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Here’s something interesting. The Hot-Or-Not folks are now rating weblogs. Nice. [Scripting News]

I’m pretty impressed by this.  First Userland brought the New York Times over to blog land through an XML feed to read in the news aggregator.  Now we’ve got Salon blogging as well.

I checked out Scott’s blog, looks interesting.  I’m a new subscriber…

Scott Rosenberg, Salon’s managing editor, has a new weblog, and it’s very nice. I’ve known Scott for quite a few years, he wrote one of the first articles about weblogs, in May 1999. His weblog is edited with Radio UserLand, and that makes me proud. You can subscribe to Scott’s weblog with Radio’s news aggregator. Stay tuned for more Salon weblog links. “;->” [Scripting News]

It’s stuff like this that makes my head spin.

Was the WTC collapse one occurrence or two? – Fascinating article by Steven Brill in Newsweek on Larry Silverstein’s quest to recover from the various insurance companies that insured his investment in the WTC.   At the center of the controversy is the question of whether the damage and collapse of the World Trade Centers was one event or two separate events.  The insurance companies cap damages on a per-occurrence basis, so they want it to be only one event.  There were two buildings so you would think that would resolve the question, and there are written contracts too, but…not so fast.  It’s all very confusing, and the lawyers are working overtime to sort it all out.  Welcome to the fascinating world of insurance litigation. [Ernie the Attorney]

http://www.webmasterbase.com/article/827

Probably not, eh?

Deadly Groom Spends Wedding Night in Jail. iWon Jul 22 2002 1:26PM ET [Moreover – Crime and punishment news]

One more thing to worry about when I get home tonight..

Serious PHP vuln reported. Worse on Sparc than Intel [The Register]

 

My friend Kerri is fiddling with using Radio for project management and has emailed me some interesting ideas, I’ll post here if I get permission from her.  Her ideas flow right along with concepts that John Robb has espoused in his weblog and others have written about as well.

I’m really looking to find ways to extend my existing websites’s content into XML and thus make it available to users of Radio Userland and other RSS readers/aggregators.  I think this can be done fairly easily, I just need to spend some time learning enough about PHP’s XSLT and XML functions to make it work.

I’m also looking to find ways to extend the administrative side of my company into XML status reports, which can then be read and commented on via Radio Userland or other tools.  I think this would work quite well for project management and simplify some of the administrative overhead that I have presently.