Progress Report for Net Censors

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Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
The President's Pal and Business Partner Will Make Millions From Drug Card Program He Helped Design .. The Progress Report: 'Imminent' Semantics; Playing the Blame Game 1/30 .. IRAQ - Intel Warnings Ignored

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Progress Report

Progress Report 01/27/2003 08:03 PM

I've been making some progress on polishing off the new web design. Below are some things I've fixed worth noting:

• Disabling of Javascript in comment links.
• RSS improvements
  • The RSS feed works in aggregators now (like Sinderella and Amphetadesk).
  • I've added the dc:date field to my feed now for easier viewing in aggregation programs.

And some things I'm working on:

• I am working on getting my CMS ready for release.
• New email validation for the comments.
• Extensive mac testing (the Mac I was using for testing at work was taken away for repair. I've heard Safari doesn't work with the dynamic stuff here, I'll be correcting that ASAP).
• Comment previewing
• Non-dynamic commenting
• Switching to a new webhost (reccomendations?)

Elsewhere, one of my two cats is being features over at Stonefishspine's ZenCat. This is the rather large, but perpetually friendly (despite how he looks in the photo) Monty. Drop by and leave a haiku.

NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report

NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report 06/25/2004 04:59 PM

We had hoped to ship NetNewsWire 2.0 before WWDC—or at least have a public beta released. But, well, I was optimistic. It looks like it will have to wait until July.

Just so you know, here’s where it’s at...

The major new features are all in testing, except for synching, which I’ve been concentrating on this week. As soon as synching is in testing—either this week or right after WWDC—then all that remains is adding a couple small features, fixing bugs, and adding polish.

In other words, we’re just about to turn the corner and enter the home stretch.

We have a large group of testers, and they’ve been doing a great job of banging on things. Stability is job #1, and it appears to be at least as stable as 1.0.8, if not more so. Performance is also important—some of our testers have huge subscription lists that we’ve been testing with, and we’ve done a bunch of work to make NetNewsWire faster.

(Stability and performance are ongoing jobs, of course, and we’ll continue to work on them after 2.0 ships. Every app could be faster and more stable.)

Dilemma

My dilemma is: when should we release a public beta?

On one hand I want the public beta to be highly polished, so that people get a good impression of the app.

But on the other hand I’m eager to have you get a chance to use all the new features, even if they’re not quite perfect yet.



As an example of what I mean, look at the tabs above. Note how the close button is on the right side. This is an example of the many little details that need to be cleared up before shipping the final version. (Should the close buttons be on the left, a la Safari? But then should the favicon move to the right? Should it be a pref? Or...?)

With a closed testing program, everybody has a stake in improving the app. With a public beta, lots of people evaluate it as if it’s a finished, shipping app—which isn’t fair to the software, but they do it anyway.

So I’m torn between releasing the public beta early, before it’s very polished yet, and releasing it later, when it’s very close to being the final, shipping version.

What do you think? Would it be dumb to release the public beta sooner rather than later, or should I just go for it, release it at the soonest possible date?

A few facts

I’ve mentioned these things before, but I figured I’d repeat them since they’ve scrolled off my weblog...

NetNewsWire 2.0 will be a free upgrade. Everybody who bought (or will buy) 1.x will get all 2.x updates for free.

And here’s a partial list of the new features in 2.0:

Searching
Flagged items
Sample style sheets
Embedded browsing
Smart lists (like smart playlists in iTunes)
Scripted feeds
Search engine feeds
Activity window
Errors window
Synching
Support for external weblog editors
Importing/exporting OPML with groups
Atom feed support
Persistence
Per-feed refresh settings
Suspended feeds

Wayport Progress Report

Wayport Progress Report 01/09/2004 09:52 PM
Wayport has built Wi-Fi networks in over 800 locations, including 35,000 hotel rooms: The company has an additional 20,000 hotel rooms sold, soon to be built. In the last six months of 2003, Wayport logged a 113 percent increase in customer connections--defined as sessions of unlimited use in one location--over the same time frame a year earlier. Wayport's revenues for the fourth quarter 2003 grew 87 percent over the same quarter in 2002....

Progress Report On PDF Archiving
Standard

Progress Report On PDF Archiving
Standard 05/31/2004 05:38 AM
Progress Report On PDF Archiving Standard
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25986-1.html

The Federal Publishers Committee is hard at work developing an archiving version of Adobe's Portable Document Format and hopes to release a draft of the PDF/A standard early next year. Committee member Stephen Levenson says the plan is to have a final standard out by the end of 2005, which will be submitted to the International Organization for Standardization for approval as an international standard. The need for an archiving standard is clear, says Levenson. Because Adobe encourages organizations to use its PDF specifications to create their own software for use with PDF file, that customized software may introduce extra features or functionality that make it impossible for outsiders to access certain segments of a file. PDF/A will codify a stripped-down version of the PDF format that will be platform-neutral. PDF/A will standardize aspects of meta-tagging, color representation and multiple language support, and will also require that all fonts used in a document be embedded in the document itself. Once the PDF/A standard has been approved, the committee hopes that software vendors will incorporate it into their own PDF readers and generators. Levenson says he envisions PDF software that would include the PDF/A as a "save as" option, making it easy for users to create archive-ready documents.

Windows Longhorn: a progress report

Windows Longhorn: a progress report 04/18/2005 04:25 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 18 2005 8:18AM GMT

Regulator becomes target over 3G
progress: report

Regulator becomes target over 3G
progress: report 04/18/2005 08:04 AM
etnet.com.hk Apr 18 2005 10:03AM GMT

New GAO Report Indicates Progress Still
Needed on E-Gov't Initiatives

New GAO Report Indicates Progress Still
Needed on E-Gov't Initiatives 12/24/2004 01:07 PM
BeSpacific Dec 23 2004 3:24AM GMT

A progress report on InfoWorld's
del.icio.us experiment

A progress report on InfoWorld's
del.icio.us experiment 06/05/2005 11:36 PM
Now that InfoWorld's experiment with del.icio.us tagging has been running for a while, it's a good time to step back and assess how things are going. Let's start with this column on AJAX,which I wrote back in April. If you visit that page, you'll find this widget near the top of the right column: ...

Gates gives progress report on fight
against spam

Gates gives progress report on fight
against spam 06/29/2004 10:44 AM
Customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service play an integral part in the company's fight against junk e-mail, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an open letter Monday. He also dismissed the idea of generating revenue from spammers by imposing a charge for sending e-mail.

Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM

Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM 06/29/2004 07:05 PM

First report on actual progress vs UK
national eGovernment strategy

First report on actual progress vs UK
national eGovernment strategy 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 18 2003 3:11AM ET

Progress report on the Frontier open
source release

Progress report on the Frontier open
source release 08/31/2004 07:43 AM

We're getting close to the open source release of Frontier. I believe it will happen before the end of September.

Technically, the software is ready to go. Andre Radke, who was the last full-time maintainer of the code at UserLand, up until four years ago, when he returned to be a full-time physics grad student, did the work to get the code ready. Steve Zellers at Apple has also been participating. I see Andre and Steve as the two leaders of the project once the release has taken place. I trust both of them, I can't imagine two better people to entrust this project to. I see myself as playing an advisory role, writing scripts to test new versions, and representing Frontier as a legal entity.

The one remaining issue to decide is the license agreement. I guess this has always been so, but now it's the crucial decision, once it's made, the release can proceed. Here's my current thinking, after having talked with several lawyers with experience in open source software, and having read up on various approaches, this is what I've come up with. (Note I am not a lawyer, I am posting this so that lawyers can comment publicly.)

1. No breakage. I want old scripts continue to run in new environments. A lot has been invested in code that runs in the Frontier environment, one of the reasons to release the kernel as source is so that those apps will run better, in more operating systems. I want to limit incentives for people to fork based on compatibility. I don't want to create a dozen semi-clones of Frontier, rather I want to incentivize people to add to the culture, add new features, fix user interface bugs, but not to break apps.

2. I want it to be possible to create a commercial business from the code base. However, I want the general rule to be that if you make an improvement to the code, you must share it on equal terms.

I think these two goals clearly imply a base license that's GPL-like, with an option for a more liberal license, for either a cash fee, or an agreement to remain compatible, or a combination of fee and agreement. This is a derivative of the MySQL license system.

I'm looking for feedback from lawyers who have experience with open source licenses, and developers who have released code under open source licenses, and people who have used code under open source licenses. The best form of feedback is in public, on a weblog, so you can send a URL and I can point to it. I'm not opening a comment thread on this becuase it's sure to only attract unconstructive comments.

Note that we are not trying to shake up the world, or change what anyone does, or kill anything, or necessarily even create anything. So comments that say things like "This will never kill Apache" or "Python already has too much of a lead" while quite common, always miss the point.

For an idea of why I'm releasing Frontier as open source, please refer to this article I wrote in May.

Progress Report On National Digital Info
Preservation Program

Progress Report On National Digital Info
Preservation Program 05/22/2004 06:50 AM
Progress Report On National Digital Info Preservation Program
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0503/mgt-campbell-05-03-04.a sp

Laura Campbell, associate librarian for strategic initiatives at the Library of Congress, says of her work spearheading the LC's collaborative National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, "It's the best job I ever had." Campbell and her colleagues are finishing up their review of 22 proposals from potential preservation partners and are working with experts to construct a technical architecture for the preservation process. Nearly 5 terabytes of digital works characterized as "at risk" have been collected so far. They include Web pages that document recent events, such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the ongoing war in Iraq. Librarians used to worry about preserving access to books and periodicals, says Campbell, but with most Web sites staying up an average of only 44 days, preserving access to them is far more complicated. In addition, the copyright issues surrounding long-term preservation of digital journals, books, and audio and video material have yet to be resolved. "There may be technological solutions that make the management of restricted material much easier," says Campbell. Because so much about digital preservation is yet unknown, Campbell says the library's strategy is to learn by doing and be prepared to make corrections along the way. She credits the many experts she consulted during the planning phase of the program with impressing upon her the need for continuing flexibility: "It helped us realize that we would always be learning and adjusting," says Campbell.

Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report

Executive Email: Preserving and
Enhancing the Benefits of Email — A
Progress Report 06/28/2004 03:12 PM
In the latest in an occasional series of e-mails to Microsoft customers, Microsoft's chairman provides an update on the progress of efforts to curb the epidemic of junk e-mail.

Macromedia - Macromedia.com Progress
Report: Beta 1

Macromedia - Macromedia.com Progress
Report: Beta 1 03/14/2003 06:21 PM
Al Ramadan's report on what Macromedia has learned from their Beta-1 release .. public and informative mea culpa .. report .. here

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HD Audio: Progress, But Still a Work in
Progress

HD Audio: Progress, But Still a Work in
Progress 09/10/2004 06:51 PM
Intel's High Definition Audio is beginning to ship on some 915 and 925-based motherboards, but is HD Audio a solution without a problem? And what about DVD-Audio support?

Building a Progress Bar that Doesn't
Progress

Building a Progress Bar that Doesn't
Progress 09/23/2004 12:55 AM
In many situations, accurately estimating the length of a certain process (copying a large file, loading data from a server, retrieving files from the Internet) would be both difficult and inefficient. What you end up with is a process that is going to take long enough to make the user wait, yet you have no easy way to indicate the percentage of the task that has completed. A regular progress bar would be rather meaningless, so you need some form of "Working…" indicator.

Our Brave Censors

Our Brave Censors 01/07/2004 07:05 PM
I?d like to take some time to recognize some especially brave Americans. These men and women work long hours, face?

The sites China censors

The sites China censors 04/12/2005 11:59 PM
The OpenNet Initiative (U of Toronto, Berkman Center and U of Cambridge) is releasing a report on Thursday about the sites China prevents its citizens from seeing. From the press advisory about the press conference: "Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005" documents the degree to which the Chinese government controls and manipulates the information environment in which its citizens including websites, blogs, email, and online discussion forums. Since ONI last released on filtering in China in 2002, the Chinese government has developed far more sophisticated filtering techniques. Using a distributed testing application run from within China's trusted volunteers from different...

Other News: Apple's Censors

Other News: Apple's Censors 05/10/2004 10:23 AM
Apple censors won't let you mention "masturbation" in an iMix title, but they think jokes about "getting chicks pregnant" are OK.

Google accused of pandering to censors

Google accused of pandering to censors 09/26/2004 08:35 PM
Telegraph Sep 27 2004 0:26AM GMT

Google obeys Chinese censors

Google obeys Chinese censors 09/26/2004 08:36 PM
Australian IT Sep 26 2004 11:06PM GMT

* Google censors news in China

* Google censors news in China 09/26/2004 07:01 AM
Taipeitimes.com - Sun Sep 26, 08:53 am GMT

SNL gets "penis nose" past censors

SNL gets "penis nose" past censors 03/22/2005 05:01 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Where is the outrage?

"Keen observers of a sketch about a celebrity roast of Clint Eastwood might have noticed something peculiar about how the show's host, David Spade, was made up to look like Owen Wilson.

His nose looked like a penis. Not 'kind of like a penis'; it looked like a urologically-correct appendage, right down to what we believe is called the dorsal vein."

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Microsoft censors Chinese bl0gs

Microsoft censors Chinese bl0gs 06/17/2005 05:05 PM
Microsoft's Chinese internet service is censoring what people can say in their online journals.

Google censors news in China

Google censors news in China 09/26/2004 01:47 AM
Taipei Times Online Sep 26 2004 5:49AM GMT

How this got past the liberal censors at
the NY Times is beyond me

How this got past the liberal censors at
the NY Times is beyond me 08/31/2004 01:52 PM
Protesters' Encounters With Delegates on the Town Turn Ugly

nytimes.com/2004/08/31/politics/campaign/31protest.html?ei=5006 &en=a9ba78aba9c3fa99&ex=1094616000&partner=ALTAVISTA1&pagewanted=print &position=
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* Google censors text ads in new e-mail
service

* Google censors text ads in new e-mail
service 06/22/2004 05:52 AM
Taipeitimes.com - Tue Jun 22, 08:54 am GMT

Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site

Justice Department Censors ACLU Web Site 05/13/2004 04:59 PM

Pentagon Censors 'Right to Know' Video
(AP)

Pentagon Censors 'Right to Know' Video
(AP) 09/01/2004 02:11 AM
AP - The Defense Department spent $70,500 to produce a Humphrey Bogart-themed video called "The People's Right to Know" to teach employees to respond to citizen requests for information. But when it came to showing the tape to the public, the Pentagon censored some of the footage.

Pentagon censors 'Right to Know' video

Pentagon censors 'Right to Know' video 09/01/2004 11:50 AM
The Defense Department spent $70,500 to produce a Humphrey Bogart-themed video called "The People's Right to Know" to teach employees to respond to citizen requests for information. But when it came to showing the tape to the public, the Pentagon censored some of the footage.

China Censors Cut 'Mountain' Love Scenes
(AP)

China Censors Cut 'Mountain' Love Scenes
(AP) 02/17/2004 02:16 PM
AP - Chinese censors have cut love scenes from "Cold Mountain" before its arrival on the country's screens in April, regulators said Tuesday.

As China Censors the Internet, Money
Talks

As China Censors the Internet, Money
Talks 06/17/2005 04:30 PM
Latimes.com - Fri Jun 17, 08:36 am GMT

Chinese government censors online games

Chinese government censors online games 06/01/2004 09:10 AM
And Britney's wardrobe gets the once-over

China censors online video games

China censors online video games 06/01/2004 05:39 AM
The Chinese government is tightening controls on online games due to concerns about national security.

Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits

Chinese Censors and Web Users Match Wits 03/14/2005 06:16 PM
For specialists in China's Internet controls, the National People's Congress will offer a chance to measure the state of the art of Web censorship.

"SNL's" penis nose escapes censors

"SNL's" penis nose escapes censors 03/23/2005 02:36 AM

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Google accused of pandering to Chinese
censors

Google accused of pandering to Chinese
censors 09/26/2004 11:06 PM
Telegraph Sep 27 2004 2:05AM GMT
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