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For anyone that has a job that involves using technology to communicate.
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Monday, November 03, 2003 |
Three Years of Free Software Activism. 4 Nov 2003: "GNU-Darwin is a Darwin-based operating system, but it also GNU-based, in that many thousands of free software titles are provided, all of which are compatible with the Darwin and Mac OS X. Software packaging tools were adapted from FreeBSD for the purpose of distributing the GNU part of the system and other free software items, but Darwin itself also includes many crucial GNU software titles, such as bash and GCC." Read the editorial at OSNews.com by one of the founders o... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
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November 03, 2003.
 Fog Creek's website has been redone to use our new Sam Sherwood-designed logo. The cutting edge page design is thanks to superstar web designer Dave Shea, famous for the CSS garden and the eye-popping new Mozilla home page, with additional programming and graphics by Fog Creek's own Dmitri Kalmar. It's about 99% standards-compliant (with the exception of a couple of stray FONT tags left over from old content that hasn't been updated... oh the horror!).
[Joel on Software]
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Digital Networks: PC to Stereo. A new class of device that transmits music, photo and video files from the computer to home entertainment systems may play an important role as digital music and home networks really take off. [Wired News]
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Spidering Hacks. The latest book in the O'Reilly Hacks series, "Spidering Hacks," (written by Kevin "Morbus Iff" Hemenway and Tara "ResearchBuzz" Calishain) is out. It's the site-scraper's bible, with 100 tips and tricks for sucking in data from the Web.
Spidering Hacks takes you to the next level in Internet data retrieval--beyond search engines--by showing you how to create spiders and bots to retrieve information from your favorite sites and data sources. You'll no longer feel constrained by the way host sites think you want to see their data presented--you'll learn how to scrape and repurpose raw data so you can view in a way that's meaningful to you.
Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll begin with a crash course in spidering concepts, tools (Perl, LWP, out-of-the-box utilities), and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far: what's acceptable and unacceptable). Next, you'll collect media files and data from databases. Then you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. LInk (via Ben Hammersley) [Boing Boing Blog]
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WIFLBlog nominated to BlogsCanada's Top Blog list
so the little banner with the maple leaf represents that latest honor, and the following email was what notified me of this honor, thanks BlogsCanada!
"Hi Ted,
In October, WIFLblog was nominated to BlogsCanada's Top Blogs list. The November
2003 top ten list has now been published and your site is included. Congrats!
The Top Blogs page is at http://www.blogscanada.ca/topblogs/.
Best Regards,
Jim Elve
www.blogscanada.ca"
As is appropriate you will also see Dave Pollard's How To Save The World, another Canadian Salon blog, has also been nomiated to BlogsCanada's top blog list. I must admit to stealing a number of Dave's great articles and reposting them on WIFLblog. Check Dave's blog out for yourself at:
http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/
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