Sunday, August 31, 2003While many new news aggregators come with built in Feedster support, allowing you to monitor up the minute what blogworld...
[hebig.org/blog]
5:41:15 AM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft Bloggers Multiplying Exponentially
It had been a while since we updated the Microsoft Watch list of current and former Microsoft employees who are bloggingThere are now more [sigma]
lots more. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
5:22:28 AM
comment [] trackback [] RSS Feeds are the Better Email Newsletters
According to Heinz Tschabitscher from About.com; "Email newsletters are great, but spam is not. The deluge of junk mail has made it increasingly painful to follow the news and what's happening on your favorite web sites via email." They also added; "Either the newsletter you're eager to read is hidden in a massive spam attack or it doesn't arrive because your ISP is blocking spam and your favorite newsletter falls victim to the filters, too (now you know why a 'false positive' is something negative)." Read the rest here......
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
5:08:17 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tagging conventions for microcontent
Jon Udell has put up his structured blog search which allows you to write XPaths over an XML representation of his blog and get some useful information out of it. In the accompanying blog post he makes the plea for well formedness, since that makes things easier. No argument from me. What I'm more interested in is a description of his tagging conventions.
[Ted Leung on the air]
5:06:19 AM
comment [] trackback [] The September That Never Began
I have been watching and waiting for the impact of AOL Journals. Back in January I outlined the business case for AOL to enter the market, using LiveJournal stats to suggest a $48m revenue stream as the prize. I wondered...
[Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
5:01:43 AM
comment [] trackback [] Categorical indirection
Don Park's post on how to link blogs and wikis is actually an instance of the following. Take a category, or view (if you prefer database terminology) and send it off to somewhere else. This is cool, and another reason why multiple categorization would be useful. Each category can do its own rendering, transmission, etc.
[Ted Leung on the air]
4:35:21 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 29, 2003Lest we forget, the geeks came first; in the global South, however, they're seeing it the other way around.
[Blogalization Community]
3:07:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] Thursday, August 28, 2003Perish the thought...
Washington Post: President Bush's campaign will unveil a Web site today that allows proprietors of online journals -- Blogs or Web logs -- to "get the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop posted instantly to your site through a live...[The Blog Herald]
6:37:16 PM
comment [] trackback [] Tripod Blogs better than Blogger?
PC Mag has rated Tripod Blogs higher than Blogger, Live Journal and Weblogger in a review published today that is bound to attract criticism. Lycos is trumpeting its win with a release to Yahoo! Finance, although the Blog Census figures...
[The Blog Herald]
6:33:57 PM
comment [] trackback [] Update: My.Yahoo RSS Aggregator is live
Just tried it myself - works like a charm.
You have to add the Blogs section, available here:
http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/add_module?.module=xcontent
The interface is nice. Summaries of the latest entries, headlines for older entries. [Blogdigger Development Blog]
5:15:10 PM comment [] trackback []
My.Yahoo is now an RSS Aggregator!
"Sneak peek: Yahoo RSS module
"The My Yahoo RSS module appeared briefly yesterday on the Choose Content page under Personal Information Management with the name "Blogs", but it seems to have disappeared now. Here is a screenshot of the config page for the module:"
(via Blogdigger, BloggingRoller, Arjun) [Blogdigger Development Blog]
5:03:27 PM comment [] trackback []
Wednesday, August 27, 2003"This is no "for money" product. We have developed that for our own needs and because we are educators and will use this code base in excercises with our students and therefore will give it away for them to play with, anyways, we can just as well share it with the rest of the folks out there, too.
This is "free software" without the politics. The software license we chose for DasBlog is plain and simple: BSD. You may use, modidy and redistribute our stuff as long as you keep us out of trouble and leave our and all of the other contibutor's copyright notices in. If you want to derive a closed-source, proprietary product from it ... just go right ahead. We don't like the GPL and the whole "must disclose source of derivative works" interpretation of "free"."
(via dasBlog.net) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
6:34:07 PM
comment [] trackback [] BlogPlanet
Moblog tool for Nokia 3650 camera phones and similar camphones with Java Midlet camera access.
"With BlogPlanet, updating your blog while you're on the go is as easy as writing an SMS. It runs on your mobile and lets you write new blog entries, send them to your blog, edit them afterwards and delete them. On top of that, you can take pictures with the mobile's built-in camera and include them in your posts. Here's an overview of BlogPlanet's features:[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
* Create, edit and delete posts
* A user dictionary which lets you add shortcuts for frequently used words and phrases
* Take pictures with the built-in camera
* Easily include the pictures in your posts, without having to enter HTML code
* Supports the BloggerAPI and MetaWeblogAPI for compatibility with a vast number of blog sites
* English, German and Spanish language support
BlogPlanet has been tested with the Nokia 3650."
5:48:25 PM
comment [] trackback [] Stock market blogs
Here are some more blogs that contain trading and/or stock market information. This is a continuation of the list I made back in May. These have been on my blogroll for a while, but I thought I'd highlight them here.(via Trader Mike: More Stock Market Blogs) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
- The Capital Spectator
- The Learning Curve
- Stable Value
- Stingy Investor
- The Gagalac Style - Charles has merged his stock blog, It's All About the Benjamins, into this blog. If you like, you can filter the stock market commentary via his archives by category.
5:42:32 PM
comment [] trackback [] Text America
... The problem is, moblogs are too uninformative. Here, take a look at the moblog from our dinner. I see the team now is off drinking somewhere. But, no context. No text. Here's a hint from the guys...that'll soon change.... [The Scobleizer Weblog]
5:29:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] Yahoo! News RSS Feeds Launched
This has been in the works for a while and it's finally up for for real. Visit http://news.yahoo.com/rss for details. RSS is alive and well at Yahoo. Watch for more in the future. :-) Congrats and thanks to Jeff and team for making it happen!...
[Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
4:27:44 PM
comment [] trackback [] eBay to RSS Generator
Via Tareq Tujjar: "I have been a subscriber to the Lockergenome for almost 2 years. Being a dedicated GEEK myself I find the content to be very useful. I particularly appreciate the new website about RSS. It actually gave me the motivation to finish this eBay to RSS generator. It is a FREE utility that generates RSS feeds for your favorite eBay search. I have been testing it for the past 5 days, and it seems to be doing good. This is a BETA version and could still have some bugs. I built it using .NET without using the COSTLY eBay API. Therefore, I can offer it for free. Please check it out, and let me know if you have any suggestions."
By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
5:02:44 AM
comment [] trackback [] blogs+im
Wikis, blogs, IM and other collaborative tools are going through a variety of trial matings as part of a grand experiment that is searching for new utility. I've been very interested in blogs and email (more precisely rss+news aggregator email)...
[tingilinde]
5:00:28 AM
comment [] trackback [] Tuesday, August 26, 2003"The message we should all have tatooed on our forheads should read: Integration, aggregation and customization. Everything we need has been invented. Now it's just time to get it all to work together."
[Marc's Voice]10:23:58 PM
comment [] trackback [] People Out Post Commerical Feeds
A keen observation which I can confirm:
I noticed for the first time this morning that the majority of my news aggregator content was from individuals rather than media organizations like the New York Times, CNET, or InfoWorld.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
What are the implications?
7:17:31 PM comment [] trackback []
RSS is/is not....
the point and a well-done counter-point on RSS. It shows that some people naturally see things as challenges to the status quo, while others see them as opportunities to disrupt the status quo. Which are you? Do you see things as threats to what you're doing? Or opportunities to improve...
[Teal Sunglasses]
7:12:12 PM comment [] trackback []
MetaWeblog API
"It is now safe to deploy applications based on this spec."
[Scripting News]
7:09:24 PM comment [] trackback []
AOL launches blogging service (News.Com) [Scripting News]
2:34:10 AM comment [] trackback []
Monday, August 25, 2003"BlogTV is a fun and easy way for you to create your own personalized blog. Not unlike television, BlogTV offers several channels for you to "STAR" on.Whether it is you.BlogAmerica.com or you.BlogSports.com you can create your own channel to begin publishing and documenting your life without having to know how to program and design a Web page. If you can use email you can use BlogTV.
Because you can create your own channel which reflects your personality, your interests, and lifestyle you have a distinct advantage when it comes to acquiring and maintaining an audience. Not just any audience mind you, but a relevant audience (people that you enjoy writing for and communicating with). This is where your relevant community begins--on your own BlogTV channel."
2:36:10 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 24, 2003"Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions. "
"This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself."
[via John Robb's Weblog]10:18:47 PM
comment [] trackback [] My Boston Globe op-ed on net-politics
I've got an op-ed in today's Boston Globe about the relationship between the Internet and poltiics:
"When Trent Lott's revealing faux pas about Strom Thurmond was lightly touched upon by the press, the Internet's howling masses seized on the story, reviving it with a fresh angle -- Lott backhandedly endorses segregation! -- and kept the news cycle going long beyond its expected lifespan, until Lott crashed and burned and lost his post as Senate majority leader.Link Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]Huzzah. Of course, Lott is still a senator. In fact, every scandal exposed by or through the net -- INS witchhunts, stubbornly illusory WMDs, awarding of war-pork to Halliburton -- has yielded a decidedly hollow victory.
Information is power, but it's not enough. Modern emperors have learned the knack of spinning revelations of wrongdoing and bouncing back. Thus far, the Internet has lacked the follow-through necessary to make a lasting difference. That's changing. As the Internet matures as a place for political action, services like the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Action Center (punch in your ZIP and e-mail your lawmaker), MeetUp's coordinated nationwide kaffeeklatsches for every Democratic candidate (but especially Howard Dean) and MoveOn's thronged mailing list millions (who can conjure the budget for a major media-buy on 24 hours' notice) are providing the bodies, budget and means for advancing proposals and seeing them through to their ends."
10:05:25 PM
comment [] trackback [] Technological Acceleration - A Hidden Law of Nature?
"What will happen if technology is, as Ray Kurzweil claims, exponentially accelerating?..."
[Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs]
Also see: Institute for Accelerating Change
5:53:45 AM comment [] trackback []
The shape of things to come:
mt courseware documentation and templates
Okay, I think I’ve “gone about as fur as ah c’n go” for this first version of the courseware. I’m ready to call it version 1.0, I guess, with all the caveats that go along with that. You can see it in action on my fall course site, though I’d respectfully ask that you not post comments related to the courseware itself there—it’s a production class site. This post would be a better place to discuss process....
[mamamusings]
Awesome!
4:32:35 AM comment [] trackback []
Inspired inspiration
The positive energy and motivation radiating from this post is tangible.
How BloggerCon has changed me.
"A single event has given me a focus that I haven't had for four years..."[house of warwick]
I'm reminded of the energy that eminated from DaveNet and Scripting News in those early days of RSS, XML-RPC and weblogs.
It's very gratifying to witness that same spark of "infectious enthusiasm" continuing to spread.
Go for it, Steve!
4:09:16 AM comment [] trackback []
Saturday, August 23, 2003- You always see Microsoft coming.
- They never get it right the first time.
- They never go away (unless the market is proven not to exist)
2:21:56 PM
comment [] trackback [] Jon's Radio
Microsoft senior developer Chris Brumme doesn't post often to his weblog often, but every one of his essays is a lengthy, authoritative, and candidly self-critical exploration of .NET and CLR arcana, the sort of thing you might expect to read on MSDN (minus the self-criticism, that is). And in fact, the absence of this material from MSDN is controversial.
[Daypop Top 40]
5:15:37 AM
comment [] trackback [] Using RSS to Deliver Newsletters
"Barbara J. Feldman publishes Surfing the Net with Kids and recently joined the growing list of publishers who have added Web-based RSS feeds to deliver newsletters without going through email. Ezine-Tips asked Barbara to explain why she added an RSS feed and to outline the process." By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
3:31:58 AM
comment [] trackback [] BBC online probe to begin
The BBC's websites contain more than two million pages and reach up to 43% of the UK population each month...
[BBC News | Technology | World Edition]
2:52:02 AM
comment [] trackback [] XML machine the successor to von Neumann
Really bring data and programs together.
(The Register) [via Der Schockwellenreiter]
12:31:05 AM
comment [] trackback [] Understanding Web Services [via Der Schockwellenreiter]
12:04:56 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 22, 2003Every once in a while one comes across a post that ignites a whole bunch of ideas. This one from Mathemagenic did it for me: BING!
Sebastien Paquet asks about value/problems of using Trackback in Radio and use of other add-ons too. This is what I think about it:
1. In spite of Trackback in Radio bugs and features it was easy to install and it works. It just doesn't make all the things I want. No breaking Radio in my case.
I agree with Stephen Downes who is "not sure trackback is the way to do it, because it means that we listen only to those with specialized software". I'm not relying much on incoming trackback, but I don't mind pinging others (especially Movable Type users) who use it more.
For me the main value from using Trackback would be in tracking connections between your own posts. For example, if you write something now and link to your earlier post there is no way that readers of that post know that there is a follow up. Trackback can solve this problem. I'm not sure if it does now because it worked for some of my posts and not for others. Will try to get some clarity on this.
2. This brings me to the broader issue: tools to digest your own blog.
I use my weblog as a learning diary. In this case connections between posts (=development of ideas) is one of the most important things (Jay Cross about this) and one of the less supported. Do you have the same pain of finding earlier posts relevant for your current "to be post"? I have, even with many ways I use to seach my weblog. Yesterday I tried to find posts that I could use for my PhD literature review. It pains.
Just think about this: if I (the author and the person who uses these pages most) have problem of tracking ideas how easy then it is for others?
3. On of the tools I use to track ideas in my weblog is liveTopics. It works well, although it's not bugs-free and it's not supported any more since Matt Mover works on k-collector.
I wrote earlier about it in comments to one of my posts:
' got to explore these thoughts a little further...
Good value! "Google has the cake, Yahoo at least is able to open up the instant cake mix and start putting the ingredients together, and Microsoft is just opening up the cookbook.""I believe in work around k-collector, but I think that it serves totally different goal - discovering emergent connections between people. I use liveTopics to provide an alternative navigation for my weblog and I value this aspect as well (especially given not-easy-to-find-a-way chronological structure of blogs). Both aspects are important for me and it's really pity that I have to make choices between these two tools. May be one day k-collector guys will also provide "one blog" functionality next to "group" functionality."
The only reason I'm not switching to k-collector is simple: I have news aggregator, Technorati and long list of other tools to track my connections with others, but I don't have many ways to connect my own posts. liveTopics is one of the tools that makes it possible. [Mathemagenic]
11:49:15 PM comment [] trackback []
Danny Sullivan
2:32:05 AM comment [] trackback []
RSS Feed Reader Extension for Mozilla Firebird
Seems like an XP-only installer so far :-(
[CSS-Technik-News]
2:15:01 AM comment [] trackback []
Blogs listed on Yahoo
[thomas n. burg | randgänge]
1:56:43 AM comment [] trackback []
Thursday, August 21, 2003A benchmark event: Idle Words' blog census reaches the million-blog mark.
[Blogalization Community]
12:40:08 PM
comment [] trackback [] Wednesday, August 20, 2003The Global Internet Geography Database and Report is PriMetrica's expanded and completely updated guide to the global Internet with in-depth statistical coverage of the world's largest Internet backbones, the traffic they carry, and the providers who operate them. Founded on four years of deepening TeleGeography Internet research, this valuable resource combines the latest international IP bandwidth, pricing, and market data with proprietary IP traffic research and expert analysis...
[heise online news]
11:11:42 PM
comment [] trackback [] My Blog Experiment
For his Ph.D. thesis project on weblog writing style, Scott Nowson, a PhD student in Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, is soliciting a month's worth of blog entries from native-English speaking authors of personal blogs. He has a page on studying blogs and maintains a weblog himself detailing the progress of the project.
[Follow Me Here...]
3:05:50 PM
comment [] trackback [] I'm Yours, Body And Soul—But Not Blog (LazyBlawg)
Phil Wolff observes that "One in 4 or 5 bloggers will start a new job this year. Maybe 750 thousand. They and their blogs are at risk." Phil is interested in developing some form language for use in employment agreements that would govern "my blog, my rights to blog, my ownership of my blog, and explicit freedom from retaliation for anything I post."
Justin Hitt offers an excellent comment in response to Phil's post, discussing employee/independent contractor distinctions and his own experiences in negotiating similar issues with employers. Justin's comment helps emphasize how a "one size fits all" approach might not be the best solution to this problem. The same thing can be said about licensing, but that doesn't make Creative Commons any less valuable, or, on the other hand, any guarantee against potential litigation. Could a Creative Commons-type system nevertheless be implemented for this situation? Of course, in theory, but Creative Commons represents a unique combination of expertise, commitment, and funding, and unfortunately I don't think it's realistic to expect such programs to spring up wherever a legal powderkeg awaits a match.
As for Phil's hope that a boilerplate "Blogging Employee's" agreement could include a provision ensuring "explicit freedom from retaliation for anything I post?" If someone manages to negotiate such an arrangement, I want that person as my lawyer. I cannot imagine any employer willingly giving any employee carte blanche to potentially defame the company or its representatives, or to disclose its competitive confidential information. That said, there may be work-related subjects an employer would be happy, even eager, to have employees blog about, and there may be employers that would make a church-and-state distinction for employee writing that is purely non-work related. More reasons why it's smart to address such concerns up front, and not to take on employment terms and conditions without some trusted legal advice.
My panel at the Weblog Business Strategies conference touched on these kinds of issues, and I have linked to all the panel coverage I could locate from B&B's About page. The panel also took a stab at answering some of Phil's further and related questions after the conference ("Drops Of Jupiter").
[Bag and Baggage]
2:57:05 PM comment [] trackback []
An interview with Dave Shea
the CSS Zen Gardener, Dreamweaver MX and UltraDev Zone
Nice interview with Dave. I've met him and he's a nice guy and somebody I've been looking for locally for a long time. A Vancouver based designer who can bridge between the design world and the code world of CSS, HTML, etc.
(via: DMXzone.COM) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
2:27:17 PM comment [] trackback []
The world as a blog
Congrats to Mikel. Dave finally discovers Mikel Maron's Geoblog site..
"Weblogs.com + Geocoding + RSS." [Scripting News]
Congrats Mikel. You've finally made it. [Marc's Voice]
1:49:23 PM comment [] trackback []
MP3s via RSS 
An experiment with RSS enclosures. If this works, users who subscribe to my feed with an enclosure-aware aggregator will have an MP3 of the interview Chris Lydon did with me last month, with no click-wait. [Scripting News]
Whoa!! I got it, Dave. Very nice. [Dann Sheridan's Weblog]
1:44:02 PM comment [] trackback []
Hey, nice links
Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: Nicely done.
Accessify Forum: Free to the public: talk about accessibility and design. ("Image replacement - accessible solutions?" and "Accessible sites: follow standards or follow browser bugs?" typify the fare.)
Bionic Ear Blog: Adventures of a woman gaining a new and improved ear.
Clip 'n Seal: Very cool bag closer mfrd by designer and blogger DL Byron.
GoodLogo!com: "World's finest selection of logos."
HTML Wish list: Designer Mike Pick dares to dream.
Meccapixel: Michael Cosentino's photos. Nicely done, sir.
Questia: "The world's largest online library of over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles."
zlog: Nicely done, old bean! Many more ..are readily available for your pleasure. :::
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
1:28:26 PM comment [] trackback []
Blogstakes launch
A new sweepstakes leverages the network and in particular the segment that develops weblogs and other forms of independent content.
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
1:20:37 PM comment [] trackback []
Understanding RSS
You wanna know all about RSS? Fine. We're gonna help you figure out what's what! Scott Johnson (of Feedster fame) is officially under agreement to produce a tutorial on news aggregators and RSS. It'll be sold direct by Lockergnome and via Amazon. He recently came to me with the suggestion that there needed to be a good, comprehensive resource to help get people started. He suggested a "Mom's First Aggregator" sort of thing. I agreed, and let him have at it. He hopes to be finished with it before Halloween, covering: The Basics, How an Aggregator Can Change Your Life, Versions and Basic Terminology, RSS For Content Publishers, Developers, Users, & Marketers, Choosing an Aggregator, The World's Simplest Aggregator, etc. If you would like your tips, thoughts, or experiences added to the tome, please let us know immediately.
1:13:52 PM
comment [] trackback [] Roll your own Google feeds
Today I want to introduce you to three Google query solutions that are accomplishing incredible feats with RSS and Google search technology.
1) Google Alert - Track any search query from your favorite news aggregator. A variety of cool settings are available once you are signed up. My only gripe is that it is primarily focused on email alerts and I had to dig around before I found the RSS settings in the "toolkit".
2) "It's Google.rss" - I like this tool for query tracking better than Google Alert because I can get to making my RSS feed right away without the login interface and other annoyances. It is a great example of "no frills" ingenuity at work.
3) Gnews2RSS - The holy grail of RSS news feeds, in my opinion. You can finally get Google news without being bound to using MyRSS.com or any other ad supported RSS generator. The webmaster of Gnews2RSS encourages users to host their own version of this tool with his script. A link back to the script's author would be appropriate if used for personal use.
By matt@ctsdownloads.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
1:12:40 PM comment [] trackback []
Tuesday, August 19, 2003Screen shots can only "say" so much, so if you're still unsure about how a news aggregator works, I'd recommend you take a look at this particular Flash application. Drop to the Tech Category and you'll quickly see how sites from all across the Internet can be scanned in seconds. This is a very powerful system that's sitting at your fingertips. With more programmers beginning to harness RSS and continuing to enhance the user experience, these types of utilities are becoming a commodity. Give this Monkey a banana!
By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
1:13:07 PM
comment [] trackback [] The RSS Weather Service
"This EXPERIMENTAL application is able to generate an RSS feed of the current and forecasted weather conditions for US, or international cities." This is an amazing idea, and I hope to see it mature quickly. Take a look at The Emergency Email Network and you'll start to understand that darn near every bit of content that can be passed to a cell phone can just as easily be passed through a news aggregator.(Via Smart Mobs)
By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
1:10:19 PM
comment [] trackback [] A Night at the RSSxbury
The night club scene just got geekier. All Night Clubs in New York City now offers RSS for the latest happenings. This feed includes interviews, articles, announcements and editorials. This bit of entertainment goodness comes from Matt:
An interesting twist to RSS night life has occurred recently, according to my sources. Students from the local college here in Bellingham, WA are using RSS to syndicate the latest locations / times of parties. Man, I can see it now... laptop in one arm and a case of brew in the other. I am going to encourage them to use RSS to sync up designated drivers. This way, students can see who is going long before the party ever starts. Implementation is not that complicated - and it is killer PR for my business. Then they can make arrangements with the driver of choice to get them home safely. It’s all about syndicating common sense folks... just syndicating common sense.No arguments here.
By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
1:05:11 PM
comment [] trackback [] Syndicating Learning Objects with RSS and Trackback
»Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via TrackBack.« (by Alan Levine, Brian Lab and D'Arcy Norman)
[via BildungsBlog] By owrede@khm.de (Oliver Wrede). [owrede_log]
3:25:17 AM
comment [] trackback [] Personal Broadcasting Opens Yet Another Front for Journalists
(by J.D. Lasica) A camera, firewire and the ability to Webcast are all you need. Oh yeah, and don't forget that you have to like sticking a camera and microphone in people's faces.
[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
2:24:14 AM
comment [] trackback [] BlogHost - cheap blog hosting with blogging tools like MovableType pre-installed
"Jace Herring of Bloghosts wrote me the following: "We are happy to do the install and setup of lots of different types of software including blog software, to image galleries, to whatever else you might need. We will assist in these installations completely free of charge by request after your account is activated. "Check out their Summer Special that end on August 31.[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
Plans start with Bronze: $3/mo:
* Total Disk Space: 75mb
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* Mailing Lists: 4
* Hosting for one domain
* cPanel7 Control PanelSome of the Blogware they install is:
MovableType
Greymatter
Blogger
Textpattern
b2"
2:09:53 AM
comment [] trackback [] Monday, August 18, 20032:48:41 AM
comment [] trackback [] Dan Gillmor: RSS Hitting Critical Mass [Scripting News]
2:45:59 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 17, 2003"I've put together a service to send out alerts via AIM whenever someone reads a blog entry." [Scripting News]
3:53:44 PM
comment [] trackback [] For Surfers, a Wave of Hotel Bargains
New competition among hotel booking Web sites is spurring improvements in all of them. By Bob Tedeschi. [New York Times: Technology]
12:52:38 PM
comment [] trackback [] On the %$*& Moon...
Here's what Neil Armstrong really said when he walked on the moon (Flash).In 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to walk on the moon, uttering the immortal phrase, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Or did he? Previously suppressed footage discovered by blogjam shows that Armstrong's reaction was a great deal more uninhibited than history suggests, and that a hasty editing job was needed to prepare the astronaut's moment of glory for broadcast. Via linkfilter. [thanks to The Cartoonist]
%$*& funny!
12:33:11 PM comment [] trackback []
A Powerful List Of Business Blogging Resources
When Camilo put out the call for ideas to enhance his presentation to the CIO about blogs in corporate environments, he got some excellent responses, including pointers to a series of essays from Dave Pollard, a paper from Martin Roell, and insights from Anil Dash. All are worth some quality time if you are analyzing or advocating the role of weblogs within your company. [Bag and Baggage]
1:14:45 AM comment [] trackback []
Saturday, August 16, 2003Joi Ito points at the Economist story and waxes philosophic on the commercialization of weblogs. Which reminded me of of a piece I wrote in 2001 covering similar ground. There are two easy ways to commercialize blogging. The first is to become the known expert on a subject people are willing to subsidize knowing about (the Instapundit model), or to become a source of entertainment and/or enlightenment (the James Lilieks or Dave Berry type of writer. A second way, but one I think depends more heavily on micropayments, is that of the data miner... [Teal Sunglasses]
2:33:13 PM
comment [] trackback [] Thursday, August 14, 2003This may be the year that school blogs come into their own. A school blog is simply a Weblog - an online blend of diary, links and commentary - that is used by teachers and students.
By PAMELA LiCALZI O'CONNELL [NYT]
11:43:05 AM
comment [] trackback [] Google and the Fabulous Googlettes
This Craigslist job posting (via Anil) describes a new initiative within Google called Googlettes: What is a Googlette? It's a new business inside of Google that is just getting started [^] the start-up within the start-up. We're looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial manager capable of offering direction to a team of PMs working on a wide array of Googlettes. You will define Google's innovation engine and grow the leaders of...... [kottke.org]
12:50:04 AM
comment [] trackback [] Adam Curry: To Collect and Serve [Scripting News]
12:24:04 AM
comment [] trackback [] Wednesday, August 13, 2003And now please welcome President Abraham Lincoln.
Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee supervising the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery. It's great to be here, Dave, and you and the committee are doing a great job. Gee, sometimes this new technology does have glitches, but we couldn't live without it, could we? Oh - is it ready? OK, here we go:....
"It stands to reason that the Net would embrace Mill, and not only because his text is now in the public domain: The Internet is the vastest marketplace of ideas that mankind has yet managed to create. It's an unbounded and still growing embodiment of Mill's ideals."
(via Teal Sunglasses) [via Christopher Ireland's Fresh Perspectives]
3:09:23 PM comment [] trackback []
"On Liberty" (1859)
John Stuart Mill's classic, is all over the Web, says this article in Salon.
6:45:12 AM comment [] trackback []
Blah Blah Blog
The most telling sign that the Internet is no longer the cool American frontier? Blogs have been overrun by the establishment. By Maureen Dowd. [New York Times: Opinion]
6:09:52 AM comment [] trackback []
Monday, August 11, 2003European laws due to come into force by the end of October will shake up the way businesses are allowed to use cookies on their Web sites.
[The Register]
10:47:43 PM
comment [] trackback [] Warren Ellis writing a novel-on-a-blog
Inspired by Unwirer, the story that Charlie Stross and I co-wrote in public, on a blog, Warren Ellis has decided to write a novel on a blog he's created for the purpose (parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 are already online). Link Discuss (via Charlie's Diary) [Boing Boing Blog]
10:19:18 PM
comment [] trackback [] Get Iconized!
Iconize Me!: It's easy, it's fun and it starts at only $15! All you need to do is... place your order, send your picture and within two weeks you'll have yourself a custom icon! [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft]
8:26:41 PM
comment [] trackback [] ISSN for weblogs
The definitive reference, by Clark.
[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]
8:20:49 PM
comment [] trackback [] Can RSS Save the Day?
Steve Outing tells us of This is True's recent leap: "For Cassingham, offering RSS gives him an additional way to reach readers without e-mail filters getting in the way or having them remember to visit a website. As spam filters do additional damage to ethical e-mail publishers, perhaps RSS will save the day - but first the web masses need to catch on to using RSS readers." Well, there's no time like the present to start! By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
2:09:50 PM
comment [] trackback [] Building Permanence into Nano Publishing
Building a Nano Publishing business using a weblog platform is a huge investment. There is the investment in time that the weblog writer puts into writing and publishing each article, the investment in time in reading other people's weblogs and responding to them, as well as the investment in money required to pay for hosting, development of artwork, and other content investments that may be required. Building up a large store of permalinks and their impermanence and also provide a guide to understanding what actually does happen should you need to move from your current hosting platform. I provide tips on what actually you need to invest in to make sure you develop a good permanent nano-publishing base.
[Microdoc News]
1:51:56 PM
comment [] trackback [] New Features for Blogdigger
Got some new Blogdigger features for ya.
The first is topics. Blogdigger now returns results of topic (subject, category) matches for your search terms. You will notice at the bottom of search results that have topic data, a link to the topic is displayed. Also, popular topics are displayed at the top of the search results page. You can search explicitly for posts from a specific topic by using the "subject:" prefix. So a search for "subject:politics" would return all the posts that were classified into the politics category by their authors.
Right now, only the <dc:subject> field is being used for this data, so it is mostly RSS 1.0 feeds that are returned. I am working on RSS 2.0 (categrory, ENT) solutions. You might recall, way back when, that there was some discussion about incorporating data from the TopicExchange into Blogdigger. That is still the plan, hopefully soon something will be in place.
The interesting thing about this, is that I didnt think it would work so well. I figured most people use diverse names for their topics, and there wouldnt be a lot of commonality, just a lot of garbage. Turns out their is a fair amount of garbage, but also a whole lot of commonality. Topics like politics, music, news, technology and others all have posts from many different blogs. And remember, you can subscribe to all of these topic searches in RSS!
The second new feature is the ad bar on the side of the results page. This is powered by Amazon Web Services. I wrote a small service that takes your search terms and sends them to Amazon and returns the top 10 book results. I hope it isnt too obtrusive and all proceeds go to making Blogdigger better (i.e., buying more hard drive space). Please let me know if the ads are taking to long to load; I am working on a caching mechanism, but I can take them down in the interim. And if you want to get the ad bar for your site, email me, we can work it out.
Many thanks to Michael Fagan, Phil Pearson, Bill Kearney and Brother Mike for the input, feedback, swift kicks and help with this.
Enjoy [Blogdigger Development Blog]1:49:17 PM
comment [] trackback [] Saturday, August 09, 2003Edd Dumbill: If you don't care about decentralized interoperability, it's hard to see how you can ever agree with web technology. [Sam Ruby]
6:03:55 PM
comment [] trackback [] Otto von Bismarck
"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."
[Quotes of the Day]2:11:11 PM
comment [] trackback [] Science revisits Kevin Bacon
"An experiment in which Internet users were asked to find any one of 18 strangers by using their online connections, showed that it took, on average, only five to seven steps by using friends and acquaintances. The results, published this week in the journal Science, illustrate how social networks operate and how they have become truly global, the team at Columbia University said. See Reuters. [onlineblog.com]
1:44:52 PM
comment [] trackback [] RSS Resource - Readme
For a while now, you've probably been hearing all sorts of things about RSS; we are just beginning to see its power and potential. Information on this "new" syndication format has (to this point) been scattered and somewhat tricky to understand. We're aiming to change that trend with this particular Lockergnome resource.
This was designed to be driven by several contributors, but only fellow evangelists and technologists need apply. Experts and novices should be able to turn here for the latest updates, and we'll keep expanding and fine-tuning the "About" page until our fingers bleed.
Ultimately, the desktop news aggregator (read: software) will decide which syndication standard comes out on top. RSS or ATOM, the focus for this effort will always be to illustrate the use of syndication technology to make personal and professional lives easier. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource]
1:30:09 PM comment [] trackback []
Technorati Tutorial, Part 1
Lilia Efimova at Mathemagenic asked an interesting question about Technorati on her weblog today, and I popped by (thanks to my watchlist) and answered her questions. Given the interest, I thought I'd republish my response here, along with a few elaborations. Lilia asked, Does anyone knows how Technorati works? Do they process blog homepages only? Or only items in RSS feeds? Or only things "not older than ..."? I wonder because I usually observe some fluctuations in numbers of inbound blogs and inbould links. E.g. yesterday I had 100+ inbound blogs and today it's 80+. It would be interesting to know why these things change. I tried Technorati site and weblog of David Sifry with no luck. I guess this is a quite typical question that user has about systems that digest information: what are the criteria that are used? Some basics about Technorati 1) We spider weblogs, and correlate each weblog's outbound links to any page on your blog/site 2) Technorati works on any URL - not just URLs for weblogs. For example, you can see what people are saying about an interesting article or favorite company, and get an instant read on the conversations going on around that article or site. 3) The simplest way get your weblog included in the Technorati index is to ping us whenever you update your weblog. That puts you in the high-priority queue for indexing. You can save the page as a bookmark, or you can program your weblog software to do... [Sifry's Alerts]
1:08:55 PM comment [] trackback []
John Kenneth Galbraith
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
[Quotes of the Day]1:02:53 PM
comment [] trackback [] RSS resource
If you want to learn how RSS can help you or keep track of new RSS tools and services head over to Lockergnome's RSS Resource.
[Kalsey Consulting Group :: Measure Twice]
12:57:07 PM
comment [] trackback [] Microsoft's Blogging Intentions
Just got a note from a Microsoft PR person, answering some questions I had about how the company plans to... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
12:45:22 PM
comment [] trackback [] An RSS/RDF epiphany
Some fascinating conversations have been weaving their way through blogspace and email in the last few days. As a result, I think I've reached a new understanding of the seemingly endless debate about whether and how to use RDF (Resource Description Framework) and RSS together. I mentioned Dan Brickley's comments the other day. He expands on his remarks over on Shelley Powers' blog: [Jon's Radio]
2:46:41 AM
comment [] trackback [] Two types of aggregators
Ziv talks about two types of weblogs - "take that" and "phone home". I think the distinction is more subtle than that, and deserves further exploration. ... [Sam Ruby]
2:44:00 AM
comment [] trackback [] Iran Translated
"things you always wished your english speaking friend could read ..."
[Blogalization Community]
2:42:54 AM
comment [] trackback [] Martian Soil...
Now this is truly cool... a blog on the news involving Mars and our explorations of that planet....
[Teal Sunglasses]
2:36:07 AM
comment [] trackback [] How Technorati works? (2)
David Sifry answers my question about Technorati:
Here's the basics:Thanks for fast reply! And for fixing the category problem (I had it in my stats). I suggest that you add this explanation somewhere, so people know that inbound blog/link statistics are calculated based on links from homepages of other weblogs. (I guess I'm getting spoiled as a researcher: I want to know the method to trust results :) [Mathemagenic]1) We spider blogs, and match up their links to your blog - to anywhere on your blog 2) In the inbound blog list, we use the outbound links from the blog homepage, not from the archives 3) We do process RSS feeds an other metadata, but that doesn't affect your inbound blog stats 4) Nightly, we go through the database and re-calculate the number of inbound blogs and links, which helps us double-check our work and also allows us to create the interesting newcomers list, the interesting recent blogs list, etc.
We strice to be accurate all the time. Sometimes things slip through. For example, one of the reasons why your inbound blog count may be down today is because we were doing maintenance of the database last night to remove duplicate blogs - for example, Radio Userland has an obnoxious habit of sending pings to www.weblogs.com for each weblog "category" if you use multiple categories on your blog. Same information, same author, just link spam, basically. So, last night we cleaned out a bunch of that stuff. If you were linked from a bunch of people's blog categories, then you lost those inbound blogs. Then again, so did everyone else. :-)
The last thing to remember is that while we strive for accuracy and completeness, we still do have bugs and have to fix things. If you notice something strange, please don't hesitate to send us feedback (feedback@technorati.com) and let us know.
2:18:38 AM
comment [] trackback [] Thursday, August 07, 2003ecotonoha [medium high bandwidth flash link] [via Abstract Dynamics]... [Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
12:37:29 PM
comment [] trackback [] Google News Alerts [Daypop Top 40]
3:08:06 AM
comment [] trackback [] Filtered by experience
Linkfilter, an occasional source of MetaFilter material, takes community weblogging to a new level, granting experience points for participation and requiring contribution points to "keep one user from hogging the whole site on any given day." [MetaFilter]
3:02:58 AM
comment [] trackback [] 11-Pound Model Plane Vs. The Atlantic, Again
Luap Nanreffeh writes "Last year, Maynard Hill and some retired NASA buddies tried to set a record for flying a model aeroplane across the atlantic ocean (from Newfoundland to Ireland). Their plan, using GPS, onboard controllers, and a gallon of gas, would have been the first to cross the Atlantic under FAI rules. They didn't have much luck last year, but now they're at it again. The first launch should be tonight." [Slashdot]
Whereupon GreenCrackBaby (203293) on Wednesday August 06, @05:30PM (#6628811) (http://slashdot.org/) ...hits it on the head with:
So, how long until drug runners send little planes from Columbia to Florida? This gives me too many ideas...
Unto which missing000 (602285)
A potential terrorist device?
I can see it now. Our next military campaign will be to eradicate model airplane building materials from the rest of the globe.
I don't know about you folks, but thinking along these lines gives me the heebie-fscking-jeebies!
1:12:29 AM comment [] trackback []
Technology and Language
Some thoughts on the impact of technology on language. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs]
12:47:06 AM comment [] trackback []
Wednesday, August 06, 2003Bryan Bell did it: he reminded the world that Radio can edit Manila sites.
IMHO this is actually much more interesting than editing CSS files in Radio's outliner.
I see Radio as the "web embassy to your desktop". It can talk to the web (via XML-RPC, SOAP, HTTP, FTP, POP, SMTP), but it can also talk to your local applications, because unlike all other web apps, it runs on your desktop.
To edit our own content management system templates we have developed a Radio tool which download the template, converts macros to placeholders and allows you to edit html using any html editor. Once you are done all you have to do is save, the template will be compiled and sent back to the server, along with all its attachment (images, CSS, etc.).
But it can get much more interesting than that: you could edit any kind of content of your weblog using local specialized applications.
Creating a tool that allows you to edit on any image of your weblog simply by clicking it and having it opened with PhotoShop seconds later would be an easy task for Radio. Same thing for any piece of text (or, in perspective, audio or video).
So this could be my long term wish for UserLand: allow us to manage our weblogs on-line with Manila (doing it server side has some significant advantages), and use the full power of Radio to make integration with local applications a unique experience. I want to write with Word (or BBEdit, or anything different from the browser), edit my images with PhotoShop, organize my pictures with iPhoto, my appintments with iCal, but I don't want to spend my life uploading and downloading files.
PS: if this Radio/Manila integration could be done using some new or extended kind of open API which all developers could use, it could mean changing the world. Once more. 
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]
11:05:04 AM comment [] trackback []
Tuesday, August 05, 2003(Google Weblog) [Daypop Top 40]
8:40:04 PM
comment [] trackback [] Trackback for Radio
RE: the multiple ping post to mamamusings:
I must apologise to Jake - the problem would seem to have been at my end.
Just a day earlier, I'd installed Mark Paschal's Kit .... activating it and meaning to check it out later. Upon seeing the Userland release of trackback, I naturally went ahead and fired away the first ping posts.
Now Kit employs an earlier implimentation of trackback which, I assume, running independantly from that of Userland, must have been responsible for the multiple pings.
I've since disabled Kit and tested successfully on Dave's Handsome Radio Blog!
So, lesson learnt... but not without the negative feedback, especially from a high profile blogger like Liz, for which I do apologise.
Thanks for the hard work, Jake - it actually works like a charm.
7:15:18 PM
comment [] trackback [] Matt Round's weblog:
another adjectiveanimal weblog....has got to be one of the most superlativedang blog designs out there.
Well, it gets my vote - right down to the blog ...er, bogroll!
Good value!2:10:56 AM
comment [] trackback [] Monday, August 04, 2003"Bloggers love to talk about how this RSS-empowered medium is changing journalism forever. What's already clear to me is that blogs and 'traditional' news journalism are ideal partners for delivering, aggregating and analyzing news.For example, I'm subscribed to around 50 RSS feeds that deliver content to my news aggregator on a daily basis. What's happening here is that you quickly notice patterns where breaking news around the web feeds blog discussions, and vice versa. So in that context, Tech Watch is a natural fit for InfoWorld's news team. Expect to see us blog from events like trade shows, and link to enterprise IT news around the web with our spin. Some of us might even try to be funny (but don't hold your breath).
So what makes Tech Watch unique?
1. Every InfoWorld news reporter has been issued a username and password for posting to this site.
2. Some news stories will get blogged, others will run in the news section. If we develop a formula for exactly how those decisions are made I'll let you know.
4. The copy desk is cut out of the loop. Goodbye production latency, and hello group editing!" [InfoWorld, via Jon's Radio]
It will be interesting to watch how these reporters decide what is "news" and what is a blog entry. Will InfoWorld's famous RSS ads run in blog entries, too? And how does the copy desk (and the higher-ups) feel about being cut out of the loop? When InfoWorld evaluates this project in a few months, what will the consequences of cutting out the copy desk be? Will there be extra rewards or recognition (internally or externally) for those reporters that post more (or less) to the blog than to the news section?
InfoWorld is definitely doing some interesting things these days... [The Shifted Librarian]11:21:35 PM
comment [] trackback [] Extending Movable Type into University Courses
"One of the most active entries I've posted this year was my wish for a good open-source courseware package. I ended up looking at a few of the suggestions, but to get what I wanted, all would have required too steep a learning curve and customization process.
So, today I decided to see if I could leverage my existing knowledge of MovableType to generate something that met my basic needs for courseware. I plan on keeping the grades in our Prometheus-based courseware (saves me the hassle of dealing with password-protected stuff, and importing class lists), but putting everything else into a customized course blog. That allows me to make the course content easily accessible to students, colleagues, and other interested parties--and to allow comments and ideas from people outside of the class to become part of the [sic]
The beginnings of the course site can be found at http://www.it.rit.edu/~ell/320/320-031/. I've done nothing yet with aesthetics, obviously, because I wanted to first think through functionality...." [mamamusings]
How cool is it that Liz Lawley is extending Movable Type to become basic courseware and documenting how she's doing it via her personal blog?! The next time someone questions the value of blogging, show them this entry!
Of course, it would be interesting if Liz could work the school's library into the course blog, too - assignments, resources, links to live help if available, etc. The key is for librarians to work with professors on these kinds of projects and then promote these services to the entire faculty.
On a side note, let's see how quickly trackback works to show this post to Liz. It will be yet another wonderful example of how blogs open the lines of communication, collaboration, and good-old-fashioned brainstorming!
[The Shifted Librarian]11:17:04 PM
comment [] trackback [] Firebird Web Panel to posts to blogs
I want a Web Panel that posts to any MetaWeblog API compatible blogging system including MovableType, Radio and Manila!
Hard to say exactly what might be "slightly out of date" in Ben's description of how Web Panels will work, but in a nutshell, it's just another web page that you can pop up on the left side of the current page. Bookmarks can be targeted to the Web Panel, for things like a weblog update page or your blogroll, or you can temporarily drag a page into the Web Panel, for things like search results or a list of links. So far, nice enough, but not too exciting. Now, picture your weblog posting form in the Web Panel, so that while you write an entry about a page, that page is sitting there in plain view, ready for you to copy another quote or make sure you spell someone's name right. Since Firebird's just as happy to display XUL (the interface language that defines the whole browser interface) as HTML, picture your posting form having rich text editing, and being designed in XUL not HTML, so that you get away from the clunky interface that HTML forms force on you, with everything being truly resizable and smooth instead
[Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
2:40:34 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sunday, August 03, 2003The world of weblogs isn't a big city. Excellent. I don't even begin to know how to excerpt this. Everybody, go read it in it's original form. Immediately. Then, and only then, go read this. [Sam Ruby]
11:52:28 PM
comment [] trackback [] DECAFBAD Quick links
5:52:11 AM
comment [] trackback [] SQL Junkies weblog...
of course there's .NET blogs too...and now here's the Java blogs.
[The Scobleizer Weblog]
5:16:20 AM
comment [] trackback [] Sputnik: A Radio Userland/ Manila E-xact bridge PROTOTYPE
"Sputnik" is a proof of concept DLL (which I call "Sputnik" because it is the first step to doing e-commerce transactions using E-xact's software) that allows Frontier applications such as Manila and Radio weblogs to perform e-commerce transactions using E-xact's technology.
Development seems to have stalled on this ... what a pity (like so many promising Frontier/RU projects over the years)
[found via an earlier post on Roland Tanglao's Weblog]12:31:43 AM
comment [] trackback [] Saturday, August 02, 2003Why Weblogs Bring A True Revolution To Internet Publishing.
So, you can see how the advent of weblogs, was masqueraded on the surface by the "bloggers" fad, and completely misunderstood by those who would be most benefitting from the advent of such technology-based opportunities.
We are ushering into an era in which things are changing at an increasing faster pace, and where ever more frequently we are looking at reality with an outdated pair of glasses, so it is difficult for me to anticipate with greater detail what the appropriate understanding and ethical exploitation of the above will exactly bring about.
What I can say with some amount of safety, is that I cannot recommend enough the use of weblog/CMS based technology for both traditional business applications as well as for those organizations entrenched in publishing methods that require a seven-day tour before the content even makes it to the test server. The learning curve for these powerful CMS technologies is basically none and the cost-effectiveness is several orders of magnitude better than when working with a full-time webmaster or with an IT/Information Publishing department that wants to "webmaster" everything you do.
( via Robin Good' Sharewood Tidings) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]3:30:12 PM
comment [] trackback [] HubLog: OpenAm linking
... no more convoluted Amazon URLs. This is great! Now if we could only get rid of the url.cgi bit. How about www.openam.com/book?title=smart%20mobs instead?
It's always been difficult to link to Amazon, because you have to find the ASIN (product code) to put in the URL. To avoid this, the OpenAm service lets anyone link directly to Amazon product pages, just by using the title (and the author if the title's not precise enough).
For example, to link to Stephen Wolfram's 'A New Kind Of Science', you can use the URL http://www.openam.com/url.cgi?title=a%20new%20kind%20of%20science (the %20 is the encoding for a space).
To link to Howard Rheingold's 'Smart Mobs', you could use http://www.openam.com/url.cgi?title=smart%20mobs or http://www.openam.com/url.cgi?title=smart%20mobs&author=rheingold
and to link to 'The Life Of Pi' using your associates ID (to get sales commission), just use http://www.openam.com/url.cgi?title=life%20of%20pi&ref=exampleid
If that's still too complicated, you can use this OpenAm bookmarklet to generate the links automatically.
(via Marc's Voice) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
3:14:38 PM comment [] trackback []
NewsGator Case Study: Triple Point Technology
Wow! NewsGator + MovableType + SharePoint RSS feeds ...(via Jon Husband's Wirearchy) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog]
3:09:58 PM comment [] trackback []
It's "Oy," not "Om"
This was just too funny to not share - it's Zen Judaism!
[The Shifted Librarian]"Let your mind be as a floating cloud. Let your stillness be as the wooded glen. And sit up straight. You'll never meet the Buddha with posture like that.
There is no escaping karma. In a previous life, you never called, you never wrote, you never visited. And whose fault was that?
Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.
To practice Zen and the art of Jewish motorcycle maintenance, do the following: get rid of the motorcycle. What were you thinking?
The Tao has no expectations. The Tao demands nothing of others. The Tao does not speak. The Tao does not blame. The Tao does not take sides. The Tao is not Jewish.
Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkes." [PeteBevin.com, from the book Zen Judaism by David M. Bader]
2:57:04 PM
comment [] trackback [] REDpaper: "Publishing for the Little Folks" [Daypop Top 40]
5:42:44 AM
comment [] trackback [] The blogging process and building community
Dave Pollard has written a piece on the blogging process that's making its way around. You can tell by the number of folks that have his flowchart diagram embedded in their posts (I'll spare you). More interesting to me was the stuff after that about enriching the communication medium. This is part of the stuff that's left to do, and it's a big space. Together with Julie's experiences with MovableType, it makes me realize how far this new medium can and will go. [Ted Leung on the air]
5:38:16 AM
comment [] trackback [] Student Challenges Basic Ideas of Time
A bold paper published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters seems set to change the way we think about the nature of time and its relationship to motion and classical and quantum mechanics. The work also appears to provide solutions to Zeno's paradoxes. (Via Kurzweilai.net. More inside...) [MetaFilter]
5:31:57 AM
comment [] trackback [] Friday, August 01, 2003Taking a peek at the new AOL Blogging Pages per John Robb - where you will want to see the links that work -- I cannot help but get the sense that AOL Blogging is going to be anything else than emasculated garbage. . . [Microdoc News]
5:17:57 AM
comment [] trackback [] AOL Journals demo
Here are lots of screen captures depicting the AOL Journal editing interface (thanks Matt):
- Create a Journal Start
- Announcement to friends that you are starting a Journal
- Layout and feature selection
- Style and comment selection
- Color selection
- Custom color option
- Main editing screen
- Update via instant messaging
- Published AOL Journal (using Edit this Page type buttons) 2nd screen.
12:19:21 AM
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