Scripting News: 9/5/2005

Editorial: "Today's New Orleans may be the first virtual city." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

My Internet coverage will suck for the next X days. Looking forward to getting it all together sometime soon. I'll let you know when it happens.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Postscript: I was able to connect through one of my neighbors' wifi. Berkeley is wonderful. Hehehe.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Interesting BBC editorial asks if Katrina has saved US media.  Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Jeff Jarvis: Recovery 2.0: A call to convene. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Rex Hammock: "Political persuasions, like the earth, can be round." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Scoble reviews my car's navigation system. (The toll-road avoidance feature is an option that can be turned off, but it defaults on, which is probably wrong. It was wrong for me, since my first trip was from St Augustine to the Orlando Airport, which involves a toll road, if you go the most direct way.) Permanent link to this item in the archive.

A podcast duet with my navigation system, 6/11/05. Permanent link to this item in the archive.

This is really puzzling. Yesterday the Charlotte Observer OPML file worked with my software, but today it's broken. If anyone from the Observer has a clue, I'd love to hear what happened. Thanks! Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Scott Rosenberg: "No one knows how many thousands are dead. A minimum of hundreds of thousands are homeless. And Bush and his men are passing the buck. It doesn't get much lower than this." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

This document "defines the People Finder Interchange Format, which encompasses both a data model and an XML-based exchange format for sharing data about people who are missing or displaced by natural or human-made disasters." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Boston Globe: "What's special about podcasting, though, is how it makes it simple for individuals or companies to express themselves and, if what they have to say is interesting, enlightening, or clever, to earn attention. You can point someone to a worthy podcast through a link on your blog, or an e-mail to a friend, in a way you could never point them to a snippet of radio. That's powerful." Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Patrick and I sing a few verses of Plastic Jesus, and we leave a voicemail for Dawn & Drew. Permanent link to this item in the archive.