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Thursday, February 23, 2012 
It's really simple. If you want people to know what you think, blog. You may be a source for journalists. uncrunched.com 
How to Protect your searches from being recorded by Google's new privacy policy. techieapps.com 
1. There is no further entertainment value in the debacle of the Repub nomination process. 2. There is no #2. slate.com 
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 
Lin and Anthony Team Up as Knicks Beat Hawks. nytimes.com 
Apple, Google, Amazon, smartphone makers sign privacy accord. reuters.com 
iOS 5.0.1 bug bypasses security passcode to provide access to contacts and phone app. theverge.com 
Tonight the Knicks are 2.5 complete teams. Blow out. 
Jeremy Lin Appears Unlikely to Make U.S. Olympic Team. (He might play for China?) nytimes.com 
Apple Confirms Prineville Data Center Plans. #oregon m.ktvz.com 
Knicks game starts at 7:30PM (MSG). Repub debate starts at 8PM (CNN). I'll "watch" the debate on Twitter, Knicks on TV. 
Scripting News: Why I have never been to SXSW. (Fairly embarassing, but people ask every year around now.) scripting.com 
Bill Campbell makes future of journalism his next crusade. m.mercurynews.com 
The Book of Jobs. blogs.reuters.com 
Ex-Gov. Jeb Bush Rallies Kansas Business Leaders. nytimes.com 
Mitt Romney Said Cutting Spending Slows the Economy. (Apparently this was considered a gaffe!) loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com 
Scripting News: Working around a problem with the FreshAir podcast feed. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Macroeconomics. scripting.com 
The theme of the web is perhaps: "Why wasn't I consulted?" (Sounds about right to me.) ftrain.com 
Jeremy Lin Rents a Furnished 2BR at the W Downtown. (Next -- girlfriend.) ny.curbed.com 
Ted Turner: Keystone oil pipeline would risk disaster. edition.cnn.com 
Repubs are desperate. realclearpolitics.com 
Zach Seward leaves Wall Street Journal for Atlantic Media. jimromenesko.com 
Republicans Losing Interest in Presidential Race. (Everyone watching Jeremy Lin.) politicalwire.com 
The Beatles' Ringtones are Now Available on iTunes. #hellogoodbye thenextweb.com 
Sacha Baron Cohen warned not to attend Oscars as the Dictator. guardian.co.uk 
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 
Tomorrow night tough call. Repub debate or J-Lin and the Knicks. 
How about a Citizens United type PAC that runs ads smearing the reps of backers of the other PACs. 
Forecast high tomorrow 58. February. forecast.weather.gov 
How Jeremy Lin came to be an overnight NBA star. abstrusegoose.com 
Betabeat: Flickr Is Getting a Major Makeover. betabeat.com 
How linkrdr went semi-viral. (My feed is pretty good for promoting RSS-based products.) jeffknupp.com 
DRUDGE: SANTORUM'S SATAN WARNING. drudgereport.com 
Too much writing is of the form: "I have an opinion about something like this." scripting.com 
Domestic Drones: Big Brother's Prying Eyes in the Sky. aclu.org 
''There is a perception that it's OK to offend Asian Americans because they simply won't fight back.'' latimes.com 
News industry bought expensive shitty CMSes. (This can be fixed. But you have to learn new skills.) blog.publish2.com 
Franklin Graham Can't 'Categorically' Say President Obama Not A Muslim. #republican #douchebag tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 
The Official easyDNS Domain Takedown Policy. blog.easydns.org 
Scripting News: I love "As Good As It Gets". scripting.com 
Carol in As Good As It Gets: "Do you have any control over how creepy you allow yourself to get?" #republicans angelfire.com 
Women say no to 'state-sponsored rape'. #republicans guardian.co.uk 
Scripting News: What is Relative Writing? scripting.com 
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Mets existence. #amazin blog.nj.com 
Monday, February 20, 2012 
Cringely: Mountain Lion is damage control. cringely.com 
Carmelo Anthony not feeling happy tonight. en.wikipedia.org 
Movie Reviews Make All The Difference For Apple TV. uncrunched.com 
Commenters told me schadenfreud had nothing to do with Mitt Romney. Oh how wrong they were! --> tnr.com 
cdixon: "I like the idea of getting together to demo stuff you are working on more than hackathons." news.ycombinator.com 
"Materialize out of thin air to flush out a fuel line clogged with the residue of hopeless mediocrity?" #letsgomets nytimes.com 
Questions for people who love hackathons... news.ycombinator.com 
Never mind the economy, stupid: this election is all about sex. guardian.co.uk 
ACTA is part of a multi-decade, worldwide copyright campaign. arstechnica.com 
What Jeremy Lin Teaches Us About Talent. wired.com 
Bill Keller re (what else) Wikileaks and his personal dislike of Julian Assange. nytimes.com 
Apple briefs bloggers, blanks New York Times. zdnet.co.uk 
Sunday, February 19, 2012 
linkrdr is the "next generation feed reader." linkrdr.com 
Video highlights of today's Knicks-Mavericks game. youtube.com 
Scripting News: What Jeremy Lin teaches us. scripting.com 
I created a GMail filter that moves comments from Google-Plus (that I never asked for) to the Spam folder. Every thing in its place. 
Scripting News: No comment. scripting.com 
What if Jackson Pollock had comments? scripting.com 
Voting Rights Act under siege. politico.com 
The web works, badly designed or not! scripting.com 
Mark Zuckerberg Was At The Knicks Game Today. (He had better seats.) blogs.villagevoice.com 
BerkeleySide: Intruder assaults, kills homeowner on Grizzly Peak. berkeleyside.com 
Just got back from seeing the Knicks beat the Mavericks at the Garden. flickr.com 
Syria has made a curious transition from US ally to violator of human rights. guardian.co.uk 
Scripting News: What if Jackson Pollock had comments? scripting.com 
Hinderaker asks for sympathy for the Koch Bros. You got it. Now ask them to let democracy have a chance. powerlineblog.com 
Scripting News: Use the web. scripting.com 
No, Graphic Designers Aren't Ruining The Web. jamieforrest.com 
Graphic designers are ruining the web. guardian.co.uk 
Hackathons are the marketing guy's dream of how software is made. wired.com 
Saturday, February 18, 2012 
Scripting News: Schadenfreude and Mitt Romney. scripting.com 
Drones With an Eye on the Public Cleared to Fly. nytimes.com 
A parislemon post about RSS that I actually agree with and doesn't make me want to throw my shoes at him. parislemon.com 
Mitt Romney faces defeat in his family's home state of Michigan. guardian.co.uk 
ESPN reported Knicks loss last night with the headline "Chink In The Armor." blogs.villagevoice.com 
"Last night, ESPN.com's mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET." espnmediazone3.com 
Why is it that only pricks post comments? (I know I answered my own question.) scripting.com 
There was a cell phone in our pocket, and a camera. Why not connect the two? scripting.com 
Scripting News: Samsung is wrong about TV. scripting.com 
Coming March 22: Angry Birds Space. venturebeat.com 
"Jeb Bush," the former Florida governor? (Standing by for tap on shoulder.) abcnews.go.com 
Friday, February 17, 2012 
Do these people have ideas? events.theatlantic.com 
Mother Teresa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org 
Tech reporters explain tech companies as if they were run by Mother Teresa. pandodaily.com 
April 2011: 11 free hackathon ideas. scripting.com 
Time Warner Cable and MSG Resolve Dispute. #yes! nytimes.com 
Scripting News: How to fork a format. scripting.com 
Berners-Lee 'sorry' for HTTP's forward slashes. news.bbc.co.uk 
"When I bought an iPhone, I didn't think I was singing up as an active recruit in Apple's war on the open web." battellemedia.com 
William Carleton: Send Twitter $1.00. wac6.com 
Thursday, February 16, 2012 
Google Tracked iPhones, Bypassing Apple Browser Privacy Settings. (Glad Apple is taking such good care of us.) online.wsj.com 
The Alarming Rise of Jeremy Lin's Black Antagonists. m.good.is 
BTW. I own a fair amount of Apple stock, for a number of years. No plans on selling. #disclosure 
Apple is of course always playing "access journalism." (Apple doesn't like what the Times is writing.) washingtonpost.com 
Scripting News: So good to have Apple watch out for us. scripting.com 
Wikileaks Denied A Speaking Opportunity At UN Conference About Wikileaks? techdirt.com 
defunct: The upcoming death of computing. monogatari.doukut.su 
How Companies Learn Your Secrets. (Read this to understand why getting your address book is a big score.) nytimes.com 
We must work on ease of use. Iterate. Bootstrap. Turn users into developers. Repeat. scripting.com 
Most cool Jeremy Lin moment. (Watching him play is like the Harlem Globetrotters. Are the other guys just props?) scripting.com 
Why all people who use Twitter and feel limited by 140 characters will be learning Chinese. slate.com 
FLOSS Manuals (en). flossmanuals.net 
Department Of Homeland Security Tells Congress Why It's Monitoring Facebook, Twitter, Blogs. fastcompany.com 
Mountain Lion: Hands on with Gatekeeper. (Amazing. Just yesterday Apple said their protections don't work. Now this.) macworld.com 
At least there's snow on the ground *somewhere*. twitter.com 
Ryan urges GOP candidates to 'prepare the country' for tax, entitlement reform. thehill.com 
Kickstarter: A Bike Headlight To End All Bike Headlights. techcrunch.com 
Jeremy Lin is every bit as powerful as Occupy, in fact I see it as an extension of Occupy. scripting.com 
Scripting News: We're going to Disneyland! scripting.com 
"Developers have from now until Mountain Lion's launch in the summer to get their apps signed." #danger extremetech.com 
Daring Fireball: Mountain Lion. (As long as they don't take things out of Mac OS, I'm happy.) daringfireball.net 
It's a bad thing when Repubs interfere with Dem primaries. It's just as wrong when the Dems do it. dailykos.com 
Those annoying ads for iPad apps take on a new level of depravity. Do they just want to harvest your address book? technologyreview.com 
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 
Everyone Has Been Moved Over to the new Twitter Design. (Not me.) thenextweb.com 
It is outrageous that we can't watch the Knicks on TV in NY. nytimes.com 
Electronic Cigarette Explodes In Man's Mouth. #nosmoking hot.curry.com 
Josiah Bartlet Was A Mediocre President. #heresy thinkprogress.org 
The hollow emptiness in social media numbers - most accounts are fake or empty. (Call it Bubble 2.0.) zdnet.com 
Rep. Henry Waxman sends letter to Apple asking for explanation of its iOS app policies. news.cnet.com 
Anonymous plans to take down the 13 root DNS servers that power the Internet. pastebin.com 
Santa Clara approves plans for 49ers stadium. (Great news for the valley and South Bay.) sfgate.com 
Charles Dickens liked to walk. kottke.org 
Apple: App Access to Contact Data Will Require Explicit User Permission. allthingsd.com 
Important Steve Jobs video. He says Apple provides privacy protection for users that it doesn't. mmhd.ca 
When Harry Met Sally: "No you pretty much want to nail them too." youtube.com 
Men have built (and destroyed) civilizations in order to impress women so that they might say yes. psychologytoday.com 
There isn't room for every college undergrad to drop out and start a new company. scripting.com 
Scripting News: iPhones and unprotected sex. scripting.com 
My stand: It tech journalists don't focus on the issues we'll just route around them. I think that goes for VCs too. digitaltrends.com 
The Coen Brothers are filming today in the East Village. evgrieve.com 
A Finnish sci-fi comedy about Nazis invading Earth. (With a combo like that how could it go wrong?) bbc.co.uk 
LA Times: Twitter's privacy policy does not disclose that Twitter downloads and stores user address books. latimes.com 
Scripting News: Did blogspot's Atom feeds change? scripting.com 
Santorum Tests the Big Campaign Theory. (I've been saying this for years. You can run w/o much money.) thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 
Coding tip: auto-fill the city and state fields based on the ZIP code. uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com 
Can't monetize free users? Try threatening them with legal action. teamblog.supportbee.com 
The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia. chronicle.com 
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 
Steve Jobs went on the record on the Address Book question, and Apple's software is not consistent with his answer. mmhd.ca 
Scripting News: The tech press is alive! scripting.com 
Once a switching control cente, a 32-story tower in Manhattan will reopen this fall as a home for data centers. nytimes.com 
VentureBeat is going for it too. It's great to see tech reporters actually doing some tech reporting! :-) venturebeat.com 
Jeremy Lin's stunning success with the Knicks has captured the imagination of China. nytimes.com 
It took a week before someone in the tech press ignored the circus sideshow and got to the actual story. Thanks. theverge.com 
The Verge: iOS apps and the address book -- who has your data, and how they're getting it. theverge.com 
Apple Chief Unveils a New Product: Himself. bits.blogs.nytimes.com 
Poynter: Aided by Silicon Valley, U.S. government ferrets out journalists' confidential sources. poynter.org 
ISS to Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg has too much power. zdnet.com 
UK Seize Popular Music Blog, Arrest Operators and Threaten Readers. torrentfreak.com 
The United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald's. datapointed.net 
NYT: New Service Will Stream Local TV Stations in New York. mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com 
Other info any iOS app can access -- 1. Calendar (read/write) and 2. Cellular carrier info via CTCarrier. scripting.com 
Users couldn't be more vulnerable. Th funny part is that the reporters and bloggers are probably ALL iPhone users. 
Gotta say the tech press, including my friends at @wired, are completely blowing this one. 
The way Apple ships iPhones and iPads is like a default config for a server with all ports open, no passwords required. 
Peeve: Article about an "upcoming" event that doesn't say, in the first sentence, when the event is. news.yahoo.com 
Scripting News: What info can iOS apps access? scripting.com 
NYT: Jeremy Lin has come along to put a smile on every face from Woodlawn to Far Rockaway. :-) cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com 
Review of node.js. Quote: "I suspect that the founders hired a parasite/psychopath to build their product." realfreemarket.org 
Tumblr's architecture: 15 Billion Page Views a Month and Harder to Scale than Twitter. highscalability.com 
PBS iOS apps provide a sneak peek at upcoming 'Clinton' documentary. (Does it access your address book?) theverge.com 
Monday, February 13, 2012 
Which of the apps on my iPhone is transmitting everything I think is private and to whom are they transmitting it? uncrunched.com 
Here's the list of apps you've authorized to access your GMail account. accounts.google.com 
NYT: Nielsen Chastises Oprah Over a Twitter Plea. nytimes.com 
Which of the apps on my iPhone is transmitting everything I think is private and to whom are they transmitting it? scripting.com 
Dan Lyons: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool. realdanlyons.com 
What has become of the host at Cornerhost? gizmodo.com 
How do you write women so well? "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." setiorganization.wordpress.com 
Independents Abandoning Romney. (I don't usually point to "horse race" stories, but this one is interesting.) politicalwire.com 
Slate: Francis Fukuyama Builds His Very Own Surveillance Drone. slate.com 
NYT: Apartments Gain Vistas, but Not for Long. nytimes.com 
The Pirate Bay To Delete BitTorrents Feb. 29. blogs.villagevoice.com 
Scripting News: How industries react to crises. scripting.com 
Anyone who tells you repressive govts aren't hacking tech company servers to get info about dissidents is.. Wrong. interactioned.com 
CSS3 ordered list styles. red-team-design.com 
Chris Dixon: Some thoughts on the iPhone contact list controversy and app security. cdixon.org 
CSS3 Fancy Box. vcarrer.com 
If you read German you can get the news about what's going on with Frontier. :-) schockwellenreiter.de 
I got a response from someone on Jobs's staff. They agreed to return the drive, and a few days later, got it back. scripting.com 
Scripting News: The bigger question Path raises. scripting.com 
An email to Steve Jobs at Apple I wrote in 2007, asking for Apple to return my hard drive. flickr.com 
Path shows that you can't use an iPhone to store contact info that you want to keep private, and use apps. bits.blogs.nytimes.com 
MG Siegler weighs in on the Path controversy with a perspective from the tech industry. parislemon.com 
Sunday, February 12, 2012 
Ars Technica: Path addresses privacy controversy, but social apps remain a risk to users. arstechnica.com 
What if Greece had to get a new currency? bbc.co.uk 
Whitney Houston Star Spangled Banner Video. youtube.com 
Al Qaeda declares war on 'cancerous' Syrian regime. #strangebedfellows abc.net.au 
I'm going to see the Knicks vs Mavericks next Sunday with four NYC buds. Totally excited! :-) stubhub.com 
Neubertify: Why I stopped using Gmail. neubertify.tumblr.com 
According to @arrington the problem is "the mob." uncrunched.com 
Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It. nytimes.com 
Scripting News: A reporter's address book. scripting.com 
Nick Bilton makes the buddy-net in Silicon Valley the story. Beautiful piece. bits.blogs.nytimes.com 
Google TV 'big announcements' coming on Monday. theverge.com 
Wired: The troll lost, this time wired.com 
Scripting News: Ebert is right. scripting.com 
Saudi Arabian Journalist Faces Death Penalty for Tweets. thenextweb.com 
The party went on at the Hollywood hotel Whitney Houston died at. dailymail.co.uk 
Why Facebook Is Never Safe. #mustread newmatilda.com 
Saturday, February 11, 2012 
Nate Silver:Jeremy Lin is No Fluke. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com 
NYT: Occupy Movement Regroups, Laying Plans for the Next Phase. nytimes.com 
Acta protests: Thousands take to streets across Europe. bbc.co.uk 
Jeremy Lin on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org 
How Bill Clinton betrayed us: allies speak out on Lewinsky affair. guardian.co.uk 
MS has tried this before -- it was called .Net and it wasn't anywhere near as big a deal as its hype. pandodaily.com 
Ebert: "Each and every change to my Twitter page is a Bad Idea. Did they go berserk?" (Effectively, yes.) twitter.com 
Andy Baio: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox. wired.com 
Instagram Now Prompts You to Share Contacts. thenextweb.com 
How a Birthday Party at the North Korean Embassy Started the Kim Jong-un Death Rumor. gawker.com 
CSS3 Patterns Gallery. lea.verou.me 
Thunderbolt: One year later. macworld.com 
Friday, February 10, 2012 
Howevs the Prez didn't sing Al Green at the presser. slate.com 
Slate: Obama punks Repubs on contraception. slate.com 
BitTorrent Piracy Doesn't Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds. torrentfreak.com 
Twitter, Weibo Spread Rumors of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's Assassination. reuters.com 
To webmasters at NPR: The Fresh Air Podcast feed is going wild, with shows going back to 2007. That's too much! npr.org 
Scripting News: Facebook didn't do what Path does. scripting.com 
"If someone hangs up on me, I don't have to call them back." scripting.com 
"Bibi don't start a war with Iran until after Madonna's show on May 29." Srsly? haaretz.com 
My newest 404 page laments the death of the web. worknotes.scripting.com 
Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend. tech.fortune.cnn.com 
Syrian President Assad did just what Repubs do. Tell Americans a nice bedtime story and they'll be happy. It's true. readability.com 
Scripting News: What you think matters. scripting.com 
Sooner or later, Obama may encounter a crisis that can't be reversed at the eleventh hour. tnr.com 
Yeah, our political/media system is bored, dumb and aimless. Greedy too. Corrupt. That's why I don't watch. online.wsj.com 
This is what the southwest corner of 14th Street and Avenue C looked like on Feb. 6, 2012. #brilliant #idea evgrieve.com 
Most of Obama's "Controversial" Birth Control Rule Was Law During Bush Years. motherjones.com 
Thursday, February 09, 2012 
Why is Path getting a pass? Read this. edwardaten.posterous.com 
Evidence of AWS service coming soon, previously unannounced. imgur.com 
Pinterest API: Coming Soon or Already Here? blog.programmableweb.com 
S.O.D. == Suspension Of Disbelief. 
The Artist is the only candidate for Best Picture that is a BP. Th'others all flawed, not memorable, no S.O.D. nytimes.com 
Scripting News: A core feature of MORE, on the web. scripting.com 
AT&T's answer to AWS EC2. cloudarchitect.att.com 
A Texas Jury Now Deliberating Who, if Anyone, Owns the Web. wired.com 
AAPL > MSFT + GOOG economix.blogs.nytimes.com 
Some commentators claim discouraged people dropping out of labor force, making numbers look better. They're wrong. economix.blogs.nytimes.com 
A fountain of 16x16 icons! :-) (Thanks @seanodotcom.) p.yusukekamiyamane.com 
16x16 Icons. Hot dam. The feature I'm working on eats 16x16 icons for breakfast! :-) designshack.net 
Brent Simmons, an iOS dev, says no to stealing user data. inessential.com 
America's pro-choice majority. guardian.co.uk 
Considering all politics is on twitter now, suggest th parties shorten their names. We must all surrender to Ev and biz. No exceptions. 
'We don't have shared goals with the Democrats'. Feh. There isn't very much diff, except Repubs are more obnoxious. firstread.msnbc.msn.com 
How AOL could have been Facebook. (MBAs didn't use the service the way users did. As always. Don't hire MBAs.) online.wsj.com 
Why Midnight in Paris should win the best picture Oscar. (Summary -- Woody Allen is old.) guardian.co.uk 
Mitch McConnell to assail 'liberal thugs'. (Unusual framing.) politico.com 
Don't break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told. (Good to see mainstream media wising up.) guardian.co.uk 
I've actually had people ask why I stopped blogging, people who depend on techmeme for tech news. I haven't stopped! :-) 
I think it's cool that while my own articles never appear on techmeme, I'm often driving the stories that do appear there. 
TechFellow Awards. techfellows.com 
Hipster CEO Also Apologizes For Address Book-Gate, Calls For "Application Privacy Summit" techcrunch.com 
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 
Kottke on iPhone address book privacy. kottke.org 
Josh Whalen: No one is ever going to get away with occupying a park for an extended period of time again. occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com 
TechCrunch says Dave Morin didn't lie about retaining user's contact data. techcrunch.com 
Scripting News: Take 3 on Path's love affair with our address books. scripting.com 
Cardinal Egan Criticized for Retracting Apology on Sex-Abuse Crisis. cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com 
Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free. wired.com 
Morin lied about retaining data last year, when Gawker asked. Amazing. gawker.com 
I forgot I wrote this piece last year, about Path. "The tech industry is a virus." Ryan Tate remembered. scripting.com 
Game Developer Sentenced to Death in Iran Asks Obama for Intervention. kotaku.com 
Read Twitter Links Comfortably with Tweetbot & Readability. blog.readability.com 
Scripting News: I don't like my last post. scripting.com 
Om: Why we are buying paidContent. gigaom.com 
Matt Taibbi: Wall Street Should Stop Whining. #goodidea rollingstone.com 
Lessons from Path and Pinterest: Tell users everything. gigaom.com 
"Mitt Romney sure hopes there's a safety net. His campaign needs it." #heh slate.com 
Scripting News: Glad I don't use Path. scripting.com 
Nate Silver: G.O.P. Race Has Hallmarks of Prolonged Battle. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com 
What other user data can random IOS apps transmit back to the mother ship without the user knowing? 
Path retained users' address book data. Why? uncrunched.com 
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 
A friend says my blog, scripting.com, is on the Wikipedia blacklist. Is there some way to find out? en.wikipedia.org 
Privacy Death Stars Approved By Congress. gawker.com 
Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers. mclov.in 
What Wikipedia Won't Tell You. (The head of the RIAA makes some valid points.) nytimes.com 
Israel Confirms Major Natural Gas Discovery. nytimes.com 
Scripting News: Free lunches often have a price. scripting.com 
The Jeopardy answer: More users will care over time, if this cycle is like previous ones. gigaom.com 
Ice is a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable. nytimes.github.com 
How to Create a Stylish Image Content Slider in Pure CSS3. designmodo.com 
How America became a nation of freelancers. guardian.co.uk 
Bridging the Archipelago. "No blog is an island." #amen walterhiggins.net 
Tech news firehose. tech.newsriver.org 
Spiegel: It's Time To End the Greek Rescue Farce. spiegel.de 
Live video of the tickertape parade for the NY Giants. nyc.gov 
Translation of the seductive Fiat SuperBowl commercial. "Do you feel lost thinking that I could be yours forever?" theautoprophet.blogspot.com 
10 Tips on Writing Well from David Ogilvy. brainpickings.org 
Elite Anti-Terror Police Went After Megaupload's Kim Dotcom. torrentfreak.com 
Why The Artist should win the best picture Oscar - video. guardian.co.uk 
High Praise for Super Bowl Officiating. fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com 
Former East German Leader's Wife Is Homesick. (She misses forests and mushrooms.) spiegel.de 
Monday, February 06, 2012 
Karl Rove Takes Offense at Clint Eastwood Super Bowl Ad. loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com 
Clint Eastwood: 'I am Certainly Not Affiliated with Mr. Obama'. nation.foxnews.com 
The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth. guardian.co.uk 
My ode to the open web, on Wired. wired.com 
The Times should have been the place where newsmakers go to make news. scripting.com 
Esther Dyson don't worry be happy. :-) techpresident.com 
Some days Scripting News is all about football. Today, of course, is one of those days. :-) scripting.com 
New England didn't lie down soon enough. (The end of last night's game is already legendary.) slate.com 
Fiat Super Bowl Commercial 2012. #oooohlala esquire.com 
City to fete Giants With Ticker-Tape Parade. wnyc.org 
Sunday, February 05, 2012 
Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?'. (Hamsters don't get cuts.) bits.blogs.nytimes.com 
Rex Hammock: What time is the Superbowl and thoughts on Facebook and why I blog. rexblog.com 
Tina Fey's Rules For Improv. women2.org 
Joni Mitchell: You don't know what you got till it's gone. youtube.com 
Firestone, Standard Oil and GM bought LA's streetcar system. By 1963 it was gone, replaced by cars and freeways. en.wikipedia.org 
Facebook Is Using You. nytimes.com 
I'd rather work for a very small minority of free users, or make pottery in Italy or Slovenia. scripting.com 
Scoble: I'm going down with the ship. scripting.com 
Saturday, February 04, 2012 
Scoble is trying for the top weekend spot on Techmeme. Wrong headline. "Facebook is dead" more likely to win. scobleizer.com 
Facebook please kick Scoble off your site. Love, Dave. scobleizer.com 
Andrew Shell wrote a WordPress Plugin that implements our proposed standard for cross-site RT'ing. blog.andrewshell.org 
Walking by the Time-Warner building on Columbus Circle and there's @Baratunde. The man is everywhere these days! :-) flickr.com 
Brady: I Watched Super Bowl Last Year On Illegal Website. #prohibition connecticut.cbslocal.com 
The social media editor of the Times read my piece: "Great moments in hyperbole." twitter.com 
Scripting News: NYT growing the wrong way. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Rediscovering the Beatles. scripting.com 
For a distributed Twitter-like network, we must have cross-site RT'ing that's Really Simple™. Proposal: scripting.com 
Looks like Diaspora is starting to navigate to where we are with the World Outline. blog.diasporafoundation.org 
Greg Mathes gets it. The mission of tech companies is at odds with the mission of users. gregmathes.com 
The Artist sparks Hollywood nostalgia boom for silent era. guardian.co.uk 
Do the dead outnumber the living? (Yes.) bbc.co.uk 
Seattle library lets man watch porn on computers despite complaints. news.yahoo.com 
Friday, February 03, 2012 
Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama. huffingtonpost.com 
"If you need a nap room, please apply to work at the Huffington Post." pandodaily.com 
Scripting News: A standard for RT'ing? scripting.com 
Bulgarian MPs Wear Anonymous/Guy Fawkes Masks To Protest ACTA. techdirt.com 
The View From the Tormented: Eagles Fans. fifthdown.blogs.nytimes.com 
Apple to Authors: Content You Make in iBook App is Yours, Not Ours. wired.com 
Thanks to James Fallows for climbing over the Chinese Wall that separates the tech and political blogosphere. theatlantic.com 
What is money good for? Distance. scripting.com 
Key Internet operator VeriSign hit by hackers. finance.yahoo.com 
Silicon Valley's dirty little secret is that the startup boom is mostly a disguised jobs fair. siliconvalleywatcher.com 
What if Angry Birds was more competitive? What if the pigs shot back? What if a pig is a friend of yours? #mwahahaha 
Scripting News: I don't love Google but... scripting.com 
Bird flu virus could kill half the world, scientists warn. guardian.co.uk 
John Palfrey: Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching. blogs.law.harvard.edu 
Scripting News: A non-stop blast of tech news! scripting.com 
EV Grieve: More photos of the apartment with the garage door for a living-room wall on East 14th Street. evgrieve.com 
Thursday, February 02, 2012 
If a broker calls and says he can get a hundred million for all your stock, and you feel like taking it -- take it! scripting.com 
Facebook IPO: Is the social networking behemoth really a good business? slate.com 
Rex Hammock: What Tumblr is doing is not new. It is smart, but it is not new. rexblog.com 
John Battelle says we must fight for the open web, and I'm two-thumbs-up with that. Let's do it. battellemedia.com 
Scripting News: Advice for new Facebook millionaires. scripting.com 
Kim Jong Un Looking at Things. theatlantic.com 
Feds Arrest Streaming Site Operator for Copyright Infringement. torrentfreak.com 
The noun collection. blog.thenounproject.com 
Hello world in node.js. theprojectspot.com 
Al Pacino's Inch By Inch speech from Any Given Sunday. essaysfromexodus.scripting.com 
I love stories about dogs and kids. Like this one. nytimes.com 
What Is Facebook's Business? fastcompany.com 
American researchers have determined that the majority of Tweets go unread or irritate people. :-) telegraph.co.uk 
A Beautiful 1928 Letter to 16-Year-Old Jackson Pollock from His Dad. brainpickings.org 
11 February Will Be a Day of ACTA Protests. thenextweb.com 
CJR on reporters running their own EC2 servers. cjr.org 
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 
Poetry: "Industrial rug cleaner mingling with Moscone Center hot dog water." zdnet.com 
Taiwan ad featuring Steve Jobs as an angel in heaven. He loves his Android tablet from Taiwan! youtube.com 
After Years Of Drilling, Antarctic Lake Will Be Reached. bbc.co.uk 
Tumblr Hires Writers to Cover Itself. (Really smart!) nytimes.com 
Real estate marketing sites with drone-taken marketing aerial photos in LA. suasnews.com 
Rachel Maddow is an idiot. 
People laugh at the idea of "self-deportation" but the Repubs plan to run on it in the fall. Think Swift Boats. google.com 
Facebook Reveals How Staggeringly Rich And Popular It's Become. gawker.com 
2011: Facebook drones in the sky? scripting.com 
Facebook is a family business. Nice story. :-) tech.li 
Guardian: Facebook files for $5 billion IPO. guardian.co.uk 
Gallup state numbers predict huge Obama loss. campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com 
Roger McNamee and Mike Maples, Jr on the next architecture for net apps. rogerandmike.com 
Apple was working on higher quality music and hardware, says rocker. arstechnica.com 
If what RSS needs is better PR then give it better PR. :-) rumproarious.com 
Mona Lisa copy reveals new detail. bbc.co.uk 
Romney says 'poor' comment needs context. (He also refers to the Democrat Party, which makes him an illiterate ass.) politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 
Stanford Political Communication lab has a collection of 2012 Republican campaign commercials. pcl.stanford.edu 
Kurzweil: Innovation without age limits. kurzweilai.net 
Mitt Romney heads to Minnesota amid talk of Michele Bachmann endorsement. #ohthehumanity boston.com 
Scripting News: Florida campaign commercials? scripting.com 
October 2000 : Virtual Bandwidth. scripting.com 
A new device for listening to audio, downloads content "while you're sleeping." Yo @adamcurry, sound familiar? :-) guardian.co.uk 
"I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it." #guesswho politicalwire.com 
Twitter's early-bird special on censorship. boingboing.net 
Michael Wolff is writing a column for the Guardian. guardian.co.uk 
The Illusion of Privacy. Two examples of private info revealed publicly by Amazon and (of course) Facebook. givoly.com 
Say hello to Bootstrap 2.0. dev.twitter.com 
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 
Is there a site we can view all the commercials used in the Florida primary? 
You hear this a lot -- I don't seek out the news, I assume if something is important it will find its way to me scripting.com 
Congratulations. You just used 1/12th of 2012. 
Set up a trust for the movie industry. An account we can deposit into but only movie-moguls can withdraw from. scripting.com 
Why You Shouldn't Use Twitter Bootstrap. (I don't agree but it's worth considering what he says.) vibhunorby.com 
David Brooks on our divided society in America. nytimes.com 
Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years? bhorowitz.com 
Scripting News: More ideas for Hollywood. scripting.com 
Not surprised this piece didn't make it onto TechMeme. Need another channel for tech news, imho, about tech. scripting.com 
Trying to order a new service at Time-Warner is nightmare. Maybe MPAA should work on that before they try to shut down the Internet. 
A surprisingly balanced discussion of age issues in tech at Hacker News was deleted. Wonder why? Can't ask on the site. news.ycombinator.com 
Monday, January 30, 2012 
New York City Weather: January Ends With T-Shirt Temperatures. blogs.wsj.com 
Is it good for journalism when sources go direct? Are you kidding? It's great for journalism. No room in 140 chars to gigaom.com 
MagicEdit is a powerful content management framework for web designers. magicedit.com 
I've got widgets fighting on my blog's home page! :-( scripting.com 
Brent Simmons is keynoting and independent Mac developers conference in Denver. 360macdev.com 
2007: 'Old fuddy-duddy' fights back over Google sacking. theage.com.au 
Dave Winer: Get The Tech Back In Tech. (My latest Wired piece, with a wonderful illustration.) wired.com 
What's Not to Love About Acting in Silents? (Look at how old the actors are, and how alive.) carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 
State Senator Behind "Don't Say Gay" Bill Refused Service At Restaurant. (Perfect.) buzzfeed.com 
In 2008 Obama ran against the mandate. Remarkable. (No sarcasm.) buzzfeed.com 
Scripting News: Google's age-hate. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Widget wars! scripting.com 
2009: Sources go direct (Scripting News). scripting.com 
Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift. (Newsroom of the future for the age of Sources Go Direct.) allthingsd.com 
This girl can say any word backwards within three seconds of being told the word. #amazing wpix.com 
Thailand Is First Government To Welcome Twitter's New Censorship Policy. mediabistro.com 
Scripting News: Passive vs active news reading. scripting.com 
An important piece that ran on Sunday: Get the tech back in tech. scripting.com 
If you're looking for a good series to get hooked on, Homeland is hard to beat. tv.nytimes.com 
Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values. guardian.co.uk 
MegaUpload User Data Soon to be Destroyed. torrentfreak.com 
Apple: New Engineers Work On Fake Products Until They Can Be Trusted. businessinsider.com 
Sunday, January 29, 2012 
E.U. Leaders Set to Admit Austerity Is Not Enough. (Krugman vindicated.) nytimes.com 
Republican desperation, part 2. Kansas Speaker O'Neal asks House GOP to pray for Obama's death. m.examiner.com 
Why Republicans (Finally) Opposed SOPA and PIPA. blog.tomevslin.com 
100,000 years from now historians will debate the purpose of this street sign. scripting.com 
You want proof that Republicans are getting desperate. Here you go. huffingtonpost.com 
[Google people] allegedly called him a poor "cultural fit," an "old guy" with ideas "too old to matter." nytimes.com 
Flickr: Haiku street sign in Columbus Circle. #really flickr.com 
Chomsky is wrong right about Twitter. It's a medium of grunts and snorts. (But it could be more.) salon.com 
How the brain decides whether to sell out. sciencedaily.com 
I'm glad that "Get the tech back in tech" is being retweeted so much. Thanks! :-) scripting.com 
Scripting News: Get the tech back in tech. scripting.com 
Krugman: This is a time when government investment should be pushed very hard. Instead, it's being slashed. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 
George Carlin: Nobody cares about you. (Video) youtube.com 
Over the last few days the worldoutline got its basic macro facility. scripting.com 
Police use teargas on Occupy Oakland protesters -- in pictures. guardian.co.uk 
Saturday, January 28, 2012 
Thousands march in Poland over Acta internet treaty. hot.curry.com 
2001: Extended Safe Macros in Frontier 6.2. frontier.userland.com 
Scripting News: Macros in the worldoutline. scripting.com 
Police fire tear gas as Occupy Oakland marchers near convention center. insidebayarea.com 
I haven't gotten an email on my Gmail account since 2:45PM. Think something might be wrong?? 
It's Not Silicon Valley Versus Hollywood -- It's Greed Versus Greed. meganhannay.com 
Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching. hilt.harvard.edu 
Wish Norquist would run for something so we could impeach *his* ass. nationaljournal.com 
Saving the Internet: Let a Billion Servers Bloom. (A cross-post of yesterday's piece about Twitter.) technologyandpolicy.org 
EFF: What Does Twitter's Country-by-Country Takedown System Mean for Freedom of Expression? eff.org 
Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered, "Am I the only one?" herdict.org 
Pancake is a new Mozilla Labs project wiki.mozilla.org 
Don't boycott Twitter, but don't put it at the center of all your Twitter-like communication. andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
"Entrepreneur in Residence" -- Who are you kidding? #amen brajeshwar.com 
Asus and Microsoft working on a Kinect-equipped laptop. (So glad to hear this!) extremetech.com 
Native New Yorker Say Shit In New Video. blogs.villagevoice.com 
Flickr: I took this color picture of Central Park after the snow, but it looks black and white. flickr.com 
Secrets of the billionaire bankrolling Gingrich's shot at the White House. (Adelson did Comdex for many years.) guardian.co.uk 
Amnesty.org: Iran must halt execution of web programmer. (Site is 503 Unavailable.) news.ycombinator.com 
Al Sharpton on the sad state of Arizona. hot.curry.com 
TorrentFreak on the aftermath of the Megaupload shutdown. torrentfreak.com 
Harvard Prof: MegaUpload Shutdown is an Attempt to Kill Technology. torrentfreak.com 
Reporters Without Borders objects to Twitter cooperating with repressive governments. en.rsf.org 
Friday, January 27, 2012 
Making Sure the Next Zuckerberg or Gates Stays Put at Harvard. allthingsd.com 
Central Park Gets First East/West Shared Bike/Pedestrian Path. centralpark.com 
Report: Facebook Files For IPO Next Week. wired.com 
Bought a copy of Douglas Rushkoff's new graphic novel, A.D.D. Don't buy many physical books these days. amazon.com 
Copyright Industry Calls For Broad Search Engine Censorship. torrentfreak.com 
Scripting News: Ask not what the Internet can do for you... scripting.com 
Rather than discuss in 140-char soundbites, I wrote a blog post with bullets about Twitter's new filtering. scripting.com 
Twitter faces censorship backlash. guardian.co.uk 
How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? reason.com 
Thursday, January 26, 2012 
Davos Newbies: A few truths about Davos. davosnewbies.com 
Bob Dole is still alive. en.wikipedia.org 
Take me back to Tulsa I'm too young to marry. Take me back to Tulsa la la la la. bing.com 
is Mitt Romney gay or straight? how-tall.com 
Creating Triangles in CSS. #buongiorno! jonrohan.me 
Twitter will censor tweets, but will try really hard not to. gigaom.com 
Twitter Announces It May Now "Withhold" Different Tweets In Different Countries. techpresident.com 
Apple's record profits built on grinding employees into dust -- then blowing them up. extremetech.com 
Flickr: A cold gloomy day, and an unusual emptiness to Central Park. flickr.com 
Note to @jason: Ideas for movie moguls. (More good ideas in the comments.) scripting.com 
If the governor of Arizona won't apologize, the people of Arizona should. politico.com 
Would someone please tell he governor of Arizona you don't talk like this to the President of the United States. cbsnews.com 
We Need to Empower Hollywood--Not Kill It. launch.is 
Rolling Stone: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most important rock & roll album ever made. rollingstone.com 
Webmonkey: How CSS Works. webmonkey.com 
Possible new title for myself: Chronicler Of The Loops. webmonkey.com 
Highly recommended -- Homeland series on Showtime. Shows terrorism as a two-sided story, not just good-bad. en.wikipedia.org 
Highly recommended, podcast from T.A.L. explains how the Euro came to be and why it was doomed from the start. thisamericanlife.org 
Running a server may sound hard. But in practice it's as easy as running a laptop. scripting.com 
Jeb Bush: How Republicans can win Hispanics back. #bush3 washingtonpost.com 
How Can We Clean Up The Japanese Tsunami Debris That's Coming To American Shores? fastcoexist.com 
Some Mac APIs Available Only To Apps Sold Through Online Mac App Store. mjtsai.com 
Cars Kill Cities. progressivetransit.wordpress.com 
Scripting News: EC2 for Poets in 2012. scripting.com 
Ariz. Gov. Jan Brewer: President Obama 'didn't feel I treated him cordially.' (Geez. Look at the picture.) politico.com 
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 
Forbes: Warren Buffett's Secretary Likely Makes Between $200,000 And $500,000/Year. forbes.com 
Google's no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet. washingtonpost.com 
Geithner Will Not Serve Another Term. politicalwire.com 
"This American Life" explainer on the trouble with the euro. thisamericanlife.org 
Video: Bill Gates on his last visit with Steve Jobs. seattletimes.nwsource.com 
Debunking the Manhattan skyscraper bedrock myth. kottke.org 
AC: Jeb Bush will enter the race in the next few weeks. He is the chosen one. Pelosi knows it. #followTheScript scripting.com 
NakedJen -- boots on the ground.™ nakedjen.com 
Glyphcons is a "library of precisely prepared monochromatic icons and symbols." glyphicons.com 
NYCinema. A perfect NY-movie-goers browser. An example of the kind of innovation that's possible in movieland. nycinema.com 
Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? readability.com 
What could Nancy Pelosi know? (#5. Newt is secretly Osama bin Laden's long lost brother.) scripting.com 
Newt says Nancy should "spit it out." (Oh the possibilities.) politicalwire.com 
Scripting News: What could Nancy Pelosi know? scripting.com 
I know the Repubs like to demonize Nancy Pelosi, but I really like her. :-) politicalwire.com 
Scripting News: Ideas for movie moguls. scripting.com 
Imho, [DuckDuckGo is] inexorably on the same path that Google was on. scripting.com 
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 
How about re-designing theaters. Let us bring headphones to improve the audio experience. Go to an Apple store. Make theaters that nice. 
The movie industry might try upgrading the user experience at theaters, as a way to draw people there. Fewer commercials, to start. 
Anti-Piracy Warnings Have No Effect on iTunes Sales. torrentfreak.com 
"Google started out on the right path, but eventually they went wild and desperate." scripting.com 
Oscar nominations 2012: The full list. guardian.co.uk 
Reuters: Davos man weighs future of capitalism. (Do you think they take themselves too seriously perhaps?) reuters.com 
Scripting News: Can we buy your search engine? scripting.com 
Webmonkey: The Disneyfication of Tech. (Written by yours truly.) webmonkey.com 
MPAA's Chris Dodd Calls SOPA Defeat a 'Watershed Event'. hollywoodreporter.com 
MPAA's Chris Dodd & NATO's John Fithian Face Sundance Wrath Over SOPA/PIPA. deadline.com 
Monday, January 23, 2012 
Saul Alinsky: who is he and why does Newt Gingrich keep mentioning him? guardian.co.uk 
Concerned White House Aides Say Obama Has Not Stopped Laughing Since Saturday Night. borowitzreport.com 
Did Wikipedia's Anti SOPA black out accomplish its goal? news.nationalpost.com 
The Hacker Olympics: NYC 2.18.12. (I solved the puzzle only to learn they were sold out. 0xFCUK.) thehackerolympics.com 
Me: "There are times I don't want to be marketed to." scripting.com 
Tracy Morgan Rushed to Hospital at Sundance Film Festival. wpix.com 
WebFWD - Mozilla's Open Innovation program. (Not sure if it's an incubator or foundation or...) blog.webfwd.org 
Romney: U.S. economy 'getting better' under Obama. washingtonmonthly.com 
OccupyWEF. #davos occupywef.ch 
Thomas Langmann, the Man Who Took a Chance on 'The Artist'. carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 
"Mitt's strategy for 2012 as for 2008 was to sit on his lead and run out the clock." nationalreview.com 
Frum: "to nominate Gingrich is to commit party suicide" maybe that would be the best outcome for everyone cnn.com 
Mitt Romney's attacks help Newt Gingrich. (I believe that. "Mean Romney" is not cool.) guardian.co.uk 
TSA turns away Sen. Rand Paul at airport checkpoint. cnn.com 
Scripting News: Code nodetypes in World Outline. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Google's feature-creep is creeping me out. scripting.com 
Matthew Battles: It doesn't take Cupertino to make textbooks interactive. niemanlab.org 
Scripting News: Writing good bug reports. (Programmers love great bug reports. Really.) scripting.com 
Why Do We Like To Smell Each Other? andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
Cyberlocker Ecosystem Shocked As Big Players Take Drastic Action. torrentfreak.com 
Breaking CAPTCHA with automated humans. troyhunt.com 
Sunday, January 22, 2012 
Poor Chris Dodd. boingboing.net 
What will the liberal elites think of next! Answer: Saul Alinsky. A Jewish communist who fought "racism." scripting.com 
If you can hear this you are decentralized. Twitter is down. But RSS doesn't have a fail whale. :-) 
Amazon sells dog whistles. Republicans take note. :-) amazon.com 
Scripting News: Evening Newt Notes. scripting.com 
Repubs take a term no one knows like "Sharia Law" or "Saul Alinsky" use it as "evil." Really dog-whistles for Muslim and Jew. 
What if Gingrich Wins Florida? (Even if you hate the Repubs, as I do -- you gotta feel just a little sorry for them.) politicalwire.com 
Why the iPhone should have a dedicated physical shutter button. thenextweb.com 
False Paterno death reports highlight journalists' hunger for glory. poynter.org 
"[Gingrich] was not a candidate. He was a vessel for patriotic, Republican rage." slate.com 
Newt's dog-whistle Saul Alinsky: "He was a Jewish guy who tried to help blacks," my wife said, after looking it up. newyorker.com 
Uploaded.to blocked U.S. visitors as a response to the MegaUpload takedown. uploaded.to 
Saturday, January 21, 2012 
The Open Web Needs Us. garrickvanburen.com 
NYT: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class. #mustread nytimes.com 
Heilemann: USS Gingrich Now Boarding in South Carolinal. nymag.com 
Chris Dodd Speaking At Sundance Panel Monday. filmguide.sundance.org 
Kim Dotcom's Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror. fastcompany.com 
Scripting News: The disneyfication of tech. scripting.com 
Flickr: Central Park in snow. flickr.com 
Wonder if Newt Gingrich can sing Al Green? mtv.com 
2009: How Hollywood portrays bloggers. (Scripting News). scripting.com 
Scripting News: Setting up an iPad in 2012. scripting.com 
MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought. techdirt.com 
If you want to "kill Hollywood" -- you won't. ycombinator.com 
Friday, January 20, 2012 
Brent Simmons: Mac Toolbox Lives. inessential.com 
Adam Curry on the MegaUpload Bust. blog.curry.com 
+1 for Wordpress Reader -- it likes title-only feeds. Legal RSS, and common these days. Google Reader fails at this. wordpress.com 
Maybe @arrington is having second thoughts about who he works for! :-) 
Also funny that @arrington so openly tried to kill RSS when it's one of the few techs the govt is going to have a hard time shutting down. 
Funny that @arrington sees how wrong it is to get in bed with DC, yet he is in bed with the people who rush to get in bed with DC. 
Expect to see the day when the DOJ shuts down a rogue site for publishing books not authorized by Apple. venomousporridge.com 
Gallup Editor-In-Chief: Romney Support 'Collapsing' Nationally livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com 
In Wordpress's new RSS aggregator, apparently you can only subscribe to a blog, not to a feed. This is a problem. scripting.com 
EV Grieve: Let's take a walk along Second Avenue in the East Village in 1997. evgrieve.com 
Thursday, January 19, 2012 
Scripting News: Wordpress.com's new RSS aggregator. scripting.com 
Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet. (Hah. The users don't get a seat at the table. Figures.) nytimes.com 
Why the feds smashed Megaupload. arstechnica.com 
Megaupload is back up on its website ip address. 109.236.83.66 
NYT: Gingrich Reports $3.1 Million in Income for 2010. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 
Why Education Publishing Is Big Business. wired.com 
Wordpress Introduces WP-centric Feed Reader. en.blog.wordpress.com 
The $88 million view. salon.com 
You would have to be out of your mind to us Apple's new book authoring software. Mass creative indentured servitude. venomousporridge.com 
There are plenty of 50-somethings like me, with lots of relevant experience who are looking for ways to contribute. scripting.com 
January 2011: Rebooting RSS, revisited. scripting.com 
Presidential jargon generator. unitedipsums.com 
Scripting News: Matt Waite's excellent post. scripting.com 
Obama Worthless in the SOPA/PIPA Battle. (Absolutely.) blogan.net 
SOPA & PIPA Blackout Day: Why We're Not Fighting for Enough Today - Punit Shah. blog.punit.org 
Sundance, Brought to You By (Your Brand Here). carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com 
Perry to Drop Out and Endorse Gingrich. politicalwire.com 
Chinese bloggers: Americans should try a minute in our shoes before invoking online Armageddon. latimesblogs.latimes.com 
Scripting News: No movies this weekend. scripting.com 
Jaron Lanier: SOPA Boycotts and the False Ideals of the Web. nytimes.com 
The movie industry is here for the next ten days: Sundance Film Festival. sundance.org 
No one go to movies this weekend, Jan 20th - 22nd! Boycott the MPAA! (Yes!) reddit.com 
Hollywood's Obama Donors On President's Piracy Stand: Not Give A Dime Anymore. deadline.com 
WallPress -- A WordPress Alternative to Facebook? ontekusuto.iamronen.com 
China to Expand Real-name Registration for Twitter-like Microblogs. pcworld.com 
Only From Japan: "Toylet" Video Games. hothardware.com 
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 
Scripting News: Back in the saddle again. scripting.com 
Bill Hicks on Marketing. youtube.com 
My peerindex. peerindex.com 
I asked Doc Searls to sing me a song and this is what he came up with. (I heard Happy Dave is Here Again.) youtube.com 
Zuck is: 1. Rich. 2. Young. and 3. Powerful, but... 4. He's not a friend of the Internet. gigaom.com 
If NY or Calif had the next Repub primary we'd all be cheering Newt Gingrich cause he'd be singing our song. slate.com 
14 Amazing Photos Of 1980s New York City. gothamist.com 
Slate: Stopping online piracy would be a social and economic disaster. slate.com 
The secrets Apple keeps - Fortune Tech. tech.fortune.cnn.com 
NYT: Web Site Will Shut Down to Protest Antipiracy Bills. nytimes.com 
The people who are giving us SOPA are meeting for the next 10 days here: Sundance Film Festival. sundance.org 
I also am very ambivalent re protesting alongside VCs who are making us more vulnerable to predators with their centralized networks. 
An army at war doesn't protest with a day of disarmament. Our network is our strength. We should be *building* it, not turning it off. 
I don't think we're going to break the grip of the entertainment industry on Congress. But they could adjust their thinking about the net. 
However, I do think there should be a protest in Park City, UT -- right now, and for the next ten days. 
NPR: Wikipedia Editors Question Site's 24-Hour Blackout. (I agree. Wikipedia should not be blacked out now.) npr.org 
scripting.com is blacked out. No explanations. No calls to action. Just black. 
Why the Oscars should cast out The Help and welcome in Pariah. guardian.co.uk 
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 
Question: Are the torrent sites blacking out tomorrow too? 
MPAA: Internet Blackout is a PR Stunt, Users Are Corporate Pawns. torrentfreak.com 
Archive.org is blacking out. blog.archive.org 
CNN: Why Wikipedia is going down at midnight. cnn.com 
Scripting News: SOPA's other message -- decentralize. scripting.com 
Lincoln Center has a Tumblr blog with an RSS feed. lincolncenter.tumblr.com 
Farts in Space: an underappreciated threat to astronauts. blogs.discovermagazine.com 
Google will protest SOPA using popular home page. news.cnet.com 
"Rick Perry: what an idiot," tweeted Mustafa Akyol, a columnist with the English-language Hurriyet Daily news. security.blogs.cnn.com 
NYT: Romney Says His Effective Tax Rate Is About 15 Percent. #issue thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 
NYT: Before Debate, Fox News Crafts a Sharp Script. nytimes.com 
Who will get the 'Recovery Presidency'? washingtonpost.com 
Announcing Lottery Details for 2012 TD Five Boro Bike Tour. bikenewyork.org 
Fred Wilson wants to bring developer conferences to NYC. avc.com 
Monday, January 16, 2012 
Guardian: Twitter boss slams Wikipedia's 'silly' Sopa protest. guardian.co.uk 
Gawker: Tech Industry Buys Itself a Mouthpiece. gawker.com 
Twitter's Dick Costolo calls Wikipedia SOPA blackout 'foolish'. thenextweb.com 
Fourth wall. en.wikipedia.org 
Scripting News: Why black out on Wednesday? scripting.com 
GOP debate tonight from South Carolina on Fox News at 9PM Eastern. 2012presidentialelectionnews.com 
Scripting News: Windows server for a year free on EC2. scripting.com 
Offensive URL "shortner". offensiveurl.me 
Amazon Adds Windows Server to AWS Free Usage. (Big news for EC2 for Poets.) thenextweb.com 
Sunday, January 15, 2012 
Sundance's guest "Tweetniks" for 2012. sundance.org 
Edge.org: What is your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation? edge.org 
AC uses the new WorldOutline/Bootstrap tabs feature for he show notes for his latest podcast. 374.nashownotes.com 
Romney under fire for speaking French. abc.net.au 
ScienceOnline2012 is next week at NC State Univ. scienceonline2012.com 
"It's just good manners to let the user of possible negative consequences of their action." scripting.com 
NYT: Mad Men Season Premiere Is Set for March 25. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com 
Rupert Murdoch turns to Twitter to attack Obama. reuters.com 
"There are reasons why the iPhone rang even when it was told explicitly not to by its user." scripting.com 
Columbia University is having a social media conference that's mostly corporate media. socmediaweekend.wordpress.com 
Scripting News: I'll miss the Republican debates. scripting.com 
Is there a Republican debate today? 
Scripting News: Apple design vs "It Just Works". scripting.com 
MPAA: It's Time to Stop Obstruction on Anti-Piracy Legislation. reuters.com 
British govt wants a "global method of domain take-down and removal." domainincite.com 
"Google has pretty much gamed its own search engine to insure Google+ will succeed." battellemedia.com 
When does mute not mute, or the incredible lengths Apple fans will go to "prove" Apple right and the user wrong. marco.org 
Saturday, January 14, 2012 
The New Gmail Sucks. +1 crookedtimber.org 
Magic happens when we combine Bootstrap tabs and worldoutline outlines. #demo scripting.com 
EV Grieve: This is what 1 WTC looked like on Jan. 13, 2012. evgrieve.com 
Video: Dana Bash gets "snowballed" by Ron Paul supporters. youtube.com 
How Not to Argue Against SOPA. mattmaroon.com 
Friday, January 13, 2012 
OMG another Angry Birds module coming. youtube.com 
Scripting News: Tabs are happening. scripting.com 
Under voter pressure, members of Congress backpedal (hard) on SOPA. arstechnica.com 
Gingrich is setting the bar. We have a right to demand that Obama be as thorough vs his opponent. firstread.msnbc.msn.com 
CNET: Why Google is ditching search. #wow news.cnet.com 
New York City gets a Software Engineering High School. joelonsoftware.com 
Most of Apple's $82 billion cash stockpile is 'trapped' overseas. (Why can't Apple pay income tax, like we all do.) tuaw.com 
Author of U.S. online piracy bill vows not to buckle. reuters.com 
Both NY senators support SOPA. projects.propublica.org 
nytimesriver.com. Latest headlines from you-know-where. :-) nytimesriver.com 
The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorize. #notetoself #memorize net.tutsplus.com 
Linkblog pointers by domain, 2012. (Scripting News, NYT, Guardian, YouTube, TechDirt, Slate, NextWeb.) stats2012.davelinks.com 
Words With Friends Saved a Life. blogs.villagevoice.com 
Scripting News: Will I have to pay for the NYT? scripting.com 
Tim O'Reilly: Why I'm fighting SOPA. gigaom.com 
Scripting News: Why I like Words With Friends. scripting.com 
Beijing's IPhone 4S Turmoil a Lesson to Apple, Say Analysts. pcworld.com 
The untruths carried in the Times, such crucial ones, were the things they should have been watching for. scripting.com 
Krugman: America Isn't a Corporation. nytimes.com 
How to make sense of Google/Twitter. They're not on the Internet. They were at one time. Now they're the Unternet. interactioned.com 
Thursday, January 12, 2012 
A cellphone ring near the end of Mahler's masterpiece caused the conductor to stop until the ringing ceased. nytimes.com 
Scripting News: An anti-SOPA browser plug-in? scripting.com 
Jay Rosen: So whaddaya think -- should we put truthtelling back up there at number one? pressthink.org 
Ex-Apple boss Sculley sets record straight on Jobs. bbc.co.uk 
Romney is just like John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. Brutal! :-) youtube.com 
Ron Paul is playing Moneyball with delegates. huffingtonpost.com 
Scripting News: Did the Times apologize for Judith Miller? scripting.com 
Scripting News: This is a Facebook-free Zone. scripting.com 
An example of a reallySimplePhoto file. static.scripting.com 
Tucows: Why We Don't Like SOPA. tucowsinc.com 
Dear NYT -- if you're quoting someone who you know is lying, it's unethical not to say so. Right there. In print. Unambiguously. 
Woman reportedly coughs up cancerous tumor. cbsnews.com 
I want a newspaper that can call a lie a lie. jasonlefkowitz.net 
Bootbox.js - alert, confirm and flexible dialogs for Twitter's bootstrap framework. paynedigital.com 
Scripting News: Hey you did a good job there! scripting.com 
Scripting News: Could Bing seriously challenge Google? scripting.com 
Ben Edelman: Google Tying Google Plus and Many More. benedelman.org 
Is there a department of self-sabotage at Google that, seeing success, gets to work right away trying to erode it? codeshal.tumblr.com 
Forbes: If Facebook Can't Stop SOPA, We Can Do It For Them. forbes.com 
Scripting News: Why we're vulnerable to SOPA. scripting.com 
Farhad: Google just broke its search engine. slate.com 
Time Is Running Out For SOPA Opponents Congressmen Warn At CES 2012. forbes.com 
New idea: Social Cameras! (Scripting News). scripting.com 
If SOPA's Main Target Is The Pirate Bay, It's Worth Pointing Out That ThePirateBay.org Is Immune From SOPA. techdirt.com 
NYT: The Tea Party's Not-So-Civil War. nytimes.com 
China's deserted fake Disneyland. blogs.reuters.com 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 
Study: Your Facebook Personality Is The Real You. (I deleted my Facebook account.) readwriteweb.com 
NYT: Political books/novels about past Presidential campaigns. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com 
As obvious as us electing a defense contractor VP in Y2K. (Followed by the Iraq war.) guardian.co.uk 
Obvious idea -- bankersters are trying to buy the Presidency. (For a clue see the presumptive Republican nominee.) guardian.co.uk 
It's time to place the web in safer hands. (I think he's right.) readability.com 
Why Facebook doesn't have or need testers. zdnet.com 
2011: NY Times magazine on future-safe archives. nytimes.com 
Don't forget the suggested user list, where insiders got millions of followers for being friends of @Ev and @Biz. searchengineland.com 
Wired: The Un-Internet. webmonkey.com 
MSR Social Computing Symposium. Jan 11-13, NY. scs.labforsocialcomputing.net 
Dave Weigel: Haven't We Lived Through This Primary Before? (Well done!) slate.com 
WordPress: Blogging is a form of activism. You can be an agent of change. (That's very true. And I'm glad they're saying it!) wordpress.org 
NYT: You have 5 of 20 free articles remaining this month. (Oh well, I guess we're about to part ways.) scripting.com 
1942: Gordon Hirabayashi was ordered to report to an internment camp in northern California. He refused. aclu.org 
Scripting News: Bootstrap Modal Demo. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Chutzpah? scripting.com 
Another facet of "What is blogging?" -- I get to craft my own medium. scripting.com 
Twitter Dumps on Google for Pushing Google+ in Search. (Now they know how Twitter devs feel.) allthingsd.com 
A site commemorating the East Village Other. eastvillageother.org 
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 
Issa Announces Oversight Hearing on DNS & Search Engine Blocking. oversight.house.gov 
The Re-Occupation of Zuccotti Park. blogs.villagevoice.com 
Jabber Support at WordPress.com. They effectively provide an RSS interface to Jabber. Have to play with this. en.support.wordpress.com 
Scripting News: Notes about blog comments. scripting.com 
Greg Mathes wrote me an email about commenting. I asked him to make it a blog post. He did. Worth a read and think. gregmathes.com 
I used to think it was lame that the BART shut down at night. Now they're doing it in NYC too. Oy!! nytimes.com 
Seagate Adapter Hits Hard Drives With a Thunderbolt. gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com 
Slate: Are smart people ugly? slate.com 
Scripting News: Google's new search is creepy. scripting.com 
Records: Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour pardoned dozens. ajc.com 
Scripting News: morningcoffenotes.com is back. scripting.com 
Guardian: Shit Republican candidates say. /* I replaced their * with an i */ guardian.co.uk 
Guardian: Jodi Kantor's much hyped book about the Obamas is published tomorrow. Here are some of the juiciest bits guardian.co.uk 
Real-Time Blogs, WordPress Blogs Delivered via Chat. laughingsquid.com 
Rare Color Photos: Nazis on Parade. life.com 
Lots of people can't fire their insurance companies. #exactly theincidentaleconomist.com 
Lamar Smith Can't Hear You campaign poster. :-) chadrocco.deviantart.com 
Lamar Smith's Head-In-Sand Approach To SOPA Critics Inspires 'Lamar Smith Can't Hear You' Anti-Campaign Poster. :-) techdirt.com 
NYT: Fed Returns $77 Billion in Profits to Treasury. nytimes.com 
Kinect is Coming to Windows Feb 1. mashable.com 
"Don't waste your time worrying about getting old." nytimes.com 
Microsoft's Tweet Choir, The Weirdest CES Keynote Moment Ever. businessinsider.com 
How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire. businessinsider.com 
Monday, January 09, 2012 
Anti-Fart Med Mix-up Might Put Many at Risk. blogs.villagevoice.com 
Newt Goes Full 'Occupy Wall Street' Against Romney. 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com 
China's Real Estate Bubble May Have Just Popped. foreignaffairs.com 
Abbey Road webcam. abbeyroad.com 
Scripting News: Call for Upper West Side blogs. #uws scripting.com 
Do you run an East Village blog? The Local East Village is updating their blogroll. I'll add new feeds to the river. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com 
Heard that my SOPA piece was shown to the US Ambassador to Spain. He wasn't impressed. scripting.com 
Mitt Romney scores own goal with 'firing people' gaffe. guardian.co.uk 
John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website. guardian.co.uk 
2007: Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation. time.com 
BBC: China cuts entertainment TV by two-thirds. bbc.co.uk 
NYT: Paul Cuts Off CNN, Again. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 
Developing commercial quality code is not for sissies. scripting.com 
Why isn't the source code as simple as the software? scripting.com 
Boycott SOPA: An Android app that terrifies publishers and politicians. extremetech.com 
Scripting News: The bosses do everything better. (Or so they think.) scripting.com 
Nancy Folbre: Just Try Harder. economix.blogs.nytimes.com 
Seth Godin: Out on a limb. sethgodin.typepad.com 
Finnish Operator Required To Block Access To ThePirateBay, Among Others. arcticstartup.com 
Scripting News: State Dept and SOPA. scripting.com 
Sunday, January 08, 2012 
How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law. arstechnica.com 
The Restart Page: Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems. therestartpage.com 
30 Story Hotel Built in 15 Days. erwinluis.tumblr.com 
Jay-Z rented an entire floor of Lenox Hill Hospital for $1.3 million. nytimes.com 
Alfred E. Neuman - "It's A Gas." (This single came with an issue of Mad Magazine. Great music!) youtube.com 
Huntsman's "I will always put my country first" is a pledge that all Repubs need to make. andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
Romney: Politics For The Rich. buzzfeed.com 
What is the difference between <pubDate> and <lastBuildDate> in RSS? stackoverflow.com 
Hacker News: List of every congressmember who supports SOPA, sortable by donations. news.ycombinator.com 
Santorum health care claim: False. firstread.msnbc.msn.com 
Iranian cleric calls Facebook 'un-Islamic', membership a sin. haaretz.com 
Scripting News: What I worked on over the holidays. scripting.com 
Saturday, January 07, 2012 
EasyDNS: DoS Attack persists. blog.easydns.org 
Etsy Makes It Easy For Users To Post Items To Pinterest With New 'Pin It' Button. #smart techcrunch.com 
SOPA should be issue #1 for political bloggers. It should be in the face of all campaigns, 24 by 7. boingboing.net 
http://stats2012.davelinks.com/ stats2012.davelinks.com 
NYT: Candidates Crisscross New Hampshire, Making Final Pitches. nytimes.com 
Friday, January 06, 2012 
Twitter, Facebook, Google endorse alternate online piracy bill. (If we don't organize corporations will decide this.) thehill.com 
Al Gore Comes Out Against SOPA/PIPA. techdirt.com 
Scripting News: We could make SOPA a front-burner issue in the 2012 election. scripting.com 
Twitter: To log or not to log, Is that the question? blog.logrhythm.com 
We need to merge the political blogosphere and tech blogosphere. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Is SOPA perfect for OWS? scripting.com 
Ed Cone: Apparently blogging died (again) over the Christmas break. edcone.typepad.com 
Spotlight Shines on Santorum, Rough Edges and All. thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 
NYT: Top 1% of Mobile Users Use Half of World's Wireless Bandwidth. nytimes.com 
A List Apart: Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant. alistapart.com 
Brett Nordquist tries iTunes Match and likes it. blog.nordquist.org 
Thursday, January 05, 2012 
BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with personal file sharing. gigaom.com 
Krugman: Bain, Barack and Jobs. nytimes.com 
NYT: Students Jeer Santorum on New Hampshire Blitz. nytimes.com 
Politico New Hampshire campaign schedule in right margin of this page. politico.com 
Rex Hammock: What I told my congressman, a sponsor of SOPA. rexblog.com 
2012 Prediction: App Overload Sets In. forbes.com 
Twitter Does Remove Offending Tweets From Search. thenextweb.com 
It's at moments like these that I feel like the pawn that I am. scripting.com 
The Grand Strategy Behind Obama's Recess Appointment. nymag.com 
Scripting News: Forced upgrades. scripting.com 
TPM: Here's What Romney's Unreleased Tax Returns Almost Certainly Hide. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 
Scripting News: What I worked on over the holidays. scripting.com 
If Libraries Didn't Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? techdirt.com 
Washington Monthly: What If Obama Loses? washingtonmonthly.com 
Tubas in the moonlight playing for me all night... youtube.com 
Simon Johnson: Ron Paul and the Banks. economix.blogs.nytimes.com 
US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law. (Must-read.) torrentfreak.com 
BBC: In-car internet 'to become norm' in survey about future. bbc.co.uk 
Adjix Closes Its Doors. zerodistraction.com 
Wednesday, January 04, 2012 
Flickr: Ice on lake in Central Park. flickr.com 
Danny Sullivan: How Rick Santorum Is Making His "Google Problem" Worse. searchengineland.com 
Why Don't Smartphones Have A "Guest Mode"? techcrunch.com 
TechPresident: Is Tumblr Protecting Its Users From the Big, Bad Internet? techpresident.com 
Slate -- Mitt Romney's the nominee: The Republican primary race is over. slate.com 
Half the world's richest 1% live in the United States. money.cnn.com 
Scripting News: The Internet needs us to listen. scripting.com 
parislemon has turned off comments on his blog. parislemon.com 
EV Grieve: Why the East Village should fear NYU 2031. evgrieve.com 
As Winter Arrives, Occupy Protesters Shift Movement To Saving The 99 Percent's Homes. thinkprogress.org 
"We have nearly reached the Rubicon when the 'not Romney' crowd is pining for Jon Huntsman" hotair.com 
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 
New Republic: Ron Paul Newsletters. tnr.com 
Ron Paul: On to New Hampshire! On to South Carolina! On to the rest of the country! Arrrgggleeeahhh!! 
Matt Gemmell turned off comments on his blog. mattgemmell.com 
Josh Whalen on SOPA preparedness. occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com 
Proof that while the Internet might not be SOPA-proof, it might have some resistance to legal hacks by the US govt. scripting.com 
Scripting News: The internet will reboot. scripting.com 
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 14. #nyc #brrrr #winter #finally forecast.weather.gov 
Emergency IP list in case SOPA goes through Congress. (scripting.com == 50.16.40.64) pastie.org 
Reddit Has Gone Mad with Power. gawker.com 
NYT river of Iowa blog posts. (From NYT personnel only.) elections.nytimes.com 
Why Twitter's "verified account" failure matters. gigaom.com 
Scripting News: The internet is realistic. (And hard work.) scripting.com 
Scripting News: "Ask not what the Internet can do for you, ask what you can do for the Internet." essaysfromexodus.scripting.com 
Gingrich Calls Romney a Liar. (Why can't the press call Romney a liar too. Why let Gingrich get the scoop.) thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 
Who Belongs to the API Billionaires Club? (RSS -- approx 860 trillion feeds.) blog.programmableweb.com 
Bonzo Dog Band: Tubas in the Moonlight. (To help get rid of the January 3 Blues.) youtube.com 
Scripting News: How CSS works against software. scripting.com 
Patti Smith Tonight at St. Mark's Bookshop. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com 
It's the most depressing day of the year, say experts. dailymail.co.uk 
WNYC: New York's Lost Subways. wnyc.org 
Deficit hawks try to scare us about the debt we're leaving. That's economic nonsense -- unlike the costs of global warming. guardian.co.uk 
Belarus Bans Browsing of All Foreign Websites. torrentfreak.com 
New Steve Jobs Action Figure Is So Good It's Freaky. gizmodo.com 
Monday, January 02, 2012 
Reports of Fidel Castro's Death May Actually be Computer Virus... Again. therightsphere.com 
The tech and political dialogs are becoming the same. Need more listening, in both directions. See item #2 here: scripting.com 
SoundCloud gets $50 million in new funding. feedproxy.google.com 
NPR: Tutors Teach Seniors New High-Tech Trick. npr.org 
Chrome Is Edging Out Firefox. techcrunch.com 
Scripting News: "We're right and that's it." scripting.com 
"By signing into law the NDAA, the president has awarded the military extraordinary powers to detain US citizens without trial." guardian.co.uk 
Goldman's Latest Boiler-Room Stock: America. rollingstone.com 
Apple Fans Queue for Lucky Bag Bargains in Japan. thenextweb.com 
Asus In Hot Water Over Transformer Prime's Locked Bootloader. thenextweb.com 
Sunday, January 01, 2012 
The Un-ternet. Apple is providing a bad example for younger, smaller companies like Twitter and Tumblr. scripting.com 
NYT: Iran Says It Has Produced a Nuclear Fuel Rod. nytimes.com 
NYT: NYPD Leaves Offenses Unrecorded to Keep Crime Rates Down. nytimes.com 
Slashdot still drives a lot of traffic. And the commenters are still #dickheads. :-) apple.slashdot.org 
Ralph Lombreglia: I met the real Mitt Romney. ralphlombreglia.com 
Mitt: "The next election is about the soul of the country." (As if he hadn't sold his long ago.) politicalwire.com 
The NYT is actually $8.75 per week or $455 for a year. A huge price increase for me. (Now I pay $0.) scripting.com 
NYT digital subscription is $3.50 per week or $182 per year. Netflix is $8 per month, or $96 a year. 
My choice for Blogger of the Year -- Seth Godin (with a nod for next year to linkbloggers). scripting.com 
Before September the police didn't have occupations on the menu of things the NYPD could manage. scripting.com 
New Year Begins With Occupy Arrests, Motorcycle Accident. eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com 
Greenwald: Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies. salon.com 
Scripting News: NYPD is huge. scripting.com 
I stayed away from CNN or MSNBC for a while, then took a fresh look. They report as if they were theater critics, for everything. 
USGS details on Japanese earthquake. earthquake.usgs.gov 
You Don't Live in the World You Were Born Into. blogmaverick.com 
Turns out I had the best seat for NYE in NYC and didn't even know it! :-) 
Video: Faboulous NYE Fireworks over Central Park. flickr.com 
Saturday, December 31, 2011 
ACLU: President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law. aclu.org 
Ten People Who Should Quit the Media in 2012. gawker.com 
As close as I dared get to Times Square. Wasn't sure there was a way out after you got in there. :-) flickr.com 
Store Clerk Knocks Out Armed Robber, Then Makes Him his Bitch. dvorak.org 
"This time, Apple has been the leader in the push to control users." scripting.com 
Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations' hosted.ap.org 
Twitter Status - Twitter Site Issue. status.twitter.com 
'Micro-lofts' are luxury shantytowns for hipsters. grist.org 
Scripting News: The Un-Internet. scripting.com 
People worry about SOPA, but you should also worry about the house-of-cards we've built around Twitter. scripting.com 
Scripting News: What a mess. scripting.com 
Scripting News: The Un-Internet. scripting.com 
Josh Whalen got an email from Anonymous implying they will shut down Manhattan and other major cities tonight. occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com 
Scripting News: Blogger of the Year. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Twitter is down. scripting.com 
It's the Internet vs the Un-Internet. And the Internet, it seems, always prevails. scripting.com 
"Once the users take control, they never give it back." scripting.com 
2011: Piracy Wars and Internet Censorship. torrentfreak.com 
2011: The Year Facebook Killed Google. pcworld.com 
David Karp discusses Tumblr's growing pains. (Including Missing E.) blogs.reuters.com 
Friday, December 30, 2011 
Let's try Livefyre. (This is just a test.) scripting.com 
Is there an explanation of what Tumblr doesn't like about "Missing E" -- from Tumblr. google.com 
What's the Deal with Romney's Taxes? talkingpointsmemo.com 
The author of the "Missing E" browser extension responds to Tumblr's criticism. blog.missinge.infraware.ca 
Rex Hammock: One of the things we were led to believe in 2011 was a myth about Steve Jobs being a perfectionist. rexblog.com 
Are we alone in the universe? washingtonpost.com 
Lamar Smith defends SOPA. politico.com 
Norman Lear on fighting for the food fight. latimes.com 
Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Slams SOPA. torrentfreak.com 
Forty-Year-Old John Lindsay Campaign Billboard Uncovered in Flatbush. blogs.villagevoice.com 
What if we had n election where we discussed what we're really doing around the world, without the bedtime stories. thehill.com 
Boot Hezbollah from Twitter or we sue, group says. technolog.msnbc.msn.com 
"I made progress bars using only CSS3. You can use them for free." dipperstove.com 
Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship. bbc.co.uk 
Google Search for "mind bombs." google.com 
The best ideas are ones that initially seem insane, but in the end turn out to be correct. I call them "mind bombs" /cc @furrier @jeffjarvis 
Ryan Tate: How Your Privacy Will Be Invaded in 2012. gawker.com 
Pundits say Ron Paul can't win but I remember the 1969 NY Mets. :-) economist.com 
9-Foot-Tall Supersoldier Mourns Kim Jong Il. theatlantic.com 
Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs? hashify.me 
Samoa cancels Friday 30th and travels one day forward in time. nytimes.com 
iPhone Siri software tells boy, 12, to 'shut up' in Tesco. telegraph.co.uk 
Thursday, December 29, 2011 
5 more domains transferred today from GoDaddy to Hover. I think I'm just going to let the rest expire. 
RSS has no advertisers, so it's safe for TechCrunch to criticize. Not many things left that they can be negative about. scripting.com 
The year's worst tech trend: complexity. slate.com 
SOPA opponents may go nuclear and other 2012 predictions. news.cnet.com 
Facebook is the Facebook for the 99 percent. scripting.com 
Why do we shut off electronics during takeoff? washingtonpost.com 
Ron Paul's Young Iowa Volunteers Clean Up for the Cause. nytimes.com 
NYT review of The Iron Lady. movies.nytimes.com 
The reporters thirst for a David vs Goliath story. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Morning Coffee Notes. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Linkblog pointers by domain, cont'd. scripting.com 
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 
9 Gorgeous examples of black and white websites. thenextweb.com 
The Top 25 Mugshots of 2011. thesmokinggun.com 
Benjamin Walker plays the title character in "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter." nytimes.com 
100 Things That Died in 2011. (As reported by tech bloggers, who are now, themselves, dead.) betabeat.com 
BTW, when @arrington started hiring reporters, it stopped being a "tech blog" and became CNET competitor. 
Breaking: Saying things are dead is dead. 
If Santorum is surging his new supporters will find out what his name means and vote for Romney instead. andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
How Dave Winer Totally Tried to Have Me Banned From the Interwebz (KInda). janesinfinitewisdom.com 
If you liked Dubya you'll love Rick Perry. andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
The Iowa Occupiers' Chilling Plot to Engage in Participatory Democracy. gawker.com 
Scripting News: What time is it? scripting.com 
Dear NY Times circulation dept. Bull Mancuso is not a subscriber. He's not even a real person. :-) scripting.com 
Leo Laporte teaches us to close our chat windows before taking a screen shot. :-) gawker.com 
I still get emails from Verizon addressed "dear customer." Closed the account, supposedly, three months ago. 
Kuwait Doesn't Want Anonymous Accounts on Twitter. thenextweb.com 
Scripting News: What time is it? scripting.com 
Boston theaters to offer special seating for people who tweet. bostonglobe.com 
PublicBox returns a JSON list of your public DropBox files. publicbox.heroku.com 
Scripting News: The year is twenty-twelve. scripting.com 
Hacker News thread on "While we have GoDaddy's attention" -- worth a read if you're in the registrar industry. news.ycombinator.com 
SF Chron: How long can Apple sustain Steve Jobs' patent war? sfgate.com 
Time for GoDaddy to clean up its act and lead the registrar industry to a much-needed better place. scripting.com 
Rolling Stone picks Drive as best picture of 2011. rollingstone.com 
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 
Prediction: A big drop in links to NYT stories on Jan 1 as comp subs expire. subtraction.com 
'Silence of the Lambs,' 'Bambi' and 'Forrest Gump' Added to National Film Registry. artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com 
Who Will Be The First Politician To Be GoDaddy'd? techdirt.com 
New York Times Staffers Express 'Profound Dismay' With Management. huffingtonpost.com 
SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers. politico.com 
Would Obama Veto SOPA? Extremely Doubtful. techdirt.com 
Khoi Vinh says subscribing to the NYT is as difficult for the customer as it appears to be. subtraction.com 
University of Wisconsin: Deep freeze has yet to hit Madison lakes. news.wisc.edu 
Scripting News: While we have GoDaddy's attention. scripting.com 
Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa 'was buried in cement at General Motors' HQ'. my.butt.org 
Conservatives lining up in opposition to SOPA. arstechnica.com 
Measure of Fear: Banks Bunker Hundreds of Billions in Deposits at ECB. spiegel.de 
While Drafting SOPA, the U.S. House Harbors BitTorrent Pirates. torrentfreak.com 
Scripting News: Listening is hard, and important. scripting.com 
A VC: Mocked And Misunderstood. (Been there too.) avc.com 
DNS is the front-line of SOPA, and GoDaddy is probably the largest commercial entity in the DNS world. scripting.com 
Do we now need a REST over WebSockets specification? kimchy.org 
Monday, December 26, 2011 
The American Lie. politicalwire.com 
Ross Rader: Evolving The Domain Name Experience. byte.org 
I have been trying to ignore gamification. inessential.com 
Hate to brag (no I don't) but I've been telling y'all that DNS has big unrealized potential l for a couple of years. :-) scripting.com 
Scripting News: Why GoDaddy is the right target. scripting.com 
Worst idea of 2011: OnSwipe. news.ycombinator.com 
The Facebook Platform Is A Trainwreck, Example #871. blorn.com 
Why Aren't Other SOPA Supporters Being Punished Like GoDaddy? pcworld.com 
365 top stories on Hacker News for 2011. rrrewind.com 
Is Ron Paul blazing the trail for his son in four years. And the son doesn't have the newsletters. orgtheory.wordpress.com 
TechCrunch on the war of words betw GoDaddy and Namecheap. techcrunch.com 
Kim Jong-un: North Korea's new leader meets with South Koreans. slatest.slate.com 
Scripting News: Namecheap lookin cheap. scripting.com 
What a windfall for Namecheap. Maybe the problem with GoDaddy was some kind of glitch. Take the high road, I say. community.namecheap.com 
Just transferred another 10 domains from GoDaddy to Hover. Doing my part. :-) 
Pot clubs turning to delivery. sfgate.com 
Frum on Ron Paul: Codger, crank or more? cnn.com 
Using Empathic Listening to Collaborate. fastcompany.com 
UWS Unattainable Apartment Of The Week: #15B At 15 CPW. myupperwest.com 
Scripting News: An incredibly bad movie. scripting.com 
Ex staffer says Ron Paul is not anti-semitic, just anti-Israel. politicalwire.com 
Frum: It's Still Romney's Turn. frumforum.com 
The 10 Oldest Social APIs: More Than Half Are Dead. blog.programmableweb.com 
Sunday, December 25, 2011 
"Groklaw is a Facebook-free Zone, and it always will be." groklaw.net 
Scripting News: How to move a domain from GoDaddy to Hover. scripting.com 
Who Wrote the Meanest Review of 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close'? (I predict I will.) blog.moviefone.com 
Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban. telegraph.co.uk 
NakedJen: And So This Is Christmas. nakedjen.com 
Scripting News: Happy Christmas! (War is over. If you want it.) scripting.com 
Saturday, December 24, 2011 
Here are the movies we'll see tomorrow for the @NakedJen Film Festvial 2011. scripting.com 
21,000 domains transfer out of Go Daddy in 1 day. news.cnet.com 
GoDaddy loses 72,354 domains this week. dailychanges.com 
I moved nine domains from godaddy to hover this evening. I decided it wasn't pointless after all. Let's make a point. 
George Carlin on the American Dream. "You have to be asleep to believe it." youtube.com 
GoDaddy Calling Customers to Reverse SOPA Domain Transfers. pcmag.com 
Oy. If you have Disqus comments, it appears Facebook comes along for the ride. screencast.com 
Throw the word "naked" or "nude" in a blog post or article and watch the clicks pile up. takepart.com 
Flickr: Brooklyn Kombucha. flickr.com 
I've heard said I don't listen to people I disagree with. But I do. I like new perspectives and I am often wrong or change my mind. 
Picture of a window in Tiffany's. The cool thing is the window is a window onto the windows of Tiffany's. #recursion flickr.com 
Mark Zuckerberg is TIME Magazine's Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button? fsf.org 
Scripting News: This is a Facebook-free Zone. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Morning coffee notes. scripting.com 
To @dangillmor, this is a good answer to question you asked yesterday. It's too early. It hasn't passed and likely won't. blog.nearlyfreespeech.net 
Seth Godin: You can't be merry by yourself. sethgodin.typepad.com 
Friday, December 23, 2011 
Wonder if Eric Schmidt ever talks with anyone who's not in the top 1%. sfgate.com 
Brands are now an essential part of people's identities. #thanks #zuck inessential.com 
The unemployment rate in Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley, is 9.5%. sfgate.com 
I'm demoing Radio2 for NakedJen, that's why you're seeing some "extraneous" links right now. 
NakedJen: "the six year old told his father quite seriously that i'm a bit difficult" nakedjen.com 
"I'm basically the straight man for the Obama family," the president said. theatlanticwire.com 
I have not advocated moving domains off GoDaddy. Pointless act. There will be more meaningful forms of civil disobedience if SOPA passes. 
Hitler hears about SOPA. youtube.com 
GoDaddy vs. Namecheap: Public Outrage & Successful Marketing. cnbc.com 
The thing I like about New York is you can talk like a NYer and no one thinks it's weird. :-) 
If Ron Paul was actually a racist, wouldn't there be some *current* evidence? politicalwire.com 
WSJ on Manhattan's most expensive apartments. online.wsj.com 
The Third Kim: North Korea's Mysterious New Leader. spiegel.de 
For Bloggers at Risk: Creating a Contingency Plan. eff.org 
NYT interview with Meryl Streep re 'Iron Lady,' which opens today. nytimes.com 
Step by step, the United States is becoming China... scripting.com 
Thursday, December 22, 2011 
Namecheap: We say NO to #SOPA (our official stance). community.namecheap.com 
Scripting News: GoDaddy says SOPA okay. scripting.com 
Bulk of Occupy Berkeley camp cleaned out. berkeleyside.com 
Go Daddy's Position on SOPA: "Online copyright laws won't prevent a flourishing Internet." support.godaddy.com 
SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day. (Hollywood actors and musicians should be banned too.) techcrunch.com 
NYT review: We Bought a Zoo. movies.nytimes.com 
BBC: US Navy women have first gay kiss. bbc.co.uk 
SOPA ==> Boycott, picket lines, occupation. techdirt.com 
How SOPA Creates The Architecture For Much More Widespread Censorship. techdirt.com 
Matt Damon, no matter how many Oscars you get, if SOPA passes, you're being boycotted. nydailynews.com 
Let our favorite actors and directors know that if SOPA becomes law, we're going to boycott their movies, by name. canadianbusiness.com 
Hmmm. It might be worth voting for Ron Paul just to get he neocons to STFU. andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
Matt Taibbi: A Christmas Message From America's Rich. rollingstone.com 
Gingrich is self-lampooning. politicalwire.com 
Toys "R" Us: Air Hogs Radio Control Camera Plane. $50. #drone toysrus.com 
Scripting News: Facebook drones in the sky? scripting.com 
China dissident faces Friday trial for online essays. reuters.com 
The WSJ says Ron Paul is a propagandist for their enemies. In doing so they lie about what he says. Makes them seem weak. online.wsj.com 
Ron Paul: Wikileaks Leaker Manning Is a Hero. conservativebyte.com 
TPM: The Rising Number Of Drones In American Skies. tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 
Retired, Computerless Woman Fined For Pirating 'Hooligan' Movie. torrentfreak.com 
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 
First day of winter, temp at 10:30PM is 61 degrees in Central Park. #climate #change forecast.weather.gov 
Flickr: Naked Jen workin the city. flickr.com 
Is websockets yet another API technology that doesn't define serializations for common datatypes, structs and arrays? nbevans.wordpress.com 
The Struggle For The Occupy Wall Street Archives. theawl.com 
Not impressed with demos that make a billion pages "disappear." If you want to self-immolate, do it right. google.com 
Russian Billionaire's 22-Year-Old Daughter Buys $88 Million Upper West Side Apartment At 15 CPW. myupperwest.com 
Here's the solution for the name-that-tune podcast, earlier. (Thanks @m_meir!) #spoiler youtube.com 
It's true, lots of people hate Jamie DImon and everything he stands for. Here's why. (And it's not because he's rich.) thereformedbroker.com 
Another name-that-tune podcast, this time with whistling. :-) static.scripting.com 
December 2007: Seattle blogging pioneer Anita Rowland dies. (Accompanies last tweet, a short podcast.) blog.seattlepi.com 
Three-minute podcast with an idea for Stephen King wannabes. A tiny tale of horror involving the Twitter website. :-) static.scripting.com 
Echo: Build Highly Social Real-time Apps. #hmmm aboutecho.com 
The RIAA just testified against itself in every one of their IP-address based lawsuits. Love it! :-) torrentfreak.com 
RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP-Addresses. #delicious #hypocrisy torrentfreak.com 
Domestic Drones: Hear About Who's Watching You from Above. #zuck aclu.org 
Republicans Lose Tax Issue to Obama. (Bzzzt. Smokescreen.) politicalwire.com 
Scripting News: I now see Stallman's logic. scripting.com 
It's nice they're giving Ward Cunningham equal time with Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia. scripting.com 
Google Nexus tablet in next 6 months teases Schmidt. slashgear.com 
Mozilla wants to lead in identity. Good idea, but too late. Should've tried when Firefox was ascendant. Before Facebook. blog.ascher.ca 
Seth Godin: "Banks used to use marble pillars and armed guards to make it clear that our money was safe." sethgodin.typepad.com 
How The Payroll Tax Fight Descended Into Chaos. (Smokescreen for legislation that turned the US into police state.) tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 
Guardian review of Spielberg's War Horse. guardian.co.uk 
NYT: Thousands of Women Mass in Major March in Cairo. nytimes.com 
Facebook Frictionless Sharing boosts Yahoo traffic 3x. (The feature that got me to delete my FB account.) techcrunch.com 
US Military using unmanned helicopters to supply frontline. popsci.com 
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 
Bankers Join Billionaires to Debunk 'Imbecile' Attack on Top 1%. (Wonderfully senseless.) bloomberg.com 
Southwest snow storm -- in pictures. guardian.co.uk 
Krugman: Politifact, R.I.P. krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 
Newt Gingrich's minister: "You're looking at an amoral person, that's what you're looking at." blog.niemanwatchdog.org 
A wonderful picture of San Francisco Bay taken at sunset from Indian Rock in Berkeley in May 2008. worldoutline.scripting.com 
U.S. officials debate charging WikiLeaks' Assange. reuters.com 
Adam Curry: Help Design No Agenda News Network. (jQuery & a river of news) blog.curry.com 
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox. blog.mozilla.com 
"Twitter has evolved from my social network to my RSS reader on a cocktail of crack, speed and steriods." bryce.vc 
Archos launches 70b Honeycomb tablet, expected to ship next month for $199. engadget.com 
Scripting News: NakedJen Film Festival/NYC 2011. scripting.com 
Super-rich guy, re protesters: "Who gives a crap about some imbecile?" Marcus said. "Are you kidding me?" bloomberg.com 
Scripting News: On the net, your feed is you. scripting.com 
Kim Han-Sol's Internet footprint. (Grandson of Kim Jong Il.) northkoreatech.org 
If I were the NYT CEO. (First priority would be to upgrade NYC's awful Internet service.) scripting.com 
"Hollywood's normal way [of doing remakes] was more like what Salander does to her guardian with a dildo." guardian.co.uk 
Zeldman's week. zeldman.com 
Christmas 2011 Movies. Attn @nakedjen, @arikia. brusimm.com 
Harvard Stories - Record, Share, Preserve Your Harvard Video Stories. stories.harvard.edu 
Seth Godin: The new lazy journalism. sethgodin.typepad.com 
Monday, December 19, 2011 
Two days in the desert with Apple's lost founder, Ron Wayne. (In the karmic center of everything, Pahrump.) engadget.com 
Great Leader, Dear Leader -- What's Next? (Obviously, the un-leader.) slate.com 
Scripting News: If I were the NYT CEO. scripting.com 
Cornell Wins Science Campus Bid, But NYU's Downtown Brooklyn Plans Are Still On The Table. nyulocal.com 
Guardian: Galaxy Nexus Android review. guardian.co.uk 
Wired: Can Cornell Build A Silicon Valley Culture in New York City? wired.com 
Scripting News: Linkblog pointers by domain. scripting.com 
NYT Obituary - Kim Jong-il, North Korea's Enigmatic Strongman. nytimes.com 
Nakedjen -- so in demand! :-) nakedjen.com 
Opinion: New Hampshire voters should Hillary. politico.com 
Twitter + Saudi Arabia: It's not easy being a media entity. gigaom.com 
Google search for "ny times bookmarklet". google.com 
Some people equate "improve tech criticism" and "agrees with me." niemanlab.org 
Don't Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. nytimes.com 
Dave Winer: We need to improve tech criticism. Here's how. (My end-of-year piece for Nieman.) niemanlab.org 
Twitter Gets $300 Million Investment From Prince Alwaleed. (Wonder if they have any Israeli investors or plan to.) adage.com 
Scripting News: RT in a static river. scripting.com 
I would love to pay for the NYT if they did something to improve the bandwidth situation in NYC. scripting.com 
A moment of truth for me and the NY Times paywall. Dec 31. scripting.com 
Developers: Are you working with oEmbed? I'm interested in your reaction to my conclusions. scripting.com 
A public letter to the US Government upon the passing of NDAA. (Hint: It's worse than SOPA. Much.) blogs.discovermagazine.com 
Daring Fireball Linked List: Why Dave Winer Uses Android. (Actually the fear of Apple is fear of losing our freedom, not control.) daringfireball.net 
Scripting News: Question re jQuery/JavaScript. scripting.com 
I brought the header graphics back on scripting.com. Today's graphic is a lovely spring street scene from Berkeley. Enjoy! 
Dear Internet: It's No Longer OK to Not Know How Congress Works. informationdiet.com 
Sunday, December 18, 2011 
People are doing layouts in twitter that re starting to look like ads. Expect more like this. twitter.com 
Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994). home.mcom.com 
Today I programmed in JavaScript and jQuery. 
Reviewer says you can take screen shots on Android pressing the power and down-volume buttons. Doesn't work for me. :-( chentir.com 
How would the Repubs be freaking out if they didn't have Romney or someone like him. 
Four years ago, Romney said Dole "is the last person I would want to have write a letter for me." feedproxy.google.com 
What I Learned About the Wired World on Jury Duty. readwriteweb.com 
Vinod Khosla, as quoted in the Washington Post is wrong. I, myself, did some pretty disruptive things in my forties. wadhwa.com 
Did Twitter nuke this guy or political reasons? businessinsider.com 
SoundHound didn't find my song, prob because it's not popular music. So listen to this and tell me what. Thanks! static.scripting.com 
I wish for a song search engine. Hum or whistle and tune. Tell me what it is. RIAA should make it. Earn our love. 
Ken Smith on what a book of mine might look like. akakensmith.wordpress.com 
Atlantic: A Photo That Encapsulates the Horror of Egypt's Crackdown. theatlantic.com 
Scripting News: No USB disk mode for new Android? scripting.com 
I want a really simple feature from @disqus -- the ability to limit the length of reader's comments. I want to experiment. 
Guardian: A man is being questioned by police in connection with the death of a woman burned alive in an elevator. guardian.co.uk 
Scripting News: Edd says I should write a book. scripting.com 
Saturday, December 17, 2011 
NYT: Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos Talk Long Term and Mean It. nytimes.com 
Chris Dixon on the sad state of Internet connectivity in Manhattan. cdixon.org 
Iraq war ends with a $4 trillion IOU. (I'm glad someone thought to mention this.) marketwatch.com 
I may not have the most people following me, but I *do* have the nicest! :-) 
Now that it's out there that she hates Muslims, isn't it cool, now Bachmann has show how she *loves* Muslims. Brill! :-) firstread.msnbc.msn.com 
Meet the 25 Most Viral People on the Internet. (Bummed I didn't make the list.) gizmodo.com 
Scripting News: RSS auto-discovery. scripting.com 
RIAA and Homeland Security Caught Downloading Torrents. #prohibition torrentfreak.com 
People lining up at Katz's Deli. #pastrami evgrieve.com 
I say if you want change in government, welcome SOPA. blogs.law.harvard.edu 
Doc Searls: Broadband vs. Internet. blogs.law.harvard.edu 
Idea for Angry Birds -- celebrity pigs. Pay $5 to have a pig with Richard Nixon's face who says I Am Not a Crook as he explodes. 
"Internet service in NY, for the average home, on average, sucks." scripting.com 
Why NYC is *not* the best tech city in the US: scripting.com 
Mohamed Bouazizi's image has been used to inspire protesters throughout the Arab world. bbc.co.uk 
Scripting News: Conclusions about oEmbed. scripting.com 
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works. motherboard.vice.com 
Hubble Captures Violent Birth Pangs of Enormous Star. wired.com 
The problem with paywalls. euansemple.squarespace.com 
Desmond Tutu urges Trinity Church to allow Occupy protester camp. guardian.co.uk 
BTW, have heard nothing about SOPA or NDAA on TV news. That includes "the left" and "the right." cbsnews.com 
111 Weird And Wonderful Pictures Of 2011. totallycoolpix.com 
Now that I understand oEmbed it's clear what an un-Internet-like silo Twitter has become. Need a new word for this. scripting.com 
SOPA will be voted on on the 21st while people are drinking egg nog and wrapping presents. Our representatives. Yeah. cbsnews.com 
Friday, December 16, 2011 
Example of a tweet with an embedded doc from Wordpress.com. twitter.com 
Scripting News: WordPress and oEmbed. scripting.com 
Scripting News: First look at oEmbed. scripting.com 
Make the Perfect Wired Holiday Party Drinks. howto.wired.com 
Scripting News: Two Galaxy Nexus pics. scripting.com 
Wired: SOPA Vote Delayed. wired.com 
Donations to Occupy Wall Street plummet (but they still have lots of cash). salon.com 
Tips and tricks for your new Galaxy Nexus. extremetech.com 
How SOPA 2.0 Sneaks In A Really Dangerous Private Ability To Kill Any Website. techdirt.com 
Finally a feature that makes sense on an iPad. flickr.com 
I am fed up with Republicans lying about Nazis. Makes me wonder what they're up to esp with SOPA and NDAA. thinkprogress.org 
Scripting News: Ice Cream Sandwich. scripting.com 
The Greatest Photo of the "End" of the "Iraq War". theawl.com 
Will U.S. taxpayers be on the hook for bailing out Europe? washingtonpost.com 
Scripting News: The software developer's dilemma. scripting.com 
What does the NDAA foretell? scripting.com 
OK if you mis-spell bozo does that make you one? agilewarrior.wordpress.com 
How to Live in New York City. danielbachhuber.com 
EV Grieve: Odessa's business card. evgrieve.com 
SOPA votes derailed by politician's 'offensive' tweet. news.cnet.com 
Thursday, December 15, 2011 
So far I like the new Galaxy Nexus. But I have to try out a bunch more things before "forming an impression." 
Roger Ebert's Best Films of 2011. blogs.suntimes.com 
Josh, I think the word you're looking for is "condescending." It's also ugly. (Snotty.) theverge.com 
Scripting News: WordPress and Twitter connecting up. scripting.com 
Senate passes defense authorization bill. politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 
The plastic on the back of the Galaxy Nexus is the cheapest most flimsy p.o.s. imaginable. 
The new version of Android changed many of the icons. Like changing the symbols on street signs. 
Setting up my Galaxy Nexus. So far so good. :-) 
Does Newt Really Want To Be President? tnr.com 
Scripting News: What does the NDAA foretell? scripting.com 
Michael Lewis: After Moneyball comes softball. berkeleyside.com 
Source Reveals Facebook Is Swimming In Cash. gawker.com 
Daniel: "Phone" is to the iPhone as "RSS reader" is to ? danielbachhuber.com 
Anil Dash: Bootstrap Rising. dashes.com 
Josh Whalen asks: Good Morning! Would you like some Hellfire with your coffee? occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com 
From brainstorm to outline: Why I use OPML. #excellent macworld.com 
Salon: "Wolf Blitzer might be the single dumbest person on television." salon.com 
President Obama Won't Veto the NDAA. loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com 
An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress. eff.org 
I could have titled this piece "You say Goodbye, and I say Hello." I wish there was more room at the top of the page for it. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Knock knock. scripting.com 
Wayne Gretzky: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." goodquotes.com 
Scripting News: Advancing the art of web writing. scripting.com 
French President's Residence 'Busted' For BitTorrent Piracy. (It's a lot like Prohibition.) torrentfreak.com 
U.S. War in Iraq Declared Officially Over. (If you believe it's actually over, I have a nice bridge to sell you.) nytimes.com 
Scripting News: A new phone today. scripting.com 
Amazon.com: Samsung I9250 Galaxy Nexus 16GB Unlocked. $759 with same day delivery in NYC. Works with T-Mobile? amazon.com 
Galaxy Nexus now on sale from Verizon for $299.99. (I want but I don't do contracts anymore. Will wait.) theverge.com 
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 
HTTP Status Cats. flickr.com 
Occupy Harvard: Press Freedom on Life Support. occupyharvard.net 
Alex Knight: Blurring the Line Between Native and Web Apps. zerodistraction.com 
ACLU: Urge Congress to Stop SOPA. aclu.org 
Gruber: "Maybe someday there will be a Daring Fireball app, but I still haven't thought of a reason to make one..." daringfireball.net 
Andrew Sullivan: Ron Paul For The GOP Nomination. andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com 
Newt Gingrich as frontrunner. washingtonpost.com 
Poll: More Than Half of New Yorkers Disapprove of Bloomberg's Handling of OWS. (I'm one of them.) blogs.villagevoice.com 
OMG: Woman Crushed to Death By Midtown Elevator, 2 Others Injured. nbcnewyork.com 
Scripting News: I don't miss Facebook. scripting.com 
Time's person of the year: The Protester. *goosebumps* time.com 
Scripting News: Enough with the apps already. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Beaver's Revenge. scripting.com 
Flickr: Beaver's Revenge screen shot. flickr.com 
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 
Investors Were Kicked Off The Twitter Board "For The Good Of The Company". techcrunch.com 
Scripting News: Bootstrap Toolkit question. scripting.com 
Scott Hanselman: Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web. hanselman.com 
In 1997 did you use AOL? Then why are you using Facebook today? inessential.com 
If the second coming happened right now, Jesus would probably show up as an app. wired.com 
Shunning Facebook, and Living to Tell About It. (I deleted my acct a month ago. No regrets.) nytimes.com 
Bottlenose Is a Web-Based Twitter Client for Power Users. allthingsd.com 
Inclusion is a deeper form of linking that's hiding in plain sight, in OPML 2.0. dev.opml.org 
Why We Should Stop Asking Whether Bloggers Are Journalists. theatlantic.com 
Busted: BitTorrent Pirates at Sony, Universal and Fox. torrentfreak.com 
I need a 16x16 icon of a mailbox-style flag in both states, up and down. google.com 
New York City's Digital Deficiency. fastcompany.com 
Adam Curry: Twitter's new RSS strategy. blog.curry.com 
I wrote this piece for Nieman at the end of last year. I said there was no good place for a Maginot Line in paywalls. niemanlab.org 
Scripting News: Why apps are not the future. scripting.com 
FBI says hackers hit key services in three US cities. bbc.co.uk 
Monday, December 12, 2011 
Newt takes no-adultery pledge. (I find this funny for some reason.) politico.com 
Gingrich and Huntsman nod and smile through sleepy debate. firstread.msnbc.msn.com 
Gillmor Gang is still there and still self-absorbed nonsense. #reassuring techcrunch.com 
Wikipedia Mulls Total Blackout to Oppose SOPA. torrentfreak.com 
Watch #PDMTEAOWS Live. personaldemocracy.com 
Alex Knight: Does Google Care about RSS? zerodistraction.com 
Josh Whalen, who has poured his life into #ows, needs a little help. occupyyourbrain.tumblr.com 
Yahoo! Weather API. #rss developer.yahoo.com 
Why Twitter Engineers And Execs Keep Quitting -- One Insider's Explanation. businessinsider.com 
Scripting News: Why I use Android. scripting.com 
What if lightning struck and the greatest entrepreneur who ever lived happened to be born in a female body. scripting.com 
Scripting News: Another example of tech sexism. scripting.com 
Several people reported formatting issues on scripting.com stories. Thanks to Daniel at Disqus, we have a fix. worldoutline.scripting.com 
In Africa, the Art of Listening. nytimes.com 
How to Fix Fact-Checking. forbes.com 
How to Publish to Google Currents. (Yup, it's based on RSS.) offonatangent.blogspot.com 
Amazon.com: Feed (Newsflesh Trilogy) eBook: Mira Grant: Kindle Store. (Check out the cover art.) amazon.com 
American extremes by Mark Laita -- in pictures. guardian.co.uk 
Krugman: Depression and Democracy. nytimes.com 
Sunday, December 11, 2011 
Kindle Fire is great for reading books and watching movies. nytimes.com 
Opposition grows to Occupy's port shutdown plan. sfgate.com 
World Outline: Dropbox works for podcatcher. worknotes.scripting.com 
I just used "erotical" in #wwf. 
Is Apple is using patents to hurt open standards? arstechnica.com 
Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That Rich People Create The Jobs. (Customers create jobs.) businessinsider.com 
Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down. (Maybe we should do that here too.) worldnews.msnbc.msn.com 
Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front. #fourthamendment latimes.com 
Ad Age: Best Magazine Covers of 2011. adage.com 
Latvia: People are lining up at ATMs to withdraw cash. reuters.com 
Arikia'a guest list for a hypothetical future conference. arikia.tumblr.com 
If your app emits RSS, think about the title you generate for each user's feed. It's worth a little thought... scripting.com 
Senator Wants Answers from DHS Over Domain Name Seizures. wired.com 
Google's 3 Top Executives Have 8 Private Jets. techcrunch.com 
Scripting News: If your app emits RSS... scripting.com 
Pulp Fiction in chronological order. (!) waxy.org 
This is a test podcast. You have been warned! static.scripting.com 
Nate Silver: After $10,000 Offer, Some Bet Against Romney. fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com 
I now have a Pinterest account. I linked it to @bullmancuso on Twitter. pinterest.com 
You can only use Facebook or Twitter to sign up for Pinterest. Guess I'll just create a fake Twitter account. scripting.com 
Google's new floor in London office looks more like the Big Brother house. dailymail.co.uk 
Saturday, December 10, 2011 
Louis C.K. Doesn't Get Torrents, But Gets Distribution. torrentfreak.com 
Ross Rader: Things I don't like about Twitter 4 for IOS. byte.org 
New Haiku Signs Will Make NYC Streets Safer Through Power Of Poetry. gothamist.com 
SantaCon 2011. #occupysanta cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com 
Occupy Drones. (What!!) occupydrones.blogspot.com  |