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Google’s SafeSearch Blocks Some Content from the White House
August 23, 2003ResourceShelf, Aug. 22, 2003 Gary Price’s Resource Shelf always has interesting items. This one is another example of how attempts to “filter” content on the web to make it “safe” have problems.
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Overview of Different RSS Specs
August 23, 2003XML.com: What is RSS? [Dec. 18, 2002] December 18, 2002, by Mark Pilgrim For those wanting to know which of the 7(!) different RSS specifications to use, this article is indispensable. “RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, [...]
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CA recall info
August 22, 2003I thought I’d get into the act, since everyone’s talking about the recall. Here’s a site from the Sacremento Bee on news and information related to the CA recall.
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Should Atom Use RDF?
August 22, 2003XML.com: Should Atom Use RDF? [Aug. 20, 2003] The “Syndicate this Site” link on this and many other blogs is based on a standard called “RSS,” a way to encode information in XML. RSS is five years old and there are several different versions still in common use. So, there are movements afoot to change [...]
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The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
August 22, 2003It seems that PowerPoint is ubiquitous these days. Anyone who has had to sit through boring presentations with seemingly endless repetition of what the speaker says unnecessarily flashed on the wall will appreciate Edward Tufte’s newest work: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint Edward R. Tufte Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press LLC, 2003. $7 postpaid. 800-822-2454. http://www.edwardtufte.com [...]
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More about WIPO and Open Source
August 22, 2003When a WIPO official
said that they welcomed a meeting to discuss open source software, lobbyists from Microsoft-funded trade groups started pushing officials at the State Department and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to squelch the meeting. -
Everything harmful
August 21, 2003Everything considered harmful [dive into mark] a link to three new articles on xml.com as well as a laundry list of others things considered harmful–including “”Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful”!
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Keeping the Net neutral
August 20, 2003Salon.com Technology | Keeping the Net neutral Aug. 12, 2003. By Farhad Manjoo. More on “stealing the internet.” They are trying to apply the cable television business model to the Internet…
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Digital Divide links on dmoz.org
August 20, 2003Open Directory – Digital Divide by David Dillard. Same as Google Directory Digital Divide
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Gender genie
August 20, 2003The Gender Genie let the gender genie guess whether you’re male or female by your writing style. (it was wrong in my case!)