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New scanner arrived today Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Click on the pic for the Amazon page.

Aside: I'm now using Flickr to store all the little pics on Scripting News. As before I just drop them in a folder that my script is watching, and when it sees a new pic, it uploads it and puts the HTML for the image in a little window for me to copy/paste.

Later: The scanner is here. An example of a scan.

Example of color scan

David Bianculli on the Sopranos finale Permanent link to this item in the archive.

Fresh Air TV critic has a great summary of how fans view the Sopranos finale.

Just saw an iPhone ad on CNN Permanent link to this item in the archive.

And it's good. Really good.

Here's how it goes...

Narrator: "You're watching Pirates of the Caribbean (on AppleTV of course), and someone says they'd like calimari."

The user clicks a button. Google Maps comes up. Click. A keyboard comes up. Types C-A-L-A-M-A-R-I. Enter.

Pushpins appear on the map. (The phone knows where you are?)

The user touches a pin. A small card with a phone number pops up. Clicks the number. The phone dials. Hello, please send over some calamari.

It's a subset of the Knowledge Navigator without the guy in the bow tie.

Quite compelling. My Blackberry can't do it. Okay maybe I just decided to buy one.

Ooops. ;->

PS: Rich Karpinski says my Blackberry can do it, and iPhone doesn't have GPS. At least it's a good ad.

PPS: The ad is on the Apple site, along with all the others.

Party fire pit Permanent link to this item in the archive.

I tried to post a movie of a fire pit at a party I went to last night, but YouTube doesn't seem to like it. So I put it on blip.tv. That's better. ;->

     

Last update: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 at 6:13 PM Pacific.

Dave Winer, 52, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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Things to revisit:

1.Microsoft patent acid test.
2.What is a weblog?
3.Advertising R.I.P.
4.How to embrace & extend.
5.Bubble Burst 2.0.
6.This I Believe.
7.Most RSS readers are wrong.
8.Who is Phil Jones?
9.Send them away.
10.Negotiate with users.
11.Preserving ideas.
12.Empire of the Air.
13.NPR speech.
14.Russo & Hale.
15.Trouble at the Chronicle.
15.RSS 2.0.
16.Checkbox News.
17.Spreadsheet calls over the Internet.
18.Twitter as coral reef.
19.Mobs of the blogosphere.
20.Advice for Campaigns.
21.Social Cameras.
22.The Next Big Thing.
23.It's time to open up networking, again.
24.Am I competing?

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