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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- RSS generated by oldSchool v0.8.12 on Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:47:05 GMT --><rss version="2.0" xmlns:source="http://source.scripting.com/"> <channel> <title>Scripting News</title> <link>http://scripting.com/</link> <description>Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:42:11 GMT</pubDate> <language>en-us</language> <generator>oldSchool v0.8.12</generator> <copyright>&copy; copyright 1994-2024 Dave Winer.</copyright> <docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:47:05 GMT</lastBuildDate> <cloud domain="rpc.rsscloud.io" port="5337" path="/pleaseNotify" registerProcedure="" protocol="http-post" /> <image> <url>https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/curly.png</url> <title>Scripting News</title> <link>http://scripting.com/</link> <description>Scripting News gets an image because it's part of a network that uses them. 6/4/25 by DW</description> </image> <source:account service="twitter">davewiner</source:account> <source:localTime>Sun, July 6, 2025 11:47 AM EDT</source:localTime> <source:self>http://scripting.com/rss.xml</source:self> <source:blogroll>https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&catname=blogroll</source:blogroll> <item> <description><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7/6/2331527/-Daily-Kos-is-moving-to-WordPress">Kos is moving to WordPress</a>. This is very cool. It means people who write for Kos probably will be able to use my writing tools. I am sold on the idea of WordPress being the OS for the social web. That's the point of having a platform, we used to call it "users and developers party together." Hopefully without too much interference from the <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2007/04/04/coexistingWithPlatformVend.html">platform vendor</a>, even better if there is no platform vendor. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></description> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:42:11 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a154211</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a154211</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/7/6/2331527/-Daily-Kos-is-moving-to-WordPress">Kos is moving to WordPress</a>. This is very cool. It means people who write for Kos probably will be able to use my writing tools. I am sold on the idea of WordPress being the OS for the social web. That's the point of having a platform, we used to call it "users and developers party together." Hopefully without too much interference from the <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2007/04/04/coexistingWithPlatformVend.html">platform vendor</a>, even better if there is no platform vendor. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:42:11 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a154211"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/05/17/innovatorsDilemma.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I saw that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/automattic-puts-tumblr-migration-to-wordpress-on-hold/">Matt backed off</a> from porting <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=tumblr">Tumblr</a> to run on top of WordPress, basically turning WP into an OS. I thought it was a brilliant idea, but probably overwhelming in complexity. But it was the right idea. We need fewer runtimes. If you can merge two runtimes, go for it. Anyway, this is all related to the "open social web" -- in fact it's central to it. We've got all these philosophically compatible platforms that are technologically unable to work with each other. But what if they all were really on the web? What could we build then? Everything. We would go back to the potential the web had before Twitter and Google Reader split the blogging world in two. I swear the answer is make it so that all these networks can do <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/04/14/121946.html">inbound</a> and outbound RSS and build on the reality of the open social web, not just the hype.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:07:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a130724</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a130724</guid> <source:outline text="I saw that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/automattic-puts-tumblr-migration-to-wordpress-on-hold/">Matt backed off</a> from porting <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=tumblr">Tumblr</a> to run on top of WordPress, basically turning WP into an OS. I thought it was a brilliant idea, but probably overwhelming in complexity. But it was the right idea. We need fewer runtimes. If you can merge two runtimes, go for it. Anyway, this is all related to the "open social web" -- in fact it's central to it. We've got all these philosophically compatible platforms that are technologically unable to work with each other. But what if they all were really on the web? What could we build then? Everything. We would go back to the potential the web had before Twitter and Google Reader split the blogging world in two. I swear the answer is make it so that all these networks can do <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/04/14/121946.html">inbound</a> and outbound RSS and build on the reality of the open social web, not just the hype." created="Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:07:24 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/05/17/innovatorsDilemma.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a130724"/> </item> <item> <description>I asked ChatGPT for two sentences on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma">Innovator's Dilemma</a> -- "[It] describes how successful companies can fail by focusing too heavily on sustaining innovations—improvements to existing products for current customers—while ignoring disruptive innovations that initially serve smaller markets but eventually overtake the mainstream. These disruptions often seem inferior at first, so established companies dismiss them, leaving space for new entrants to rise and dominate."</description> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:26:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a142617</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a142617</guid> <source:outline text="I asked ChatGPT for two sentences on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma">Innovator's Dilemma</a> -- "[It] describes how successful companies can fail by focusing too heavily on sustaining innovations—improvements to existing products for current customers—while ignoring disruptive innovations that initially serve smaller markets but eventually overtake the mainstream. These disruptions often seem inferior at first, so established companies dismiss them, leaving space for new entrants to rise and dominate."" created="Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:26:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/06.html#a142617"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://this.how/wordland/versions.opml#1751664824000">WordLand v0.5.19</a> -- Lots of little fixes.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:46:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a174648</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a174648</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://this.how/wordland/versions.opml#1751664824000">WordLand v0.5.19</a> -- Lots of little fixes." created="Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:46:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a174648"/> </item> <item> <description>An improvement in WordLand on <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wpIdentity/blob/main/worknotes.md#7525-101112-am-by-dw">the server</a>, we now post metadata to WordPress, along with the HTML rendering so that code that runs on the server can now access and possibly in the future even talk back to WordLand. You never know where this stuff can go if the developers take advantage of opportunities to interop.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:47:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a174731</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a174731</guid> <source:outline text="An improvement in WordLand on <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wpIdentity/blob/main/worknotes.md#7525-101112-am-by-dw">the server</a>, we now post metadata to WordPress, along with the HTML rendering so that code that runs on the server can now access and possibly in the future even talk back to WordLand. You never know where this stuff can go if the developers take advantage of opportunities to interop." created="Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:47:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a174731"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://github.com/scripting/tinyFeedReader">tinyFeedReader</a> is a hit. But the docs aren't clear enough. It has no user interface, it's a package you can include in a Node app that calls back to you when a new item comes in from one of the feeds you've told it to watch. It's a totally teeny little framework for a feed reader, you get all the standard stuff tucked away out of site, you write the functionality you want to implement. It would be a good thing to turn over to your AI programming partner. It's for people who want to add a feed reader to something else.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:42:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a214224</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a214224</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://github.com/scripting/tinyFeedReader">tinyFeedReader</a> is a hit. But the docs aren't clear enough. It has no user interface, it's a package you can include in a Node app that calls back to you when a new item comes in from one of the feeds you've told it to watch. It's a totally teeny little framework for a feed reader, you get all the standard stuff tucked away out of site, you write the functionality you want to implement. It would be a good thing to turn over to your AI programming partner. It's for people who want to add a feed reader to something else." created="Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:42:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/05.html#a214224"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/11/26/uncleSam.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Today is Independence Day in the US, so how about an Independence Day for the web. One <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html">simple way</a> would be to hook RSS up to ActivityPub, turning Mastodon and Threads into a big feed reader. It could easily be done in software, it would just take money to keep it running. Not something I could attempt personally. But I would totally help with the software and design. It would open the door for lots of new apps that could communicate with users through a single <i>simple</i> API. I want to talk with people about this at <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/22/132405.html">WordCamp Canada</a> in October.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:31:35 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/04.html#a133135</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/04.html#a133135</guid> <source:outline text="Today is Independence Day in the US, so how about an Independence Day for the web. One <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html">simple way</a> would be to hook RSS up to ActivityPub, turning Mastodon and Threads into a big feed reader. It could easily be done in software, it would just take money to keep it running. Not something I could attempt personally. But I would totally help with the software and design. It would open the door for lots of new apps that could communicate with users through a single <i>simple</i> API. I want to talk with people about this at <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/22/132405.html">WordCamp Canada</a> in October." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:31:35 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/11/26/uncleSam.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04.html#a133135"/> </item> <item> <description>How odd on Independence Day a law goes into effect that funds a secret police for the US. The goal is to flow people from inside the United States into concentration camps, and ostensibly deport them to other countries. It may turn out to be easier and less expensive to just gas them and burn the bodies right here in the USA. I listened to this morning's <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-megabill-will-change-america/id1200361736?i=1000715713632">Daily podcast</a> to hear how they summed up the bill. They focused on taxes and health care as most of the other news orgs have been doing. They were puzzled why the Repubs didn't seem to care if it hurt their electorate, but they didn't state the obvious answer. They <i>don't</i> care. Remember <a href="http://scripting.com/2020/09/22/123759.html?title=weNeedOccamsNews">Occam's News</a>. I guess they didn't want to say it out loud so they just telegraphed the question. It worked, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lt2zupgbm22n">message</a> received.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:32:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/04.html#a133226</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/04.html#a133226</guid> <source:outline text="How odd on Independence Day a law goes into effect that funds a secret police for the US. The goal is to flow people from inside the United States into concentration camps, and ostensibly deport them to other countries. It may turn out to be easier and less expensive to just gas them and burn the bodies right here in the USA. I listened to this morning's <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-megabill-will-change-america/id1200361736?i=1000715713632">Daily podcast</a> to hear how they summed up the bill. They focused on taxes and health care as most of the other news orgs have been doing. They were puzzled why the Repubs didn't seem to care if it hurt their electorate, but they didn't state the obvious answer. They <i>don't</i> care. Remember <a href="http://scripting.com/2020/09/22/123759.html?title=weNeedOccamsNews">Occam's News</a>. I guess they didn't want to say it out loud so they just telegraphed the question. It worked, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lt2zupgbm22n">message</a> received." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:32:26 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04.html#a133226"/> </item> <item> <title>RSS ==> ActivityPub</title> <description><p>I'd love to see a bridge from <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/04/14/121946.html">RSS</a> to ActivityPub. I've asked people at various companies if they'd do this. I'm happy to help with the software but operating the service is something for a trusted company to do.</p> <p>I think this would go all the way to putting the "open" in open social web, because people who already know how to build RSS feeds would be able to quickly write apps that hook into AP networks. And of course it wouldn't have to be limited to RSS, it could build on Atom and RDF equally well. </p> <p>It think it's tragic that it's taking Ghost, for example, so long to get their service up fully, and it suggests that smaller devs don't stand a chance. I can't wake up one day and have an idea of something that would work well with Mastodon, for example, and have a prototype running the next day. </p> <p>If you think this is a good idea, post a link to this post somewhere developers live, and let's see if we can get a cooperative project up and running. </p> <p>And if you don't like RSS, Atom or RDF, invent an orthogonal format and we can work with that too. I know people have strong feelings about this stuff, not a problem. </p> <p>PS: I asked <a href="https://mastodon.social/@davew/114796352889094954">Tim Bray</a> to comment, and he <a href="https://mastodon.social/@timbray@cosocial.ca/114796687727557412">responded</a>. Sounds good. We've known each other for decades, going back to the early days of XML. </p> </description> <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:11:25 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html?title=rssActivitypub</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html</guid> <source:outline text="RSS ==> ActivityPub" created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:11:25 GMT" type="outline" description="I'd love to see a bridge going from RSS to ActivityPub." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html"> <source:outline text="I'd love to see a bridge from <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/04/14/121946.html">RSS</a> to ActivityPub. I've asked people at various companies if they'd do this. I'm happy to help with the software but operating the service is something for a trusted company to do." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:11:32 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html#a181132"/> <source:outline text="I think this would go all the way to putting the "open" in open social web, because people who already know how to build RSS feeds would be able to quickly write apps that hook into AP networks. And of course it wouldn't have to be limited to RSS, it could build on Atom and RDF equally well." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:12:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html#a181207"/> <source:outline text="It think it's tragic that it's taking Ghost, for example, so long to get their service up fully, and it suggests that smaller devs don't stand a chance. I can't wake up one day and have an idea of something that would work well with Mastodon, for example, and have a prototype running the next day." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:12:35 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html#a181235"/> <source:outline text="If you think this is a good idea, post a link to this post somewhere developers live, and let's see if we can get a cooperative project up and running." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:12:36 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html#a181236"/> <source:outline text="And if you don't like RSS, Atom or RDF, invent an orthogonal format and we can work with that too. I know people have strong feelings about this stuff, not a problem." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:13:15 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html#a181315"/> <source:outline text="PS: I asked <a href="https://mastodon.social/@davew/114796352889094954">Tim Bray</a> to comment, and he <a href="https://mastodon.social/@timbray@cosocial.ca/114796687727557412">responded</a>. Sounds good. We've known each other for decades, going back to the early days of XML." created="Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:31:08 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/04/181125.html#a203108"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://this.how/wordland/versions.opml#1751548301000">WordLand v0.5.17</a> -- Two changes with linkblog support.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:22:34 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a132234</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a132234</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://this.how/wordland/versions.opml#1751548301000">WordLand v0.5.17</a> -- Two changes with linkblog support." created="Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:22:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a132234"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/07/03/houseOfCards.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">BTW, this is where we're going with WordLand. We can have a nice social web that builds on simple open formats. I will make an instance of this to show it can be done, both sides, reading and writing. They will work wonderfully with each other. You can write a nice reader and/or writer and it will work with this simple network. A technological <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2007/04/28/twitterAsCoralReef.html">coral reef</a>. Think of the MacWrite and MacPaint of the open social web. Enough to get the ball rolling.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:36:00 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a113600</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a113600</guid> <source:outline text="BTW, this is where we're going with WordLand. We can have a nice social web that builds on simple open formats. I will make an instance of this to show it can be done, both sides, reading and writing. They will work wonderfully with each other. You can write a nice reader and/or writer and it will work with this simple network. A technological <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2007/04/28/twitterAsCoralReef.html">coral reef</a>. Think of the MacWrite and MacPaint of the open social web. Enough to get the ball rolling." created="Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:36:00 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/07/03/houseOfCards.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a113600"/> </item> <item> <description>Looking forward to putting linkblogs in WordLand to bed, I don't think too many people other than myself will use the feature, but I wanted to get it right and then move on.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:34:29 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a113429</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a113429</guid> <source:outline text="Looking forward to putting linkblogs in WordLand to bed, I don't think too many people other than myself will use the feature, but I wanted to get it right and then move on." created="Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:34:29 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/03.html#a113429"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://this.how/wordland/versions.opml#1751488476000">WordLand 0.5.16</a> -- Rounding out the linkblogging features.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:13:47 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/02.html#a211347</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/02.html#a211347</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://this.how/wordland/versions.opml#1751488476000">WordLand 0.5.16</a> -- Rounding out the linkblogging features." created="Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:13:47 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/02.html#a211347"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/03/12/hamstercage.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Software internally is mostly pipes connected to other pipes, each adding a specific quality to whatever passes through it. If you have nice standards for what you send through the pipes, you can do more of what you imagine. This is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality_(programming)">orthogonality</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring">Factoring</a> is when you notice a repeating pattern, give it a name, and a set of things you can do to it, those would be names of pipes. I have to ask ChatGPT what it thinks about this, but I am also asking my human friends. BTW I expect this seems so natural because our minds probably work that way too, internally, below our conscious awareness.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:26:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/02.html#a152605</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/02.html#a152605</guid> <source:outline text="Software internally is mostly pipes connected to other pipes, each adding a specific quality to whatever passes through it. If you have nice standards for what you send through the pipes, you can do more of what you imagine. This is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonality_(programming)">orthogonality</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring">Factoring</a> is when you notice a repeating pattern, give it a name, and a set of things you can do to it, those would be names of pipes. I have to ask ChatGPT what it thinks about this, but I am also asking my human friends. BTW I expect this seems so natural because our minds probably work that way too, internally, below our conscious awareness." created="Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:26:05 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2023/03/12/hamstercage.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/02.html#a152605"/> </item> <item> <description>More <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/322#issuecomment-3025886330">feedback</a> on the design of Bluesky's API.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:06:24 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a000624</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a000624</guid> <source:outline text="More <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/322#issuecomment-3025886330">feedback</a> on the design of Bluesky's API." created="Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:06:24 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a000624"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/01/congress/lisa-murkowski-repulican-megabill-alaska-00435150">Bullshit</a>. Lisa Murkowski goes on a <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murkowski-could-lead-gop-revolt-against-trump-4-21-25/id1633301179?i=1000704258553&l=ru">press tour</a> and sounds like she could be the one that breaks away from Trump in the Republican Senate. As with all of them, always, it was an act. She has a role to play, she's The Agonizer. They are amazing in terms of how organized and orchestrated their campaign is.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:40:18 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a184018</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a184018</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/01/congress/lisa-murkowski-repulican-megabill-alaska-00435150">Bullshit</a>. Lisa Murkowski goes on a <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murkowski-could-lead-gop-revolt-against-trump-4-21-25/id1633301179?i=1000704258553&l=ru">press tour</a> and sounds like she could be the one that breaks away from Trump in the Republican Senate. As with all of them, always, it was an act. She has a role to play, she's The Agonizer. They are amazing in terms of how organized and orchestrated their campaign is." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:40:18 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a184018"/> </item> <item> <description>The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/06.opml">archived source</a> for June 2025.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:25:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a112531</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a112531</guid> <source:outline text="The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/06.opml">archived source</a> for June 2025." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:25:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01.html#a112531"/> </item> <item> <title>My new linkblog feed</title> <description><p>This is the address of my linkblog feed: <a href="https://dave.linkblog.org/">dave.linkblog.org</a>. </p> <p>I think it's kind of interesting to have the top page of a site be a feed. I don't hide the XML-ness of it. I never supported the obfuscation, it's confusing, makes people not trust RSS, imho. </p> <p>I think the feed is pretty stable now, so if you want to subscribe, go ahead. I haven't redirected from the old feed yet, probably should do that soon, since it more or less has stopped updating. </p> <p>This is all managed in <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> and therefore is part of the WordPress ecosystem. </p> <p>I felt it was time to do a definitive linkblog, since as far as I could tell no one has tried to explain what it is: basically, a feed where the &lt;link> element of each &lt;item> points to some other site. That's the basic difference. </p> <p>Also a linkblog feed should specify the channel-level &lt;image> element, which is used as the avatar for the feed when it appears in a twitter-like timeline.</p> <p>I think the only other product that is open to feeds being part of the open social web is <a href="https://about.flipboard.com/press/announcing-surf-the-first-browser-for-the-open-social-web/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Surf</a> from Mike McCue's company, Flipboard. I asked ChatGPT to <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6863cadb-46ec-8012-9ec8-c5e67595f954">brief me</a> on how it works with feeds, and saw that we're more or less doing the same thing, except I'm not trying to work with the output from Twitter, Bluesky, etc. Even when they have outbound RSS feeds they aren't good enough to be part of the social web defined by feeds.</p> <p>I only want really good feeds. It's time to stop being so careless about what we transmit to the world. If we want an open web we're all going to have to be good gardeners. It's like a food system where all the food is grown by family farmers and I'm running a restaurant, and only want the good stuff, and we want it to look good too! :-)</p> <p>PS: Another thing, the feed items must have working <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt">guids</a>. All software that runs on feeds should be able to depend on this. </p> <p>PPS: Linkblogs aren't the only kinds of feeds that will be used in this RSS-based feediverse. Scripting News will work with it. You would be able to read this post in this new medium (not yet delivered, btw).</p> <p>PPPS: More <a href="https://this.how/davewiner/myLinkblog.opml">here</a> and <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandDev/issues/1">here</a>.</p> </description> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:44:29 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html?title=myNewLinkblogFeed</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html</guid> <source:outline text="My new linkblog feed" created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:44:29 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html"> <source:outline text="This is the address of my linkblog feed: <a href="https://dave.linkblog.org/">dave.linkblog.org</a>." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:36:05 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a113605"/> <source:outline text="I think it's kind of interesting to have the top page of a site be a feed. I don't hide the XML-ness of it. I never supported the obfuscation, it's confusing, makes people not trust RSS, imho." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:54:04 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a115404"/> <source:outline text="I think the feed is pretty stable now, so if you want to subscribe, go ahead. I haven't redirected from the old feed yet, probably should do that soon, since it more or less has stopped updating." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:45:02 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a114502"/> <source:outline text="This is all managed in <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> and therefore is part of the WordPress ecosystem." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:45:12 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a114512"/> <source:outline text="I felt it was time to do a definitive linkblog, since as far as I could tell no one has tried to explain what it is: basically, a feed where the &lt;link> element of each &lt;item> points to some other site. That's the basic difference." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:45:27 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a114527"/> <source:outline text="Also a linkblog feed should specify the channel-level &lt;image> element, which is used as the avatar for the feed when it appears in a twitter-like timeline." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:45:51 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a114551"/> <source:outline text="I think the only other product that is open to feeds being part of the open social web is <a href="https://about.flipboard.com/press/announcing-surf-the-first-browser-for-the-open-social-web/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Surf</a> from Mike McCue's company, Flipboard. I asked ChatGPT to <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/6863cadb-46ec-8012-9ec8-c5e67595f954">brief me</a> on how it works with feeds, and saw that we're more or less doing the same thing, except I'm not trying to work with the output from Twitter, Bluesky, etc. Even when they have outbound RSS feeds they aren't good enough to be part of the social web defined by feeds." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:46:11 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a114611"/> <source:outline text="I only want really good feeds. It's time to stop being so careless about what we transmit to the world. If we want an open web we're all going to have to be good gardeners. It's like a food system where all the food is grown by family farmers and I'm running a restaurant, and only want the good stuff, and we want it to look good too! :-)" created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:46:48 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a114648"/> <source:outline text="PS: Another thing, the feed items must have working <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html#ltguidgtSubelementOfLtitemgt">guids</a>. All software that runs on feeds should be able to depend on this." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:51:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a115121"/> <source:outline text="PPS: Linkblogs aren't the only kinds of feeds that will be used in this RSS-based feediverse. Scripting News will work with it. You would be able to read this post in this new medium (not yet delivered, btw)." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:52:56 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a115256"/> <source:outline text="PPPS: More <a href="https://this.how/davewiner/myLinkblog.opml">here</a> and <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandDev/issues/1">here</a>." created="Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:55:17 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/07/01/114429.html#a185517"/> </source:outline> </item> </channel> </rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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