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Friday Sep 20, 2002

We now resume our normally scheduled program

Howard Kistler, you rock! Howard shares his toys and this toy is the coolest of all. This Ekit editor applet is a dramatic improvement over the previous Roller editor which was just <input type="text" ... > . This is my first post using Ekit.

The Ekit WYSIWYG HTML editor applet is coming soon in Roller 0.9.6. Thanks Howard and thanks hexicode codex!

Ok, so I just discovered that there are some problems with images. I think we are going to need some sort of macros or hotwords for including images in post. Anyhow, now that I've switched back to the plain old text editor, I can show you a screenshot:

Dave in Roller 08:41PM Sep 20, 2002 Comments[0]

Tags: Roller

Weblogger.com UPDATE

Weblogger.com/Erin Clerico has officially recinded the threat of lawsuit, apologized on Sam Ruby's site, apologized on Erin Clerico's site, and I have added a disclaimer to the main Roller Weblogger page. Thanks to the good and courageous people who came to my defence, even through some may have gone a little overboard with the language ;-)

I can understand the outrage involved when lawsuits are threatened and I felt this outrage myself, but try to understand that there are two sides to every issue. Both sides are human. I truly hope this is my last post on this topic.

Dave in Roller 01:13PM Sep 20, 2002 Comments[0]

Tags: Roller

Roller vs. WebloggerZilla

I do not need a registered trademark to sue you. Ask your attorney. I take it by your attitude here you are ready for a fight. You will hear from my attorney next. -Erin

That is the latest. What a sweet guy. As I said before, I welcome any advice, assistance or pointers to sites/organizations that might help me research my case.

Dave in Roller 08:11AM Sep 20, 2002 Comments[0]

Tags: Roller

The letter

Below is the email that Weblogger.COM sent to me. As far as I can tell, these guys do not own the word 'weblogger' and therefore do not have a case, but I am still researching this and looking into free legal resources.

Hello, my name is Erin Clerico and I own Weblogger:
http://www.weblogger.com
You have selected a name for your product, 'RollerWeblogger', which is too close to our Copyrighted name: 'Weblogger.' Since your product closely resembles our service offerings I must ask you to stop using this name immediately.

We have used this name to market our services for years, I would be more than happy to have our attorney contact you if you have any questions about our rights to this name in this market space.

I look forward to your prompt reply on this matter.

Respectfully yours

Erin Clerico

Dave in Roller 06:03AM Sep 20, 2002 Comments[0]

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far as I can tell, clicking the Facebook "Like" button means "please spam me endlessly"
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Scoble says open web is done... stick a fork in it | http://t.co/Hgjf8lR4
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one of the great joys of parenting is relearning basic math and algebra… NOT
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ot: More damaging evidence on open plan offices... http://t.co/ujVRcN0G
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ot: Why not to do a local + online startup (and what to do instead)... http://t.co/BsCsMPLF
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current status: battle stations
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I love it when problems just resolve themselves
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Title: Understanding Google's new privacy policy
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In other news: my Nexus S phone is a brick #fb #wtf
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taking AWS Dynamo DB for a spin today
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Jamaican car wash

snoopdave posted a photo:

That's my VW Golf getting a car wash in a creek somewhere near Ocho Rios Jamaica in 1992
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ked: Inside the conveyor system at B&H Photo http://t.co/zaXLTDtL
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oked at @Google's plans to merge social & search. Horrible, horrible idea. Could have consequences worse than anything Facebook has done.

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