Damn. Not cool. Not cool at all. You have my sympathy Shelley. And my anger. No honor there. Someone should apoligize.
“This is what democracy looks like”
Blackbox voting files lawsuit and serves papers in dramatic way. I can’t wait to see the video from this. Great work Blackbox voting!
I keep saying this, but a few people I know just don’t get it: if you want to make a difference, if something is bothering you and you want to see it change: you need to do it by donating and volunteering your time. Get involved. Step up. Rock on. Just don’t sit there and bitch.
XML-RPC is alive and well
Half of the work I do these days involves developing bridges between Comcast.net and third parties via web enabled APIs.
Brent Simmons’s The virtues of XML-RPC is a timely read.
So is Jon Udell’s The power of the URL-line where he trumpets the RESTful approach.
A project I am involved in uses both techniques.
An Atom to RSS solution
Richard Eriksson of Urban Vancouver and Bryght (Drupal hosting services), sent me an email to pass along a solution to my Atom troubles (scroll down to “What If The Site Only Has an Atom Feed?”). It works like a charm.
Red state vs blue state thinking will lead nowhere
A hard question to come to grips with: Why do some folks feel the conservative movement embodies the little guy fighting the establishment? It’s an important question. One that the election probably was decided upon.
They thought Bush was the populist (dangerousmeta)! As atrios says: “The modern conservative movement sells itself as ‘a revolt of the little people against a high and mighty liberal elite.’ It feeds on a feeling of victimization and resentment that many ‘red staters’ feel right now. And the ability of the right to play into that feeling of victimization rests on the premise of a divided america: us versus them, red versus blue. There is no reason we have to adopt their framework. It only works to the conservatives’ advantage anyway.”
So we know what not to do. That’s a start. The question remains however.
Atom to RSS
Mike Krisher’s Blog: Still working on the Atom to RSS solution.
I share Mike’s frustration. Drupal’s (and CivicSpace’s) aggregator can’t handle ATOM and for the vast majority of Blogger.com hosted sites, that’s all you get. I’ve written a script that uses Magpie to parse Atom and output RSS (.91), it works for 85% of the feeds out there, but it’s not up to snuff for release to the general public. Maybe I should and let the community have at it?
BitTorrent RSS Module
RSS: BitTorrent RSS Module from Dave Winer and Adam Curry. Very, very interesting.
Weezer Exposed!
Check it out at Metal Sludge :: Stuffing your turkey since 1998!.
Brahaha. I love it. This probably explains why I like Weezer 🙂
Economic “Armageddon” predicted
Keep your ears open when you hear about how low the dollar is going.
Pay off those credit cards folks. We’re about to get smacked big time.
A Flash RSS Client
Wonder if he’ll release the .fla? In any case, there’s some potential here.