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If you can read this, then I’ve successfully written a posting to my Movable Type weblog using the new Windows Live Writer beta version.
Looks like the editing basics are there, but I don’t see any way to add categories or tags.
Doesn’t look like anything to give up Ecto for just yet.
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Yesterday my buddy Ed and I went down to the KEXP summer BBQ – it was a perfect Seattle late summer afternoon, the beer flowed freely, and the music (as you’d expect) was great! We got down there too late to catch Thee Emergency, but we did hear the end of Devotchka’s very cool electronica meets eastern European roots-rock set.
The Austin duo Ghostland Observatory sounded to me like Robert Plant meeting Echo and the Bunnymen. Singer/guitarist Aaron Behrens definitely had the energy and moves to drive the crowd wild and synthesist/drummer Thomas Turner was the consummate nerdly foil in his baby blue satin cape (we wondered if perhaps he sleeps in the cape).
The day ended with local Seattle power-pop favorites The Long Winters, providing, as Ed put it, intelligent short pop songs with great harmonies.
My photos from the day are on Flick, tagged with kexp2006bbq
All in all a great day out under the sun – thanks to the KEXP gang and all of the volunteers for putting the day together!
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It’s amazing what people have to do to get calendaring to work the way they want.
(from Ian Forrester)
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Today’s calendaring news from Apple gets even better!
Cyrus Daboo from Apple (yes, he’s the Cyrus of the IMAP server and Mulberry) writes in an email:
Hi folks,
FYI today Apple announced full support for CalDAV in both the iCal client and a new open source calendar server for its upcoming OS X 10.5 client and server products. What’s more we support the latest version of the scheduling specification for scheduling support.
iCal is available as a developer preview right now, and of course we will be bringing it to the next [calconnect] interop – on the Apple campus – next month.
The calendar server is being released as open source under an Apache license. This is available here:
http://collaboration.macosforge.org
Of course we will have this at the interop too.
In addition, of interest to other server developers, is a CalDAV server test suite with over 500 ‘unit’ tests for testing various aspects of a CalDAV server implementation. This too is available as open source on the site linked above.
That link doesn’t bring up anything for me currently, but I’m anxious to take a look at the open source server – it’ll be interesting to see how platform-specific it is or isn’t.
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Though it only got the briefest of mentions in Steve Jobs’ keynote speech this morning at the Apple World-Wide Developers Conference, the next major release of OS X (codenamed Leopard) will have a new version of iCal that supports the CalDAV standard for multi-user scheduling. This means that iCal should be able to be a client to any CalDAV compliant calendaring server, which will include Oracle Calendar and OSAF’s Cosmo, with others hopefully following suit (is anyone in Redmond listening?).
There’s also mention on Apple’s web pages of an iCal server showing up in Leopard, but the web page for that isn’t there yet – I imagine that will be a CalDAV server, which will allow other clients, including Chandler, to use that server.
And Apple has joined the CalConnect calendaring consortium, and will be helping to drive industry-wide interoperability along with the rest of the members (truth in advertising: the UW was one of the original founding members of CalConnect and I sit on the steering committee).
Great news all around!
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This is a good post in Kathy’s Creating Passionate Users blog:
n this Web 2.0-ish world we’re supposed to be all about the users being in control. Where the “community” drives the product. But the user community can’t create art. (And I use “art” with a lowercase “a” as in software, books, just about anything we might design and craft.) That’s up to us.
Our users will tell us where the pain is. Our users will drive incremental improvements. But the user community can’t do the revolutionary innovation for us. That’s up to us.
I haven’t been blogging much lately, due to my trip to New York to help my parents start to get ready to move out of their house that they’ve lived in for the last 35 years (take-away lesson: get rid of unused stuff now) and then being immersed in writing a Research Bulletin for ECAR on social software, which I’ll have more to say about soon.
In the meantime, it’s worth reading this little piece from Doc Searls:
More to the point, why trust building the “first mile” of the Net to people who never wanted it in the first place, who have always felt threatened by it, who can imagine their customers as nothing other than “consumers” of one-way “content”, and who want to create scarcities and insert billing valves everywhere they can? Because they’re the only ones in a position to do it? That’s not a good enough reason. It’s also not true.
The phone and cable companies will be the only ones in a position to do it if we let them lobby that privilege into law. That’s their real agenda, and that’s the important story here. And it’s a lot bigger than Net Neutrality.
I haven’t been blogging much lately, due to my trip to New York to help my parents start to get ready to move out of their house that they’ve lived in for the last 35 years (take-away lesson: get rid of unused stuff now) and then being immersed in writing a Research Bulletin for ECAR on social software, which I’ll have more to say about soon.
In the meantime, it’s worth reading this little piece from Doc Searls:
More to the point, why trust building the “first mile” of the Net to people who never wanted it in the first place, who have always felt threatened by it, who can imagine their customers as nothing other than “consumers” of one-way “content”, and who want to create scarcities and insert billing valves everywhere they can? Because they’re the only ones in a position to do it? That’s not a good enough reason. It’s also not true.
The phone and cable companies will be the only ones in a position to do it if we let them lobby that privilege into law. That’s their real agenda, and that’s the important story here. And it’s a lot bigger than Net Neutrality.
