JOHO the Blog, "The National Geographic photographer who took the 1984 cover photo of the young Afghan woman with the beautiful green eyes has finally located her again."

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Google upgrades the web yet again

Via Dane Carlon, Google News Search. Very cool. A Novel Approach to News:

Google's News Search (BETA) service presents information culled from many of the world's news sources collected over the previous week. With continuous updates throughout the day, you'll keep up to date with what's happening now and learn about the stories that led to the most recent developments.

What's different about Google's News Search is the unique grouping technology Google has developed to automatically put related stories together in the same search result. This makes it easy to quickly scan the headlines while providing the option of reading multiple accounts of a story from different news sources.

My only question is about what news sources they currently use.

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What-ever. "She earned victory, only to have this victory stolen from her," Anton Bakov, from the Urals town of Yekaterinburg, told reporters." Slutskaya in no way skated better than Hughes in the free program.

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17:38 (utc-5)

 

Robert Scoble: "After reading CamWorld on Tuesday I think I've finally come to the conclusion that webloggers are taking themselves way too seriously. Am I a journalist? Not here I'm not. But, I'm getting tired of the "metablogging" that's going on (you know, webloggers talking about weblogging and pointing at other webloggers who are talking about weblogging). It all gets so refererential after a while. It's hard to come up with original thoughts. Take a stand. Say something controversial."

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17:29 (utc-5)

 

Via Slashdot, Business 2.0: The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business. "In a perfect world, a list like this would not exist. In a perfect world, businesses would be run with the utmost integrity and competence. But ours is, alas, an imperfect world, and if we must live in one where Enron, Geraldo Rivera, and Cottonelle Fresh Rollwipes exist, the least we can do is catalog the absurdities."

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17:20 (utc-5)

 

Dave Winer: RFC: MetaWeblog API. "At the beginning of this week I thought we'd do a little work and teach Radio 8 how to do titles and links in weblog posts. One thing led to another and now it's time to broaden the XML-RPC pipe that tools use to connect to Radio, and in doing so offer an evolution to the art of scripting weblog tools."

"The Blogger API is too narrow to carry the new data. People who develop tools said let's have more. I gave it some thought and decided yes, let's do that."

"[Metadata:] A totally over-used term, but that's what's going on here. This API views a post as a package of metadata with some well-known names and room to grow on an organized or an ad hoc basis. In my experience those are the kinds of APIs that have legs. They go somewhere."

"So let's call this the MetaWeblog API."

Here's a whole big discussion about it. The wasabii project came up, as it's another attempt to make XML-RPC and SOAP weblog APIs. I'll have to look at it in more detail. If I ever write anything like this into my weblog, I'll probably design my own spec that fits my weblog, and map anything else I want to on top of that. And then I'll program an app using PHP-GTK to write to it

Update, more on the MetaWeblog API. There have been some changes made to the API, and Evan Williams, author of the Blogger API, comments on the API. Let's hope Dave and Evan work together to come up with a unified "version 2" of the Blogger API. It'll be better for everybody.

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I added the "subscribe" feature I was planning to add... this post is for testing.

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