In brief: 27 Feb 2003 [dive into mark] While I’m going to try to add text transcription to PhoneBlogger, I don’t how successful it will be. In one of the items in his Feb 27 blog entry, Mark suggests that when you are audio/phone blogging, “any audio content needs to be supplemented with a simultaneous… Read More »
Wired News: Credit Card Cos. Watch Own Backs This story in Wired refers to a Gartner report. The report notes that while credit card companies’ “zero-liability” policies protect card holders from paying for unauthorized or fraudulent charges, they do not protect consumers from identity theft and the credit report hell that can follow. I can… Read More »
Data thieves nab 55,000 student records | CNET News.com My sister-in-law, a UT Austin law school grad like my brother, let me know that the affected SSNs were in the following ranges: 449-31-98xx – 450-91-24xx 451-12-32xx – 451-20-35xx 451-20-64xx – 452-20-40xx Fortunately, mine isn’t in one of those ranges, as I used to work as… Read More »
Last week’s East Bay Express has a well-written cover story by Katy St. Clair titled Has CMJ Become the Monster That Ate College Radio? My wife Sandra is the general manager of KALX, the radio station at UC Berkeley. The music directors at KALX, like those at many other college radio stations, report their top… Read More »
Joi Ito’s Web: Ivan’s adventures in weblog space Whenever I see the name Ivan, a little voice in my head starts singing the refrain from “When Ivan Meets G. I. Joe” by the Clash from the album Sandinista!. Joi Ito has written a brilliant little story that succinctly explains what goes on under the covers… Read More »
In the last couple months, and especially the last few weeks, new news aggregators have been coming out of the woodwork like stolen credit card numbers out of Data Processors International. While there were plenty of browser-based (Radio, Amphetadesk, etc.) and three-pane desktop app (NetNewsWire, Straw, NewsDesk, NewsCrawler, Syndirella, spaces, etc.) aggregators, now we have… Read More »
So I’m not the only person who decided it would be cool to build a tool for blogging by phone. These guys are offering it as a commercial service, though. I hope they succeed with it. My offer still stands to anyone who would like their own PhoneBlogger install. However, if you are just looking… Read More »
SportsML — The Sports Markup Language Over an afternoon capuccino at Peet’s, I read about SportsML in the final issue of New Architect magazine. When I invented a simple XML-based markup for SoccerPhone in around February or March of 2002, I didn’t realize that a more general purpose XML-based markup language for sports was already… Read More »
Apparently, not very. At least, not yet. And certainly not how I have it currently configured. The two previous posts (1, 2) were not made by me. PB uses an XML-RPC API call to post to a weblog. That API call requires a valid password for a user on the blog. PB captures the password… Read More »
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