December 2011
1 post
We e-mailed Tumblr staff asking for official... →
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Thank you for sharing your concerns about the Missing E browser extension.
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May 2011
9 posts
Nieman piece on conflicts of interest in tech... →
The battle between Facebook and Google is about... →
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The battle between Facebook and Google is about who has control of our lives online. #concise
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Opting-out of TechMeme →
I appreciate all the flow that TechMeme has sent to scripting.com over the years, but it’s time to say a tearful goodbye. I think we’ll do better independent of the community that TM…
Lessons from the changes in Twitter →
Interesting changes in the Twitter community in the last 24 hours.
Here’s what happened, from my point of view.
1. At some point yesterday afteroon I logged on and saw a message on the Twitter…
The NY Times/Twitter feed →
Today I was thinking about what, in an ideal world, to do with the Twitter feed of the NY Times.
It has 852,709 followers. That’s potentially quite powerful.
This is what I came up with. …
Why open formats are so important →
If you look at the archive of Scripting News for May 1999, ten years ago, you’ll see how important open formats are.
At the time, a large company, Netscape, had done deals with major…
Mark this day →
Mark this day on your calendar.
After years of saying that instead of emulating print newspapers, Internet-based news should present the newest stuff first. I don’t want sections, I want flow.
Google this is your wakeup call →
I’m reading various reports on Google’s announcments about search today, and it sounds scattered and totally uninspiring. And I might add, disappointing.
Google is today a big company, and it seems…
PBS could become a cause for the web →
Writing about open formats got me in the heady mood of the 90s. Back then we believed the Internet would be a free speech engine of democracy. I still do, to this day, but it doesn’t…
Rebooting the News #9 →
This week’s Rebooting the News podcast is up.
Jay and Dave talk about paying for the news, Ted Nelson as inspiration, “Giant Pool of Money.”
As usual, subscribe to this feed in your…
Door-slams by MSM journos →
I’ve gotten lots of angry emails from mainstream journalists about things I’ve written here or on Twitter, esp in the last couple of years, as things have spiraled down in newspaper-land. I…
Tweeting behind the firewall →
I just added a new feature to 100twt.com tonight, with the help of Daniel and Jason at Disqus: You can now comment on the tweets of people in the Top 100. That’s just the first toe-dip…
Tomorrow's inspiration →
For the last couple of months I’ve done a podcast every Sunday with Jay Rosen. Three Sundays ago he had a great idea, every week let’s choose someone to honor as a source of inspiration to the new…
Tweets of the rich and famous →
After a week of watching the amalgamation of the 100 most followed twitterers, a few observations, and no conclusions.
1. I still hope that by amalgamating this group it will change it, make the…
Amazon's new URL-shortener →
In March, I observed that Amazon had already done some URL shortening on its own, meaning that a link like this:
http://amazon.com/wii
actually works. Now, apparently they’ve gone…
Nothing from nothing →
RSS is dead? My ass... →
I’ve been programming like a bat out of hell, in one of my most hectic spurts of creativity in a very long time. Not much time for blogging.
One of the results is a site where you can…
Gadget talk with Scoble →
I was browsing FriendFeed yesterday and saw Scoble had started a thread on the new Kindle, which was being dismissed by the tech press as a “Hail Mary pass” to save the news industry….
Tricks your mind plays →
It’s confusing when your mind plays tricks because it’s playing many roles.
1. It is the subject of the trick (it’s doing the tricking).
2. It is the object of the trick (it’s being tricked). …
New iPhone →
It was raining on Friday, and I went for a long walk up and down the hills, very vigorous — but I got soaked and so did my iPhone. After taking its last picture and uploading it to…
Rebooting the News #8 →
This week’s podcast with Jay Rosen is up.
Topics: Jay opted out of Twitter’s Suggested Users List, he explains why and we discuss. His choice for Inspiration of the Week is Josh Marshall of…
Conflicts of interest in tech →
It’s Jay’s week for the source of inspiration, so I’m bringing a different topic to our weekly potluck of speculation about Rebooting The News.
Obviously we’re going to talk about Twitter’s…
Posting to twitpic and posterous? →
I’m having the damndest time figuring out the APIs to these two web services. I just want to post a picture. I already have code that does multipart forms, for Flickr and the now-defunct Pownce….
Maybe it should be social from the start? →
Seeing the first-time Twitter user experience reinforced an idea that’s been lurking in the background. Since the magic of Twitter is, theoretically, in its limits, perhaps they should…
What a first-time Twitter user sees →
I’m doing some work with a Twitter app that wants my username and password so I needed an account to test with. I created one, and accepted the 20 users that they suggested. This is what I saw: …
Impressive →
Jay Rosen: “I got put on Twitter’s official suggested users list last night. I asked them to take me off it today and they did.”
Breakage in the new Twitter UI →
I happy to report that I have the new Twitter user interface on my account and it’s nice.
However, apparently the “status” param is no longer recognized. …
DiGiorno pizza is tasty food →
We don’t have ads on Scripting News, but from time to time I put in a plug for a product I really like.
A few weeks ago I got a fantastic toaster oven, and I’ve been looking for food it cooks…
April 2009
45 posts
Doing my part to help revive the economy →
Once again I have some money burning a hole in my pocket and I want to blow some (of course) on electronic gadgetry. And, as always, I turn to the readers of this blog for advice. …
We. Are. What. They. Are. Going. To. Sell. →
When people say they don’t know what Twitter’s business model is they’re being silly. They know. We all know. “Let us reason together,” a US President once said.
They call it User…
Adjix has a breakthrough idea in URL shorteners →
Sometimes it’s funny how you’re led to an interesting idea when you’re not expecting it. This idea arrived at the end of a chain of events started by inviting Guy Kawasaki to use my…
How to get started with Facebook's new API? →
I’m reading the docs for Facebook’s Open Stream API, with fascination. It sounds like an app can read and write to a user’s stream, something like the way one writes an app to access the Twitter…
Rebooting the News #7 →
This week’s 40-plus minute podcast with Jay Rosen and myself.
To subscribe, add this URL to your podcatcher (or iTunes).
Retweet is stupid →
Okay I’m going to get crucified for this, but I found myself saying this on the phone today to Andrew Baron. If I was willing to say it to him, I should have the guts to say it publicly. …
Sony got it right →
The new Walkman is great. Click the pic for comments, a full-size picture, link to the product page.
Why there will be many Twitters →
Yesterday I wrote about the Lotus 1-2-3 of twitters, but it may not be obvious why there will be more than one network of networks — so let me explain.
1. Twitter is growing fast.
2. Its use…
The Next Killer App is to Twitter as 1-2-3 was to... →
This post is dedicated to Mitch Kapor, Jonathan Sachs, Dan Fylstra, Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, Ben Rosen, Ev, Biz, Jack, Bijan, Fred et al. A lot of people on that list, and I have had…
Unfair Twitter, Inc backlash →
I feel the need to make so many disclaimers here.
1. Yes I have been critical of Twitter.
2. I am not on the Suggested User List.
3. I think they’re making really big mistakes in managing the…
Today's Morning Coffee Notes podcast →
New podcast: Sidebar to last Sunday’s Rebooting The News podcast with Jay Rosen, relating the blogger assignment desk idea to Hypercamp, which is a more comprehensive blueprint for how…
Twitter and OAuth, interesting brew →
As far as I know Hueniverse was the first to notice that Twitter’s support for OAuth put it in direct competition with Facebook Connect. This is a good thing because two-party systems…
A source of inspiration: Jon Postel →
I love doing the weekly podcast with Jay, because he’s so damned smart and he surprises me with his stories. Not many people do that as well as he does.
This week his surprise was the idea that we…
Gartner's curve →
On Twitter early this afternoon, Sarah Lacy posted a link to a TechCrunch article she wrote admonishing bloggers to go easy on Twitter. It included a graph called Gartner’s Hype Cycle,…