Buffet is brilliant
I think Warren Buffet is right to buy news organizations, and I wish I had his money so I could too. And so is Chris Hughes for buying New Republic. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, Yesterday, 10:35am
We *can* do better than Facebook
Google's problem is they used Facebook as their guide to upgrading their view of what the Internet is. And that led them away from their strength, and into what I think is a dead-end. Much as Microsoft was led into a dead-end by the web in the 1990s. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, Yesterday, 9:49am
What is a blorkmark?
I'm working on the top-level user interface for the worldoutline software, and have decided, for now at least, that blorkmarks will be a top level feature. I could leave them out in the first version, and introduce the concept as an upgrade a few months after the initial release. I might still do that. But I wanted to see if I could explain what they are to the relatively technical people who read this blog. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 20, 4:10pm
Riding round the Meer
Today's milestone ride -- all the way round the park -- with confidence. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 20, 8:20am
Outlining and my father
My father had a thing for outlining, and he was lucky because he had a son who learned how to program, and made outlining work on a computer. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 19, 11:01am
Bubble frenzy
Okay yesterday was Facebook IPO day. How many times did you hear about it. What new information was added each time you heard. Why do we obsess so much about it. Did anything really happen? Blah blah blah. Yadda yadda yadda. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 19, 7:26am
Test post. Please ignore.
It's become a running joke on Twitter that when I post an item to my Radio2 feed with this title, I get ten times the response that I get from a normal post. Not sure what it means. But no harm. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 18, 9:19am
Thread: Why amateur reviewers are better
1. Amateurs don't have relationships with the vendors to protect. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 17, 10:24am
Thread: Tech design can't move that fast
Interesting piece that lists 15 current technologies that a child born today will never use. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 17, 9:45am
What are threads for?
They're bigger than tweets, not 140-char constrained, but express simple ideas that can be understood in a second or two. They inspire informational responses. The responses are in a CBS, and that's a problem, but the source is on my server. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 16, 12:41pm
Should you learn to code?
I have to weigh in on this. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 16, 12:08pm
Quick idea for Quora
Quora just raised $50 million. Quora is a very nicely done piece of software. Almost everyone thinks so. But I also think they're too late. There are already plenty of corporate blogging silos for people to write into. And the demand for them never was that high. So I think it would be interesting, with all their money and nice software, if they tried a pivot. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 16, 11:51am
Chrome is better, day 2
I'm now four days into using Chrome as my primary browser, after switching from Firefox. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 16, 11:23am
Run against the Republican Party
I saw Romney interviewed on Fox, and all the arguments about him being awkward and a flawed human being, to me, are unconvincing. To balance those, I look at what I know about the President. Honestly, measuring one man against another, it's a draw. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 15, 12:59pm
Chrome is better
I've spend a couple of days working fulltime in Chrome, and it's improved my workflow. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 15, 11:34am
New directory displayer
With the new directory displayer you get a two-level slice of the hierarchy. So if you view from the top of the worknotes site, for example, you get the months and days. Click on a month and you get the days and story titles. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 15, 8:45am
ADV: NewsIsFree: Advanced News Reader and Feed Publisher
Read news from thousands of news sources updated every 15 minutes on the most powerful news aggregator. Read more...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 14, 8:12pm
Which iPad is better, continued
On Friday I wrote a piece that suggested, perhaps, that the iPad 2 is a better device than the iPad 3. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 14, 10:40am
An offer to universities
Earlier this month I made an offer to news organizations, that I would work with one or two or all of them to revolutionize the way they offer news to their community. I have a very simple proposal, which I outlined in the piece. It would require guts. But it takes guts to live, and there's no security in any of it. No takers, so far, but John Robinson of the News-Record in Greensboro, NC called publicly on editors to do it. For which I am thankful. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 14, 10:19am
Switched to Chrome
A quick note that I switched from Firefox to Chrome on my main desktop computer, and plan to make the switch everywhere over the next few weeks. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 14, 9:57am
JPM's $2 billion loss? I don't get it
I've heard or read a half dozen reports on the $2 billion loss at JPMorgan, but don't understand why this is such a big deal. To a bank the size of JPM, $2 billion isn't very much money. If a company like GM or Microsoft lost $2 billion on a product, they'd shrug it off and go on. Probably happens all the time. Why is this so important? Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 14, 9:48am
Interesting at Livefyre
I was leaving a comment at Pando's site and noticed a funny Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 12, 4:36pm
Paywalls are backward-looking
Mathew Ingram, writing in GigaOm, offers three reasons he doesn't like paywalls. His second reason is "Paywalls are backward-looking, not forward-looking," which is the one that resonates with me. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 12, 11:57am
User's review of Dark Shadows
Nothing special, like every other Hollywood piece of shit movie. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 11, 6:28pm
Blogging and Kickstarter go together
I had a thought that goes back to the very early days of blogging, and a theory I had then, which thanks to Kickstarter seems to either be about to come true, or has already come true. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 11, 7:57am
Which iPad is better?
Like all dutiful Apple customers I plunked down the money to get the latest and greatest iPad in March. The screen was nice, at first, but very quickly it became normal. The gee-whiz effect faded almost immediately. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 11, 7:37am
Gmail on the move
In 2005, Google came out with an email service, and like a lot of other people I signed up. I liked it because it kept spam out of my way. It was fairly miraculous how it did that. On the other hand, I didn't like the way they bundled emails into conversations. But I eventually became accustomed to that, even though to this day it's hard to manage. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 10, 10:13am
The 2012 Knicks are over
I watched all the way to the bitter end. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 10, 8:54am
When carpetbaggers rule
I loved this piece about angel investor Kevin Hartz. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 10, 8:34am
Finally, a spring bike ride
I've been getting into a groove, doing the same ride every day. Enter the park at Columbus Circle. Ride around the park drive, but take the cutoff before the big hill at Harlem Meer. To make up for that, I do an extra circuit around the front part of the park. So I actually get more mileage than one circuit. But I'm getting stronger. Pretty soon I'll start going the full route. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 9, 2:04pm
Can you tell if a company is crazy?
Farhad Manjoo, one of my favorite tech writers, has a stimulating piece today about Amazon. He says he can't figure out what they're doing, how they intend to make money. What's the razor and what's the blade? He wonders if they know. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 9, 11:38am
Is computer science relevant?
I've heard people say that it is irrelevant whether or not the CEO of Yahoo has a degree in CS. This gives me chills. Should the CEO of a pharm company have a degree in medicine? Why not? No wonder so many opportunities are missed in tech. Ugh. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 9, 9:00am
Is Twitter right?
Twitter is getting all kinds of kudos for not turning over the tweet history of a user in response to a New York State subpoena. But what are the facts of the case, and is Twitter doing the right thing? Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 9, 8:26am
Death in the news
The only time the world "dead" belongs in the headline of a news story is when something that was formerly alive is no longer. A person, animal or plant. That's a legitimate use of the word in news. I can't think of another use that isn't some kind of revenge or spite. Because things that were never living can't be dead. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 9, 8:07am
Using Disqus 2012
I don't know all the features that are in the new version of Disqus, the commenting software we use here. I thought we'd dive right in and see. If you've used it elsewhere and know what's up with it, what we should look for, feel free to post a comment. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 8, 5:44pm
Menus everywhere
There's a new Bootstrap menu on scripting.com. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 8, 11:31am
Coddled from infancy and raised to be academic stars, China ’ s only children buckle under pressure of their parents’ deferred dreams...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 7, 8:12pm
Size matters, when it comes to IQ. The bigger your brain , the better . But most important is that certain areas of the brain be larger...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 7, 8:12pm
River of News -- FTW!
I had no idea how Jason Pontin's piece, Why Publishers Don't Like Apps, would end, but it was a riveting story, for a guy like me, who believes that what comes first in news is what's new. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 7, 10:40am
Kay Ryan , America ’ s new poet laureate , is a miniaturist. Her poems, like pearls, take shape “around an aggravation”...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Who framed George Lakoff ? This noted linguist’s foray into Democratic politics has been, well, a little bit exciting...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Kay Ryan , America ’ s new poet laureate , is a miniaturist. Her poems, like oysters, take shape “around an aggravation”...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Who Framed George Lakoff ? This noted linguist’s foray into Democratic politics has been, well, a little bit exciting...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Literary critics often use “voice” to mean “style.” But real writers have real voices too, and they have been recorded...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Russia looks like a crocodile to Georgia , but Georgia looks to Russia like the cats’ paw of the West...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Blue sky thinking, pushing the envelope: office-speak is just so brainless . Going forward, Lucy Kellaway dialogues...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
Frédéric Bourdin had invented scores of identities , in five languages, and he played them to the hilt. But his favorite was the abu...
Arts & Letters Daily, May 6, 8:13am
It matters that Yahoo's CEO lied
Yahoo's CEO lied about having a Computer Science degree. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 5, 5:44pm
Politics is not a sport
Yesterday I wrote that the Knicks season was over. Even if they were to miraculously win the next four games, it would still be over. Because the illusion of an all-for-one and one-for-all cause is broken. The bubble has burst. For me it wasn't the firing of the coach, or whether there was room for anyone on the court with Carmelo Anthony, though in retrospect, those were really clear signals that this was a mess, not a cause. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 5, 1:04pm
Examples of great blog design?
I'm looking for examples of beautiful yet simple and efficient (fast loading, easy to read) designs for blog stories. Read more...
Dave Winer's "Scripting News" weblog, May 4, 6:02pm