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Bob has released PyObjC 1.2, which lets you build Cocoa apps in Python. I made my zero configuration IRC app with this last year - I must check out the new version.Bob is also looking for a blogging tool that lets him automate markup - he should try Ecto, which Ado added a great new feature to - it will call your Python code to filter the text before posting (also perl, shell or AppleScrip...

My New Year's Resolution is to blog mo...

A while ago I overhauled the St Luke's website, and added a blog, but it was only tonight that I finally got together with Michael Penfield to show him how to use it. St Luke's Chapel News will have regular updates from now on.If you're looking for an Anglican service in Silicon Valley this Christmas Eve, do come along - it is a little gem of a church in the Los Altos Hills, and has the services...

Congratulations to Adam and the ops team for the efficient and successful move of all the Technorati servers to their new home.This gives us a solid hardware foundation to build new Technorati services on for the future, and Joi has news of some....

I'm disappointed by Ed Felten's 15 line p2p app.Ed is a great communicator, and a smart programmer, but in this case he has abdicated explanation for a sound-bite.He could have written his minimal p2p app clearly and used it to teach, but instead he fell into the Obfuscator's trap of optimising for lines of code, to make a marketing splash.Peer to Peer communication is a natural part of programming...

Flickr's Squared circle tag. It's pretty, but there is this odd feeling that there is a joke here I'm not in ...

When I saw Suw's announcement that she and Chris had met and were in love I was happy for them, but not surprised. Sure, I had seen them talk in chatrooms, but the real clue was some information leakage from iChat AV. It's presence information shows you when people are online, and when they are available for audio and video chat. So for a couple of weeks beforehand, I would glance at my buddy list...

I was asked last night where the phrase 'Boil the Ocean' came from in Tantek and my presentation on lossless xhtml - Can your website be your API?I wasn't sure, so I searched a bit, and found this:Will Rogers’ response to a reporter’s question on how he would deal with the Nazi U-boats: "Boil the ocean." "But how would you do that?" the reporter continued. Without a beat Rogers replied, "I’m just...

Fortune.com: Harder to fathom is the MSN TV 2 Player's inability to play music that has been downloaded through a PC from MSN's own Music Store. The Player had no problem with PC-created MP3 files and tunes ripped into the Windows Media Audio format from CDs but choked on music bought from MSN itself. An MSN representative said the incompatibility arises from the digital rights management (DRM) copy-protection...

For Remembrance Day, I have a special audioblog. This is Laurence Binyon, reading For The Fallen from the British Library's splendid collection The Spoken Word – Poets With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free. Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal...

Tom, our man on the inside at the Beeb: There's this show on Radio 4 called In Our Time that's concerned with the history of ideas. Each week Melvyn Bragg brings together three guests (serious guests at the top of their fields) and they have a discussion around the major themes. It's kind of awesome if you're interested in science or history... Starting from shortly after last week's episode, now...

Having talked about vote links for well over a year now, it was about time someone started counting them, especially with tomorrow being election day in the US, and it might as well be me.Presenting the Technorati Blogger Vote Count.Instructions on how to add votes to your blog are there. Note that you can vote for or against each candidate individual...

David Weinberger says:When your wifi card doesn't work under XP, after spending three hours futzing with drivers, I suggest you try this:Control Panel > Administrative tools > Services. Look for Wireless Zero Configuration. Click on it. If it's stopped, start it. If there's no start or stop button, double click on it and change "Startup type" to "Automatic."Or you could get a Mac which, because...

Dave says:: This is an old-style Morning Coffee Notes, the kind we did before we were doing audio blog posts, before they were called podcasts, back when we couldn't find any software to record our voices (seriously, PCs came with microphones, but search high and lo, hither and yon, there was no software to actually use the microphones in a most basic way).Dave, you should have asked, instead of searching....

Tim Oren writes on DRM as a warning sign:Copy protection DRM always destroys end user value, in both convenience and robustness. When you see DRM in a business plan or analysis, it is always there to benefit someone other than the end user. Find out who, it will indicate where power lies in a content value chain.The mere presence of DRM indicates a failure to deliver end user value. If the information...

Mark Cuban has some ideas for improving TiVos. This reminded me of an idea I had while watching the Olympics. TiVo collects data on which programs have been watched, which bits were fast-forwarded, and which were played more than once or in slow motion.Imagine if it took something like the Olympics, or a baseball or football game, and collated everyone's replay speeds, and then offered up various...

This weekend we attended the Home School Geography Club, which was about Viet Nam, and enjoyed it immensely. Our friends the Hamiltons hosted it and, among many other fascinating things, taught us as few words in Vietnamese, and fed us Phô .However when writing out the Vietnamese sheets, Bich was adding the accents by hand on the printout. It turns out that the Vietnamese keyboard inclued with OS...

Dave Winer put up an mp3 of the debate; David Weinberger organised an irc chat to heckle it. I combined the two: You can call this audioblogging with comments or maybe it is something else.Note that if you open it in QuickTime Player, you can search the text for keywords like 'flu' or 'bin Laden'.Direct link: http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/johodebate....

As we'll have a huge concentration of web geeks just up the road at Web 2.0 next week, we decided to have a hackathon at Technorati on Wednesday night.Bring your laptops and brains, and hack on our API and other web code. RSVP promp...

Tomorrow night, Tantek and I are talking at SDForum about Semantic XHTML:Can your website be your API? - Using semantic XHTML to make your structures clearXML formats gained popularity as a backlash against the messiness of HTML mixing structure and presentation, and leniency for sloppy markup. With XHTML+CSS now widely supported in mainstream browsers, and gaining converts even amongst those most...

Technorati just passed the 4 million blogs indexed point. We get about the same number of posts a we...

We went to Monterey Bay Aquarium on Sunday and saw the baby Great White shark they have in the tank there - video below:They say this is the only Great White to eat in captivity, and that the longest any lasted previously was 16 days. How annoying for the Bond villains with the shark tanks to have to restock every couple of weeks, and then to have the sharks refuse to eat when they drop victims in....

IEEE Spectrum has an article on audio compression that manages to combine some useful info with sloppy misconceptions and questionable assertions. I annotated it to point these out. Do join me in correcting it for th...

I'm told by James and Jim of VoteOrNot that the chances of winning $100,000 are good as their sign-up rate is lower than they expected.Vote early and vote oft...

I'm guest-blogging over at Many2Many; this is my first effort.Shelley wrote that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, and this dream lies behind a lot of blogging, though the literary archetype is perhaps Peter Wiggin rather than Byron.The challenge for social software is to construct frameworks for people. Suw and Adina have recently discussed the analogies with architectural spaces;...

David Weinberger partially defends the Dewey decimal system. I see his point, but a system that gives Phrenology a top-level number (139) but sues people promoting it is doomed to an early death when there is a free and open alternative to refer to topics easi...

Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python is now available in book form . Reading it in print reminded me how good it was, and it has grown a few chapters since I first read it online.If an aversion to reading online has kept you back, go buy it now. It is a very impressive piece of work - it manages to explain the Python language, and, more importantly the idioms and customs of Python programming, through...

Explaining Technorati and blogging to people has been tricky. Once I explain we keep track of what people are saying and linking to in weblogs, their first reaction is to say 'Oh you're a search engine' (silent subtext: Google will eat you for breakfast).This is where it gets tricky, because search is a task, not a goal. Jeff Bezos and John Battelle help explain this better:[Bezos uses] "discovery"...

Yesterday, Technorati hit 3 million blogs, and Apple hit 97 million iTunes songs.So, if every blogger buys one song, the 100 million prize can be won.No prize here, but the 3 millionth Technorati blog was Mi eterna ciclotimia...

Dorothea points out some problems around piecemeal citation:[...] there’s no automated way to add callouts to one individual paragraph without adding callouts to all of them.A more subtle explication of the problem: I could, if I chose, add individual id attributes to paragraphs on CavLec I thought especially worthy of notice. But who’s to say that my idea of noteworthy paragraphs meshes with any...

Dave Hyatt said something interesting about the new dashboard widgets:Just to prove a point that there are many ways to think about this new feature, here's another take on what Dashboard is. From a browser geek's perspective, the Dashboard is a collection of HTML sidebar panels liberated from the browser window and placed anywhere on your screen. The "Web pages as widgets" concept is really just...

More than 10 years ago, Apple added MPEG playback to QuickTime. In order to work around QuickTime not having support for bi-directional difference frames, and some issues with MPEG's format being a bitstream rather than a byte stream, this was done my making it a special media type rather than showing up as separate video and audio tracks. As a side effect of this, exporting audio from MPEG movies...

A clunky new version of some classic prose via the C of E::The more usual 'Give us this day our daily bread', from the Lord's Prayer, becomes: 'You are giving us our daily bread when we manage to get back our lands or get a fairer wage'.'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil.' has been removed from the 23rd Psalm in favour of 'Even if a full-scale violent...

Jonas: As seen on eBay - we've gots 'em. Nine brand new, shiny, gmail invites are sitting in my inbox waiting to further dilute the value some people are apparently willing to assign to this... It's not free, however. If you're interested in one, comment here and let me know what you're willing to do for it. Not to me (though I am more than ready to trade for a few good massages), but to someone else....

Something for Nothing: The Free Culture AudioBook Project is a great essay on Copyright as seen through the lens of AKMA's project ot make an audio book from Lessig's Free Cultu...

May 19th from 6pm to 8pm was the Technorati Developers Salon. see what people have said about ...

I joined in AKMA�s "free culture readathon": Anyone feel like recording a chapter of Lawrence Lessig�s new book?The license pretty clearly indicates that, so long as we�re not making a commercial venture of it, we can make a recording of (�perform�) the text. There are a Preface, Introduction, fifteen chapters, a conclusion and an afterword. I recorded the Preface of Free Culture which has me referring...

At Technorati, I've been writing 'spiders' - little bits of code that scuttle over the web indexing pages when roused. We normally have hundreds running around at once. So I was interested to see these spider hatchlings in the garden on Thursday, swarming over a web, trying to make sense of it. Big picture of baby spider clus...

Jeneane's Phonecon made me smile, but the early days of telephony were full of inventive people trying out new services and business models.With the Patent Office moving toward rejecting the Eolas plug-in patent on prior art grounds, maybe it's time for them to reconsider the Acacia and SightSound patents that take an obvious idea and add the word 'digital', and then go around shaking down anyone...

I know I've been quiet on the mediAgora front recently, but the Grey Album case is in many ways a perfect example of the mediAgora principle of rewarding Creators of both derivative and original works.Imagine, if you will, a parallel universe where The Beatles 'White Album' and Jay-Z's 'Black Album' had been released under mediAgora licences.Along comes Danger Mouse, and mixes the two to make the...

Tim Oren says nice things about Technorati:As we all know, Ted Nelson meant hypertexts to have bidirectional links. But due to a laboratory accident in Switzerland, we ended up with this lame thing. Mechanisms such as Google link search and Technorati are just hacks, ways to leverage Moore's Law to ameliorate a fundamental flaw in our hypertext data architecture, crawling the Web faster and faster...

Mitch Wagner: DRM doesn't work and consumers don't want it, so of course it's very appealing to big business, who are also in a big rush to sell other, equally practical products, such as anchovy flavored ice cream and bicycles with square wheels.We learned that DRM doesn't work in the late 80s, only back then it was applied to software and we called it 'copy protection.' Not much to add, but it's...

A while back I made a proposal for 'Vote Links' - a way to indicate that just because you are linking to something, you are not necessarily endorsing it (which is the default assumption by search engines and other dumb robots).My original proposal used a nonstandard attribute which would make it hard to validate.Tantek has helped me create an XHTML compliant Vote Links specification, which we'll be...

We've got Dave's talk at etcon this morning. Here's the newest thing - the recent amazon products pageSee what amazon products people have blogged about recently.Power laws and blogs: first, the classic power law chart - note how smooth the curve is - no saturation due to no barriers to entry.In fact, if you count up the total number of blogs with links you see a different picture - look how the 'little'...

I don't think I've mentioned it here yet, but as Director of Engineering at Technorati,we're hiri...

Doc and I were taking about this the other day, and tonight I remembered how well Douglas Adams explained the end of Mass media five years ago: Because the Internet is so new we still don�t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that�s what we�re used to. So people complain that there�s a lot of rubbish online, or that it�s dominated by Americans,...

In his latest rambling, shambling semi-coherent collection of innuendo, semi-sourced smears and out of context quotes with no attempt at fact-checking or giving anyone the chance to reply, Orlowski says:"What sort of people go to these?" he asks, rhetorically. The panel on Political Blogging doesn't even include a Political Blogger. We can help answer that one: andsometimes a picture is worth a thousand...

I'm speaking at RSS Winterfest this morning, with Anil Dash and others on 'RSS 2.0 and Atom'Tune...

Why I Write - George Orwell :There are four great motives for writing: 1. Sheer egoism. 2. Aesthetic enthusiasm. 3. Historical impulse. 4. Political purpose.Seems like one way to categorize blo...

Dave Sifry just announced what I've been working on with him: We focused 100% of our time on completely refurbishing our underlying event engine - essentially taking a Volkswagen engine out and putting a Ferrari engine in. Head on over to http://beta.technorati.com and try it out.Or recursively see who has linked to it at the beta Technorati beta cos...

I think these were explained by Lewis Carroll:What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone, `was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'`What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.`Why,' said the Dodo, `the best way to...

Yesterday, Ross sent Bambi Francisco to talk to me, and she asked an interesting question: "Is there a Moore's Law for compression?" My answer didn't all make it into her article, so here is an expanded version for my 'media heresies' series."Is there a Moore's Law for compression?"In the sense of compression getting uniformly better over time? No.Compression has different constraints - it is primarily...

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