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Tuesday, 14th January 2003

Blogs as agents

Scott makes an interesting observation: Are blogs nothing more than agents for the internet?. A few years ago “intelligent agents” which knew your tastes and found content you would be interested in were the Next Big Thing™. Scott points out that by reading bloggers with similar tastes to us we are essentially getting the same service, with a nice human touch.

Apple snubs Mozilla

News.com: Apple snub stings Mozilla. Surprisingly comprehensive coverage of the Mozilla communities reactions to Safari. What impressed me was the number of links to weblogs in the news story. It looks like CNET “gets” blogging.

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The making of Python

One for the reading list: The Making of Python—A conversation with Guido van Rossum, Part I.

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