This page is an aggregator of useful information for people interested in the weekly weblogger meetings hosted by Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Below are the latest posts on our Agenda Blog, and at left are recent posts by some regulars.

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Bloglines has a pretty mild level of lock-in, it's true. Thanks to export OPML, it's fairly easy to take your data to another aggregator. Even this hassle, however, is not negligible. If Bloglines has cornered the market for people seeking a simple, easy-to-access, no-installation-required aggregator, many of their customers might indeed not care to figure out what OPML means. Additionally, they have the usual lock-in that results from users being accustomed to a certain interface.

Also, as Mary points out, the historical archive of blog posts that Bloglines has is pretty valuable. I would say especially so for a search engine.

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The cookie thing is exactly right. You might be able to keep two frassle logins going if you run a separate window. You can almost certainly keep two frassle logins going if you run separate web browser instances, although you might be prevented from doing that by your operating system or web browser. Worst case, you can run two different web browsers (e.g. Safari and Firefox).

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It's like CDDB on crack, with richer metadata and the ability to tag your disorganized MP3 collection…

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Sadly, frassle's autosave feature has not yet debuted for the public world. Perhaps I can get it out of the lab this weekend, with some encouragement. Would anyone like to not lose posts anymore?

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If you actually want to learn Befunge (Wikipedia: "an attempt to devise a language as hard to compile as possible") and write a web application in it, go for it!

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Toph wondered why I, a Debian GNU/Linux lover through and through, would be bitching about a Fedora Core 2 issue.

The server that hosts frassle is a dedicated machine running FC2. Unfortunately, my provider didn't offer Debian. But did you know they now have apt-get for fedora? With that little perk, it's keeping me pretty happy.

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There are surely lots of good ideas. Could you tell us a little more about what your company is doing right now?

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Useful thread on MSIE's table and div width bugs/quirks.