April 01, 2005
Glueless structures
Some quickfire content today, since I can't think of anything humourous to fool you all with.
- Bored engineers are very scary, but often entertaining. Mitch Fincher, for instance, built a bunch of glueless structures out of 1 cent coins.
- Scientific American have finally stopped being a partisan "science" publication, and given fair consideration to all points of view.
- The Open Guide to Nottingham has a new design, thanks in no small part to to Joe, part of the Nimoll conspiracy, and photos from Carl Ebrey and others.
- Readers in the Manchester area who've been jealous of people in Oxford, London and Nottingham can now rejoice, for they too have their own OpenGuide. It's very new, though, so needs contributors.
- Lancaster now has one too, but I don't think I have any readers there. Do I?
- In the land of Winer-watching, Dave no longer seems to claim to be the original blogger, just the inspiration for many of the mainstays of the blogging world — definite progress on getting in touch with reality, I feel. However, he still seems to think that the EFF opposes copyright altogether, and to completely misunderstand the Creative Commons licences, but he's definitely doing much better than he was.
- You'll either get this one or you won't.
Happy (mailman, white rabbits, April Fools, 1/4 of the year already gone) day, folks!
Posted by James at 17:35
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January 27, 2005
Paging Dave Winer
Dear Dave,
On behalf of the rest of the blogosphere, I would like to congratulate you on your recent award, most arrogant post of 2005. You've done us all proud! It's just a shame you're no more in the running for any of the other awards than, say, I am...
See, you didn't invent podcasting: at the very least, Harry Gilchrist was audioblogging ages before you, and Wikipedia's entry on podcasting, while mentioning you as playing a big part in the automation of the process with enclosures (which, given they're part of your spec, you can take complete credit for) and special aggregators, neither credits you with the first proper implementation, nor with coining the term. I didn't invent podcasting either, but hey, I don't claim to be eligible for any awards.
Regarding best technology — deary me, Dave, you don't even have a comment or trackback implementation! The google-powered citations thing is cool, but, doesn't really offer much over a standard search function to the average user. In fact, I tried to use it to find out when you first mentioned the term "podcasting", but it wouldn't let me page through the results, so I couldn't. Great.
Sorry, but I think there are far, far cooler bits of technology out there. As for Best Weblog and Best Technology Weblog... well, my mummy says my blog is better than yours. Sorry.
All the best, and I hope this blogging thing works out well for you.
Cheers,
James.
[I emailed Dave a link to this article; I'll keep you posted about his response, if any.]
[Update: Dave says "Wow!"]
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