The Ten Thousand Year BlogWebjots that pickled my fancy from July 2002 (and maybe deeper into the past) until today, whenever now is, until beyond tomorrow, whenever that may come. Electronic Records and Digital Preservation is now a category.The Bot Wars: MSNbot vs Googlebot vs The Bloggers- June 19, 2003 The Bot from Redmond. This story is about the search engine robot released into the Web wild by Microsoft. You can read about MSNbot at the source. Some bloggers no like. via Scripting News, 02003 06 18, via Zawodny, 02003 06 17http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/19.html#a245 Gemstar phases out eBooks- June 19, 2003 Jenny Levine (The Shifted Librarian) posted a long e-mail from Gemstar announcing the company is phasing out its eBook product line. Effective immediately they stop selling their eBook reader (the handheld device) and on July 17, 2003 all sales of books and periodicals. Product support will continue "for at least the next three years" (until July 16, 2006). Jenny Levine noted in her post that: "While I hate to see ebooks decline even further, this was entirely predictable. If you're going.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/19.html#a244 RSS feed via POP3- June 18, 2003 Graeme Foster: "Why not expose RSS feeds as POP3 and have an RSS aggregator in any email client" via Scripting News Sounds like an idea whose time may have come. NewsGator, a commercial RSS aggregator (reader) for Microsoft Outlook, already exists and now allows reposting an RSS message to a blog via different plugins. Regular old news from UseNet channels never did seem to take off.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/18.html#a242 Microsoft buys Linux antivirus technology company- June 13, 2003 Microsoft to kill popular Linux antivirus product from IDG InfoWorld Put this in the if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em out category.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/12.html#a241 RSS aggregator story from The Shifted Librarian- June 13, 2003 RSS Aggregators Gaining Ground!. Should the big pubs be paying attention to RSS Just ask Andy Rhinehart at GoUpstate.com, home of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal newspaper. Last year Andy led the pack by offering an RSS feed for their top news stories. This year he enhanced the SHJ's status by creating a feed for their classified ads, and he topped himself with a third feed for stories about the war in Iraq. So GoUpstate.com is a good model for other newspapers to emulate, but we all..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/12.html#a240 Out of Africa again- June 13, 2003 Skulls of Oldest Homo sapiens Recovered from Scientific American Not really a freaky science item, but another important fossil discovery. How will the Creationists explain this onehttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/12.html#a239 RSS feed from Oracle Corporation- June 13, 2003 Oracle technology news now has an RSS feed. from Scripting Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/12.html#a238 BizBlog Conference, have blogs gone corporate at last- June 13, 2003 Blogs from BizBlog Conference. I missed the Weblog Business Strategies conference in Boston earlier this week, but Heath Row didn't. He practically transcribed the... from Dan Gillmor's eJournal More visibility for blogging enthusiasts and corporate evangelists ....http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/12.html#a237 Javapedia and Java.net Wiki from Sun Microsystems, O'Reilly and Collabnet- June 12, 2003 Javapedia: http:wiki.java.netbinviewJavapediaWebHome, powered by Twiki, and sponsored by Sun Microsystems, O'Reilly.com and Collabnet, this wiki aims to be the ultimate user-built guide to all things Java. The Javapedia is part of a larger aggregation of wikis organized under the name Java.net Wiki: http:wiki.java.net. Source: http:www.kottke.orgremainder, 11 June 2003http://radio.weblogs.com/0110793/2003/06/11.html#a234 Peek at the new Ten Thousand Year Blog (Squishdot)- June 10, 2003 A peek at the, hopefully, new Ten Thousand Year Blog. I'm not sure what version the RSS feed is, but I think it's 1.0. It is valid as you'll see from this link via the RSS Validator (Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby) http:feeds.archive.orgvalidatorcheckurl=http:www.davidmattison.ca10KYearBlogrdf.http://www.davidmattison.ca/10KYearBlog |