Analysis of the media’s coverage…

Analysis of the media’s coverage of the war in Iraq “My partner in production efforts, Peter Shaplen, who began his career as Walter Cronkite’s desk assistant, chimes in. Alas, Peter is blogless, so I’m posting this for him: Once again we are confusing technology with editorial substance. The ability to see a military column with night-scope technology and moving in…

NoteTaker [1]. We all make…

NoteTaker. We all make a lot of notes as information flows past us during the course of a day. I like to make paper-based notes in my book, and then will post some of the more organised ones on the blog. But there are definitely ways this can be improved – it is especially hard for me to search the…

Secrets of the XML gods…

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]…

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…