top in HD quality you have to click through to Vimeo.

The story

Back in 2005 I did an experiment shooting images out of my window for one year. It turned out pretty cool and in the end of 2007 I decided to do the same. But in much better quality.

So I started shooting images with my Canon 400D. From the same spot each time, but not through my window. I found a spot outside that gave more or less the same framing each time I placed my camera. So, I went out on our balcony snapping some images at pretty irregular intervals all through 2008 .

Each time I snapped the following images:

3 exposures @10mm (Canon EF-S 10-22 F3.5-4.5 USM)
3 exposures @17mm (Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM)
3 exposures @55mm (Canon EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS USM)

All images shot in RAW. The three exposures where: normal, +2 EV and -2 EV.

In addition to the images I decided to record some audio at the same place. Using my Canon S2 IS and my Canon HF10 I recorded simple background sounds trough 2008 as well. Not with exact connections to each image. More with a focus on getting audio from winter, spring, summer and autumn.

All together giving me a pretty decent range of material to put together some experiments.

Then what? The videos…

Link to this video in HD on YouTube.

At the top of this article you find a 40 second version that show one year. Using the 10mm wide angle images. Right above you find a two minute version made from the 55mm zoomed in images.

First I used Photomatix to make HDR images of the ones I decided to use. Mostly because the HDR effect makes the images flat so that the difference in light and shadows won’t disturb the transitions in my video.

Then I used Photoshop to align all the images. Placing the camera manually at the same spot each time won’t give the exact same spot. So I needed some fine adjustment. Photoshop does this. Here’s how:

First load the images you have chosen into layers by using “File->Scripts->Load files into stack“

When you have found all your files make sure to check “Attempt to automatically align…“

Give your computer huge amounts of time and get back when it has finished. Now Photoshop has adjusted all the images and put them on separate layers in one file. The next thing you have to do is to crop the image. Because of the adjustments the images are not the exact same size. A crop will do the trick.

When the computer is done cropping you export the layers to files. “File->Scripts->Export Layers to files“

Now you have a folder with a bunch of images with the same framing. I decided to do simple dissolves between them.

And ended up with a project in Final Cut Express that looked like the image above. I didn’t want one dissolve at a time. I wanted to make some kind of flow where one dissolve is taken over by the new one before it is finished. As you can see from the timeline my dissolves overlap.

The free downloads

First of all: please comment here or contact me if you use the images. I’ll link to all cool projects made from these files!

All the images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. In other words: Use them non commercially as long as you give me credit and as long as you share the work you do under the same license.

For commercial use please contact me. I have all the images in the original 10 megapixel RAW files.

And where are the files?

Images:
10mm wide angle aligned HDR images in this flickr set.
All the images from that Flickr set in a ZIP file.
55mm zoomed in aligned HDR images in this flickr set.
All the images from that Flickr set in a ZIP file.

Audio:
The audio as WAV in a ZIP file

Video:
40 second movie, 8 mbit/s H264, 1280×720 25p
Two minutes movie, 8 mbit/s H264, 1280×720 25p

But I know what I’m doing and want the full resolution RAW files to make something really cool!

Please comment here or contact me and I’ll provide you with what you want. RAW files, video footage, more audio from the same spot etc…

Whats’s next?

Eh. Well. I just upgraded my camera to a Canon 5D Mark II. Giving me a possibility of getting even higher quality footage from this nice view of some trees… Guess I’ll snap some images on my balcony through 2009 as well.

[eirikso.com]

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:26:52 GMT

Sling Media debuts iPhone client, Mac HD; due in Q1. EchoStar's Sling Media on Tuesday announced it will demo a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone at the Expo and will deliver a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone to Apple for certification in Q1. Sling Media also unveiled a prototype of a new SlingPlayer for Mac HD which allows Slingbox PRO-HD users to stream HD to their Mac desktop or laptop computer. The new SlingPlayer for Mac HD is a...

[MacNN | The Macintosh News Network]

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:49:18 GMT

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of blogging. Here's a zip archive containing the source of the last 10 years of Scripting News.

Since Scripting News existed before blogs were invented, I went ahead and included the stuff that I blogged before there were blogs.

I hope this isn't too confusing!

"cheesecake"

PS: Scott Karp asks if blogs can do journalism. Try this question. Can journalists do journalism? At best they seem to be able to copy each other, so mistakes propogate.

We've made so many accomplishments, both before and after the coining of the term, Karp for example starts with VIgnette. In 1997 if you told someone the functions of Vignette could be provided to millions of people virtually for free they wouldn't have believed you. (This is factual btw, I did, and wasn't believed.)

They also thought syndication would be done by the big publishing companies, something unweildy called ICE. We thought it should be simpler so that anyone could support it on both ends, and we won. The journalists have no record of this probably because they believed the big companies behind ICE and ignored the low-tech stuff. Jorn Barger used my software to do his "web log" -- why isn't that part of the story? Well it isn't if all you think is important is the choosing of the name.

[Scripting News]

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:13:31 GMT

Amazon removes the database scaling wall. When Amazon introduced S3 in March 2006 I knew I would use it and I was sure a lot of other developers would. I saw it as a solution to a problem we all have -- storage that scales up when needed, and scales down when not. Otherwise we all have to buy as much bandwidth as we need in peak periods. With S3, you pay for what you use. It makes storage for Internet services more rational. Later they did the same for processors and queuing. And a couple of days ago they announced a lightweight scalable database, using the same on-demand philosophy and simple architecture and API. It's going to be a huge hit and forever change the way apps are developed for the Internet.

I was explaining the significance of this to Scoble on the phone this morning. It's worth repeating here.

When I developed Frontier in the late 80s and early 90s my target platform was a modern desktop computer, a few megabytes of RAM, a half-gig of disk, a few megahertz CPU. A system capable of running Quark XPress, Hypercard or Filemaker. It would be used to develop apps that would drive desktop publishing. Later, it was used to generate static websites, then a demonstration of democracy (a multi-author ultra-simple CMS), then news sites, which became weblogs, then blogs, and editthispage.com, Manila, weblogs.com, and that's when scaling became an issue. (Later we side-stepped the scaling issue by moving most of the processing to the desktop with Radio 8.)

As we approached then cracked ease of use in web authoring, scaling became an issue, then the issue.

A Manila server would work fine for a few thousand sites, but after that it would bog down because the architecture couldn't escape the confines of a single machine it was designed for in the 80s. (Before you say it's obsolete, there still are a lot of apps for single machines. Perl, Python, JavaScript and Java share the same design philosophy.)

Same with weblogs.com. It worked great when there were a few thousand blogs. Once we hit 50K or so, we had to come up with a new design. Eventually we were tracking a couple million, and Frontier was hopelessy outclassed by the size of the problem.

If only Amazon's database had been there, both Manila and weblogs.com could have been redesigned to keep up. It would have been a huge programming task for Manila, but it would have made it economically possible.

Today, when a company raises VC, it's probably because their app has achieved a certain amount of success and to get to the next level of users they need to spend serious money on infrastruture. There's a serious economic and human wall here. You need to buy hardware and find the people who know how to make a database scale. The latter is the hard problem, the people are scarce and the big companies are bidding up the price for their time. Now Amazon is willing to sell you that, to turn this scarce thing into a commodity, at what likely is a very reasonable price. (Haven't had time to analyze this yet, but the other services are.) Key point, the wall is gone, replaced with a ramp. If you coded your database in Amazon to begin with you will never see the wall. As you need more capacity you have to do nothing, other than pay your bill.

Further, the design of Amazon's database is remarkably like the internal data structures of modern programming languages. Very much like a hash or a dictionary (what Perl and Python call these structures) or Frontier's tables, but unlike them, you can have multiple values with the same name. In this way it's like XML. I imagine all languages have had to accomodate this feature of XML (we did in Frontier), so they should all map pretty well on Amazon's structure. This was gutsy, and I think smart.

They're going down a road we went down with XML-RPC and then SOAP. There may be some bumps along the way but there are no dead-ends, no deal-stoppers. All major environments can be adapted to work with this data structure, unless I'm missing something (standard disclaimers apply).

Their move makes many things possible. As I said earlier, if it existed when we had to scale weblogs.com, we would certainly have used it. One could build an open identity system on it, probably in an afternoon, it would be perfect for that. A Twitter-like messaging system, again, would be easy. It's amazing that Microsoft and Google are sitting by and letting Amazon take all this ground in developer-land without even a hint of a response. It seems likely they have something in the works. Let's hope there's some compatibility.

[Scripting News]

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:50:56 GMT

Why care about online rights. MELBOURNE: Prepared for Rights Online, Arts Law Week, in association with OPEN CHANNEL and Cinema Nova, 9 May 2007.... [apc.au ICT Rights Monitor]

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:26:28 GMT

New website accessibility tool released. A new website accessibility tool has been developed in Australia to improve learning for students and teachers with disabilities, particularly those who are blind or have low vision. The new program has been developed by national ICT agency education.au, the Department of Education, Science and Training and leading not-for-profit organisation Vision Australia. [Vocational Education & Training Headlines]

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:20:50 GMT

Larry Lessig presents at TED: Nails it.

TED put up a new video of Larry Lessig's presentation at the TED Conference from earlier this year. The title of his fantastic talk: "How creativity is being strangled by the law." I have seen many presentations by Larry. They are always good and delivered in his unique "Lessig-Method" style. Usually his talks are on the long side, 45-60 mins or more. Question: How would Larry's talk be if he only had 18 minutes? Answer: Even better. Standing-ovation better. The 18-minute constraint forced Larry into making the best talk I have ever seen him make. He nailed it. His content was good, the argument was logical (even if you do not agree with it) and his visuals and the way he effortlessly controlled the visuals behind him is the perfect demo for the way it should be done.

Larry usually stays behind or near the podium, though he is also close the screen. Nothing wrong with this. I personally prefer to get rid of the computer stand and use the whole stage. But there is nothing wrong with standing in one place so long as you are out there in the front "naked" close to the audience. Larry's style is a bit professorial (he is after all a professor), but he is engaged, passionate, and certainly engages the audience with a combination of good logic, interesting and relevant storytelling, and simple, effective multimedia support delivered in a smooth fashion. No bullet points. No off-the-shelf template. Three stories, one argument, and a core message that is memorable and "sticky." See video below.

Lessig: "A growing copyright abolitionism...a generation that rejects the very notion of what copyright is suppose to do. Rejects copyright and believes that the law is nothing more than an ass to be ignored."

Larry's performance proves that it can be done. You too can make compelling, smart, and logical presentations enhanced by slideware (he's using Keynote). There are no excuses. Watch, learn, and share this video. Excellent stuff. Bravo, Professor Lessig.

Larry Lessig's website

[Presentation Zen]

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:09:59 GMT

The Robot in the Newsroom. The New York Times redesigned technology Web page uses Blogrunner software that automates the discovery of relevant technology stories. By SAUL HANSELL. [NYT > Technology]

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:07:52 GMT

YouTube lets users map videos onto Google Earth. RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Google Inc is bringing the world of online video and map-making closer together by allowing users of its Google Earth software to watch and hear YouTube videos mapped to specific locations. [Reuters: Technology]

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:49:15 GMT

Australia's audiovisual heritage online. Australia's audiovisual heritage is available for free via the internet following the launch of the Australian Film Commission's groundbreaking digital resource, australianscreen online, with a focus on creating a relevant and engaging tool for educators around the country. This $2.4m initiative offers unparalleled access to a vast collection of excerpts of Australian feature films, television drama, documentaries, newsreels and other historical material gathered from the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Archives of Australia, the ABC, SBS and AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) as well as from Australia's independent production sector. australianscreen online has been developed in partnership with the Curriculum Corporation, through the Le@rning Federation. Students and teachers can study various audiovisual excerpts, supported with teachers' notes written specifically by the Curriculum Corporation. Australian Film Commission, 18 July 2007. [edna education news]

Wed, 30 May 2007 06:01:16 GMT

DRM-free iTunes set this week?. Apple is prepared to launch its DRM-free catalog of music from EMI this week, according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores. The seeming delay for introducing the new tier of content has been primarily attributed to a desire to offer the entire catalog at once in the unprotected format rather than a gradua... [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network]

Tue, 22 May 2007 08:48:21 GMT

MySpace to Share Data With States on Offenders. The names, addresses and online profiles of known convicted sex offenders will be handed over to authorities in all 50 states. By BRAD STONE. [NYT > Technology]

Mon, 21 May 2007 06:07:31 GMT

My Next Book: "FREE".

So the word is out. I've sealed the deal on my next book, to be called "FREE". Here's how New York Magazine described it:

Long Tail Author Sells Next: Chris Anderson, author of much-cited paradigm-shifter The Long Tail, sells new book Free to Will Schwalbe at Hyperion. Agent is John Brockman. New title explores "the most radical price of all [base ']Äî zero [base ']Äî in the context of the economics of abundance." Times Magazine editors crack knuckles.

I actually have no idea what that last sentence means.

The book is due to be finished by mid-2008, for publication as soon after that as possible.

Here are some of the subtitles I've been kicking around:

1) FREE: The story of a radical price (zero)

2) FREE: How $0.00 changed the world

3) FREE: How companies get rich by charging nothing

4) FREE: The economics of abundance and the marketplace without money

5) FREE: The past and future of a radical price.

I kind of like #5. What do you think?

[The Long Tail]

Fri, 11 May 2007 13:09:27 GMT

Internet encyclopedia to list all 1.8 mln species. BONN, Germany (Reuters) - From apples to zebras, all 1.8 million known plant and animal species will be listed in an Internet-based "Encyclopedia of Life" under a $100 million project, scientists said on Tuesday. [Reuters: Technology]

Wed, 09 May 2007 03:16:30 GMT

Rupert Murdoch, Longtailer.

From the fantastic Forbes special issue on Networks, a piece by Rupert Murdoch that shows why he stands out as the one old school media tycoon best prepared to adapt to the new world (i.e. MySpace wasn't a fluke):

Media companies don't control the conversation anymore, at least not to the extent that we once did. The big hits of the past were often, if not exactly flukes, then at least the beneficiaries of limited options. Of course a film is going to be a success if it's the only movie available on a Saturday night. Similarly, when three networks divided up a nation of 200 million, life was a lot easier for television executives. And not so very long ago most of the daily newspapers that survived the age of consolidation could count themselves blessed with monopolies in their home cities.
All that has changed. Options abound. Fans of small niches can now find new content they could never before. Going elsewhere for news and entertainment is easier and cheaper than ever. And people's expectations of media have undergone a revolution. They are no longer content to be a passive audience; they insist on being participants, on creating their own material and finding others who will want to read, listen and watch.

Read the whole thing here. And get the print edition to read the rest of the excellent essays--it's one of the most thought-provoking special issues I've read in years (yes, I'm a bit envious).

[The Long Tail]

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:53:05 GMT

CSSEdit 2.5 Makes CSS Even Easier. It's not Peter Cottontail hopping down the bunny trail this week, but MacRabbit Software, with a significant update to CSSEdit, their sleek and powerful tool for making, editing, and understanding Cascading Style Sheets. (See "CSSEdit 2 to the Rescue!" 2007-01-29.) It's easy to understand the theoretical elegance of CSS for building modern Web sites, but when you're faced either with a blank page or a jumbled-up mess of someone else's styles, CSS can seem overwhelming. CSSEdit 2.0 went a long wa... By ace@tidbits.com (Adam C. Engst). [TidBITS]

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:21:27 GMT

TV news of the future?.

Here's a mockup of how TV news may work in the future.

How I came up with this view...

I was drinking coffee, watching the morning news when a story about Virginia Tech came on MSNBC. I really wanted to begin this week without more stories about how they're coping. I know this makes me an ogre, but after listening to On The Media yesterday, my cynicism is validated. And after watching 60 Minutes about life in Baghdad, the first report I've seen to actually go in to get the story, I was aware that people are dying in places outside Blacksburg (and truthfully, the dying is probably over in Blacksburg).

I had a flash, I want a checkbox that tells MSNBC that I don't want any more Virginia Tech stories.

Then came breaking news that Boris Yeltsin had died. In my ideal news system, the screen would refresh and a checkbox entitled Yeltsin would be added, checked by default. If, after hearing the first report, I didn't want to hear more, I could uncheck it. No doubt a biography is coming, and testimonials, and interviews with Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. I am interested in this stuff, Yeltsin is history, but there may come a time when I'd prefer more news about Alberto Gonzales, and I definitely want to hear anything they have on the Internet or Macintosh, or the impeachment of President Bush.

And there are some longterm stories that I have an interest in, like Katrina, or topics that because of my past I want to stay tuned into, like NY Metro. I live in the Bay Area, so I want to be informed about news there, but mix it in with news of the world. As we head into baseball's post-season, I'll check Sports, but it's still early, and I'll look for the news of my teams on the net, myself.

I think this is another form of the River of News, the checkboxes represent subscriptions. I could see MSNBC including stories produced by CNN, and sharing revenue with them. The goal is to get the best news experience tailored to the interests of specific users. I don't want to interfere with people who want to see the Virginia Tech students go back to class, but I want to move on, and want my news provider to respect that. (And I still want the choice to see Cho's videos, I think that was the solution to the problems Howie Kurtz was concerned with on the Reliable Sources. Note that media navel-gazing is not checked in my customized view. This permits them to talk about themselves all they want, which is fine with me.)

I'd like a button that means "Go on to the next story."

I thought I would write this up, but why not go a step further and mockup a prototype page, because it might stimulate some thought and other ideas.

And if you have comments, please let me know.

[Scripting News]

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:28:26 GMT

Black hole found!.

Here's Discovery's map of the blogosphere. Actually, it's one small Matthew Hurst of Nielsen Buzzmetrics. Here's his Data Mining blog, where most recently he pointed to a seminar titled How to Read 100 Million Blogs (and How to Classify Deaths without Physicians), where a series of links leads to a serious paper that says stuff like

...adapt a technique called simulation-extrapolation (SIMEX) to the problem of imperfectly coded content analyses, which has not been done before. SIMEX is due to Cook and Stefanski (1994), turns out to be closely related to the jackknife (Stefanski and Cook, 1995), and has subsequently been applied in other areas (Carroll, Maca and Ruppert, 1999; Küchenohoff, Mwalili and Lassaffre, 2006).

We trust Matthew to understand this stuff. Or at least I do.

Here are some way cool maps of the old 'sphere, including the one above. About that he says,

By showing only the links in the graph, we can get a far better look at the structure than if we include all the nodes. In this image, we are looking at the core of the blogosphere. The dark edges show the reciprocal links (where A has cited B and B has cited A), the lighter edges indicate a-reciprocal links. The larger, denser area of the graph is that part of the blogosphere generally characterised by socio-political discussion (the periphery contains some topical groupings). Above and to the left is that area of the blogosphere concerned with technical discussion and gadgetry.

AH! There it is! Notice that there is still some air, some space, some gray, in the "technical discussions and gadgetry" zone, while the "socio-political discussion" has gone black in the middle? Huh? Okay.

Now go back and read what I said here and here about "black hole" discussions. One sample:

Back when it was still true, Don Norman said "Microsoft is a conversational black hole. Drop the subject into the middle of a room and it sucks everybody into a useless place from which no light can escape."
I used to think the blogosphere was large enough to provide enough distance from black hole subjects that at least some illumination was possible. Now I'm not so sure. Some black hole subjects have event horizons that out-distance anyone's ability to bring constuctive thought to bear on a subject [~] much less to support the telling of helpful stories in mainstream media, which too often subordinate fact-providing to story-telling in any case.

Then also go back and read what I said here on the blog the "snowball effect":

But if you start with an idea, whether partly formed or whole, whether yours or somebody else's, and push it in the downhill direction that all blogging (thanks to links and RSS) essentially goes, it's bound to have some impact once it grows large enough. And as long as it keeps going.

... and look at what I said in a talk at OSCON last summer, starting here. (Keep clicking that almost-invisible link in the upper right. It says "next".)

Note that the difference between a snowball and a black hole is not only that between light and dark, but that between progress and its opposite [~] or perhaps (to borrow from Virginia Postrel) dynamism and stasis. Both grow, but one goes somewhere and the other doesn't.

I realize now that much of what I have come to know, understand and believe about blogging was gained by techblogging, and hanging with techies. Or at least people in tech fields. The practice of vetting half-backed and provisional ideas [~] scaffolding understanding, when that's the best we can do, so far [~] is ideally suited to tech projects and subjects, and getting progress going.

Progress also happens in the socio-political zone of the 'sphere. I am constantly amazed at what is being done with politics. Amazing, constructive and good work. (The Personal Democracy Forum is a wonderful window into that work, as well as an instrument of it.) On some transient, highly charged topics, however... whoa. Politics and politicized topics often produce severe clustering. Sometimes those turn into black holes, meaning that trying to change minds from the outside is a losing proposition.

Anyway, this is one of those provisional posts. My mind isn't made up here. I'm just looking at stuff I've been thinking out loud about the new light of Matthew Hurst's insights and visualizations.

Now I need to pack for Brussels and London. See ya there.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:10:15 GMT

Google Desktop for Mac released (Macworld.com). Macworld.com - Google on Wednesday will release Google Desktop for Mac, marking the first time the search giant will make its desktop tool available to Mac users. Mac users already have a search tool with Apple’s Spotlight, but Google said its utility will work alongside the Mac OS X 10.4 feature perfectly. [Yahoo! News: Apple/Macintosh News]

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:44:51 GMT

iTunes to offer DRM-free music from EMI. At the special event in London on Monday, EMI Music announced that it is launching new premium downloads for retail on a global basis, making all of its digital music available at a much higher sound quality than existing downloads and free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions and that Apple iTunes Store will be the first retailer to off... [MacNN | The Macintosh News Network]

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:37:07 GMT

The future of UserLand.

It pains me to watch the traffic on the UserLand support lists, because it looks like there's no one but Lawrence at the company these days. The person we hired to be CEO, Scott Young, now has a job at another company, PostPath, and it looks like a full-time job. But he hasn't resigned, and doesn't respond to requests for information about how the company is doing. It's bizarre because I am the founder of the company, one of only two board members, and own the majority of stock in the company. It seems he has moved on, but doesn't want to let those of us who continue to have an interest in the company take care of it.

It seems to me that this is unfair to the users of the Manila, Radio and Frontier. I watch them ask questions on the mail list, and help each other, but what hope is there for the future? Will there ever be a new release of the products? I see small fixes come sporadically, but I don't know where they're coming from.

So I wonder what the users think-- what kind of future should UserLand have? Do you think we should try to revive the company and products, or perhaps it would be better if we GPL'd the remaining software, and let the community try to take care of itself? (Note that I am in the community myself, I continue to use the products.)

Post a comment here if you have some thoughts about this.

Doc Searls pays for Radio. He says: "I have great appreciation for Lawrence's reliable and tireless help over the years."

[Scripting News]

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:16:25 GMT

NY Times update.

I was trolling around looking for another Twitter-related project this morning and I came across a comment from a guy who works at the NY Times saying that: 1. The other nytimes account on Twitter is from the Times itself! 2. They've been there since March 5. 3. They're planning to do more with feeds in Twitter. 4. And they welcome competition.

My first comment to all that: Awesome!

I didn't know who was doing the NY Times twitter-river, but it's great that it's the Times itself. I love it when we get into this mode, where things are moving so fast when on March 18 you can boast (legitimately) that you've been doing it since March 5! That's when you know we're rising up the curve quickly. Reminds me of when podcasting was catching on.

http://twitter.com/nyt

I have more stuff planned too. ";->"

Let's have fun!

PS: Jacob Harris from the Times elaborates in a comment here.

[Scripting News]

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:40:08 GMT

EU takes aim at Apple over iTunes (Reuters).

Reuters - European Union consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has hit out at Apple Inc.'s bundling of its popular iPod music players and its iTunes/> [Yahoo! News: Apple/Macintosh News]