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Reforming a garbage house

Reforming a garbage house 12/04/2003 08:21 PM
This is an inspiring story about an obsessive "hoarder" whose home had become a garbage house, so full of crap that he was in danger of going to jail for criminal violations of local ordinances. Then the county counsel cut a deal with the president of the local chapter of the National Assn. of Professional Organizers to help the craphound clean up his life -- and he allowed a news-crew to document the process.

Drum, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat tied under his chin, will supervise from a chair near the garage. Breininger is jazzed. Drum has kept his promise not to bring anything back into the two rooms the crew cleared out a week ago.

Drum is nervous. He frets about the broken windows and rotting flooring, things that must be fixed to put him back on the right side of the law. And he wants shelves so he can have his books, now boxed, around him.

"First, we get you organized, then we'll figure out how to take care of the repairs and the beautification," Breininger reminds him.

Link (via Making Light)

Computer Misuse Act needs reforming,
concludes APIG

Computer Misuse Act needs reforming,
concludes APIG 06/30/2004 07:47 AM
Out-Law.com Jun 30 2004 12:25PM GMT

calling your judiciary committee

calling your judiciary committee 06/24/2004 08:06 AM
Here's who you should call to express your views about the INDUCE Act.

Judiciary committee begets IP
subcommittee

Judiciary committee begets IP
subcommittee 03/19/2005 02:34 AM
The Senate gets a new subcommittee to cover intellectual property issues. Guess who is heading it up?

Slaying the Leather-Winged Demons in the
Night: Reforming Copyright Owner
Contracting with Clickwrap Misuse.

Slaying the Leather-Winged Demons in the
Night: Reforming Copyright Owner
Contracting with Clickwrap Misuse. 08/27/2004 01:49 PM
Lydia Pallas Loren: Slaying the Leather-Winged Demons in the Night: Reforming Copyright Owner Contracting with Clickwrap Misuse. Legal papers are even more dry than scientific ones, but now I know the name for the sinking feeling I get from the SCSL: "copyright misuse".

MSNBC Launches MSNBC Newsbot

MSNBC Launches MSNBC Newsbot 07/28/2004 01:26 PM
MSNBC announced on July 27 the MSNBC Newsbot, which is an extension of Microsoft's news search. The MSBNC 'bot is available for a "limited time" and searches over 4,800 news...

Rehnquist Sees Threat to Judiciary (Los
Angeles Times)

Rehnquist Sees Threat to Judiciary (Los
Angeles Times) 01/01/2005 06:25 AM
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — Ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said today that judges must be protected from political threats, including from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office.

"The Sound of Silence: Why is the press
ignoring what the Democratic Judiciary
memos say?"

"The Sound of Silence: Why is the press
ignoring what the Democratic Judiciary
memos say?" 12/03/2003 03:46 PM

The Sound of Silence: Why is the press
ignoring what the Democratic Judiciary
memos say?

The Sound of Silence: Why is the press
ignoring what the Democratic Judiciary
memos say? 12/03/2003 06:22 AM
those Judiciary Committee leaks .. on OpinionJournal today .. Big Diversion

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A New Watergate? GOP Members of Senate
Judiciary Break Into Democrats Computer
System

A New Watergate? GOP Members of Senate
Judiciary Break Into Democrats Computer
System 01/23/2004 06:31 PM
Democracy Now! Jan 23 2004 9:42PM GMT

"MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Chief Justice Roy
Moore was removed from office Thursday
for refusing to obey a federal court
order to move his Ten Commandments
monument from the rotunda of the state
courthouse. The Alabama Court of the
Judiciary unanimously imposed ..."

"MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Chief Justice Roy
Moore was removed from office Thursday
for refusing to obey a federal court
order to move his Ten Commandments
monument from the rotunda of the state
courthouse. The Alabama Court of the
Judiciary unanimously imposed ..." 11/14/2003 03:32 AM

More on the webl0gs.com/rss

More on the webl0gs.com/rss 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
Dave Winer again:: "Second, I believe it was a mistake to spec the new element as part of the blogChannel...

Webl0gs, Inc.

Webl0gs, Inc. 04/15/2005 04:52 AM
Weblogs, Inc. Home Page - www.weblogsinc.com .. weblog 'trade-publishing' .. Jason Calacanis .. weblogsinc .. blurb .. WIN .. It

weblogsinc.com
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"Webl0gs.com"

"Webl0gs.com" 02/17/2004 08:53 AM

Webl0gs.com Needs Help

Webl0gs.com Needs Help 12/17/2004 06:37 PM
As anyone who pings it knows, weblogs.com is not holding up well under the strain of the blogosphere’s growth curve. Today Dave Winer is asking for help in getting it re-engineered. He seems to be convinced that it has to be done in C; I wouldn’t be surprised if a smart PHP or Java (Velocity maybe?) implementation could carry the load just as well. On the other hand, for someone who’s never written an Apache module, this would be a simple one, it’s a useful skill, and that’s about as close to the metal as you can get. In any case, I’m pretty sure Dave’s right that it wouldn’t be a good idea for a big company (like Sun, for example) to step up and say “we’ll do it” because the suspicion of cheating from outsiders, and the temptation to tilt the table a little for insiders, would both be a real issue. A pity, because a big company (like Sun, for example) already has the infrastructure to support this and wouldn’t even notice the bandwidth. And a pity because I already know how to write Apache modules and would like to learn Velocity. I’m dubious that the notion of “one central place that everyone pings” is going to hold up for the long term, but for the time being it’s useful and would be a good project for anyone with the cycles to spare.

"old.webl0gs.com"

"old.webl0gs.com" 06/17/2004 11:32 AM

old.webl0gs.com

old.webl0gs.com 06/14/2004 03:50 AM

old.weblogs.com
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"certain webl0gs"

"certain webl0gs" 06/05/2004 09:07 AM

How many webl0gs are there in the UK?

How many webl0gs are there in the UK? 12/09/2003 10:54 AM

Right. For a whole range of reasons, I'm getting increasingly interested in finding out how many weblogs there are in the UK. If we could demonstrate that a large number of UK-based webloggers exist, then it could have a whole range of effects: it could encourage publishers to find constructive ways to engage with the community, could encourage UK-based people/companies to get more involved in building weblog-based software (or to spend time thinking around Denton-esque micro-publishing ventures like Gawker, Fleshbot and Gizmodo). All kinds of stuff.

Now there's no really useful way of effectively measuring these things, but it occurs to me that we'd probably be able to motivate a good number of people to make themselves known as weblogers if everyone who read this post stuck up a mention/plug for one or more of the major geographical portals onto their sites. So I'm going to wander off now and check that I'm listed on:

• The Eatonweb Portal
• Globe of Blogs
• Weblogs.co.uk (which runs the extremely useful UK Blogs Aggregator)

And please - if you've got ten minutes and are interested in helping to uncover the lost continent of UK webloggers out there, then stick something on your site about this too.

webl0gs come webl0gs go

webl0gs come webl0gs go 06/16/2004 01:23 PM
The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.

Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.

I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity. My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.

I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.

Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:

Subject:   php.weblogs.com 
From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com
Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am 
To:        jlim#natsoft.com
Priority:  Normal 
Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 

We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special
arrangements
with Dave to keep it running.

Lawrence

I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.

For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.

I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.

"MSNBC"

"MSNBC" 08/07/2004 03:47 PM

MSNBC -

MSNBC - 08/21/2004 12:54 PM
quite possible .. Keith Oberman .. follows up

msnbc.msn.com/id/5746138/?#040819c
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Webl0gs to the rescue!

Webl0gs to the rescue! 12/30/2004 09:17 PM
And to all of those people out there that claim that blogging is nothing more than a venue for mindless rants, check this out. According to the BBC, Webloggers from all over southern Asia region have come together to help show both the devastation they have endured as well as the best ways people can help them with their plight. While you may have heard that a picture can tell the tale of a thousand…

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Webl0gs in education

Webl0gs in education 09/21/2004 04:29 PM
Via Scripting News, I see a post by Michael Feldman of Dowbrigade wishing for a stronger uptake of weblogging in the classroom. Michael's a professor at Harvard and/or Boston University (I couldn't quite figure it out) and has one class...

"Webl0gs Harvard Law"

"Webl0gs Harvard Law" 12/19/2003 11:55 AM

Unicode and webl0gs

Unicode and webl0gs 04/19/2004 08:33 AM
Hossein Derakhshan: We should promote Unicode standard among English speaking programmers. Many tools do not work well with Unicode and this sucks. Spread the meme  Please test your clients, servers, comments, and feeds. ...

Internet Course WebLogs

Internet Course WebLogs 01/27/2004 09:13 AM
The Internet Courses - Weblogs
http://www.hi.is/~Eanne/w eblogs.html

An excellent resource by Dr. L. Anne Clyde of the University of Iceland. The site includes links to the following resources on Weblogs: Information and Articles About Weblogs, Weblog Software and Resources, Directories and Guides to Weblogs, Other Weblog Resources, Examples of LIS Weblogs, Examples of Other Weblogs, Weblogs About Blogging and RSS.

Google Webl0gs

Google Webl0gs 05/17/2004 10:25 AM

Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines: Google: News and Media: Weblogs: Behold — a DMOZ category specifically for Weblogs about Google. Slicing that taxonomy a little thin, aren't we?

Via ResourceBuzz< /a>.

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On Collaborative Webl0gs

On Collaborative Webl0gs 05/31/2004 12:33 PM

Are webl0gs being read?

Are webl0gs being read? 05/29/2004 09:36 AM

That is a question I get a lot and when I let them look at the stats they say yeah I guess so while giving me a slap on the back. The conversation usually turns to how in the hell did you accomplish that. Well it seems that there is some debate out there sparked by a NYT article that in essence says that most bloggers are talking to themselves. I know my personal blog is only read by a few people but It is also not targeted to the general public. This site is read by a significant number of you. But it is worth a closer look and I think the commentary over at A Small Victory sums it up very nicely. [A Small Victory]

Webl0gs.com Redirects

Webl0gs.com Redirects 06/15/2004 01:39 PM
Tom Matrullo's blog has relocated for now to here. It's vintage Tom......

MP3 Music Webl0gs

MP3 Music Webl0gs 08/31/2004 05:56 AM

I have been running the wget script we wrote about several months ago and I am amazed at the number of songs we are pulling down. Many are from artist I have never heard. Some are from cover bans and their re-makes of popular music along with music that has been ripped from a copyrighted CD. Thus far though it has been a interesting experiment in checking out all the new tunes. I am sure my Internet provider is happy with me as the run today pulled 1.6 gigs of music simply amazing.

Here are the sites I poll and if you have any other MP3 weblogs that you know about drop me a line.

http://senses.typepad.com/
http://www.3hive.com/
http://www.christopherporter. com/
http://ggth. typepad.com/media/mp3_blogs/index.html
http://djmartian.blogspot.com/
http://www.bellybo ngo.com/links/sharity.html
http://www. free-conversant.com/thom/main/2004/05/26
http://musik.antville .org/stories/676094/
http://te achingtheindiekidstodanceagain.blogspot.com/
http://www.fatplanet.com.au/ http://music.for-robots.com/ http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/ http://www.scenestars.blogs pot.com/
http://blog.largeheartedboy.co m/
http://www.l ivejournal.com/community/talkiewalkie/
http://www.kingblind.com/
http://www.mobile-phone- directory.org/
http://www.redfishaudi o.com/samples.html
http://www.purevolume.com/
http://newflux.blogspot.com/ http://www.pop77.com/blog/
http://www.scissorkick.com/
http://amillionlovesongs .blogspot.com/
http://www.moistworks.com/
http://www.o-du b.com/crates/weblog/blogger.html
http://music.for-robots.com/ http://mul tsanta.madvision.co.uk/blunts//indexb.html
http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/ http://www.tangmonkey.co m/blogs/music/
http://copycommaright.blogs pot.com/
http://the-big-ticket.blogs pot.com/
http://www.li vejournal.com/community/talkiewalkie/
http://www.bubble gum-machine.com/culchah.html
http://fingertipsmusic.blo gspot.com/
http://www.londonlee.com/blo g.html
http://www.mysticalbeast .blogspot.com/
http://www.livejo urnal.com/users/moebius_rex/

New Apple Webl0gs

New Apple Webl0gs 12/17/2004 06:34 PM
A couple of new(ish) Apple-related sites that I’ve stumbled across recently that may interest you :

Mac Specialist

Adam (formerly of Useful Mac and also of Cranium Oxide) has setup a new site for all things Apple-related. There’s only a few posts just now but keep an eye on it for some good product reviews and commentary.

The Apple Blog

A nicely designed collaborative blog about Apple-related news. Although it’s fairly new (only 2 months old) there’s plenty of content and seems to get updated on a regular basis (unlike other collaborative Apple weblogs I could mention, ahem…)

Any other good Apple-related sites that have appeared on your radar recently?

"article on webl0gs that actually gets
them right"

"article on webl0gs that actually gets
them right" 06/15/2004 10:24 AM

Just don't call them webl0gs

Just don't call them webl0gs 02/11/2004 12:07 AM
Lots of people who write weblogs seem to take great pleasure in debating what a weblog is, and more importantly for some, what a weblog isn't. While trying to understanding what the new tools enable, and how they are changing the nature of the net, journalism, and public discourse, seems like a worthwhile enterprise, I never saw the point of spending a lot of energy debating what was a weblog and what wasn't. One might as well debate how many Angels can dance on the head of a pin. I saw a great example of this today. One of the more interesting sessions at ETech today was a presentation by three people from different units of Disney, describing how they are using three of the tools customarily associated with webloggers: weblogs, RSS and wikis. During the talk, Mike Pusateri described his secret for getting people to adopt weblogs as a tool for communicating information at Disney, "don't call them weblogs." He just told people working in Disney's 24/7 operations center that he had a better tool for a task they were already doing. They were already creating what they called shift logs to keep track of information that the people coming in on the next shift needed to know, using a proprietary application based on FoxPro. He told the op center staff that with the new tool (Movable Type) they would now be able to edit and revise and format their information, and that the information would be viewable on the intranet. They loved it, and, as he put it, they never knew that they were blogging. Similarly, he got the staff to start using RSS by having Movable Type generate the feeds, and having the staff all adopt Newsgator, an RSS aggregator that plugs into Microsoft Outlook, the standard email client at Disney. To the users of Newsgator, the updated RSS feeds just looked like email, and they could deal with the feeds they same way they were used to dealing with emails, filing them or forwarding them with comments, using the same interface they were used to dealing with for email. So the users didn't have to change any existing habits, and they had little new UI to learn, but they got a lot more functionality. All at a very low cost to Disney, compared with their traditional methods of developing custom applications. We technologists are often so...

"Webl0gs in Journalism"

"Webl0gs in Journalism" 01/26/2004 09:50 PM

"Me repatean los webl0gs"

"Me repatean los webl0gs" 01/25/2004 08:35 PM

Webl0gs.com Goes Dark

Webl0gs.com Goes Dark 06/15/2004 11:31 AM

Sudden Closure of Weblogs.com Strands Bloggers: Three thousand blogs hosted at weblogs.com has gone offline because Dave Winer decided to shut the server down.

...some users protested that they had no warning of the shutdown, and thus were unable to download copies of their sites, including user comments. Winer said he will export a site's content if its owner makes a specific request, but would not do so before July 1.

Dave provided free hosting to all these people, which is great, so he really owed them nothing. However, I think perhaps a little notice would have made thing easier for these folks.

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On comments and webl0gs

On comments and webl0gs 01/22/2004 02:18 PM

I've thought a lot about comments on weblogs over the years, and for a mailing list I'm on, I finally summarized some of my thoughts. Since it might be useful for others, I'm reposting them here. They're a few questions I ask myself related to enabling comments on weblogs posts I make. With the proliferation of commenting-ability in today's weblog tools, it might make sense for people to think a bit before blindly turning on comments, whether for an individual or group blog.

1. Do I want feedback on what I'm writing?
I never turn on comments on megnut unless I specifically want feedback, and I'd encourage people to think about this when they're posting to their sites as well. Are you writing about something that can engender a discussion? And do you want to have a discussion about it? Not everything needs a discussion, and if it doesn't, think about disabling comments for a post, if only to avoid spammers and trolls.

2. Do I have time to manage a conversation right now?
It's easy to turn on comments, it takes work to host a discussion. Especially when the post is controversial or inflammatory, the poster needs to be prepared to stay on top of the thread. Do you have the time to nurture that discussion and keep on top of it, delete the trolls, refocus the discussion when it gets derailed, etc.? If not, perhaps posting, or turning on comments, isn't such a good idea. I know I try and help out if I see a thread going awry but I believe it's the poster's responsibility to make sure her thread stays on target and remains as civil as possible.

3. Is this conversation over?
There comes a point in every thread when the conversation is done, either because posts have petered out or because it's gotten so out of control and unpleasant that it needs to end. Either way, the poster should go back in and set comments to "Closed." This will prevent people/spammers/trolls from posting in old threads, and keep the discussions alive and active on "current" posts.

Rather than just having a blanket rule -- whether that's "comments on" or "comments off" -- it would be nice if we could consider these questions before posting. Turning on comments is an opportunity and a responsibility.

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