Discussion on NYPL Copyright : err, public domain, so that’s “copying rights” rather than copyright. Some decidedly odd “legal” opinions being thrown about in hopes they’ll stick, these days.
Why a good host is important in fighting spam.
Google’s AutoLink: getting to the real issue : a nice summary of the tempest from James Bennett at K5.
Jonas Luster: “Today I fired my Butler.” No FUD (beyond what’s reasonable, anyway). No fallacies. No attempt to control you. That’s what we’re capable of, on a good day.
blo.gs is for sale. Sad, it was the first web service I programmed against, but it sounds like it’s been an expensive hobby for Jim, just to ensure that all weblogs, even with names like Large American Penis, could list their updates. So, who needs a couple of great weblog URLs and a database of […]
text/xml is seriously broken over HTTP : Anne sees the light, err, darkness. For extra fun, a proxy between the sender and receiver is free to transcode text/xml into any other charset, without changing the XML declaration, and without worrying about whether the receiver’s XML parser can handle Shift-JIS.
Yahoo Search and Iñtërnâtiônà lizætiøn : Sam whips their API charset handling into shape.
BlogMarks.net : think of it as Hot Links for everyone (because it is), or as del.icio.us with thumbnails, an easier URL to place the dots in, and more accented vowels.
Dori asks, “Is printing evil?”
Andy points out signs of Yahoo’s answer to AdSense. I found the “contextual” ads on this post awful, two for Players cigarettes and one for Players underwear, but with ypn-js.overture.com in my hosts file they look just as good as AdSense: invisible.