Arguably the long-running weblog in the World, Dave Winer’s Scripting News turns 10 years old today.
Happy Birthday! Keep diggin’. And Thanks Dave.
Two years ago today, I was sat with Dave in a bar in New York, drinking coffee and doing a podcast. Two years! Wow. How time flies!
It’s also Frontier‘s 19th Birthday too, btw.
Heh. I just found these two old animated gifs I did a couple of years ago 
I use to do alot of photoshoppery and animation stuff. back when I seemed to have alot more time than I do now!
They’re both from Gnomedex 2005
I’ll see if I can find the urls to the others from the plethora of domains I have out there Maybe I could find the time to make some more!? But of whom?
Here are some pictures I did using my web – doodle – graffiti project called ‘Blograffiti‘ [warning: potentially offensive line drawings!]
Here’s a little factoid for ya. This is what happens to your blog stats when you find a phone with an RSS button on it and Dave Winer links to it over on Scripting News. Impressive And gratifying.
Talking of Dave, he wrote a very poignant post today about the longevity of his content, his blog, his life’s work over on Scripting News. I had the pleasure of listening to Charlie Nesson a couple of times. Brilliant, thoughtful and inspiring.
Yesterday, I paid up another year for my server. That can’t happen forever for everyone. Hopefully one day I’ll host all at home as part of my connectivity package. Hosting aside, there’s much scripting going on around the place. I have old demos which won’t work unless I kick a cron job off again. So much dynamic content would not work without editing a config file, for example.
Let’s try seeing if we can send out some positive energy here, seeing as it appears to be in the air. Happy Dave Heals Day!
Wow. I just caught up on all this TechCrunch UK – Sam getting fired – LesBlog/LeWeb/LeWhatever – hoo haa. Looks like we need more positive energy, man. Welcome to the bickersphere™
There are plenty of good London-based bloggers out there who could fill Sam’s shoes.
The first time I met Sam a while ago, he said he was working on an ‘OPML Exchange Server’ for Microsoft. Never heard any more about that since then. Seemed like a nice guy, but was little up himself, imho. He also had quite along heated debate with my partner outside Kettners, as Hugh McLeod and I stood around and talked bollocks to kill time
The last time I saw him, at the Chris Anderson Geek Dinner, he was pissed as a newt! ( you might be bale to see him wobbling in the doorway behind Chris) ;}
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With well formed data, there’s no reason why not.
Now, can we please work out the right way to *do* OPML please?
Basically:
If you want to point to a WEBSITE: use type=link and url=http://your.web.site.com
If you want to point to an RSS feed use type=rss and xmlUrl=htt://www.your.rss.feed.com/rss.xml
If you want to point to MORE OPML use type=include and url=http://www.you.opml.file.com/hoopla.opml
OK. So, you could argue that there might be better ways of doing/specifying it.
And what about htmlUrl, opmlUrl, atomUrl, foafUrl, rdfUrl, type=rdf, type=atom, type=application/pdf or whatever… I don’t know. Just DOCUMENT how you do it.
But what I do know is the sooner we agree and what is the right way to ‘do it’ – the better. 
IMHO.
Hey! Is my OPML Icon out of date?? :p
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