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    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;There is a new real-time weblogs.com-like weblog aggregator now available called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/&quot;&gt;BlogChatter&lt;/a&gt; (I can't see the pings behind the proxy here at work).  There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scottandrew.com/main/2003_05#a000658&quot;&gt;instructions on setting it up for Movable Type&lt;/a&gt;, which I have followed.  This post will be the first to ping that service. [via &lt;a href=&quot;http://metatalk.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;MetaTalk&lt;/a&gt; sidebar &lt;img src=&quot;/images/arrow.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogroots.com/comments.blog/313&quot;&gt;BlogRoots&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;Although I have been following copyright developments after the introduction of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt; (and have yet to decide on whether to license my writing, such as it is, throught the Creative Commons framework), an expert I am not.  This caught my eye though, and I passed it on to at least one expert in the field (and now, for some reason, feel the need to pre-empt him): &lt;a title=&quot;'Amendment to benefit small band of authors with unpublished works'&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost/story.html?id=E652C260-0444-4569-BFB1-480C4F97CF3F&quot;&gt;Ottawa champions copyright -- or some of it&lt;/a&gt;.  It's actually a brief article in &lt;u&gt;The Financial Post&lt;/u&gt;, poorly headlined, which notes that the Canadian government is in the midst of extending the copyright to those unpublished works that evidently used to be covered by a perpetual copyright.  It is doing so through an amendment to an act that combines the National Library and Archives.  It's pretty sneaky, and although not exactly uncommon, Canadian legislatures tend to eschew rider amendments like those seen in the United States.&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;In 2000, I went to China, and &lt;a title=&quot;China Field School 2000&quot; href=&quot;http://www.richarderiksson.com/china/&quot;&gt;wrote a travelogue of the trip&lt;/a&gt;.    It's been recently redesigned, but that's not the point (because the design isn't that exciting).  The point is that it passes all three of the tests at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goer.org/Markup/TheXPhiles/&quot;&gt;the X-Philes&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;it validates &lt;acronym title=&quot;eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language&quot;&gt;XHTML&lt;/acronym&gt; 1.1&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;all secondary pages are valid &lt;acronym title=&quot;eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language&quot;&gt;XHTML&lt;/acronym&gt; 1.1&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;all pages, including the index, send &lt;code&gt;application/xhtml+xml&lt;/code&gt; to browsers that accept it, &lt;code&gt;text/html&lt;/code&gt; to those that don't.  Actually, I went one step further by defining the &lt;code&gt;charset&lt;/code&gt; in the &lt;acronym title=&quot;Hypertext Transfer Protocol&quot;&gt;HTTP&lt;/acronym&gt; header and not through a &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; tag.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I've done &lt;acronym title=&quot;eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language&quot;&gt;XHTML&lt;/acronym&gt; 1.1 sites before, so it was also to prove I can do it.  I hadn't done it with the right MIME-type before, so it was also a learning experience.&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;Self, when looking for a way to do something in MT, check to see if you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.movableblog.com/archives/no_generate_attribute0619.php&quot;&gt;blogged it already&lt;/a&gt; before asking someone.&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;It looks as if RSS is getting standardized.  Well, the process seems to be just getting underway in a semi-organized fashion.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1394.html&quot;&gt;This post by Sam Ruby&lt;/a&gt; is the best starting point and will lead you to all the pertinent info.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Also:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/05/a_proposal_rss_.shtml&quot;&gt;A Proposal: RSS for Weblogs&lt;/a&gt; by Ben Trott&lt;/a&gt; [first seen at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dashes.com/links/&quot;&gt;Anil's links&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;small&gt;(As an aside: Ben's and Mena's photos at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sixapart.com/&quot;&gt;Six Apart&lt;/a&gt; have been updated.)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/#nn2003-05-11T12:13:16Z&quot;&gt;An RSS 2.0 Profile&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1394.html&quot;&gt;comments&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/05/10/RSS-std&quot;&gt;RSS and the S-word&lt;/a&gt; by Tim Bray: makes the important distinction between a standard as and end and standardization as a means.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1394.html#c1052626750&quot;&gt;Trackback to Sam's post&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;/images/arrow.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mnot.net/blog/archives/000067.html&quot;&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;/images/arrow.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mnot.net/rss/wiki/&quot;&gt;RSS Profile Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;Pinder at Blogzilla has found a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kurcula.com/archives/000098.php&quot;&gt;hack to the &lt;acronym title=&quot;Movable Type&quot;&gt;MT&lt;/acronym&gt; template which allows rich-text editing&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8212;which means you get buttons for bold, italic, underline and a link just like in &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Explorer&quot;&gt;IE&lt;/acronym&gt;&amp;#8212;while browsing &lt;acronym title=&quot;Movable Type&quot;&gt;MT&lt;/acronym&gt; in Mozilla.  Be sure to check &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/rich_text_editing_in_movable_type.html#more&quot;&gt;his post&lt;/a&gt;, because evidently the hack as originally written didn't work for him.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;(I don't intend to use this hack, because upgrading &lt;acronym title=&quot;Movable Type&quot;&gt;MT&lt;/acronym&gt; always requires re-hacking it, despite there being some really great hacks out there, I don't really want to keep track of them all and then figure out how to utilize them in any upgraded version.)&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/&quot;&gt;little. yellow. different.&lt;/a&gt; redesigns, and moves from Blogger to &lt;acronym title=&quot;Movable Type&quot;&gt;MT&lt;/acronym&gt;.  Ernie, the guy behind LYD, is really funny (even funnier in person!) but expect the unexpected from this guy.  That's a complient.  I think.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some notes about his this site: Ernie has jumped on the side-bar mini links bandwagon, and it's a really great bandwagon to jump on.  Problem is, it looks like I'll be turning down on the blog reading and turning up the book reading (that, of course, is due to the weather and my taking an English literature course over the summer, as well as other commitments).  So instead, I'll probably stick with the periodic posts replete with links, like the one yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another note: the &lt;acronym title=&quot;Uniform Resource Locator&quot;&gt;URL&lt;/acronym&gt; for the sidebar Trackback may change in the near future.  Hopefully that doesn't affect those taking advantage of it too negatively.  I'm moving the installation of &lt;acronym title=&quot;Movable Type&quot;&gt;MT&lt;/acronym&gt; to movableblog.com, which will allow for a search function on this weblog.&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;With nothing better to do before &lt;a href=&quot;http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/preview?gid=2003050822&quot;&gt;a big Game 7 for the local sports team&lt;/a&gt;, here are some links that need to be cleared from my bookmarks and aggregator.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/2003_06/magazine/columns/analystinsight/&quot;&gt; Employ Open Source Oversight&lt;/a&gt; by Thomas Murphy: &lt;em&gt;&quot;Recognize that although initial acquisitions costs might be low or free, ongoing costs to the organization might be equal or greater than those of commercial software.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.highcontext.com/blarchive/2003_05_08.html&quot;&gt;KMPings: How To&lt;/a&gt;.  Good little mini intro on how to setup a Trackback aggregator.  Kind of like the sidebar on this site, although mine uses a post set to 'Draft' as its  aggregation point.  A category would have been a better idea.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Joshua Kaufman wonders &lt;a href=&quot;http://unraveled.com/joshua/archives/2003/04/could_trackback_go_bigtime.shtml&quot;&gt;Could Trackback go bigtime?&lt;/a&gt;  Tim O'Reilly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benhammersley.com/archives/004657.html&quot;&gt;thinks so&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,950918,00.html&quot;&gt;Social Climbers&lt;/a&gt; by Jack Schofield.  I'm on the &quot;It's Just Hype&quot; side of the fence.  Still, it's interesting hype.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/05/06/knifeEdge&quot;&gt;Living on a knife edge&lt;/a&gt;: explains that it's not enough for a site to validate as &lt;acronym title=&quot;eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language&quot;&gt;XHTML&lt;/acronym&gt;, but that it must serve &lt;code&gt;application/xhtml+xml&lt;/code&gt; as its Content-Type.  I tried &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml.html&quot;&gt;the &lt;acronym title=&quot;PHP Hypertext Processor&quot;&gt;PHP&lt;/acronym&gt; code Mark Pilgrim provides&lt;/a&gt; and managed to convince my work's proxy that this weblog was to be downloaded as a file rather than viewed in Internet Explorer.  So I went back to a &lt;code&gt;meta&lt;/code&gt; tag for the time being.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=%22lazyweb%2C+I+invoke+thee%22&quot;&gt;LazyWeb, I invoke thee&lt;/a&gt; an emerging standard for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lazyweb.org/&quot;&gt;LazyWeb&lt;/a&gt; requests?  Wouldn't an even &lt;b&gt;lazier&lt;/b&gt; approach to the LazyWeb be including an RDF snippet or other metadata in a post or web page, so that a LazyWeb crawler can 'autodiscover' such requests, post them, and automatically link to responses?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2003/0,4814,80765,00.html&quot;&gt;Key security questions that every executive should be able to answer&lt;/a&gt; by Eric Cole: &lt;em&gt;&quot; in most situations, reducing the risk [rather than eliminating the risk entirely] is the most practical approach.&quot;&lt;/em&gt; [via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3158&quot;&gt;Anton Chuvakin&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulphilp.com/longharvest/archives/000030.html&quot;&gt;The Great &lt;acronym title=&quot;Cascading Style Sheets&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt; Smackdown&lt;/a&gt;: interesting thoughts on not only &lt;acronym title=&quot;Cascading Style Sheets&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt; technology, but technology in general.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pixelcharmer.com/fieldnotes/archives/process_designing/2003/000285.html&quot;&gt;Field Notes: Cool &lt;acronym title=&quot;Uniform Resource Indicator&quot;&gt;URI&lt;/acronym&gt;s&lt;/a&gt;: good resources on designing a &lt;acronym title=&quot;Uniform Resource Indicator&quot;&gt;URI&lt;/acronym&gt; scheme for your website.  See also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/05/07/deviant.html&quot; title=&quot;Internationalizing the URI by Kendall Grant Clark&quot;&gt;recent notes on controversies surrounding &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internationalized Resource Identifiers&quot;&gt;IRI&lt;/acronym&gt;s&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.web-graphics.com/mtarchive/000861.php&quot;&gt;Serving XHTML as 'application' or 'text'&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;em&gt;&quot;'application' on the other hand is made for binary data or data that isn't human readable - or textual data that is marked up with binary or not human readable codes. XHTML is generally not that type of data.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3174&quot;&gt;Bad DB Design Leads To Horrible Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Okay, almost time for the game.&lt;/p&gt;" />
    <outline text="&lt;p&gt;You may have already seen Mark Pilgrim's &lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/07/matchmaker.html&quot;&gt;Matchmaker&lt;/a&gt;, which is a CGI script that creates a GIF of tiles with a pattern, and there is only one pair that matches.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://reversal.org/matchmaker/&quot;&gt;Mike's Matchmaker&lt;/a&gt;, inspired by Mark's, creates the same thing, but in &lt;acronym title=&quot;Cascading Style Sheets&quot;&gt;CSS&lt;/acronym&gt; and &lt;acronym title=&quot;PHP Hypertext Processor&quot;&gt;PHP&lt;/acronym&gt;.  Very nice, although &lt;a href=&quot;http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/07/matchmaker.html#c001888&quot;&gt;he's right&lt;/a&gt; about it working well in Mozilla and not at all in &lt;acronym title=&quot;Internet Explorer&quot;&gt;IE&lt;/acronym&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;" />
  
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