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Thursday, March 11, 2004 |
Upstreaming in Radio UserLand. The most common source of confusion for new Radio UserLand users is upstreaming, the process that turns a bunch of text files in Radio's www folder into Web pages on UserLand's Web server.
If you can spare a couple minutes, I'll show you a simple exercise from Radio UserLand Kick Start that makes upstreaming easier to understand:
- Open Radio's www folder and create a new subfolder.
- Copy the file #template.txt from www into the new folder.
- In the new folder, create a text file called countdown.txt just like mine. Don't leave out the blank line after the #title line.
- Save the file, then check Radio's Events Log to see what you did.
Radio upstreams countdown.txt as countdown.html, using the file #template.txt as a template for the Web page.
You can use your new folder to experiment with page creation and template editing without messing up your weblog. Changes to the template and the text file will cause the page to be upstreamed again automatically. [Rogers Cadenhead: Salon Blog Tips]
10:14:10 PM 
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Mar 11, 2004: No answer. When Education Secretary Rod "Teachers Are Terrorists" Paige visited a St. Louis school yesterday, he wasn't prepared for students' hard questions:
Craig Szczesiul, 18 and a senior at Metro, told Paige that St. Louis school officials were studying budget cuts of $23 million, including cuts in support for gifted, art, music and athletic programs.
"Everyone agrees there are problems, but we have no idea what to do. Can you help us with ideas about how to fix the problem?" Szczesiul said to thunderous applause.
Paige replied, "I think you stumped me with that question."
Paige went on to say that issues surrounding public education should be figured out by the residents of each state. He noted the success of Atlanta in attracting the Summer Olympics in 1996 after people of all races and economic and political backgrounds worked together.
After Paige concluded his answer, he said, "I didn't get any applause." The students clapped.
Does Secretary Paige thinks he deserves applause for telling students he has no answer to the millions in Bush education budget cuts? [Kicking Ass]
10:10:04 PM
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Maybe you're thinking about the
Friends are invited to join The WELL offer blinked previously in this
space,
and interested in
What The WELL is Not! That linked discussion riffs on the question,
from the Well's publically readable pre.vue conference. But the publically
readable conferences (Grateful Dead Songs, Inkwell.vue, and Pre.vue) give
only a skewed glimpse of all that there is to be drunk from the Well. The
Friend to Friend offer is a perfect chance to find out for yourself
what the fuss is about.
1:38:21 PM
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BNA News sends this notice and link:
NADER PREVAILS IN LENGTHY COPYRIGHT BATTLE
Several years after Ralph Nader ran "Priceless" television
ads, a court has ruled that the ads did not infringe either
Mastercard's copyright or trademark rights. The court noted
that there was little likelihood of confusion between the
financial services company and Nader's presidential
campaign.
Decision in pdf.
Coverage at the
old blog,
twice, from
August, 2000.
11:37:30 AM
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>From Kevin's Benton Headlines, comes a pointer
COOKING WITH THE INTERNET -- A RECIPE FOR GRASSROOTS
SUCCESS
Don't let the demise of the Howard Dean campaign fool ya, argues Peizer,
the Internet is a great tool for organizing, communicating, and, most
importantly, winning the day. The five main ingredients for success online
advocacy are: A Salient Issue, Effective Organizers, An Efficient Platform
for Organizing, Resources and Leadership. While some of the most popular
grassroots advocacy sites have lost just about every major issue they've
organized around, (the Clinton impeachment, election 2000, media ownership
regulation, etc.), they, nevertheless, have managed to attract and grow a
critical mass of constituents. What this shows is that building and
maintaining momentum with web-based tools and approaches does work. It's
simply the key ingredient of leadership that promotes the breakthrough
process of winning an issue by using this momentum to best effect. A
movement with critical mass, technology and resources is lost without
charismatic leadership, whether online or off.
[SOURCE: Media Channel, AUTHOR: Jonathan Peizer, Chief Technology Officer
for the Open Society Institute]
10:37:26 AM
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Symbiot launches DDoS counter-strike tool, by
Munir Kotadia,
ZDNet UK
In advance of the product launch, Symbiot's president, Mike Erwin, and
its chief scientist, Paco Nathan, have outlined a set of "rules of
engagement for information warfare", which they say should be part of
corporate security policy to help companies determine their exact
response to an incoming attack.
Until today, security solutions have been totally passive in nature.
Merely erecting defensive walls around the perimeter of an enterprise
network is not an adequate deterrent, said Erwin, who argues that to
have a complete defence in place, offensive tactics must be employed.
The company said it bases its theory on the military doctrine of
necessity and proportionality, which means the response to an
attack
is proportionate to the attack's ferocity. According to the company, a
response could range from profiling and blacklisting upstream
providers or it could be escalated to launch a distributed denial
of
service counter-strike.
Security experts expressed alarm at the company's plans.
Graham Titterington, principal analyst at Ovum, said such a
counterattack would not be regarded as self-defence and would
therefore be an attack. It would be illegal in those jurisdictions
where an anti-hacking law is in place. He added that because many
hacking and DDoS attacks are launched from hijacked computers, the
system would be unlikely to find its real target: Attacks are often
launched from a site that has been hijacked, making it an unwitting
and innocent -- although possibly slightly negligent -- party.
Richard Starnes, director of incident response at Cable and Wireless
Managed Security Services, said he would not employ an "active defence
technique" because there are legal and ethical issues involved. Also,
he would not be happy about any product "specifically designed to
launch attacks" being put into commercial production. Starnes said it
would be easy to hit the wrong target and even if it was the right
target, there could be collateral damage: You may be taking out
grandma's computer in Birmingham that has got a 100-year-old cookie
recipe that has not been backed up. The attack could also knock over a
Point of Presence (PoP), so you are not only attacking the target, but
also the feeds before them -- this means taking out ISPs, businesses
and home users.
7:36:53 AM
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Dave:On Feb 24 I asked for visions of the future of weblog software from Scripting News readers, and got a huge response. At last Thursday's meeting at Berkman, I asked three people, Lisa Williams, Shimon Rura and Jay McCarthy to read each of the posts, collate them, group and summarize so we could make sense of what people were asking for. Lisa's summary is available for review now.
7:19:31 AM
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Salon's Got a Will to Survive. Salon.com will open a bureau in Washington, D.C., and expand some of its operations. The scrappy site has managed to survive for years on the brink of bankruptcy. By Amit Asaravala. [Wired News]
7:06:57 AM
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