Secrets of the XML gods. text, code, data It’s the season for confession. First Tim Bray reveals a dirty secret: “a lot of input data these days is XML…in most cases, I use the perl regexp engine to read and process it.” Then Sean McGrath fesses up to his Python habit: “I know I should be invoking a WF [well-formed]…
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*Information Content Industry to Grow…
Information Content Industry to Grow by 8.5 Percent in 2003. : According to new research by Outsell, the information content industry will grow by 8.5 percent in 2003. The Outsell Monitor tracks the financial condition… [PaidContent.org]
America’s Long Middle Eastern Romance…
America’s Long Middle Eastern Romance. The history of American involvement in the Middle East is long and complicated. Even in Colonial times, Americans felt a special attachment to the region. By Michael B. Oren. [New York Times: International]
About the mobile edition [1]….
About the mobile edition. About “dive into mark” mobile edition, thoughts on “standards”, and instructions for setting up your own mobile edition in Movable Type. (1021 words) [dive into mark]
Weblogs and passion [1].
Weblogs and passion. I had an opportunity to listen to Mena and Ben Trott talk about Moveable Type last night courtesy of AKMA at Seabury Western. They sparked a good discussion around the role of weblogs in creating and sustaining community (two good live blogged accounts from AKMA and Gabe Bridger by way of Mike Marusin). At least some of…
Search Google, me or my…
Search Google, me or my friends!. Search Tool Added Through Lilia Efimova …. Search Tool AddedThrough Lilia Efimova I found Micah Alpern’s microblogosphere search tool (go see Micah’s weblog). As a search tool to search my own blog, and the ones I read, was something I already had on my wishlist of improvements for my blog, I’ve imeddiately added it…
CIA’s World News Connection Database…
CIA’s World News Connection Database Will Now Be Maintained and Hosted by Dialog. Open Source IntelligenceInformation Industry–DialogNTIS’s World News Connection Database Will Now Be Maintained and Hosted by DialogFrom the announcement, “[Dialog] will take over hosting and maintaining World News Connection (WNC), the U. [The ResourceShelf]
Academic Info: A Great General…
Academic Info: A Great General Knowledge Web Directory. Web Resources of the Week 1) Academic InfoI’ve done my best to point out some of the great general interest web directories available for researchers in the past two years. I’ve mentioned on numerous occasions the LII, InfoMine, and the Resource Discovery Network. [The ResourceShelf]
Why Mediated Media Will Never…
Why Mediated Media Will Never Go Away?: A coherent argument on why interactivity and choices may not really be as big as media pioneers and… [PAID: the economics of content]
Can Online Publishing Attract the…
Can Online Publishing Attract the E-Generation?: “Web sites and newspapers are designed to be read in different ways, in different situations. Until the ad market… [PAID: the economics of content]