Bringing metadata back into RSS with subject taxonomies. I hope to be able to spend time experimenting with XML again after a few projects I'm working on settle down. First on my plate will be to read more about how to bring subject-headings/topics into RSS. Specifically, I think XTM for Topic Maps, the RSS taxonomy and Dublin Core modules, and Peter's XFML are where I am going to be spending my time at first. [ia/ - news for information architects]
» Serendipity!
I'm also interested in how to add topic-based metadata to RSS feeds. I'd come across XTM a while back but not had an immediate use for it. Time to start reading I guess.
Within our team, we have been surprised at how well the team klog has helped us to have a better understanding of what each of us is currently working on. [HighContext] via [ColumnTwo].
» I shall definitely be suggesting this approach in future.
Hyperreferencing.
Found this link (via a Wired article on NPR's linking policy) to some writing Tim Berners-Lee did about the nature of links:
Normal hypertext links do not of themselves imply that the document linked to is part of, is endorsed by, or endorses, or has related ownership or distribution terms as the document linked from.
So why call it a link? I wonder if this tendancy for the unclued to imply copyright violation or some other tangible impact by hyperlinking comes from the very word itself. To link, in the traditional sense, implies some physical connection or tie. From my copy of Websters:
link vt: To couple or connect by or as if by a link.
If hyperlinks had been called hyperreferences (which is what they are) from the start perhaps the widespread misunderstanding about the nature of linking would be a little less pervasive.
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I'm really excited by the TrackBack feature that has been implemented for MovableType. I'd really love to see something similar for Radio.
My first thoughts were to implement an RCS extension that uses XML-RPC calls. The idea is that whenever you post to your blog, an upstream callback extracts the links from the text and sends them to the RCS server. RCS would then keep a per-site record of all such pings. Another XML-RPC call would allow Radio to get information about all pings to any pages relating to your site. Working in the same ways as referrer information does now.
The one major disadvantage I see to this approach is that it isn't how MT's system works.
klogging your career.
Phil Wolff has some insightful observations on how writing a weblog could benefit your career.
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» This was timely, I'd already thought about putting my weblog address into my resume in a prominent position.
My other reaction was "will anyone read it?" For the kind of jobs I've been going for in the past I have a hunch the answer is probably no.
However I've recently (like in the last 3 or 4 days) come to the conclusion that employment must match my core values. I think for that to happen I need an employer who would read my blog!
Clicks for mammograms. Meg sez: "The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'Fund Free Mammograms' for free (pink window in the middle). (There is nothing to sign up for and no cost to you.) The corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate a mammogram in exchange for advertising."
I dug around on Snopes and the About.com Urban Legends database and it appears that these folks are on the up-and-up. I think it's a rotten idea to publicize this with a chain letter (the original note asks you to tell ten friends and ask them to do the same), but the principle is sound. I just went and did my clicks; if you like this idea, why don't you do it, too? Link Discuss (Thanks, Meg!) [Boing Boing Blog]
» I'm a convert to BackFlip's daily routine service. I've just added this site to go with The Hunger Site (see left). Make's doing worthy clicking too easy to forget!
Phil Wolff: Klogging vs. the 11 Deadly KM Sins.
How does klogging avoid the quagmire?
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» Excellent piece. Recommended.
I've just been watching The West Wing and enjoying it immensely, I'm completely immersed. Then it's over and the realisation dawns that instead of President Bartlett you guys have the Shrub. Jeez what a come down...
Radio wishlist > Post to email..
Dale Pike writes:
I want to be able to designate a category and have that post sent as an email message to a pre-determined address. This would allow me to further consolidate my communications and have a more streamlined "write once" approach to my messaging.
[a klog apart]
» I need exactly the same thing to keep legacy people in the loop. I'm trying to knock up something very quickly as a tool in Radio.
Basic features:
- preferences per- subscriber email
- filter by category & by liveTopic
- immediately, hourly or daily feedings
- send either complete post or permalink+title
I had originally thought about making it a program that subscribed to an RSS feed and emailed it out. However this seemed like a lot of work and a way of re-inventing my.userland. I'm trying to KISS!
This just in from our sources at [Bob McGhee's Radio Weblog]
"Calling themselves the CEOnistas, the chief executives were first spotted last night along the Rio Grande River near Quemado, where they bought each of the town's 320 residents by borrowing against pension fund gains. By late this morning, the CEOnistas had arbitrarily inflated Quemado's population to 960, and declared a 200 percent profit for the fiscal second quarter."
» Fantastic!
