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Wednesday, April 18 2001

I wonder how difficult it would be to write an interactive weblog client

using Jabber. I wonder how you would do categories. Maybe you could create individual categories as users and invite them to participate in a chat or a text conference. I wonder...

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Jason McIntosh : The Comics Markup Language Resource Page

"In a nutshell, ComicsML attempts to give online comics a way to describe their own content, and in so doing expand their visibility, flexibility, and accessibility in a number of ways." Well, I guess it's a start but it leaves quite a bit to be desired. For starters the DTD does not define a <soundeffect> tag but does include a <bang> tag (as in "!") which is about all you need to know that this was written by a computer geek. Then there's the bit about not being able to define layout, arguing that most comics don't need it. This is not unlike saying that most web pages don't need layout since they're just text. Arguably, you could use stylesheets but I think that most artists would tell you that the formatting and layout of the comic is an integral part of the storytelling and not up for debate. Can you really imagine "reading" work by people like Dave McKean or Dave Sim with a W3C stylesheet? On the other hand, it might be fun to start syndicating weblogs using CML... Meanwhile, Dave Sim has expanded on thoughts first ventured in the Reads series prompting Gail Simone to write Dave Sim's Guide to Getting Chicks
"I dare you to keep reading. Go on. Bet you'll give out before I do. Most people begin bleeding from the eyes somewhere around the section where I use quotes from my own fictional character in my own comic book as evidence to support my convictions."
via glitterdammerung

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Bryan Pfaffenberger : Why Open Content Matters

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Shawn Ribordy : "After test driving MSXML in a Visual Basic application,

it begged the question: "I wonder if Perl can use MSXML?"

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Jeffery M. Griffith : newsic.py

"is a program that creates a streaming gateway to the alt.binaries newsgroups. ... The biggest advantage is a newsic server is offering songs that aren't stored on a local filesystem. This means there is no need to worry about diskspace and the music selection couldn't be better =) If you wanted to listen to hiphop but you had no idea what was new, you could just stream random songs from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rap-hiphop skipping the ones that didn't suit your taste.

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I had occassion to walk through the tunnel at Westmount Square

again, today. There was no scary music this time; just a guy with a pony-tail singing folk songs in French. What caught my eye, however, were the two people in matching sky-blue turtlenecks jogging through the tunnel...

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaudit

| source : web1913 | Plaudit \Plau"dit\, n. [From L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by players at the end of a performance), 2d pers. pl. imperative of plaudere. Cf. {Plausible}.] A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. --Longfellow. Syn: Acclamation; applause; encomium; commendation; approbation; approval. | source : wn | plaudit n : enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved" [syn: {acclaim}, {acclamation}, {plaudits}, {eclat}]

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